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Chuck in the Morning 9/14 H3: Pull the Plug on the M's? A Thirst for Anders Hirst & Wins and Tough Ones · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hey, great to have you with us. Happy Monday to
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  Speaker 2: into the 8 o'clock hour, you might have been wondering, hey,
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  Speaker 2: who's that voice that I heard? That sounded like Anders
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  Speaker 2: Hurst from the Ian Furness radio program. Well, it is
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  Speaker 2: Anders Hurst, but no longer with the Ian Furness radio program.
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  Speaker 2: This is not some fill-in situation. Ashley's not back in Hawaii.
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  Speaker 2: She hasn't decided that's where she wants to spend.
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  Speaker 1: Her every day.
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  Speaker 2: We've made a little bit of a swap. Anders is
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  Speaker 2: now part of the morning show. We announced it on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: And Ashley will make her debut with the Ian Furness
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  Speaker 2: radio program today starting at noon. So it is official.
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  Speaker 2: The swap has been made. I did suggest that there
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  Speaker 2: was sort of a trade. What was the person on
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  Speaker 2: the text line, Travis, that said a little earlier?
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  Speaker 4: That the traffic guy recording from the bathroom stall was
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  Speaker 4: thrown into the trade.
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  Speaker 1: That was part of the trade.
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  Speaker 3: Which way did it go?
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  Speaker 1: I guess we picked him up. Yeah, we picked him up. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little blind. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't anything that, you know, it was just,
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  Speaker 2: they gave me a, Ian gave me a list of
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  Speaker 2: people that could possibly, and I'm like, I'll just take
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  Speaker 2: the traffic guy.
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  Speaker 3: Cash considerations, basically. Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I also got a future one.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. In Detroit as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Jeez.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You had to give up a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to give up a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, he had to give up a lot to get Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're not Canadian, so already a big positive for me.
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  Speaker 2: Ouch.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Ian. Shots fired.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, Ian. Love you.
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  Speaker 2: Travis Moger, of course, here as well as we roll
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  Speaker 2: into our third hour here today. We will have another
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  Speaker 2: NFL scoreboard for you later this hour.
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  Speaker 1: We'll round out the entire thing.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk more about the Huskies offense, Sam Darnold as
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  Speaker 2: the hour goes along. But it does seem sort of appropriate.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, here we have this Monday where we're not
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  Speaker 2: just locked in.
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  Speaker 1: On the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: Normally on a Monday, that's all we're discussing is the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks game. Well, we did that Thursday and we did
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  Speaker 2: that Friday. So it gives us a chance to talk
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  Speaker 2: about some of these other things that might have been overlooked.
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  Speaker 2: And the Mariners may want us to overlook them right now.
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  Speaker 2: But it's been a while since we've had a Monday
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  Speaker 2: where we could really sink our teeth into a Mariners
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  Speaker 2: topic during the football season, especially at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the football season. But I kind of feel we must,
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  Speaker 2: don't you? Yeah, kind of have to.
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  Speaker 3: Because I don't know if we have a hammer or
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  Speaker 3: if we have a pick, but it's time. You can
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  Speaker 3: put the nail in the coffin.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's strange because it's felt that way for
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  Speaker 2: a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it has.
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  Speaker 2: And all I've kept saying the entire time was, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I get it. I get why, well, not the entire time,
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  Speaker 2: but for the last month. Yeah. I get why people
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  Speaker 2: don't think they're going to turn it around. They've not
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  Speaker 2: shown the ability to put together a good week of
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  Speaker 2: baseball this entire season.
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  Speaker 1: They did have an eight-game winning streak earlier in the year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even remember the details of it. It's been
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  Speaker 1: so long.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, we've watched this team play 150 games.
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  Speaker 2: They don't seem capable. It doesn't matter who the competition
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  Speaker 2: is of putting together a great stretch of baseball. If
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  Speaker 2: the offense goes, which it has been going for the
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  Speaker 2: last few weeks, then the pitching falls apart.
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  Speaker 1: If the pitching's soaring, then we get no offensive support.
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  Speaker 2: If somehow both show up in one day, then the
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  Speaker 2: defense doesn't perform.
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  Speaker 3: Or the bullpen implodes.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've.
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  Speaker 2: Got the constant that's been Dan Wilson, who in my
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  Speaker 2: estimation has not been pressing the right buttons all season long.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if Bazzardo versus Springer. broke him
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  Speaker 2: but he's been worse at pitching bullpen decisions this season
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  Speaker 2: than anyone i've ever seen and it's not getting better
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  Speaker 2: it's actually been getting worse and it was reared its
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  Speaker 2: ugly head again this weekend now i'm not laying everything
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  Speaker 2: at his feet no um certainly um gabe spire was
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  Speaker 2: the reason you lost yesterday he blew a four-run lead
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  Speaker 2: and was terrible and eventually you had to go to
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  Speaker 2: a tired Andres Munoz to pitch five outs, get you
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  Speaker 2: five outs, and he couldn't get that done, and you
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  Speaker 2: lose the game by a final score of 8-7. But
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  Speaker 2: the conversation has to start, and we'll get to all
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  Speaker 2: of those things as we go, with what a blown opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: as bad as it's been, Anders. I painted a scenario
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  Speaker 2: on Friday. Look at the Astros competition. Three against Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: Three against Kansas City, who's been playing way above. 500
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  Speaker 2: baseball in the second half. Three against Atlanta, where the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners have the A's, the Angels, and the Rockies. Literally,
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  Speaker 2: the three worst teams in Major League Baseball with nothing
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  Speaker 2: but pride to play for at this point in the season.
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  Speaker 1: And I painted a scenario.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't predicting it, but it didn't seem that outlandish
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  Speaker 2: to me that Houston could go 4-5.
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  Speaker 1: Over this stretch.
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  Speaker 2: And if the Mariners could go 8-1 against bad competition
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  Speaker 2: with everything in the world to play for, suddenly at
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  Speaker 2: the end of that stretch, you gain four games, you're
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  Speaker 2: two games back against Houston for a two-game set. And
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  Speaker 2: now all of a sudden you're back in control of
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  Speaker 2: your destiny. Just like that. Back in control of your destiny.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't predicting it, but it was certainly a possibility. And
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  Speaker 2: what happens? I mean, you blow Friday. Donovan effing Walton, really?
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  Speaker 2: And then you absolutely blow Sunday. And the Astros and
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  Speaker 2: Rays gave us a gift today. There was a chance.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting here up 6-2 on Sunday, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness, Anders and I are going to have to
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  Speaker 2: spend time tomorrow on how good a shot we've got suddenly,
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  Speaker 2: having gained two games over the weekend, four games back.
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  Speaker 2: Suddenly the Astros can't figure out how to win. And
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  Speaker 2: even though we didn't pull off the sweep against the A's,
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  Speaker 2: we gained two full games. And instead, they blow it
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  Speaker 2: in spectacular fashion. Five games out versus four games out
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  Speaker 2: seems like a chasm of difference. And I have you
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  Speaker 2: on your first morning show saying, put a nail in them.
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  Speaker 2: And I know a lot of people have already done that.
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  Speaker 2: But it did feel like that was your last gasp hope.
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  Speaker 2: The whole world was trying to help you get back
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  Speaker 2: into this divisional race, and you just can't hold a
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  Speaker 2: four-run lead against a bad baseball team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, in some ways it's a microcosm for
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  Speaker 3: the whole season because everything externally has gone your way.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the American League. There's no elite teams in
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  Speaker 3: the American League, especially with, you know, New York and
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  Speaker 3: their questions with Aaron Judge. He just returned, so we'll
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  Speaker 3: see what ends up happening. Toronto took a massive step down.
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  Speaker 2: Detroit took a massive step down.
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  Speaker 3: Detroit took a massive step down. And in your own division,
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  Speaker 3: no one wants to win it.
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  Speaker 1: They hated it, dude.
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  Speaker 3: You still have one of your worst seasons in that
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  Speaker 3: moment in time, in a season where you preached to
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  Speaker 3: everyone saying, we're trying to go win the World Series
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  Speaker 3: this year. This is our chance. We were eight outs
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  Speaker 3: away last year. We're going to take that next step
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  Speaker 3: this year. And not only do you not take that
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  Speaker 3: step forward, not only do you stay even, you don't
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  Speaker 3: do that. Not only do you slightly regress, you have
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  Speaker 3: full on had the bottom fall off of this season
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  Speaker 3: because now you're 10 games under. 500. With what, you know,
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  Speaker 3: 10 to go, 12 to go, I think, or something
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  Speaker 3: like that. It's just, it's not good enough. And this
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  Speaker 3: is why both sides that were saying, oh, the Mariners
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  Speaker 3: still have a chance, right? Mathematically, you can look at
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  Speaker 3: their schedule. You look at the schedule of the teams
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  Speaker 3: that they're trying to chase. You could definitely see a
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  Speaker 3: world as you painted the picture on Friday, or they could.
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  Speaker 3: very realistically be in a good position but you also
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  Speaker 3: see the other side of those people that say no
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  Speaker 3: they don't you watch this team play baseball for 150
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  Speaker 3: games or 145 games.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what you know what i liken it
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  Speaker 2: to and i'll give softy a little bit of credit
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  Speaker 2: for this because he brought up the scenario of grandma
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  Speaker 2: on her deathbed to me on Friday. And, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought about that as I finished my conversation with those two. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and Dick just doesn't like baseball. So it's so obvious.
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  Speaker 2: He just doesn't want to talk about baseball anymore. So he's,
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  Speaker 2: So that's why he acts the way he does. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm finishing my walk, and I'm like, I kind of
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  Speaker 2: like the analogy, but I don't think it's grandma. As
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  Speaker 2: we were sitting there Friday, and I'm just out getting
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  Speaker 2: a little exercise in before I sit down and have
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  Speaker 2: some martinis and watch the Mariners implode.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Fridays. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, it's more like when your crazy uncle Skeeter
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  Speaker 2: has a skiing accident. And it's not looking good. Like
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  Speaker 2: where the doctor comes to you and says, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he suffered a lot of injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Foolish as it was.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he still is hanging on. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And like, he's probably not coming through. Skeeter's probably not
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  Speaker 2: going to be with us for much longer, but he's
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  Speaker 2: a young man. And despite all that he's put you
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  Speaker 2: through as a family, with all his craziness and all
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  Speaker 2: of his mishaps, he still might fight his way through this.
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  Speaker 2: So you have a decision to make. Do you want
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  Speaker 2: to pull the plug or not on Skeeter? Or do
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  Speaker 2: you want to give him the chance to make a
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  Speaker 2: miracle recovery? Well, I don't want to pull that plug.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm sitting there on Friday, I'm like, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to pull that plug.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give Skeeter a chance. He's a young man.
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  Speaker 1: He's got young children.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see if Skeeter can come through this time. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to be the person that pulls it. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: else wants to do it. I guess you can do it.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not going to be the person that's going
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  Speaker 2: to pull it. I'm going to give Skeeter the chance
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  Speaker 2: to make a miracle comeback, and maybe he's finally seen
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  Speaker 2: the light. So that's where I was on Friday. And
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  Speaker 2: it is as if, as I sit here on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: Skeeter's heartbeat came back. They were able to take him
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  Speaker 2: off the machines. It's unbelievable that Skeeter has somehow pulled through.
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  Speaker 2: And then right when we're ready to call people and say,
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  Speaker 2: it's looking good. Aunt Bessie tripped and jabbed.
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  Speaker 1: A straw through his throat.
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  Speaker 4: Jeez.
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  Speaker 1: Dark analogy. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's true, though.
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  Speaker 2: It's like somebody or Skeeter tried to stand up and
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  Speaker 2: go to the bathroom and he fell out the window. Right?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's the better way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: Skeeter's like, I think I can make it by myself,
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  Speaker 2: and then fell backwards and out of the window and died.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of the way that it felt. So I
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  Speaker 2: get everybody that says they have no chance. They've not
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  Speaker 2: shown that they can overcome this sort of thing. They've
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  Speaker 2: not shown that they can beat bad teams. They can't
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  Speaker 2: show that they can win consistently. They can't pitch consistently anymore.
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  Speaker 2: They've never hit consistently. They don't defend consistently. And then
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  Speaker 2: there's the ever-present element of Dan Wilson making one bad
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  Speaker 2: decision after another that you have to contend with.
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  Speaker 1: I get that. But there was a chance.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Rays and the Astros sent us a
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  Speaker 2: life vest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 2: And instead of wrapping it around their shoulders and neck,
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  Speaker 2: They decided to try and, I don't know, sit on it?
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  Speaker 1: What did they do?
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  Speaker 2: Tie it to their ankles so they couldn't move? Just inexplicable,
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  Speaker 2: this team this year. And this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Was, you're right, that was the....
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  Speaker 2: That's all you had to watch this year, was these
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  Speaker 2: three games to figure out the 2026 Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: That's them in a nutshell this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and to play into your analogy... I think one
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  Speaker 3: of the reasons a lot of people before this weekend
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  Speaker 3: wanted to pull the plug is because you look at
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  Speaker 3: uncle Skeeter, one of those, one of the, one of
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  Speaker 3: the reasons you make these decisions in real life is okay.
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  Speaker 3: What would he have wanted? What does he look like?
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  Speaker 3: He wants, does he want to fight through this?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Does he want to pull this out or does he
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  Speaker 3: look like he's kind of done and he wants to
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  Speaker 3: kind of give up and he wants to ease his pain,
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  Speaker 3: so to speak. Very much so. Skeeter looked like he
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  Speaker 3: wanted to give up for a large portion of the season.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't look like he was really in it to
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  Speaker 3: fight off this huge ski accident with all these sicknesses
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  Speaker 3: that's happening around him. If you look at him himself,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't look like he really wants it that much.
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  Speaker 2: I see what you're saying. I don't necessarily agree. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: look what Randy Rosarino, Randy Rosarino, who has the reputation
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  Speaker 2: of not being a team player. When he hit that
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: home run, that second home run yesterday, I mean, that
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  Speaker 2: is your least team player.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: And yet, that had to speak for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the team. It's not that I don't think that they
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  Speaker 2: want to live. It's that they just are their own
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  Speaker 2: worst enemy at all times. Like, Skeeter could have been
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: driving home from the hospital after that episode. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: he would have pulled up to a stoplight like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this guy wants to race, doesn't he?
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, he's like in a full body cast. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He can't even reach the steering wheel.
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  Speaker 1: He insisted on driving. And he's like, let's go, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, through his voice box. Let's go, buddy. That's them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is. I don't think it was ever effort or want. Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Where at times it looked that way. It looked like
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  Speaker 2: they didn't care. But that comes with five straight months
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  Speaker 2: of not being able to hit. And I think you
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  Speaker 2: end up looking that way. No, it was just bad baseball.
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  Speaker 2: And yesterday was a prime example of it. There were
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great moments where you're like, oh, my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: this team's Will, Randy's Homer, Munoz coming in in the eighth,
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  Speaker 2: not the ninth.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I'm tired, but give me the ball. I'll get
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  Speaker 1: you the strikeout.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get you the flyout. I'll get you the pop-up.
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  Speaker 2: There were heroic moments to yesterday's game. And then the
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: night before, you just blew everybody out. But then there
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: was Brock Rodden not throwing the ball the second. Why?
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Why are you not throwing the ball the second? We
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: need an out.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: And you decided to go with the long throw over
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: the short throw. Who makes that decision? Dom Canzone's errant
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: throw to third. Ended up not coming back to haunt us.
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  Speaker 2: But that errant throw to third. Johnny Pareda, who's been
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: terrific all year long.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: You're the slowest base runner on earth. You're not getting
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  Speaker 2: to third. Why did you think that that ball went
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  Speaker 2: through the infield and he gets picked off? Um.
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  Speaker 1: And then Dan, you got an inning out of Carlos Vargas.
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  Speaker 2: You're only up four. Everything's precious. Why are you sending
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: him back out there? Your three best relievers are Dominguez, Spire,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: and Munoz. And you haven't tested guys all year long
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: to sit down and.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Get back up. All year long!
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: And you get the guy that just came off the
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: guy aisle to do it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: You had a night off from relief pitching the night
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: before because you won by 1,000. Yeah. And you've decided
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: that now, up four, let's get cute. Let's see if
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: we can get Vargas to get a couple of outs
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: before we put Spire in the game. And then he
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: has to inherit base runners. And then no relief pitcher
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: wants to inherit base runners. Ideally, they don't want to
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: inherit base runners. And yet, we put Spire in that position,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: we put Dominguez in that position, and we put Munoz
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: in that position.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: And didn't have to. Vargas in the sixth, Spire in
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the seventh, if you wanted, or Dominguez, whichever one in
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the eighth, and Munoz in the ninth, we win the game,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: we win the series, we're back in it, and Skeeters lives.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Skeeters lives.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: He gets the miracle treatment that he was looking for.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Am I wrong about that?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think you're wrong at all. There's so
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: many times where And it's all different aspects of the team.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: The other thing that gets kind of glossed over, I think,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: is the defense. This is the worst defensive team in baseball.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: And so many times they... And the worst offensive. And
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: the pitching's not been great. They have the 30th ERA
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: in the last 30 days.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: They've been a bad baseball team. There's no getting around it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: They shouldn't have been, but they've been a bad baseball team.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: It's hard to fathom how they got here because beginning
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: of this year, when you look at the roster... Yeah,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: you maybe could have done a little bit more to
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: upgrade instead of just kind of stand pat, so to speak.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: But the bullpen, which we thought was a relative strength
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: last year, was better, basically. You had everyone back plus Ferrer,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: which should have improved your bullpen from the year before.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: And....
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: That's been one of the worst areas of the team.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Certainly in the second half. It was good in the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: first half. It was. Yeah, it was.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: But in the second half, yes, the wheels have come off.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: But why are you using Bizzardo on Friday night?
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I would use Criswell. I'd use Johnny Pareda. Why are
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you using Bizzardo? He should never be in a game
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: you're trying to win. I'm not saying Criswell would have
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: got the job done.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: But I would have used him before I used Bazzardo.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: We've seen enough to know that Bazzardo, for whatever reason, overuse,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: just hitters know what's coming, whatever it is. is not
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: a high leverage guy right now period end of story
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: i don't know why i know.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: It's the 10th inning yeah and i know you burn
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: through everybody and i know muñoz have been pitching a
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: lot and i don't know probably wouldn't have been successful
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: based off what we saw yesterday second inning yeah because
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I think he did throw 25 pitches in the previous
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: night and back-to-back nights. I get why they didn't use Munoz,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: but I don't get why you're using Bizzardo. I said
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: it last week. He cannot be used in a game
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: you're trying to win.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, that's the reality of where he is right now.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: The bigger discussion for me is, with a lot of
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: these players, but specifically in this situation, the bullpen, how
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: much of it is... Regression, which happens with bullpens all
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the time across Major League Baseball. We haven't seen it
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: to this extent in this window to 2022 to now
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: with the Mariners. But how much of it is just
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: regression from players or just a pure lack of putting
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: players in the right position to succeed? It's obviously a
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: combination of both, but how much?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Well, it is a combination of both. And no matter
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: how much your guys have struggled or declined, it doesn't
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: excuse you from not using them the way. And certainly
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: you not using them the way that they should be
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: used doesn't help them when they're struggling.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Just like yesterday.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: You got an inning out of Argus in a meaningful
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: game that you have to win. Why was that not
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: good enough? Why do you want to try to steal
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: it out? And if he gets in trouble, then the
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: next guy that comes in, who you don't have a
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: lot of faith in, has to inherit base runners.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And then what if he's off? Which he was. And
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: then what if Brock Rodden throws to the wrong base?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Simplify it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: It's always something.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Ashley brought this line up a long time ago, and
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: it's so true with Dan. It's like, you're trying to
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: play chess, and all you got to do is play checkers.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Bullpen changes are not hard.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: No.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And you've made it look like you were trying to
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: solve time travel.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Kind of looks like that's what he's doing in the dugout.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: It's the Zach Galifianakis gif with the numbers running through
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: his head.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you just love walking out there? Is
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: that it?
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know what it is, but you've suddenly
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: turned into this guy that's trying to steal out.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It's like, no, just streamline it. We're up four. Vargas
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: gave me an inning.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I've got three more relievers who I trust, the only
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: three that I trust. And if one of them gets
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: in trouble, I've got Ferrer against a tough lefty to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: try to get out of that inning.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: But other than that, just put Spire in the game.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: It's pretty simple.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: It's really simple, actually.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: And if Munoz is tired, be nice to just use
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: him in the ninth.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's a lot wrong, not putting it all
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: at his feet, but it's just.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: It's another example.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: It's just another example.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: The moment I saw Vargas back out in the seventh,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I'm like, why? What is happening?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: And I kind of sensed that it was going to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: unravel on them again.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand. At least I totally agree with you.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: But I also see the thinking of, OK, we just
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: had a guy who's looked good in Vargas in this inning.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: We don't really have a ton of confidence in a
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: lot of other guys right now.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: You have to have confidence in Dominguez. You have to.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: And you have to have confidence in Spire. He stunk yesterday,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: but he's been good all season long. If you don't
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: have confidence in those three, then who do you have
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: confidence in?
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know. He was trying to steal outs again
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: for the next day's game.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Seriously. Yeah.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: He was once again, and he does this all the time,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: he was trying to steal outs so that he could
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: keep people available for the next day. We can't think
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: that way. We've got to think whatever it takes to
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: get this win without abusing anyone.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: And then tomorrow we got to hope Kate Anderson gives
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: a seven. Yeah. That's the way you've got to handle it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: You've dug this grave for yourself. So this is the
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: way you've got to handle it. You have to keep
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: shovel in hand at all times when you're digging a grave.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's what ended up being, honestly, an elimination game.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: That's how you ended up having the thought process.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Again, Skeeter's right back in bed because he fell out
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the window. Who wants to pull the plug?
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, will the Astros lose 10 straight for us?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I don't... I mean, I'm not going to give up.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: If I'm the Mariners, I'm not going to give up.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: But the Rangers are there, too.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: But there's no reason to believe they're going to come back.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: That's reasonable. That's fair. That's accurate. But, again, there's a pulse.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: You want to pull the plug, pull the plug. Probably
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: will save us a lot of grief. Yeah, I think so, too.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, I know you've got a thirst.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: A thirst.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: For Anderson Hurst. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: All right, it is time for our first ever official
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: installment of a brand new feature. In case you're just
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: joining us here this morning, we have made an official
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: announcement as of Friday. Anders Hurst, now part of The
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Morning Show. Ashley Ryan, now part of the Ian Furness
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Radio Show. We've made that trade. And so, as time
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: goes on, we will, of course, be introducing new and
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: exciting features. to the radio program. We had an awful
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: lot built around Bucky once upon a time, including the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: old judge, which was one of my favorites.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: He still has his gavel over there.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: But we would weigh in on a topic, and then
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: he would slam his gavel, and then he would judge
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: us for our opinions. So I don't want anything to
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: sound exactly like that. I'm going to create some things
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: for Anders now that he's here. And one segment that
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: we've toyed around with in the past that we'll refine
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: over time. I still don't even know exactly where I
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: want to take it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, sounds good.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: But it's called A Thirst, A Thirst, A Thirst for
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Anders Hurst.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: So we will get your opinion on a few things,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: and then Travis and I will judge you. We will
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: decide whether or not your analysis leaves us satiated or parched.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Refreshed. Refreshed.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Or, you know, dying. Dying.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Thirst, dehydrated. Next to Skeeter. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So here
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: we go. First topic for you.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: How many wins will it take to keep all the
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Seahawks goals intact? If in fact, Sam Darnold is going
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: to be out, worst case scenario, the six weeks that
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Mike Florio is suggesting. So you are at Arizona, at Washington,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: home to the Chargers. Home to the 49ers, at the Broncos,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: home to the Chiefs. How many Seahawks wins will have
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: to be gained by Drew Locke and company over that
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: sixth stretch to keep all of the season goals intact?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: And that includes division championship, number one seed, all of
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: that stuff.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: So we're operating under the assumption that it's six weeks
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: of no Sam Darnold.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: I say if you win four, and you can keep
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: all your goals intact, four games out of the six.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Four games.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Four games. Which ones are you counting on there?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Cardinals, Commanders, Chargers, and then one of the 49ers, Broncos,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: and Chiefs.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: So four and two, and you're still a division champion
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: contender and number one seed contender.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Especially if that one win comes against the 49ers. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: feel satiated.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: That would be my exact number.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Satiated.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: I feel like you've quenched my thirst here for the segment,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: for the topic.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Travis, how are you feeling about it? I feel that's
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: an optimistic take.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Oh!
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: But it would quench my thirst.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Okay. Fair enough.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: You think they need five?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: No.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure that they can get four.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: How many do you think they can get?
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: That's another... story i i still think they can get
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: four but i i kind of am with travis that's
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: a little optimistic if they go three and three again
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: operating under the assumption that um sam donald's out for
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: six weeks if they go three and three in those
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: six weeks having already have a win so then that
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: would make you four and three when sam donald comes
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: back that's that's not the end of the world for
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: me i still think everything's on the table at that
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: point okay all.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Right next one up um Did the Kraken satisfy your
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: thirst for an off-season of additions?
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, if we're, you know, quenching our thirst for
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Hearst in this segment, whatever the opposite of that is,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: is what the Kraken did this off-season for me.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: You're a desiccated leaf blowing down the street.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get some air.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: My throat it's so dry no yeah it's not good
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: not good not a good offseason for the Kraken. It's
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: hard to spin it any other way. Not even just
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: in terms of your talent acquisition or lack thereof, so
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: to speak, but not in the PR world. Everyone's kind
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: of trashing on the Kraken nowadays because Jason Robertson said no.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: That turned out to be an oasis.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: It did.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: You're climbing across the desert, crawling across the desert. You
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: found something. Oh, my gosh. Look at that beautiful Robertson pond.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And then when you got there, finally, it just.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it disappeared.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Evaporated like a Daffy Duck cartoon.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very true. And like, yes, they re-signed Bobby McMahon,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: but I equate that, honestly, and we're seeing kind of
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: the effects of that to the Mariners re-signing Josh Naylor, right?
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: You brought in a guy halfway through the season or
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: towards the end of the season at the deadline who
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: was good for you, I don't know if he's going
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: to be that guy, and especially like it's even worse
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: for the Kraken because the Mariners at least had a core,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: and Josh Naylor kind of added to that. You're not
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: expecting him to be the guy. The Kraken are kind
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: of expecting Bobby McMahon to be the guy, and he's
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: never been the guy.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I feel satisfied again. I feel that my cup runneth over.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Whatever the opposite of what the Kraken did is what
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: you just got. Yes, you're being dehydrated by the Kraken
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: this offseason, I think is an accurate reaction to a
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: rather paltry offseason.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: 100% agree.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: We're going to cut open a Samaskevich cactus to see
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: if anything drips out of it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Anything. Any drips. At this point, we're like, drinking our
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: own stuff.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I didn't know if I could say that on the air.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I think I should. Bear Grylls does it.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: He does. Yeah. He does. All right.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Next one for you. Scale from 1 to 10. As
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: far as superheroes go, where does Green Lantern rank for you?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I've been watching this Lantern show. Yeah. And I really
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: think it's pretty good.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: I've heard good things.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: But in terms of the superhero himself, I'm like, I
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: don't know if I even get this character.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: How do you feel? You're a superhero guy. Yeah, I am.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about the Green Lantern?
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: So we're not talking about the show itself. We're talking
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: about the superhero. Yeah, the superhero character.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: How does that rank for you? Very low. Very low? Very.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I just don't think of it, to be completely honest.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of people who I put ahead of it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: And let's be honest, it has to do with how
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: good the movies are or the shows or whatever content
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: you're consuming. that makes me like the characters more. I'm
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: not a huge comic guy. Eventually I'll dabble here and there,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: but I just have never really gotten into the Green Lantern.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: And honestly, before this show, The Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: was known as one of the worst movies of all time.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Of all time, period. Not even just superhero movies. So
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: was Dune, though.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: That's true. And then look what they've done with Dune in.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: The last five years. That's true. Maybe they revive it
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: here with this show. I have actually not seen the show.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I've heard great things.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I like it. I'm just like, I don't know if
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I like the Green Lantern. Travis, you? His whole superpower
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: is that he wears rings. He has a ring and
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: he's like a... He's like a Tesla.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: He's got to get plugged in every once in a
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: while in order for him to operate smoothly.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: It's true.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Sometimes he has to wait for it, just like people
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: with electric cars got to wait for a plug to
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: open up.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: That's what I've gathered. I've never seen the movie.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: It's a little confusing.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I haven't read the comic book.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I think the show's pretty good and pretty clever, but
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I just don't know if I.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: I think the superhero character is very good. So I'm
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: with you on that. Agreed.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Final one in our very first episode of A Thirst
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: for Anders Hirst.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Inaugural episode.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: What is your go-to dad move to make Austin laugh?
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  Speaker 1: Laugh? And you have to perform it on the air. Oh, geez.
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  Speaker 3: It's not really a performance.
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  Speaker 1: On YouTube.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Here you go, America.
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  Speaker 3: I hold him up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I hold him up in the air, Simba style. And
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: I kind of shake so his legs are kind of
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: flopping back and forth. He loves that. That's it?
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty basic.
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  Speaker 3: He laughs every single time when I do that. So
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: it's pretty basic.
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  Speaker 1: I feel deprived. Finally. What, you wanted something more? Yeah,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I wanted to hear like that you had to. Can't lie.
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  Speaker 1: You had a crazy voice that you used and that
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you went for the belly and you were like, I'm
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: a Tommy monster. You know, or something like that. That's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: what I wanted to hear on the airwaves.
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  Speaker 3: He's not quite to that age where he like understands
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: like the silly stuff. You just have to shake him
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  Speaker 3: around a little bit and he laughs.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Jiggle him. Yeah. Can I give you a hot tip? Oh, yes, please. Kids,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: children of all ages, love physical humor.
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  Speaker 4: So just doing like a Three Stooges bit, like walking
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: into a wall, my kids lose it.
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  Speaker 3: They love it.
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  Speaker 4: Me pretending to walk into things will keep them entertained
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  Speaker 4: for hours.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: I'll definitely take that to heart. I like that.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Moger kids celebrate the entire Chris Farley catalog.
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  Speaker 1: They love it.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: They love it.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, it's our third and final installment,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: this special day of being able to talk about every
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: single NFL game that was played yesterday. We're not going
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: to get this opportunity again. So our third and final
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: installment of our brand new scoreboard feature, wins and tough
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: ones on Sports.
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  Speaker 1: Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: On the future, just one tidy, fast NFL scoreboard segment
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: on Mondays at 6.30 because we have so much Seahawks
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: stuff to discuss on a typical Monday that there's really
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: not that much time to discuss the entire National Football League.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: But, I mean, we had.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Two full days to recap the Seahawks opener last week.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: So it's loosened things up a little bit, and we
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: now have an opportunity to for a third portion of
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  Speaker 2: today's NFL scoreboard and a chance to talk about each
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  Speaker 2: one of these games. And so here we go. Of course,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I challenge our listeners to come up with the name
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: of the segment every single year, and we don't turn
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: it into American Idol. There's not like a group that
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Paula Abdul holds up yellow cards for. And then a
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: group that Randy has to go break the bad news to.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty much just whoever gives us the first usable name,
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  Speaker 2: we go with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
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  Speaker 3: No selection process whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: No, very simple.
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  Speaker 2: And so welcome to another installment of Wins and Tough
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  Speaker 2: Ones right here. on Chuck in the mornings. So let's
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  Speaker 2: go with the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Texans. It
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: was the marquee game of the opening week and it
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: lived up to it. Fantastic football game to get the
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: season started and completely different than the type of game
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I was expecting. Just an offensive shootout. Stroud looked pretty good,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: certainly compared to where he was a year ago. And
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: the Houston Texans defense, which is the only team in
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: conversation with the Seahawks and Rams as the best defense
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: in the league, couldn't stop Josh Allen and.
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  Speaker 1: The Bills for anything.
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  Speaker 2: 334 passing yards for Allen, two touchdown passes, two touchdown runs.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't anything like I expected. Bills win by five.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just... another kind of feather in the cap
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: of weird week one and things that we didn't expect. Um,
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: but also it kind of goes to show what we've
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: been saying a long time that everyone kind of puts
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: the Broncos Seahawks and Texans defenses in the same category. Yeah.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: I think the Seahawks is a step above. And if anything,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks and Broncos is a step above the Houston Texans.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: I know they have a fierce pass rush, but the
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: other levels are not as elite as the other two teams.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: They looked elite last year.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: They certainly looked elite by years in, but not a
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: good start for them. Maybe they are the Mike Tomlin
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: example of the teams that just did not practice tackling
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: and tackling the quarterback and were vulnerable because I was
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: not expecting that high scoring of a game. The Jacksonville Jaguars,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: and I know they were facing Cleveland. They might be
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: the best team in the AFC. They looked unstoppable yesterday.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: And Cleveland's supposed to have a good defense. We know
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: that Deshaun Watson's going to struggle. Their offense is going
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: to struggle. I think that's by design. But they're supposed
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: to have one of the better defenses in the NFL,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns. And Jacksonville just... They were done by halftime.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: They took their foot off the gas and didn't even
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: really try to score after Trevor Lawrence's fourth touchdown pass.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the biggest thing for me is it seems
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: like Liam Cohen has been the guy to unlock what
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: we all saw in college with Trevor Lawrence. It took
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: him a while to get to this point, but man,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: he looks like the guy that everyone saw as one
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: of the best prospects in the last 20 years.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Also, thank you, Fantasy Football Week number one, for... giving
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: me the idea that I had drafted maybe the greatest
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: team in the history of fantasy football by halftime, and
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: then taking Trey Flowers away from me with a hamstring injury.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: The Jaguars didn't throw the ball in the entire second half.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Colston Loveland didn't catch one pass in a game where
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: his team scored 59 points. So thank you, fantasy football,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: for kicking me right in the teeth. The Pittsburgh Steelers
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: won 2013 over the Atlanta Falcons, who actually had to
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: start their third-string quarterback in Cooper Rush because Tua and
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Penix were not healthy enough to play.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Steelers win, but... Man, DK Metcalf's got some issues.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: He was targeted ten times, caught only four passes, had
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: multiple drops, and two offensive pass interference plays. He does
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: not look good. Johnny made a good decision, maybe, of
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: getting rid of DK when he did.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Another, like I said, feather in the cap of John
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Schneider of moving on from guys at the exact right time.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Just like he did with Russell Wilson. just like he eventually,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: and maybe it wasn't his full decision, but with Pete Carroll, um,
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: and like, there's a couple other examples that we're kind
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: of keeping an eye on this year. One of those
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: is DK Metcalf. One of those is Rick Woolen. One
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: of those is Boya Mafe. So we'll see what ends
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: up happening.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Well, a couple of them, they're probably going to be
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: pretty good. It'll be good players. Some guys you just
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: can't afford, but DK looked terrible. It looks terrible.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Just terrible.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Finally, let's talk about that record setting 59, 37 win
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: for the bears over the Carolina Panthers. Um, Caleb Williams
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: probably is going to be the best fantasy player this
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: year based on what I saw yesterday. Ben Johnson is
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: going out of his way to put points on the board.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Almost to the degree that it's like, what am I
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: watching here? Because Bryce Young threw 361 yards against the Bears.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is like Loyola Marymount.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I think he's intentionally letting teams score so that he
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: can keep scoring. That's kind of what it felt at times.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: And they put 59 points on the board in the
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: opening week.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's just so many parts to this.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: And it wasn't even really like a full-on error rate attack.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: It was a lot of run game with DeAndre Swift.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: 291 yards rushing.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's kind of the offense that people were
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: envisioning when Ben Johnson took over in Chicago.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: He called the shot. He said at the beginning of
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: the year, we're going to have the highest... Our goal
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: is to have the highest scoring offense ever in NFL history,
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: and when you make a bold statement like that and
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: then open the season against a playoff team, now granted,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: a watered-down playoff team, with 59 points? And they could
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: have had more.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: I thought Carolina was actually decent defensively going into this game,
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: but maybe not.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: I think they're going to be an offensive force, and
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: I think that they're going to try to win every
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: game 50 to 40.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: But we don't want to overreact. It is just one week.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Don't take the Bears' defense in fantasy.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Don't do that at all.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next on the program, we should
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: talk about the Huskies' offense. Another huge story from over
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: the weekend. Jed Fish's comments after the game and more.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.