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Chuck in the Morning 8-17 Hour 1: The Hawks had a busy weekend! Mariners Morning After and where do we stand? · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Did you hear now? We're on long time for the action?
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Speaker 1: Never stop? Are you writing this stuff? Something completed? This
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Speaker 1: is Chuck in the morning. You people are beyond Let's go.
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Speaker 1: Let's get the game off. Hey, great morning to you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in. It is a Monday. It is your favorite
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Speaker 1: radio station, Sports Radio ninety three point three kk r
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Speaker 1: f M. My name is Chuck pal Great to have
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Speaker 1: you with us. I hope you had a wonderful weekend,
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Speaker 1: and as good a weekend as you had, You're not
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Speaker 1: gonna have as good a week as Ashley Ryan. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna tell you that much gave that the truth. You
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Speaker 1: already give up on that, give up the ghost. It
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Speaker 1: ain't happening. I don't care what you do. You can
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Speaker 1: throw a party with thirty eight of your favorite human
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Speaker 1: beings and celebrities. It ain't gonna match what Ashley's got
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Speaker 1: planned for this week.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm going to Hawaiian.
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Speaker 1: Wow, look at that. Yeah. See see it's Wednesday, so
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Speaker 1: you're off tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I never do this either.
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Speaker 1: And you have Palmer the Great with you here today. Yes,
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Speaker 1: So as soon as I saw you, I'm like, oh
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Speaker 1: my gosh, they're gonna get on a plane as soon
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Speaker 1: as the show's opened.
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Speaker 2: Nope, she just wanted to come in.
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Speaker 1: She's that wrong.
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Speaker 4: I haven't gotten to go to work with you all summer.
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Speaker 4: She starts school in a couple of weeks, so she
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Speaker 4: wanted to come in.
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Speaker 2: She wanted to see you. She missed you a lot.
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Speaker 1: Is that right?
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Speaker 2: She wanted to come in on a day you were
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Speaker 2: in studio. She didn't want to come in on a
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Speaker 2: day that you were great. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And then we and I never take the day off
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Speaker 4: before vacation or after vacation. It's always pretty to do
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Speaker 4: same way, right, Like, we always go to work till
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Speaker 4: the last minute you can go, and then you're off
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Speaker 4: to the airport and there you go. And this year
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Speaker 4: I was like, why why am I gonna stress myself out?
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take the day off before we fly out,
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Speaker 4: And I take the day off after we fly out,
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Speaker 4: which already has proven to be a good choice because
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Speaker 4: our flight already got pushed back from.
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Speaker 2: We won't get home to like eleven that night.
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Speaker 1: It really is like, I don't know what it is.
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Speaker 1: When we try to take trips, we think to ourselves,
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Speaker 1: you got to maximize the entire time that you're there,
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Speaker 1: where the truth of the matter is if you shorten
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Speaker 1: it up a little bit and you give yourself a
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Speaker 1: little window beginning and end, it's a so much more enjoyable.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I rest. Yeah, every time you come home.
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Speaker 4: You're like, oh, so tired now because I just packed
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Speaker 4: everything in there.
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Speaker 1: And there's nothing more tiring to me than travel. Like
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Speaker 1: the day travel day. Yeah, oh travel day? Do I
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Speaker 1: rue travel day? Yeah? Damn you.
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Speaker 2: Travel day.
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Speaker 1: And home from travel day is great. Like even before
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Speaker 1: the day before is stressful because you're thinking about the
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Speaker 1: time it takes before you have to do travel day.
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Speaker 4: Ye.
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Speaker 1: So, and that stresses me out as soon as you
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Speaker 1: get home and you're like, oh, I got a day
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Speaker 1: and a.
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Speaker 2: Half yeah, gone in my own bed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, lovely exactly. You know, Palmer can catch up
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Speaker 1: on all of her shows.
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Speaker 4: And oh yeah, she's already been downloading it, and we
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Speaker 4: spent yesterday getting making sure the devices were.
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Speaker 1: Ready to go perfect well good.
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Speaker 4: And talking about snacks, because snacks are very important when
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Speaker 4: you're traveling.
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Speaker 1: Snacks are pretty much important at all times.
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Speaker 2: It's true, Yeah, it's true.
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Speaker 1: It's one of the most important things in life.
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Speaker 4: She's already checked out the vending machine here today to
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Speaker 4: make sure the snacks are up to par.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I hear all the time that the most important
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Speaker 1: thing in life is family. I think it's snacks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Those people that are only worried about family are starving
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Speaker 4: all the time.
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Speaker 1: Right. I'm not saying that family is not important. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's the least in the top thirteen things in life,
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Speaker 1: I would think so, But snacks is clearly ahead of it,
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Speaker 1: and snacks with family forget about it. All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: great morning to you all. Great to have you with us.
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Speaker 1: Here we go on this Monday morning, and it turns
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Speaker 1: out we still have a baseball team with a pulse,
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Speaker 1: so we'll certainly be talking some Mariners baseball today. But
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Speaker 1: also we got so many Seahawks topics to discuss during
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Speaker 1: today's show, and we're bringing out our big guns to
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Speaker 1: do it. We got a little Monday Morning quarterback session today.
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Speaker 1: It's not going to be full scale, but we got
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Speaker 1: a full hour with Hugh today, our first Monday Morning
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Speaker 1: quarterback session of the season. Also, Greg Bell will be
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Speaker 1: by here in a little bit. I'll tell you more
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Speaker 1: about that with what's on tap here in a little bit. So, yes,
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Speaker 1: a lot of things to discuss, as we have now
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Speaker 1: seen the twenty twenty six Seattle Seahawks play football for
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Speaker 1: the first time a preseason game Saturday night against the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. And I'll say this, it is one of
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Speaker 1: the more difficult things for me as a sports talk
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Speaker 1: show host to get through because not only is it
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Speaker 1: a preseason game, which we talked about last week, but
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Speaker 1: I also kind of knew all the results and then
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Speaker 1: watched it the next day in two different segments and
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Speaker 1: took diligent notes so that I.
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Speaker 4: Am ready like had to even be like pause right,
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Speaker 4: pause rewind.
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Speaker 1: I did get to fast forward through a lot of
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Speaker 1: the commercials, but I didn't get to fast forward through
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Speaker 1: the twenty two penalties that were called in the game.
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Speaker 1: That's one thing I was stuck with. Your weekend, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Sunday was pretty much like Seahawks Mariners. Seahawks, it's the
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Speaker 1: first half then the Mariners, so that their Sunday. Yeah, yeah, anyway,
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Speaker 1: can I come with you to Hawaii?
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Speaker 2: There's room and Palmerson case. I'm sure kidding. She's got
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Speaker 2: the biggest suitcase of everyone, and it'll be full.
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Speaker 1: She's looking at you like, no, there's not room for her.
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Speaker 2: Room in there.
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Speaker 1: There's no way, there's no room.
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Speaker 4: For She's like, I've got my packing cubes, I've got
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Speaker 4: my suit, my stuffy I've got to put in there.
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Speaker 1: I can't fit a human, especially one as large as him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I didn't ask you to put budget.
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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. It's not like we asked you to put
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Speaker 1: Bucky in your suitcase.
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Speaker 2: Now, that would have been impossible.
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Speaker 1: That would not have fit in the overhead. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: would have had to check that one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. And then we would have to pay
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Speaker 2: extra for being over fit.
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Speaker 1: Oh for sure, for sure, a lot extra probably. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right. So yes, So we got some preseason football
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Speaker 1: that will break down for you in And I think
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Speaker 1: that the lead story from it all, uh is that
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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald was so noticeably disappointed after the game was over,
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Speaker 1: and I mean to me, it looked like sloppy football,
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Speaker 1: featuring your second string for some of the game, but
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Speaker 1: it was mostly played by third stringers. Let's face it,
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Speaker 1: third and fourth stringers, and a lot of them playing
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Speaker 1: professional football for the first time. But he didn't wait
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Speaker 1: long in his post game remarks to express his disappointment.
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Speaker 1: It came right out right before he even answered any questions.
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Speaker 1: And I think part of it was him kind of
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Speaker 1: being a little angry with his coaches. And that's one
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Speaker 1: thing that we've kind of learned here recently, is how
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Speaker 1: hard he is on his coaches and so he was
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Speaker 1: not calling defensive plays for the first time. He wanted
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Speaker 1: adding Dardap to get a little time calling plays, but
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Speaker 1: he also said I'll be doing it next week because
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Speaker 1: I too have to practice at it. But he was
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Speaker 1: very disappointed in pre snap and he was very disappointed
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Speaker 1: in the pace that they were at and getting plays in.
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Speaker 1: And I think that a lot of that was frustrating him.
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Speaker 1: And maybe that is usually I'm so busy with calling
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Speaker 1: the place that it's bothering me not to have complete control,
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Speaker 1: and so I'm noticing more. Maybe that's what it had
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Speaker 1: to do with But it didn't take him very long
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Speaker 1: to throw throw the team under the bus from a
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Speaker 1: stand under the bus. We've got things to work on
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Speaker 1: was pretty much the message that he delivered right off
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Speaker 1: the bat.
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Speaker 4: I mean in preseason one postgame, he delivered more than
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Speaker 4: we've heard from Dan.
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Speaker 2: Wilson all year.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's for sure.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And but I did find it fast.
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Speaker 1: Once did he say tough one, tough one to night
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Speaker 1: they fought till the end?
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Speaker 4: But I and I bring that up, yes, tongue in cheek,
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Speaker 4: but at the same time, like just to show the
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Speaker 4: complete difference, right, and that we've got this guy that is.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we've seen him now in two episodes of
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Speaker 4: Hard Knocks, and he's a little bit more of a
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Speaker 4: hard ass than I thought he was, Yeah, and which
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Speaker 4: I appreciate because.
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Speaker 2: I you got to me, yeah yeah, yeah, especially in
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Speaker 2: the NFL.
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Speaker 4: And so I just but you know, and then just
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Speaker 4: to see how seriously he takes it. I mean, we
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Speaker 4: already know, you know that he's going into this season.
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Speaker 4: We are not thinking about last season. It does not
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Speaker 4: matter what we did last season. We were doing the
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Speaker 4: ring ceremony months ago. We are focused on this and
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Speaker 4: he knows how hard their job is this year to
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Speaker 4: go back and try to keep your title.
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Speaker 1: Oh sure, so, I.
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Speaker 4: Mean so I appreciate that he's doing it, but I
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Speaker 4: also couldn't help but laugh, Like, all right, it was
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Speaker 4: a preseason game. I mean, it doesn't it's not a
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Speaker 4: real game, Aaron Rodgers said it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you are running a lot of guys out
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Speaker 1: there that are playing for the very first time. I mean,
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Speaker 1: your entire offensive line did not play. You didn't let
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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold take a single snap. I mean, it was
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Speaker 1: just an all star team on the sidelines. And I
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Speaker 1: do love how into it they all are, the veterans
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Speaker 1: like there to support down to the last guy. I
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Speaker 1: think that probably there were a lot of Seahawk fans
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Speaker 1: kind of bored with a preseason game. Certainly by third quarter,
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, I would imagine that you were, But the
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Speaker 1: players weren't, right, I mean, they were having They were
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Speaker 1: like locked in, and they were there for all the
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Speaker 1: backups and were there to kind of root them on
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Speaker 1: to the very final whistle, which is good, and so
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Speaker 1: that speaks to the culture. Then they did actually speak
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Speaker 1: to the culture during the course of the game with
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Speaker 1: the interviews they did with cliff on the sidelines, but
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Speaker 1: that certainly he was not happy with, not just the
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Speaker 1: pace in which they got ready for each play, he
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Speaker 1: said that they didn't finish, did not like the tackling,
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Speaker 1: did not like the blocking, finishing each play, and then
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Speaker 1: when asked about the quarterback play, he said, well, scored
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Speaker 1: seven points. That's how good the quarterbacks were. Yeah, so,
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Speaker 1: I mean he he did offer some criticism and obviously
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Speaker 1: was fairly frustrated, spent most though of the postgame comments
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Speaker 1: talking about Devin Witherspoon, which get it to in a moment,
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Speaker 1: but it was, uh, I mean, it's a preseason opener.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what it is. There were a couple
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Speaker 1: of things that stood out to me. Number One, Tyree
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Speaker 1: Knight was probably the best guy on the field last night.
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Speaker 1: It felt like he was everywhere, and Mike even referenced
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Speaker 1: that afterwards, said he was our best football player tonight.
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Speaker 1: And it's always like good like because I sit there
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, I know he's in every play. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but are they picking on him, like, you know, yes,
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Speaker 1: is there because they think he's weak? Is there something
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying here that you will have to inform
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Speaker 1: me about on Monday, So it was nice to say
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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald's sort of rubber stamp my thoughts on that.
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Speaker 1: It felt like Tyree's Knight was everywhere aggressive and played
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Speaker 1: well and and Mike McDonald certainly backed that up. Montory Foster,
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Speaker 1: I mean, Greg Bell told us, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: anybody else was talking about Montory Foster junior as much
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Speaker 1: as what Greg Bell was this prese and you saw
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Speaker 1: why he was creating a little bit of buzz. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he was pretty much the only receiver the Seahawks at
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Speaker 1: Milroe and Locke, and I say both of them because
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Speaker 1: they alternated like two possessions at a time. He was
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Speaker 1: pretty much the only receiver once Jake Bobo came out
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Speaker 1: of the game. It was like all Jake Bobo early
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Speaker 1: and then all Montory Foster late. So I don't know
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Speaker 1: if our backup quarterbacks have tunnel vision they can only
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Speaker 1: look at one wide receiver, or if Bobo was really
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Speaker 1: the best guy in the first group, and Foster was
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Speaker 1: the best guy for the rest of the game. But
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Speaker 1: he certainly got targeted five catches thirty six yards, scored
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Speaker 1: the only touchdown in the game, and was targeted seven
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Speaker 1: times in the contest. He did have a drop, but
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Speaker 1: he had a great catch for a first down that
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Speaker 1: he held on to as well, and so he showed out.
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Speaker 1: Those are two people that I think starred if you
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Speaker 1: Will in the preseason opener.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I do like when you starred if you Will,
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Speaker 4: because yeah, it is it is a different situation. It's
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Speaker 4: not like, ohd fantasy football players go out and draft
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Speaker 4: mon Tory Foster because he's going to be, you know,
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Speaker 4: crushing it for the Seahawks. But I will say in
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Speaker 4: terms of what he was asked to do in a
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Speaker 4: preseason game and how well he delivered, I think it's
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Speaker 4: promising because we do need more wide receivers than just
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Speaker 4: JSN and Cooper Cutt.
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if there's room for him on
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Speaker 1: this team. I think maybe that's one of the thoughts
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Speaker 1: that I had, that they just showcase him for somebody
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Speaker 1: else who doesn't have a go to a wide receiver
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Speaker 1: room as what the Seahawks have at this point. Return
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Speaker 1: game was good, coverage game was good. Those things stood
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Speaker 1: out to me. And then on the other side of it,
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Speaker 1: Shamar Jean Charles just had a nightmare of a game.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if the Cowboys made a good play Saturday night,
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Speaker 1: number thirty four was in the picture, and so and he.
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Speaker 2: Has a great name.
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Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, but I don't know if that's going
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Speaker 1: to help you when it comes to cut day.
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Speaker 2: It's definitely not.
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Speaker 1: But he definitely had a rough game, and so we'll
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Speaker 1: be able to break all that down with Hugh and
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Speaker 1: with Greg. He will be with us from eight to
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Speaker 1: nine and Greg at seven oh five. But there were
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Speaker 1: other headlines that kind of stole the show since we
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Speaker 1: last were on the air Friday morning, Terry and Arnold
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Speaker 1: and Devin Witherspoon. Let's start with Witherspoon. He did get
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Speaker 1: his deal. It was just a four year deal, but
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Speaker 1: it was more per year than what was I think anticipated,
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Speaker 1: what thirty three million dollars per year. I think we
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Speaker 1: were thinking in the range of thirty one. So he
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Speaker 1: drove a hard bargain. I can't wait to ask Greg
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Speaker 1: more about this, because when the story first broke, it
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Speaker 1: was Adam Schefter's story that I saw first. He might
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Speaker 1: not have been the person that broke it, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but it's the story that I saw first. And he's
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Speaker 1: said in the release that it turned heated before it
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Speaker 1: actually got resolved, So I don't know why how. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it got heated between the agent and
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Speaker 1: the general manager, I don't know if Mike and Spoon
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Speaker 1: were completely out of that. I don't know. But obviously
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Speaker 1: they weren't just looking for one dollar more than the
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Speaker 1: last guy who was named the highest paid cornerback in
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Speaker 1: the league. They were looking to at least push that
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Speaker 1: bar a little bit higher, and they got that accomplished. Now,
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Speaker 1: it might have cost him a year to only go
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Speaker 1: four years on the extension, or maybe that was by design.
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Speaker 1: We want to be able to get another big contract
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Speaker 1: before Devin Witherspoon is too old to make a lot
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Speaker 1: of money. So I don't know what went into it,
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Speaker 1: but it sounds like Spoon and his agent got a
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Speaker 1: little bit more out of John than what we thought
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Speaker 1: they were and what the market thought that they would get.
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Speaker 1: And so good on them, because John Schneider is not
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Speaker 1: a guy that loses to and those negotiations.
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Speaker 2: No, not at all.
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Speaker 4: And that's one of the things I'm most excited to
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Speaker 4: see when this next episode of Hard Knocks comes comes out,
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Speaker 4: is kind of get more information on what really happened there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that'll be fascinating.
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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, I mean, I
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Speaker 1: realized that you do have to make a deal. You're
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Speaker 1: in the deal making business. But the reason, but the
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Speaker 1: end result is you really wanted the player. You were
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Speaker 1: prepared to break the bank to keep it right. And Okay,
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Speaker 1: maybe they got a little bit more than what you
16:34
Speaker 1: had scripted out for your cap for the rest of
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Speaker 1: the season or won't even affect you this season for
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Speaker 1: future years, maybe they got a little bit more out
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Speaker 1: of you. But I mean Mike McDonald's kids wearing Devin
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Speaker 1: Witherspoon's jersey on the first day of training camp.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you knew. He's not an ordinary player.
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Speaker 1: He's not an ordinary player, and he's absolutely beloved and
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Speaker 1: he's part of the fabric of what Mike McDonald has
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Speaker 1: built in two short years. Sounds like he is the
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Speaker 1: quintessential type of player that Mike McDonald wanted to build
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Speaker 1: his program around. Uh And frankly, you know, not a
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Speaker 1: lot of guys when they're waiting for their contract or
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Speaker 1: in negotiations, go out there and practice every snap every
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Speaker 1: day at practice. I mean, even Bobby Wagner famously did
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Speaker 1: the hold in which a lot of people have copied
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Speaker 1: since that time. And he just stood on the sidelines
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Speaker 1: with his hoodie on and his hands in his pockets,
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Speaker 1: and he coached people, but he didn't actually participate and
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Speaker 1: risk any injury. And so even that, even that shows
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Speaker 1: you why Mike McDonald loves twenty one so much. And so, okay,
17:47
Speaker 1: maybe they got one over on you, Johnny. Maybe maybe
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Speaker 1: they did get a few extra dollars then you really
17:54
Speaker 1: wanted to give. You thought you were given top dollar,
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Speaker 1: you know, make the highest paid cornerback in the league
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Speaker 1: for a while until Christian Gonzalez gets his deal, And
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Speaker 1: maybe they got a little bit more out of you.
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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you wanted the player.
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Speaker 1: You wanted to make him happy, you wanted to make
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Speaker 1: him rich, you wanted to him not to lose any
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Speaker 1: of his love for the Seahawks and Seahawks culture. And
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Speaker 1: if that took an extra million off the top, then
18:25
Speaker 1: figure out how to make that work. Because you got
18:29
Speaker 1: your player and he's staying and the defense is going
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Speaker 1: to be better for having him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, Yet that million extra is worth much more
18:37
Speaker 4: than losing him or pissing him off.
18:39
Speaker 3: Yeah.
18:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, so congratulations to Spoon. They also signed Terarrian Arnold
18:45
Speaker 1: over the weekend as well, which has a lot of
18:48
Speaker 1: people excited and a lot of people scratching their heads.
18:52
Speaker 1: I'm more in the scratching my head category. I'm not
18:56
Speaker 1: angry about it, certainly, But we'll talk more about that
19:00
Speaker 1: later on in the show as well as we get
19:03
Speaker 1: started here on this Monday. But a lot to discuss today,
19:06
Speaker 1: there's no question about it. A lot of things to
19:08
Speaker 1: pour over as we get ready for our final day
19:13
Speaker 1: of Seahawks training camp tomorrow, our final day of coverage
19:15
Speaker 1: of training camp. Obviously, we got two more weeks of
19:18
Speaker 1: preseason football before we actually get to the opener, which
19:21
Speaker 1: is now just twenty three days away. Also, another very
19:25
Speaker 1: interesting note from that game. Yeah, I was reminded of
19:28
Speaker 1: how big Sam Howe's face is.
19:31
Speaker 4: I was gonna, like, I was wondering how long she
19:34
Speaker 4: chuck brings up a fat face owl.
19:37
Speaker 1: It's not even really his head. It's when he takes
19:40
Speaker 1: his helmet off and it just like his face just
19:42
Speaker 1: spills out of it. There is just something about it.
19:46
Speaker 2: It does look very squished in there too.
19:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's just something he just it's almost like doesn't
19:52
Speaker 1: match the rest of his body. It's just like all face.
19:57
Speaker 1: He's like it's like he where did you get him from?
20:01
Speaker 1: Easter Island? Like it's it's just like he takes his
20:05
Speaker 1: helmet off and it just his face. A lanch comes
20:09
Speaker 1: right out from the mask. It's just crazy. All right,
20:12
Speaker 1: let's find out what's on tap for the rest of
20:14
Speaker 1: the show. I have your attention, please. This is what's
20:18
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20:31
Speaker 1: Cowboys seventeen, Sea Hawks seven on Saturday Night. Preseason is underway, thankfully,
20:37
Speaker 1: only two more of these December through Nashville this week,
20:43
Speaker 1: and it's not just for the game on Sunday, but
20:46
Speaker 1: they're going to be doing those scrimmages otherwise known as fighting. Yeah.
20:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, take another team to fight with.
20:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, So a lot of fights fight week this week.
20:54
Speaker 1: Greg Bell is going to be in Nashville all week
20:57
Speaker 1: long to cover the fights, so we will talk to
21:00
Speaker 1: him about that at seven oh five today training camp.
21:04
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, final day for US is tomorrow out
21:07
Speaker 1: at training camp, and then on Wednesday and Thursday, we're
21:10
Speaker 1: gonna throw our arms around Husky's Camp. So Wednesday and
21:15
Speaker 1: Thursday I'll be broadcasting from Husky's Camp. We have a
21:18
Speaker 1: bunch of special guests including Greg Lewis and Mario Bailey
21:22
Speaker 1: and maybe a cast of thousands and some Husky players
21:25
Speaker 1: and Coach Fish and Coach Walters and Demon Williams Junior.
21:29
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a couple of fun days, a
21:31
Speaker 1: couple fun mornings Wednesday and Thursday as we bring you
21:35
Speaker 1: Huskies Camp, and of course we're gonna spend some time
21:37
Speaker 1: talking some baseball. Today, the Mariners do take two out
21:40
Speaker 1: of three in Houston. So close, so close to a sweep.
21:44
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a sliding doors thing. You don't know
21:47
Speaker 1: if you win the game Friday, if you have the
21:50
Speaker 1: same fight on SAT, I mean, who knows. But man,
21:56
Speaker 1: the difference between winning a series which keeps you a
21:59
Speaker 1: lot yep.
22:00
Speaker 4: And it was again it was an important series to
22:02
Speaker 4: win because you're going against a division opponent.
22:04
Speaker 1: And sweeping that division opponent and just chomping more than
22:10
Speaker 1: half of their lead away from them to move down
22:14
Speaker 1: the stretch with I mean, it is a significant difference,
22:17
Speaker 1: but I asked the question last week, sweep or die,
22:22
Speaker 1: and it obviously is not that it wasn't where we
22:25
Speaker 1: were not facing that much of an extreme. To get
22:29
Speaker 1: two out of three kind of feels like, Yeah, you
22:33
Speaker 1: announced to the world we're still in this. We're still
22:35
Speaker 1: in this, and the way you played was much better
22:38
Speaker 1: than we've seen you play in a long, long time,
22:41
Speaker 1: which we'll get into here in a little bit. Four
22:44
Speaker 1: back in the American League West right now, two and
22:46
Speaker 1: a half games back in the wild Card, so plenty
22:49
Speaker 1: of time to make up that distance. So we'll talk
22:52
Speaker 1: about that coming up later on in the show. As
22:55
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, we'll recap Sunday's game with Mariners
22:58
Speaker 1: Morning after next on Sports Radio and Tinty three point
23:00
Speaker 1: three KJRFM. You got some stuff flopping around there. It's
23:05
Speaker 1: Ashley and it's Chuck with you. Good morning here on
23:07
Speaker 1: this Monday Mariners Morning After time. As the Mariners do
23:12
Speaker 1: win two out of three in Houston over the weekend
23:15
Speaker 1: to stillive to keep hope alive. Friday night, they had it.
23:22
Speaker 1: They just had it. And by the way they didn't
23:24
Speaker 1: have it for a while, and they battled back a
23:27
Speaker 1: couple different times, showed some fight on Friday night, the
23:32
Speaker 1: type of fight we've been looking for. And I know
23:34
Speaker 1: they didn't win the game, but it's as if that
23:37
Speaker 1: fight kind of spilled over into Saturday and Sunday. So
23:41
Speaker 1: maybe even in a loss, maybe there was a discovery
23:45
Speaker 1: that was made. Who knows as to what it's gonna
23:48
Speaker 1: take to get this job done. So it's a crushing
23:51
Speaker 1: defeat on Friday, they come back and they win rather
23:54
Speaker 1: easily on Saturday and then into Sunday, and man, that
23:58
Speaker 1: was a terrific game. Was national game. I mean, certainly
24:03
Speaker 1: we had more opportunities to score and didn't come through,
24:07
Speaker 1: left a lot of guys on base last night, but man,
24:10
Speaker 1: it was. It was I'm not gonna say playoff atmosphere
24:14
Speaker 1: because there were a lot of empty seats, but it
24:16
Speaker 1: kind of felt like the Mariners and Dan were managing
24:20
Speaker 1: it like it were a playoff game. And good. I
24:24
Speaker 1: think that's the way that we're going to have to
24:26
Speaker 1: play for the rest of the season. And so get
24:31
Speaker 1: off to the early lead on a Randy A. Rose
24:33
Speaker 1: Arena home run, take a two to nothing lead in
24:36
Speaker 1: the third big hit for Dom Canzone after a Rose
24:39
Speaker 1: Arena got caught stealing and looked like he'd run you
24:41
Speaker 1: out of the inning. Instead, Dom comes through with a
24:44
Speaker 1: clutch two out base hit to make it two to nothing.
24:47
Speaker 1: The Astros make their way back to make it two
24:52
Speaker 1: to one, and then cal Raley ends up. We didn't
24:56
Speaker 1: know it at the time, giving the Mariners the cushion
24:59
Speaker 1: they would require. Raleigh in the air for left field.
25:04
Speaker 1: Alvarez back, he's at the track, He's at the wall.
25:07
Speaker 1: Cal Rally up and over. He sent it out by
25:12
Speaker 1: that mus Crawford Brock's special NBC on the call last night.
25:23
Speaker 1: Cal Raleigh, Yes, bounces it off the top of the wall,
25:27
Speaker 1: the only place that would have gone out that fly
25:29
Speaker 1: ball in Major League Baseball. But hell take advantage of it.
25:33
Speaker 1: They certainly do as a team. Yep. So that put
25:36
Speaker 1: him up three to one at that point, and then
25:38
Speaker 1: it was just hold on, just hold your breath, grab
25:42
Speaker 1: him onto something and try to will this team to
25:46
Speaker 1: this victory. Brian will was really good. Oly pitch six
25:51
Speaker 1: innings and there was a little bit of a shoulder issue,
25:54
Speaker 1: as we found out after the game. They even went
25:57
Speaker 1: out and visited. At one point they eight he's going
26:00
Speaker 1: to be okay for his next start, but he got
26:02
Speaker 1: through the sixth despite giving up a home run to
26:07
Speaker 1: h to make it three to two. And then it
26:09
Speaker 1: was the bullpen. It was spire Bizardo and then Munnos
26:14
Speaker 1: taking you home by by putting zeros up on the
26:19
Speaker 1: board in these seventh and eighth to ninth innings. But
26:21
Speaker 1: a few hairy moments along the way, and the harrist
26:24
Speaker 1: was when Sir Anthony Dimingaz came in and that little
26:28
Speaker 1: blue Altuve hit where you beat him, and Diminga's coming
26:33
Speaker 1: off a mound, which is not easy.
26:36
Speaker 2: Especially when you're that tall and a little.
26:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you just threw a pitch and you got
26:40
Speaker 1: to run over a hill and then set your feet
26:43
Speaker 1: and look up over your head, and so he doesn't
26:47
Speaker 1: make the play, and it's like, are you kidding me?
26:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly I think what I said.
26:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, bases are loaded at that point. Then Dalton var
26:55
Speaker 1: Show comes up and he's the one that pretty much
26:57
Speaker 1: beat us on Friday by by singling through the left
27:02
Speaker 1: side of the infield and tying the game up, and
27:06
Speaker 1: he just had that look of man, is he going
27:09
Speaker 1: to do this again. Very first pitch, line's one down
27:12
Speaker 1: the right field line. You're sure it's gonna fall there
27:15
Speaker 1: because it's been that type of a season. It goes foul.
27:18
Speaker 1: And then Sir Anthony Dominga has just carved that dude
27:22
Speaker 1: up that pitch to him.
27:25
Speaker 4: That splitty was for strike three, The one that was
27:29
Speaker 4: for strike three.
27:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, man was at a pitch.
27:34
Speaker 2: He was like, oh, this is mine, he thought.
27:38
Speaker 1: And he was pumped. So just a huge moment. And
27:43
Speaker 1: then Munyos does give up a walk in the ninth,
27:46
Speaker 1: but really they didn't have a chance against him. He
27:49
Speaker 1: was throwing one hundred and two last night. He had
27:51
Speaker 1: something to prove after Friday. What a weekend for Andre's Munos.
27:55
Speaker 1: Here he is after the game. Andre's Munyo some doesn't
28:01
Speaker 1: get the job done on Friday, does get the job
28:03
Speaker 1: done on Sunday. I mean, he's been fantasic. Got off
28:06
Speaker 1: to a bad start this year. He's been fantastic since
28:11
Speaker 1: that rough start. As soon as he started to fix things,
28:14
Speaker 1: he really was locked in. And he's right, like, I mean,
28:19
Speaker 1: I did not get to watch the game. I was
28:22
Speaker 1: doing the Rainiers game on Friday night, so I didn't
28:24
Speaker 1: get to watch Friday night's game, but just going through
28:29
Speaker 1: the highlights afterwards and the recaps, I mean, he had
28:34
Speaker 1: two strikes on Parades, made a fine pitch and Paradies
28:39
Speaker 1: got a hit. He had two strikes on var Show.
28:42
Speaker 1: I mean, he's one strike away from getting getting you out,
28:45
Speaker 1: and he pokes one through the left side of the
28:47
Speaker 1: infield on a good pitch. He was two strikes on
28:50
Speaker 1: al Tuve before Varshow makes a great pitch out of
28:55
Speaker 1: the strike zone exactly where maybe you could have wasted
28:59
Speaker 1: it a little bit more. But he throws a slider
29:03
Speaker 1: outside the strike zone, away and low, and Altuve pokes
29:09
Speaker 1: it through the right side of the enfield and then
29:11
Speaker 1: Walker crushed it. And I think that was a bad pitch,
29:14
Speaker 1: but the game was already tied at that point. I mean,
29:18
Speaker 1: that's so frustrating, like when you feel like, I mean,
29:22
Speaker 1: I could have been better. I could have been sharper.
29:25
Speaker 1: I could have wasted a couple of pitches, I suppose,
29:28
Speaker 1: but I threw pitches that should have gotten me out
29:31
Speaker 1: of that game. And if that groundball by either of
29:34
Speaker 1: our Show or al tuo v just a little bit,
29:37
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit a couple of inches. Then
29:42
Speaker 1: we're out of that and I never even have to
29:44
Speaker 1: face Christian Walker because we've won the game. So to
29:47
Speaker 1: come back and say not be doubting yourself on Sunday
29:50
Speaker 1: and to close it out, Andre's is right. Like I
29:54
Speaker 1: looked at the tape, I didn't have anything to feel
29:56
Speaker 1: like I did wrong.
29:58
Speaker 2: Just happens.
29:59
Speaker 1: They just beat me a couple of times.
30:02
Speaker 2: That happened.
30:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so it happened at a terrible time, and
30:05
Speaker 1: it felt like a crushing loss, But I don't know
30:09
Speaker 1: it did something for them, which we're going to talk
30:12
Speaker 1: about in our next segment. No game today. They'll start
30:14
Speaker 1: a series with the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday. But on
30:18
Speaker 1: the other side, before we really start diving into football
30:22
Speaker 1: here on this Monday morning, where do the Mariners stand
30:25
Speaker 1: right now? We'll discuss it next. Sports Radio ninety three
30:28
Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. Hey, great Mounday morning to you. Chuck
30:32
Speaker 1: and Ashley with you here on Sports Radio ninety three
30:35
Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. All sorts of Seahawks breakdown for you today.
30:39
Speaker 1: We've seen their preseason opener. We've got the Witherspoon story
30:43
Speaker 1: to discuss. We've got the Terry and Arnold story to discuss.
30:46
Speaker 1: Greg Bell will be with us at seven o five
30:48
Speaker 1: as he typically is, and Hugh Millan first Monday Morning
30:52
Speaker 1: quarterback session today from eight to nine right here on
30:55
Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM. But
31:01
Speaker 1: you know, we do have Mariners baseball. We talked about
31:04
Speaker 1: the game that was played yesterday the weekend, but I
31:08
Speaker 1: haven't talked about where they stand right now, So let's
31:12
Speaker 1: get into that before we start to dive and headlong
31:14
Speaker 1: into some football conversations here this morning. The Mariners taking
31:18
Speaker 1: two out of three, four back in the American League
31:21
Speaker 1: Wild Card, two and a half game, excuse me, in
31:23
Speaker 1: the American League West Race, two and a half back
31:25
Speaker 1: in the wild card. Still a preposterous seven games under
31:30
Speaker 1: five hundred.
31:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the part gross.
31:33
Speaker 4: I mean, when we talked about this last week with
31:36
Speaker 4: the nine games under five hundred, it was it's just
31:39
Speaker 4: that's the part that's the sinking feeling. And if you
31:42
Speaker 4: just focus on that, you're like, well, yeah, no, they're done,
31:45
Speaker 4: they're cooked. But then it's the crazy thing that your
31:47
Speaker 4: numbers are half that to win your division.
31:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, still there, still alive, I said on Friday,
31:54
Speaker 1: sweep or die. And it's not that it's not as
31:58
Speaker 1: clear cut as that. I think that had you lost
32:03
Speaker 1: the series, it might certainly feel over, and we've already
32:07
Speaker 1: had conversations about that. But they are certainly still alive
32:13
Speaker 1: and they've got plenty of time to make up four games.
32:16
Speaker 1: And maybe the most encouraging part about this weekend is
32:22
Speaker 1: the edge that they played with, the urgency that they
32:25
Speaker 1: played with, that they managed with. It felt like it
32:28
Speaker 1: was being managed like a playoff game yesterday, and I
32:32
Speaker 1: think that it needs to be. That's the position that
32:34
Speaker 1: you've put yourself in, and it might end up costing you.
32:38
Speaker 1: You might run out of pitchers doing it that way,
32:40
Speaker 1: you might exhaust yourself here down the stretch, but you've
32:43
Speaker 1: painted yourself into this corner, and so you have to
32:47
Speaker 1: play it this way. And I'll tell you, I mean
32:51
Speaker 1: two different comebacks really on Friday, and to sit there
32:56
Speaker 1: and have Victor Roblace come through and brock Rock, Yeah,
33:01
Speaker 1: just called up on Saturday. I mean, arguably the most
33:05
Speaker 1: important Friday, most important game of the entire year was
33:09
Speaker 1: Friday night, and you called up a guy that hasn't
33:12
Speaker 1: played one pitch of Major League baseball and brock Rodden shortstops,
33:17
Speaker 1: not even his natural position.
33:18
Speaker 2: Well, and thank you for calling up brock Rodden.
33:21
Speaker 1: And not only does he add some fire to the
33:24
Speaker 1: lineup and that you know that dirt bag reputation that
33:28
Speaker 1: he has, which is a compliment, believe it or not
33:30
Speaker 1: in baseball, that he comes up in the clutchest of
33:36
Speaker 1: clutch moments and comes through for you in that situation
33:40
Speaker 1: might have been the biggest at back to that point there.
33:42
Speaker 1: Now you end up not winning that game, and it
33:44
Speaker 1: felt crushing, But I think that there was something the
33:48
Speaker 1: way that they played Friday, and maybe it was Brendan
33:51
Speaker 1: Donovan's wiffleballing that got them there, But maybe it's Brendan
33:58
Speaker 1: Donovan just feeling healthy again. I don't know, because I'd
34:01
Speaker 1: kind of like for that guy to kind of take
34:04
Speaker 1: over as the leader. Frankly, now, I know he hasn't
34:06
Speaker 1: been around, and he hadn't been on the roster, and
34:08
Speaker 1: he's not even completed a year as a Seattle Mariner.
34:11
Speaker 1: But they're going to have to play like Brendan Donovan
34:14
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. They're gonna have to bring
34:16
Speaker 1: that sort of mentality, and I think we saw it
34:19
Speaker 1: from the whole game this weekend. I think that that's
34:22
Speaker 1: the way that they played. So whatever happened Friday night
34:25
Speaker 1: and a crushing loss Ashley seemed to me to spill
34:29
Speaker 1: over into Saturday and Sunday, and there was an edge,
34:32
Speaker 1: There was a sense of urgency. There was a foot
34:36
Speaker 1: to the pedal to the metal kind of approach to
34:39
Speaker 1: those two games on Saturday, and they're going to have
34:43
Speaker 1: to play like that the rest of the way. Where
34:46
Speaker 1: has it been all season long? And it almost felt
34:50
Speaker 1: like you need a loss in order to remind you
34:55
Speaker 1: of how this game needs to be played by this
34:57
Speaker 1: baseball team.
34:58
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and a lot you needed to go down
35:00
Speaker 4: early and realize, oh, we're not out of it if
35:02
Speaker 4: we're down early on because on Friday, like you take
35:04
Speaker 4: the early lead, which we've seen them do plenty of times,
35:06
Speaker 4: but then you give up the early lead and you're
35:08
Speaker 4: down three before you know it.
35:10
Speaker 2: I mean, how many times have we seen this?
35:13
Speaker 4: The look on this team like okay, sorry, we tried,
35:16
Speaker 4: we're done. And for them to have said, okay, down three,
35:20
Speaker 4: we got this and to continue and again I know
35:23
Speaker 4: they didn't win, but it did say something about them
35:25
Speaker 4: on Friday night, just watching them battle in that game,
35:28
Speaker 4: and and then yeah, to to not let that defeat.
35:33
Speaker 2: Hang over you when you come in the next day
35:36
Speaker 2: and on Saturday.
35:37
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And then you out played them all day Sunday.
35:40
Speaker 1: But again, can't come through with the clutch hits whenever
35:43
Speaker 1: you've got runners on the base paths right, otherwise you
35:47
Speaker 1: don't have to white knuckle it all the way to
35:49
Speaker 1: the end of that game.
35:50
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, And if you'd had Randy on bass still
35:52
Speaker 4: when Cal hits the home run, that gives you two.
35:56
Speaker 1: But they, yes, they they're just seem to be a
36:01
Speaker 1: little extra energy to them. And and when you're Brendan
36:07
Speaker 1: Donovan and you haven't been around very long, and you
36:09
Speaker 1: haven't been around all season long because of injury, and
36:11
Speaker 1: you come back and you're still worried, I can't aggravate
36:14
Speaker 1: that injury. And then you haven't played baseball in a while,
36:17
Speaker 1: and then you rehab, and then you get back to
36:20
Speaker 1: where you want to be, and then you have a baby,
36:21
Speaker 1: and then you don't pick up a bat for five days,
36:23
Speaker 1: and then you come back and you try to play
36:25
Speaker 1: major league baseball against the best competition, and you're off
36:28
Speaker 1: to a struggling start. You can't very well be an igniter.
36:33
Speaker 1: You can't very well ignite the offense that way. But
36:37
Speaker 1: apparently some wiffle ball session with a buddy who flew
36:40
Speaker 1: into town to get his head right, and they went
36:42
Speaker 1: and played wiffle ball in the hotel room. And let
36:45
Speaker 1: me tell you something, woffleball will fix you. And then
36:48
Speaker 1: come back the next day and to be that that starter,
36:52
Speaker 1: that fire starter for this team. Yeah, I thought that.
36:57
Speaker 1: I thought his energy, Brock Rodden's energy, Victor Roeblaze energy. Yeah,
37:01
Speaker 1: he should have been playing more this season. Anyway, he
37:04
Speaker 1: puts the ball in play.
37:06
Speaker 2: That's all we are asking.
37:07
Speaker 1: Those three guys kind of set the tone Friday that
37:10
Speaker 1: spread throughout the entire weekend, and Friday was crushing, but
37:14
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday was certainly rebuilding, and it just kind
37:18
Speaker 1: of felt like maybe some alarms went off. I'm not
37:21
Speaker 1: gonna give myself to it, because now you're gonna be
37:23
Speaker 1: taking on dirt Bag Central, the Milwaukee Brewers. Their entire
37:27
Speaker 1: roster is made up of rock rods. So you're not
37:30
Speaker 1: going to out energy then, but you at least need
37:33
Speaker 1: to rise to the occasion and maybe finally, you know,
37:37
Speaker 1: four and a half months into this thing, this team's
37:39
Speaker 1: ready to start playing the way that they were supposed
37:42
Speaker 1: to be. But I'm not counting on anything. We've made
37:45
Speaker 1: that mistake a thousand times.
37:46
Speaker 2: One game at a time, one inning at a time.
37:48
Speaker 2: And I was rung.
37:48
Speaker 4: Sorry it was Naylor who wasn't on baits anymore, not
37:50
Speaker 4: a Rosino and Cal hit the home run.
37:52
Speaker 2: But yeah, I tho that would have been nice.
37:53
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