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Chuck & Buck 6-15 Hour 4: Sorry Spurs, you blew it, ABC's of the Mariners and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Off the mark kind of will be the worrybound bets
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  Speaker 1: over bets over Nick fans. This is not a dream.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Your long long wait is ended. Go ahead and cry.
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  Speaker 1: After fifty three years, the Knips are finally NBA champions
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  Speaker 1: once again.
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  Speaker 2: Mike greened on the call ABC Saturday night, the New
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  Speaker 2: York Knicks win the NBA Championship, first time in fifty
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  Speaker 2: three years. So there you have it. Congratulations. I'm gonna
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: say congratulations. I think that's a I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: terrific team. I think I got a lot of likable
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  Speaker 2: guys on that roster. I like Mike Brown. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's a likable guy. The fans are annoying, yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: certainly the celebrity fans are very annoying. But nonetheless, I
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  Speaker 2: think that's a deserving champion. They played the best. There's
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  Speaker 2: no question. The only lost three games throughout the entire playoff.
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  Speaker 2: They peaked at the exact right time, which is what
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  Speaker 2: every coach at the beginning of every year, regardless of
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  Speaker 2: the level, wants to see their team do. Let's play.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have an entire journey where at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the year you're better than when we started this season.
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  Speaker 2: And if things really go well, we're the best out
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  Speaker 2: there by the end of the year. And that's what
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: ended up happening. I mean, this was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: a year where the West dominated. Nobody was going to
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  Speaker 2: have a shot out of the East, much less a
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  Speaker 2: three seed, and the Knicks no doubt dominated the Eastern
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  Speaker 2: Conference playoff and then got to the NBA Finals, And
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  Speaker 2: even though they came a long way away from dominating
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  Speaker 2: the NBA Finals, they earned it. Yeah, san Antonio gave them,
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  Speaker 2: I think, some games, but nonetheless they were there to
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  Speaker 2: also take those to walk through those doors that san
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  Speaker 2: Antonio was leaving a jar. And so I want to
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  Speaker 2: just start before we get into anything about the Spurs,
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  Speaker 2: just want to say congratulations to the Knicks. Well deserved.
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  Speaker 2: You are champions and nothing will ever take that away.
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  Speaker 3: No, I would agree, and I think they did deserve it.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, it was interesting to hear people
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  Speaker 3: have the conversation about that the West Western Conference was
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  Speaker 3: so much clearer, so clearly the stronger conference, and that
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  Speaker 3: maybe the Western Conference finals really took it out of
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  Speaker 3: the Spurs and that's why the Knicks were able to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, take advantage of the Spurs being tired. But
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  Speaker 3: that wasn't the Spurs being tired because you're not going
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  Speaker 3: up double digits and then well.
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  Speaker 2: The younger team should be fresher, exactly right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that wasn't. Yeah, that's an excuse.
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  Speaker 3: That was not the Spurs being tired because they because
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  Speaker 3: of the Oklahoma City series.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, I do believe though, that this was a
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  Speaker 2: lot more about the Spurs giving this away than it
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  Speaker 2: was the Knicks taking it. I don't think, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the Knicks played their best basketball, and
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  Speaker 2: the NBA Finals certainly weren't playing as well as they
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: did during the Eastern Conference playoffs. Now, part of that
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  Speaker 2: is the matchups and what the matchups with San Antonio
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  Speaker 2: that's going to cause you not to play as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's what sports are all about. That's what the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: are certainly all about, is making your adjustments based upon
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  Speaker 2: the matchups. And look New York and the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 2: that's when they played their best basketball throughout the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: when it mattered most certainly in the NBA Finals, and
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  Speaker 2: there was an element of hey, if you're gonna give
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  Speaker 2: us this, we'll take it. And I get that's why
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  Speaker 2: I give them credit. But the San Antonio Spurs led
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  Speaker 2: for seventy five percent of this post of this NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 2: seventy five percent of the time that the games are
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  Speaker 2: being played, the Spurs were up. That's three out of
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  Speaker 2: four quarters every single game that the Spurs were out
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  Speaker 2: in front. I think I heard this morning that there
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  Speaker 2: was a ninety percent chance to win based off of
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  Speaker 2: the statistical data in all four games that the Spurs lost.
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  Speaker 2: At one point, the stats were saying, the stat cast
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  Speaker 2: was saying, the Spurs have a plus ninety chance of
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  Speaker 2: winning this game, and yet they ended up blowing all
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  Speaker 2: of them. And I really do believe they blew all
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  Speaker 2: of them. And so I use this analysis because I
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  Speaker 2: think it's just a ironclad fact that I thought the
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  Speaker 2: Spurs when the playoffs started were too young, that every
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: team gets slapped down. Before you've be gonna become great,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to learn how to lose. And I thought
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's applied to everybody. It's applied to the
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  Speaker 2: great Jordan, it's applied to Lebron, it's applied to Larry Bird,
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  Speaker 2: it's applied to the bad boys of the Detroit Pistons.
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  Speaker 2: It's applied to the Philadelphia seventy six ers and Doctor Chi.
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  Speaker 2: It's applied to pretty much everybody but Magic Johnson and
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  Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Lakers. And then again, he kind of
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  Speaker 2: joined a complete team and then became their best player instantly.
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  Speaker 2: So that was a little bit of an outlier, but
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  Speaker 2: it has applied almost throughout history, and so I didn't
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  Speaker 2: see the Spurs being able to buck that. But I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was gonna happen against Okac. Once they beat Okac,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, they are on paper, the more talented
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: team with the best player on each end of the floor.
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  Speaker 2: And so man, they're going to do this. Wimby's right,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna take a page out of Kobe Bryant. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to wait on anybody. I'm gonna win the
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  Speaker 2: NBA championship right aback, my first full great season. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna win the NBA title. I'm healthy. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: no reason to wait on it. And yet you started
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  Speaker 2: to see the youth, the inexperience. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: that they choked away at least three of those games.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'll give the Knicks credit for one. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to steal it from you. Out of the four, but
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  Speaker 2: there were at least three of those that the Spurs
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  Speaker 2: lost because they started to grip down the stretch and
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  Speaker 2: in game number four after blowing or lost number four,
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  Speaker 2: game number five, after blowing that twenty nine point lead.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you could just see it in their faces.
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  Speaker 2: You could see it in the way they were playing.
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  Speaker 2: The only one that wanted to take a shot two
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  Speaker 2: games in a row, two losses in a row was
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  Speaker 2: darn Fox, and he was the last guy you wanted
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  Speaker 2: to shoot because for whatever reason, he couldn't hit the
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  Speaker 2: broadside of a barn. And so the Spurs, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: And I think the word choke is way overused in
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  Speaker 2: sports talk radio. I think more often than not, a
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  Speaker 2: team that loses a lead late just got out played.
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  Speaker 2: But choke does apply when you allow the pressure of
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  Speaker 2: the moment or pass experiences to remind you of failures
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  Speaker 2: that you've had, and your play is directly affected by
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  Speaker 2: the mental or psychological inability to finish off an opponent.
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  Speaker 2: And I think for sure the last two losses the
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  Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs were victims of that. That's why, as
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  Speaker 2: much as I don't want to take credit away from
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  Speaker 2: the new York Knicks. I think this series had a
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  Speaker 2: lot more to do with the Spurs being too inexperienced,
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  Speaker 2: too young, too immature to rise to the moment and
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  Speaker 2: win a championship. So once again, that old theory that
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: you got to lose first and you got to have
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  Speaker 2: your heart ripped out first before you can learn how
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  Speaker 2: to win an NBA tournament, it still applies. And the
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  Speaker 2: Spurs are no different than the Michael Jordan Bulls or
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  Speaker 2: anybody else that's come along and thought that they didn't
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  Speaker 2: have to wait. You gotta wait. And the only question
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  Speaker 2: that I now have of the San Antonio Spurs is
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: this was a loss like few others. This is like
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  Speaker 2: at least three choke jobs. Yeah, it's gonna haunt them
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  Speaker 2: in the offseason. If it doesn't, they're not great competitors.
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  Speaker 2: I just wonder the next time they're in this next year,
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  Speaker 2: if they're going to be able to overcome it, because
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  Speaker 2: I promise you those ghosts are going to come back
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  Speaker 2: into their lives and remind them remember when you were
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  Speaker 2: here the last time, and what happened. We had to
• 8:24
  Speaker 2: clean up the peddle around your shoes because you wet
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  Speaker 2: yourselves on national television three out of four games in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA Finals. So this is not going to be
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  Speaker 2: that easy to overcome. I really don't think it will be.
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  Speaker 2: But you're going to have to just do a whole
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  Speaker 2: cleanse of this experience and trust that next year we've
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  Speaker 2: learned from that, We've grown from that, We've strengthened ourselves
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  Speaker 2: from it. Same thing with Mitch Johnson. As lovable a
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  Speaker 2: character as he became here in Seattle, and I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: he finally got his due. He made a lot of
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  Speaker 2: mistakes too. He seemed to be gripping on the sidelines too,
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  Speaker 2: and he's got a lot to learn about what it
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  Speaker 2: is to get his team over the top. Because that
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  Speaker 2: was something else to see. I mean, that was a
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  Speaker 2: pretty much a choke job like we've never seen before
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  Speaker 2: in professional sports.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would say, you know, in addition to
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  Speaker 3: the youth and the inexperience, I think there was a
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  Speaker 3: factor of stubbornness involved in it as well, because after
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  Speaker 3: the first time they blew the lead and lost, you'd
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  Speaker 3: think they'd go back and say, Okay, well, the Knicks
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  Speaker 3: were able to do this to the Calves too, and
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  Speaker 3: now they just did it to us, maybe we need
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  Speaker 3: to make some adjustments in the fourth quarter so that
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  Speaker 3: we prevent them from being able to come back. But
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  Speaker 3: they never did in all those games, they didn't make
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  Speaker 3: any adjustments. They kept doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were quick shots, at quick threes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, not letting time come off the clock.
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  Speaker 2: Time come off the clock. I mean. And then that
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  Speaker 2: last one, they were feeling it. They were like, not again.
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  Speaker 2: You can just see it in their face. Not again.
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  Speaker 2: We can't do this again. And when you start thinking
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  Speaker 2: that way, guess what happens. It's going to happen to
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  Speaker 2: you again. You weren't working the ball inside. It was
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  Speaker 2: just I mean, they pretty much perfected how to blow
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  Speaker 2: a double digit lead in the NBA Finals. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they set a record. It cannot be broken. You lost
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  Speaker 2: four games. It's best out of seven, right, you lost
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  Speaker 2: four games where you had a double digit lead. No
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  Speaker 2: one's ever going to do that again. No one's ever
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  Speaker 2: going to beat it. They might match it, but no
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  Speaker 2: one can ever beat your record of choking away four
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  Speaker 2: double digit leads in one NBA finals. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what the Spurs did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they had an opportunity to again make adjustments,
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: come up with a different plan. Maybe it wouldn't have worked, right,
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  Speaker 3: but at least you're out there actively trying to change
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  Speaker 3: things and change your fate.
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  Speaker 4: And it seemed like they were just.
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  Speaker 3: Stuck on the fact that, you know what, this is
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  Speaker 3: gonna work for us, We're going to be fine, We'll
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  Speaker 3: just keep doing this, and I just it was frustrating
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  Speaker 3: to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Well say this. It might be I mentioned this earlier
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: about the Carolina Hurricanes. Carolina winning the Stanley Cup Finals
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: might bode well for Seattle Sports. That might bode well
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: for the Kraken, because I think the Kraken were built
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: the way that Ron Francis laid the foundation for that
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: Carolina Hurricanes team. Now he's been gone for quite a while,
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  Speaker 2: so whoever took over obviously built most of that roster.
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  Speaker 2: But the foundation for how they were going to win
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: is the foundation that he laid here in Seattle, for
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: how he wants the Kraken to win, and that might
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  Speaker 2: bode well for us. May mean we're just a couple
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: of gritty veterans away from maybe turning this thing around
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: from a hockey standpoint, I mean from the NBA standpoint,
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: and I'm assuming we're getting the Sonics back. Sorry if
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: you're not assuming that, but I'm assuming that we are
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: getting the Sonics back, and there's gonna be a long
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: uphill climb to It depends on what the rules are
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: for expansion, but every team in the West is facing
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: the same thing. Whether you're an expansion franchise or you're
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: the third best team in the West, it doesn't matter
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: if you're the Denver Nuggets right now, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: You're facing the same dire future. And that is Oklahoma
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: City looked like a year ago they were going to
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: win ten straight NBA finals. Not only were they good,
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: but they were young, great cap situation. The future looked
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: so bright. Who's going to knock them off? Yeah? And
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, the San Antonio Spurs decided, no,
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: we're ready now. I got them in the third round
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  Speaker 2: of our Green Jacket Draft at the beginning of the year.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: So that shows you that they weren't top of mind
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: of people thinking they were going to be a sixty
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  Speaker 2: win team this year, but they were ready to do
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  Speaker 2: that now. And it turns out San Antonio is a
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: terrible matchup for the Oklahoma City Thunder. So now all
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, if you were sitting there thinking Oklahoma
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: City looks like NBA's Superman, san Antonio suddenly looks like
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  Speaker 2: NBA's Kryptonite. That man, this is already You already don't
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: match up well against us. What are you going to do?
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  Speaker 2: Because you now have to adjust what you're going to
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  Speaker 2: do to catch up with us, because we're going to
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: get older and wiser and probably better as long as
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  Speaker 2: we stay healthy. So that's the challenge that faces Oklahoma City.
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  Speaker 2: But now, all of a sudden, the New York Knicks
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  Speaker 2: have taken Kryptonite, have taken Lex Luthor, and they have
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  Speaker 2: planted in their brains. You guys are chokers. This might
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  Speaker 2: have been the break that the rest of the Western
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  Speaker 2: Conference needed. Now I still think Oklahoma City and San Antonio, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: are going to dominate the next decade of Western Conference
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  Speaker 2: basketball in the NBA. But a year ago, we didn't
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  Speaker 2: think the Oklahoma City Thunder had a flaw, and now
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: they do. They have an achilles heel. It's called Victor Wembinyama.
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  Speaker 2: And now we went into this playoffs thinking that, man,
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  Speaker 2: if san Antonio gets by Oklahoma City, who's going to
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  Speaker 2: stop them? And then the next ten years they're going
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: to get better. Right, They're so young, they're so inexperienced,
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  Speaker 2: their coach, their best player, the supporting cast. Hey, they
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: look invincible. If they can beat Thunder already, how invincible
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: are they going to be? And now all of a sudden,
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: maybe New York has exposed something about them, because I
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: just don't think this is going to be something they
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  Speaker 2: overcome easily. I think that it creeps back into their
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: thoughts the next time they're in position to win a
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: big series, probably won't happen until the Western Conference finals.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: But you have now placed doubt and a very young confident.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: We're the top of the world. We don't need to
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: wait until we're older. We don't need experienced group. You've
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: suddenly introduced something called doubt, and maybe it won't show
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: up next year. But that's what they were thinking after
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: they blew one game and then it turned into two games,
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  Speaker 2: and then it turned into blowing a twenty nine point lead,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: and then it turned into being eliminated from the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: with that same oh my gosh, we're doing it again
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  Speaker 2: look in their eyes. So now suddenly the whole rest
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: of the Western Conference can say, well, they're not invincible.
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  Speaker 2: We know that, and so maybe two teams that look
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: like they were getting ready to dominate the next decade
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: of NBA basketball, we now know what their achilles heel is,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: what their weakness is, what their kryptonite is, and it's
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: something that the rest of the West can use to
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  Speaker 2: their advantage.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would think so.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: And I definitely was cheering for the Spurs, but they
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: did their job by knocking off Oklahoma City. It was
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: a fantastic series, and I mean, it is going to
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: be fun to watch these two teams go back and forth,
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: and you know, have the rooting interest in watching Oklahoma
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: City lose year after year. But I feel like it's
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: in a much We're in a much better place as
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Seattle fans. Yeah, for sure, looking back at how I
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: mean this time last year when when they won their
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: first one, when Oklahoma City won, and I just remember thinking, oh,
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: I do not want to watch this over and over
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: and over, and that's what it felt like. So I'm
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: happy to know that at least we're gonna have a
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: battle in the West.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean that was just that. That's why all
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: of Seattle got behind it, because there's not just not
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: just Mitch Johnson, but it's like, oh, you're the you
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: were an angel sent from the heavens to keep the
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder from being a dynasty. And then all
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, everybody else in the West is like, yeah,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: but now how do we beat the Spurs? And suddenly,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: you know, wy Wimby will prick and he will bleed,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: as it turns out, And I would say one other
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: thing about this, I think Victor winban Yama is on
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: the verge of possibly becoming Look, they're a fun team
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: to watch. I like them. I love Mitch Johnson, I
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: love his approach. I love Castle. Harper's gonna be a star.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I even like Fox, even though he played terribly. I've
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: always liked him. I liked him going all the way
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: back to Kentucky. And Wemby is just as fun of
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: basketball players we've ever watched. And who knows what he's
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: capable of, But that guy's already got a crust on him.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: That guy already has had it up to hear and
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I guess it's the media,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: and I understand that they We can be annoying, but
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: you can't let that bother you. If I'm Mitch Johnson
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: and Greg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs, I am
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: getting on that right now. I am sitting him down
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: in a room. I'm gonna make him watch Michael Jordan
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: press conferences because no one's ever done them better. And
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna you want to be that guy. You're going
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: to start handling some of this stuff that's part of
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: your job, even though you don't like it. You start
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: handling it better. And I realized you're from France and
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: that you spent your entire life kind of looking down
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: your nose in Americans and some of the ways that
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: they conduct themselves. But you're taking a paycheck from the
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs of San Antonio, Texas, USA. You chose
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: to be here and be a part of this because
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: this is the biggest stage for a basketball player. And
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: if you are already through one playoff experience, being nasty
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: with the media, being short with the media, throwing tiny
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: little tantrums, walking away from one of the most respected
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: court side reporters, Lisa Saulters, in the entire business, if
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: you're already struggling with this young man, we are expecting
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to ride you through about fifteen of these playoffs. He
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: need you. And if you're gonna let that trivial little
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: stuff get in the way of your focus, we don't
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: want you to become a villain. We don't want you
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: to become a heel.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: No, And that's the headlines you're seen.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: That's what you're seeing. He's being disrespectful, he's being nasty,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: and you know, not to the degree we've seen other people.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: It's subtle stuff. It's not vicious, it's nothing terrible. I mean,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: for gonna say he had an egg thrown at him
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: by a fan base, and so you would understand why
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: he's a little guarded right now. But I'm getting on
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: top of this project right away, and I'm gonna bring
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: in Michael Jordan. I got David Robinson and Tim Duncan there,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I got Tony Parker there. Those guys are champions that
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: have known how to act as champions, conduct themselves as champions,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: and not let that little stuff get under their skin.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: So whatever it takes, I don't want Wendy to go
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: down a wrong path. I want him to be beloved
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: in this country and I want to love him and
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I want to enjoy him for the next ten to
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: fifteen years of his career. However, at long in my
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: last but I saw some really troubling signs in these
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: posts in this postseason that at age twenty two, he
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: seems to already be fed up, disrespectful, and very close
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to being nasty to people who are just trying to
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: do their jobs.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: And not to mention, Yeah, if you're doing this this
• 20:19
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• 20:22
  Speaker 3: but teams are going to figure out the little things
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: they can do to annoy you and to piss you off.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: We've seen it with the elbows. I mean, we've seen
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: this two times where he came were just talking about
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: the aft stuff.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: You're right, but.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've seen it a couple of times where he's
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: almost been ejected or almost been suspended. Could have suld
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: be mine suspended. Yeah, And so you've got that. Teams
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: are figuring that out. And now you're pairing that with
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: what you're doing in the post game things. And I mean, sorry,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: you get paid far too much.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: That's part of your job, and the media is the
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: reason why you get paid, yeah that much.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: So just handle that part of your job like an adult,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: because you might only be twenty two years old, but
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: you are an adult.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Right and so yeah, you want them to act a
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: certain way and behave a certain way toward you, Then
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: you behaving like an infant when you're the one that
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: has all of the privileges and all of the money
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  Speaker 2: and all of the fame and all of the glory,
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  Speaker 2: acting like an infant because you don't like a way
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  Speaker 2: a question is asked. Like I said, if I'm Mitch Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: Greg Popovich, the San Antonio Spurs, I'm not gonna let
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: this thing get out of hand. I'm gonna get my
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: arms around it. I'm gonna have some courses. I'm gonna
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: bring in some legends. I'll bring in Michael Jordan because
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: he is the best postgame press conference interviewer ever, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna and he's gonna watch interviews and find out
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: how it's done. That's what I'm because he's smart enough
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: to not be that. He's a brilliantly smart young man
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and he does not need to behave that way. I
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: don't want to see him turn into a heel. I
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: don't want to see him turn into a villain. And
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see him can you know, progress
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: getting agitated with America and Americans. I don't want to
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: watch it. Yeah, and so they've got an opportunity to
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: nip that in the bud as the as the saying goes.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: And I'd get on it tomorrow absolutely, man, maybe not tomorrow.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Let him have a vacation, cool off a little bit.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: But the moment he comes back to San Antonio, we're
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: gonna sit down and have a talk. Yes, all right,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: coming up next, ABC's of the MS for you on
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  Speaker 2: We've got the end of the alphabet here today in
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  Speaker 2: our daily Mariners segment where they all allow the alphabet
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  Speaker 2: to be our guide through a few different Mariner topics. XYZ.
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  Speaker 2: That's all we got remaining x's for X rays, and
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: apparently plenty of those were being conducted over the course
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: of the last week. The injuries mounting for this baseball team,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: and maybe they didn't go as far as taking X
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: this weekend, but my goodness, between Josh Naylor never really
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: looking comfortable with that wrist, and now he's fouled a
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: ball off of his shin, Andres Munnos for the second
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: time this season, has come into a game and then
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: taken himself out of the game, this time apparently with
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: some sort of tightness in his back. Randy or Rose
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Arena hitting the bag hard on Saturday, coupled with Cal
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: and JP already being out, Yeah, the injuries are starting
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: to mount. Brendan Donovan being out with no update on him, so, yeah, exactly, So,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it would take a lot, I
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: honestly do. I think it would take a lot of
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: injuries and a lot of in order to not win
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the American League West for that to be the reason
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: not to win the American League West. I'm not even
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: gonna use it as a reason now. We're not leading
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the American League West by ten games because we're just
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: not playing good baseball.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: That has nothing to do with injuries.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: But certainly the injuries don't help. And to have suddenly
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: have a rash of them right now when we're really
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: struggling to find any kind of consistent offensive or defensive baseball,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: it is troubling.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh absolutely, And yeah, I shouldn't have said it
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: has nothing to do with injuries, because obviously, yes, it
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: makes things more difficult, but it's not like we were
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: playing great baseball before some of these people have gone
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: out with injuries. So I do think the one that
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: when I look at who would hurt the most Randy
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Roserein is bat not having him in there because he's
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: just been so consistent.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's probably Yeah, he's probably in the most consistent
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: hitter that we've had, no doubt about it. So it
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: sounds like that we've got good news that Cal and
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: JP are definitely going to be back Tuesday night to
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: start the homestand and it sounds like Randy could be
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: back on Tuesday. I don't know what's going on with
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Josh Naylor. I don't know if that rist is what's
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: causing him to play terrible defense. But even the m
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: error yesterday on the pickoff that was on Josh, you
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: got to catch that ball. I mean they gave the
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: error to Handcoff. Yeah, but he's almost playing the position
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: with like a nonchalance about him. But maybe I feel
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: better about it if I find out it's an.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Injury, right and then, But then at the same time,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: I'd be annoyed because clearly he's not able to recover
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: in the being in the lineup all the time, so
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: they should have allowed him, sent him to the eel.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Maybe he doesn't want to go, but send him to
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: the eyel because that's what we're hoping to see when
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Cal gets back. Right, he had that nagging oblique injury.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: It wasn't helping. Wasn't helping. Send him to the eyele
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: and let him actually get healthy.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Well, oh well, we'll see what happens. I mean, I
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: can appreciate him gutting it out. Oh yeah, you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I really can. But I don't know if it's helping
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: us play. I'll say that much. Fine.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Not.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Finally, we got two more letters to get to. Why
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: is for young? Cole Jung just continues to impress. I
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: know he didn't really sting the baseball this weekend, but man,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: he just continues to play like a gold Glove caliber
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: second base. And here's the strange thing about it is,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: as well as young as played, and as much as
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: we've been impressed and as excited as we are about
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: a future with him and Emerson up the middle, that
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: future could be now in terms of accolades. Now that
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the All Star ballots are out, I don't know if
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: you've anybody's taken the time to fill one out. And
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I always fill it out based on who deserves it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I've done that since I was a kid, and I
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: don't pick my favorite players. I pick the guys having
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: the best season. Well, strangely, you get to the American
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: League second baseman and it might be Cole Young, Like,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: hasn't been a real banner year for American League second
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: basement right now. I mean, there's a strong argument to
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: be made for Cole Young is the most deserving second
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: baseman to be the starter for the American League in
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: the entire league. Yeah, okay, Mike Travis Mezana is a
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: rookie for the Cleveland Guardians, and I think I saw
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: a ballot from somebody I respect that had Travis Bozana
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: on it the other day. He's played like thirty games
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: so far this year. He's been impressive in the thirty games,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: but there's no way I'm putting him ahead of Cole Young.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Even though Cole doesn't have this gaudy batting average or
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: home run total and he doesn't steal bases, just the solid,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: consistent play from him and then the great defense from him.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Cole Young probably deserves right now to be the starting
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: second baseman in the All Star.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Game, which is crazy. We would not have anticipated that
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: when the season.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: He's not had that kind of a year. No, he's
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: not one of those like, oh, that's an All Star. Yeah,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to be that type of player,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: but I don't think he's had that type of a year.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: And yet he might find his way in the game.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Good for him, Yeah, good for him, exactly good good
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: for him. There's certainly been a lot of a lot
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: worse players that made the All Star Team than Cole
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Young has. Finally, Zia is for zone. Dumb can zone
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: seems to be in that zone now And I don't
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: know exactly what to do with this lefty righty thing.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Even yesterday you knew that they were gonna go with
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: an opener. Why are we so committed to Colt Emerson
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: hitting ninth? Why are we so committed to that?
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, yes, we were reading that conversation the other
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: day at home.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Why is he hitting ninth every game when right now
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: he looks like he's your best player? All right? I
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: get it. The splits righty left whatever you were getting
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: ready to face a righty, not a lefty yesterday, And
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: yet Emerson plays against lefties and Rallian Canzone. Don't I
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: loved having Rallian Canzone in the lineup. I would expect
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: that that much out of my manager to have that
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: great anticipation skills to know, well, they're going to throw
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: a riety for most of the games, so let's keep
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: rayleyan Canzone. But it's as if you expected to go
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: down one, two, three in the order in the first
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I would have hit Colt Emerson fourth yesterday. Not only
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: would I not ever hit him ninth. The way that
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: the team currently is banged up, I would not hit
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: him nine. Maybe it changes with JP and Cal coming back,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: maybe ninth is the spot for him. But on a
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: day where you know they're starting a lefty, he's only
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: going to pitch one inning, why would you put in
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: the cleanup spot a guy that you usually take out
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: of the lineup against the lefty. So we start this
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: rally in the first inning and then we pretty much
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: have to abandon it because we've got our two lefties
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: that we usually take out of the game against lefty.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Put him in the lineup, but hit him like, yes,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: snifth and seventh.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that your chances of them coming up in
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: the first inning when that diminishing.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you've got Emerson hitting four, maybe we
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: get to put together an inning here, right, I mean
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: he did have did just happen to hit home runs
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: on back to back days for goodness sake? So I
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: don't know, it just seems like there's this Nope, he's
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: twenty and he will hit ninth. He will, he will
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: earn his way up into the lineup. Right, he's already
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: hit six home runs when he's basically hitting better than
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: anyone else in the lineup. Why do we not want
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: him coming to the plate.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: That's a great question.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: And when he does come to the plate, he's got
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: seven and eight Master Bony and Parada or Garver hitting
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: in front of him. I mean, come on, I mean,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: we're we're past this, right, We're past this in the
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: modern day, I would think, so, you know, we can
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: we want to put the best guys out on the field.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: We don't want to play these silly little he's not
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: ready for that games, or he's got to earn that
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: kind of games that we're playing.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a thing I feel like they're doing.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: But no, I mean when Miles master Boney came back,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: I didn't understand why he didn't go to the back
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: of the lineup.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: He should hit ninth. He's a ninth place hitter. Cold
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Emerson is not a ninth place hitter at this point.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I got it when he first came up, and I
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: get not wanting him to be in the heart of
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: the order on a daily basis, but to hit him
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: ninth every night, just automatically when we've got three or
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: four guys banged up and we're going to face an
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: opener and then we know we're going to face alrighty
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the game, and then Dom canzone.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I trust a lot more than Luke Raley in that situation,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: and he seems, I mean, he's trying to earn a
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: way to play every single day. Yeah, I don't know
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: why he wouldn't be ahead of Raleigh in the order
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: when the other team is starting. I would agree a
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: lefty opener, all right? Coming up next, One last Thing
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  Speaker 2: What do you got Ashley?
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  Speaker 3: She is washington first ever heptathlon national champion. She earned
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  Speaker 2: Pretty cool did that at winning the meet? I mean
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  Speaker 2: If she also took home gold.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: I would think so, I would think they did well,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: But I don't know how they actually ended up finishing.
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  Speaker 4: And I did not see that.
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  Speaker 2: Little track and field got a little track and field
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  Speaker 4: Let's see. Yeah, I'm just showing her. They're really all
• 34:14
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• 34:15
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to assume the team did not win,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: or it would really be all around about all of
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• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, congratulations to her. Yeah all right, I'm going
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: to close with the NBA news. A lot of people
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: have had a lot of problems with that Portland Trailblazers owner, who,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: by the way, won a Stanley Cup championship. Yes he did,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: so that's that's a little frustrating.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Yes it is.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: But one of the moves that he made that really
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: irritated people was how he fired Tiago Splitter, their head coach.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: After Splitter took over, the team turned around and they
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: had one of their better seasons in quite some time
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: this past year. And yet apparently the new owner did
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: not want to do didn't want to go forward with
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Thiago Splitter, so there was a lot of uproar about that.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Well he found home. He got hired today by the
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Chicago Bulls as their head coach.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Oh well that's all right.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's probably gonna be in a better
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: situation because I they'll probably spend money.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean I think maybe the Blazer's roster
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: looks a little bit better right now. But nonetheless, an
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: opportunity to land on his feet. Obviously some people were
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: impressed out there. So I'm glad to see that Splitter
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: ended up finding himself a job. So congratulations to him,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: and we'll see who the Portland Trailblazers now go after.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Whoever it is. They're going to be.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Underpaid most likely, yes, because I don't know a lot
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: about Tom Dundon, right, that's his name, Tom Dundon, other
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: than he owns the Hurricanes, and nobody is happy since
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: he bought the Blazers, because they're saying like even with
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: their travel with the playoffs, like he wasn't bringing letting
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: everybody go or sit with the team, and he was
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: cheap on the travel, And I mean, that's just not
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: a good way to start owning an organization.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, he's not made a very good impression. No,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: And he chased off what pairs appears to be a
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: pretty popular and seemed like pretty good young head coach.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: But he's going to land in Chicago with the Bulls.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: And then I got a little bit of time for this.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I wanted to mention this, so I would. I just
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: want to say some kudos to Julio Rodriguez because that
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: guy cannot catch a break at the plate right now,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: and yet you can see how diligently he's trying to
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: stay within his game. No one has been robbed of
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: more base hits right up the middle of the field,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: which is what a player always tries to do when
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: they're in a slump or trying to stay just stay
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the field, and he's done a
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: very good job of that this year, and yet has
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: been robbed so many times. And what happens to a
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: professional athlete, especially a professional baseball player, where you're going
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: to Dailey grind and you're watching the batting average slip
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: and the ops slip and everything else slip, and you've
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: already faced some criticism over the years for underachieving, you
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: tend to get outside of that. You start swinging for
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: the fences, you start trying to do something differently because
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: you told me to do this and it's not working.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: I just keep hitting right to the defender. I give
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: him a lot of credit. I think it shows a
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: lot of maturation. He's hitting the ball hard right now,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: He's just hitting it at people and isn't having any luck.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: And I'm going to trust that the baseball gods will
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: balance that out before the end of the season. But
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: just keep doing what you're doing, Julio. Yes, they will
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: fall in. But man, I don't know if anybody in
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: the sports having more bad luck with line drives than
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: what Julio Rodriguez is right now.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I would agree, And I do think because
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: we've seen him in the past. Just try to be
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: the hero every time and swing for the fences. So
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: I'm glad that he's not reverting back to that.
• 37:53
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