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Best of Chuck in the morning 9/3 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 3: you writing this down?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Something completely different this is chuck in the morning why
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  Speaker 2: you people are beyond you let's go let's get the
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  Speaker 2: game on Hey, great morning to you all. Welcome into
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  Speaker 2: the radio show. It is a Thursday morning, a lovely one.
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  Speaker 2: We got a little bit of rain yesterday back into
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  Speaker 2: our lives. I thought it was special.
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  Speaker 5: I made soup and the fall candle was burning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, are you just all in on this?
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  Speaker 2: Your chips are in the middle of the table right now.
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  Speaker 4: I know, but I will say it was tortilla soup,
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  Speaker 4: so I felt like that was like a halfway soup.
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  Speaker 5: That's not like a stew or something heavy. It was light.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And it was delicious.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it sounds wonderful. Gosh, that's the atmosphere I should
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  Speaker 2: have been a part of last night.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: What kind of atmosphere were you a part of?
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  Speaker 2: I did go out for a little bit to the kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 2: Hung out there a little bit. But I didn't have
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  Speaker 2: like some homey, warm, you know, smell of apple cider candles.
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  Speaker 2: Tortilla soup kind of evening.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ushering in the fall.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm welcoming it.
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  Speaker 2: Which seems to have crept up on us.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like Journey with open arms. Just come here, fall.
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  Speaker 5: I'll give you a big old hug.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a stalker you want.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a stalker you're attracted to.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm like, yes, I'm over here. Follow me.
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  Speaker 2: Follow me. It's like, you know what? I warped. I, Chuck,
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  Speaker 2: wore this sexy outfit so that this stalker would follow
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  Speaker 2: me home.
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  Speaker 5: I did ask for it. In this instance.
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  Speaker 2: In this instance. Yes, that should be pointed out. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Great morning to you all. Welcome into the show. Ashley
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  Speaker 2: Ryan is here. My name is Chuck Powell. It's good
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  Speaker 2: to have you with us. We'll take it till 10
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  Speaker 2: o'clock this morning. And certainly a ton to talk about today.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever done this to Ashley,
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  Speaker 2: but like 30 seconds before we cracked the mics, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to lead with here today. Have
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  Speaker 2: I ever done that?
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  Speaker 4: No, because we never talked before the show starts either.
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  Speaker 4: So I was like, and I was like, hold on,
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  Speaker 4: let me put, and I had my head, and I
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  Speaker 4: was like, and then I looked at you again and
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  Speaker 4: you said, I was like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know what's first on my mind. Right.
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  Speaker 2: But then again, we're not having Greg Bell on today
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  Speaker 2: at 7.05, just giving him a day off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Um, he he's earned it. Uh, and so I, I
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  Speaker 2: got that opportunity to do like a baseball conversation about
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  Speaker 2: what happened yesterday and where the team's at. And I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 2: then is that an excuse to not lead with it
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  Speaker 2: is should I go something else here? Um, but I think,
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  Speaker 2: I think Ashley's right. I think that you just go
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  Speaker 2: with what's top of mind.
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  Speaker 5: You gotta.
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  Speaker 2: Because this team just continues to be the most bizarre
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  Speaker 2: creature that has ever been created in the history of sports.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not like it's just this year. I hate
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  Speaker 2: to remind you, but this happens every single year with
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  Speaker 2: this team.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And for those people out there that still get angry
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  Speaker 2: When I, or Bucky used to, or Ashley, dare suggest
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  Speaker 2: that it's a long season, what the F extra evidence
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  Speaker 2: do you need that a team could play this bad
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  Speaker 2: for five months, enter September, five games out of first place,
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  Speaker 2: ten games under, or nine games, I guess they were yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: going into yesterday, and they win two games, And suddenly
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  Speaker 2: it's like, oh my gosh, it's alive! There's still, this
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  Speaker 2: corpse has had breath breathed back into it. The truth
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  Speaker 2: of the matter is, no, they didn't go three and
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  Speaker 2: three over this six-game road trip to Toronto and Boston.
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  Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is they couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: played worse in Toronto than what they did. And the
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  Speaker 2: truth of the matter is the first loss, first game
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  Speaker 2: in the Boston series was one of the most devastating
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  Speaker 2: losses you'll see in a baseball season. And certainly it
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  Speaker 2: felt like there is no way this team's going to
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  Speaker 2: put it back together again. But Humpty Dumpty'd it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: get up off that floor. Let's get back up on
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  Speaker 2: that wall. And the next two days, you win consecutive games.
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  Speaker 2: You've now scored eight runs or more in three straight games.
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  Speaker 2: So suddenly the offense has life. Cal Raleigh, even though
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  Speaker 2: he didn't play yesterday, seems back. And lo and behold,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not sitting here telling you, get ready,
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  Speaker 2: here we go, because there's not enough evidence to support confidence.
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  Speaker 2: But there's enough evidence to support. They're not done. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they only missed that three and three goal.
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  Speaker 5: By a Julio mistake.
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  Speaker 2: By a Julio mistake. I mean, in only one game
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  Speaker 2: at two and four, I mean, you'd rather have them
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  Speaker 2: gone three and three. The goal was to at least
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  Speaker 2: go four and two. But obviously two and four, two
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  Speaker 2: straight wins. The offense comes alive. At least the fight
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  Speaker 2: that when your backs are firmly against the wall, that
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  Speaker 2: you're not just going to roll into a ball in
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  Speaker 2: the corner is there. That was evident the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of days. Dan's certainly managing with urgency at this stage
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  Speaker 2: in the season. And lo and behold, this corpse, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not dead yet.
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  Speaker 5: He says he's not dead yet.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, you are.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be stone cold dead in a moment. I'm feeling better.
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  Speaker 5: Can you just take him?
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  Speaker 2: I want to sing and dance. Um, it's unbelievable. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're unbelievable. And this has happened every year. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: happened at a different time in the season every year,
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  Speaker 2: but it happens every year that they go on this
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  Speaker 2: run when it looks like they're done. And yet they
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  Speaker 2: somehow summon some run. And I'm not saying that's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. I'm really not.
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  Speaker 5: It was, yeah, two wins.
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  Speaker 2: I have not been won over by it. Your snake
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  Speaker 2: charms won't work on me. You know, I've been fooled
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  Speaker 2: before this season, but I will say this. There have
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  Speaker 2: been times in the last five years where I declared
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  Speaker 2: on these airwaves as somebody that truly believes in this
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  Speaker 2: roster and has for five straight seasons, six straight seasons,
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  Speaker 2: that I thought, that's it. There's no way. There's no
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  Speaker 2: way anybody can come back from that. And immediately they
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  Speaker 2: put together some sort of streak out of nowhere that
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  Speaker 2: and start playing the way they haven't all season long.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not going to eliminate it as a possibility,
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  Speaker 2: nor am I going to sit here and believe in
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  Speaker 2: what we've seen the last couple of days either. But
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  Speaker 2: it's just strange how they just continue to be the
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  Speaker 2: weirdest team that has ever taken a field at any
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  Speaker 2: level in sports.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no consistency.
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  Speaker 4: Because if you were to show someone tape, if you
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  Speaker 4: made it all, like, you know, the kind of night vision, right?
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  Speaker 4: Where you couldn't tell who, whose team is wearing what colors.
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  Speaker 4: And you've showed someone a game from Toronto and, and,
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  Speaker 4: and Tuesday's game from Boston. There's no way they would
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  Speaker 4: think that was the same team. Because especially offensively, they'd
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  Speaker 4: be like, well, those are two totally different teams. There
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  Speaker 4: is zero consistency. So it's hard to sit there and
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  Speaker 4: have confidence that they're going to pull it together. And
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  Speaker 4: because we've done this, I feel like this is the
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  Speaker 4: most rollercoastery.
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  Speaker 5: It's been in a long time. Terrible.
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  Speaker 4: In terms of kind of our emotions being allowed to say, okay,
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  Speaker 4: here's the time.
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  Speaker 5: Here's when they're going to do it.
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  Speaker 4: And so I just think, I mean, I sat there
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  Speaker 4: and looked at Five Iron last night, and the first
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  Speaker 4: thing I said was, ugh, if. we should have swept
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  Speaker 4: the Red Sox. And that was my first, not that
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't happy we won too, I was, but I
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  Speaker 4: just thought we should have swept the Red Sox. And
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  Speaker 4: that was so irritating that we didn't because that does
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  Speaker 4: make a big difference. And not only in the way
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  Speaker 4: that the standings and the way that your road trip
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  Speaker 4: goes and you come back on a 500 road trip
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  Speaker 4: and maybe that helps the confidence, but it helps the
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  Speaker 4: fans too and it helps people believe a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: And you're coming home and you got four games against
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  Speaker 4: the A's And I don't know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's like, oh, you should sweep them.
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  Speaker 2: You could get swept.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I'm like, I don't know. And I haven't
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  Speaker 4: given up. I mean, I've been consistent on I still
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  Speaker 4: think they have a chance. I still think they can
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  Speaker 4: do this. I still believe that they can win the division.
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  Speaker 2: There's the truth. I mean, to predict that they're going to, okay,
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  Speaker 2: here comes the run, I think that that's foolish enough.
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  Speaker 2: I also think to just bury them and believe they
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  Speaker 2: have no chance of pulling that off is also a
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  Speaker 2: bit foolish. What, 22 games to go? It's not like
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to chase down the Rays and Yankees. You're
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  Speaker 2: trying to chase down extremely flawed teams.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And you get the softest part of your schedule the
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  Speaker 2: entire year. But who can read anything into that? Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, that means nothing.
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  Speaker 2: It means nothing. It really does. It means nothing. to
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  Speaker 2: this version of the Mariners, which is, very similar to
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  Speaker 2: past versions of the Mariners. Certainly talented enough to pull
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  Speaker 2: something off, but where's the consistency? Why would I believe anything?
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  Speaker 2: Could very well be fool's gold. And you might return tonight,
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  Speaker 2: take on Jack Perkins and his six ERA, and he
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  Speaker 2: might two-hit you over seven innings. I mean, that's just
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  Speaker 2: how weird and strange that they are. Which does suggest
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  Speaker 2: why they've had such a bad year. That you cannot
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  Speaker 2: put any kind of consistency together. Momentum is your enemy.
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  Speaker 2: All that sort of thing. But I'll say this. I
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  Speaker 2: had a conversation Friday afternoon. Before the Rainiers game, with
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  Speaker 2: Softie and Dick, as I do every Friday before the
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  Speaker 2: Rainiers games that I do. And, of course, Dick, boy,
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  Speaker 2: he's really proud that he gave up before any of us.
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  Speaker 5: That he gave up before any of us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's really proud of that. Well done. Keeps reminding us.
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  Speaker 2: And then Softie and I were talking about, okay, realistically,
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  Speaker 2: what will you be okay with the next six days?
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  Speaker 2: And certainly nobody foresaw... We're going to play like garbage
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  Speaker 2: against the Blue Jays, lose them all, and then try
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  Speaker 2: to remake up that ground in Boston. Nobody went into
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  Speaker 2: the weekend thinking that. Even the largest Mariner naysayer out
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  Speaker 2: there didn't think that that was the scenario that we
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  Speaker 2: were in store for. But the realistic conversation was, let's
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  Speaker 2: say you go 3-3 over the next six games and
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  Speaker 2: And you're within four, three games of the Astros. That's
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  Speaker 2: the window we gave ourselves. And you've got 22 games
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  Speaker 2: to play against teams that pretty much have folded and
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  Speaker 2: are preparing for next season. The A's, the Angels, the Rockies.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what's coming up for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the season. Yeah, I can live with that, was the
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  Speaker 2: conclusion that he and I drew while Fane continued to
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  Speaker 2: tell us that we are fools.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's the conclusion that he and I drew. So does
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  Speaker 2: it eliminate it if you go two and four instead
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  Speaker 2: of three and three and you're five back instead of
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  Speaker 2: four back? Is that one game difference here as we
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  Speaker 2: get ready for the A series starting tonight? That one
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  Speaker 2: game difference throw us completely off our feelings that we
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  Speaker 2: had on Friday and Obviously not. Obviously, mathematically, it's not
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  Speaker 2: out of the question. I think where I'm guarded this
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  Speaker 2: morning is I don't want to start believing again.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how many times has the tide seemingly changed
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  Speaker 2: and you still can't navigate the waters? And so... I'm
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  Speaker 2: not here to tell you, here we go! But I'm
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  Speaker 2: also not here to perform a eulogy on the season either.
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  Speaker 2: And so here we sit, the weird-ass 2026 Mariners, toying
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  Speaker 2: with our emotions once again. And the only conclusion that
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  Speaker 2: I could draw is that corpse you thought was flying
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  Speaker 2: to Boston showed life the last couple of days. joyous,
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  Speaker 2: splendid life and that maybe it does have some fight
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  Speaker 2: in it and maybe it does want to live.
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  Speaker 5: And wouldn't that be just a magical thing?
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  Speaker 1: Yes!
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like we've been trying to will
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  Speaker 4: them to want those things for the last three months, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like, come on, guys.
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  Speaker 5: You can do it. You want this. We know it.
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  Speaker 5: And we're trying to all send.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you trying to deny it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, come on.
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  Speaker 5: Just accept it.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you trying to act like you don't want this?
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  Speaker 5: Just accept it.
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  Speaker 4: It's happening. I mean, these are the things that we
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  Speaker 4: have all been trying. We've been like, just you can
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  Speaker 4: do it. We know you can do it. We're finding
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  Speaker 4: everything we can grasp onto and just hoping that it'll go.
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  Speaker 4: So I can understand why you would say, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if I want to believe again. Because it's been
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  Speaker 4: so sad when they've been sucking.
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  Speaker 2: If it was a relationship, the advice would be, you
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  Speaker 2: got to stop letting him slash her do this to you. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Wake up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this isn't healthy.
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  Speaker 2: You need to move on. Yeah. I mean, if this
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  Speaker 2: was a relationship, that's the advice you would give your
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  Speaker 2: best friend. This is not healthy for you.
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  Speaker 5: They're doing the bare minimum.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You need more than that.
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  Speaker 1: They're not there for you.
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  Speaker 5: You deserve more than that. That's what it would be.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, last week, your boyfriend, the Mariners, he went
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  Speaker 2: outside and he just took You know, a number two
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  Speaker 2: in the front lawn of your parents' house. You just
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  Speaker 2: can't stay with that person.
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  Speaker 5: There's no respect there.
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  Speaker 2: The neighbors were talking. And I don't care if they
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  Speaker 2: did bring you flowers. And we're really charming in Boston
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of days. You know what they are.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And those are poop flowers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They grew them in their own poop garden.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man it is something and you're like but they're
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  Speaker 4: saving money on fertilizer yeah you keep justifying their actions exactly.
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  Speaker 2: All right um let's talk about what else is coming
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  Speaker 2: up on the show today it's time to find out
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  Speaker 2: what's on.
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  Speaker 8: The way, I am not glossing over the whole Montez
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  Speaker 8: Cal thing that happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to get into it. That was part
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  Speaker 2: of my indecision this morning. Like, do I get into
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  Speaker 2: that at 6? And then again at 7? Did I
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  Speaker 2: save that for 7? But I do want to go
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  Speaker 2: through the Montez... And the Mariner's process conversation. And so
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  Speaker 2: without Greg today, because we're giving him a day off,
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  Speaker 2: we will do that at 7.05. So we are going
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  Speaker 2: to tackle that subject. I'm certainly not ignoring it. As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I like it so much. I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to put it in its perfect position here today
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  Speaker 2: without overdoing it. So that was sort of the strategy
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  Speaker 2: and the indecision. here this morning, but the Mariners won
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  Speaker 2: over the Red Sox eight to three. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Healy about the, uh, weird, uh, Mariners, uh, today
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  Speaker 2: at nine o'clock. Um, the team is 66 and 74,
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  Speaker 2: which is gross and disgusting. Um, but they do remain
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  Speaker 2: within shouting distance, uh, five games back of the Houston
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  Speaker 2: Astros who won last night. The Texas Rangers lost last night.
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  Speaker 2: The A's are in town for a four game series
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  Speaker 2: and it will begin this evening. And it will be
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  Speaker 2: Kate Anderson, which is exciting in its own right, taking
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  Speaker 2: on Jack Perkins from the A's, a right-hander. So that's
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  Speaker 2: good news. It's a right-hander. Even though we did rough
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  Speaker 2: up a left-hander.
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  Speaker 1: A bad one.
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  Speaker 2: But we roughed up a left-hander yesterday in Boston to
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  Speaker 2: close out that series. It's Apple Cup week, of course. Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: I even wrote down Saturday. That's just part of the past.
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  Speaker 2: It is. Sunday at 1 o'clock. Softie will join us.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Thursdays with Softie are back. He'll join us
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: at 730. He is the leader of the honks again
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: this year and now is the sideline reporter for Huskies
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: football as well. And I do honestly believe Cam and
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Elise are terrified.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: As they should.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: So we'll talk to him at 7.30 today to discuss
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: the Apple Cup. College football week one. I don't know
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: if they're still calling that last week week zero or what.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: They, like, combined them all on the scoreboard thing, which
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: was weird.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but a full week of college football. First full
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: week of college football is this weekend, Labor Day weekend.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: And it starts tonight.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, it does.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: There's a heavy slate. Now, there's not a lot of
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: good games this week. Usually we have, like, a top
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: ten matchup. some sort of kickoff classic that I grew
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: up with, maybe two or three of those that they
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: spread out over the weekend so you get a good
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: game every single day. Um, well, they're not doing that
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: this year. Kind of a bummer. I think the best
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: matchup is LSU Clemson. And I think the only reason
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: that people are fascinated with it, cause it's two powerful brands, uh,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: one down right now. Um, but it's the, it's Dabo
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Sweeney and the anti Dabo Sweeney. Yeah. It's the guy
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: that's doing anything to try to win and trying to
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: skirt all the new rules to try to work them
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: to his advantage. And the, the one guy, the last
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: bastion of head coaches that doesn't want to do any
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: of the new stuff and just wants people to commit
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: to Clemson and stay here for four years. And I
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: don't want to have to recruit you every day. I mean,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: that's the, that's probably the most intriguing thing about the
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: most intriguing matchup this week.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Cause it's like a 10 and a half point spread
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: or something like that. So, It would be a pretty
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: large upset if Clemson were to pull it off. And
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: I think, yeah, it's just people keeping their fingers crossed,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: hoping that Clemson can pull off some magic.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: It's like a fight in your living room between your
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: grandfather and your niece's goth boyfriend. Yeah, similar.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: That's exactly. how I pictured it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of what it is. Completely different ideologies.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Very different ideologies.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: But the same amount of scrap.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: They both got a little fight in them.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Do not underestimate Grandpa. He will pull your black hair
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: right out of your head.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: He will come at you like a spider monkey.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: He will pull that bone out of your nose. Trust me.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: He cannot wait to do it.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: All right. We are six days from the Seahawks opener.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: And so, I mean, I'm really kind of jonesing now
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: to talk about an opponent. I'm not sure we'll get
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: into that today. But, yeah, the New England Patriots are
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: a pretty fascinating story right now. I've heard rumblings that
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: camp is a disaster, that Vrabel– thinks his depth is
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: horrible that the organization's not over the whole russini thing
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: um that it has caused some ripple effects within the
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: organization uh and so interesting first opponent interesting i'm interested
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: to see how the national people next week once we're
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: closer to the game start covering this game and what
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: topics they do hit uh and same thing with how
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the Patriots prepare for this upcoming game, if they will
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: treat it like a true opener, uh, or if the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: soap opera that is turned into new England Patriots, that
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: new England Patriots football is turned into, uh, ends up
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: being the bigger topic of conversation next week as we
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: lead off to kickoff. Here, we're just about the champs
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: and the smoothest running operation in the world. That's right. Yeah,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: so good luck with all of that. Kirk Cousins was
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: named the starting quarterback for the Raiders yesterday. That's now official.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: We will discuss how the NBA just absolutely devastated the
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles Clippers over this Kawhi Leonard extra payment thing.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, my.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Gosh, what a ruling. You want to send a message.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: You want to set a bar for we're not going
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: to allow this conduct at all. And everybody who has
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: flirted around with this, you better take heed. This is
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: not only your warning. We are making an example of
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Clippers and everybody better be following the example.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: So they have set a really high bar on how
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: they're going to punish teams. guilty of this infraction we'll
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: talk about that a little later on in the show
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: sounders take on red bull new york on saturday suddenly
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: the sounders a much more interesting team again now that
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: they have a star goal score uh and of course
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: we've got a lot of baseball to discuss today so
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: we will continue that conversation with mariners morning after next
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: on sports radio 93.3.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: Kjrfm Ben Wilson has had to piece this one together.
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: He lifted Bryce Miller in the fifth. From Ferrer to Rucker, Dominguez,
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: and now Criswell. They get to the finish line and
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: a series win.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: The one-two. Swing and a miss. It's over.
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: The Mariners win it. They take the series two games
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: out of three. They push 25 runs across in three
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: games at Fenway Park. And September is off to a
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: phenomenal start.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess undefeated in September.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: You know it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: It's going to continue. We're not losing a game all
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: month long.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be something? Wouldn't that be something?
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: That would be incredible.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: That would be like historic or something.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Fairly certain it would be.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Great morning to you all. It is a Thursday. It
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: is Ashley Ryan and Chuck Powell with you as we
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: roll into our second hour. That was Aaron Goldsmith on
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: the call of yesterday's 8-3 Mariners win on Mariners TV.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: The M's do score 25 runs in three games, should
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: have swept the Boston Red Sox, do come away with
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: two out of three, and have instilled life back into
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: themselves in terms of this race. Now, they are still
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: five games back in the American League West. They are
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: still eight games under. 500, but they didn't just wilt
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: and die after... Game 1's very difficult defeat. They obviously
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: showed some fight and are trying to prove that they
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: are still in a race. And they're done with the gauntlet.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: The gauntlet of competition that we discussed for the last
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: month has come to a close. The rest of the
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: schedule is comparatively light. And so there is an opportunity
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: maybe to take advantage of not only bad teams, but
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: bad teams that are already trying to play for next season. Now,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: that means you're going to have a bunch of young
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: kids who are going to scrap and claw. It's not
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: like they're going to just give it a half-assed performance.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: The advantage is that you're taking on a lot of
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: teams playing a lot of young kids that might not
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: be Major League ready. So that's the advantage that you're
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: going to have, but you cannot take your foot off
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the gas if, in fact, that's where it's landed here recently.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems like it's been hovering between the gas
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: and the brakes quite a bit. So, I mean, that's...
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I wish I was going into this series with all
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: the confidence in the world, and normally I would. I mean, again,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: I still believe that they can do this, but I
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: just keep going into everything with trepidation.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Like, I don't know what team we're going to see tonight.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Take it day by day, Ashley.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: It's all you can do. It's all you can do.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: That's right. Cliches. That's what come in handy this time
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: of the year. It will be Kate Anderson pitching, and
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: that's exciting in itself to see him pitch again tonight
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: at home. He'll be going against the A's tonight. right-hander
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Jack Perkins, who's very talented but has not pitched all
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: that well this year. And so that is the pitching
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: matchup tonight at 640. I don't know if Brendan Donovan's
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: going to play or not. He went on the trip,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: from what I understand, but never did feel... I mean,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: he can. The seven days are up on his concussion IL,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: but he obviously didn't play in Boston. And now he
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: flies back, which I'm not sure you're supposed to really,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think they recommend flying if you still have
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: concussion symptoms. So why you would send him on two
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: flights and then he doesn't even play, I don't know.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: But to hear that, how he got injured, like at
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: this stage, Brendan, and he's truly one of the nicest
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: people and great guys that I've ever met. So I
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: say this with love.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Dude, you should be showering with a helmet considering how
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: many injuries you've suffered. I mean, you shouldn't do anything.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: You should eat cookies.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: In a helmet.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: Can we have them in bubble wrap?
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: You should make your morning coffee wearing a helmet and
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: shin guards.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Let's try to get healthy and stay healthy. What do
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: you say?
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, please.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: When you get back into this lineup. Quickly through the
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: rest of your headlines brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Choose chill. We're six days from the Seahawks opener. The
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Raiders have more time to prepare for their opener because
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: they're not champions. But Kirk Cousins will start. That announced
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: by new head coach Clint Kubiak yesterday. College football week
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: one starts tonight of the college football season. When I
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: say week one, it's the first full week. We've got
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: games Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, as you know. And
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: there's not a great game on the schedule this weekend,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: if you ask me. But nonetheless... full slate of college football.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: It is back, and it starts tonight. The Apple Cup
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: will be played this year on a Sunday at 1 o'clock,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: which you can hear right here on Sports Radio 93.3
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: KJR FM. And the NBA just absolutely crushed the Los
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Angeles Clippers for overlooking that Kawhi Leonard, or arranging that
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard got money beyond the salary cap that wasn't
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: put on their books. Leonard got punished as well, but
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: not like The Clippers' ownership got punished and the organization,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: and we will talk about that a little bit later
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: on in this hour. But I said this to start
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: the show, and certainly we're going to dive into it now.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I do want to talk about how yesterday started because
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: there were a lot of people, I think, justifiably angry
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: with the decisions the organization made, the Mariners organization, with
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: their starting lineup yesterday. I mean, tempers were tamped down
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: a little bit when you found out that For Cal,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: he wasn't feeling well. And so that's why he went
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: to Johnny Pareda in the game. But I do agree
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: with the sentiment. We better not be resting Cal Raleigh
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: when he just got hot. And we really can't treat
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: any game like, well, it's a rest day.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: No.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Everybody's got to play. Your best guy's got to play.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You've done this to yourself. You've dug yourself this hole. Um,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: but we did find out that Cal Raleigh was not
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: feeling well and that they just felt for the longterm.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: It was better to give him the day off and
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Pareto was terrific again. Yeah. I mean, he's been terrific
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: for us. Yeah.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I don't feel, I mean, obviously I'd rather have Cal
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: in the lineup when Pareto's in there.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: I don't feel like I felt when Garver was in there.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: He's just been really good. And he's really fun. I
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: think he's a really good guy to have on the team.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: But you can play them both. I mean, Cal can
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: be the DH, too, by the way. But the real
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: issue yesterday was the lack of Laz Montez in the
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: starting lineup. And I agree with everybody, by the way,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: that I've heard weigh in on this. I think Luke
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Arkins made a reasonable argument for Taylor Ward yesterday. Our friend,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Luke Arkins, he might've been the only guy that I
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: saw do that yesterday. Um, and, and, Luke's kind of
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: the voice of reason in this town. Um, he doesn't
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: go too far one way or the other. Uh, but, um,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: but I agree with the angry people yesterday. It made
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: me angry that last Montez wasn't in the lineup. Um, yeah,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: there probably is an argument to be made for, well,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: this is why we got Ward to hit left-handers and
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Laz is going to play plenty down the stretch and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: But not everything can be driven by the percentages. You
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: make most of your decisions that way. That's baseball. And
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I defend that. I defend that constantly. But sometimes you
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: do have to go with Oh, that was really good
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: last night, and I want to see that again. And
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Laz Montes has not proven to anyone that he can't
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: hit Patrick Sandoval. That's true. I mean, if it's Chris Sale,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: maybe there's an argument. Oh, that's the toughest lefty he's
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: ever going to face in his entire life. And the
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: numbers say he doesn't hit him as well as he
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: does right-handers. So maybe... if you're facing Chris, but you're
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: facing Patrick Sandoval and his 1.7 whip yesterday. He's not
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: getting anybody out. And Laz Montez's numbers at the minor
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: league level did not suggest he can't hit lefties at all.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, baseball teams do this. The Dodgers did this
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: to Jock Peterson. They just labeled him like, you can
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: only hit right-handers right off the bat.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Well, didn't we do that to Dom Canzone for a while?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: And we did it to Dom Canzone as well. And
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: then not only started that way, but obviously didn't give
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: him a chance to prove otherwise during the course of
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the early part of even this season, his third, fourth
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: season in the league. And we're still not giving him
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: a chance to prove it when our offense can't hit.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: So they do, and this is all of baseball, they
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: should be criticized for leaning into that too much, sort
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: of dismissing someone's abilities. And I just didn't think we
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: were going to start that way with Laz Montes. I
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: thought when they activated him, this top prospect, who does
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: have flaws? And they are going to get exposed. And
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: it might happen all of this September. We'll see. I mean,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: he might... It might bear out that Laz Montes can't
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: hit Major League left-handers. We might discover that during the
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: course of September. But do we have to start that way?
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, coming off of that game where he was
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: the story, how do you not put him back into
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: the lineup? I mean, would you not put somebody back
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: into the lineup that hit three home runs the night
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: before just because the numbers say they don't match up
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: against the day's next pitcher? I think that is a mistake,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: and I think that that is overthinking things, and I
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: think that Taylor Ward, if he were crushing left-handers, I
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: could understand it a little more. I could stomach it
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: a little bit more, but I think that it was
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: a mistake not to put Laz Montez in the lineup yesterday,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: even though it worked out just fine.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I think you hit the nail on the head when
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: you said, we might discover that he can't hit left-handers.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: But shouldn't we be allowed to discover it? Shouldn't he
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: be allowed to discover it? Shouldn't the Mariners discover it?
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: And the only way to do that is to actually
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: put him in the lineup against lefties.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: You shouldn't be assuming he can't do it. Because the
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: numbers aren't in his favor.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: May or may not be in his favor.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you've got to.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: Bucky put out a thing on X yesterday, and he
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: talked about how he isn't as critical of Dan Wilson
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: as a lot of people are, and we knew that.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: We've talked about that.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: But he said someone coming up, you're in their first
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: week in the majors, he should be in the lineup
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: all the time, hitting everybody. Then you figure out how
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: he actually fits on this team. It shouldn't be, well,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: you were in there and you did great. Ooh, but
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: this is going to be too tough for you, and
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: we don't know that we think you can do that.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: If he gets exposed, then yeah.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but let it happen.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Every game is important.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: But let it happen.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: But there's also something to, oh my gosh. maybe we've
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: got somebody that can help unlock this offense. Maybe we've just,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: maybe we sat on this guy too long. Maybe he
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: is exactly what we need. And why would you not
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: want that element that sparked the entire team the night
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: before in the lineup the next day, just because at
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: the trading deadline, you added someone who's not performed for
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: us to fill this role.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, you didn't even have Cal in the way
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: because Cal normally is going to take your DH spot
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: If you want Parada to catch that game, that next game,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: because he's been catching a lot. That's still going to
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: happen down the stretch. You're going to need Parada to
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: catch a game occasionally. And I would assume Cal goes
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: to DH. You didn't even have Cal on the lineup yesterday.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: You gave him a complete day off because he wasn't
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: feeling well. And you still couldn't find a spot in
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: the lineup for Laz Montes? After what he did two
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: nights ago? I do think it's a mistake. And I
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: love the conversation that Aaron and Ryan Roland-Smith had about it.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Because Aaron is right, and it's something that I've said
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: over and over. We are sometimes too results-oriented in our reactions.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: To me, you have to make the best decision for
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: the team in the moment, and then you hope, playing
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: the proper angles, that you get the result that you're seeking.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: But it doesn't always work out that way. I've used
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: this example. If you have the bases loaded... and won
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: out in the ninth tonight against the A's, and you
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: pinch hit Logan Gilbert for Julio?
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: That would be weird.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: That is a really dumb decision. That is a profoundly
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: dumb decision. And you don't get bailed out if Logan
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: somehow sneaks a single through the infield.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: No.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, what a genius move by Dan Wilson.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: No one saw it coming.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Anybody that would react that way is a fool. Anybody
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: that would make that decision is a fool. And I'm
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: not saying that Gilbert pinch hitting for somebody is the
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: equivalent of Montez not playing yesterday. I'm exaggerating for emphasis.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: But there are moments in a season where you do
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: need to ride the hot hand. There are moments in
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: the season where you do have to recognize, oh, that's
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: something worth following up on. You might have had the belief.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if this came from Dan. For those,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: you know, because I'm obviously anti-Dan still being the manager
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: and I'm still pro front office did its job this year.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Everybody knows that about me. This very well probably did
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: come from on high. This probably did come from Jerry
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: and Justin in their pregame meeting where they discussed, because
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: they discuss all of these things from what I understand
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: before every single game. And it probably did come from
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: on high. This is why we brought Taylor Ward in.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: It's just a better matchup. We're playing the percentages. And
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: maybe the percentages say Taylor Ward should be able to
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: hit this guy better than Laz Montez. But sometimes you
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: just got to have a gut feel. Sometimes you've got
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: to take advantage of a good thing. I mean, that's
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: part of being a manager, whether it's a general manager
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: or a field manager, to understand, hey, I know the
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: numbers say that Taylor Ward might slightly have an advantage
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: here today. But what I watched on Tuesday night from 99,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: I want to see more of that. He may have
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: just delivered us the spark that we need. And yes,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: the result worked out. You played Ward. He went 0
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: for 5, by the way. He didn't contribute to anything.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: But you still scored eight runs and you won the game.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: But it doesn't make the decision right. No. Laz Montez
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: should have been in that lineup yesterday. And that is
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: an organizational miss. And nothing will convince me otherwise. Now,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: hopefully he's going to be back in the lineup tonight
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: against Jack Perkins. But yes, I agree with everybody that
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: was angry yesterday. That was a mistake, even though it
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: did work out on the scoreboard.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that most people should be disappointed
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: or angry or have negative feelings towards not seeing him
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: in the lineup yesterday. People were texting and then joking
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: when we were talking about... Why on earth would we
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: assume he wouldn't have been in the lineup yesterday coming
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: off the game before?
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: It shocked me.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and we had people texting in, unless they don't
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: put him in because it's against a lefty. Like, joking.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: And then it really turned out they don't put him
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: in because it's against a lefty. And I just think,
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: you're doing him a disservice, you're doing your team a disservice,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: you're doing the fans a disservice.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: Let him cook.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: You really went there.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: I paused before because it kind of made me gag.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: But just, I mean, this is, You know, it's like
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: they didn't watch the game.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: If Taylor Lord was killing lefties, fine.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: Yes, but he's doing nothing.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: He's doing nothing.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: Nothing at all.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: And he doesn't bring anything defensively.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: And he's not bringing the energy.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: So what do you have to lose? You're not going
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: to ruin Laz's confidence if he strikes out.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or goes 0 for 3.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not going to happen.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, let the guy try it.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: If he goes 0 for 3 with three strikeouts and
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: then in the eighth they bring in a lefty to
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: face him and you want to pinch hit for him, fine. Yes.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Pinch hit Taylor Ward like, oh boy, he's really struggling.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: They really got his number. Pinch hit for him. But
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: coming off that game the night before, this team is
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: desperate for something to add to this lineup and provide
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: a spark. Yep. And Taylor Ward's not done it. He's
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: been given a month. And in one night, Laz Montez
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: did more for this team than what Taylor Ward's done
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: since he arrived a month ago.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Half the time I forget Taylor Ward's on this team.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: I haven't seen anything from him.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: So again, I'm with the outrage yesterday and just because
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: it worked out and we put eight runs on the
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: board and won the game does not justify the decision.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: And so the process that they go through and it
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: continues to be this topic of debate and shame on
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: everybody that has absolutely no connection to the Mariners. And
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: thinks that they know exactly how it works.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot of people like that.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: It's Jerry and Justin making every decision. Like, Dan's got
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: a smartwatch in the dugout, and he's just waiting to
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: be told what to do. I'm telling you right now,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: at the beginning of the game, they all meet. The
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: brain trust, the numbers that the analytics people have come
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: up with, Jerry and Justin, as I understand it, as
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: I understand it, I don't even know. I don't even
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: know the exact process.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: Right, because none of us are there.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: But Jerry and Justin and Dan, and I think Hal's
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: in on those, and then they have meetings like, this
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: is who we have available tonight through, you know, the
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: medical team weighs in on it. Pete Woodward weighs.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: In on it.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's all one meeting. I
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: don't think that it's like up in a tower apartment.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: And they're sitting around a round table discussing it and
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: they all have hoods on and cloaks.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: And then the smoke comes out when they're done.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Right. But there is a conversation every game as to
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: who's available, how we want to use them, how do
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: we want to attack them. And then there's a game
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: plan put together for... how that, what the organizationally they
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: feel is the best way to win that contest that day.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: But from what I've gathered until right from the horse's mouth,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: that once the game begins, the decisions are Dan's including
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: the lineup. That's what I've been told. Now I don't
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: a hundred percent believe that either, but for anybody that
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: is just blatantly saying Jerry and Justin are in his
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: ear the entire game and they have decided every move
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: that's going to be made, you're wrong. And if Dan
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: allows that to happen, then he's a stump. He is
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: a ficus and needs to be replaced because he doesn't
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: have a backbone. But I don't think that's the case either.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: So as I understand it, that is how the process works.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: But I do believe that Jerry and Justin probably weighed
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: in heavily on that decision yesterday to have Laz Montez
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: sit and Taylor Ward play. And ultimately, Dan makes the lineup.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: That's what I've been told. And he put Ward in
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: the lineup. I'm sure influenced by the conversations that they
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: had in the boardroom that said, Ward's the better matchup
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: here against Sandoval today. So that would be my conclusion. Again,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know either factually how that works. But as
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: I understand it, that is the process. And my guess
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: is Jerry and Justin had a really big say in
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: that lineup yesterday. But Dan ultimately puts the names on
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: the paper. As I understand it.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: At least you're clarifying too, though, this is how you
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: understand it and not trying to state it as this
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: is exactly what happens.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: How do you guys not know this? Because that's the thing.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: None of us know. We're all speculating or going off
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: information we've been given.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I've asked Justin Hollander on air and off air
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: how it works. I've asked Jerry on air. I've asked
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Dan on air. But that's how it's been described to me,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: which I think is more than what most people have
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: done that are weighing in on this subject on social media. Oh,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I'm sure.
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: I'm sure.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Or even on our own airwaves. Yes, exactly. All right.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Coming up next, we got Thursdays with Softie. They start today.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: By the way, Greg, usually at 7.05, we just gave
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: him the day off, so nobody panic. He'll be back
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: tomorrow at 7.05. But Softie's next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: He has just become the king of Huskies football, and
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: he is our co-worker. I'm blushing.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: A place for birds to poop.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Yep. I want birds.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: We're tired of birds crapping on Don James, so crap
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: on Softie. Don't crap on DJ. Crap on Softie. Right.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: I think we could direct them to crap on you.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: That's fine. Everybody else craps on me. Maybe we'll be
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: the birds. He's back for another season as the ringleader
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: of the Hawks, and this year he's added a new responsibility.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: He is going to be the sideline reporter during Huskies games.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to um for that um are you gonna go
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: craig sager are you gonna go like crazy jackets on
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: the sidelines i know you're gonna add some sort of
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: special touch to this role what are you gonna.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Do yeah i'm just gonna find a new sponsor for
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: every game by the way hats shirts the whole thing
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: right sure just i just like a walking corporate logo
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: every single weekend by the way so if you see
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: you see somebody with a you know barbasol hat and
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: uh i don't know uh nordstrom shirt uh, you know,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Brooks running shoes, whatever. That's me. I'm, I'm your, I'm
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: a corporate shill, man. But yeah, thanks. I like the
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: way that you said that, by the way, you're adding
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: sideline reporting.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I think you do enough on Husky Saturdays. I
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: can't believe you want to do this as well, but
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: if anybody can do.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: It, they forced me.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Me to do it.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: They said, look, pal, we need to do more. So
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: you're doing this. I don't know. Hey, you know what?
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Are we, uh, are we still in the Mariner playoff
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: wagon together? Uh, You and me?
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Barely.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Barely, yeah.
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: But sure.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, mathematically, yes.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I got them 16-6 the rest of the way.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Well, that'll probably do it. 82-80. Yeah.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: 117 win pace the rest of the way.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Well, that'll probably do it.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Astros go 11-11. We got to go 16-6 to catch them.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Who will win more games, the Mariners the rest of
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: the way or the Huskies this season?
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: I think the Huskies are going to be a 10-win
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: team in the regular season, 10-2. I'm taking the over 9.5.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: By the way, the over 7.5 in Vegas feels like
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: candy from a baby. I don't know, man. I get
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: kind of nervous sometimes saying stuff like that because you're like,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: what am I missing here, man? 7.5, if they win
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: their three games in non-conference, which is Wazoo, Eastern, and
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Utah State, They've got to win five games the rest
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: of the way, and they've got a lot of manageable,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: winnable games on their schedule. So, I don't know. I
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: would say, well, the Mariners, because I've got them going 16-6.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: They're going to catch fire. Dan Wilson's 35-18 in September
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: since he showed up here as the Mariner.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: This is where he thrives.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: This is where it kicks in.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: That's right. This is what we call nut-cutting time, big boy. Yeah.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: This is when Dan turns into John McGraw.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: The month of September.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: See, I'm glad that you're feeling positive, man. Good for you.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Good for you.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: How strange is it for you to have an Apple
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Cup on a Sunday?
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Not very. Not very. I mean, I think it's great.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: It's the only game on TV in the world on Sunday.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: You want to watch a live football game, there's only
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: one choice, and that's the Apple Cup at 1 o'clock.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: I think the ratings are going to be ginormous for
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: this game across the country. I mean, imagine being in
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Vegas at a sports book or the Umbra Queen, wherever.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: and you want to flip on a football game at
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: 1 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon. You've got one choice.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: So that, to me, is really appealing, I think, for
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: both these teams. I think Jed Fish is going to
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: want to put a show on, by the way, in
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: this game, just like he did a couple years ago
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: when he's throwing up 30 points in the fourth quarter,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: hitting Amari Evans on that late touchdown pass, 52-24 with
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: three minutes to go. UCLA is up 41-14 with seven
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: minutes to go, and he's throwing 25-yard touchdown passes. I
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: went back and looked. There was a game against Utah
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: when he was at Arizona. They're up 35-18 with 32
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: seconds to go, and he throws a 51-yard touchdown pass
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: from Jaden Delora to Ted McMillan. So this whole idea
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: that he's going to hold off the gas, no. And
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: you know where he gets that from? He gets that
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: from Spurrier, who's got that line about, it's not my
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: job to stop me from scoring. So I think Jed
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Fish is going to want to put a show on
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: this Sunday at 1 o'clock.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: What will it take for this game to still be bad?
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: being played in 2036. Could the fans want to play it?
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: End of story. I don't know if they can stomach it,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you. I don't know if they
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: can stomach it financially, not playing it as well. I
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: think that's something they've got to figure out. But, I mean,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: I said this on the show yesterday. I don't know
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: if you guys have noticed this or not. And, you know,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: the week of the Apple Cup, obviously it was always
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: in November, but the week of the Apple Cup, there
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: used to be a lot of anxiety in the office.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: And there's none of that right now. None of it. Like,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to the three or four Cougs that we
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: had in the office yesterday. Are you going?
• 48:51
  Speaker 10: No.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: They just don't give a damn. They don't care. You know,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I got buddies of mine that are Coug fans that
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: are scheduling tee times at 1 o'clock on Sunday.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Intentionally.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Because they'd rather play golf than watch the game. Exactly. So,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: I just don't know if the desire is there to
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: keep this thing going. Now, it may not matter because
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the administration of Wazoo may say, look, guys, we've got
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: to play this game. We need the money, right? Whatever.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: But I... i chuck i know for a fact that
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: you you pull the cougar fan base right now i
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: think you'll get more cougar fans that will want to
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: just take their ball and go home if we're going
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: to get our ass kicked we may as well get
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: our ass kicked by somebody else that we don't live
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: with yeah it's not going to bust our balls the
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: entire year right.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah so well that's what i was wondering because if
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: jed fish does put the put the hammer down, if
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: he gets the chance to blow them out and does
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: blow them out, that probably doesn't lend itself to more
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Apple Cups in the future.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, why did Lorenzo Romar cancel the series
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: with Gonzaga back in the day? Because they were getting
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: their ass kicked. I mean, as much as I love
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: UW and as much as I love Lorenzo Romar, I mean,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: he got tired of it. It's pretty simple to me.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: They just said, we're not doing this anymore. I think
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: that's what Jed wants to do on Sunday. Will he
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: be able to do that? We'll see. I mean, they
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: got a bunch of new guys at wide receiver, a
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: bunch of new guys at running back. You know, the
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: core of the offense is obviously the offensive line, the
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: tight ends and the quarterback. So we'll see what they do.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: They're going to play all three of these guys, Quade Carr,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Trey Cooley, Jaden Lamar at running back. All three of
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: them will play. They'll use the preseason to kind of
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: figure out, you know, who their best guys are before
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: they head to, USC in Week 5. I know there's
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: a Minnesota game in between there, but that's the big
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: one in Week 5. They should be 4-0. Anything less
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: than 4-0 is an absolute disaster for Washington. And then
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: at wide receiver, you've got a bunch of new guys.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Transfer Christian Moss, the kid from Kennesaw State. I mean,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Des Roebuck is back. Rashid Williams, Jordan Clay. There's a
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: lot of new names there, man. So I think he
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: wants to do that. He wants to drop the hammer
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: on Sunday, but will he be able to? We'll find out.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: We'll find out. That's a great cliffhanger right there. What
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: is the thing that you can't wait to learn more
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: about about this Huskies team? As you watch them for
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: the first time, what are you most excited about learning
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: about this team?
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: I want to see what Cody Green and Derek Coleman, Broussard,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: and Ramzak Thruan are all about. The freshmen! That's right.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: All three of them. 18 years old. I don't ever
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: remember Washington starting three 18-year-old kids on the line of
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: scrimmage from the opener. We've seen guys play before on
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Nick Harris was a freshman. Trey
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Adams was a freshman. I think Rosenhosen and Parker Brailsford
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: were redshirt freshmen. You know, we've seen guys get in
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: the rotation and guys even start late in the year.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: But from the opener, I don't ever remember doing this.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: And having like a thousand percent trust that they are
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: the right guys for the job.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Like you look at them and you're like, you know,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: why do you trust these guys? And they look at
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: you like you got nine heads. Like, what are you
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: talking about? They've been killing it in camp, right? So
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean, it's a nice soft landing spot,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: you would think, for all three of them. They're not
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: playing Ohio State, right, or Indiana in the opener. So
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: they got a good little, you know, kind of, you know,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: soft landing for the first three or four games before
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: they head to L.A. in week five. And I'm just
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing how much havoc they can wreak
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: on the defensive line and how much help does Cody
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Green need at left tackle. Do they help him with,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: you know, guys chipping? Do they– Do the Cougs come
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: after him from the jump and maybe try to take
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: advantage of an 18-year-old kid making his first start? I mean,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: there's going to be some growing pains, you would think,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: for these guys, right? The question is, how many? Like,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: when the Seahawks started Gray Zabel in that Raider preseason
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: game a year ago, he was getting whipped around for
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: a little bit. But that was in the preseason, right?
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Games didn't count. So, I don't know. I mean, to me,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: that's almost the number one thing I'm looking forward to
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: seeing on Sunday.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Well, I think the number one reason now, and it's
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: risen recently, Quickly, to the number one reason why I
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: want the Mariners to go 16-6 the rest of the way,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: because I want Fane to have egg on his face
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: after he's just continuously tweeting about how he knew 19
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: days ago what we didn't know.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the team was terrible. They were 10
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: games under 500, so it's not like we're climbing out
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: on a limb here, guys, by saying the Mariners are done,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: for God's sakes. My whole thing from the start has
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: been the schedule, right? I mean, again, my optimism, if
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: I have any... for the Mariners, really doesn't have anything
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: to do with them. It's got everything to do with
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: who they play. I mean, they got 17 of their
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: final 22 against three teams that are currently like 97
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: games under. 500 in Colorado, the Angels, and the A's. So, look,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, is it a long shot? Of course it is.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: But would it shock you with a week to go
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: if these guys found a way to pull within two
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: or three games of first place and made this a race?
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: No. No.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: I'm totally with you.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: 100%.
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: All right, man.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: You know what? Unlike Dick, I just choose to be
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: a positive person.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: You know, unlike Dick, you got a big heart. You know?
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: You're going to work with this guy at 3 o'clock today,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: by the way. Hey, man, can I talk to you? Nah.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: About my big heart? I do have a big heart.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Jackson's been going back and forth like it's like a
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: ping pong. Oh, I know. Like a tennis match. I'm in.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I'm out. I'm in. I'm out. It's like, who was
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: in a league of their own? Remember Marla Hooch?
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: She kept going back and forth on the field, sticking
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: her foot in, sticking her foot out. That's what Jackson's like.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: He can't decide if he's on the wagon or not. So,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, did you see the odds,
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: by the way, for the West? Last week they were
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: plus 180. Now they're plus 500 to win the division.
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: At the Emerald Queen. So you're getting some real value there, boys.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you that right now. Baseballreference.com yesterday had them
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: as like a 7% chance to make the playoffs, which
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: is basically winning the division. So I don't know. Yeah.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: All right, man. Well, have a great year, all right?
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: We're looking forward to Thursdays with Softee again this year.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: And have fun on Sunday. It's going to be great
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: listening to you.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: There's no way we can do this later in the
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: day at like 11? 11?
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think I can pull it off at 11.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: That would be a great feature on Greg's show, though. Yeah.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I'm just trying to give you
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: my best stuff. Yeah. I feel like it's 730 in
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: the morning. I'm still a little raw.
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: I don't think you're going to have it at 11 either.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: I'm never going to have it.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: Right. You keep working on it. You'll get there.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, Mariners went from 7% to 10.7
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: with that win yesterday.
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: Look at that.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: We're moving in the right direction, boys and girls.
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: Told you. They've got it.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: All right, man. Talk to you soon.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: All right, see you guys.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: There he is, David Softy Mahler, the one, the only,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: joining us Thursdays with Softy back this year, but at 7.30,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: not at 7.05. Coming up next, man, did the NBA
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: bring the hammer down on the Los Angeles Clippers? We'll
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: give you the details of that and whether or not.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: It clears the path for another decision we're waiting on.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. We're going to keep on
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: drafting for the rest of our lives because it's one
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: of the true joys in life.
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: That's a long time.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, for a long time, Ashley. You are committed to it.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: I know that. We've made a contract in blood.
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: I think I was sleeping.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: I know, but it still counts. I've checked with my attorneys. Fair.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: So we roll into the eight o'clock hour. The showdown
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: trophy is now what we battle for. And let's face it,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: we really are just battling for bragging rights. But the
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: difference between the old green jacket drafts and the showdown
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: drafts is that we're going to be incorporating other experts
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: and other fields that are on these very airwaves throughout
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: the course of the next year in our drafts. And
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: we are also going to be including a listener team
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: as well. So every draft that we do, a listener
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: will be represented on the show. And so we do
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: have our contestant, I believe, is on the line for us, correct?
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: We also have Anders Hurst, who is on the phone
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: with us today. He's going to be drafting again our
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: second straight day. doing a draft, and today we are
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: previewing the Big Ten Conference, and we do it with
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: a fantasy football draft. So while both of our other
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: contestants are on the line listening, I'm going to go
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: through the rules, and there aren't many. It's a PPR league.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: You only have four players on your roster. You draft
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: a quarterback, a running back, a wide receiver, and a
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: flex position player, which is running back, wide receiver, or
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: tight end. The only difference to the rules is that
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: I do add on two extra points to your score
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: that week. If your quarterback throws for more than 300 yards,
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: you're running back more than 100. Your wide receiver receives
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: for more than 100 yards, but that's some technical stuff.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: that I only bring out so that nobody complains one
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: week into the score results. So that's one thing that
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: we do. And then the other little twist to this
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: is when you draft, you cannot draft two players. You
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: cannot at any point this year on your roster have
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: two players from the same college team within the Big
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Ten Conference. So that's the only other trick to it.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: And with that, let's go ahead and welcome our contestants.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: Let's bring Anders back on first. Hello, Anders.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: Good to be back.
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: You can never have too much drafting.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: I agree. Great point. Nice job, Anders. Good answer. Number
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: one pick. Kiss up.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: That's the ultimate number one pick right there. That's the
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: John Elway number one picks right there.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: And let's meet our contestant as well. It is Eric.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Yes. We have Eric with us as well.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: Hi, Eric.
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for having me guys.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for being with us. Uh, are you, do
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: you fancy yourself a college football expert? Uh, expert?
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: No, that's okay. Broad stretch. But, uh, do I know who's, uh,
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: do I know who's going to score a lot of points?
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right. Good. Uh, how, how good a chance
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: do you, uh, think you're going to fare against three
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: Titans like Ashley Anders and myself?
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: Uh, Fair to Midland, I think.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: I think you got a good shot. I think you
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: got a good shot at it. That's what I'm guessing. here.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: All right, Eric.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, man. We're excited to have you. And
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: by the way, Jeff drafted for us yesterday at 8
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: o'clock when we did our national draft, and he knocked
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: it out of the ballpark. So no pressure on you.
• 59:22
  Speaker 5: No pressure at all.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we want you to be entertaining, informative. And competitive.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: And not beat us.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and finish second to third.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the goal. That's the goal here. All right, Ashley,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: we need a draft order. What do we got?
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: All right, here we go. I got the number one pick.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's great.
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: You got the number two pick.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: That's better than yesterday.
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: Eric got the number three pick.
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: And Anders got the number four pick.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: That feels a lot more balanced than normally our randomizer does.
• 59:51
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: I know, because I was like, Oh, because Anders had
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: number one yesterday, right?
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So there you go.
• 59:57
  Speaker 5: And you had last. So there you go. It does
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: balance it out.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: Well, not entirely. I would have had the number one pick. Well, no.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: You're right. But it's a lot more balanced than it
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: normally is. I'll put it that way. Yeah.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: I would have rather had the No. 1 overall pick today.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you that.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, look at that. Even Anders can complain.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 6: Sorry.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: The guy with a No. 1 pick on his team.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: Sorry about it.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: I think you're right, too, by the way. All right, Ashley.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: You've got the No. 1 selection. It's a fantasy football
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: draft from the Big Ten Conference. We're all going to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: have all-star teams, but... Ashley will tell you, she's done
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: this every year with us, that this is trickier than
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: you think it is because you've got to figure out
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: in bi-weeks whether I'm going to let somebody go or
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: take a zero that week. Injuries play a factor. It's
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: a lot tougher than what it feels like on the surface. So, Ashley,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: show them how it's done. Who are you going to
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: take with the No. 1 overall selection?
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: Oh, man, I am going to hmm and ha over, oh, no,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: Jeremiah Smith.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: That would have been the number one pick.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: Not going to hum and ha much over that one.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith, the wide receiver out of Ohio State. Eric
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: was hoping to get him in the third round, I think. Yeah.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: Realistic expectations.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: Holding that for my last pick.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: Hoping he'd just fly under the radar.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: Um, he's just phenomenal.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, he might've been the best player in college
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: football last year. I think he's going to be the
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: best player in college football this year. Uh, I would
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: imagine that a quarterback will take, be taken in the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: NFL draft next year. Number one overall. Um, but if
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: ever there was a wide receiver who looked like a
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: number one overall pick, it's this guy, he'll have some competition.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: And I think that they're going to score like 40,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: 50 points a game a lot. And so he might
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: be on the bench. He might get Mario Bailey'd in
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: his final year and only play two and a half
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: quarters some games. We shall see. But that would have
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: been my number one selection right there as well. Sounds
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: like it would have been everybody's. Anders, is that who
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: you would have taken?
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 6: Hammer without a doubt.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: All right. I got the next selection and truth of
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: the matter is like the quarterback position. I mean, it's
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: the deepest. If you wait till the fourth round, you're
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: going to get a good quarterback. But because we're putting
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: together all-star teams, you really do try to seek like,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: where do I have a gap? Where do I feel
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: like I have, if I get a player that nobody
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: else can match that player's numbers at that position. And
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: for me, That happens right here in Seattle at the
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: quarterback position. I'm going to take, for the second year
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: in a row, DeMond Williams Jr. with the No. 2
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: selection in the draft. Oh, was that a disagree wow
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: from Anders?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a little surprised, mainly because I think there's
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 6: three good options here at quarterback. Now, DeMar Williams would
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: be my first quarterback taken.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: There are five.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 6: But in my head, there's a gap between the first
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 6: three and then maybe a little bit after that. So
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 6: I kind of go by little tiers like we do
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: with the quarterback tier list with– uh, with Mike Sandoe. But, um, yeah, I, I,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 6: I would have waited for quarterback. So I, I hopefully
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: this plays out in my favor going forward and I
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 6: may get my number two overall selection. Number four.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe you will, but I have a feeling that there's
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: a gap between one and two, uh, here at the
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: quarterback position. Eric, are you a UW fan? I mean,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: did I maybe break your heart there with that selection?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, we don't know your background here.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: No, I'm a lifelong Seattle guy. One of the rare ones. Okay. Um,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: Grew up being a UW fan. Okay, so you did
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: grow up. For me, I just don't know if he's
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: going to hit the bonuses like you want him to.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. I think he's going to hit the 300
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: passing and 100-yard rushing bonus every week. That's what I think, Eric.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: All right, Eric, you've got the third selection overall, first round.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: Here we go. Here's the foundation piece for your all-star team.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: Who are you going with?
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to take the quarterback that we know
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: is on the team that's going to run up the
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: score every week for style points and give me Dante Moore.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: Going to go Dante Moore. How about that? All right,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: so look at that. This is a guy that's like,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: I'm a competitor. I am a UW fan. I grew
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: up in Seattle, but I'm going to take a disgusting
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: duck with my first round selection.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: I am playing honorary Bucky today, so there you go.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 5: He'll appreciate that.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 6: Better you than me, I'll tell you that.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: It takes a big man to play Bucky, so good luck, Eric.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: All right. I got him like three-quarters of the way covered.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: All right, fair. All right, Anders, you've got back-to-back selections,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: and obviously you weren't going to take a quarterback, so
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: you're not brokenhearted here. So where are you going to
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: go with this?
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: I am not.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I get my second overall pick here, and it's
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 6: Darius Taylor out of Minnesota, mainly... because I want to
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: save my other hammer teams for other positions. And I
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: think while he is my number one running back, the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 6: main thing that gives him the value in this position
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: is that there's no one else from Minnesota that I
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 6: want on my team. So he's going to be fed
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 6: the ball a bunch. He's like kind of supposed to
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: be their guy. That's going to just be relied upon
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: to give them any type of scoring this year. So
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 6: I'm taking Darius Taylor, their running back, out of Minnesota,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 6: my first round selection.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: You know why you can believe this, that I think
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: that that's great logic? because I've used the exact same
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: logic on the exact same player two years in a row.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 5: How'd it work out for him?
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Horribly.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: He is hurt all the time. He plays half the time,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: and Minnesota never updates its injury information, so you end
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: up taking three zeros in the year because you didn't
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: know he wasn't going to play. So, yeah, it's great logic,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: and yet it's failed me two years in a row.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: So just to warn you, that's what you're getting in
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: Darius Taylor. All right, who are you going to take
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: with your next selection?
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm taking Jaden Maiava, the quarterback from USC. Those
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 6: are my top three QBs, DeMond Williams, Dante Moore, Jaden Maiava,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 6: and I think there's a little bit of a gap
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 6: after that, so I want to make sure I get
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 6: one of those three guys. He looked good in his
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 6: first game against, what, San Jose State, so... I'm hoping
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 6: that USC gets some big scores going forward and he
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 6: will be the big part of that.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: Ashley, you're going to get a really good quarterback with
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: your last pick because all the quarterbacks have been taken.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: I'm really surprised by this. I thought everybody would wait
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: a little bit on the quarterbacks and I was going
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: to do something out of the ordinary, but they're now
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: all gone. Of course, you can't take Julian's saying.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 5: Nope, that's all right. I'm just saying. I'm fine with it.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: You're just saying. All right, Eric, back to you. You've
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: already got your disgusting duck. You can't take another, so
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: we don't have to suffer that.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: Thank God.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so where are you going to go in round two?
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go with Charlie Becker, the wide receiver
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: from Indiana.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Dang it.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: Ouch.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: That hurt. That hurt me a lot. That hurt me
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: in my life. pants yeah yeah that was unintentional yeah
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: my my headsets fell off and i bent back in
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: my chair and my pants just clipped me uh so
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: yeah yeah you literally just hurt me in my pants
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: right there um charlie.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: Becker intentional promise.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 11: Uh i think he's sensational oh my gosh do i
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 11: think charlie becker is good Now they've brought in this
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 11: Nick Marsh guy as well in Indiana, and they've got
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 11: another guy, a young.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: Player named Chandler. So I don't know how much they're
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: going to spread the ball around the field, but man,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: did Charlie Becker play some lights out football last year
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: for the Indiana Hoosiers. And I think people are sleeping
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: on him in their draft projections. I think he's going
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: to be an excellent NFL receiver too. So nice pick
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: by Eric. Thanks a lot, Ashley, for screening such a
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: good person into our league.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 5: Sorry for doing what you asked me to do.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's ridiculous.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 5: My apologies. It will not happen again.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: I've got my next selection. I'm going to take the
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: number one running back on my board. It is a...
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Do I want to do that now
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: that I say that?
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go ahead and take Antoine Raymond. I'm
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: not going to overthink this.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: I really hope you would. I wish you would have
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 5: overthought it.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to take Antoine Raymond, the running back
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: out of Rutgers. For some reason, people are really high
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: on these Rutgers skill position players this year, even though
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: nobody's high on Rutgers. Weird.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Don't let me win a game in the trenches, Chuck.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: I think there are a lot of teams in the
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: Big Ten Conference this year that are going to implement
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: like multiple running backs, not just two, but like three
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: running backs a game. I think the Huskies might end
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: up doing that. So to get somebody that is undoubtedly
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: going to be the bell cow of one of these
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: teams and somebody that already has a proven track record
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: for producing seems to me like the safest choice here.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: He was my number one running back on my board,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: so I'm going to take Antoine Raymond, and I'm going
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: to delight in the fact that it has hurt Ashley's feelings.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for that.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: You got back-to-back picks here. Get me back if you'd like.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I can get you back, because
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 4: one of them you couldn't take anyway.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: I am going to take Desmond Roebuck.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 4: Okay. Yeah.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: I'm going to grab a flex position there.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: Desmond Roebuck. You just didn't want to risk not getting
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: the second-best Husky on the board.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly. Thank you for that.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: And then this is where it's tricky because I really
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: was hoping that I was going to be able.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 5: To get Antoine Raymond.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: Well, sorry about it.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so now I'm kind of.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 6: Are you though?
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 5: He's not even remotely. He's not even remotely, sorry. So
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 5: I'm going to go with... I can't go there. I'm
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: going to go... King Miller.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: King Miller. Yeah. Oh, man, that is... Wow.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: He's one of those that I think is going to share.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not even sure if he'll start, but I think
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: he's the better one of the two. Wayman Jordan, I believe,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: is number one on the depth chart.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: I know, but I can't say his name without laughing
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 4: at Wayman because that was the character's name in a
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: show I watched.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: I think Soft had gotten a Wayman one time, and
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: it drove him.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: To the wrong part of the town. I think it did,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 5: to the wrong part of the town. It didn't let
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 5: him get stuff out of the trunk.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's interesting. I mean, King Miller, I think,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: might be the better running back, and he did get
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: more carries in their opener. Of course, that was against
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: San Jose State, so we shall see. Eric, you were
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: kind of making some noises back there. What did you
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: think of this pick?
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: Interesting grab for what is presumed to be a timeshare
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: running back. Um, hope the goal line works out well
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: for you, I guess.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 5: We'll have to see.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: All right. I got the next selection. I really do
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: want to take a running back here. Um, but I
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: got to play the game a little bit and I
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: think I'm going to go ahead and take, no, I'm not.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: I am.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take that back. And this time I'm
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: going to stick with it. I'm going to go with
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: another running back here. Give me, Michigan running back Jordan
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: Marshall here. I'll go ahead and take the receiver that
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: is left over to me in the fourth round. So
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: my flex will be Jordan Marshall running back out of Michigan,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: who made a pretty good impact a year ago. And
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: he looks to be like the guy. Justice Haynes transferred
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: out of the program to Georgia Tech, for goodness sake,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: so that Jordan Marshall is The writing was on the
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: wall for Haynes with Marshall taking over. So that's going
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: to be my pick, the Wolverine, with the third-round selection.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: All right, Eric, you are up next. You've got Charlie Becker.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: Broke my heart. You've got Dante Moore. You need a
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: running back for sure, but you also need your flex position.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: What do you want to do here?
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to go back to my youth here.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: You can't take Corey Dillon. Corey Dillon is not available here.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, give me Bo Jackson out of Ohio.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: How do you not take Bo Jackson?
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: I would have taken him if I didn't have Jeremiah Smith.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: How do you not take a running back named Bo Jackson?
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: And it does sound like he is definitively the number
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: one guy. I mean, Ohio State, you always have to
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: worry because they have seven guys in their stable and
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: who knows who's going to emerge next. from that group,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: but it sounds like he is definitively on the number
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: one depth chart right now.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: And his name is Bo Jackson.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he seems to have separated himself from, I think
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: his name is Isaiah White was the other guy that
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: was in consideration, but yeah. Yeah. Number one for them.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: Bo knows football and Eric knows himself, Bo. All right.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: Anders has back-to-back selections here, so you get to finish
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: out your roster first. Anders, who do you want to take?
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: You do need a wide receiver with one of these
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: two picks.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 7: I do, yes.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 6: And I'm going to take Nick Marsh, the other Indiana
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 6: wide receiver. He talked about the transfer over. He's getting
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 6: a lot of hype. I think this is a pretty
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: safe floor. They're going to feed him quite a bit.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: He's a big guy. And with my He's over from
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Michigan State. I had him last year. Yeah, they couldn't
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: unlock him there where Indiana probably will with Kurt Cignetti
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: calling the plays.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, very excited for this one. And I'm trying to
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 6: decide which Oregon pass catcher I want for my flex
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 6: if I want to go.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 6: Uh, I'll probably play the safe bet and go to
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 6: Corey and more here. So I have two wide receivers
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 6: on my roster and, uh, I'll take the other more
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 6: from Oregon, um, that the first more we'll be throwing to.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: More and more. Um, well, I mean, he's, I mean,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: he played a lot as a freshman a year ago
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: and he put up, uh, he put up decent numbers,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: but as a freshman, really good numbers. And apparently they're
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: going to showcase them a lot more. Apparently a very big,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: big play threat for the oregon ducks but then again
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: that's the problem with oregon having done this a few
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: times is a lot of them yeah they play five
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: running backs and they play 17 wide receivers and um
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: and i mean dante moore is going to play every
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: snap uh but who who knows who's actually going to
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: put up big numbers because they do spread it to
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: so many different guys uh all right eric your last
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: selection in the draft and you have a flex open
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: so you've got a lot of versatility.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah I don't believe he's been taken. He's going to
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: take Kamari Moulton out of the running back from Iowa.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: I'm hearing great stuff about him, but I'm also hearing
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: great stuff about this LJ Phillips who backs him up.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: I think maybe you could run into a carry-share program
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: there with Iowa, but there are a lot of people
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: that think Kamari Moulton is going to be special this season.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: I certainly think it's going to be well worth the gamble. Hey,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: that's a heck of a team right.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: There, Eric.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: With a team that runs the ball like Iowa does,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: I'm sure it's not my biggest concern.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, way to shut me up, Eric.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: Oh, sorry.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, way to fire back.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: I hurt you in the pants and I shut you
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: up today.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: That is all.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: You're never allowed back.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 6: Don't be sorry.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: You're never allowed back.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: This is just the kind of drafter I need, somebody
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: that hurts me in the pants and shuts me up.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to take with my last pick.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: I decided that I'd kind of like to roll the
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: dice on this guy. USC always has some flashy receiver.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: It was Makai Lemon last year. And it sounds like
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: Tanook Hines is going to be their Mekhi Lemon this year. Now,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: he did not play in the opening week because of
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: an injury. I'm going to just roll the dice that
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: they were just, they're facing San Jose State. And so
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: why risk it? They cruised. I also am losing a game,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: by the way, because they've already. So am I.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: Anybody that.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so is Anders.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: Anybody takes a USC Trojan, you're only going to get 10,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: excuse me, 11 games out of them. So I'm also
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: losing a game by doing this. But I'm going to
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: go ahead and take Tanook Hines, and I'm going to
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: trust that he's the new Makai Lemon for the Trojans
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: this year. All right, Ashley, last selection is yours.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, this I feel like is a pretty easy
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 4: decision and actually was my second quarterback I wouldn't have
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: wanted anyway.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 5: So I'm going to take Josh Hoover from Indiana, please.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a fantastic pick.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 5: I got a wow from Anders.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: And a fantastic from me. Yeah, that was very opposite.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 6: I'm curious why you think that's the second best quarterback
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 6: on the board.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: He was just who I had my second favorite. Because
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 4: I think, first off, Indiana's offense is excellent. And I
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 4: think if you look at what happened last year, and
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 4: he was actually the... If you looked at the Big
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: Ten quarterbacks last year, he would have ranked fifth.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: The fourth best was Fernando Mendoza.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 8: So.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: I think it's a fantastic thing.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 4: And I wasn't going to go Julian Sam because I
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 4: wanted Jeremiah Smith.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, we spent this entire year last year when
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: Kidd won our college football season. And he took Fernando Mendoza.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: And the fourth round, and I'm like, who? Yeah. I mean,
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: I knew who he was, but like, really?
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 5: But it was still a shock, yeah.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was still a shock. And then all of
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: a sudden, Fernando Mendoza beats us all. Yeah. I think
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: Indiana is just that special. So I think that's a
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: great pick. And if it doesn't work, you've got other
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks that you can go to as the season goes along.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: All right, here are the teams. Ashley's team to start
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: the season. Jeremiah Smith, wide receiver out of Ohio State.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: Desmond Roebuck, the new Mario Bailey. At Washington, at wide
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: receiver as well, or flex. King Miller, the running back
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: out of USC, and Josh Hoover, the quarterback, the new
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: quarterback at Indiana. Chuck's team, quarterback DeMond Williams Jr., Antoine Raymond,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: the running back out of Rutgers, Jordan Marshall, the running
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: back out of Michigan, and Tanook Hines, the wide receiver
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: out of USC. Eric, our listener competitor, he's going with
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: a team of Dante Moore at quarterback, Charlie Becker, the
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: wide receiver out of Indiana, Bo Jackson, the running back
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: out of Ohio State, and Kamari Moulton, running back out
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: of Iowa, and Anders' team, Darius Taylor out of Minnesota,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: the running back, Jaden Maieva, the quarterback out of USC,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: Nick Marsh, wide receiver, Indiana, and DeCorean Moore, wide receiver
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: out of Oregon. Seems like a really balanced group. Should
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: be a hell of a competition. Eric, you were fantastic.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. We appreciate it.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. Sorry for any damage I did.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: It's all right. How do you feel about your team?
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: You know, I drafted it. I've got to be happy
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: with it, right?
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: Well, we appreciate you. Thank you very much, and we'll
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: keep in touch with you throughout the season.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: All right? All right.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 3: You guys have a good one.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: There he is, Eric, joining us on the program. He
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: doesn't know the thorough weekly updates that I give for
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten Fantasy League, but he's about ready to
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: find out.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: Anders, thank you. We'll talk to you soon.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 6: Appreciate you guys. More drafting.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: There's a guy after my own heart right there. All right,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: coming up next on the radio program, it's time to talk.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: And I already had this planned, so don't accuse me
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: of just talking about somebody that I drafted.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 7: Okay. Okay.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: Well, I want to talk about Desmond and Darnold, Seattle's
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks this year. It's next on KJR. And hopefully that
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: year lasts beyond the regular season.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: There's a chance.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 5: I hope it does.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: There's a chance, I'm saying.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying there's a chance.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 5: There is a chance.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: We left off with a letter S yesterday. S is
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: for Savior. If there is a chance, Randy Orozarena has
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: proven to be this team's savior. Been its most consistent
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: player this entire year. The one knock against Randy Orozarena
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: his entire career is whether or not he's invested as
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: a team player. And yet when it's mattered most, who
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: has not only played the best, but played with the
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: most fire and the most spirit, it's Randy Rosarino. He
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: just has just dominated this series against the Boston Red Sox.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, he has saved some of his best baseball
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: here where it matters most. And even yesterday, because he's
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: a limited defensive player, he does not have a good arm.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: I might even categorize it as a bad arm. And
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: he is not exactly great at the flight of the
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: ball either. tracking the flight of a baseball. But yesterday,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: clunky as it was, he made a huge catch and
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: then smashed his face against the ground. And he also
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: threw out a base runner yesterday, even though it wasn't
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: the best throw in the world. It was a great
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: tag by Parada, by the way. But he's even doing
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: it on the defensive side of the ball. So yeah,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: Randy's had his issues in the past, and I don't
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: know if he wakes up today and decides... I'm not
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: going to try as hard today.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know how he operates. I mean, that brain
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: is something to study. But lately and throughout most of
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: the year, Randy Orozarena has proven to be the savior
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: of this baseball team. I would have never guessed it.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 5: No, I wouldn't have either.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 4: And I mean, I think a lot of Mariners fans
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 4: are just like, okay, well, once this season ends, obviously
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 4: he's gone because we don't need him.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 5: And, you know, I would think harder about that. offensively,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 5: he's been excellent.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 4: And I don't know if that's because he knows he
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 4: might leave and he wants to make sure he can
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 4: get a lot of money somewhere else.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: Well, there's some of that, for sure. Especially showing off
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: in front of Boston. It's supposed to be a bidding
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: war between the Yankees and Red Sox, which we won't win.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. But I don't know. I'm happy with what
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 5: he's been doing right now. That's for sure.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: No doubt.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: T is for Terminators. I have decided that I think
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: this team's more like the Terminator than Orcs.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: Okay, so it's official.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I threw that out earlier in the show. Are
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: we just orcs where we seem to be easily killed
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: by hobbits, for goodness sake, even though we have the
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: size advantage, the numbers advantage, the viciousness advantage? It just
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: seems like those orcs were just the worst fighters in
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: Middle Earth. They were just terrible at it. They just
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: kept getting plucked off one after another by inferior fighters.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: And yet they still almost won the war. So I'm
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: going to dismiss it. We're not orcs. That's not who
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: we are. We're the Terminators that doesn't matter how bad
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: it looks, right now we're just that metal arm pulling
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: its way across that warehouse floor with all that fire around,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: coming for Sarah Connor.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: Okay. You know?
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I think that's what we are. I think
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: that's a better way of looking at it. We are
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: the Terminators' severed arm. That's what the Mariners are right now.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 4: And I haven't at least seen that part of Terminators,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 4: so I can acknowledge and say, yeah, I can see that.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 4: Whereas these orc things you keep talking about, I'm pretty
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 4: sure I.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 5: Saw Lord of the Rings, and still I don't remember this.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they don't stand out to me.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: Then you didn't watch it.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 4: Well, I saw the second one in a theater, but
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 4: I did fall asleep.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, jeez.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, finally and quickly, um, I have no choice.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: You is for unaware. Uh, Julio, once again, unaware, it
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: made another dumb play, uh, yesterday. And the worst part
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: about this is the Dom can zone on the very
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: previous at bat showed him how it's supposed to be done.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: Like you can't get tagged out. You have to like
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: sacrifice yourself at third base to avoid, because if you
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: try to run by now you've introduced the double play possibility.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: Dom just did it right one play before, and then
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: Julio runs right into the tag, and you get a
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: double play to end the inning, and you squander your
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: opportunity with two men on base. I'm going to ask
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: Ryan about this and many other things next. Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: serious today. My gosh, he's already got a scowl on
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: his face. He's already prepared to be angry at something
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: that I said, I think. Great morning to you. It
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: is nine o'clock here on this Thursday. He already got
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: a thumbs down, for goodness sake. Oh, he can't hear
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: me is the problem. That's why he had the angry
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: scowl on his face. Well, good morning to everybody else here.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: It is Chuck in the Morning Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Typically,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: Ryan Healy joins us on Tuesdays, but we got him
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: joining us on a Thursday here today and probably for
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: the remainder of the season. Did we get the audio
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: fixed in his ears at this point? I can't tell
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: by the expression. Can he hear us? It doesn't look
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: like we are connected on that front, which would be
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: really disappointing. All right, we'll work on that behind the scenes.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: But a lot of things to get into with Ryan
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: here today. And as soon as we have the connection,
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: we'll get into it. But one of the things that
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: I kind of rushed through in the ABCs, and since
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: he can't hear me, I guess I'll just say it.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: And that is the Julio Rodriguez with the decision. I mean,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: you were Julio Rodriguez playing a single into a triple.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: All right, now he's got me. So now he's going
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: to be able to hear this. Good morning, sir. How
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: are you? Can you hear me?
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 7: I'm doing wonderful.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: There he is. I can hear you. Can you hear me?
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: I can hear you.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: I can hear you.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: Let's party.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll save that. I'll put a pin in that,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: and then we'll get back to it now that we've
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: got Ryan with us. So let me just start with
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: how crazy baseball is. Everybody's ready to sign off on
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: this team, and believe me, I'm right there on the ledge.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: but then they breathe life right back into the season.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, Ryan, for those that still can't believe it
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: when baseball players say it's a long season, I mean,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: my goodness, here we are in September, two straight wins,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: and suddenly it feels like they're alive again. There's air
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: back in the lungs of the corpse.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 7: I have a lot of gray hairs at the youthful
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 7: age of 34, and it's in like the It's in
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 7: the little bit of the chin. It's in the hair
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 7: on the top. It's not because of my kids. Even
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 7: though they're challenging, they're great. It's because of baseball. And
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 7: it's the years of just stress and trauma and unknowns
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 7: and day-to-day roller coasters that it presents. This is the
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 7: part of the season where it matters the most. And
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 7: every day feels like the end of the world or
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 7: you're on top of the world.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: I have no idea what you're talking about. I've yet
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: to sprout a gray hair. Um, so also you diet
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: that color. It's really popular with the young kids these days.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: They're actually going to the salons and getting their hair gray. Uh,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: so I've just followed the trend. I'm sure it's probably
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: half off at the salon. So it's a good point
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: by you. Yeah, it worked out well. It definitely did
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: make me look aged. All right, well, what happens to
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: a team that struggles offensively all season long, and then
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, eight runs or more, three straight days?
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think a lot of listeners would wonder, like,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: how does that just kick in all of a sudden?
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 7: Honestly, like, just... Hitting is so contagious, and I know
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 7: that's such a cliche statement, and coming from a player's perspective,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 7: it's hard to quantify why it happens all of a sudden.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of factors of, you know, maybe a
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 7: new player comes up and injects a little bit of
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 7: energy into you. I believe Lazaro Montes did that this
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 7: series in Boston. I think also Cal Raleigh, what he's
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 7: starting to do, there's that sign of hope that's showing
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 7: up on a regular basis. Like, man, that dude struggled
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 7: all season long, won AO Player of the Week all
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 7: of a sudden, and is now a threat every time
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 7: he steps in the batter's box. It also has to
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 7: do with pitchers. Pitchers are at the end of the season.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 7: They're getting fatigued. The secondary pitches aren't as sharp. There's
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 7: more mistakes available. And then also the underlying pressure of
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 7: just how important every single game is. Nobody wants to
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 7: play in the playoffs more than these players on this team.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 7: And they're recognizing that they're running out of time. Baseball
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 7: players spend so much time all season trying to calm
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 7: ourselves down. Otherwise, we'll make a mountain out of a
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 7: molehill and we'll just lose our minds. But right now,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 7: it's Like the intensity is up. There's no choice but
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 7: to sprint and go and make every bat the most
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 7: important one out there. And I think you were talking
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 7: about this earlier about Julio. I think that's another reason
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 7: why that mistake happened. But on the offensive front, like
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 7: the sense of urgency has to be present. And I
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 7: think teams battle to maintain that sense of urgency, but
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 7: also have that calm about them. But at this time
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 7: of year, you don't have a choice to be calm.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 7: You just got a full full send.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: You brought up two names that I want to discuss
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: with you, Laz Montes, and I'll go ahead and save
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: him because I got like three questions about him for you.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: Let's bring up the guy that you just mentioned because
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: I was getting ready to talk about him. Julio Rodriguez,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: what kind of effect does it have when one of
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: your best players makes a couple mental mistakes in a
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: series at a time where it is just so things
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: feel urgent, like we can't afford to make those mistakes?
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: What kind of effect does that have on the rest
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: of the team, if any? Because this is stuff that
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: nobody listening that complains about it could possibly know, and
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: that is how his teammates react to seeing what looked
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: to be a pretty boneheaded decision the other night.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was a poor decision, but it was also
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 7: an aggressive decision that he made and didn't know if
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 7: it was going to be a mistake until the play happened, unfortunately.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 7: As from the player, like a guy that's in the
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 7: clubhouse with him, I'm backing him no matter what. I'm like, hey, man,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 7: we got you. We'll pick you up here.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: No worries.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 7: We got you. That's the message that happens from player
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 7: to player. There's nobody grabbing Julio by the shirt saying.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: Are you out of your mind?
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 7: That's not how this goes. There's obviously better decisions he
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 7: could have made. He knows that. I know he feels
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 7: terrible about it, and I think as baseball players and
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 7: just as high-level athletes in general in any sport, you
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 7: make a mistake, nobody feels worse than you do. Nobody
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 7: has to remind you of how dumb that was for
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 7: you to feel bad about yourself. So they need more
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 7: encouragement and picking them up in that moment. The piece
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 7: that I'm more concerned about is the offensive front for Julio.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 7: And he had a pretty solid showing yesterday in the
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 7: finale in Boston, which was a good sign, but offensively
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 7: he's looked so out of whack. And I think that
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 7: has a bigger effect on the lineup and the team
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 7: than that one play that he made in Boston that
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 7: did end up costing them the game. Um, I feel
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 7: like the three-hole is such an anchor for your squad,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 7: and if he's looking silly against these pitchers, then it
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 7: can take a little bit of confidence away from the
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 7: rest of the lineup. Saw that with Cal Raleigh this year.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 7: When your dude is kind of getting taken care of
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 7: pretty easily, it can be a little deflating for the
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 7: rest of the lineup. So I'm more worried about Julio
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 7: turning it around and being a catalyst for this team
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 7: offensively than I am about that one play that happened
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 7: in Boston.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: What a dude Randy Rosarino has been lately.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 7: I mean, talk about just the lights turn up brighter
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 7: and Randy shows up no matter what. Just the ability
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 7: for Randy to lock in when he wants to and
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 7: just take over a game. It's one of the most
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 7: special things in the world. And that man is setting
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 7: himself up and his family for generations up for what
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 7: he's going to earn this offseason free agency.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is going to be a bidding war, especially
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: the need for right-handed hitting right now. In Major League Baseball,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: it is... There's a dearth, it seems. It's Ryan Healy.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: He joins us every week here on the program. Mariner's analyst,
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: of course, and former Mariner player. And we have the
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: privilege of being able to chat with him every week.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: Used to be on Tuesdays, but we're going to switch
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: it to Thursdays for the rest of the baseball season.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: At least we get our Ryan Healy conversation in. Let's
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: talk about Laz Montez. And I just want to talk
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: about just, in general... Bring in Ryan Healy's career. Just
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: how special your debut was for you and just is
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: for a baseball player.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 7: It's an unbelievable feeling. You're walking on clouds on two
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 7: shaky legs the entire day where everything almost just feels
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 7: like an out-of-body experience. The most impressive thing that I
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 7: saw from Montez was just how he conducted his at-bats
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 7: throughout the course of that game. Never looked like he
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 7: was you know, overanxious, swinging at everything, really let the
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 7: game come to him. First ever major league at bat
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 7: was runners in scoring position for a team that is
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 7: kind of living and dying by every run scored or
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 7: run given up and results of the game right now.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 7: Like that was really cool to see. And I felt
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 7: like the connection that him and Randy had probably allowed
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 7: him to settle in a little bit more. And I
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 7: saw the video of Laz calling his family and sharing
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 7: the news of him getting called up, man, that just,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 7: Whenever you see that as a player that has lived
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 7: that moment, it just brings a tear to your eye.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 7: It's just so special, the amount of years and years
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 7: of work and sacrifice and investment that went into that opportunity.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 7: It was so cool. And then for him, obviously, to
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 7: have the success, the RBI single, and to get a walk,
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 7: and then he also had a homer to dead center.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 7: Talk about just a storybook ending to a tremendous start
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 7: to a big league career.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you can draw it up any
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: better than that.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 7: Maybe you can remove the strikeout looking. If you ask Laz,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 7: he'd be like, I should have swung the bat on
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 7: the fastball. But there's bound to happen. I'm sure his
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 7: heart was racing and he was feeling good. But yeah,
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 7: you can't draw that much better than that.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: And they won. And they won. And then they didn't
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: put him in the lineup the next day. And that
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: bothered a lot of people. What did you think of it?
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: I understand.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 7: I had an old coach in the big leagues who
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 7: used to talk about how if you hit a homer
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 7: in the show, you should be guaranteed to be in
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 7: the lineup the next day. Like, make subtle rules like that.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 7: And I've heard stories of even guys coming up in
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 7: the minor leagues. Matt Carpenter had a minor league coach
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 7: who said, if you got two hits in the game,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 7: you're guaranteed in the lineup the next day. And it's like,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 7: there's different rules that happen like that. I had to
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 7: go get some just, like, statistical backing to understand why
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 7: the decision happened. Have you looked at what his splits are, lefty-righty,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 7: this year in minor leagues?
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 7: So he's hitting 201 against lefties. does have a 330
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 7: on base percentage, which is good. The slug is sub 400,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 7: which isn't ideal. So the OPS is under 700 in
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 7: the minor leagues. The strikeout rate's slightly lower than righty.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 7: The walk rate's still pretty good. That's been a big
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 7: piece of his game. That's turned his ability to walk,
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 7: you know, right-handed. He's hitting, or against the righty pitchers,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 7: he's hitting 274, 390 OPS and almost a 660 slug
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 7: over a thousand OPS. So I mean, if you're bringing
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 7: a guy up that you probably didn't predict was going
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 7: to help this team this season, but you need to
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 7: find place for him in the role to introduce him
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 7: to the big leagues, doesn't this make the most sense
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 7: to say, hey, let's let him be our platoon guy
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 7: for right now? That's how the Mariners have done it
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 7: this entire journey. Think about what Dom Canzon has had
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 7: to do to become an everyday player as a left-handed bat.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 7: That's what the major league labels, unfortunately, left-handed hitters as.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 7: You can hit right-handed hit pitchers, but lefties, we don't know.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 7: And Taylor Ward, they went out and they got this
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 7: dude to be that hole in this lineup that's really
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 7: been struggling. The Mariners have had really poor luck with
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 7: getting right-handed bats going this season. Guys that are in
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 7: that platoon role. I think there's going to be a
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 7: platoon going right now, depending on what Montez does. I
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 7: understand why people are upset he wasn't in there for
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 7: Game 2 after what he did in Game 1. I
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 7: completely get that. But I do think that the Mariners
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 7: had a plan. They're just going to stick to it.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 7: And then based off of their face in that day,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 7: you will see Laz. But I think they're going to
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 7: stick to what they've been true to their entire year.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: And in most cases, I do defend the process. I
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: do defend the, hey, this is a game of percentages.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: The decisions that you make might not always work out,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: but it might have been the right decision. Just mathematically,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: the way that the matchup plays out, that I do
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: most often want to go with what the numbers suggest
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: gives me the best chance to win in that situation.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: that said, when does, if not yesterday, when does just
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: feel and what that guy brought to the table the
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: previous night and the energy that he brought to that
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: dugout the previous night at a time of desperation, when
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: does that overtake the slight advantage that you get by
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: hitting a righty versus hitting a lefty?
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 7: That's a very valid question, Chuck. I think the when
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 7: is the hardest part to answer because like truthfully, I
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 7: don't know if it, if it does happen just based
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 7: off of how I've seen this organization function. And I
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 7: don't know if all of a sudden it goes straight
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 7: to gut instinct. Um, I don't think that's, that's not
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 7: how major league baseball high, high stakes games are played
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 7: nowadays with how much information is, is available. Um, I
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 7: think we've also seen some adjustments with like quick triggers
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 7: on bullpen decisions. So maybe, maybe they are showing some
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 7: signs of that in the coaching staff, but I'm going
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 7: to lean more on what they've shown me this entire season,
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 7: as opposed to what I feel like I would want
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 7: to happen or what the fans would want to happen
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 7: in those situations, because like they're running so many algorithms
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 7: to what the formula to success would be, but the
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 7: ultimate performance on the field of the players determines the
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 7: game is won or lost. So, You're stuck between a
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 7: rock and a hard place there, Chuck, and you're not
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 7: going to get the answer you're hoping for.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: Well, obviously this season has not gone the way they wanted.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: We're sitting here with, what, 22 games to play, still
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: five games out.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: So, yes.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: We're saying there's a chance. And the schedule suddenly gets
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: lighter the rest of the way. The Healy Bowl starts tonight.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: A's versus Mariners, the two uniforms that you prominently wore
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: at the Major League level. And they've obviously not had
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: a good season either. But How dangerous is a team
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: with a bunch of young players trying to prove that
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: they need to be a part of a roster next
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: season at this time of year?
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 7: Very dangerous. I was a part of rosters like this.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 7: My rookie year, I was a part of this roster.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 7: And it's a different level of motivation when you're playing
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 7: for your livelihood. Because at this point, there's nothing more
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 7: fun in the major leagues than playing for postseason. But
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 7: when that's taken away from you, the last... four, six,
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 7: eight weeks of the season, you're unfortunately playing for yourself.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 7: And when that happens, there's a different gear and players
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 7: that they kind of reserve of like, this is my
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 7: chance to stay in the major leagues. And people are
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 7: going to remember the last month of my season and
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 7: determine my, you know, my contract for next year off
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 7: that does this team keep me? Do they release me?
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 7: And then I'm tender me so many things to go
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 7: into that. Like this is the spoiler teams are really
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 7: dangerous this time of year. And that energy has to
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 7: be matched by the team that is still pursuing the playoffs.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 7: But the margin for error is so small. Like the
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 7: Mariners don't have the runway to be able to make
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 7: mistakes like they did in Toronto to get swept three
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 7: games like that. Like that's gone. They have to essentially
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 7: be as close to perfect as you can possibly imagine.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 7: And I got a feeling they know that you can't
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 7: hide from that. But the only way you could really
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 7: be perfect is just executing one pitch, one play, one
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 7: game at a time. So whatever spoilers trying to come
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 7: into T-Mobile and play that, let them do their thing.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 7: But the numbers are stacked up nicely for the Mariners
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 7: this month. They just need to go take care of
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 7: business one game at a time.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, there have been moments. I mean, we've
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: been waiting for this sea change all season long. Where's
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: that hot streak? Well, I know they won eight games
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: in a row earlier this year, but it feels a
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: lifetime ago. And we know they're capable of going on
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: a run if they can play to their abilities. We've
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: had moments like a Cole Young three-run homer that bailed
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: them out from not that great of a game and
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: they won it. And we thought maybe that was going
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: to turn into something and saw the same thing from
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: Dom Canzone. But when you see three straight games of
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: a team that has struggled so much offensively score eight
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: runs or more in three, is that different? Is that
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: true momentum? Is that true they might have figured something
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: out in your estimation?
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 7: How many times have we said yes to specific things
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 7: this year and then just gotten embarrassed? I'm going to
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 7: say it's a good sign. This team's undefeated in September.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 7: Let's ride that encouragement. They've already scored 17 runs this month.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 7: And they've only allowed nine runs this month. That's a
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 7: formula for winning Chuck.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: Okay. As I was wondering, is this different? Is that different?
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 2: It can be different.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 7: And I guess at this point, like if you're a
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 7: Mariners fan, you've already given your heart to this team
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 7: and they've broken it plenty. Why not give it to
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 7: them one more time, one more month, let's fall in
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 7: love with the potential and the, the unknown. And if
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 7: they break it, they break it. They got the Seahawks
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 7: coming real soon. You can always mend it in the
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 7: fall and the winter with them, but, I'm giving the
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 7: Mariners my heart, and if they break it, I'll spend
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 7: the offseason recovering.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: It's funny. Ashley and I were just talking about that
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 2: earlier in the show. If you were dating the Mariners,
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: your mom or your best friend would be like, you
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: need to just sever this relation.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: No, they're different.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 7: They're special.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: I really feel it. We haven't had a notebook season
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: where both options are fantastic.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 7: I guess the Mariners have only had one winning month
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 7: this season, so maybe they're due. Maybe they're due for
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 7: like a 20-9 stretch or something. Let's be hopeful about it.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: What do you think of my UW hat that I'm
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: wearing on our Zoom call here today? What do you
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: think of that as an Oregon person? It's so crazy.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 7: It's 9-20. Our time is up. Thank you so much
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 7: for having me today, Chuck. Wow. So good to see you.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 7: I'm going to go on TV now.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, bye.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: Do you want to just immerse yourself in this? Glorious
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: purple color here.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 7: I just gagged a little bit.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was going to say he almost puked.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 7: I'm trying not to look at him. I've been staring
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 7: at the TV behind you the whole day. Between that
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 7: and your white beard, that's where I'm bouncing back and
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 7: forth from.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: Both strategic.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 7: Setting the tone on this Thursday.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: All right, man.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: You're the best.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: We appreciate it. We'll talk to you again next week.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: Can't wait.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 3: See you guys.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: Ryan Ailey joining us right here on the radio program.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: Former Mariner, always giving us terrific insight every week here
• 1:43:25
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• 1:43:27
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• 1:43:35
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