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Chuck in the Morning 8-28 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, the Toronto matchup and a special edition of Reckless at Breakfast · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Hey, great morning to you. It is a Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck and Ashley, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Greg Bell
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  Speaker 2: coming your way in two minutes. Let's get to your
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  Speaker 2: Frostbrood Coors Light. Choose chill headlines. We will start with
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners who are in Toronto tonight taking on the
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  Speaker 2: Blue Jays. The Blue Jays actually a half game up
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  Speaker 2: in the standings in the wild card in the American
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  Speaker 2: League over the Mariners. But in terms of the divisional race,
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: the Blue Jays are 15 back. of the Tampa Bay Rays,
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  Speaker 2: where the Mariners are just three games back of the
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  Speaker 2: top of their division in the American League West. Unfortunately,
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: the New York Yankees can't do anything right and lost
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  Speaker 2: to the Houston Astros last night.
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  Speaker 1: Lost two out of three to the Astros.
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  Speaker 2: So instead of being two back this morning, the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: sit three games back of the Astros in the American League.
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  Speaker 1: West pitching matchup tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Emerson Hancock starting for the Mariners and Dylan Cease, who
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  Speaker 2: shut us out the last time we faced him and
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  Speaker 2: might be your Cy Young Award winner in the American League.
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  Speaker 2: is going for Toronto. So we will not have the
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  Speaker 2: pitching advantage. For those people that get bothered when I
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  Speaker 2: say we have the pitching advantage, we will not have
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  Speaker 2: the pitching advantage.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: See, look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that.
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  Speaker 2: See if we can balance out the universe. Sounders are
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  Speaker 2: going to be in action tomorrow against Chicago. Obviously very
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  Speaker 2: important for this team to start playing some winning soccer again,
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  Speaker 2: but tomorrow's.
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  Speaker 1: Match has a completely different meaning.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be the debut of Dayan, the new acquisition that
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  Speaker 2: the Sounders made. Jackson Feltz says he's one of the
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  Speaker 2: five best strikers in the MLS, and for some reason,
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: The Sounders, despite what, a 9-10 game winless streak? It's long. Decided, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're only a couple points out of the playoff picture.
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  Speaker 2: We add this guy and we might be MLS Cup contenders.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: That's how good this guy is. And we got him
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the season this week. So, that
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: debut will happen tomorrow at 1.30. We're nine days from
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  Speaker 2: the Apple Cup, believe it or not. Even more surprising,
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  Speaker 2: shocking even, is that tomorrow the college football season begins. Tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: real games are played. North Carolina TCU kicking off the
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  Speaker 2: season tomorrow at 9 a.m. NFL Cut Day will be Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: which will come on the heels of the final preseason
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  Speaker 2: week of 2026. Two games on Saturday will wrap up
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  Speaker 2: the preseason, and so that will leave Sunday for cut day.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks in action tonight against the Kansas City Chiefs. Kickoff
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  Speaker 2: at 5 o'clock. Joining us to talk about it, our
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks insider, Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 4: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 4: this is 12th Man News. Part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Greg.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Are you in Kansas City?
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  Speaker 2: Correct?
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  Speaker 5: Correct. Nope. I'm in SeaTac Airport, going to Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I know you told me yesterday when you were leaving. So,
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 2: We got you at the airport before you got on
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  Speaker 2: the plane. So, safe travels to you.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So, I guess it's official now.
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  Speaker 2: No starters are going to play in the preseason, including
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  Speaker 2: Jadarian Price.
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald's made his decision, correct?
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  Speaker 5: Correct. I heard on my drive-in how much you like
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  Speaker 5: preseason football. It is.
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  Speaker 1: Am I right or wrong? I mean, go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: tell me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 5: No, you're right from a fan's perspective. We've talked about this.
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  Speaker 5: The reason for preseason still exists is for money and
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  Speaker 5: the fact that the owners can sell regular season ticket
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  Speaker 5: prices to fake games. And the biggest ripoff in sports
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  Speaker 5: is that preseason games are part of a season ticket package.
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  Speaker 5: And if you want any NFL team's season ticket package,
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  Speaker 5: you have to buy these games as part of them.
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  Speaker 5: So regular season prices for fake football and that's what
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  Speaker 5: this is and most I won't say most many coaches
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  Speaker 5: are doing what Mike McDonald's doing just saying fine we'll
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  Speaker 5: do our evaluation of the starters and getting them ready
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  Speaker 5: for the season and practices and joint practices and we
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  Speaker 5: won't do it in the games and yeah it is
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  Speaker 5: odd it's odd to say the least I wrote the
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  Speaker 5: News Tribune story at thenewstribune.com about Jadarian Price will not
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  Speaker 5: have played from the final game of Notre Dame season,
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  Speaker 5: November 29th at Stanford, when he had six carries for
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  Speaker 5: 15 yards until September 9th in the Seahawks NFL kickoff
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  Speaker 5: game against New England. Remember, Notre Dame opted out of
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  Speaker 5: a bowl game because they were mad they didn't get
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  Speaker 5: in the playoff. So his play, his off from his
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  Speaker 5: last college game is more than most. But that's the
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  Speaker 5: situation they're in at running back. They just do not
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  Speaker 5: want to risk anything remotely close to to an injury
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  Speaker 5: at that position anymore. They're even putting George Helani under
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  Speaker 5: bubble wrap. You're going to see a lot of Jakarta right,
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  Speaker 5: as you did in Tennessee. You're going to see even
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  Speaker 5: more than probably Bellis Jones Jr. They brought back Justin Jones,
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  Speaker 5: who they had earlier in training camp. He'll probably get
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  Speaker 5: 10-plus carries tonight, and everyone will say, who's Justin Jones?
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  Speaker 5: That's where they're at at running back. But yes, Jadarian
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  Speaker 5: Price will be the starting running back. Week one, that's
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  Speaker 5: why he's getting the bubble wrap treatment. Yes, Jalen Miller
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  Speaker 5: is going to play the whole preseason game tonight, just
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  Speaker 5: like he did the third preseason game at Green Bay
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  Speaker 5: last year. I heard you mentioning how he's going to
• 5:43
  Speaker 5: get bludgeoned behind guys who may not even be in
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  Speaker 5: the NFL on the offensive line a day later. And
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  Speaker 5: some of that's true, but some of that, the coaches
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  Speaker 5: also want to see how he reacts to that. Because
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  Speaker 5: that's been his problem, is how he throws and makes
• 5:57
  Speaker 5: decisions under pressure in the league. And he was not
• 6:01
  Speaker 5: good at it again last week. Held the ball on
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  Speaker 5: a fourth down. A couple interceptions when the passes were
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  Speaker 5: thrown behind receivers. He doesn't get a chance in practices
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  Speaker 5: when he looks good in practice. He didn't get a
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  Speaker 5: chance to get hit. And under physical and mental strain
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  Speaker 5: of a guy coming at him at 250 pounds. And
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  Speaker 5: that's what's going to be tonight for him.
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  Speaker 1: Head coaches still value preseason?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, am I being foolish when I say it
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  Speaker 2: feels like they don't anymore? It feels like we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to ever play a starter, and now it feels
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  Speaker 2: like they're not even going to really play backups because
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to risk. It feels to me like
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  Speaker 2: they don't even want to play these games. Does Mike McDonald,
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  Speaker 2: how much does he truly value these preseason games?
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  Speaker 5: He values it for the things that are almost everything
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  Speaker 5: but the performing on the field during a game. He
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  Speaker 5: values it for them traveling to Tennessee and then staying
• 6:52
  Speaker 5: in a hotel and the process of going from the
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  Speaker 5: hotel to the stadium and the warm-up procedure. The starters,
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  Speaker 5: probably like they did in Tennessee tonight, will all be
• 7:01
  Speaker 5: in full pads pregame. They'll all be doing a normal
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  Speaker 5: pregame routine. They'll get used to going out later than
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  Speaker 5: they did in McDonald's first year. Last year, McDonald's changed
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  Speaker 5: when they go out for preseason or pregame warm-ups. They
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  Speaker 5: study NBA teams. And they found that NBA teams that
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  Speaker 5: won more came out on the floor later and did
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  Speaker 5: more intense workouts but a shorter period of time right
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  Speaker 5: before tip-off. And they've studied this stuff. And they have
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  Speaker 5: numbers to back it up. And so now the pregame
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  Speaker 5: routine for the Seahawks is different than a lot of
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  Speaker 5: NFL teams. They come out later. They practice shorter and
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  Speaker 5: more intensely. They run ones versus ones a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: It's different. And then McDonald wants players who've been at–
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  Speaker 5: for Von Diggs, for instance, wants– He's been with Dallas
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  Speaker 5: and Green Bay. He wants them used to Seattle's pregame routine.
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  Speaker 5: So there are things like that. That's not what fans
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  Speaker 5: watch when they tune in when the ball gets kicked off.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why a lot of people don't see what
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  Speaker 5: the other coaches see as the value of it. There's
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  Speaker 5: a game planning component. They don't game plan in the
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  Speaker 5: sense that they're going against their opponent, but they have
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  Speaker 5: to put in a game plan of what plays they're
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  Speaker 5: going to run. And they want that routine as well.
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  Speaker 5: So there's some fringe value, I would call it, to
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  Speaker 5: these games.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider from the
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  Speaker 2: airport here this morning on his way to Kansas City
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  Speaker 2: for the final preseason tune-up against the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: So what is at stake? What's on the line?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, as you can read the tea leaves, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: who's battling for a final roster spot here? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it can't be 15 guys. It's probably a handful of two, three, four,
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  Speaker 2: five guys that that can earn something tonight.
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  Speaker 1: As you can read it, what are those battles?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right. It's only about a half dozen at most.
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  Speaker 5: McDonald's still trying to figure out the third quarterback situation.
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  Speaker 5: And the fact that he's playing Trevon Diggs, a seventh-year veteran,
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  Speaker 5: a former All-Pro in this game, tells you he wants
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  Speaker 5: to see Diggs on the field in a game situation
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  Speaker 5: and see if he's ready to jump right in as
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  Speaker 5: the third corner week one on September 9th. So Diggs
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  Speaker 5: will get a run tonight. It'll be with guys that
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  Speaker 5: he probably wouldn't play with during the regular season. Matter
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  Speaker 5: of fact, it will be with guys he won't play with.
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  Speaker 5: But Diggs just signed last week. He's only had four
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  Speaker 5: practices since January. So he's going to play. And if
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  Speaker 5: they feel comfortable with him and they feel like he's
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  Speaker 5: in football shape, the tea leaves are that he's going
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  Speaker 5: to be in the third corner with Witherspoon and Joe
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  Speaker 5: week one, Trevon Diggs. They have not been satisfied with
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  Speaker 5: what they've seen with Nehemiah Pritchett. They've not been satisfied
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  Speaker 5: with a scene with Noah Higginbottom as the third corner.
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  Speaker 5: If they did, they wouldn't have been going after Terran
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  Speaker 5: Arnold or would never have signed Trevon Diggs to begin with.
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  Speaker 5: Who's going to be the running backs behind Helani and Price?
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  Speaker 5: It's obvious that they're going to need at least two, three,
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  Speaker 5: probably four or five by the time the season's over,
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  Speaker 5: but more running backs. I'm with you. They're going to
• 9:58
  Speaker 5: sign maybe even three running backs off the waiver wire
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  Speaker 5: from sunday to monday that just seems like experience that
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  Speaker 5: they don't have right now that they can get off
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  Speaker 5: the waiver wire from other teams they need depth on
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  Speaker 5: the offensive defensive lines brandon peely looks like has won
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  Speaker 5: the backup nose tackle spot If you still call Byron
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  Speaker 5: Murphy a nose tackle, he moves all up and down
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  Speaker 5: the line now. I asked the question about Uso Sayamalo,
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  Speaker 5: the undrafted rookie that's featured on Hard Knocks playing on
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  Speaker 5: the guitar and singing No Woman, No Cry. Hard Knocks
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  Speaker 5: have tried to call him on to him as a
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  Speaker 5: long shot. And the answer that The coach gave me
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  Speaker 5: suggests he's not going to make the team and he's
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  Speaker 5: going to come back and try to be on the
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  Speaker 5: practice squad. And then he went into this whole 70
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  Speaker 5: man instead of 53. So it doesn't look like say
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  Speaker 5: a model is going to make it, which means Peely's
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  Speaker 5: the backup nose tackle. This special teams positions. Jay Harbaugh
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  Speaker 5: is going to be watching the kicking game plays to
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  Speaker 5: see who maybe the extra receiver is going to be.
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  Speaker 5: Cody White didn't help himself muffin a punt last week,
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  Speaker 5: but they know he can perform and has scored NFL
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  Speaker 5: touchdowns and real games for them. whose spot does Montori
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  Speaker 5: Foster take? Cause he's making the team. It's probably Jake
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: Bobo's injured reserve spot, but how many other receivers are
• 11:16
  Speaker 5: going to keep Emmanuel Henderson jr. Who they drafted to
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: be a gunner this year's draft out of Kansas. Is
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  Speaker 5: he going to make the team straight out of the gunners?
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  Speaker 5: They got to pass them through waivers and bring them
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  Speaker 5: up from the practice squad to do that role. I
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  Speaker 5: think Henderson's probably going to make the team as a
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  Speaker 5: sixth wide receiver. So it's those type of not front liners. No, but,
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  Speaker 5: And that's why fans are like, what this game is about.
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  Speaker 5: But the coaches get paid to coach all 53, all
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  Speaker 5: 70 guys. They don't just get paid to coach the starters.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, with us here this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Leonard Williams, big deal yesterday. I think you had hinted
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  Speaker 2: that maybe he would be staring at the end of
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  Speaker 2: his career, that maybe he's had enough of the National
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: Football League, he's accomplished enough, and that fatherhood might send
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  Speaker 2: him to an earlier retirement with plenty of gas left
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  Speaker 2: in the tank. But he's going to play at least
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  Speaker 2: three more years. So what do you now read into
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: this agreement between the Hawks and Leonard Williams yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: That he loves the environment. He loves what Mike McDonald's doing.
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  Speaker 5: That he's still very healthy. But you're right. I thought
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  Speaker 5: fatherhood changes people in all kinds of ways. And some
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  Speaker 5: guys are like, this is completely different to me now.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't know if it's worth it or I
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: need to do this anymore. But no doubt, he sees
• 12:36
  Speaker 5: himself as at least three more. I asked specifically, because
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  Speaker 5: at one point yesterday, he said year to year. I said,
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  Speaker 5: wait a minute, he's on a three-year deal. Do you
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: think it's going to really be three more years? He goes,
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: what I meant to say is contract to contract. So
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  Speaker 5: he intends it to at least be this three-year deal.
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  Speaker 5: He's going to be 35 years old when this contract ends.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure I haven't seen the exact contract details, but
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  Speaker 5: $ 56 million guaranteed. Most of that guaranteed money is probably
• 13:01
  Speaker 5: up front the way John Schneider does it. A lot
• 13:04
  Speaker 5: of the contract's $ 90 million value is probably backloaded, not
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  Speaker 5: guaranteed in the final year, so that if he or
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  Speaker 5: the team see a decline or him not wanting to
• 13:12
  Speaker 5: play anymore, they can get out from under without a
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  Speaker 5: lot of guaranteed money left to eat. That's how Snyder does.
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  Speaker 5: That's how most teams do it. But no doubt, he
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: has been revived and reformed by coming to Seattle. He
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: talked about that. That's what my stories I wrote about
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: yesterday were. He was holding his baby boy during the
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  Speaker 5: press conference. He's a different man than when he came
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  Speaker 5: here in 2023. He wasn't married then. He wasn't a father.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why I thought maybe he would give some
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  Speaker 5: pause in thinking about this. But the fact that he's
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: so healthy, he says, and revived and loves the environment,
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  Speaker 5: playing well in a prominent role and a Super Bowl champion.
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  Speaker 5: That's why he resigned and that's why the Seahawks wanted him.
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  Speaker 1: What a hole he would leave if he was gone
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  Speaker 1: next year.
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  Speaker 5: You know what's funny about Medchuk is that when he
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  Speaker 5: arrived in the middle of the 2023 season, people were saying,
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  Speaker 5: why did they get an extra defensive line? This isn't
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: a position of need. Why did we trade top draft
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  Speaker 5: picks for Leonard Williams? Leonard Williams was thinking of quitting
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  Speaker 5: in New York. Why are we doing it? And you're right.
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  Speaker 5: Now he would get a massive void if he left.
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  Speaker 5: And yes, not to mention the fact that Marcus Lawrence
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: has already declared this is the final season for him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they now need Leonard Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Do you and Vinod, are you going to just sit
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: around talking Steelers football all the time?
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  Speaker 1: What's the deal with that little part of that story?
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  Speaker 5: I think I'm the only one in Seattle that appreciated that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're the only one.
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  Speaker 5: His son, based on facial expressions, his son didn't appreciate
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  Speaker 5: that either. I think his son, Neil, was realizing that
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: wasn't the time or place to reveal that. But he
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: was trying to say that he's been around, at least
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: cared about the NFL or paid attention to the NFL
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: since 1976. And let's face it, if you're coming to
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: this country in 1976 and you see this sport that
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: is so hugely popular, the team you're going to like,
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: if you don't have any other allegiance, they were the Steelers.
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  Speaker 5: That was part of their four Super Bowl champions in
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: six years. They were always on Monday Night Football. They
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: were always in the playoffs. If you didn't have any
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: other team to like, and you come here from India,
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  Speaker 5: of course you like the Steelers. That makes sense. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: not describing that at the Seahawks introductory press conference as
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  Speaker 5: new owners, but yeah, hats off to him. He's got taste.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he's got taste. Yeah, well, I can speak
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  Speaker 1: on that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm in Illinois, and we had a football team,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: the St. Louis Cardinals back then, And there weren't many
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Cardinal fans in my grade school classrooms. It was all
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Steelers fans or Cowboys fans in the 70s. In my
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: neighborhood alone, there were like three Steelers fans, two Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: fans amongst my friends in the neighborhood, and no Cardinals fans.
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  Speaker 5: Right, right.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think Jim Hart's dad was a Cardinals fan back.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Then.
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  Speaker 5: It was Steelers fans. Cowboys, Raiders, and Dolphins, because those
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: are the ones who always are winning the Super Bowls
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  Speaker 5: back then.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so I take it you're not doing your
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: show today.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: I am not. Mike Benton, the captain, is going to
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: be in it. Why not? We just announced an extension
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: of our multi-year agreement with the Kraken to be their
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: radio partner. Ryan Stilbros is going to be on the show.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: He's going to be on Apple TV's broadcast. He's the
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: color analyst, former Major League player tonight on Blue Jays, Mariners.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: So yes, Mariners fans, you can't watch Aaron Goldsmith and
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: the gang on Mariners TV tonight for the Mariners Blue Jays.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: I'm sure that's good news for everybody.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. What do you mean by that?
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Well, you take that as however you want. It's on
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Apple TV tonight.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right, man. Well, safe travels. We'll talk to
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: you on Monday, hopefully.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: And then, yeah, well, have a good time in KC.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: Thank you. It'll be short. Yeah, we'll have a 53-man
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: roster and an opener to talk about Monday.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Perfect. All right.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, joining us right here on
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Chuck in the Mornings, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. And,
• 17:07
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• 17:09
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• 17:17
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• 17:21
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• 17:23
  Speaker 1: With the Seahawks.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: And so that's brought to you by the Emerald Queen Casino.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I heard that the right way.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I think I tuned out a little bit. Did you
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: just take a shot at Aaron Gold?
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: That's how I took.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: It. He really is a man that does not like analytics.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Not in his baseball, he doesn't.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: And then I followed up like, did I hear that
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the right way? Take it however you want.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: And then he doubled down. You can watch it on
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Apple TV. So I think we took it the way
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: it was intended to be taken.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I think so. I think so.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: All right. Coming up next, speaking of that series, I
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: provide a little bit of a service before every series,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: and that's to take a look at the opponent. And
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: usually I'll throw it at a 45. We'll just do
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: a good four or five-minute breakdown. But this game, this
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: series feels pretty important, and this opponent... Well, they can
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: bite our ass. The Toronto Blue Jays will preview it next.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: You up for two breakfasts? You ever eat two breakfasts.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: In one day?
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, I haven't, but I wouldn't say no. I'm
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: sure I have at some point.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: And yeah.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: I'll say heck yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I think I've done it a lot lately now that
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I think about it.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm like a hobbit, I guess. I think there
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: was a line in there. It was like, when's second breakfast? Yeah.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: So I need a second breakfast. We might do a
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: second breakfast today. We shall see.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: So that's coming up here at 645 or 745.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I should say.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: But right now, let's give you a little bit of
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: a preview of service that we provide here in the
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: mornings as we start a brand new series for the Mariners.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: And obviously, all these series are important the rest of
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the way. Jays this weekend, then we have the Red Sox,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and then the schedule actually gets light on paper. Anyway,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: so the gauntlet has just these six games remaining. The
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: gauntlet that we've talked about with Boston coming up and
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Toronto this weekend, just tough, tough, tough, tough competition here
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: for the last three, three and a half weeks solid
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: that the Mariners have had to face.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: And they've kept their nose above water to this point.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe not record wise since they are still
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: so far below 500, but at least they've remained in
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: the race for the American League West. And the Blue
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Jays have actually had very similar season to the Mariners.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, I say this all the time. I know
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: it makes people cringe, but baseball is weird and sometimes
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: this just this crap happens i don't know why it
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: happens more routinely to the mariners but certainly uh it
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: happens to a lot of teams these are the two
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: teams that met in the american league championship series and
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: it's not like the winner toronto went on and got
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: embarrassed in the world series they came within a cleat
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: of winning the World Series over the mighty Los Angeles
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Dodgers and Shohei Otani.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: That's how close they came.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: The length of a cleat on the sole of Isaiah
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Kiner-Falefa's shoe from winning the World Series over the Los
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers. And this year, much like the Mariners, they
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: haven't been able to find the formula for success. This
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: is crazy, what I'm going to tell you. The two
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: worst offenses in baseball played in the American League Championship
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Series last year. 11 months ago, Toronto and Seattle were
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: battling it out for the American League Championship. And now
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: here we sit at the end of August 2026, and
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: the two lowest scoring teams in the sport are the
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Help me figure that out.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I can't. They are also 28th and 30th in OPS.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Toronto is 30th in on-base percentage so far this season.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And the biggest reason, because you hear that and you're like, well, well, well,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: if you haven't been paying attention, they must have had
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: just a bunch of injuries.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: No. No.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: They've got their own Cal Raleigh this year. Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: has not been the same player. He might be even
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: more mysterious than Cal because we've watched Cal. We know
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: kind of what he was failing at earlier this year.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: But he's still closing in on 20 home runs for
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the season. I mean, that's still his identity as a
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: hitter is to hit for power.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has seven home runs this year. Seven!
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Now, he missed 10 games. He was on a 10-day
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: IL once, and he missed exactly 10 games. But he
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: is at seven home runs.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And I quiz you. I don't expect you to know.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, good.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: How many home runs do you think Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: has hit at home this year?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: The home ballpark. Rogers Center, known for offense.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, yeah, there's a lot of
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: home runs that get hit there, so I'd say all seven.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Zero.
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  Speaker 5: What?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Has had a healthy season this year and has not
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: hit a home run at home the entire season.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: I hope that continues.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, of course. But, I mean.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: If that is just not gobsmacked, that can't possibly be true.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the same thing with Cal Raleigh. It's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: the same way we feel about Cal Raleigh or somebody that,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: you know, in another city that was sure Cal Raleigh
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: had broken into superstardom this past year and maybe tuned
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: in to watch a Mariner game. and hadn't been paying
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: all that close attention, maybe knew that Cal wasn't having
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: as good a year, but was like, wait a minute.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Am I seeing that right? Is he hitting 156? It's July.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Somebody would have gone through that experience with Cal. This
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: is the same kind of statistic where you're like, Vladimir
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Guerrero Jr. has seven home runs. How much of the
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: season has he missed? No, he's just not hitting for
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: power this year. for some inexplicable reason.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: It's not like he's old.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: He has just shown up this year and cannot figure
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: out how to hit a home run. Now, we knock
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: on wood because we're facing him this weekend, and we
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: don't want to see him have a revival weekend like
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Cal had a revival series against the Philadelphia Phillies.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: We don't need that in our lives.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: But nonetheless, I'm just stating it to illustrate baseball can
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: be just bizarre. Sometimes it just can make no sense.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: And this certainly falls under that category. Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: has not hit a home run at home this year.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: That is shocking, honestly.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: Shocking.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: 260 batting average, 351 slugging percentage. Slug. A 684 OPS. Like,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: 700's an okay player. You're having an okay season at 700.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: He's a 684.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Man, it's unreal. Some other things about this team.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Now, pitching-wise, similar statistically as well in terms of runs allowed.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: But, man, you lose 22-0 and 19-2. It sure does
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: skew your pitching statistics.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: Sure does.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: We have to count Weston Wilson, Leo Rivas, and Johnny
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Pareda into our pitcher statistics here.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So we've plummeted.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: We've been top five starting pitching ERA practically the entire season.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: We're 13th because of those two stupid games.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, gosh.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And so we've fallen. The Blue Jays are at
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: 11 right now. So overall, statistically, pretty even. Offensively, both terrible.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: And pretty even in terms of run prevention, both according
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: to the overall numbers, Midland. But we know better. We
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: do have better pitching, but we won't tonight. They're going
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: to throw Dylan Cease, who could win the American League
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Cy Young Award. They're going to throw Jose Soriano tomorrow.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, we've had some pretty good luck avoiding some
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: of the best pitchers in series so far this season.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: We're not going to this weekend. They're two best guys
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: right now because Yassavage.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Is on the I.L.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Are Cease and Soriano, and they're both going to pitch
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: in the first two games. And then we face Max
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Scherzer and his weird eyes on Sunday. And he always.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Does well against us, no matter what.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: He could give up 11 runs the previous outing, and
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, he always seems to hang in there
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: with us. Maybe it's because we have the worst offense
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: in baseball.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: It might have something to do with it. Yeah.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: And in terms of something to play for, both teams
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: will have something to play for. As painfully disappointing as
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: this season has been for both participants of the American
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: League Championship Series a year ago, they're 65-60, a half.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Game better right now than the M's.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: But they only have one race that they're alive in,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: and that's the wild card race, where the Mariners are alive, obviously,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: in the divisional race. Despite the Blue Jays having a
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: half game lead over Seattle in the wildcard standings. They
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: trail their division leader by 15 games, where the Mariners,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: as you know, trail the Astros by only three. So
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: they'll both have stuff to play for, no question, this weekend.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: But the Mariners, you know, hopefully bring a little bit
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: of a sharper edge. They're going to have to because,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: you know, if we can get through this gauntlet, let's
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: say three and three for the next six games, stay
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: within three Three games.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: And then you've got the competition softens immensely because not
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: only does competition soften at the end of the year,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: but those teams are even softer than they were earlier
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: in the year because they've already started kind of looking
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: forward to the following season. They've called up younger players
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: and things of that nature. And so you should be
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: in good position to make up whatever ground you trail by.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Once you're through this series, but I certainly don't want
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: it to be more than three games. No, thank you.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I'll take four and two. I guess I'll live with
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: three and three.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: But if you can go four and two for these
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: next six games, I think we'll probably be sitting there two,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: three games out of the division. with a really light
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: schedule the rest of the way. And I think you're
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: feeling really good about things by next Thursday, but we'll see.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: I think especially after that last road trip.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: If you can go, if you can win this road
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: trip versus what happened last time.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: I'd feel real good about it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. Coming up next. It's reckless at breakfast.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: A first serving anyway, sports radio, 93.3 KJR FM. Reckless
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: at breakfast, uh, Wednesday, seven 45 since the entire duration
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: of this, uh, morning show here. Um, and so, um,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: It's not Wednesday. It is Friday, which screams it's Reckless
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: at Breakfast Special Edition.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I guess we could have had a cover band. Oh,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: should I see if.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: There's someone else that plays it for special editions?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: No, to me, it's just the thought that I had.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: I kind of like it, though.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a terrible idea. Surely somebody covered this song.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's very dangerous because this is an awesome song.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Hopefully somebody has covered this. But anyway.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: We're going to have a Reckless at Breakfast special edition
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: for you here today because something happened yesterday in the
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: sports world that we have discussed on Reckless at Breakfast.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: A step toward my recklessness actually becoming reality as Major
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: League Baseball, who right now, let's face it, I mean,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: we have all these stories. They're getting ready for the
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: big collective bargaining agreement, the big negotiation, the big strike,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the big lockout threat. All of that's going to happen
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: this offseason. And man, it really does sound like baseball's
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: just getting all its money's worth right now. Rob Manfred
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: and company are just throwing out a different thing they're
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: going to try to get done every week, it feels like.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: And I know that they're not going to get much
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: of any of this passed, but they sure do keep
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: throwing stuff out that they want to see the players
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: agree to. And the truth of the matter is, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: it's a sad truth, the players will agree to none
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: of it. Even if it makes sense for them, even
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: if it makes sense for fans, even if it makes
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: sense for growth for the sport, the players are just so... um,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: you know, distrusting of Rob Manfred and the owners that
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: they just don't agree to anything.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: This is just the way they operate. It is that makes.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Total sense for everyone involved. What are you going to
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: pay us to, in order to pass this through? You know,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: that's just the way that the Players Association operates. Not
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: that the owners operate above board either. I'm not sitting
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: here trying to take sides on this. It just is
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: frustrating because I do think baseball sometimes comes up with
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: great ideas and the players just will not agree just
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: to not agree. I mean, that's just the way that
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: they operate. What are you going to give us in
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: order to agree to this obviously cool plan? And so
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: here's the latest. And they'll never agree to it. And
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I understand why they wouldn't, but I love it. I
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: love this idea. I've thrown it out in the past.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball doesn't get to take advantage of the
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: free agency frenzy. I mean, that's a big moment in
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: the NFL calendar. They count on that. They get to
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: steal all the attention away from other sports that are
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: playing actual games because they set a deadline. on a
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Monday for it to start, and then they allow tampering
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: on the Sunday before it starts.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Well, actually, it's the other way around.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: It's usually Tuesday's the deadline and then Monday's the tampering
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: because you wouldn't do it over the weekend. They'd made
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: that mistake once upon a time. All the tampering took
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: place on a Sunday and none of the networks had
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: live shows going on. So they backed up free agency
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: to Tuesday so that the tampering would all happen on
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Monday and they could take advantage of the news cycle
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: and bump every other sport off the news cycle. And
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: we enjoy it as fans. We like these things coming
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: in a flurry. Oh, my gosh, they signed him. They
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: signed him. Who are we going to get? We love
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: that part as sports fans in modern-day sports. Baseball's free
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: agency period, in comparison, is like riding a sloth in
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: In the Kentucky Derby.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: And the gates are open.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: And three-toed wonder is off to a really slow start
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: out of the gates. Let's see if they can make
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: up the distance. Baseball is painfully slow. I mean, it's
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: stretched out all over time. Once upon a time, winter
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: meetings used to be like an active week. An MLB
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: network sends guys down there for a whole week of
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: round-the-clock coverage of winter meetings, and nothing ever happens anymore.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: And then it just gets stretched out and you get
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: maybe one good signing in December and then a couple
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: in January. Meanwhile, all the Scott Boris clients have yet
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: to sign with anybody because he's waiting until February when
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: teams start losing their minds as they're getting ready to.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Report to camp.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Well, I said long ago, I would like to have
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: a trade deadline period in the off season, a free
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: agency slash trade deadline. If you don't get everything done
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: by this point, then you can't start business transaction business
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: again until you report to spring training. And because I
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: want some urgency because I want for baseball, because baseball's
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: trading deadline is fantastic.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: It's busy.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Um, there are sometimes some moves that happen early and
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: then there's undoubtedly a bunch of moves that happen on
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: the last couple of days, like we've seen the last
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: couple of years. So typically it, it knocks it out
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: of the ballpark more so than anybody else's trade deadlines. Well,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: They lose when it comes to off-season because it's just
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: spread out so dreadfully long over the winter and sometimes
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: into the spring. But if you could create some urgency
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  Speaker 2: and this window of two weeks or so, and they're
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  Speaker 2: proposing three, a three-week window in December in which you
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  Speaker 2: have to sign as a free agent or you have
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  Speaker 2: to wait until spring training. And so this would give
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  Speaker 2: baseball fans a little bit of that yeah fast action
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: oh man that's something to tune in for i'm thinking
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: nothing but football's going on right now basketball's going on
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  Speaker 2: right now hockey's going on right now but as an
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: all-around sports fan i all i'm thinking about is baseball
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  Speaker 2: and who the mariners are going to sign in the
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: three-week period or not sign uh in this three-week period
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: and they'll allow trades as well but they are proposing
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  Speaker 2: their own sort version of frenzy but because they have
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: never had a deadline. In the NFL, you have a
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  Speaker 2: salary cap, but they don't have a salary cap. In
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: the NFL, you have a salary cap, so everybody wants
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: to sign early before the money runs out. Major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball doesn't have a salary cap, so Scott Boris plays
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  Speaker 2: the long game. So nobody's in a rush to do
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: it because they want to see how the market plays out. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you shorten the market experience to three weeks, then
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  Speaker 2: you're going to have players say, well, I don't want
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: to wait until spring training. And so they're going to
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: be more active, more ready to sign. And it's going
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: to force the hand of teams, players, agents alike to
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  Speaker 2: give us that frenzied period that baseball misses out on
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  Speaker 2: in the winter.
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  Speaker 1: And I am all for it. I love it. Please
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  Speaker 1: pass this one through.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know why anyone would be opposed to
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  Speaker 3: it other than, I guess, Scott Boris' clients who want
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: to sit and wait. But how did that work out
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  Speaker 3: for them a couple of years ago? You had people
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  Speaker 3: who didn't have a team heading into spring training. And
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to go through that stress.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're going to say no to it. And
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  Speaker 2: they're going, well, I think there's some reason. Because when
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: you do that, obviously what Scott Boris is going to
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: argue is, he does it for a reason because he
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: wants people to panic over time. He wants the market
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: to set. But if you rush, he'll argue that you
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: are limiting our ability to shop our talent around the sport.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: So he's going to hate this idea, I promise. And
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: since he's the only agent we know in baseball, he
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: carries a lot of weight and a lot of power.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: And certainly with the players, he carries a lot of power.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: So They're going to shoot it down, but I sure
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: think it's a mistake because, again, it's another thing that
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: helps grow the sport.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you get fans tuning in and excited versus not
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: thinking about baseball at all.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Football always is stealing headlines away from other sports because
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: of the way they space out their calendar. They're geniuses
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: at it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they are. And baseball goes an entire winter, and.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: They fall so far off the back burner that You know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: at ESPN, they'll have the sports across the page, and
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: they'll have the ones that are clicked on the most
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: will hold the top line. Like right now, NFL, NBA, MLB, soccer, WNBA,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: that's the order of progression that people are clicking on.
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  Speaker 1: When you fall off that front page.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: And you're just included in more sports, that means nobody's
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: thinking about your sport.
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  Speaker 1: So the NFL is always first.
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  Speaker 6: And college football is usually second.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Well, not as much as you think, but NFL's always first.
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  Speaker 2: It's the most clicked on year round, even when it's
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: the offseason. And baseball in its offseason falls completely off
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: that board. They're in the more sports category, which is
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: embarrassing considering how much there's a frenzied interest in Major
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: League Baseball's offseason. So this would help that give us
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: a three week period, not only to have a frenzy
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: of action, but then for the next month, you get
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: all of January to evaluate who you got, who you
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: didn't get. And then you spend February trying to figure
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: out what other holes do we have to fill once
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: spring training begins. It just introduces a lot more dialogue
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: of conversation versus waiting, waiting and waiting. Who wants an
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: offseason of, why haven't we made any moves? Nobody wants that.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Baseball fans can't take that. We've got holes. Why haven't
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: we made any moves? John Stanton's so cheap.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Jerry's an idiot.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Nobody wants to have that winter. Let's have a winter
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: where we have three weeks of incredible action, signing action,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: and then two months to evaluate that action before we
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: report to spring training. I think it's a great idea,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: and I know the players will never accept it.
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