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Chuck & Buck 5-7 Hour 2: Headlines and Blockbusters! Baseball found something amazing and Russ has options... · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Ain't the right field, they said, neither is his way home.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Calling Young stands up at second base. He delivers in
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  Speaker 1: the eighth inn a three one Mariners lead the three
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  Speaker 1: two strong, three putts over Dubon, challenging pouts over. The
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  Speaker 1: Mariners take two out of three. It's really it feels
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  Speaker 1: like kind of a landmark series win.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: For the Mariners against the best team at baseball? They
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: had the Atlanta Braves their first series loss of the
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: year in a pounceback series of the.
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  Speaker 2: Mirror Amerners win yesterday with the Atlanta Braves Aaron and
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  Speaker 2: on the call, Dave with the laugh of Mariners TV. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon, it's a three to one win. Brian Wu
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  Speaker 2: was fantastic yesterday against the red hot Braves. The lineup
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  Speaker 2: and the Mariners still struggling a bit offensively, but had
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  Speaker 2: enough juice yesterday to win a three to one. Take
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  Speaker 2: the series two games to one. And now we'll have
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  Speaker 2: a day off, head to Chicago to take on the
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  Speaker 2: White Sox and then the Astros on a road trip.
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  Speaker 2: And so we welcome you into our number two chucking
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  Speaker 2: back in the morning. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan is here. My name is Chuck Powell, and
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  Speaker 2: we have a lot to cover here before the day
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  Speaker 2: comes to a close. But certainly we're gonna start with
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  Speaker 2: your frost brewed Corse like choose chill headlines before we
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: get out of the Mariners game. You know what I
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: really like about Josh Naylor. You just get the impression
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  Speaker 2: that Josh Naylor is so comfortable being Josh Naylor. I
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  Speaker 2: love people like this. I think he's so thoughtful. I
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  Speaker 2: think I think he's got some flaws. I think he
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: ows his flaws, and I think but he owns his
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  Speaker 2: flaws too. But there's just like such this confidence in
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  Speaker 2: what I think I'm capable of. I mean, he is
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: not supposed to be a base stealer. What he did
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  Speaker 2: with us last year was not supposed to happen. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he is not supposed to steal thirty bags in a
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  Speaker 2: game and not ever get caught stealing. He's not fast,
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  Speaker 2: and yet he showed up this year. I mean, I
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: talking to my buddies before the year started, what's this
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  Speaker 2: deal with the Naylor based stealing. I'm like, he's going
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  Speaker 2: to steal twenty again this year. No he's not. Yes
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  Speaker 2: he is.
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  Speaker 3: He is going to see you pretty every time, right.
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  Speaker 2: But he's slow. Yes he is. He's slow. But he's
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  Speaker 2: also probably the most instinctive baseball player in the galaxy
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  Speaker 2: right now. And so you are told you're chubby, you're slow,
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't be stealing bases, and then you've got caught
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  Speaker 2: stealing twice in one game a week ago. And that
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  Speaker 2: sometimes will work on a player. It will take a
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  Speaker 2: fast guy a little while get over that. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: then he's like, Nope, next chance I get. I want
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  Speaker 2: to steal as many bags as I can. He's stolen
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  Speaker 2: three bases in the last two days.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, and if I have to face plant while
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing it, so be it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. He always got hurt in his tire uniform
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: was like covered in mud.
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  Speaker 4: He goes like face and then button feet up in
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  Speaker 4: the ear. I was like, oh my god, he just
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  Speaker 4: broke his neck and back and everything.
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  Speaker 2: We got all these injuries. We're like, oh, now what.
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  Speaker 2: And then Naylor's like dusting himself off, taking the mud
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  Speaker 2: out of his face.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, how much dirt's in theos?
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  Speaker 2: When can I do this again?
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  Speaker 3: That was fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. I love him. All right, let's take a
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  Speaker 2: look at the rest of your headlines. Mariners will be
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: having a day off today. They'll be in Chicago take
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  Speaker 2: on the White Sox tomorrow. There's a good chance, I
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  Speaker 2: think a very good chance, Brendan Donovan will be ready
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  Speaker 2: to suit up on Friday. Bryce Miller probably is going
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: to have one more tune up, and then the decision
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: comes as to what we're going to do with Bryce Miller,
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  Speaker 2: what the rotation is going to like. He pitched an
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  Speaker 2: effort last night. Statistics weren't overwhelming, but the velocity was
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  Speaker 2: where it needed to be, and so it looks like
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  Speaker 2: Bryce will be back on the roster soon. Franber Valdez
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  Speaker 2: was suspended five games for intentionally throwing at Trevor's story.
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  Speaker 2: He's still in denial about it. His own teammates have
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  Speaker 2: said he did it on pur his own manager did it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know I've ever seen that. That's the thing too,
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  Speaker 4: is you did it. We all know you did it
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  Speaker 4: on purpose. Just admit it.
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  Speaker 3: Then at least it's like, yeah, I did it. I
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  Speaker 3: was pissed. Okay, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: It's not really a suspension. It is the ultimate slap
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  Speaker 2: on the wrist. I mean a starting pitcher only pitches
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  Speaker 2: every five days, so he really didn't even get punished.
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  Speaker 3: No, you know, no, it's yeah, it's just, hey, we
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  Speaker 3: saw what you did. We didn't like it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just and I think maybe some money comes
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  Speaker 2: out of his pocket in that equation, So that's really
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  Speaker 2: the punishment, but it's probably a benefit to the Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: Then you're like, well, we can slide you back a day.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big deal. So he didn't. Really it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a slap on the wrist really for his actctions.
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  Speaker 2: But nonetheless five games, I mean he will peel it
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  Speaker 2: and then the Tigers will time it because you don't
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  Speaker 2: even have to you get to do it on your terms,
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  Speaker 2: so they'll time it when they just want him to
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  Speaker 2: get an extra day's rest, and that's probably when they
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: activate Troy Melton off the IL in about three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: So it's really not much of a punishment against the
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  Speaker 2: Tigers at all. Jets not the Bananas made an offer
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  Speaker 2: to Russell. Wilson will talk more about this later on
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  Speaker 2: this hour. So it looks like Russell's deciding between whether
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  Speaker 2: or not he wants to give up football and become
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  Speaker 2: a professional broadcaster, which apparently there's an offer on the
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  Speaker 2: table there as well. Or if he really does want
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  Speaker 2: to swallow his pride, which I'm not sure ever interferes
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  Speaker 2: with him and be Gino Smith's backup for the other
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  Speaker 2: New York team this upcoming year, we shall see stay tuned.
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  Speaker 3: Third option. I want him to just be a Savannah
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  Speaker 3: Banana def.
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  Speaker 2: Full time Savannah Banana. I think that'd be great. You
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about just saying, you know what? I
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  Speaker 2: want to have some fun. Yeah, and I didn't you
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  Speaker 2: get to play baseball. I didn't get to play baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get to ever scratch that itch. This was fun.
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  Speaker 2: They sell out every damn stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm a cheesy dude.
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  Speaker 2: This is right up my alley. I got to learn
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  Speaker 2: to backflip and dance though, because you can't dance.
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  Speaker 3: No, but that's even better.
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: Stanley Cup Playoffs. Last night Buffalo four two winners over Montreal,
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  Speaker 2: so they're up one oero in that series. Anaheim even
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  Speaker 2: things up with Vegas last night. Carolina can go up
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  Speaker 2: three to zero on Philadelphia. Today at five, there will
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  Speaker 2: drop the puck NBA Playoffs Philadelphia gave New York a
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: much better game last night, but without Joel Embiid probably
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: was the difference. The Knicks win. So they're up two
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  Speaker 2: oho in that series, and the Spurs beat up on
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  Speaker 2: the Timberwolves one thirty three to ninety five. That series
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  Speaker 2: is now at one game apiece. Cleveland at Detroit and
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  Speaker 2: the Lakers at OKC tonight and then just quickly, WNBA
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  Speaker 2: regular season will begin on Friday. The Storm will be
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  Speaker 2: in action on Friday again to Golden State Sounders taking
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  Speaker 2: on San Diego this weekend. One of the new franchises,
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: and Golden Tempo has decided this is really bad for
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  Speaker 2: horse racing. They keep having Kentucky Derby winners not wanting
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  Speaker 2: to run for the Triple Crown.
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  Speaker 3: But apparently they move the race up or something. The
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  Speaker 3: next race.
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  Speaker 2: Golden Tempo's not gonna run in the Preakness, so we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to have a triple Crown winner. We know
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  Speaker 2: that that mum, all right, So there you go. Those
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  Speaker 2: are your frost brewed course like choose chill headlines. We
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  Speaker 2: three kJ R dot com. All right, let let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about trades. Okay. I love trades. I do love trades.
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  Speaker 2: I love the puzzle making aspect of sports. It's really
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  Speaker 2: the thing. It's the reason I became a sports fan.
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  Speaker 2: I just love how the pieces come together. So you
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  Speaker 2: probably we notice that I talk about trades a lot
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  Speaker 2: and roster moves and things of that nature. And you
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  Speaker 2: probably really notice it when Bucky's not around, because it
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  Speaker 2: really lets me to get all of my ener gm out.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to just go ahead and profess this
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  Speaker 2: right off the bat. I kind of feel like I
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  Speaker 2: understand how the pieces move in baseball. I think I
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  Speaker 2: got a really good grasp on that. Think I understand
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  Speaker 2: trade value. I think I understand I know the prospects.
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  Speaker 2: I think I know how trades work, how the trades
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  Speaker 2: that move back and forth, What is equal value? I
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  Speaker 2: think I got a pretty good grasp on that. I
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  Speaker 2: think I got a decent grasp on the National Football
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  Speaker 2: League as well. Decent grasp okay there, I think I
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  Speaker 2: could even make an NBA trade if I can figure
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  Speaker 2: out the math, But the NHL not so sure I
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  Speaker 2: can do this tho that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, fair, Okay, Yeah, we have more to learn.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I do have a grasp on what
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  Speaker 2: true NHL trade value is, and so I am coming
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  Speaker 2: at this from an amateurish point of view, amateur GM
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  Speaker 2: point of view. That said, I think the next big
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: blockbuster trade that we're going to experience here in Seattle
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  Speaker 2: has to come from our hockey team. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners are going to do something. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: at the trading deadline. So we gotta wait till July,
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  Speaker 2: probably July, mid July to late July before we see
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  Speaker 2: a significant Mariner's trade. Maybe they do something earlier, but
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  Speaker 2: I doubt it. And I don't think that there is
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  Speaker 2: a blockbuster trade in the cards for the Seahawks. And
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  Speaker 2: certainly we have to get a basketball team before we
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  Speaker 2: can make a move. Oh yeah, you're right, But I
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: think the crack can have to make a significant trade
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: this offseason. Yesterday I had Mike Menton on the radio
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: program and we were talking. The idea for having bent
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: On was to talk about the draft. The lottery was determined.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: The Kraken did not win the lottery. They actually fell
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  Speaker 2: in the standings one spot, so they had the six
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  Speaker 2: best odds at getting the top pick. They ended up
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  Speaker 2: with the seventh pick in the draft. Well, you have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of draft picks. I've been hearing about all
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  Speaker 2: our draft picks that Ron Francis and Jason Botrel and stockpiling. Yeah,
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: just stockpiling all these picks, and it's gonna set us
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: up so well for the future. And yet the team
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: just seems to be the same team year after year,
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: just underachieving, and we continue to bring up the same conversation.
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  Speaker 2: It's really hard to get one of those Connor McDavid
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  Speaker 2: difference maker types, one of those guys you can count
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  Speaker 2: on a goal a point a night kind of guy.
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  Speaker 2: That's a hard guy to get in the National Hockey League.
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  Speaker 2: Are we trying Are we trying hard enough? Are we
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  Speaker 2: just focusing our attention on stockpiling draft picks.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like we're focusing on trying to find that person,
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  Speaker 4: but like through the draft, through the draft, But you're not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a you don't hit that every year.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have one of those every year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if they're that special, you're gonna have to finish last.
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  Speaker 2: To Everett's point, I mean we finished with the second.
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  Speaker 2: We had the second overall pick at one point and
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  Speaker 2: got Maddy Benier's I don't think he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be a really good player for
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  Speaker 2: a really long time. I don't know we're ever gonna
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: say Matty Beniers is a great player. He's that difference maker.
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  Speaker 2: He's the Connor Bernard, He's not the Celebrini in San Jose.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's what he's going to be. Shane
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  Speaker 2: Wright was talked about as being the number one overall
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  Speaker 2: pick when he came out, but he slid for a reason,
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: and maybe we're seeing those reasons. I mean Lane Lambert,
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: he was in Lane Lambert's doghouse this year. There was
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  Speaker 2: no question about that. He went from I mean at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the year, this was the guy that
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: was supposed to lead us in points this year. That's
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: what Shane Wright was being described as. You know, enough
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: of the veterans Everly and McCann and Schwartz being the
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: goals and assists leaders on this team. It's time for
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: Shane Ryan to kind of take that over and then
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: by the end of the year's skating on the damn
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  Speaker 2: fourth line. So obviously they don't like what they see
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  Speaker 2: out of Shane Wright as an organization. Lane Lambert certainly doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe those are some of the reasons that came
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  Speaker 2: to light for the Kraken this year why he ended
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  Speaker 2: up not being the number one overall pick despite his talent,
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  Speaker 2: Because he does have an immense talent this year. And
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: so with that being said, if you can't draft him,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to get him at pick number seven.
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  Speaker 2: Because in the NHL they got a pretty good ability
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  Speaker 2: to identify who is one of those kind of difference
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  Speaker 2: maker kind of players, and you probably have to have
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  Speaker 2: the number one overall pick to get him. And it
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  Speaker 2: sounds like Toronto has one in McKenna. They won the
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  Speaker 2: NHL lottery yesterday and this number one overall pick, McKenna
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  Speaker 2: is supposed to be one of those guys. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all right, So if Toronto's getting one of those guys
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  Speaker 2: and they're tired of the last guy they got number
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  Speaker 2: one overall.
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  Speaker 4: In some shocking twist of ending up with the number
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  Speaker 4: one pick the two times they've had the.
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  Speaker 2: Lottery, right exactly. Well, then, Austin Matthews is not all
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  Speaker 2: that old. He's twenty nine years old. I mean, he's
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: had a receding airline for a while, but so did Lebron. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he looks he looks older than twenty eight,
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: but he's only twenty eight. This will be his age
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine season coming up this year for the Toronto
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  Speaker 2: Maple Leafs, who right now are embarrassed that they're even
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  Speaker 2: a position to have the fifth best odds in the
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: NHL lottery. They're getting further and further away from that
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  Speaker 2: elusive Stanley Cup championship that they just cannot win. And
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: hockey crazed Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and so there seems to
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: be a bit of a groundswell in Toronto against their
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: superstar player, Austin Matthews. There are a lot of Maple
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  Speaker 2: Leaf fans that have had enough and his game has
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: falling off each of the last couple of years. He
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: didn't even get to thirty goals this past season. So
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: when I chatted with Mike Benton, we ended up talking
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: about Austin Matthews, and so I asked Mike what would
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: it take to get Matthews from Toronto. Obviously it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: start with the seventh overall pick in the draft.
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  Speaker 5: I think you had to start there and go a
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  Speaker 5: bit higher. And I'm talking about multiple picks, Chuck, I'm
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  Speaker 5: talking about roster players maybe. But I think it's very
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: much an unknown because of how much the shakedown has gone,
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: you know, to every corner on this Maple Leafs roster,
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  Speaker 5: which even includes a brand new GM and John Shaika
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  Speaker 5: who just got there about two weeks ago. So how
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: Jason Botterl maneuvers this we don't know yet. But here's
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  Speaker 5: I think the biggest challenge of this in that Austin
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  Speaker 5: Matthews has got as much control over this presumably as
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  Speaker 5: anybody else I think, just based on the years that
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: he's played. Plus also he has a.
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  Speaker 2: No movement clause, and so he's.
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  Speaker 5: Got you know, basically full right to where he wants
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  Speaker 5: to go and kind of can control this thing with
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  Speaker 5: a salary that's already at thirteen point two million and
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: has got two more years to go. Can the Kraken
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  Speaker 5: make that fit? Absolutely? The problem is it's going to
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: be fierce competition should he move on to get a
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  Speaker 5: player like that Utah, I hear is very much in
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: the mix. Los Angeles. They're moving on from anj Co Patar.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: They're a star driven market. They want against somebody else
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  Speaker 5: in there that that city is really heating up. As
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  Speaker 5: far as the conversation, So it's going to take a lot,
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  Speaker 5: and I've been going to take a lot as far
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  Speaker 5: as you know, getting a player like him here to
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  Speaker 5: convince him to move, but also be a part of
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  Speaker 5: something where the Kraken may be a bit further back behind,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Utah versus Los Angeles. So I kind of
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: go back to the artimyth an arrantthing check. You might
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: recall that about roughly three months ago when they nearly
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: got him of the deadline, but he wasn't going anywhere
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  Speaker 5: but Los Angeles, and he had full control over this.
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  Speaker 5: So to find the right guy, it's going to take
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  Speaker 5: the right kind of hall. But for Austin Matthews, goodness,
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  Speaker 5: if he moves on, you're talking about a king's ransom.
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  Speaker 2: Part of the expression. That's Mike ben and our own
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  Speaker 2: Mike Benton studies this like few others out there. Great
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  Speaker 2: stuff with him yesterday. If you want to hear the
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: entire conversation. You can go to ninety three three kjar
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  Speaker 2: dot com. And so we did continue on talking about
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Austin Matthews and this potential trade because this is a
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: little bit of a double edged sword when you talk
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  Speaker 2: about him, because on one hand, you're talking about having
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: to give up a lot because of his reputation and
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: because of his age. On the other hand, he is
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: coming off back to back disappointing seasons. I mean, he
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: was a seventy goal scorer sixty nine goals in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. He had thirty three the following year, not
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  Speaker 2: even half, and then just twenty seven this past year.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: He had a minus plus minus rating this past season.
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  Speaker 2: He was not helping the Toronto Maple Leafs win games
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: this past year. So is he still the same superstar?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Are?
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: And so, on one hand, how much you're going to
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: give up to get a guy that maybe with his
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: receding hairline on the downside of his career, Maybe he
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: is somebody that aged quickly in the National Hockey League.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's not as good as he thinks, maybe his
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: stock isn't as high, maybe we don't want him. But
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: on the flip side, if his stock's not as high
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: might be a great time to grab him. The fan
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: base is irritated with him. He is coming off those
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: two disappointing years based on the standard that we hold
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: him to. So, like I said, double edged sword, maybe
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: now's the time to get him while his stock has
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: to be lower than what it is. But on the
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: other end, you still are going to have to give
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: up a lot for a guy that might be on
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the decline. So how do you marry that? I just
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: think it's worth a roll of the dice for an
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: organization that's telling me it's really hard to find one
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: of those guys. Well, this was one of those guys
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: just two years ago, and he shouldn't be completely past
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: his prime. Don't worry about the money. It's the National
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Hockey League for goodness sake, you know, pay him the money.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think you're going to have to give up
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: all that much. I mean, again, coming at this from
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: an amateur perspective, I would think since Shane Wright still
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: has to have value and is still very young, and
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: obviously Lane Lamber doesn't like him. Yeah, with the seventh
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: overall pick, how could that package not get Austin Matthews.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Then you sign McMahon, do what it takes to get McMahon,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: and how does that not turn your offense completely around?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: At that point, then you can play your your version
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: of hockey and play those one goal games that you
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: like to play. And now you've got two difference makers
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: because McMahon looked like a tremendous difference maker, and now
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: you've added Austin Matthews to give you firepower. To me,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: these are the kind of go for it moves when
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Toddy Laiwicki and Jason Bottrell are telling us we're gonna
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: turn over every stone. I mean, that's where I'm gonna look.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take that stockpile of draft picks that's not
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: doing us any good, and I'm gonna move it for
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: potential difference makers. And if I could add two and
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: one off season, I mean, I know they've got a
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: salary cap, and so maybe I'm getting a little careless
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: with the salary cap. Maybe you can't fit both those
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: salaries under your cap right now, But those are the
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: type of moves I'm looking to make. If it's that
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: important to add one of these big time players, then
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna roll the dice on maybe an Austin Matthews
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: still being one of those guys and getting him while
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: his trade value is down, when his organization is frustrated
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: with him and with his fan base is frustrated with him,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: and people wondering if he's still a superstar. I'm gonna
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: go ahead and come to come up with a deal
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: that grabs a twenty nine year old guy that scored
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: seventy goals two years ago.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I would at least like to see
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: them trying to put together a package. And who knows
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: if we'll find out how far down the road they
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: go unless it actually happens, But at least I'd like
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: to hear the rumblings that they're working on something, trying
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: to put something together. I mean, they've got two first
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: round picks this year, so trading that seventh and then
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: some other I mean, you've got I think one, two, three, four, seven. No,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: you've got nine picks this year, and then I think
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: you've got like a bajillion next year because they just
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: keep stockpiling them. So yeah, I would love to see
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: them put forth the effort to at least try to
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: make it happen.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Man a bajillion draft pick should be able to getch
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you something.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, just give them all bajillions.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I would think, not only do I think you become
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: more offensively dynamic, you also probably are gonna either take
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: the lead or really cut down on the lead on
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the most forehead in the NHL. Because Austin Matthews is
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: a really big four large. It is like twice Peyton mannings.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: That's big.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: It's huge. But i'd like to see it. I mean,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Mike's telling us that take a king's ransom. Maybe it
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: doesn't not right now. It's certainly going to cost less
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: now than it would have a year ago, and a
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: lot less than it would two years ago to get him.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: So maybe that you know, Toronto is turning over forget
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: the expression a new leaf, and they may want to
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: just say, hey, we've rebuilt this thing and we're doing
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: it around McKenna. We got the number one overall pick
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: and we'd kind of like to move from the Matthews
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to the McKenna era going forward. And so maybe he
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: doesn't cost as much as what you'd think. And I
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: think it is worth a roll of a dice for
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: an organization that has had two different press conferences where
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: they are bearing their souls to us about how they're
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: going to find that secret sauce this offseason to turn
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: this thing around. We're not that far away. We're gonna
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: turn around, turnover every stone to find out how to
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: give you at least a playoff team and hopefully a
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: championship team. Well, I'm going to try and find I'm
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: gonna try to hook that big fish this offseason. If
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: that's what it takes to become a big player, I'm
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: gonna try to hook a big fish. And I think
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Austin Matthews still has some swimming.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: To do, some big fish capabilities.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I do, all right. Coming up next on the radio program,
• 22:29
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• 22:34
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  Speaker 3: I can't see it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Do you do you know what the sun sunshine looks like?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Well, I've seen drawn on paper.
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  Speaker 2: Do you recall what sunshine?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Like when like sometimes I drawn back here with my craans.
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  Speaker 3: Crayons, not sun above me.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: No, No, that's a light that is an electrical light.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I thought it was a hulb powered by electricity
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: this whole time, right right, No, there's a there's a
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• 23:51
  Speaker 2: look really beautiful, a lot better.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Than your light, so you don't have to turn it
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  Speaker 3: on and all.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Nope, nope, it just comes out naturally. But it's looking gorgeous. Uh,
• 24:00
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  Speaker 2: What of you?
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  Speaker 3: I wish I could?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well you're you're never gonna get to sad, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: It is a warden. Warden Ashley and Chuck with you
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  Speaker 2: here all this Thursday. And if you want to get
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: out and enjoy some of the sunshine, why do I
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: just you know what you could do, just drive a
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: just go on a pleasant drive you know today? Okay?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I sometimes I like going on that Fall road, the
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  Speaker 2: and just go on a nice Seattle drive, like in
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you know it's a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: For a rush hour.
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  Speaker 3: Where should we go?
• 24:42
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  Speaker 3: The sun always shines there.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So what you're gonna do is you're gonna go
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• 24:54
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• 24:57
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for. All right, let's talk about I come
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: across the story today and this is rich. This is
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: just wonderful. Apparently there is this new thing that's happening
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: in baseball this year. It's this new craze that apparently
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: has made the game better and that all the technology
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: that baseball teams now use. Yeah, I mean, they're like
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: they found a new weapon this year, and maybe it's
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: gone under the radar and that people haven't even realized
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: it bought. Statistically, there's a new phenomenon that is taking
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: place in the sportive baseball in reaction to how good
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: pitchers are, and maybe we've got to come up with
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: some creative ways to score runs.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: And because they all throw a hundred, I mean Aaron
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Gold's mental Telli, it's impossible to hit baseball pitchers today.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: They all throw a hundred, and they all have movement
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: and they all are precision, and so it's really hard
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: to score.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: So somehow baseball and leave it to sports, they've come
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: up with this crazy new method for trying to create offense.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Can't wait to hear about it. What is it.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: It's called bunting.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Tell me more about it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I just love that this is coming back, and not
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: because I love bunting. I'm not one of those you know. Yah. Yeah,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: they got to sacrifice here, that's for sure. I do
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: believe that they bunted too much in the.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Sports have a place.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I do understand that they did some numbers crunching and
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: thought that maybe we're giving up too many outs, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: then maybe you should play for the bang. I do
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: like analytics, don't love them, don't think you should marry
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: yourself completely to them. And I think we're figuring out
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: one thing after another that that was a huge mistake
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: by Major League Baseball. And here has to be the
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: last frontier that anybody who was so pro analytics that
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: they didn't want to hear any argument from any old
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: head over thirty five years old about what teams should
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: do today. And we've hit it. We've hit the last frontier.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Baseball has brought bunting back. The numbers are up significantly
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: in bunting, and because of the success that we're seeing
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: from the strategy, we're going to see more of it
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: going forward. There's enough evidence now that baseball teams are like, well,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: we need to do more of that. It's working. But
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: bunt hits are up higher than they've been since twenty fifteen,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: and even sacrifice attempts, which is the biggest problem that
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: the new wave analytics have with bunting. You're giving up
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: and out like a bunt hit, you're actually trying to
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: get on base, extend an inning where sacrifice bunts. That's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: the real problem that the modern day baseball fan has
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: analytics fan has with bunting is that you're giving up
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: and out in a sacrifice situation. But even they are
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: up at the highest they've been since twenty twenty one,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: so not a long time ago. But certainly the trend
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: had been down, down, down, down down, and now all
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, we're going up again, and baseball teams
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: are now implementing this on the rag here in the sport,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: and I just think it's hilarious.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: That is hilarious, acting like, oh my gosh, hold on,
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: we have found the answer the thing that we didn't
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: want to do at all.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: But wait a minute.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Now, It's like it's basically like any you know gen
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Z person saying like, oh my god, have you guys
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: heard of cassette tapes? There's this whole like vinyl records.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Do you know you could listen to a to a
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: like music on a on an actual thing.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I love my phone, but man, if only there was
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: a way to get my news in a printed paper
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: form where it was all conveniently in front of me
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: and I could just like sit on my back patio
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: and not have to scroll. I can just read, I mean,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: just to have the feel.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I get away from this blue light.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Damn, that's very Yeah, it's very similar to what's going on,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: but it's back and look, it's not like it's taking
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: over the sport. I'm saying a lot of that tongue
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: in cheek, but there certainly does it not make sense?
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Does it not make sense? Honestly, I'm not some big
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: pro bunt guy. I like analytics. I just felt it
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: went too far. We took moneyball and then made it
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the end all be all of sports. I have news
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: for you. Ask any baseball person what moneyball? And I've
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: not read the book. I don't really read sports books.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I'm a fiction reader. But I have seen the Moneyball movie,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: so I think the book does a better job of
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: explaining it than does the movie. And I'm really entertained
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: by the movie. I think the movie was great. But
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: what the movie certainly leaves out is Yays didn't win
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: because of all this moneyball garbage. They won because they
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: had the best starting rotation in baseball. They had half
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: their offense was on steroids and Miguel Ticada was the
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: best player in the game. It wasn't because of Scott Hadiberg.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, they found a couple of little things
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: and little nuances and the numbers that I think did
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: a great job of rounding out the team. But that's
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: just it. I mean, that's where I'm coming from. It's
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: about you still have to have the horses. You still
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: have to have talented, great players, and then to try
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: to make up the marginal differences. Yeah, use analytics to
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: try to find where we can gain an advantage. If
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: that team's not using it, we're gonna We're gonna use
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: the numbers to find an advantage that nobody else is using.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: We're gonna use the numbers to find players that are
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: being undervalued out there. We don't have a high payroll,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: so we're gonna get guys that they really do bring
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a lot to the table. It's just an areas that
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: aren't as obvious. I love that about what the A's did.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: I love that about Moneyball. I love that about analytics.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Who wouldn't love that? But in Moneyball it was we
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: don't ever bunt, we don't ever give up and out
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: And since that time, an entire generation has been birthed.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Aaron Goldsmith, Ryan Divish are very smart baseball people. We
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: all know that they hate bunting. Don't ever want to
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: see another bunt. Anders Hurst, not as smart, hates bunting
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: even more. Why would you hate it? Why would you
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: not use it as a weapon. Why would you not
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: still teach it? Why would you not want the capability
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: of Because this is what they're figuring out, like, oh,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: there are hits to be had. Pitchers are so good,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: they throw so hard. It is so difficult to create
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: offense in baseball today. We should try bunting to that
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: open space where they don't have any fielders. And frankly,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: your uncle Jeff, who's been arguing about it from the
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: couch for years, and just like, why are you not
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: butting there? That's what they're taking advantage of. That's all
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: they're taking advantage of. Is it's really hard to get
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: on base. Why not try to lay down a bunt
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: where there's no fielder. That is the essence of the sport.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: We willie keeler hit it where they ain't. And yet
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: here we are begrudgingly major league teams because they want
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: to look so cutting edge or finding out that maybe
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: a way to get a few cheap base runners and
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: hits is to just take a ninety nine mile per
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: hour fastball and lay down a bunt in an open
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: pasture that no one is guarding.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems, I mean it's it's almost like they
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: cut off their nose to spite their face by ignoring
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: it completely.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Well, you maybe just use it less, maybe recognize the
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: way the situation is that you should be using it.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: It shouldn't be something that you're seeing seven times a game.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I still don't want to see sacrifice bunts, except in
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: a situation first and second late in the game. If
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I want to get him to second and third, if
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: I've got the right guy on.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Deck, yep, if Luke Rayley's on deck and he can
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: do it because he's somehow really good at it.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: No, I mean the right guy on deck on deck
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: that makes contact. Yes, I don't want to I'm not
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: going to bunt a guy to second and third if
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I've got a big swing and miss guy on deck.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: But if I've got a good contact guy on deck,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: and I got a guy that can handle the that
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: a little bit of the plate yes, first and second.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I want to bunt them to second and third because
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I should be able to get a run in that situation.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: The numbers suggest I got a really good shot at
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: getting a run, and if I can get a hit,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I get two runs out of that. Those are things
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: that we should not have abandoned. No, it seems to
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: just because we think that bunting isn't cool, because a
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: generation decided that bunting isn't cool.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Because all of a sudden, we wanted to see all
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: the big hits, oh, the home runs because women dig
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: the what is it long bomb?
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, put it in your back pocket. Don't over use it,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: but use it. Have it there in case you do
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: want to want it, in case you do have a
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: difficult time scratching out runs against the guy and you
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: get an error in a walk, and suddenly we can
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: generate a run against the guy that just is dominating
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: us right now. I mean, it's silly to have abandoned
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: it to a degree that we abandoned it just because
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: it doesn't cool anymore. It was nonsense. And now here
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: we go in twenty twenty six, and we have actually
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: seen an up tick in each of the last four years,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: but teams are giving into it like it's a significant
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: uptick this year, and I just find it hilarious. I
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: like it. I love that it is back. Don't overuse it,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: don't go back to nineteen eighty four, but I do
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: love that it's back. And it really does validate your uncle,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: you know, Uncle Dick complaining from his arm from his
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: armchair about why are you not bunting over there? Because
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: that's what teams are now taking advantage of. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I could picture like Jerry and Justin sitting in there
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: and they're like, oh, if only there was a way
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  Speaker 4: we could have advanced the runners. Last night we had
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: guys on first and second and we couldn't do anything
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  Speaker 4: about it.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: And then one of them is like, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 3: I read about this in the books. They go to
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  Speaker 3: the shelf and they dust off the big book. Yeah
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  Speaker 3: it's called bunty.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, you gotta do it. You just lay the bat, You.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Just stick the bat out there and the ball hits
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  Speaker 3: the bat.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot easier than swinging in it is.
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  Speaker 3: Let's try that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I should point this out before we close
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  Speaker 2: out the segment. They are saying it's not as easy
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: to bunt anymore. Agreed, harder they throw, the more movement
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  Speaker 2: that they have on their pitches, the harder it is
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: to lay down a bunt. But we also don't ever
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: practice it. Greg Bell once took a shot at me
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  Speaker 2: on the air because I said major League baseball hitters
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to bunt. He said, they all know
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: how to bunt. Yes, they all know how to bunt.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying they don't have the skill to bunt.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: They know how to bunt when a sixty five year
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: old third base coach with a beer belly is throwing
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: sixty mile per hour cookies right down the heart of
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: the plate before batting practice begins. Yes, they'll lay one
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: down left, they'll lay down one down right, But they
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: don't practice bunting ninety two mile per hour sliders and
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: one hundred and one mile per hour fastballs and fast
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: balls that run in on you because the pitcher sees
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: you're squaring and their defense as a pitcher is to
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: throw it in at your hands because they want to
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: get a pop up. And they aren't practicing that anymore.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: And that's what they need to be practicing. And I'm
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: not saying to use it consistently. I'm saying, why would
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: you not want that weapon at your disposal?
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Agreed?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Luke Raley is the perfect example of the team slumping.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: We could use a boost. Nobody can get on base
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: against this guy, and for whatever reason, the third basement's
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: playing shortstop against me. I have good speed and I
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: can handle this thing to the degree that I can
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: lay down a bunt in a pasture and get on
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: base and maybe instigator rally. What is wrong with that?
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: What was ever wrong with that?
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Not a thing?
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: All right? Coming up next on the program, should Russ
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: keep playing? It's a question we have to ask ourselves
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: in Seattle Today Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: All right, Ashley, you can only have one.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna have Russell the jet back up to Gino
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Smith or Russell the studio analyst. You can only have one.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I know you want to, I know you want the
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: most you both, yeah, but you can only have one.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: What is Russell Wilson's future for you?
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: I was really hoping he could studio analyze from the sidelines, Joe,
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: if anybody can do it, If I can only have one,
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: give me Russell Wilson the backup quarterback to Geno Smith,
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: because I don't want to see him on a studio show.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: He'll drive me crazy.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: You know that is that has been. I mean when
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: we first brought this up, I still kind of think
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: that he knows ball and he's a bright guy, and
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know something about it. Kind of thinks I
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: think maybe some sort of switch will flip and he
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: actually will be good about it. But nobody has agreed
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: with that take. I saw our teel way In on it,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: I saw Matt Caulkin wagh In on it, and you've
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: weighed on it as well, weighed in as well. I mean,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: I'm not can't defend his personality. Doesn't seem to really
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: have one, at least not a genuine one. So and
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: it is not funny. Yeah, And when he tries to
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: be funny or tries to act man, does it blow
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: up in his face. When he tries to act like
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: he's entertaining, it blows up in his face. So I
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: guess I'm gonna have to just say, you know what,
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: You're right, like I think that it's going to be.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: It doesn't seem to fit his skill set to be
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: a television personality when he doesn't have a person right exactly.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Like they did a thing last year and they had
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: him go on one one NFL broadcast and James Winston
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: went on another NFL broadcast.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: James Winston has a personality.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: That guy is funny, yeah, and he's funny without trying,
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: and he's interesting. The problem with Russell is that he
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: is not interesting. I mean, you will get Gronk right
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: when he's on the studio shows.
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  Speaker 3: I don't enjoy him.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: He's terrible, he is awful.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: But they thought, well, he's goofy and fun and people
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: like him, so we'll put him on there.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think it's gone well because I don't.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, he doesn't even sound knowledgeable when he's talking, unfortunately,
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: because you can't get past all the other stuff. And
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: I feel like with Russell it would be a similar failure.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: It just you can't get past all the other stuff
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: to hear what he's actually saying, and I don't think
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: he can get.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Past all the other stuff to actually come across.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: I will say this that I do believe that a
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: few times throughout history we've looked at people we didn't
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: think we're going to be good at it, and they
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: ended up being good at it. I mean, Kirk Gibson
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: was a pretty good color analyst for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: No one would ever guessed that he had no personality whatsoever.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: And that's not even a great example, but it's just
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: you never know if they get to the set that
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: maybe you have tapped into something. I think that he
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: knows ball well enough, and I think he knows sports
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: or excuse me, and I think that he's smart enough
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: that he could figure it out. But he does sort
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: of strike me as somebody who will get in his
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: own way.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, that's what I think is the problem.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: He will do that, so maybe, and I think there's
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: a little bit of it too that you kind of
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: want to see him backing up Gino Smith on.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: The Sideah No, I think again, I took full circle.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: I love that moment for him and for Gino.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he will sign that dotted line with the
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: thought of, oh good, one last chance to prove I'm
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: the best in the world. Yep.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: And then Gina will probably go down with an injury
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: and Russell will have one good game and then he
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: will go back to being what we know.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Well, man, he was once. I mean, I think
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: he still is beloved here in this town, just just
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: in a different way.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: I think what he did for the Seahawks was great.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: We'll say that, and that's where I'm going to leave it.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: All right. Coming up next, it is the question, the
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: million dollar question right now with the Mariners, and it
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: actually deals with their number one strength. Man, we got
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: a lot of things to worry about. How is this
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: the million dollar question? We'll talk about in next Sports
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