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10-1 H2: Headlines, Showdown Draft, Softy Joins, FoF & ABC's · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Them it is time to preview the season as only
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: we do in the entire galaxy uh it is time
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  Speaker 1: for a showdown draft right here let's go where we
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  Speaker 1: put our talents against one another yes we stimulate a
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  Speaker 1: little rooting interest We fight, we argue, we bicker throughout
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: the course of the season based off of this particular draft.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: A Kraken fantasy team. Two points for a goal, one
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  Speaker 1: point for an assist. We'll each draft three players here
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  Speaker 1: today and then leave a fourth roster spot open for
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  Speaker 1: a pickup later on in the week. And the only
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  Speaker 1: thing that we need right now, two things. We need
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  Speaker 1: our contestant this year with our drafts. We're having a
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  Speaker 1: listener today. participate, and we have our man. He claims
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  Speaker 1: to be a Kraken expert here, Anders. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: Fetty Way. It's Donnie who joins us here on the
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: radio program.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. You ready to do this?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You understand how it works?
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  Speaker 2: Yep. All right. I gave you.
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  Speaker 1: Two points for an assist. Two points for a goal,
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  Speaker 1: one point for an assist. Oh, gosh. Now he's playing
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  Speaker 1: with me.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Yeah, and I do apologize because I spent
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  Speaker 1: an hour prepping this morning, and I gave you five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Then again, I will look for any advantage I can, Donnie. Yeah,
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: I'll bite you on the ankle.
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  Speaker 4: Get used to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so just so you know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll get used to it, but I've already done
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  Speaker 3: 10 fantasy hockey times.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we are drafting only Kraken players, just so you know.
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  Speaker 1: So don't try to get Nathan McKinnon in his two
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  Speaker 1: goals last night.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So now the last thing we need, Christopher, is our
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  Speaker 1: draft order.
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  Speaker 2: What do we got?
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  Speaker 1: You guys are going to hate me, but it's me, Donnie, Anderson, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: That's two in a row, by the way. I don't mind.
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  Speaker 1: I did not want the number one pick.
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 1: Kid, Donnie, did you say? Yes, sir. Anderson, and then
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  Speaker 1: I'm last for a second. consecutive kid randomizer.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to switch the names up and do Chuck
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  Speaker 4: first and see if that changes anything.
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  Speaker 1: We should make this a thing. We'll see. All right, kid. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you took care of yourself here. What
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Kraken player is going to score the most points this year?
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  Speaker 1: Let me give you a guess. Give me Jordan Eberle.
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  Speaker 4: You're going Jordan Eberle. Get the captain off the rip.
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  Speaker 1: El Capitan. He did lead the team in scoring last year.
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  Speaker 1: He had 55 points. I was a little surprised that
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  Speaker 1: he did, and he is a year older. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think, Donnie? Was Eberle your number one pick on
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  Speaker 1: the board there?
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  Speaker 3: No. No. No.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, wasn't mine either.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't mine either.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll let you have them then, kid. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Take the gap-toothed captain.
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  Speaker 2: The gap-ton.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Donnie, you are up. You get your number
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  Speaker 1: one pick. Who are you taking?
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  Speaker 3: Bobby McMahon.
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  Speaker 1: You're going Bobby McMahon.
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  Speaker 4: That was my number one pick as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, give me, Donnie, I want to hear this
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  Speaker 1: from you. Are you convinced that what we saw at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year last year is Bobby McMahon?
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  Speaker 1: How many goals are you thinking this guy scores this year?
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  Speaker 3: I think he's about a 30-goal getter this year.
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  Speaker 2: I do believe.
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  Speaker 3: He got to get away from Austin Matthews and Nylander
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  Speaker 3: from Toronto. I think he's going to open things up
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Donnie is the best hockey guy on the segment.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: He cleared that up.
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  Speaker 4: Geez.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, cleared that up pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Just shading me over here.
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily. I shaded all of us. Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby McMahon is off the board. Anders, you don't get
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  Speaker 1: your number one pick.
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  Speaker 2: I do not.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm guessing you're getting your number two pick.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 4: I'm taking Jaron McCann. When the Kraken were at their
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  Speaker 4: best a couple years ago, he has the best point
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  Speaker 4: scoring season ever. in cracking history in 22, 23, and
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  Speaker 4: that includes a 40 goal season. So he not only
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  Speaker 4: has the point total, uh, ceiling, but he's a goal
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  Speaker 4: scorer as well. I do think Bobby McMahon, uh, is
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  Speaker 4: a high floor. I think McCann is a higher ceiling. Um,
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  Speaker 4: so give me Jared McCann.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, every time we do this, I think the
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  Speaker 1: person that had Jared McCann won every time we've done
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  Speaker 1: our crack and fantasy league. I had him for the
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: first two years. I think Bucky won it last year. Uh,
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: I think Ashley won a once as well. I think every,
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm pretty sure that was the common denominator
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  Speaker 1: for every single winner we've had was just trusting that
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  Speaker 1: McCann can keep it going. Yeah. So, all right, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you're out in left field on that. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I've got back-to-back selections here. I'm definitely taking Matty Beneers
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  Speaker 1: with one of them. Beneers did finish second on the
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  Speaker 1: team in scoring last year. And I've heard some pretty
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  Speaker 1: good things that I don't know if he's ever going
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  Speaker 1: to be a superstar, like maybe we thought when he
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  Speaker 1: was drafted, but I do think we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a step forward from him this year.
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  Speaker 1: And then now it starts getting tricky. I think I
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  Speaker 1: want the new blood. I think I'm going to go
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: Mackie Samuskevich. Or as Ashley calls him, Sammy Samuskevich. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a good grasp, Donnie, on the entire league. What's
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  Speaker 1: Samuskevich going to do this year?
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  Speaker 3: I think he was going to be my number two pick.
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  Speaker 3: I believe also with him leaving the star power of Florida,
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  Speaker 3: that he's going to open up. He seems like he's
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  Speaker 3: a quick skater. I haven't seen too much because I
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  Speaker 3: don't watch a lot of Miami sports.
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  Speaker 1: Who can blame you, really?
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  Speaker 3: But just what I've been reading. Yeah, but just what
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  Speaker 3: I've been reading, he sounds like a good No. 2
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  Speaker 3: option for the Kraken this season.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I feel better about it. I feel really
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  Speaker 1: good about that pick then. By the way, Donnie's not
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  Speaker 1: going to watch any Giannis this year. He doesn't watch
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: the Miami sports scene. Anders, you're up next. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Jared McCann.
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm debating if I want to go high ceiling
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  Speaker 4: or high floor. I know what you're debating. I'll take
• 6:14
  Speaker 4: Berkley Catton. You can't help yourself. I can't help myself.
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  Speaker 4: The shiny new toy. Yeah, the other one I would
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  Speaker 4: have picked while he might get 40, 50 points just
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: in his sleep. That's about as much as he can do.
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  Speaker 4: And he sleeps a lot while he's on the ice,
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  Speaker 4: so I won't do that. Berkley Catton will be my pick.
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  Speaker 4: I think he is the highest ceiling on the entire roster.
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  Speaker 2: He can go and win.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, he can.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be the one that could be a
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  Speaker 4: superstar on this list, and it might be a few
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  Speaker 4: years before that happens, but this could be a huge
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  Speaker 4: step up from this year. I'm taking Berkley Catton.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Donnie, you are up. You got Bobby McMahon with your
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  Speaker 1: first pick. Who are you taking here in round number two?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to take our top defender. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: take Brandon Montour.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Montour. He didn't have a great year, though, last year.
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  Speaker 1: Why is he going to have a better one this year, Donnie?
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  Speaker 3: I think last year he was dealing with his family stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And then he comes back from that. He ended up
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  Speaker 3: getting injured. I think he's going to revert back to
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  Speaker 3: what he was like two seasons ago. He's got a
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  Speaker 3: shot that is better than some of the fastballs that
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  Speaker 3: you see in AAA baseball. So I think he's on
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  Speaker 3: a bounce back team.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Back year this year.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Montour is the pick.
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  Speaker 4: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Kid, you got to go back to back. This will
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  Speaker 1: round out your team to start the season anyway. What
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: do you want to do? I'll take Capocacco and Chandler Stevenson.
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  Speaker 1: I think Capocacco's a pretty good pick here at this stage.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he only played 65 games and finished fifth
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  Speaker 1: on the team in scoring. And then Stevenson's a really
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  Speaker 1: high four.
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  Speaker 4: High floor. That's the one I was debating between him
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  Speaker 4: and Katton, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's much of a ceiling there, but
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  Speaker 1: I think those are the right picks to make at
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  Speaker 1: that point. I mean, sometimes we get carried away with
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: the young players, and usually the right pick I've found
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  Speaker 1: in this fantasy league is just to take the shorter thing. So,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I think Kidd did well for himself. All right, Donnie,
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  Speaker 1: you're back up. This will be your last pick here today.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was hoping for Cocco, so thanks for.
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  Speaker 1: Mowing my lawn. Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I'm going to go with, I'm just going
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  Speaker 3: to take the left-handed defender, Vince Dunn.
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  Speaker 1: Go with Dunn.
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  Speaker 2: Dang it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the shorter points. That's the shorter guy. No question
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  Speaker 1: about it. So Vince Dunn is the selection. Number 29.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Offensive defenseman. I like offensive defenseman. They're my
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: favorite things in hockey. Tight ends are my favorite things
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Offensive defensemen are my favorite things in hockey.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Anders, your third and final pick.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take Shane Wright. I don't think he will break
• 9:00
  Speaker 4: out fully this year, but there could be a revenge
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  Speaker 4: tour for him. There's a lot of speculation about the
• 9:06
  Speaker 4: trade talk. I think he's going to go out and
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  Speaker 4: at least have a better year than he did last year.
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  Speaker 4: So give me Shane Wright.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Shane Wright is the selection. This is why I
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: didn't want the fourth pick. Because there was a big
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: drop-off after 11. So I either go Riker Evans here,
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: or I trust that Ryan Winterton's ready to have a breakout.
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  Speaker 1: I'd go Wentz, if I were you.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: I think, again, higher upside, I think Evans is on
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  Speaker 1: the team for the entire season. That's true. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if Winterton is on the team for.
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  Speaker 2: The entire season.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair.
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: That is completely fair.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and take Winterton, Chuck. Take a risk. Uh... Hey,
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: why don't you keep your advice to yourself there? You
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: know what? I'm going to go ahead and take Riker Evans. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I have the number one pick on pickups.
• 9:55
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: So if I decide to take Ryan Winterton, I can
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: block anybody. from taking Ryan Winterton. There you go. So
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and take Riker Evans here with that
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: selection and take the Shurer thing. Donnie, how do you
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: feel you fared?
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: I feel pretty good about it.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: I do too. I think you got a good squad.
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: A lot of shots from the blue line. That's all
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping for.
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  Speaker 4: I think you have probably the Kraken's two best players
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  Speaker 4: in Brandon Montour and Vince Dunn.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: That doesn't mean they won't get the most points, but
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  Speaker 4: they're two best players.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: Donnie, you've been phenomenal. We've got your phone number. You
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: will be responsible for a pickup at some point this season,
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: and you can call us and say, hey, I want
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: to make my pickup today, but I do have the
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: right to block you, and so does Anders. until we
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: make our selection. So just keep that in mind. But
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: heck of a job. Great analysis. And thank you very
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: much for listening. I hope you have some fun with
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: this this year.
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  Speaker 5: I will.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. And you guys are doing a great job
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate you, Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: Donnie joining us right here on the radio program. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was terrific. Man, we got a lot of success
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: with our listeners doing their drafts.
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  Speaker 4: We have smart listeners.
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  Speaker 1: We really do. I think I'm going to give myself
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: all the credit for that. So, appreciate all of our
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: smart listeners. I'll tell you this, as smart as Donnie
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: was and as good an analyst as he was for us,
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  Speaker 1: if he hoists that trophy over there, I might push
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: him down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: I might push him down.
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  Speaker 4: I would be not very happy about that.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I won it every single time this year.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next on the radio program, it
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: is Thursdays with Softie on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Everything
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: this guy does is to this soundtrack.
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  Speaker 2: Moa's yard.
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  Speaker 1: He's jamming to this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: He doesn't even know modern day bands. He just knows
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: the UW marching band. That's it.
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: When I jam to this, I start moving my neck around.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: I think I just strained a muscle. Oh, did you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm 53 years old, man.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: Gotta be careful. marching bands man they've they've been known
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: to send people into a frenzy before yeah.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: You need to carry an ice pack with me at
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: all times man how are you.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: Uh we're good it's time for uh thursdays with softy
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: the one and only dave softy mauler joins us every
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: thursday at this time to talk some huskies football um
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: you doing good other than that other than your strained neck.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to tell you, man, I'm a little
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: bummed out about the Mariners not being in the playoffs. Yeah,
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: no kidding. I was watching some of that last night, man,
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: that scene in San Diego. You guys saw that, right? Yes. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just, God, it just irritates me even more.
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  Speaker 2: And I think what put me over the top is
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: when they threw up the graphics for the year that
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: Ty Francis had.
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  Speaker 1: He's been their best hitter.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: It was just, why don't you come to my house
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  Speaker 2: and just punch me right in the crotch, right? Just bang.
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  Speaker 2: Like Men in Black with the Balchidian.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just bang.
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  Speaker 2: Right in the crotch.
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  Speaker 1: The Balchidian.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you know what? This is.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: You guys get the point.
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Josh Naylor comes here and turns into Ty France.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: How about what Jerry DePoto said the other day? You know,
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: picking a bad defender is a choice. Naylor's like, eh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that that's true, by the way. We
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: can clear that up.
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  Speaker 2: I would have loved to have heard or seen the
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: look on Naylor's face, Rosarito's face, when they heard that
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: he said that.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Donovan? Donovan was a bad defender this year. JP
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: was a bad defender this year.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible. The whole team.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Awful. Awful defenders. Anyway, yeah. Hey, let's talk about a
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: better topic. Let's talk Husky football.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you want to talk about sunshine and rainbows. Boy,
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: when you talk Husky football right now, every Husky fan's
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  Speaker 1: face lights up.
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  Speaker 2: Not good, man. Not good, boys.
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  Speaker 1: What are you not seeing from them that you're like,
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: I thought for sure I was at least going to
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: see this about the Washington Huskies, and I'm not even
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: getting it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. DeMond being electric as an athlete. And that's just
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: not happening. I thought every game they played, every game,
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: that DeMond would be, if not the best athlete on
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: the field, one of the top two or three athletes
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: on the field. And that's just not happening for whatever reason.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: Not getting the protection from the offensive line, not seeing
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: the field properly. not going through his progressions, not being
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: a great leader, not having the freedom to run and improvise,
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: I guess, the way that he can. Maybe Jed needs
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: to call more design runs for him. We talked about
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: that with Jed a couple weeks ago. I think it
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: was after the Utah State game. And I asked him,
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: are you ready to start calling more design runs for DeMond?
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: And he paused and he said, no. He said, not yet.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: And I just wonder if they're getting to that point.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, guys, their running game is absolutely horrific. Horrific.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is the worst running game I've ever
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: seen as of now at Washington. And there's reasons for it.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: The injuries are one of them. But I've got to
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: be honest with you. I'm not one of these guys
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: that's sitting here going, golly, if Quade Carr and Jaden
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Lamar were healthy, this running game would be so much better.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: I don't buy that yet. Not from those two guys.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: I'd buy it from Jordan Washington if he were healthy, right?
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: But not the other two guys. So I'm just not
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: seeing anything like that. That fourth quarter of that Minnesota game, guys,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: on Saturday night, Minnesota had no respect for the Husky
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: running game. None. And they were just teeing off on
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams the entire fourth quarter. So, look, this is
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: going to be one of those games, right? You're facing USC,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: who's 54th in the country in rushing defense. 100th in
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: scoring defense, 94th in third down defense. If they can't
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: move the ball consistently against these guys, it's not going
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: to happen. And I'm just like the comparison I made
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: yesterday on the show. You know what this is? This
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: is the Mariners and the September schedule. And the Mariners
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: couldn't take advantage of it because they stunk. And it
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: didn't matter who the Mariners played. Are we going to
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: be able to take advantage of this on Saturday at
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: the Coliseum in 100-degree heat against a terrible defense who's
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: been playing like a sieve? Or do we just stink
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: on offense? We're going to find out on Saturday.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I'll ask you about the offensive line because that's what
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I thought was going to be so much more improved
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: this year. And as much as DeMond struggled, I mean,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: he wasn't given much of a chance either. I mean,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: that Minnesota front four, they look like the, you know,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the purple people eaters.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: You know, against an offensive line, you know, he had
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: to shuffle some parts around. So what, what happened? I mean,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: were they really just that thin? Like one injury was
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: going to disrupt the entire apple cart here.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I think I've told you guys before, and I'll
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: say it again. Chris Peterson was on our show before
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: the season began and he just, you know, offered up,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: you know, Landon hatchet is the engine that makes the
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: whole thing go. And we haven't had him for four weeks.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if he's going to play on Saturday.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Sounds like he's going to be potentially maybe a kind
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: of a game time decision type thing. He was in
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: uniform before the Minnesota game and then didn't play. And
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: we all knew he was out, but at least he
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: was out there going through pregame warmups, taking snaps with
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams. He'll be at the game in L.A. He'll
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: be in his uniform pregame. The question is, will he play?
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: So maybe he is just that important, guys. He might
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: be just that important to this football team, but You know, look,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: you've got an 18-year-old at left tackle. You've got a
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: guy who's never started a game at this level at
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: center in Dietrich. You've been going back and forth between
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Champ and Guerin at right guard, which if you're playing
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: two guys, that tells me that you don't have one.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: John Mills has been flipping around between left tackle and
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: left guard. So, look, I mean, I'm with you. I mean,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: it was supposed to be one of the strengths of
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: the football team, and so far, for whatever reason, it's
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: not been.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: You know, if you're down right now on your favorite
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: college football team, I know a buddy of yours that's
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: even more down on his. His name is Petros Papadakis.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: He is angry at his alma mater and the way
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: they play football. So, you know, you're not exactly I mean,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I know you're rolling into L.A. and I know they
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: got a lot of talent, but you're not exactly facing,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you know, Pete Carroll's Trojans.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: No, you're not. I mean, you're facing a very good offense,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: but you're also facing a football team that could roll
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: over and die on Saturday. And I got to be
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: honest with you guys. I'm kind of hoping I'm for it.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of counting on it on Saturday that somehow,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: some way. UW can get off to a, you know,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit of a lead, maybe a 10-0,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: you know, 13-3 type thing, and then all of a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: sudden the Boo Birds come out and pointing fingers on
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: the sideline, blah, blah, blah. I don't know what kind
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: of atmosphere it's going to be. You remember the... Which
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: game was it? Was it the San Jose State game?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: What was the first game of the year for USC
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: when everybody made fun of their crowd that they had?
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, remember that?
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: I think it was San Jose State.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Was it San Jose State?
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be probably even hotter now than
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: it was then. And everybody talked about the weather. Well,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: it's too hot. Nobody wants to go. Okay, well, it's
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: going to be 100 degrees of kickoff on Saturday. So
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: we'll see what kind of crowd they've got for this game.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: But you're exactly right. And the point that Petros made
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: yesterday is that when it comes to this game, all
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: the drama, all the attentions on USC, is Lincoln Riley
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: going to get fired? Can they afford to buy him out?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: You know, what about this Desmond Stevens guy that got suspended?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: What about Pete Arbogast, who was on radio claiming that
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: he didn't have a dirty hit? And by the way,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I talked to Pete yesterday for the pregame show Saturday.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: He did say he messed up the call. on Saturday.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: So that was good to at least see him admit that.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: But I think USC's fans, I think USC's media, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I think maybe even USC's players are ready to just
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: pack this thing in, potentially, if they don't get off
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: to a good start on Saturday. So I think they're
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: more talented than we are. I mean, UW doesn't have
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: a Mark Bowman at tight end.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Man, is he good.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: You know, they don't have a King Miller at running back.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: There's no question about that. So this will be the
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: toughest test for the UW defense. And, you know, look,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: they didn't play well last week. They're missing tackles right
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: and left, obviously, against a fairly vanilla offense. So this
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: will be a gigantic test for them. But, yeah, I
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: think this USC thing, man, it's been a powder keg
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: waiting to blow for a couple years now down there
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: with Lincoln Riley. And now it's gotten even worse. And
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I'm just wondering what could happen if UW can get
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: off to a decent start.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, give me the key then. What's it
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: going to take for a win?
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the key to them is going to be
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: keeping USC's damn offense on the sideline. I mean, that's it.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, they got to run the ball. Like, they
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: can't win this game without running the ball, right? I mean, again,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: USC is 54th in the country in rushing defense, but
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: UW is 124th in rushing offense. There's only like 20
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: teams in college football that average fewer yards per carry
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: than we do. So, I don't know, man. Somehow, someway...
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Can Jed hit the portal Friday night? Can he go
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: find a high school kid somewhere in L.A. to play
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: running back?
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: That's next year.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: They've got to be able to run the ball.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: That's next year's controversy.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Or the NFL. Yeah. They've got to be able to
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: run the ball in this game because I just don't
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: know why any defense would not just load up on
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage and play press coverage on Rasheed
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Williams and Jordan Clay and all those guys and just
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: tee off on DeMond Williams. It'll just be a repeat
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: of what we saw Saturday against Minnesota in the fourth quarter. So,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: If they can't run the ball, then forget about it. Guys,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: if they can't run the ball, they might be a
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: 4-8 football team, honestly.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Just to clean up, San Jose State, not San Diego State.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: I think you said San Jose State.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I said San Diego State. Oh, okay. It's San Jose State.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I thought I said San Jose State.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought, too. In our last minute here,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I mean— 100 degrees doing a pregame show. Are those
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: prima donnas, Bailey and Lewis, going to be able to
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: handle it down there?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: They're actually not going. They're staying back home. And how
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: about this? They're going to be at Tom's on Saturday
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: for the pregame, and Mario actually has the weekend off.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: So speaking of running game, Miles mother effing Gasser will
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: be filling in for.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Mario Bailey on Saturday.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: So let me ask you this. Would you rather have
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Brian Bonner, Trey Cooley, Ansu Sano, or Miles Gaskin right
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: now at the age of 27?
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, no question.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Easily Gaskin.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Take Miles Gaskin.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Five years, five seasons, five years.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: He's actually 29, by the way. Oh, is that right?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I'll still take him.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Still take him.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Miles Gaskin at 60 for the guys you have now.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Corey Dillon or.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: John Riggins now.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Hugh McElhenney.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Jim Thorpe today. Or Brian Bonner and Trey Cooley. I
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: feel bad kind of busting their balls, but God, it's
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: just unbelievable, Chuck, how bad it is. Maybe Jed commits
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: to it. Maybe he gives Bonner 20 carries on Saturday.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: What the hell?
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Thank you very much.
• 23:39
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• 23:40
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• 23:44
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• 23:47
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• 23:47
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  Speaker 4: I'm not overthinking this. Taking the hometown team, Seahawks, minus 7.
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• 24:50
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• 24:53
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• 24:57
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• 25:01
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• 25:06
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• 25:17
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• 25:21
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• 25:25
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• 25:27
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• 25:30
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• 25:33
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• 25:36
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• 25:41
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• 25:44
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• 25:52
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• 25:55
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• 25:58
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• 26:00
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• 26:03
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• 26:08
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to see more of Ryan Healy. So we'll
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: chat with him at 9. I is for, you know, irate.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I was going to put irritated. But I think it
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: is more irate to sit there and watch these playoffs.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing, as Softie pointed out, to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: see just the energy at Yankee Stadium. And San Diego
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: might be the best atmosphere in baseball right now, which
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: is crazy.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Because for most of its franchise, there were like 14
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: people in the stands.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: They're my favorite team.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Tony Gwynn's hitting 400, and there are 14 people there
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: to see it. Yeah.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: They're my favorite team to watch these playoffs.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: I've always wanted them to kind of take that next step.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: They've had a couple tough draws over the last couple years,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: but I think this year they have a real shot.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: We've got to put some of that on the Padres.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: They choked. They choked a couple of those years. They
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: had the lead against the Dodgers, and they gagged it away.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: So I don't know if they can finish. We'll see.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: But they are fun to watch, and that atmosphere there,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I think it's second to none in baseball. I never
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: thought I would say that about Padres games. But that's
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: not the part that irritates you. What irritates you is
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that you're watching the Houston Astros, first of all, just
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: representing the division. And in their first game of the playoffs—
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: They are starting A.J.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Blue Ball.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Full pendants. That's the best they could do for the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: first game. I mean, now, granted, they had to go
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: all the way to the last game of the season
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: just to get in. Right. But that's the best they
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: could do. A.J.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Blue Ball.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Would be our seventh, eighth best starter in our organization.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: And yet that team. is representing the American League West
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and not us. Not Logan Gilbert, not George Kirby, not
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Brian Wu.
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  Speaker 2: A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Blue Ball was the opening day playoff starter for the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Houston Astros who got to host a playoff game and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: are now out. Thank goodness that they're out. But that's
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: just not irritating. That makes you irate.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: And you would think, okay, maybe they don't have the pitching,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: but they at least have an elite lineup.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: We'll say it so I'm blue in the face. The Mariners,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: I still think, have a more talented lineup than the
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Houston Astros as well. They just didn't perform this year.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: They were 10 games better on paper than the Houston Astros, minimum.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Very, yeah, irate.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: It's unfortunate.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I would say it's very irritating, but it's more than that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: And those two words kind of express the same kind
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: of emotion and have a lot of the same letters
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  Speaker 1: in common. But couldn't mean, but there's differences. It's not
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: just irritating. It makes you irate. Finally, Jay is for jelly.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt that Sonny Gray had jelly on his
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: neck last night while he was pitching. But Boston Red
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Sox fans were left jelly because the New York Yankees
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: are advancing past them. But obviously there was a bigger conversation.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: The bigger conversation would have been the substance on his
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: neck had the Yankees not won. last night but because
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the red sox lost the biggest conversation out there right
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: now is that a major league baseball manager again went
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to strictly analytics rather than reading the room took sunny
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: gray out and replaced him with a pitcher that just
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: got knocked around by the same hitters the previous night
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: uh sunny gray said afterwards i'm pretty sure this is
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a fact I am statistically the best pitcher in the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: sport right now, third time through the lineup. You can
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: look that up. He said that in his press conference.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: He wished that the organization would have shown faith in them.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Wilson Contreras said as much afterwards, one of the veterans
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: on the team. And yet the Red Sox have committed
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to this manager long-term and the general manager long-term, but
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: another round of people and analytics is Why is this
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: interfering so greatly in the sport? Truth of the matter is,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: it needs to be at the foundation of your decisions.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: You have to use it to make your decisions. But
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: if it just is dictating your decisions at all times,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: then you are making a mess. And frankly... how you
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: didn't go to your best reliever at any point in
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the series just because it wasn't a safe situation, everybody
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: should be angry with that in Boston too.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we've seen a lot of those instances in Seattle.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: The fact that you go, and even last year in
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: the playoffs, in Game 7, the fact that you never
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: really got to use Andres Munoz is going to haunt
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Dan Wilson for a long time. So yeah, it's tough
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: to swallow that, I'm sure, in Boston, because I still
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: feel like they had a for this series, a better
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: chance to move on, but they didn't do it.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I thought they matched up so well against the Yankees.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Yankees are just left-handed hitting dominant, and
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox had, it felt to me, like the
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: answer to negate that. Without Aaron Judge in the lineup,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: not having to worry about the right-handed bat in the sport.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, they put six guys left-handed in the lineup.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Those left-handed hitters for the Yankees hit 500 in two
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: games against Boston's left-handed pitchers. Is that not unbelievable? All right,
• 34:17
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• 34:21
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