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Chuck in the Morning 8-28 Hour 1: The end is near! M's decline the good vibes and we lost two icons this week. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: Something completely different this this is chuck in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you people are beyond let's go let's get.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, great morning to you all. Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 5: It is Chuck on the Morning Sports Radio, 93.3 KJR FM,
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  Speaker 5: and it is sensational to have you with us for
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  Speaker 5: the next four hours. So much to discuss on today's
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  Speaker 5: radio program.
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  Speaker 2: So much to discuss. I didn't really even have time
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  Speaker 2: to map it out here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that means there's a lot. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 5: Did something happen? Like, did I lose 10 minutes this morning?
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  Speaker 5: I thought I'm sitting here with, like, a 20 minutes
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  Speaker 5: before the show, I look up, you're sitting in your seat.
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  Speaker 2: I got three minutes till showtime. I'm like, what the hell?
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  Speaker 2: Where did the time go?
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  Speaker 3: What happened?
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  Speaker 5: I lost 15 minutes. Did I hit my head on
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  Speaker 5: the sink in the bathroom? I mean, something happened.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to tell you, but that's Seattle time. If
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  Speaker 1: we were in Hawaii time, you'd have 15 extra minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, probably have an hour and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, night, your sleep lasts forever.
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  Speaker 1: In Hawaii, but in Seattle, you go to bed and
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  Speaker 1: you wake up 10 minutes later.
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  Speaker 3: It's morning.
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  Speaker 5: It wouldn't be something if you found out like when
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  Speaker 5: you go to heaven and you sit on the cloud
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  Speaker 5: and you talk to your archangel because all of this
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  Speaker 5: absolutely will happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And you get to ask him or her all the
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  Speaker 5: questions you had about earth. And then you found out
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  Speaker 5: that your inclination, your perception of Hawaii is true. And
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  Speaker 5: that Hawaiians have known this all along, that the time
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  Speaker 5: goes by, like, for every one second that passes, they
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  Speaker 5: get to experience two seconds of life.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be something?
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  Speaker 1: It would be something, but I also would believe it.
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  Speaker 1: They talk about island time, like, oh, you're not ever
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  Speaker 1: really late.
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  Speaker 3: There's no rush. We're just on island time. Now I'm
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  Speaker 3: starting to think island time is a real freaking thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: There's some added time happening there.
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  Speaker 2: It's lost. There's somebody down there in Hawaii that just
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  Speaker 2: keeps entering a code.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but could it be lost before the weird, weird
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  Speaker 1: stuff starts happening? Like the first half season of Lost, great.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty much like when they started entering the code, that's
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  Speaker 5: when it started getting weird.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so can it be lost before that?
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  Speaker 5: It was great, but this is the little truth about
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  Speaker 5: television that we watch, is that really smart, creative people
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  Speaker 5: make a show, and the TV networks are like, that's
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  Speaker 5: a great idea.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: And then they shoot a pilot, and then you're off
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  Speaker 5: and running. So what television people, though, don't realize, what
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  Speaker 5: we the viewers don't realize is that that smart, creative
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  Speaker 5: person made a show for one season. They weren't thinking, oh, well,
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  Speaker 5: I need to make ten seasons of this. But then
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  Speaker 5: they start having success, and the network says, we want
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  Speaker 5: to pick you up, and now you actually get to
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  Speaker 5: make real money. And they're like, of course I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to sign. Where do I sign for three more seasons,
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  Speaker 5: even though they haven't come up with an idea for
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  Speaker 5: three more seasons? So then, in the middle of season one,
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  Speaker 5: they introduce something weird that forces them to change the
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  Speaker 5: way it was going to end and allows it to
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  Speaker 5: be extended into the next season. And the more seasons
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  Speaker 5: that you pick up right off the bat, the thinner
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  Speaker 5: the story gets. And so that's what happened to Lost.
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  Speaker 5: He had a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm still convinced to this day it ended when
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  Speaker 5: they found out that Hurley, the big the big chunky guy,
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  Speaker 5: it was all something that he imagined in his head.
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  Speaker 5: I think that was the end of the show.
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  Speaker 3: And that would have been fine.
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  Speaker 5: Which they did put into an episode, but obviously they
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  Speaker 5: couldn't end it because now they were getting ready to
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  Speaker 5: make real money. So now we've got to add more characters.
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  Speaker 5: We got to add a second island. We got to
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  Speaker 5: add an evil guy. We got to add somebody that
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  Speaker 5: enters a code over there. And there's just no plan
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  Speaker 5: for how this is going to end. And guess how
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  Speaker 5: the show ended? like there was no plan for how
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  Speaker 5: it was going to end.
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  Speaker 3: Like an Adam Sandler movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, oh, um.
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  Speaker 2: We had an idea.
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  Speaker 3: It's ending.
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  Speaker 1: Done.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at least that's a comedy in most cases.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: But, yeah, that's what happened. Same thing with music. Like, Bush,
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  Speaker 5: that's a great first album. Yeah. And they poured their
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  Speaker 5: entire musical lifetimes into that album. And suddenly, they were
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  Speaker 5: a success. Suddenly, I'm dating Gwen Stefani. Everything is amazing.
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  Speaker 5: This is better than I ever dreamed it would be.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But if you want to make real money, I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to need three more albums. We don't have a single
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  Speaker 5: song written. We put them all on the first album.
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  Speaker 5: And I hate to tell you, we're not the Beatles.
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  Speaker 5: So how much time do I have to write 10
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  Speaker 5: new songs for you?
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  Speaker 2: Because I have zero idea.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing too, is yeah, it's like 10 more.
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  Speaker 1: We need them in three months. It's like, they give
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  Speaker 1: you a timeline.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, well, there it goes. My creative process.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm just in the money-making process.
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  Speaker 5: By the counting crows just kept getting exponentially worse with
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  Speaker 5: every single album. It's why Nickelback, every song sounds the same.
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  Speaker 5: They came up with one really good song.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they all sound just like that one.
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  Speaker 5: And then they just rinsed and repeated and changed the
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  Speaker 5: words around and. arrangements around, and it pretty much just
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  Speaker 5: sounds like the same song.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Luckily for our listeners, we haven't entered the money-making phase.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So you're going to get good stuff all the time.
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  Speaker 5: And from what I've heard behind the scenes from our bosses,
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  Speaker 5: we never are going to.
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  Speaker 3: See? So we're good. Yeah. You're going to get quality.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: We will always just keep striving for creative reasons to
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  Speaker 5: keep you listening with no promise of it benefiting us.
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  Speaker 3: That's the truth.
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  Speaker 2: The key to success.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome. Well, good morning to you all.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad Ashley came up with an interesting idea for
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  Speaker 5: how I lost 15 minutes of time this morning, because
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  Speaker 5: I was just going.
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  Speaker 2: To blame it on stupid drivers again. So that was
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  Speaker 2: far more fun.
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  Speaker 3: Could have blamed it on that, too.
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  Speaker 2: That was far more.
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  Speaker 5: Entertaining, and it saves me from complaining about drivers. Who
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  Speaker 5: might be the bane of my existence, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say, don't worry. We can
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  Speaker 1: save that for next week. There will be more drivers
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  Speaker 1: that suck again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I can be angry. I can get angry.
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  Speaker 5: I can be in a foul mood at times. Ashley
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  Speaker 5: certainly has seen me be moody for sure at times.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't ever get truly angry except when I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Behind a wheel. No, I'm the same way. And I
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  Speaker 2: need to see somebody about it.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm real pissed because people drive like they're a-holes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. It's so bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They're either overly aggressive or overly scared.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, or they're like, oh, I'm in the fast lane.
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  Speaker 3: I better go 52.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Well, no, that's actually what the surface streets are for.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway, I've already ranted about television and music. I
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  Speaker 2: won't get into drivers.
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  Speaker 3: Not today.
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  Speaker 2: It was worth a mention.
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  Speaker 3: But tune in next week, folks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Well, let's rant about something else because today
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  Speaker 5: marks the final preseason game for the Seattle Seahawks and Ith.
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  Speaker 5: I think there is a problem, Ashley, when the reaction
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  Speaker 5: from every single fan of a football team, of which
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  Speaker 5: there are hundreds of thousands of Seahawks fans out there,
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  Speaker 5: when the reaction is, thank God.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When you put on a game and you go to
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  Speaker 2: the trouble of.
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  Speaker 5: Sending 100 players to a destination, rolling them out on
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  Speaker 5: the football field, paying officials, paying people to put on
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  Speaker 5: the game, and nobody wants it played.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you do.
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  Speaker 5: And it just keeps getting worse every single year. We
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  Speaker 5: are going to go through three preseason games. And Mike
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  Speaker 5: McDonald has decided no starter is going to be risked.
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  Speaker 5: He is not going to play one single starter, with
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  Speaker 5: the exception of kicker and punter, one single starter for
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  Speaker 5: the entire preseason, not for a single snap of the preseason.
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  Speaker 5: And after last week, I think there's a good chance
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  Speaker 5: he's not even going to risk second stringers tonight against
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  Speaker 5: the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, can we just... logically deal
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  Speaker 5: with this once and for all. We've never really liked preseason.
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  Speaker 5: It has gotten to the point where clearly the coaches
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  Speaker 5: don't want to do it. They don't want to risk
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  Speaker 5: any players. And this, you know, this started years ago, like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, they're the new guards.
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  Speaker 2: Like, why are we playing them at all?
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  Speaker 5: The Sean McVeigh's and Kyle Shanahan's and others are from
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  Speaker 5: the Mike Holmgrens of the world that thought that there
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  Speaker 5: was merit to this. But if the other team's playing
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  Speaker 5: its second stringers and you're playing your first stringers, you're
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  Speaker 5: not really sharpening that edge iron is not sharpening iron
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  Speaker 5: tofu is sharpening iron at that point um and that's
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  Speaker 5: an insult to the second stringers i know there's not
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  Speaker 5: that large of a gap but i'm exaggerating for emphasis
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  Speaker 5: But you're not iron sharpening iron, even the joint practices.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we have to have a joint practice and
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  Speaker 5: risk everybody getting into a fight just so we can.
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  Speaker 2: Sharpen iron, right?
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  Speaker 5: But it's just so absolutely unnecessary at this stage and
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  Speaker 5: trying to figure out the last two roster spots or
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  Speaker 5: giving Ty Simpson a few snaps during the year, even
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  Speaker 5: if it is against second and third stringers. it's not
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  Speaker 5: worth it. The juice is not worth the squeeze. And
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  Speaker 5: I know it'll be a while before they're allowed to
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  Speaker 5: huddle again and figure out the future, which I do
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  Speaker 5: earnestly believe will be without preseason games at all. But man,
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  Speaker 5: the writing is on the wall. Your coaches have made
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  Speaker 5: it very clear. We don't want to play these games.
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  Speaker 5: Like there is, there's no value to us playing these
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  Speaker 5: games right now. And so I would Hope that the
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  Speaker 5: message has gotten across to Roger Goodell and the owners.
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  Speaker 5: And I know they're going to use it as leverage
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  Speaker 5: to try to get another football game out of the players.
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  Speaker 2: Fine.
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  Speaker 5: I'm good with that. I'm okay with that. Maybe the
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  Speaker 5: players aren't okay with that, but I'm good with that. Um,
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  Speaker 5: as a football fan, 18 regular season games, two bi-weeks
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  Speaker 5: built into the week. I'm good with a 20 week
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  Speaker 5: NFL season. Let's sign up for it right now. And
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  Speaker 5: let's just please. Rid our lives of this.
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  Speaker 2: Nonsense that we are forced.
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  Speaker 5: To watch to call ourselves real Seahawks fans or real
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  Speaker 5: football fans.
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  Speaker 2: It's garbage, and it needs to be off.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and that's the thing, too, is it would
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  Speaker 1: be one thing if you're making boatloads of money off
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  Speaker 1: preseason games, but it's not that the NFL is going
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  Speaker 1: to hurt if they take away preseason games, because they're not.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they are.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they are making ticket money off of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you add that extra game, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to make way more money off that actual extra regular
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  Speaker 1: season game than you are off these preseason games, because
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  Speaker 1: most of the preseason games are fans who have regular,
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  Speaker 1: or a lot of the preseason games are fans who
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  Speaker 1: have season tickets.
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  Speaker 3: Who don't want to go. So they give them to
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  Speaker 3: someone else to use them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like other fans are clamoring to
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  Speaker 1: go to a preseason game.
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  Speaker 3: And so I just think you could get every single.
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  Speaker 1: Piece of info you need on every single player through
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  Speaker 1: every practice you have. You do not need to see
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  Speaker 1: them in a game time situation to know if they're
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  Speaker 1: going to help your team or not help your team.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's every level. Nobody else has preseason.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: You know, And look, it's not like spring training. You
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  Speaker 5: don't need spring training. You need the ramp up. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you have to, otherwise the product's going to be awful
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  Speaker 5: on opening day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And in the NBA, they don't need preseason games
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  Speaker 2: in the NBA. Don't need them at all. There's zero need.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we are, we are playing a season where
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  Speaker 5: we can't get NBA players to play every day. We're
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  Speaker 5: having to make rules about load management and, We're having
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  Speaker 5: to create reasons for why we're resting a guy, false
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  Speaker 5: reasons that every fan can see through.
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  Speaker 2: And yet we're going to march out preseason games. What
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  Speaker 2: the hell for? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's needed in baseball and baseball and spring training is
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  Speaker 5: just different.
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  Speaker 2: Like nobody is.
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  Speaker 5: Making sure they watch all nine innings of a preseason game.
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  Speaker 5: If it's on in the background, it's on in the background.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I get to see Julio get a couple of
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  Speaker 5: bats and then, you know, then I might check out
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  Speaker 5: of it. But it is more of just like spring
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  Speaker 5: training for baseball is just like a socializing, like it's
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  Speaker 5: sort of like a rite of passage into spring. And
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  Speaker 5: it's when you go to the games, it's just a
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  Speaker 5: reason to sit in the sun and, ah, there's my
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  Speaker 5: old friend baseball out there. There's nothing about it. And
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  Speaker 5: you also get to play the game at full speed
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  Speaker 5: without true risk of injury. I mean, sure, you could
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  Speaker 5: get hit by a pitch or slide wrong or pull
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  Speaker 5: a hamstring, but that could happen during baseball practice.
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  Speaker 2: That could happen during NFL practice.
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  Speaker 5: But here in these preseason games, I mean, whoever's going
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  Speaker 5: to be out on the field is probably vying for
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  Speaker 5: a job in the league.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be going all out. There's no way.
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  Speaker 2: That you can, as a team, keep the Rudy Rudigers
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  Speaker 2: from Rudy Rudig-ing against your players just to keep them safe.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you do instead? You just sit everybody.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. Hugh's got a good argument about it.
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  Speaker 5: Like Hugh said just earlier this week, it's still the
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  Speaker 5: best football out there. Preseason NFL football is still a
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  Speaker 5: jump up from college when you think about the quality
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  Speaker 5: of the players on the football field. I understand that.
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  Speaker 5: But I never watch a college game thinking the offensive
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  Speaker 5: coordinator is using 10% of his playbook. He's just running bland,
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  Speaker 5: boring plays to keep people healthy. And I know that
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  Speaker 5: there aren't guys on the sidelines who aren't in pads,
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  Speaker 5: who are wearing hats, but are still wearing team colors
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  Speaker 5: that I know are better than the guys that I'm
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  Speaker 5: watching play in the preseason games. And now I know
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  Speaker 5: that there are two layers of those guys for tonight's
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  Speaker 5: game that are going to be sitting on the, standing
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  Speaker 5: on the sidelines cheering. And I'm asked to watch and
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: let's face it, keep score of a third preseason game.
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  Speaker 5: It's just to the point where it's very obvious that
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  Speaker 5: nobody really wants this. And when the coaches make it
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  Speaker 5: obvious that they don't want to do it anymore and
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  Speaker 5: we're still doing it, it makes no sense other than
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  Speaker 5: you're just trying to squeeze another dollar out of an
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  Speaker 5: already loyal football fan. And I think that's tasteless.
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  Speaker 3: No, it is. And here's the difference, too.
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  Speaker 1: With college football, yeah, you're going to watch some games
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  Speaker 1: early on in the season that it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a blowout. Georgia against... Insert small school here, right? That's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a blowout, but that game still counts.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas preseason, you're watching people who you might never see
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  Speaker 1: on a football field again this season, and that game
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  Speaker 1: doesn't count. So why are you watching it? Because there's
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  Speaker 1: two layers of that. One, they're not going to play. Two,
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  Speaker 1: the game doesn't count. Versus, well, you might be watching
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  Speaker 1: backups because it's a blowout in the second half of
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  Speaker 1: a game or even second quarter of a game, but
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: at least that game counts towards the records.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: I think of Jalen Milrow, and he's going to play
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: all four quarters tonight. And I actually feel bad about him.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: Excuse me, bad for him.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: He's going to be.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Operating behind a third-string offensive line, running for his life
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: against a band of 11 athletic, physical people who are
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: desperate to impress the coaching staff to make a spot
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: on the roster. I mean, they're going to be flying
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: around with reckless abandon tonight. And the way to impress
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: it is to just sack the quarterback. And he's going
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: to get to play four quarters tonight. He's going to
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: get abused for four quarters. I don't think it's going
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: to improve his game. probably not his abilities. I don't
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: think it's going to, Oh, he took the, he turned
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: the corner. He's going to take four quarters of abuse
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: because we don't want to risk anybody else.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: That's insult enough.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: And, and it's going to, I mean, this weekend's games
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: are probably going to get pretty violent, maybe even dirty
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: because you're going to have everybody out there going the
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: extra mile to try to impress coaches.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: It's their last chance to impress coaches.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: I don't, I wouldn't want a player sent out to
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: be risked that way, even if he was my third-string quarterback.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: But that's what's going to happen. That's what's happening tonight.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: That is the draw tonight. It's the only draw tonight.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Jalen Milrow is going to play four quarters. I mean,
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: I watched Jalen Milrow struggle to play two quarters last week,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: and now we're going to get it four quarters of that? So...
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, I know there's some merits. I know there
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: are some things that can be extracted. And I know
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: that those last couple spots on the roster, that is
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: a valuable thing. But I would think that you could
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: figure that out in practice. I think the days of
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: NFL preseason should end. I think NBA preseason should end.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Stop.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: You're asking enough. of sports fans and their pocketbooks yeah
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: and they give very generously all the time every year
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: come on cut them a break seriously and cut your
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: players a break i don't i just don't i don't
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: even like the process by which we want to decide
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: the last two roster spots go out there and knock
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: somebody's head off in a meaningless game nah i'm done with.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: It no i agree yeah i agree all right.
• 19:28
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• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Seahawks chiefs tonight at five o'clock yeah after all of
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: that what.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Tune in make sure you tune in it's gonna be
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: a great.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Game uh nfl cut day is going to be sunday
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: by the way and so there will not be any
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: games on sunday that most of the games playing tonight
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: there are a few last night there are two on
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: saturday And then on Sunday, it clears the way where
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: you have all of the preseason information that you were
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: going to get as an organization, and now you can
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: make your decisions.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: And then there's going to be a wild frenzy.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Certainly, every team will be participating in who I can
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: steal off of the waiver wire to fill the holes
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: on my roster. I'm expecting the Seahawks to sign at
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: least one running back, maybe two, by the time that
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: cut day occurs. And so that's happening on Sunday. So
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: we're going to get a little bit of a frenzy um, afterwards,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: a mild version of the free agency frenzy, um, coming
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: after a Sunday's cut day. Uh, also discipline day is
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: on Sunday and we might find out for those of
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: you who decided that I've got to have my fantasy
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: draft now and not wait till the end of the preseason. Um,
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: if you drafted Josh Jacobs, sorry about it. He might
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: not play for a while. I don't think he's going
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: to miss a lot of the season.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Sounds like he's getting slapped with misdemeanor charges.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: But the NFL has decided don't embarrass us in the
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: offseason because we'll hand out our own layer of justice.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Even if you get away with a slap on the
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: wrist in the court system, we might suspend you two,
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: four games if we think you've embarrassed us. Puka Nakua
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: faces that too on Sunday as well. So Discipline Day
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: is coming in the National Football League too.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that's a fair thing to say. Yeah,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: don't embarrass us, as any job would. Hey, if you
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: embarrass us, you face, yeah, it might not be legal discipline,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: but you face your own employer's discipline. And that's, I mean,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and the Pook and the Kua thing, it's not just
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the bite marks.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, he also went on and did some questionable
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: things on the podcast.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, his offseason was a lot of embarrassment.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was weird. College football starts tomorrow.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: That's so weird.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: If that surprises you, do not feel bad.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Because I am a sports talk show host, and I
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: did not know that until yesterday. I thought for sure
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: that Apple Cup was played on the opening week. But
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: there are a handful of games tomorrow, one starting at
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: 9 o'clock between North Carolina and TCU. And USC will
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: play tomorrow at noon against San Jose State. We are
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: nine days till the Apple Cup. Sounders and Chicago tomorrow
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: at 1.30. Maybe you wouldn't be that fired up to
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: watch this the way the Sounders have played here in
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: the last couple of months since the World Cup. But
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: tomorrow marks the debut of Dejan, or Dejan, Dejan.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Had it down earlier, too.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: So the new acquisition the Sounders made that Jackson felt,
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: my goodness, was comparing to Aaron Judge yesterday.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Just a step below Aaron Judge, which is a step
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I would like.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: So he makes his debut tomorrow in Chicago. And so
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: 1.30 is your start time right here on KJR. And,
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: of course, the Mariners, they start a big series tonight
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: against the Toronto Blue Jays. Both of these teams in
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: the wild card race. Only one team is in its
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: divisional race. still alive, and that's the home team, the
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Seattle Mariners. who are three back of the Houston Astros. Gosh, Yankees,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: can you do nothing to help?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Seriously, and then you wonder why we hate you.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, you're the person, while everybody's moving, that is
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: sitting there and eating chips on the couch that.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: We've got to move.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: And then it's like, hey, let me know if you
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: need anything.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Well, we did, actually.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: We told you what we needed ahead of time.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Right, and instead you lose to Hayden Wesneski with your
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: ace on the mound. So instead of being two back
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: going into this weekend, the Mariners are three games back.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: But we need to do it ourselves anyway.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: So Mariners, Blue Jays tonight, Dylan Cease going for them,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Emerson Hancock going for us.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: That's not good for us.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: But coming up next on the program, I know we
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: talk baseball at 630 almost every day, but we don't
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: have a game to recap today. Instead, we have a
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: decision to recap today made by the Mariners, who decided
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: once again that Gino Suarez is not part of our plan.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: We'll discuss next on KJR.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Geno!
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Tagged into left! Just listen to the crowd, man. Do
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: they love him? Do they love him?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Ownership.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Listen to that right there, what y'all did.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Right there.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Listen to that. That's what it's all about.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: That's what it's all about.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Playoff baseball, baby, when it matters. Welcome back, Gino. Oh,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: my goodness.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not interested.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I was.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: I hear you loud and clear about how popular he
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: is and how much we've struggled.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: At third base this year.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, you hear it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I know he's the perfect fit for the clubhouse,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: but when does that matter?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: We're going to pass.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, we're going to pass.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: But thank you. Thank you for making him available.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: We really didn't even consider it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Hurts a little bit.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I know it hurts you. Good morning.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: It is Chuck and Ashley with you. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Great to have you here on this Friday. And I
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: didn't even tell you. I mean, we do a segment
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: called What's on Tap. I didn't even tell you. Greg Bell,
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: 7.05 today to talk some preseason football. X's and O's
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: with Hugh Millen today at 9 o'clock. We've got Reckless
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: at Breakfast. Special edition today at 7.45. One of my
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Reckless at Breakfast came true today. Or at least an
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: attempt to make one come true. has occurred in the
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: last 24 hours. So we'll do that at 745 and
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: the Ocho at eight o'clock and much, much more. So
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: great to have you with us here on this Friday.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: The Mariners did not play yesterday. They did lose a
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: half game to the Houston Astros. So they will start
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: this big series against Toronto and then Boston. And then
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: after that, it does get easier. But six games on
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: the road against Two very talented teams, one of which
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: has not played well all season long, but certainly dangerous.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: The team that we faced in the American League Championship Series,
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: the team that won the American League a year ago,
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: the Blue Jays, and then the hottest team in the
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: second half of the season, the Boston Red Sox, who
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: have cooled a little bit as of late. Thank goodness
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: they couldn't keep up that pace. So maybe we're catching
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: them at a good time, but it's not going to
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: be an easy road trip. Six games against Toronto and Boston.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: And you wonder if Gino Suarez could have helped.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Mariners had a chance to add one of the favorite
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Mariners of all time. And between the fans and the dugout,
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: the clubhouse, I mean, this is just right up here
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: as one of the most beloved Mariners ever. And Gino Suarez,
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: he's been here twice. He's had two good experiences, one
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: great experience, another good experience. Um, and sounded like he
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: wanted to be here. And yet when push came to
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: shove two off seasons, we've had here in recent years
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: where the Mariners have said, nah, we're going to go
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: another direction. Uh, and Gino Suarez was left to find
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: work elsewhere. Well, here was a third opportunity to bring
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: him back. And once again, the Mariners not interested in
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: the Gino Suarez business now to.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Their defense, nobody else was either. Right.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: All 29 other teams in Major League Baseball, including teams
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: that have needs in their offense, probably have a third
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: base need. Nobody wanted Gino Suarez and the two and
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: a half million dollar bill that you would have to
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: pay in order to add him to your baseball team.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: So they weren't alone in all of this. But then again,
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: I don't think anybody else other than Cincinnati who waived
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: him has the connection to him. both with their fans
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: and the players that are currently on the roster, than
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: what the Mariners had with Geno Swartz. They seem like
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: the most likely candidate to say, yeah, we'll take on
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: that money. We'll add him to our team. If Brendan
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Donovan gets healthy, great. But at least we've got an
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: upgrade over Weston Wilson at third base in the meantime.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Or if Brendan Donovan never does get healthy. And yet, actually,
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: they decided that's not what we're interested in.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean, we were sitting there yesterday figuring out, like, okay,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: who could be ahead of us, and it seemed like
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: we had the best chance at getting them, and that
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: was really promising and exciting because at this point, this team,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: this ownership, everybody, the management, should be doing everything they
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: can to make this team the absolute best team they
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: can be on the field. And no offense to Weston Wilson, but,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not Geno Suarez at third base. And
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Gino Suarez at third base wasn't Gino Suarez at third base.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Before he came here.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: And he's been even worse this year. Well, okay.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: But maybe coming back, I don't know.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: And I understand it's a high price tag, but I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: don't know why you're not at least trying it.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: I can't believe that the money would have gotten in
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: the way. One of two things I think has happened. One,
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: that Jerry and Justin just aren't in the business of
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: admitting to mistakes.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: And they did it once.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: They brought him back once, and he wasn't. great here
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: last year. He was not great last year. Now, he
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: ended up hitting a really big home run that had
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: the chance to be the biggest home run in the
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: history of the organization. And maybe the biggest hit in
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: the history of the organization. So he did do that.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: But he wasn't good last year.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: He wasn't what he came in as either.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's striking out 35% of the time, which is
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: an impossible rate to live with. And his defense has
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: actually statistically been a liability for the Cincinnati Reds. So
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: there are reasons not to sign him, but there's also
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: a lot of reasons to sign him. And that is
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: what you mentioned. We're not exactly acing the third base.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Test right now.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: And haven't been all year.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: And the players still absolutely love this guy. And even
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: if he ends up just in a bench role, even
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: if he's not performing.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: He would add something to the equation here going forward. So,
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, maybe that Justin and Jerry are just like,
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: we just don't see it. There's a reason why we've
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: cut the guy. We've not resigned the guy twice. We
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: just think we've got better options. And then there's the
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: other possibility of maybe there was some sort of fallout
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: this last time. Maybe Gino was insulted. that he didn't
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: get an offer from the Mariners, having come back a
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: second time, been embraced by the fans, having a deep
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: playoff run, not really a solution at third base that
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: seemed evident this offseason, and yet the Mariners are like, no,
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: that's okay, we're not in the Geno Suarez business. Maybe
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: there was something finally where Geno's like, I don't want
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: to play here again.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Maybe that was shared.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: I don't know, but it does seem like You could
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: have made a very strong argument for Geno Suarez being
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: a Mariner today. Yeah.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Very strong, and yet he's not again.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, and I was– when Anders said yesterday, oh,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: he wasn't claimed by anyone, I mean, my eyes kind
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of bugged out.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: I went, what?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Not just the Mariners, but not anyone? I mean, I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: was very surprised by that. I think he could have
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: at least helped. I wish he could have helped us.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I think he could have helped somebody.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: It's not nothing to add $ 2. 5 million worth of salary
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: for a month of baseball. And like I said, he's
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: not played well this year. But he's got a 705 OPS.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: He can still hit a home run. And he does
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: bring something more than just his baseball abilities to every
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: clubhouse that he enters. If there was a team that
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: should have been interested, I would have thought it would
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: be the Mariners. But once again, they are just not
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: interested in the Geno Suarez business at this time. And
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: I'm a little surprised by it.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Not a ton.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Not floored, but I was surprised.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Right, a little surprised by it. And I like everybody,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: nearly everybody listening. I think we're better off with Geno
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Suarez playing third base, reunited with Perry Hill as his
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: infield coach, you know, Hit him seventh, eighth in the order.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Who cares? He can run into a baseball on occasion.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: And I think that that combination of his power threat,
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: his love for the city, and the good vibes that
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: he sends through the clubhouse, I think is just more
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: valuable than Weston Wilson's athleticism, versatility. And his own level
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: of likability, because he seems like he's fit really well
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: into the fabric of this team himself. But I mean,
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: it's not like he's killing it at third base. You
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: know what I mean? So I think it represented an upgrade,
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: even at that price tag. And it would have benefited
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: the Mariners to bring him in more so than any
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: other team would have been benefited by it. So from
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: that standpoint, I'm surprised. But like you said, I'm not
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: floored by it either because they have said no to
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: the Gino Suarez business twice in the last four years.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And he was a much better player then than
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: he is right now.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And as you pointed out, maybe he didn't want
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: to come. But at the same time, I mean, if
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: he didn't want, he wouldn't have really had a choice, right?
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: If they claim him off waivers, he has to go
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: to the team.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: But maybe there was communication that they knew like, eh,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: he doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: No, but if there was some words exchanged, like the
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: last time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I see.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Maybe in the offseason, if they would have signed him,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: he comes here, he's a property of the Mariners, but
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: maybe he doesn't bring the good vibes.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: Because maybe they had a conversation in the offseason where
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Geno told them to F off for not being interested
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  Speaker 5: in him.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, who knows?
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: That's true. Be sad if the good vibes are gone.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying that that happened, but I'm saying that
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  Speaker 5: when you've been told twice— by a team that you've
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: poured a lot of love into.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 2: We're not really interested in you.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: You might've told somebody, you might've flipped somebody the bird
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  Speaker 5: on your way out.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, people in Seattle have been flipped the bird
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: for far less than that.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: And so if, yeah.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: So if that happened, then maybe Jerry and Justin were
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: more reluctant to bring him back again and have him
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: part of the organization. Um, but it, it just seemed, um,
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: not like a runaway decision to add him to this roster.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: but it did seem like it would represent an improvement,
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: which it's going to be hard to improve your roster
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: at this point in the year. And there will be
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: other players that are going to be put on the
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: waiver wire here in the next couple of days.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: And maybe that's another part of it.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Maybe Jerry and Justin want to see who else is
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: going to be available because maybe somebody else would make
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: more sense to this roster. And if you commit to Geno,
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: then you're committed at $ 2.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: 5 million. You're not just going to cut him the
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: next day after that. Right.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: So I'm sure there's a lot that went into it
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: that we're not aware of. But certainly I think most
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: people listening and certainly most to all of the people
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: on this show are a little disappointed today. All right.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Coming up next on the radio program, something that happened
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: this week.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: I haven't had Ashley's thoughts on this.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: I think it's worth mentioning one more time, even on
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: a sports show before the week comes to a close.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. It'll get you. Oh, yeah.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Like the rhythm. The algorithm will get you. Oh, I
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: get it now.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I was just thinking like.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: The algorithm.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: The algorithm.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: The algorithm's going to get you.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: I was slow on that one.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Gloria Estefan's been talking about that for years. But my
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: entire timeline is nothing but Dolly Parton. Now, I have
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: stopped to watch a lot of little Dolly Parton tributes.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: No question about it. But then again, sometimes my timeline
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: is chock full with like girls and young Hollywood actresses
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: with big boobs. And I never call that up. I
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: swear to God, I never, ever ask for Sydney Sweeney's boobs.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: And yet they're constantly on my timeline for some reason.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: So I don't know exactly how the algorithm works. But
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Dolly Parton is just like almost every damn story.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Uh, right now. And, um, I've already done.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Reckless at breakfast on it earlier this week, but I
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: know you haven't had a chance to, to chat about
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: it at all, but I just wanted to bring it
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: up one more time because I want people to realize,
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: especially young people, like what a force of nature that
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: she was. And even if she wouldn't have been a
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: good singer, I'm telling you, like when you were a
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: little kid, my age, and I have three older sisters,
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: like her boobs alone were like, uh, famous, one of
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: the most famous things of my childhood.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, when I was younger, that's the only
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: thing I knew about her. Oh, that's the blonde lady.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't barely know she sings. I just knew she
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: had huge boobs.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was Burt Reynolds' mustache, Dolly Parton's boobs, and Dr.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: J's afro. To me, those are like the three coolest
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: things of my childhood.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Now I'm just picturing them all on the same person.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Those were the three coolest things that were operating at
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: one point.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: They had a life of their own.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: There wasn't a kid that didn't know Dolly Parton, but
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: my sisters, like if we got balloons, like there are
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: balloons in the house. First thing you did, of course,
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: is you would rub one on your head and everybody
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: and try to stick it on the ceiling.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: That was the first thing you did. And when that
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: joy wore off.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Then you would take two of them and shove them
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: under your shirt, whether it was my sisters or me, and, hey, Mom,
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: I'm Dolly Parton, to get a cheap laugh from Grandpa.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: So that was, like, the natural transition.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: And then the third thing was you would play, like,
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: Balloon volleyball, where you played so it doesn't touch the ground.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: And then you popped them. And that was the end
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: of balloon fun right there. But part of that was
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: always that. And everybody in the family did it. All
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: the kids did it. And every adult laughed every single
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: time that we did it.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Yep, we did it too.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: And it was literally the only thing I knew about her.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: As I said, I didn't know she was an actress
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: or a singer. I just knew she was Dolly Parton.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: And it didn't matter what she did. She was just this...
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: figure that I knew all about without knowing anything about,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: if that makes sense.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: And then obviously, as I got older, I learned actually
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: about her career and things, but not just that, the
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: amazing things she did just in the Nashville community and
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: to help people around her.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, she's a force of nature.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: She was pretty incredible.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: She's probably the best business person in the history of
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: the music industry. Vince Gill says she's the greatest songwriter
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: he's ever been around, and he's a pretty good songwriter himself. Obviously,
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: she can sing. Part of my going down the rabbit
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: hole was listening to her sing. Stairway to Heaven, for
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: goodness sake.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, gosh.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, my goodness, Dottie, that's a really good
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: version right there.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: Hmm. Uh, so she could obviously sing and then who she,
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: like everybody loved her. Yeah.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Everybody loved her.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: So, um, so yeah, I, I just, you know, before
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: the week comes to a close, I'm going to do
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: Dolly Parton Martini night, uh, tomorrow night.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: So a little tribute.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: I only have one.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Tomorrow night or tonight?
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Uh, tomorrow night. I got Rainiers tonight.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Um, so I only have one Dolly Parton album, but
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: that will lead the festivities tomorrow. A little tribute to her.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: And then Tim Curry passed away as well. which is
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: a huge thing as well. And you've seen Tim Curry
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: in a lot of things, and he's fantastic. But another
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: thing as a kid, I remember Dad not wanting us
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, that must be really scary. I
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: kind of want to watch that. And then when I
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: was old enough to see, I'm like, oh, now I
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: see why Dad didn't want me to watch this.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Well, here's a funny story, Jeff. We laugh about all
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the movies I never saw. That was one of the
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: first I saw.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: My parents were excited to have me watch Rocky Horror
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Picture Show.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Seriously?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Yep. Let's watch Rocky Horror Picture Show. They thought it
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: was so fun, so funny. We sat and watched it.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, your parents were.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I didn't understand half of it, obviously. But that and Clue,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, are they two iconic. Yeah, loved them both.
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he's incredible in that. They call it his debut,
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: like one of the great character introductions in the history
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: of movies.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fair.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: When he came on the scene in Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: But as a kid, Dad shielded.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Well, your parents and my parents were different.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: We're not going to watch. Midwest.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: We're not going to watch Godfather or Rocky.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Let's get out Rocky Horror Picture Show. Maybe they thought
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: that was Rocky.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: Right, right.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're sitting there and childhood. Yeah, I've seen Rocky. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: The transvestite, right?
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: That would have been hilarious.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: The singing transvestite.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: We would have had that conversation. No, I saw Rocky.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: All the singing.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tim Curry was great. Oh, is that Sylvester Stallone? Yeah,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: he's a great singer.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: I didn't even know he had that in him. Dancer,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: good performer. Yeah. Weird mouth.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: All right, coming up next, headlines and Greg Bell, Sports
• 41:55
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