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Chuck & Buck 6-12 hour 1: Can the US do ti? Mariners Morning After and so long 2025. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: This is Chuck and Buck in the Morning. What's folks?
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Speaker 1: Why you people are beyond Let's go, let's get the
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Speaker 1: game off. Well, great Friday morning to you all. Welcome
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Speaker 1: into the radio show that is Chuck and Buck in
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Speaker 1: the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three k j
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Speaker 1: R f M. It is fantastic to have you with
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Speaker 1: us on what should be another a lovely day here
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Speaker 1: in the Pacific Northwest. I can see it from my
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Speaker 1: studio here looking over the How did that guy pronounce it? Pudget?
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Speaker 1: Pudget sound? Oh it's gorgeous. Pudget. Oh boy, it's in
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Speaker 1: its splendor right budget is showing on. That's pudget for you. Well,
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Speaker 1: welcome into the radio show. Yeah, I guess we're gonna
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Speaker 1: warm up this weekend a little bit as well, So
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Speaker 1: all of you people that just cannot wait for eighty
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Speaker 1: five degree weather. Looks like it's coming for a couple
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Speaker 1: of days. Soak it up like a biscuit.
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Speaker 3: They were saying on that yesterday the weather was saying
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Speaker 3: that by Monday it would be ninety two the game here,
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Speaker 3: But I haven't seen that on my weather out. I
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Speaker 3: never know what I trust more a weather app or
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Speaker 3: weather person.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just.
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Speaker 1: Usually find meet in the middle. Okay, so we'll go
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Speaker 1: with a high of eighty eight. Yeah, well, I just
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Speaker 1: put it this way. It's gonna warm up a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And I love how there's always this can't wait till
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Speaker 1: it gets warm, And then the moment it does get
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Speaker 1: legitimately warm, then you're given warnings of the heat and
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Speaker 1: advisory heat advisories. Stay in your house, don't.
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Speaker 3: Leave, which I think I just have to say, we've gotten.
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Speaker 1: Soft with the heat advisories, I think.
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Speaker 3: So it said it starts on Sunday at eleven, and
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Speaker 3: they looked in on my weather it said Sunday a
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Speaker 3: high of eighty four. I was like, we're going heat
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Speaker 3: advisories with eighty four degrees?
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Speaker 1: Come on, now, Well, I guess if you live perpetually
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Speaker 1: in a onesie. Yeah, and you always have a blanket
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Speaker 1: around you, that's true. Yeah, and you're always warm zipping cocoa. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you know, then you probably would warm up a little.
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Speaker 3: Might be ill prepared for the eighty four degree day
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Speaker 3: while exercising.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, those things will overeat you. You will get steamy,
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Speaker 1: you will tap yourself out at that stage. Well, good
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Speaker 1: morning to you, welcome into the radio show. We got
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Speaker 1: a lot of things playing for you here on this
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Speaker 1: fabulous Friday, a lot of really cool people we're going
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Speaker 1: to stop by the show and take part of it today.
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Speaker 1: So we're excited about that. And of course everybody seems
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Speaker 1: to be community wide excited about being a part of
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Speaker 1: the biggest sporting event in the world. The World Cup
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Speaker 1: is now underway. Look at Mexico getting me a win already.
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Speaker 3: Yesterday, No, they well they appreciated that you drafted them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, the fighting Moon Joses. We're going
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Speaker 1: to bring it home this year. We had a green
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Speaker 1: Jacket draft yesterday we did our preview and Jackson Feltz,
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Speaker 1: my old producer who's turned into the sage of soccer
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Speaker 1: here in town, told me you got a great team
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Speaker 1: You've got a great team. I felt ten feet tall. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll see how it plays out. Yeah, we'll see how
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Speaker 1: So I do want to start there, and I do
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Speaker 1: want to talk about soccer in America, and we do
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Speaker 1: have the first American game of the World Cup tonight,
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Speaker 1: six o'clock right here on ninety three point three KHRFM.
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Speaker 1: They'll be make and on Paraguay. And for those wandering,
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Speaker 1: translated to two guys, right, unlike Uruguay, which is just
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Speaker 1: one guy solo. So we're taking on Paraguay tonight. Hard
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Speaker 1: for me to believe, honestly, and I don't mean this
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Speaker 1: to be offensive that Paraguay would be competitive with us
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Speaker 1: in any sport, considering that we are mighty America that
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Speaker 1: tends to do quite well. But this is soccer, and
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Speaker 1: when you're talking about games that finish one nothing, two
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Speaker 1: to one more often than not, I failed to see
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Speaker 1: where there could even be registered a huge upset when
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Speaker 1: you're playing games that narrowly and where a game can
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Speaker 1: be decided on a penalty kick, yeah, or a bad
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Speaker 1: call or a fake leg injury, because that's how sometimes
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Speaker 1: you get those penalty kicks or a strange bounce of
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Speaker 1: the ball. I mean, when you're playing games into one
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Speaker 1: hundred points, you know there are a lot of ways
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Speaker 1: to make up for a strange bounce of the ball.
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Speaker 1: When you're playing to first to two, a strange bounce
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Speaker 1: of the ball can cost you. I don't care who
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Speaker 1: the competition is. And so yeah, you can't take anybody
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Speaker 1: lightly in this tournament. I would imagine, even though I'm
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Speaker 1: not a big soccer fan, you can't take anybody lightly
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Speaker 1: in the sport period. And so I suspect the US
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Speaker 1: is going to have its hands full tonight, even though
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Speaker 1: it is expected to win, and the US is supposed
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Speaker 1: to take care of in soccer terms, its group play
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Speaker 1: pretty easily. And so a lot of people wondering, as
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Speaker 1: we start World Cup play all over again, here is
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Speaker 1: this the year that the US shows that it's ready
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Speaker 1: to take that big step forward globally and start infringing
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Speaker 1: upon that conversation of being a global power on the pitch.
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Speaker 1: And so here we go again, and and it all
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Speaker 1: lies on the twenty twenty six US men's team Ashley
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Speaker 1: to try to prove even if even if you don't
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Speaker 1: make a run, I mean deep deep, right, if you
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Speaker 1: don't go to the semi finals. Okay, yeah, but are
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Speaker 1: you going to take that leap forward that suggests that
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Speaker 1: you are bridging the gap from good global soccer program two?
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Speaker 1: Now we're ready to be mentioned in the same breath
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Speaker 1: with you know, Spain and France and Germany and England
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Speaker 1: and others. Is this the year that the team proves
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Speaker 1: that and being able to play on home soil should
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Speaker 1: certainly provide a little bit of a benefit.
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Speaker 3: I would think so, and I would think I think
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Speaker 3: after listening to Anders and Jackson, my only concern would
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Speaker 3: be that I think even if the US were to
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Speaker 3: make a run, you know, if they got to the quarterfinals,
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Speaker 3: let's say, I don't know that they would still be
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Speaker 3: put on that level because it seems like because that
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Speaker 3: those countries have been playing soccer and been so good
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Speaker 3: at soccer for so long that I don't I think
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Speaker 3: we'd have to have multiple World Cups where we made
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Speaker 3: runs at it in order to even be mentioned in
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Speaker 3: the scene.
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Speaker 1: I just don't think.
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Speaker 3: They have the respect for us that that those programs have.
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Speaker 1: We are a bit of a prisoner of the moment
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Speaker 1: community now in sports more so than ever. I think
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Speaker 1: that that would that conversation would start if we made
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Speaker 1: a deep, deep run. I do think in the moment
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Speaker 1: that would happen. But I think you're right in terms
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Speaker 1: of proving it long term, it is have a great
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Speaker 1: successful Cup and that doesn't have to be win at all,
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Speaker 1: but have a good run, deep run, and then you know,
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Speaker 1: do it again the next time. And now all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, yeah, I'm and now you're putting yourself in
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Speaker 1: the conversation a bit. I'm with you. And yet here's
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Speaker 1: the truth of the matter. And look this know where
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Speaker 1: this is coming from. I'm from a small town in Illinois,
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Speaker 1: and when we had a kid, Todd Griggs still one
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Speaker 1: of my best friends, and he moved to town. And
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of soccer played in the Saint Louis area.
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Speaker 1: It's a pretty pop It's a very popular sport. I
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Speaker 1: think it was probably when I was growing up, it
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Speaker 1: was as popular in Saint Louis as it might have
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Speaker 1: been in any major metropolitan area. We had professional soccer there.
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Speaker 1: We had a couple of terrific programs. The college that
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Speaker 1: I went to, the tiny little college that I went to,
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Speaker 1: it was known for wrestling, tennis, and soccer. That's what
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Speaker 1: it was known for. So and we had a few
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Speaker 1: like high schools that took it very seriously and were
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Speaker 1: very good at it. But my little podunk high school
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Speaker 1: with the Cornfield across the street, it was not one
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Speaker 1: of those. As a matter of fact. When Todd Grigg
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Speaker 1: moved into our community, was like, hey, hey, who plays
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Speaker 1: soccer or like no one? Yeah, so yeah, you better
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Speaker 1: let that go, buddy, if you're going to be a
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Speaker 1: part of the a group around here, if you want
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Speaker 1: to be one of the popular kids. And it took
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Speaker 1: him a couple of years. He tried to fight the
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Speaker 1: good fight, and he just gave into it and became
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Speaker 1: a basketball player and ended up getting a D or
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Speaker 1: a D two scholarship. That's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, very good.
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Speaker 1: He was a very good player. Teammate of mine on
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Speaker 1: that twenty six and oh team that I don't think
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Speaker 1: I've ever told you about. No, I haven't heard about it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we were the backcourt. Yeah we went twenty six and
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Speaker 1: oh together. Wow, So you win the state championship. Oh
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Speaker 1: we did not. We got beat in the regional championships.
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Speaker 1: Can't believe I have not told you this. I've never
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Speaker 1: heard that story. So anyway, we kind of guilted him
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Speaker 1: out of liking soccer. I mean, that's just the community
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Speaker 1: that I was born up in and I never did
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Speaker 1: really attach to it. I didn't. Yeah, so I don't
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Speaker 1: think that I'm born with biases. And yet I'm going
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Speaker 1: to admit, as I'm getting ready to explore this conversation,
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Speaker 1: that's that's where I'm coming from. So if you want
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Speaker 1: to use that, say, well, that's why you feel that way.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think we're ever going to bridge the gap. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I think we can get better, we can
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Speaker 1: get closer. Yeses. And I certainly recognize. And this is
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Speaker 1: something that I never saw coming. I didn't think that
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Speaker 1: we would have future generations. I didn't think the generation
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Speaker 1: beneath me and then the generation beneath them now that's
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Speaker 1: coming up. I never dreamed that they would like soccer
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Speaker 1: as much as they do here in this country. But
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Speaker 1: that has arrived, and I acknowledge it. I recognize this.
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Speaker 1: So from a popularity standpoint, I mean, it's just taken
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Speaker 1: off here in the last you know, fifteen twenty five
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Speaker 1: years here in this country, and that's something that I
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Speaker 1: did not see coming. So also use that if you
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Speaker 1: want against me as I get ready to have this conversation,
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Speaker 1: because it's certainly grown in popularity with American sports fans
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Speaker 1: a lot more here in the last quarter century than
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Speaker 1: I ever dreamed that it would become. That said, though,
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Speaker 1: and I heard somebody having this conversation earlier about and
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Speaker 1: they were not from America, and they were asked, will
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Speaker 1: we ever bridge the gap? And the suggestion was made,
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Speaker 1: You've got to understand that os other countries, that's their
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Speaker 1: number one sport. It's part of their culture. Yeah, like
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Speaker 1: the best athletes in all of the grade schools have
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Speaker 1: already started their track toward becoming soccer stars. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's what they want to do, and they immerse themselves
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Speaker 1: in that sport, that community, the beautiful game, if you will,
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Speaker 1: because what you know, they see their idols and they
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Speaker 1: are soccer players. Well, we're still not there in this country.
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Speaker 1: Our best athletes, when given a choice, our very best athletes,
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Speaker 1: are still choosing basketball, football, and baseball. That's what we're
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Speaker 1: choosing right now. So when I mean, I realize we
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Speaker 1: have a monstrous country and we have a lot of
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Speaker 1: benefits here that we don't give ourselves credit for having.
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Speaker 1: A lot of you don't give us credit for having
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Speaker 1: here in America, and we got like pretty good compared
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Speaker 1: to a lot of countries, and so we also can foster,
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Speaker 1: you know, very good we can. We've got a lot
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Speaker 1: of talent to choose from from coast to coast, and
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Speaker 1: so we are getting better and slowly bridging the gap
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Speaker 1: from those other countries that have been soccer powers forever.
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Speaker 1: But it's slow. The process is so slow that I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it's ever going to be a significant leap,
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Speaker 1: because they're never going to stop making soccer their number
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Speaker 1: one love and the best athlete, and those schools at
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Speaker 1: Spain is like I want to be, you know, the
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Speaker 1: next Ronaldo? Is that his name? Yeah, that's his name. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm kidding, Oh yeah, That's that's who I was. Isn't
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Speaker 1: there a Ronaldino two or something like that? That's who
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Speaker 1: I want to be. And so that's that's their measuring stick.
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Speaker 1: That's what they're they're shooting for, and we're just not.
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Speaker 1: They're in this country at this point, and I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure we'll ever be. So if you even though you're
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Speaker 1: getting more popular and you're reaching out to more kids
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Speaker 1: and the game is growing, You're still not number one,
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Speaker 1: you're not number two, you're still not number three, and
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Speaker 1: it will take at least another generation to even have
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Speaker 1: a shot at that of cracking the top three here
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Speaker 1: in the country. Even I mean, hockey is getting more
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Speaker 1: popular in America and in the Southern States. So how
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Speaker 1: do you bridge the gap when you're still the fourth
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Speaker 1: most popular thing in your country and that sport has
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Speaker 1: never ever stopped being the number one sport in other countries.
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Speaker 3: And you think about it, to your top athletes when
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Speaker 3: they reach their peak, They're not staying here to play,
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Speaker 3: are they. They're going to Europe to play soccer players
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Speaker 3: when they're the best at the game. Well, sure so then,
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Speaker 3: but so then even your top talent isn't staying here
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Speaker 3: to help just make it even more popular.
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Speaker 1: Well, they're still playing for America, right, No, them is
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Speaker 1: going to have a hard time, you know, growing because
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Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, But still, I mean, that's actually sharpening
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Speaker 1: our knife, is that they play professionally. They're good enough
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Speaker 1: now that they play professionally in Europe and it is
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Speaker 1: making them better. And then they come back and they
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Speaker 1: wear the red, white and blue of the United States.
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Speaker 1: That's actually sharpening our knife that they're making that decision,
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Speaker 1: but the fact that all of the best leagues are there,
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Speaker 1: even though the MLS.
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Speaker 3: Is it's grown massively, massively and very clear that that's
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Speaker 3: happening as well.
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Speaker 1: Still nonetheless, yes, the US product is getting better and
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Speaker 1: it's growing, but all of those other countries, it's not declining.
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Speaker 1: They're still growing themselves, They're still getting better themselves, they're
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Speaker 1: still producing the next star. More of an appetite now
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Speaker 1: because of how much money is made by the top
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Speaker 1: stars in the sport overseas compared to what it is
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Speaker 1: here in America, where if you grow up as an
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Speaker 1: American child, an American athlete, and you're making that decision
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Speaker 1: on what sport I want to play, you're looking at, Okay,
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Speaker 1: who are Who's the idol that I can look up to?
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Speaker 1: And it's probably going to be and Edwards making sixty
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Speaker 1: million dollars a year wearing pajamas for a living. It's
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Speaker 1: probably going to be you know, Julio Rodriguez or Cal Rawley.
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Speaker 1: It's probably going to be you know, Patrick Mahomes. You know,
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Speaker 1: that's that's still where we are. And so I do
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Speaker 1: wonder if we'll ever bridge the gap, even though we
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Speaker 1: are as a country and as a sport in this country, growing, developing,
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Speaker 1: maturing every single year. And I do believe that America
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Speaker 1: is closing the gap. It's that's such a gradual state.
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Speaker 1: How are you ever going to make that big jump
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Speaker 1: forward to be on the same level with countries whose
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Speaker 1: interest in their sport, love in their sport is not
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Speaker 1: declining whatsoever. Their young athletes are hungrier than ever to
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Speaker 1: become the next great soccer star in their country, where
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Speaker 1: I don't think our best athletes are making those decisions
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Speaker 1: even at age thirteen. Yeah, no, I would agree, I
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Speaker 1: would agree.
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Speaker 3: And I think when I brought up the point about
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Speaker 3: the MLS and that our best players are going over there,
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Speaker 3: fully understand that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's making them better.
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Speaker 3: But I also think if you get to the point
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Speaker 3: if with the MLS where you're getting those top athletes
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Speaker 3: to stay here, yes, then that makes this sport now
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Speaker 3: people see Okay, no, look, I can make some money
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Speaker 3: here at home, and I can do these things because
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Speaker 3: you're growing that which then grows all the way down.
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Speaker 1: But that is a long process. Maam, Well, it's growing, yes,
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Speaker 1: it's getting better, and it's more popular. And I'll here's
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Speaker 1: the best compliment I can give the sport of soccer.
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Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding you. Every time I drive by
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Speaker 1: a park, there are always soccer matches going on, always,
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Speaker 1: and I don't care if it's a league or if
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Speaker 1: it's a pickup game, but they are always. There's not
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Speaker 1: always baseball, and it's not you know, football, I think
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Speaker 1: is kind of a different commodity because I don't think
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Speaker 1: they just play at the school or wherever they might be.
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Speaker 1: But whenever you go by, and there are some really
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Speaker 1: impressive facilities that have obviously been grown that are multi
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Speaker 1: sports facilities, so you can do anything you want in
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Speaker 1: there pretty much. And yet every time you drive by rain, snow, sleet,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter heat, They're always playing soccer. And I'll
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Speaker 1: give them credit for that. So we are definitely seeing
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Speaker 1: a huge push in enjoyment of the sport, enjoyment of
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Speaker 1: playing the sport. But I do wonder if it will
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Speaker 1: ever grow, like American soccer will ever ever be on
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Speaker 1: the same level as other countries, because we're still a
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Speaker 1: long way away from it being the preferred sport of
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Speaker 1: young athletes in America. Yeah, I fully agree, Yeah, all right,
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Speaker 1: let's find out what's on tap for the rest of
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Speaker 1: the show, what's on TV, what's on tech? All right,
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Speaker 1: So anders Hurst is going to join us in the
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Speaker 1: O Show today at eight o'clock. That'll be our top
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Speaker 1: story of our eight top stories of Friday, US versus
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Speaker 1: Paraguay tonight at six o'clock right here on KJAR will
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Speaker 1: preview it with one of our own. Anders Hurst will
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Speaker 1: join us at eight o'clock. The Seahawks offseason program ended yesterday,
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Speaker 1: and so the world champs have decided to take their
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Speaker 1: summer break their summer vacations before reconvening on July twenty
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Speaker 1: fifth for the start of training camp and the defense
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Speaker 1: of their championship. No coincidence. Mike McDonald always does things
18:55
Speaker 1: in a very foxy intelligent way. Foxy, he gave them
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Speaker 1: their championship rings. I mean sometimes that ceremony and a
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Speaker 1: lot of sports that ceremonies held like on the opening
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Speaker 1: day of the season and everybody gets their championship rings.
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Speaker 1: And I think that was his way of saying, And
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not sure if this happens with
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Speaker 1: other NFL teams, that was his way of saying This
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Speaker 1: is it, guys. This is the end of last year.
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Speaker 1: I think so too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, not start off the next season by celebrating the
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Speaker 3: last season.
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Speaker 1: Now you got all the work to do all over again.
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Speaker 1: You spend the next six months admiring your ring and
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Speaker 1: your accomplishments. But when we reconvene again, it is about
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Twenty twenty five is long behind us.
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Speaker 1: I agree, So we'll talk to Greg Bell about that
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Speaker 1: at seven oh five. Our Seahawks one series continues today.
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Speaker 1: Brian Walters has never been a part of the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: one series, so we're gonna have the former Seahawk on
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Speaker 1: today and can't wait to have him on the show
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Speaker 1: and find out who he selects to analyze for one
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Speaker 1: entire interview right here on Chuck and Buck Stanley Cup Final.
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Speaker 1: Another terrific game last night Carolina, though a little more
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Speaker 1: lopsided than the previous games. They opened up a three
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Speaker 1: goal lead at one point in this game scored four
20:06
Speaker 1: unanswered goals. They're two best players. Ajo and sveshnikoffer offensive
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Speaker 1: players finally showed up to score goals in that game
20:14
Speaker 1: last night. But Jordan Stall's been the story this entire series.
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Speaker 1: I mean, when did he become the best player in
20:21
Speaker 1: the world.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, great question. I did appreciate though. That's Sveetchnikoff trying
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Speaker 3: to give you a late, late push.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, He's like, you know what, I'm I got,
20:28
Speaker 1: I got you chuck. Yeah, I'm only like fifteen. Yeah,
20:31
Speaker 1: you've got fourteen goals coming next game. Game six will
20:34
Speaker 1: be held on Sunday, and the Hurricanes could win Lord
20:38
Speaker 1: Stanley's Cup on Sunday. Game five of the NBA Finals
20:42
Speaker 1: Tomorrow it could be over for the San Antonio Spurs. Tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: the Knicks will have their first of potentially three possibilities
20:50
Speaker 1: to win the NBA Championship that will take place tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Spencer Hawes has finally calmed down enough that he's going
20:58
Speaker 1: to join us today at eighth to talk about the
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Speaker 1: NBA Finals Storm and Action tonight at seven o'clock against
21:04
Speaker 1: the Golden State Valkyries. The College World Series starts today.
21:08
Speaker 1: West Virginia versus Troy is your first game that will
21:12
Speaker 1: begin at eleven a m. Baltimore and Seattle. Yesterday, in
21:17
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, the Orioles won the last two games
21:21
Speaker 1: of a four game series yesterday Brian wo tattooed a
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Speaker 1: bit seven to five the final score. So the thirty
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Speaker 1: six and thirty four Seattle Mariners will take a train
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Speaker 1: ride to Washington, d C. To start a three game
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Speaker 1: weekend series with the Nationals tonight and also tonight in Tacoma.
21:40
Speaker 1: I don't think Col's going to play, but I'll be
21:42
Speaker 1: in Tacoma to broadcast tonight's Rainiers game with Riley pay
21:47
Speaker 1: and I'm sure cal Riley will be a big topic
21:50
Speaker 1: of conversation during the course of our broadcast today. But
21:53
Speaker 1: coming up next we'll recap that crappy game in Baltimore yesterday.
21:58
Speaker 1: It's Mariners Morning After Chuck and Ashley with you on
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. They just decided
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Speaker 1: to ruin our evening again for a second night in
22:07
Speaker 1: a row. The Mariners, who won the first two wild
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Speaker 1: games of a four game series against a what has
22:14
Speaker 1: been a surging Baltimore Orioles team here as of late.
22:17
Speaker 1: I know, their overall record has not indicated that that's
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Speaker 1: a really dangerous offensive team, and through a series of
22:24
Speaker 1: wacky events, the Mariners came out on top both Monday
22:28
Speaker 1: and Tuesday, and then not so much success there on Wednesday,
22:33
Speaker 1: and last night was a chance to bring it on
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Speaker 1: home on the road, and that is by winning three
22:39
Speaker 1: out of four against the Orioles. It was a terrific
22:42
Speaker 1: pitching matchup. On paper, Kyle Bradish is their most talented pitcher.
22:47
Speaker 1: Brian Wu has been arguably our best pitcher over the
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Speaker 1: last year and a half. But neither guy was good
22:54
Speaker 1: last night. As a matter of fact, they were getting
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Speaker 1: smacked all around the ballpark. Brian Wu, who got off
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Speaker 1: to a great start. I mean, the broadcasters because it
23:04
Speaker 1: was a national game in ESPN game last night, couldn't
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Speaker 1: get over how terrible the Orioles looked at the plate
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Speaker 1: against Brian Wu through two innings. But whatever they figured
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Speaker 1: out second time through the lineup, they figured it out
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Speaker 1: in a hurry. They scored six times that inning. And
23:21
Speaker 1: we're not talking about bloops, no or bleeders are seeing
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Speaker 1: eye ground ball. That was just frustrating that all they
23:28
Speaker 1: lucked out. Nope, he was getting crushed, including a four
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty nine foot home run from Pete Alonso
23:35
Speaker 1: which gave the Orioles six runs in the inning. They
23:38
Speaker 1: took a six to one lead, But here come the
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Speaker 1: Mariners back the very next inning. I mean, there's been
23:44
Speaker 1: a lot of times as Mariner fans in the last
23:48
Speaker 1: ten years, you're down six to one and you kind
23:50
Speaker 1: of like, what else was on telemon Oh gosh, I
23:52
Speaker 1: can't wait to stare at the wall. Eh, Bobby Flay
23:56
Speaker 1: meeting Bobby Flay today? But man, did the Mariners answer?
24:02
Speaker 1: In the fourth inning, Luke Raley hits a two run
24:05
Speaker 1: home run and then Dom can Zone follows right up.
24:08
Speaker 1: They've got power, but these guys are gonna put up
24:10
Speaker 1: a cooking number. Can't Zone Goffs won the deep brightfield,
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Speaker 1: and the Mariners go back to back Rayley and can Zone,
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Speaker 1: both from the left side, both assaulting Bradish breaking balls,
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Speaker 1: and Seattle, after giving up six, has scored three without
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Speaker 1: it out here in the fourth. Yeah, back to back
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Speaker 1: home runs. Suddenly you're back within a run at six
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Speaker 1: to five. And then for whatever reason, the Orioles bring
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Speaker 1: in Tyler Wells and he solves the Mariners offense that night.
24:47
Speaker 1: He was untouchable for three innings, and the Orioles tacked
24:51
Speaker 1: on another in the fifth to make it seven to five,
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Speaker 1: and that was all. She wrote. Final score seven to
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Speaker 1: five Baltimore over the Mariners. So the series ends in
25:01
Speaker 1: a split two games a piece, which is not satisfying
25:05
Speaker 1: at all considering that you had a two to zero
25:08
Speaker 1: series lead in this game. Brian Wu, who has been
25:12
Speaker 1: struggling lately, that era is all the way up to
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Speaker 1: four point two eight. It was one point five two
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Speaker 1: months ago, it's up to four point two eight, and
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Speaker 1: he is particularly struggling when he's on the road. He's
25:25
Speaker 1: great at home, but when he goes on the road,
25:27
Speaker 1: he is getting hammered. And Brian Wu said after the game,
25:30
Speaker 1: I've had enough of this.
25:35
Speaker 2: I also, Uh, I mean it's different on different days.
25:47
Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes you try to do so much. Sometimes you just
25:49
Speaker 4: don't out of that day. Sometimes Uh, it's I I
26:01
Speaker 4: wouldn't be standing higher in this position. But yeah, yeah,
26:07
Speaker 4: I've I wish i'd I best I had better answers
26:10
Speaker 4: for you guys.
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Speaker 2: I just I don't have this again. It's a lot
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Speaker 2: of this is just on the road.
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Speaker 4: If it's only seven games, you could look after its
26:19
Speaker 4: remember if there's something the pattern.
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Speaker 2: Or something you can pinpoint.
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Speaker 1: It feels like why it's happening more around the road, And.
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Speaker 4: I remember, I try to be consistent in the way
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Speaker 4: I prepare for each game, and uh, it's no different
26:37
Speaker 4: on the on the road.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.
26:43
Speaker 4: I'm getting pretty tired of trying to come up with
26:47
Speaker 4: reasons or you know, excrusions or as prolatives.
26:50
Speaker 3: I'm just.
26:52
Speaker 2: I'm tired of sucking.
26:53
Speaker 4: I could try it, just it is, I don't, you know,
26:56
Speaker 4: I guess I'm I don't have the answers I'm looking
26:58
Speaker 4: for him, and.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
27:02
Speaker 1: But that's the dude being hard on himself right there. Yeah.
27:05
Speaker 3: And I the reason I had like there was such
27:07
Speaker 3: long gaps is I wanted to show like just how
27:10
Speaker 3: frustrated he really is.
27:11
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he doesn't have answers right now. I mean,
27:14
Speaker 1: I know the problem. I mean, and no, Brian wu
27:18
Speaker 1: I mean you can tell Cares loves his teammates, works
27:23
Speaker 1: his butt off. He's throwing hard. He's throwing ninety seven,
27:27
Speaker 1: ninety eight. He's throwing harder this year than he was
27:29
Speaker 1: a year ago. I think Brian's problem is that's the
27:32
Speaker 1: only pitch that's working for him most on a consistent basis.
27:36
Speaker 1: The fastball is the only thing. And I know the
27:38
Speaker 1: fastball is getting hit hard too. But when you only
27:40
Speaker 1: have one good pitch working for you and nobody fears
27:43
Speaker 1: your secondary stuff, then they're gonna sit on that fastball.
27:47
Speaker 1: So Brian Wu's having a lot of trouble showing up
27:50
Speaker 1: at the ballpark with all of his stuff working, including
27:54
Speaker 1: his location, and that's his bread and butter. He when
27:58
Speaker 1: he's going, he throws, He dots it, I throw it
28:01
Speaker 1: wherever I want. And he's got a simple approach. He's
28:05
Speaker 1: not the guy trying to invent pitches in the off season.
28:09
Speaker 1: What he does is I've got two or three pitches,
28:12
Speaker 1: and I spend the entire offseason trying to perfect him,
28:15
Speaker 1: trying to find an extra edge to them. And then
28:18
Speaker 1: that's how I approach this thing. And then if I
28:20
Speaker 1: hit my spots, then and I'm going to be successful.
28:24
Speaker 1: I've already proven it. Well, he's not hitting his spots,
28:28
Speaker 1: then he only has one effective pitch right now, You're
28:30
Speaker 1: going to get tattooed, yeah, at some point during a
28:34
Speaker 1: game if that's how you're operating. And that's what's occurring
28:38
Speaker 1: to Brian Wu right now. And it does have to
28:40
Speaker 1: be frustrating because here you are somebody that was never
28:44
Speaker 1: supposed to have this kind of success at the major
28:46
Speaker 1: league level, had nothing but injuries playing this sport. Mariners
28:50
Speaker 1: take a chance on you saw something special in you
28:53
Speaker 1: started developing that. I mean, Brian wu was creating buzz
28:57
Speaker 1: in this organization two years year and a half, two
29:00
Speaker 1: years before he actually became a household name here in Seattle.
29:05
Speaker 1: And then he arrives on the scene. You're like, oh gosh,
29:07
Speaker 1: this guy's really good. And he just kept getting better
29:10
Speaker 1: and better and better. And so you went from somebody
29:12
Speaker 1: that probably didn't even think you were going to have
29:15
Speaker 1: a major league career to suddenly being receiving Cy Young
29:19
Speaker 1: votes a year ago, making it to the All Star Game,
29:23
Speaker 1: being the number one starter on a team that has
29:26
Speaker 1: a bye in the first round of the playoffs as
29:29
Speaker 1: division champions, and you expect, in twenty twenty six, because
29:32
Speaker 1: I'm twenty six years old, I'm going to build on
29:34
Speaker 1: that next year. Well he hasn't built on that. So
29:37
Speaker 1: he's very frustrated, and understandably, when you have too many
29:42
Speaker 1: pitchers for too few a spots sort of deal that
29:44
Speaker 1: we've got right now in Seattle. I mean, right now,
29:48
Speaker 1: we've got two struggling pitchers piggyback him, Brian wu and
29:52
Speaker 1: George Kirby done. We know how to fix them. I
29:56
Speaker 1: don't think they would like it. As a matter of fact,
29:58
Speaker 1: I think those two guys would be the It's the
30:00
Speaker 1: hardest two guys to kind of try to convince that
30:03
Speaker 1: this is good for you. So I don't even know
30:05
Speaker 1: if the Mariners will approach the subject with him. I
30:08
Speaker 1: think part of the reason they did it with Miller
30:10
Speaker 1: and Castillo because those are the two most easy going.
30:13
Speaker 3: Guys, and miss was super easy with Miller coming off
30:16
Speaker 3: the il.
30:17
Speaker 1: Those are but those are the two most easy going
30:19
Speaker 1: guys on the roster, and so you can approach something
30:22
Speaker 1: like that, and even they fought back on it. What
30:25
Speaker 1: are George? What would George and Brian do if you
30:28
Speaker 1: brought it the proposal to them. I don't think they
30:31
Speaker 1: would take it as well. I'll tell you that much.
30:34
Speaker 1: But I don't know. We still have the issue and
30:37
Speaker 1: I don't want a six man rotation. And obviously Dan
30:40
Speaker 1: Wilson can't juggle a bullpen when he's a demand down,
30:43
Speaker 1: so we Brian will might have to confront a little
30:47
Speaker 1: bit of a different role. We shall see. But he
30:50
Speaker 1: got roughed up last night we'll see if Bryce Miller
30:53
Speaker 1: in Washington, DC tonight can get the team back on
30:56
Speaker 1: a winning track, as they suggest, two games over five
31:00
Speaker 1: hundred here this morning, and now on a two game
31:03
Speaker 1: losing streak. So Miller versus right hander Zach Lttel of
31:07
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals tonight first pitch again. Another three forty
31:12
Speaker 1: five ish start on the East Coast for the Mariners
31:16
Speaker 1: here this evening. We'll talk more about it with ABC's
31:18
Speaker 1: of the Ms coming up on the radio program. But
31:20
Speaker 1: coming up next, the Seahawks offseason has come to an end,
31:24
Speaker 1: and so we will see how we're going to fill
31:28
Speaker 1: our days without Seahawks offseason news to report. Sports Radio
31:32
Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM. On one hand, we're kind
31:48
Speaker 1: of accepting, like the NFL is king in this country
31:53
Speaker 1: sports talk radio certainly, and so you're kind of accepting,
31:56
Speaker 1: oh man, oh man, the off season program ended yes esterday. See,
32:01
Speaker 1: so I mean, where's all the news, where's all the
32:04
Speaker 1: football news to break down? Oh gosh, it's gonna be
32:08
Speaker 1: oh man, an offseason. Oh boy. This is the stretch
32:11
Speaker 1: that terrifies some sports talk REYO hosts. They don't have
32:14
Speaker 1: football stars to lean on. What else going up? What
32:17
Speaker 1: else are they possibly going to talk about for the
32:19
Speaker 1: next five to six weeks. On the other hand, training
32:22
Speaker 1: camp is in five to six weeks. That's really cool.
32:27
Speaker 1: We're like a month away from getting the football season started,
32:31
Speaker 1: which is exciting. I mean, I'm excited about it. I
32:34
Speaker 1: don't get intimidated by the loll never have. Then again,
32:38
Speaker 1: I'm a baseball junkie, so this is kind of the
32:41
Speaker 1: opportunity to put baseball on the front burner, even ahead
32:46
Speaker 1: of the National Football League for the next five or
32:48
Speaker 1: six weeks. So I love that. But I'm also so excited.
32:51
Speaker 1: I'm excited about our one series that we got going
32:54
Speaker 1: on right now. We got an entire month of that,
32:56
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to training camp all ready. I
33:00
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the beginning of the defense of
33:03
Speaker 1: this team's Super Bowl championship. The fact that they put
33:07
Speaker 1: rings on yesterday, I mean a year ago, we weren't
33:11
Speaker 1: thinking about that. Let's be honest, we weren't thinking that
33:15
Speaker 1: at this time next year the team's going to be
33:18
Speaker 1: receiving its Super Bowl rings.
33:20
Speaker 3: No, we were thinking, like this time next year, we're
33:22
Speaker 3: getting ready to think about going after a Super.
33:25
Speaker 1: Bowl right exactly it was. You know, I think that
33:28
Speaker 1: I might have led the station with a twelve and
33:31
Speaker 1: five record prediction for the Seahawks. So I was expecting
33:34
Speaker 1: a really good year last year. But you're right. I
33:37
Speaker 1: thought this year was going to be about Man, we
33:41
Speaker 1: put the league on blast. Yep, get ready, here come
33:45
Speaker 1: the sea hunk. Here we go. Now it's time to
33:48
Speaker 1: make Super Bowl championship a legitimate, realistic goal. And now
33:53
Speaker 1: we've already got one in hand. As a matter of fact,
33:56
Speaker 1: we've got one on hand because players receive their Super
33:59
Speaker 1: Bowl yesterday. Yeah, it's like that Monty Python. He says
34:03
Speaker 1: he's already got one. Yeah, that's right, we already got one.
34:08
Speaker 1: Now what.
34:11
Speaker 3: Lemieux Huh he says he's already got one.
34:17
Speaker 2: What uh?
34:20
Speaker 1: They said they've already one. Uh. So here we go.
34:26
Speaker 1: We got a few weeks here before the defense of
34:28
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Championship happens. Already mentioned this once, but
34:33
Speaker 1: I'll mention it again because I do think it is
34:36
Speaker 1: the takeaway from yesterday. I really don't know. I didn't
34:40
Speaker 1: spend any time this morning seeing how NFL teams hand
34:45
Speaker 1: out their championship rings. Maybe everybody's done it. The same
34:47
Speaker 1: way throughout history, but I do like the way that
34:51
Speaker 1: Mike McDonald did it. We're going to get we're gonna
34:54
Speaker 1: have our off season program, and it is going to
34:57
Speaker 1: be a really lax mandatory. I mean, at one point
35:01
Speaker 1: they just went on a field trip and then we're
35:03
Speaker 1: gonna have one last day of practice together before we
35:08
Speaker 1: take a break for the summer, and before you go,
35:11
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a big party and we're gonna give
35:13
Speaker 1: you your rings and we're gonna have a ceremony, and they're
35:16
Speaker 1: gonna be gorgeous, of course, of course, but I wouldn't
35:21
Speaker 1: do it any other way. I mean, if that's not
35:23
Speaker 1: the way NFL teams have been doing it, they should
35:25
Speaker 1: do it from now on because to me, it's the
35:28
Speaker 1: greatest symbol you can have of Hey, great work. But
35:32
Speaker 1: last season is over.
35:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't think that that meant anything for this season,
35:37
Speaker 3: because it doesn't.
35:37
Speaker 1: We start all over. When I see you again on
35:40
Speaker 1: July twenty third, twenty fourth, twenty fifth, whenever they're going.
35:43
Speaker 1: Twenty fifth is when training camp begins of July, but
35:46
Speaker 1: who knows how early they get there. When Mike, Mike
35:49
Speaker 1: McDonald says, when I see you again, not gonna be
35:53
Speaker 1: about last year. This is the guy that took Richard
35:55
Speaker 1: Sherman posters and Russell Wilson posters down from the wall.
35:59
Speaker 1: Is his first act as head coach. I don't want
36:02
Speaker 1: anybody resting on what others have accomplished, and I'm certainly
36:07
Speaker 1: not wanting anyone to rest on what we've accomplished. When
36:12
Speaker 1: I meet you again, have the eye of the tiger.
36:15
Speaker 1: We're going for a championship, and nothing about twenty twenty
36:19
Speaker 1: five matters in twenty twenty six. Yeah, I love it.
36:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not helping you in twenty twenty six to think, well,
36:25
Speaker 3: we want it in twenty twenty five.
36:26
Speaker 1: No, it's actually going to be harder. Don't wear your
36:29
Speaker 1: rings to work. Yeah, on the first day of training.
36:32
Speaker 1: Can find a nice good spot for them at home.
36:36
Speaker 1: You want it for the next five six weeks. You
36:38
Speaker 1: want to take it out when you go to dinner.
36:39
Speaker 1: You want to show it off. Yeah, you know, feel
36:42
Speaker 1: free to do that cud with it. Great, Yeah, but
36:45
Speaker 1: you better not have it on a chain around your
36:47
Speaker 1: neck when you run out onto the field for training
36:49
Speaker 1: camp on day number one. Two? All right, coming up next,
36:53
Speaker 1: Greg Bell will join us we'll get his thoughts on
36:55
Speaker 1: the offseason program ending as our seaxss it joins us
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