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5-18 H2 Chuck Powell Joins, Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh, I have my own walk up music.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you do, Yeah, yeah you do.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell never invites me on.
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  Speaker 3: I will let him know to bring you.
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  Speaker 4: Up before we get started, Chuck Fowel, as he's walking
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  Speaker 4: up to the plate right now. I want to remind
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  Speaker 4: Slam Cash. Chuck Fowel, I made this joke yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: If you win, we will throw in a banana for
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  Speaker 1: free that has been floating around the studio.
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  Speaker 3: Is that the same banana from the last week.
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  Speaker 4: I have thrown three bananas away, and there has been
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  Speaker 4: one every single time that I've come.
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  Speaker 3: This is definitely a brink.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody loves bringing in bananas and then not eating them.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to watch the stream from last week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we could call videos. We have the technology, video evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we have surveiled the area.
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  Speaker 5: And then we find out, as Chuck Powell, what the heck, Chuck,
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  Speaker 5: what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: This is not me. I'm just happy to see you.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a banana in my I'm just happy to
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  Speaker 1: see you. But this, somebody's just ringing in a banana,
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  Speaker 1: not eating it and then leaving it behind.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know what's the bigger crime, leaving the
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  Speaker 4: banana or not eating it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, clearly this is a person that is trying to
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  Speaker 1: convince themselves that they like banana.
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  Speaker 3: And they're healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then when push comes to shove, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really want it, so then they just leave it behind.
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  Speaker 4: So it's funny because when I walked in in the changeover,
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  Speaker 4: so to speak, between your show and Greg Bell's show
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  Speaker 4: here ten to twelve ninety three point three KJRFM, I
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  Speaker 4: told you, Chuck that this seemed like a Christopher Kid prank.
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  Speaker 4: So Christopher, I'm just gonna ask you straight up right now,
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  Speaker 4: is it you?
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  Speaker 3: I don't like bananas, and no it's not mean.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, it's it's it's created quite the smell
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  Speaker 1: though in here like you can't get away from it?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a good smell? I like bananas. I like
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  Speaker 1: the smell of bananas. Here's the weird thing about bananas.
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  Speaker 1: I like banana flavor, but I don't really like bananas
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  Speaker 1: really so like banana cream pie.
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  Speaker 3: I love banana bread.
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  Speaker 1: Banana bread I love so good, you know, like banana
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  Speaker 1: ice cream. I just bought some and had some yesterday's.
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  Speaker 1: But like actual bananas, like the texture of it, I
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  Speaker 1: don't like. I don't dislike them, but I don't love them.
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  Speaker 1: Where I love banana flavor, I just don't like bananas.
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  Speaker 1: Demonstrate how you eat said banana? No?
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  Speaker 4: Oh god, you know he just said he doesn't like bananas.
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  Speaker 4: Don't force him into that.
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  Speaker 1: I eat it like a corn corn on the cop
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  Speaker 1: I go across and rotate.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the banana gate will continue here in the kJ
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  Speaker 4: R studios.
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  Speaker 2: We'll find out who this was, I said.
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  Speaker 4: I initially thought it was Dick Fang because I think
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  Speaker 4: he's right now, the only one who sits in that
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  Speaker 4: chair like he wasn't in your Friday.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know. That's crazy. Find out what happens.
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  Speaker 3: It's very weird.
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  Speaker 4: Is it someone from like one of the music stations
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  Speaker 4: that just comes in drops up.
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  Speaker 1: They might I don't know, BA Gate.
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  Speaker 3: Banana Gate.
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  Speaker 4: We gotta we got to get to the bottom of
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  Speaker 4: this well up.
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  Speaker 1: At any point during the show, I have the remedy.
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  Speaker 3: Give it to Brandon Donovan.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so okay, let's let's get into it.
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  Speaker 4: We talked, you know, you might get a banana if
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  Speaker 4: you you know, enter the keyword on our website, the
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  Speaker 4: Grand Grand Slim cash. I made this joke at the
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  Speaker 4: top of the ten o'clock hour that you know, who
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  Speaker 4: needs a Grand Slam The Mariners. Oh, and they still
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  Speaker 4: would have lost yesterday. Yeah, they lost eight to three.
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  Speaker 4: I need a lot of things. They're just not playing well.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they're not hitting obviously, they're playing worst defense.
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  Speaker 4: And their manager, I feel, is in the worst way
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  Speaker 4: he's been since he took over. So you like it
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  Speaker 4: feels to me like he's overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So you and I have kind of been on this
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  Speaker 4: train for a little bit now. Even through last year.
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  Speaker 4: I was a pretty you know, compared to most, a
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  Speaker 4: pretty heavy critic of Dan Wilson even during their run.
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  Speaker 4: But I still going, like in the off season on
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  Speaker 4: our stove podcast. We talked about it all the time.
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  Speaker 4: If I get frustrated with his in game management, I
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  Speaker 4: also see that the other side of it is his
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  Speaker 4: everyday managing at this point, and that's something that he
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  Speaker 4: excelled at. I don't think it's a coincidence that cal
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  Speaker 4: Rawly had his career year of the year that Dan
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  Speaker 4: Wilson was here for the full season. Yeah, and there
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  Speaker 4: are there are a lot of superlatives. Yeah, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: starting to question even if that aspect of his managing
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  Speaker 4: has fallen off a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, your job as a manager is to get the
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  Speaker 1: most out of the talent given, right, and by the
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  Speaker 1: end of the season last year he was you know,
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  Speaker 1: he got all the way to the ALCS and very
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  Speaker 1: close to the World Series. Cal Raley had a career year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there were, uh, there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: positives and every reason to bring him back, but there
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  Speaker 1: are also some weaknesses. I think he does struggle with
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  Speaker 1: pitching change decisions, uh. And I do think that he
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  Speaker 1: struggles with pinch hitting now decisions, which apparently has turned
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  Speaker 1: into like, you know, a Rubic's cube. To me, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem that difficult, and yet he's like can't figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. I got the yellow side, but nothing else
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  Speaker 1: will wind up. It's not that hard. So I think
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  Speaker 1: he struggled with that. And then at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, you've got to get the most out of
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  Speaker 1: your talent. I'm like, look, I said this on my
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  Speaker 1: show today. I'm not ready to call for Dan Wilson's job.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even like doing that as a talk show host.
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  Speaker 1: Some talk shows live for that. I'm not. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like doing that, and I'm not ready to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But if I found out today that they were going
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  Speaker 1: in another direction, because they're just not going to squander
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  Speaker 1: this season like the Philadelphia Phillies did a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago with Rob Thompson and they've gone fifteen and
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  Speaker 1: four since. If I found that out, I'd understand.
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  Speaker 4: It wouldn't be upset. I wouldn't be upset. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: say what are you doing? That's not the response you'd get.
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  Speaker 4: I would sort of understand it. It's too precious of
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  Speaker 4: a year. Yeah, I mean, this is it's too good
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  Speaker 4: of a roster, it's too good of a team. And yet,
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  Speaker 4: as I said before, you're not hitting, you're not fielding,
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  Speaker 4: and you're not getting the most out of guys. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what things are like behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe Dan Wilson is running up pretty tight ship. I
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  Speaker 4: have no idea, but every time he speaks.
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  Speaker 1: To us, it's played off like it's no big deal,
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  Speaker 1: it's just baseball. Yeah, you know, I'd like I heard
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of it last night, like that's the
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  Speaker 1: closest he's ever come to. That was terrible. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, the way we played just not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't have to be a nasty, you know,
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  Speaker 1: bombastic statements. We're terrible. Yeah, but I would.
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  Speaker 4: Like to hear we're better than that. We have to
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  Speaker 4: do better. Yeah, we got to play better. Well, you
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  Speaker 4: mentioned it with the platoon situation. Yeah, first of all
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  Speaker 4: your general take on that, and you said it's pretty easy, uh,
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  Speaker 4: in terms of your your way of looking at it.
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  Speaker 1: And I talked about it on the stove we did.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think did you notice on Saturday what happened?
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  Speaker 4: So Dan Wilson gets tossed?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Was he still making the decision?
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  Speaker 4: What I'm saying, But all of a sudden you make
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  Speaker 4: a change in philosophy because Adrian Morehone comes in or no,
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  Speaker 4: it was Wandy Peralta. Wandy Peralta comes in to face
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  Speaker 4: three straight left handed batters, including both Luke Raley and
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  Speaker 4: Dom can Zone, and they leave him in there. But
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  Speaker 4: it was the sixth inning. And this is what I've
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  Speaker 4: saidmultiple times. If it's early and it's not a high
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  Speaker 4: leverage situation, you leave your guys in there so they
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  Speaker 4: have a chance to have another at bat let in
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  Speaker 4: the game. So I think they did the right thing
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  Speaker 4: in that time, but is that dead well, but.
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  Speaker 1: Then later it's Raley up again and then they let
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  Speaker 1: him hit, which I think is wrong, the mistake right, and.
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  Speaker 4: Then they they pinch it. He struck out, and then
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  Speaker 4: you have guys on base, and then you pinch it
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  Speaker 4: for can Zone with two outs two batters later.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley made a great point today, It's like this is checkers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's don't turn it into chess. Yes, it doesn't need
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  Speaker 1: to become chess. It is just checkers. You know, just
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: hop hop him. Don't be the person getting hopped. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about it on Stove fifteen, our first episode
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  Speaker 1: of Stove fifteen on Friday. People listen to it because
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  Speaker 1: this entire weekend played right into our conversation. Don't let
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  Speaker 1: another manager dictate who's on the field for you. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's an element of that, to be sure.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're taking out your better hitter because he
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  Speaker 1: hits from the left side of the plate with nobody
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  Speaker 1: out in the sixth inning, well, guess what he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do to you in the eighth or ninth when he comes,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna go back to the right. So you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: lose coming in going. Now, if it's the sixth inning
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  Speaker 1: and they're second and third and there's one out and
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  Speaker 1: Rob Revschneider or Connor, Joe's gonna have a better chance
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  Speaker 1: of putting the ball in play because the splits do
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  Speaker 1: suggest that even struggling ref Schneider and Joe are still
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  Speaker 1: better against left handers. But they're not so much better
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  Speaker 1: that I'm going to cost myself the sixth inning and
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  Speaker 1: the eighth inning when they come back around again. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're threatening, take advantage of the threat. But if
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing going on, keep Rayleian canzone in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and then in the eighth if they want to bring
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  Speaker 1: in a lefty, now I'll make the change. The ref
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  Speaker 1: Schneider and to Connor Joe, I don't think it's that hard,
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  Speaker 1: but Dan Wilson, game in and game out, the other
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  Speaker 1: manager is forcing him into personnel decisions that are weakening
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  Speaker 1: him from the sixth inning on and weakening our chances
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  Speaker 1: to come back. But that doesn't forgive the team for
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  Speaker 1: we don't score runs until we're down by which is
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  Speaker 1: what happened all weekly exactly exactly. It's two to not
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  Speaker 1: think and we're right there, we're not gonna score at all.
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  Speaker 1: But if we haven't right where we want to. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but if you if you're gonna go up five, will
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  Speaker 1: we'll make it interesting. I mean, that's the weekend it was.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they just beat the tar out of us.
• 10:39
  Speaker 5: Chuck, What would you say has been the biggest surprise,
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  Speaker 5: good or bad for the Mariners so far this season?
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  Speaker 1: Oh uh, well that's this is a weird, strange thing
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  Speaker 1: because there have been a lot of grid surprises. Yeah, Like,
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  Speaker 1: if you would have told me at the beginning of
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: the year Emerson Hancock's going to be a top of
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  Speaker 1: the rotation caliber starter. WHOA, how many have we won
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: all of our games?
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  Speaker 4: Then?
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  Speaker 1: Are we forty eight? No? You know, I mean, how
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: good are we if there are some Hancocks a top
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  Speaker 1: three guy in the starting but he's been arguably our
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: best starting pitcher so far this year. Cole Young has
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: definitely taken that jump forward and he's not as consistent
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: as he's going to be, but glove War glove Wise
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  Speaker 1: is a goal glove defender to this point in the season.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: Luke Rayley is another great pleasant surprise. And yet so
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: you're getting some of these pleasant surprises, and yet we're
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: still four games under five hundred, So what's the disappointment.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Col's got to be the biggest surprise of the entire season, not,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: you know, to be hurt now after just struggling all
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: year long, So that's got to be the most disappointing thing.
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  Speaker 1: And then maybe the next thing, once again is we
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: just can't hit lefties like again, that is a prise,
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  Speaker 1: not surprised, but it's almost a surprise because it's another
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  Speaker 1: year with another different combination of guys that this time,
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  Speaker 1: this offseason everybody thought was a good idea, even though
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: it was basically just AJ policism, but this time people
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  Speaker 1: were encouraged by it and it still hasn't worked out.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I mean, I'm just surprising that
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  Speaker 1: we're sitting here. I really thought this was going to
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: be an easy year. Not I'm with you, a much easier.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing's ever easy on baseball, you know what you mean, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: But and I still think they're eventually going to pull away,
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: start playing good baseball, probably in the summer, and I
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: think they will pull away and they're going to win
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: the American League West comfortably. I really do. I still
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: believe that doesn't matter how bad that it looks right now.
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  Speaker 1: But why does it always have to start after June?
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Why do we have to go through these April and
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  Speaker 1: maze like we go through every year in the Depoto era.
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  Speaker 1: It's depressing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mentioned at the top of the show. It's
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  Speaker 4: like you can look at it two ways. Number One,
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  Speaker 4: you're just two games out after getting swept. It's it's weird.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think there's any threat in The Mariners are
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  Speaker 4: not major threat as of now. The Mariner's not winning
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  Speaker 4: the AL West or even making the playoffs. But the
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  Speaker 4: issue to me over the weekend was, I think you
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: faced another World Series contender in the San Diego Padres.
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  Speaker 4: They're really good, and you saw the gap in the
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: two different teams, and they're twenty eight and eighteen without
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: Fernando Tatis or Machado hitting at all.
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  Speaker 1: This well, they're not hitting at all. They're right there are.
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  Speaker 1: Their offensive numbers are worse than ours until Gavin Sheet's
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: got a hold of George Kirby, but there, and they're
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: pitching numbers there. They are only that good because when
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: they have a lead in the sixth inning, they hold
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: on to it every time because Morahane's ridiculous. Adam's a
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: little hit and miss, and then if they need four
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: outs from Miller or six outs from Miller, he's good
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  Speaker 1: for it every single time. So that's why they're ahead,
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  Speaker 1: because they're not even playing good baseball. They did this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: certainly they did, but they haven't even played good baseball
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  Speaker 1: to accumulate that record. Yeah, I think we're better than
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  Speaker 1: them on paper, we're just not playing that way right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I agree with you. That's what I said.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a talent issue for the Mariners. What about
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  Speaker 4: the pitching, because that's been something that I think you
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: can take, Like you said, Emerson Hancock is a huge positive.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: I think George Kurvey minus yesterday has been a really
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: good you know, had had a really good year so far.
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: Lowden Gilbert's been pretty meh for me. I want to
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: see more from him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't know why he pitched in the
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: seventh on I don't know why that happened on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Like he fought his way through six. Your entire bullpen
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: is there for you. This is another thing. This is
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  Speaker 1: not chess. This is checkers. This is easy. This is
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: the easy stuff. Like, all right, we're back into the game.
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  Speaker 1: Our starting pitcher went six, so let's get him out
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  Speaker 1: before he you know, before we start the seventh inning
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  Speaker 1: here when your entire bullpens rested. Matt Brash has no
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: reason to be Intocoma right now. Okay, so number one
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Jose Ferrer just had a week off. He should be
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: healthy and ready to go. We're back to Munos having
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: not pitched in four days. We've gone four days without
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Munos no, and yet apparently unless it's tied or up one,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: none of our five best relievers can ever pitch. Like
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: you got back into the game Friday, Andres Munjos has
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: a he's gotten into You've gotten into trouble with Munjos.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Because he's telling you I need to pitch more. Yeah, like,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: not every single series breaks that. I mean, sometimes you
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: win twelve to two, right, so you've got to you
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: got to use them. You got to use your weapons
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: when you have them. And instead we're going try to
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: squeeze another inning out of Logan Gilbert and he gives
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: up two runs and now the game's over. Yeah, now
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  Speaker 1: it is. Now it's a five run deficit, and now
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: you're you're not coming back. I don't think that that's
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  Speaker 1: that difficult either, And yet he really seems to if
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  Speaker 1: it's not textbook, Yeah, that's if it's not textbook. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're up one in the seventh. I can go to
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  Speaker 1: J Jose Ferrere now or brash or whatever. Yeah it's one,
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  Speaker 1: we're up one in the eighth. It's bizarre dough time.
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  Speaker 1: If it's not that cut and dry. Yeah, he seems
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  Speaker 1: to struggle with it.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I want so you pin the pitching struggles And
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: I don't even say struggles because they've still have been pretty
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: good this year.
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  Speaker 3: There's been very good.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Pitching has been very good, not great, but very good.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and their starter's ras I think the best in baseball.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: If I want if I remember correctly, that stat was
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: put up yesterday. So they're going to go to this
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: piggyback situation with Luis Castillo and Bryce Miller. You and
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: I talked about it on stove for a little bit. Uh,
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: you know, you have the option or right now you
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: have six starters healthy. So what are your thoughts on
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: using a piggyback? And what we mean by that is
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: so looks like it's we don't know who exactly is
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: gonna start and who's gonna come in later, but you're
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: gonna have some sort of combination of three or four
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: innings from Castillo, three or four innings from Bryce Miller.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: What do you think about that versus just the traditional
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: six man rotation and giving them some of their actual start.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I find it interesting. I think it's a little bit clever.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: You've got opportunity maybe since we are so scared to
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: use bullpen pieces, that you have a chance to one
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: time through the rotation kind of skip your bullpen. Yeah,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: because if Bryce Miller's coming in relief and his four
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: innings in and is shutting him down, I don't need
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: to bring in munyos for the ninth in that situation.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: So if you possibly gave yourself like one bullpen free
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: night every fifth time through the rotation, because you can
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: go Leuis four or four, Bryce five or five four,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and you could do that. I don't think that that's
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I'd probably more have Bryce on the back end because
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think that that guy's pulse ever quickens.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think I'd rather have him as the
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: back end guy to that, even if he pitches more innings.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: But I think it's kind of I think it's creative.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I brought it up last year with maybe that's the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: way that Emerson Hancock could be used, and they never
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: did it. The scary part about it is no one's
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: ever done this right. One hundred and twenty five years
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball and no one's ever given this
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: a shot. And so from that standpoint, I don't know.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know how it's gonna work out. I mean,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: usually the safe thing to do is just who are
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: your five best pitchers? Pitch them? Yeah, that sounds like
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the safe thing to do, and right now, that leaves
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Luis Castillo on the outside.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, is it just kind of
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: avoiding a hard conversation here with Luise.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Give this a shot?
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, why not for how long?
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Twice? All right, maybe it works, Okay,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I mean considering how much that they're struggle with how
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to use bullpen, give Dan and Knight off from having
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to think about it anything.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: That's the other thing is like, I want one less
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: option for Dan Wilson to go to uh let.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Him pull Luke Rayley early again.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Geez okay, real quick, Chuck before we go. Yeah, this
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Chicago White Sox series, what does it mean to you?
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Chuck?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Does it matter get a win? Oh?
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think anything's big right now. I don't think
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: you want to dig a bigger I know you don't
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: want to big dig a bigger hole. White Socks are
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: playing pretty good baseballer never guessed the two records side
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: by side which one belonged to who. Yeah. True, at
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, it's not maker time, it's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: not big win time. Yeah, we're not there yet. But
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I don't really want to think about a Thursday being
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: five games under five hundred or seven. I don't want
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: to think about that. So let's avoid the worst at least.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think I agree with you. It's
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: it's hard because you know, you don't want to put
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: so much pressure on a series in May, right, and
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: then if something happens like, oh my god, it's over right.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: In the American League's so, everybody's off to a rough start,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: with the exception of Tampa and the Yankees. Yeah, so,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I'm so. I don't think we got to put any
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: bigger emphasis on this. The most important thing is to
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: just start playing better and take advantage of momentum.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think I think that's that's the thing
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: moving forward, is that they've just been allergic to momentum.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: They just can't get it going. Every time they seems
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: like they win a series, it's like a big one,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: three or four against the Astros.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: You you get to web without seven and one against
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the Astros.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Fifteen and twenty five is where it would be.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Sanders like, I've already done that.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: We are fifteen and twenty five against non Houston Astros
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: opponents this year, So that's not good.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Hopefully that changes Chuck Powell.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: In the meantime, if someone wants more content regarding the Mariners,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: where can they find it?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, stove fifteen, Yeah, let's go.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: By the way, like as someone who has no idea
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: what that is or is not a part of it whatsoever?
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: What is Stove fifteen and Stove thirty?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Anders and I? Anders joined My off season podcast used
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to be Bucky and I and then Anders and I
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: have been doing it now for what three years? Three
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: off seasons. So I love the stove and then some
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: some people, some fools, were like, you can't stop during
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the regular season. Yeah, so we listened this year. So
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: every fifteenth and every thirtieth of every month we'll be
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: doing just a Mariner's podcast and you can find it
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: at ninety three three KJR dot com.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Yep, you can find it there. You can find it
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: the iHeart Radio app and where you get your podcasts,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: so check it out. It's you know, obviously we have
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: our day to day conversations regarding the Mariners and every
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: game we can react and stuff like that. This is
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: kind of a mora, Okay, We've had a couple series,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: a couple of weeks to react to and kind of
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: bigger picture stuff with the Stove fifteen and Stove thirty podcasts.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: So appreciate it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Chuck, thanks for hopping on today, extending your morning a
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: little bit after the morning show with you and Ash
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: for this morning. We'll talk to you again soon.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: So I'll renew myself with this banana, with this delicious banana.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, I got we got to find out who that was,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: all right, we'll get to your text next. On Sports
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I always love this music. Yeah, didn't you steal it
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: from me?
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: No?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: No, we use the the other one. Oh no, I'm kidding.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: It's the universal, the funky f I think, yeah, funky?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Is this the one? No?
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: This is a hip hop funky okay, gotcha.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: For those who don't know, we have this bunch of
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: these generic like music beds because if we play light
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: this music, we can play license music and that can't
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: put it on the podcast and it doesn't sound good.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: You have to cut out parts of our conversation because
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: of it. Well, yeah, especially when you start a segment exactly.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: That's the biggest thing when hosts are talking over the
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: music in the background.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so shout out to iHeart. They have a.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I don't have the word library.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think of the library is sufficient because
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: it is more than a library.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: It is a what's bigger than a library? I don't know.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I don't even know. Yeah, I don't know what.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: It's bigger than a library at this point in terms
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: of like collection information because it has all of that
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: in there. It's like a light year of music, light
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: year of music, like it is ongoing, it never ends.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: You just type in pop and you will have eighteen
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: thousand pop songs that you can just on your own
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: time cipher through. And yes, I have found a lot
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: of funky stuff and this is included in it. So yeah,
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: we all find music and we just use it throughout
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: the show. It's it's pretty good.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it works well, super help.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Yes, let's get to your text four nine four or
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: five one the Tacoma Dodge text line.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Lots of regarding the Mariners today. Two sex.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: If Bryce rides piggyback on Luis, they might be taller
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: than Randy Johnson taking the piggyback a little too literally there,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: But I like, I like where your had is that?
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Two six?
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Also, it is time it is time to think about
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: a change at manager.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Alex Cora is available, just saying.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: So what Chuck said.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not you're not ready to call for his head.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: I would never anyway, I wouldn't get to that point.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: I'm with Chuck.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: I don't. I just that's not my cup of tea.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: I do think though, if they decided, I could understand
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: and explain why I.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Believe they made said decision.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I think, yeah, I don't want to move
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: on from Dan Wilson. I think he's a fine manager.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: There are some things that I think analytics you can
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: get away from, but overall, I think he's he's he's
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: the man for the job. There's a reason why they
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: wanted him here, So go out and execute. It's a
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: long season, but what I believe in Dan still and
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: let's see what happens. They have a good chance tonight
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: to just silence some of the noise.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I think something you just said there that I want
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: to get to two six. I'm gonna kind of piggyback
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: off that after just like piggyback Rice rides on the
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: weast two six. Many act as the best MLB manager
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: on the staff and has been has been even before Wilson.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: He'll never be allowed to be an actual manager with
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: the MS. Though Dan Wilson is the iPad manager to
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Poto wants. So this is a kind of dynamic that
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I've been kind of watching recently. I think everyone when
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: they assume that someone makes a pinch hit for handedness,
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: that it's analytics driven. I actually think it's quite the opposite.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: I think it's you're not even looking at the analytics.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: You're just thinking, oh, it's a lefty, so we got
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: to put a righty in there. I think, if anything,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Dan Wilson's less analytics driven than the previous manager of
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: the Mariners, Scott Service. There's more analytics than just looking
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: at what hand they throw and what hand the batter
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: bats right. There's way more to that. You can look
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: at what specific situation in the game you're in. That's
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: what Chuck and I were just talking about a second ago.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: You can look at, you know, the pit, the batter's
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: of ability to put the ball in play doesn't even
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: have to be a hit, just put the ball in
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: play versus strikeouts. You can look at, you know, a
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: possible arm angle that the picture's throwing at.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: And that's the other thing you have to look at.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Not only the batter splits, but the picture splits, because
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: sometimes a picture like we saw with Yuki Matt Suey
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: in the San Diego series. He's actually better versus right
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: handed as a left handed pitcher, he's better versus the
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: opposite handedness, which would normally be advantage hitter. He's better
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: versus right handed hitters. So it's almost better to leave
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: a lefty in. I think people kind of think, oh,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: he's using way too many analytics because he's bringing in
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: the lefty for the right handed pitcher, or he's bringing
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: in the righty for the left handed pitcher.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: It's it's way more than that.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: And I actually think, like I said, I think it's
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: less analytics that they're using. It's just looking at the
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: handedness of the batter. So that's something to think about
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: moving forward. But you know, we'll cut again. It's hard
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: to tell how much of it is to Poto, how
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: much of it is Dan Wilson, how much of it
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: was Manniacta on Saturday. So we'll kind of see what
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: their philosophy is moving forward, if there has been a
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: change in philosophy whatsoever. Uh forty five definitely Bucky bringing
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: the banana. I could totally see that Bucky coming in
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: just before the show starts just putting a banana. Uh,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: he's still in his leave of absence right now, so
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: that's that's that would be so Bucky.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Four five Softy has to be behind the banana.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: I've been said that. I think last week, think so
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Softy but he doesn't like bananas. But I'm like, I
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: don't care.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: But he's so rarely in studio.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's Terry.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: He just he comes in and forgets that he was
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: because he's always running in and out of the studio,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: is making sure everything's working. Will shout to Terry, Yeah,
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: our engineer. So maybe it's Terry or another engineer that's
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: just popping in. They have the banana with them, they
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: set it down because they're working on one of the microphones,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: and then they leave.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: It, yeah, and completely forget they let the banana in here.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Four five says I think there is a big talent difference. Offensively,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: I tend to disagree with with this. If I'm I'm
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: assuming you're talking about the San Diego Padres and the
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Seattle Mariners. I think if you're a look at the
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: guys that play every day, Julio, you could compare it
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: to Fernando Tatis. You know, I think it's it's pretty comparable.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Julio is better numbers this year even than Tatis does.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Cal Rawley to Manny Machado pretty comparable as well. In fact,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: i'd give cal Ralely the edge if anything, in terms
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: of just his talent level. We're not We're not just
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: looking at numbers here. We're not just looking at numbers
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: this year. It's talent level right beyond that, I take
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Randy over you know, someone like Jackson Merrill. Randy is
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: just a better player. I think the Mariner's top end
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: of their roster talent wise, when everyone is hell healthy,
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: is as good as almost anyone's at baseball, minus maybe
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: the Dodgers. So it's the bottom ends of the roster,
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: the Leo Revases that are playing every day, the rob
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: refsnyders that can't hit left handed pitching, that that's their
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: one job. Unfortunately, Luis Castillo right now, he had a
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: good start against Houston last time out. I'm intrigued to
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: see if he actually is having a bounce back or
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: if that was just him, you know, facing the Astros
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: or terrible this year.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Anders.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: What is your opinion for two five three on the
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Sounders at this point. I hate to be too critical,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: but they cannot score goals. In my opinion, Morris needs
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: to go and we need to bring in a legitimate
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: striker to boost this offense. Yeah, it's weird because you know,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: the stat I mentioned in headlines is that Sounders haven't
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: lost at home in almost a year, and that was
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: their first loss against the Galaxy. But you know, goal
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: scoring has always been somewhat of an issue for them,
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: but they're so good defensively that sometimes they're able to
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: win one zero or sometimes two to one. I tend
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: to agree with you, though, I think we're getting time
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: to possibly move on from Jordan Morris. I don't know
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: how long is on his contract. That's the Jackson Felts question.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: And he kind of is a fan favorite and they're
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: gonna give him every opportunity to, you know, get healthy
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: and get back to the Jordan Morris that we know
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: and love. But it's just he's not the same player. Unfortunately,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: after three a c altears, so that's that's just gonna happen.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: But I agree, I think a good striker because I
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: think this team creates enough chances. You look at like rus.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Knock and.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Dalea Vego when he's healthy, and you got a roth
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Rock playing well, you got Hasis for Era playing well.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: They just need someone to score. So I think I'm
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: with you to need a new striker anything you see.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Chris from the two five to three, the managers would
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: have to go sixty eight and forty eight to get
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: to ninety wins, which is usually what it takes to
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: win division and sometimes a wildcard.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Wow, right now, this team isn't capable of that.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't do the math. That is crazy. I
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: don't think it'll take ninety wins to win this division fortunately.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: So again, this depends on what scope you're looking at
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: this evaluation through right now, Are you looking at it
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: through the Hey, you just need to get to the playoffs,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: win this division and see what happens. If that's the case,
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: then I think you're in fine shape still. If not,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: If if you're like me and you want to look
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: at this team through expecting them to be a World
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Series contender and expecting them to play well for the
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: majority of the season, then that's where you can get concerned.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: And that's where why I am starting to be like,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: did I have too high of expectations on this team
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: going into twenty twenty six. Let's ask a mayor, the
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: mayor of Maple Valley, Ian Furness, what he thinks about that.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Next on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, Welcome.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Back Anderson Hurst.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Christopher Kidd film in for Gregory Bell on Sports ninety
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: three point three KJRFM. He's visiting his daughter for her
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: graduation from the United States Coast Guard Acamps.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Really cool.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Congratulations, that's really cool. Yeah, he's been rightfully, still very
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: proud of both kids. Yeah, daughter graduating this year's son,
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: they're twins. Son graduated last year, his daughter did the
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: did the Coast Guard Academy? Were this a little different one? Yeah,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: a little bit different, well challenging?
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he did at the end, Okay, that's what I thought.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, he went to he played soccer at Saint
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Martin's for a year, I think, right, and then I
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: ended up going to to Wazoo gokugs and then yeah,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: the daughter graduates this year. So military family, huh me,
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: So one of the two is going to follow in
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: his footsteps, right, yeah, right, yeah, eventually Coast Guard be
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: the one I'd probably want to do.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Really Yeah.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: People are saying on the text line that it's the
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: most prestigious out of all of them.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, the academy is or.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Like the hardest to get into.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just thinking if I had to be in
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: the military, which I will never have to be at
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: my old age, but I would say Coast Guard would
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: have been kind of cool.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little you know, time at sea, stuff like that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Well, and it's just you're kind of more the c
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: police and you know you're not. Yeah, I think that'd
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: be all right. The other one's no, thanks, a little.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Bit too stressful.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Just no thanks, speaking of stress, if I seem a
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: little stressed to you guys you're watching on the YouTube channel.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Today is my wife's first day back at work. So
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: I get four hours to my son, who just turned
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: three months a couple of days ago.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: So who's watching him right now? My wife is?
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: She goes back later, she goes so so this the
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: work schedule works out, well, Okay, she's got she's going
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: back part time. So then whenever I come back home,
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: she's going to go.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: How she doing with that?
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Do you think she's excited? It seems like she says
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: that she is.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: We'll find out, you know, obviously if you're listening. She
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: said she was going to watch the YouTube today if
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: if you know, if you're actually excited, Yeah, I feel
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: good for you.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I can feel that. No, I I could.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: I can understand.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Is it more stress that she won't be with the
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: baby or that yours truly is.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Going to be watching him? You'll be fine. I'll be fine.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: I will tell you you'll like this. So when we
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: had our daughter, Brianni, we're living in Tri Cities and
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: or a small place in Tri Cities kind of like
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: a condo that watch a nice little spot. Anyway, we're there,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: and I think she probably was she had some health
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: challenges early, so probably two or three weeks into being
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: at home and everything settled down. So maybe she's not
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: quite a month old or so my wife is. She's like, yeah,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go out do something, you know, friends or somebody.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: I think some friends took her out. They just gets
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: a lunch. It's a Sunday, yeah yeah, yeah, And and I'm.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Like, great, cool, I'll watch bred. Be fine.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: It's a Sunday, so probably watching football and just kind
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: of hanging out. And I remember so like she had
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: the number two in the diaper that was explosions. Explosion.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: So I like, I'm just clueless, man, I'm like trying
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: to wipe it up. It's just it's like it's just
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: it's it's brutal. And I'm like, all right, well I'm
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: gonna I'll wash her.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: So we had like a little basin tub and we
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: had it next and I brought it into the kitchen.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And so in the sink in the kitchen
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: and I get her in there and I'm trying of like, okay,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: what do I do? So I turn the water on.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: I use a little spray hose on the sink. Right, well,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: the water was cold and the shriek she let out,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: and right as she did that, my wife gets home
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: and it's like, what.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Are what what's that going on? While I've been going, yeah,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: what are you doing to our baby?
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: I'm my god, you lost all trust.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: It was done at that point. I'm like, oh my god,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm doing. But you know what,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: you find a way. I will say this you somehow,
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: some way, you find a way.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: Well it's been good because I my schedule right now
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: has been pretty busy. I do, I do, you know,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: you know, my daily stuff here and then I have
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: my postcast, so I got to pay attention to the
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Mariner's game. So, like, I'm pretty tied down with a
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: lot of stuff, and my wife's been, you know, a
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: saint in being with Austin as much as possible. But
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: I think it's good that I'm going to take a
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: few hours just to kind of, you know, take put
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: all those distractions aside. She'll be gone for four to eight,
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: so we'll watch the first couple of innings of the
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Mariners game.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then go pick up mom. Luckily, she'll be
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: home in time for you to post exactly. That's why
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: the timing works out. Well, baby in the background or
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: anything like that, literally as my co host, Yeah, exactly
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: exactly where you go.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: So that'd be fun.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: But but yeah, oh good, that'll be fun.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Fun.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: What'd you talk about today? Would you do that?
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: We talked to Chuck Powell at eleven o'clock regarding the
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Mariners and you know what the worry meter is.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually my topic today.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited for Molly Whoppers. Yeah, it'll be fun.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna we'll see what We'll see what comes
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: out of that. There's the stress level in this town
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: is interesting. I think it's just because the expectations are high.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's the thing with me, is like, if
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: you're looking at it through the scope and I've mentioned
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: this a couple of times today, if you're looking at
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: it through the scope of this team going to the
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: playoffs winning.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: The division, you're still fine.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: You're two games out and you're still I think the
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: best team in this division by by a pretty handily margin.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: But if you're looking at through the scope of we
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: expected to be a World Series contender, well, you just
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: faced a World Series contender over the weekend, and you
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: saw the difference between those two teams, and I realized
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: cow always injured, and I realized Brandon Donovan's injured, and
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: I realize a couple of your bullpen arms are injured
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: as well. So you can't really say all are equal,
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: but it's still you can't have that big of a
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: gap between if you're expecting to be as good as
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: you said you were going to be.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: What do you think the concern level is for Donovan
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: and the health because it's he he like he had
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: an entire offseason.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and do you remember what his deal was in
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: the off season, He had a sports hern Yeah, and
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: that's and it just hasn't and that's near the groin,
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: and that's been the issue.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's like he reaggravated it, but I
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: don't think it's disconnected by any stretch of the imagination.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Well there's something wrong. Yeah, there's something wrong, and you
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: know he and you know now the twist from Mariner
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: fans would be so the story came out this weekend
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: with Poloncoah that he's got like chronic achilles something. So
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: moved on at the right time. So you moved on
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: from him because he'd be fighting that all year. Yes,
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: not that he'd probably be playing third anyway, but you
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: hopefully not. Yeah, but you moved on from that, and
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: you bring another guy in that's wait for it, also
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: dealing with some sort of craw yep, some issue along
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: the way. So so I and now I think that
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: would be a legitimate concern because when he's been in
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: the lineup and healthier, at least somewhat healthier whatever leading off,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: he's been fine.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's been really good, and I think defensively he's
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: been good. I'm curious as to a how long is
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: going to be out and be what they're gonna do
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: with Colt Emerson at that point because obviously, as of now,
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Chuck and I were talking about this right after his
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: segment that he hopped on is like this, It seemed
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: like a call up of cold Emerson more based off
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: of need because Brendon Donovan is injured, not because he's ready. Yes,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: and you know, he looked pretty decent yesterday and his debut,
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: A hit.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: A couple of balls, hard, gets a walk.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: You know, would like him to make that play at
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: third base, but again he's a shortstop playing third base.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: So that's a whole nother discussion. But as of now,
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: because Brendon Onovan's out, he's going to have to play
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: third base. But I wonder if, even when Donovan comes back,
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: if Colet Emerson still doing okay, you want to keep
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: him at third base every single day and then have
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Donovan turn into that superutility guy.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: I wonder what the kind of U, cause Donic could
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: play outfield right, yeah, corner of.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: The field, you can play left, you can play right, Well,
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: left fielder is not very good, but he's great hitting,
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: great hitting. Yeah, yeah, it's not very good defense, not
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: a very good defensive player. But that's actually being kind,
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: it's very kind. What do you think about the piggyback
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: starts situation with what they're going to do with Luis Castio.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: And Bryce Miller?
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: What are they doing?
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: I'm so instead of doing a traditional six rotation they
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: are doing on tomorrow actually okay, where one of the
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: one of them gets three or four nings the other one.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Has three or four innings.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I don't like it.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: I just go with the six man. We've talked about
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: it before. It's fine. I mean, I think the other
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: thing that's you kind of look at is that you've
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: got a situation in which now you've you've had a
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: situation where where both Gilbert and Kirby got lit up
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: over the weekend. Yep, right, because the one thing with
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: all the offense we can talk about, well, you're starting,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: pitching needs to carry you, and Castile has been bad
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: all year, and then the other two guys get lit
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: up this weekend, And I think what people need really
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: like San Diego is not a hard hitting team. They
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: came in I mean, Fox did a great ORNBC a
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: great job last night articulating that just the numbers, their
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: two best hitters have not hit it all this year,
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: and yeah, I mean, and just in terms of where
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: they rank in a lot of different stats, team batting wise,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: they're in the lower third, and yet they came in
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: here and just rate Yeah, including on a cold night
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: on Saturday. So yeah, I don't know. We'll see what
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: else coming up today, so we'll MULLI wopp. We'll get
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: into that. I haven't had a chance to react as schedule.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: We've got a couple of things on the we'll do
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: that since I was off last couple last night, in
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: the last week and same or worst record than last year.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: I always say they're about twelve win team if they
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: back in the sixteen game schedule. Yeah, I always said
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: eleven and five. So I'll go twelve and five probably
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: no matter what. But every time, but yeah, I don't know,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: you know, it's a weird.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: We'll get into this. It's just it's the.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to wrap my arms around the rams part
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: of the schedule, the last to the last three, but
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: not until two of the last three. So we'll get
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: into that a little bit too. So, yeah, there's a couple.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I think there's a couple of things. I mean we
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: look at the schedule. I think there's a couple of
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: things that you really want to look at and get fight,
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: you know, like what do you want? You know, like
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: everyone looks at different things.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: And so I wrote down a couple of things that
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: I kind of thought were important. The other thing is
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: for me and I'll just I like to do the
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: little travel guide. Yeah, like having been done this for years,
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: where should you go? It's not a great year for that.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Not a ton of stadiums, it's not a good year.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: But we'll get into that as well.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Coming up, all right, we'll talk to Ian for Neest
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: coming up next on Sports Ready on ninety three point
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: three KJRFM.