Latest / Chuck in the Morning / Chuck & Buck 10-8 Hour 4: Ryon Healy, Al Kinisky and one last thing!

Transcript

Chuck & Buck 10-8 Hour 4: Ryon Healy, Al Kinisky and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

0:00
Speaker 1: Snow Caualme Casino, Seattle's closest casino in sportsbook making all
0:05
Speaker 1: of this possible. And so we continue our coverage right
0:08
Speaker 1: here on the radio program with the guy that we
0:11
Speaker 1: have added to our lineup, and here in Detroit. I'm
0:15
Speaker 1: not sure what's going on with our zoom calls. But
0:17
Speaker 1: we can't see you, Ryan, but I can see you.
0:20
Speaker 1: You can't see me, but I can see that Ryan
0:23
Speaker 1: Heally is joining the radio program. So former Mariner Ryan Healey,
0:27
Speaker 1: who's turned into quite the key part of our postseason coverage,
0:32
Speaker 1: joins us right here on Chuck and Back. I right,
0:34
Speaker 1: good morning.
0:35
Speaker 2: How's everyone doing.
0:36
Speaker 1: We're doing all right. Not a bad way to win
0:38
Speaker 1: a game last night. Eight for the final score. What
0:42
Speaker 1: was your biggest takeaway? I don't always like to just
0:44
Speaker 1: direct an analyst. I like to sort of give you
0:48
Speaker 1: a chance to paint your beautiful canvas however you want.
0:52
Speaker 1: What was your biggest takeaway from that win last night?
0:56
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert showed up Philip his own.
0:58
Speaker 2: I thought he attacked the left He's from mendously with
1:00
Speaker 2: the combination of the slider and split finger, kept him
1:03
Speaker 2: off balance, kept him uncomfortable. That's the most uncomfortable that
1:06
Speaker 2: I've seen carry Carpenter look this entire series and honest
1:09
Speaker 2: his entire playoffs. The bats showed up. I felt like
1:12
Speaker 2: everyone put together productive at bats, even guys like Josh Naylor,
1:16
Speaker 2: who unfortunate went zero for five. He still hit a
1:19
Speaker 2: ball to right center field with runners on first and
1:22
Speaker 2: second that was murdered, and then he had a twelve
1:25
Speaker 2: pitch at bat early in the game when Flaherty was
1:27
Speaker 2: kind of cruised and that was the first bump in
1:29
Speaker 2: the road. There was just productive at bats up and
1:31
Speaker 2: down this lineup, and I thought the defense played really clean,
1:34
Speaker 2: the pitching execute. I mean, this is this is Mariner's Baseball.
1:36
Speaker 2: Is what we need to do, dude, if we want
1:37
Speaker 2: to win the playoffs.
1:38
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's twenty twenty five Mariners Baseball. I
1:41
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you specifically this today because this is
1:44
Speaker 1: something that we've talked about as a show here in
1:46
Speaker 1: the past. I think what's most encouraging about this particular
1:50
Speaker 1: roster is that I think they can win just about
1:55
Speaker 1: any way. And that doesn't mean that they're gonna win
1:57
Speaker 1: every single game out there, but over the course of
2:00
Speaker 1: a five game series or better, yet a seven game series.
2:04
Speaker 1: Their ability to outscore you if they need to, or
2:08
Speaker 1: to lean on a dominant pitching performance, or maybe even
2:14
Speaker 1: outscrap you, play the small game a little bit, steal
2:17
Speaker 1: some bases, move some base runners, which is something they
2:19
Speaker 1: have struggled with severely over the last couple of years.
2:23
Speaker 1: I think that's the most encouraging thing about this roster
2:26
Speaker 1: is that they can win a game like last night.
2:28
Speaker 1: They can win a game like Game number two, w's
2:31
Speaker 1: three to two nail bider. It just feels to me
2:35
Speaker 1: that they have so many options to win a baseball game,
2:37
Speaker 1: and that might not win in a particular game, it
2:40
Speaker 1: might not show up that night, but over the course
2:42
Speaker 1: of a five game stretch or a better yet a
2:44
Speaker 1: seven game stretch man, that is a weapon to have
2:48
Speaker 1: to be able to win in a number of ways.
2:50
Speaker 2: What do you think of that, Chuck? That was really
2:52
Speaker 2: well said, and I agree with you. This team is
2:54
Speaker 2: versatile and they have different superstars and just quality depth
2:58
Speaker 2: of positions of defense, pitching, an offense that can step
3:01
Speaker 2: up at different parts of the game. And you look
3:03
Speaker 2: at last night. I mean, Polonka was the hero when
3:05
Speaker 2: we faced Terrex Google the other night. Then you look
3:07
Speaker 2: at Roeblizz had a big double to get the rally
3:09
Speaker 2: going early, drove a ball at the right center. I
3:12
Speaker 2: just this team looked lighter to me yesterday. I felt
3:15
Speaker 2: like the I don't want to say the word burdings,
3:17
Speaker 2: it's not appropriate, but the pressure of playing at home
3:20
Speaker 2: and like getting that first playoff home win in twenty
3:23
Speaker 2: four years. We talked about it. That was playing heavy
3:25
Speaker 2: for those couple of games at home and to get
3:27
Speaker 2: that win. They looked lighter yesterday when I saw them.
3:29
Speaker 2: And to be able to weather that that you know,
3:32
Speaker 2: rain delate they were going through. That was a long delay.
3:34
Speaker 2: I'm sitting here looking for updates any and everywhere, and
3:37
Speaker 2: the only person providing something for me is Bucky, thank goodness.
3:40
Speaker 2: And he found some whiskey and pumpkin apparently cocktail that
3:43
Speaker 2: was out in a bouts and I was like, all right,
3:44
Speaker 2: they're not playing yet. I'm not missing it. But this
3:47
Speaker 2: team looked lighter. I felt like they kept the fans
3:50
Speaker 2: out of it. They showed up a little bit in
3:51
Speaker 2: the ninth when they got a rally going, but by
3:53
Speaker 2: that point we had Senor Smoke waiting. I didn't want
3:56
Speaker 2: to use him. But if he needed a nine pitch
3:58
Speaker 2: touch and field yesterday in that game to stay involved,
4:00
Speaker 2: then I'm okay with it.
4:02
Speaker 3: Yeah. Heally, how important is it when you feel like
4:06
Speaker 3: the depth of your lineup creates a sense of lightness
4:09
Speaker 3: if you will to where you don't have to feel
4:12
Speaker 3: like I gotta get it done or we're not going
4:15
Speaker 3: to get it done. Because we've watched that for years
4:17
Speaker 3: with this offense and yew now the length in this
4:19
Speaker 3: lineup kind of creates a sense of freedom. I think
4:22
Speaker 3: maybe lightness the way you put it, I mean, how
4:24
Speaker 3: important is that, especially when the moment gets as big
4:26
Speaker 3: as it does in the playoffs.
4:29
Speaker 2: That's a great point, Bucky, And I think as a
4:31
Speaker 2: as an offensive player, outs can feel like almost in
4:35
Speaker 2: your death experience. Sometimes with twister runners and scoring position.
4:38
Speaker 2: The game's getting later, the pressure is starting to build.
4:41
Speaker 2: Every single time you make an out and don't come
4:43
Speaker 2: through your team, it feels like the end of the world.
4:45
Speaker 2: And I didn't feel that yesterday. I felt almost like energy.
4:48
Speaker 2: And I talk about Josh Naylor a lot too, because
4:50
Speaker 2: you know he hasn't had that first hit, But when
4:53
Speaker 2: when JT. Crawford hit his home run who was in
4:55
Speaker 2: the tops bet to the top step, cheering over the rail,
4:58
Speaker 2: pointing at JPS. He's rounding first. There's ways to transfer energy,
5:02
Speaker 2: good and bad, to throughout your teammates. And I feel
5:05
Speaker 2: like right now, regardless of if someone's coming through or not,
5:08
Speaker 2: they're transferring positive energy to the next guy and then
5:12
Speaker 2: they're coming through for them. And also cal Rawly's just
5:14
Speaker 2: leading from the front right now, the way that he's
5:16
Speaker 2: executing not just home runs but base hits. He is
5:19
Speaker 2: leading from the front and the rest of following suit
5:21
Speaker 2: and really contributing well.
5:23
Speaker 1: Brian Healy is whether it's former Mariner third baseman and
5:27
Speaker 1: first baseman DH on the squad and he joins us
5:30
Speaker 1: here on the radio program. He's joining us throughout the
5:34
Speaker 1: postseason to cover some Mariners playoff baseball. Here Mariners win
5:39
Speaker 1: it last night by a final score of eight to four,
5:42
Speaker 1: and so here you've got an opportunity, Ryan to close
5:45
Speaker 1: this thing out today. Do you go after it like
5:49
Speaker 1: it is a Game five? I mean, you've got scooball
5:53
Speaker 1: on get in Game five. Sure it's at home, but
5:56
Speaker 1: I would imagine the Mariners would like to avoid that.
5:59
Speaker 1: So do you today, Bryce Miller's start, a bullpen that
6:04
Speaker 1: everybody could pitch today. Do you kind of treat it
6:06
Speaker 1: like not a must win, but let's just close it
6:10
Speaker 1: out today and we're going to We're gonna do whatever
6:12
Speaker 1: it takes to win this game.
6:15
Speaker 2: That's a great question for the managers in the front
6:18
Speaker 2: of office making decisions pre game as they're kind of
6:21
Speaker 2: navigating what the pitching is gonna look like. Obviously, we
6:23
Speaker 2: know Bryce Miller's gonna start, but based off of the
6:25
Speaker 2: seasons he had, we're assuming there's gonna be a pretty
6:28
Speaker 2: quick hook in there. They left Gilbert in there yesterday
6:31
Speaker 2: in the fifth inning when Carper came up a game
6:32
Speaker 2: with first and third. That's happened almost every game in
6:34
Speaker 2: the fifth inning, like carry Carpenter's up with first and third.
6:36
Speaker 2: But I feel like they will be more aggressive, not
6:40
Speaker 2: because it's a must win, but because there's an off
6:42
Speaker 2: day to follow and travel day. I believe that's correct
6:45
Speaker 2: they're playing. They would play Game five at home with
6:47
Speaker 2: an off day, so they would have rest for the bullpen.
6:49
Speaker 2: So I think they're gonna exhaust the arms and the
6:51
Speaker 2: bullpen today and if they see opportunities to bring different
6:53
Speaker 2: bodies in they will. I don't like saying must win,
6:56
Speaker 2: but you might see more aggressive managerial decisions today, especially
7:00
Speaker 2: in the pitching side.
7:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. What do you say to a dude,
7:04
Speaker 3: a teammate, I mean, the team goes out. There was
7:07
Speaker 3: a really solid all around game. Not that everybody contributed,
7:11
Speaker 3: but for the most part, you had guys at the
7:13
Speaker 3: bottom and guys at the top that contributed offensively and
7:15
Speaker 3: good pitching from everyone except for Caleb Ferguson. I mean,
7:19
Speaker 3: what are you saying as a teammate to him, because
7:21
Speaker 3: you're still going to need him if you end up
7:23
Speaker 3: wanting to see this ride last for the rest of
7:26
Speaker 3: this month, you're gonna need him to come out. There
7:29
Speaker 3: was this just one where he's kind of a soft guy.
7:31
Speaker 3: He pitches the contact, gets a lot of ground balls.
7:34
Speaker 3: You hope they go to somebody or was this something
7:37
Speaker 3: that you're thinking, You know what, dude, you're kind of
7:39
Speaker 3: getting bumped down. We're not going to be able to
7:41
Speaker 3: bring you in in any high leverage situation based on
7:44
Speaker 3: how poor you your outcome was yesterday.
7:47
Speaker 2: That's a great question, and they can go one of
7:49
Speaker 2: two ways. They can completely write them off and say
7:51
Speaker 2: before we're gonna forget about you, or it's a really
7:54
Speaker 2: great opportunity to reinforce some confidence into a pitcher, especially
7:58
Speaker 2: a lefty that you're gonna need down the stretch here
8:00
Speaker 2: and the lefties matchups out of the bullpen have been
8:02
Speaker 2: really important for this This lefty heavy Tigers line up here.
8:06
Speaker 2: So I don't I don't see that happening, meaning writing
8:08
Speaker 2: them off. They'll be very strategic of when that opportunity comes.
8:12
Speaker 2: Obviously the Spiers been the guy that is hired leverage.
8:15
Speaker 2: But if I'm them, I'm I'm If I'm Dan Wilson,
8:18
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get Ferguson in there today. Depending on
8:19
Speaker 2: what the game is flowing like and looking like the quicker,
8:22
Speaker 2: you get him back on the horse and more comfortably
8:23
Speaker 2: he is. I mean, that escalated really quickly on him,
8:26
Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna sit here and say he pitched terrible.
8:29
Speaker 2: It was a knock and then a walk, and then
8:30
Speaker 2: the double by torkals In and then another knock, and
8:32
Speaker 2: it's like, Wow, that escalated really quickly. That's so quickly
8:35
Speaker 2: the stuff can happen in the game. It's not because
8:37
Speaker 2: he's a bad pitcher. That was just the last little
8:39
Speaker 2: bit of fight that the Tigers had. Unfortunately Ferguson was
8:41
Speaker 2: on the receiving end of it.
8:43
Speaker 1: Well, I liked zam used as he was acquired. You're
8:46
Speaker 1: a specialty guy. That was not a specialty situation last night.
8:49
Speaker 1: I'd rather use the point Jackson there quite frankly, I
8:52
Speaker 1: mean good point.
8:53
Speaker 3: I don't want to.
8:54
Speaker 1: Criticize an eight to four win, but I'd have gone
8:57
Speaker 1: with Luke Jackson there with a seven run lead, and
9:00
Speaker 1: let's get Ferguson back to being used the way that
9:02
Speaker 1: he's supposed to be used, and that's in the middle
9:04
Speaker 1: of an inning against a left hand or to either
9:07
Speaker 1: take that left handed hit or out of the game,
9:09
Speaker 1: or to get out of the inning, and then with
9:10
Speaker 1: a fresh new inning, you bring in somebody who is
9:12
Speaker 1: a little more versatile. So I just thought, this seems
9:16
Speaker 1: hyper critical after a win like that.
9:18
Speaker 2: But I thought that was a misuse of Ferguson last night. Brian,
9:22
Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's hypercritical. I think that's
9:24
Speaker 2: it's probably over aggressive. I would say that's realistic. It's
9:27
Speaker 2: the reality of what is that picture's mentality, and what
9:30
Speaker 2: are his strengths and how do we maximize the situations
9:33
Speaker 2: that we have available throughout the game to give that
9:35
Speaker 2: picture the best opportunity to succeed. It's an eight to
9:37
Speaker 2: one game, that's the one. Is Ferguson thrown a blowout?
9:40
Speaker 2: If he's been a high leverage situational arm, you're not
9:42
Speaker 2: throwing him into the situation. It's kind of like when
9:44
Speaker 2: you see a closer in a blowout game and he
9:46
Speaker 2: has a pitch for four days, Hey, we gotta get
9:48
Speaker 2: him some work and we're up or we're down, and
9:49
Speaker 2: they come out there and they get shelled. It's because
9:51
Speaker 2: the mind the mentality in the mindset is not it's
9:54
Speaker 2: not matched with what the situated situation handles. And these pictures,
9:57
Speaker 2: the relievers especially, they use so much adrenaline to perform
10:02
Speaker 2: in those moments and execute to find that extra level
10:04
Speaker 2: of focus they need to operate. And there's no shot
10:07
Speaker 2: that Ferguson had that after a three hour rain delay
10:09
Speaker 2: and eight to one score, and you know Marrior's now
10:11
Speaker 2: heading towards a clinch, like there's no way the Mines
10:14
Speaker 2: was one hundred and ten percent locked in on the
10:16
Speaker 2: task at hand.
10:17
Speaker 1: Well, you've been to Detroit before, so we don't have
10:20
Speaker 1: to ask you about that. I mean, you've had the
10:22
Speaker 1: Detroit experience, you've been through a rain delay before, you've
10:25
Speaker 1: won a big game before. But I do want to
10:27
Speaker 1: ask you, based off something you said a little bit earlier,
10:30
Speaker 1: have you ever drank whiskey out of a pumpkin shell?
10:34
Speaker 2: I have not, but I might put that on my
10:36
Speaker 2: fall to do list. It feels like if pumpkin spice
10:38
Speaker 2: lotpes can be a thing, why can't I have some
10:40
Speaker 2: whiskey out of a pumpkin.
10:41
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, it was very popular. I mean,
10:45
Speaker 1: they were out of pumpkin shells before the game even
10:48
Speaker 1: Sorry now granted there was a three hour rain delay,
10:50
Speaker 1: but out of pumpkin shells before the game even started
10:54
Speaker 1: last night.
10:55
Speaker 2: You think in session sales they were meeting before the
10:58
Speaker 2: games anything, and we got to double what we brought
11:00
Speaker 2: today at the pumpkin shells because that was a hot
11:01
Speaker 2: ticket yesterday.
11:03
Speaker 1: I think I know what to do next, Jack and
11:05
Speaker 1: cocoa lanterns.
11:07
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, all right.
11:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the next way to Jack Daniels, oh lanterns
11:13
Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, all right, hey man, great stuff again.
11:17
Speaker 1: As always, do you feel good about Game four? And
11:20
Speaker 1: finishing this thing off today.
11:23
Speaker 2: Percent I like the energy the bats are gonna carry us.
11:26
Speaker 2: There's some guys that haven't contributed yet that I think
11:28
Speaker 2: they're gonna break loose, and I'm really excited to watch
11:30
Speaker 2: that through because everyone else is already ready to support.
11:32
Speaker 1: All Right, you're the man. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
11:35
Speaker 1: How about that?
11:36
Speaker 2: Can't wait for it? Go ems all right?
11:38
Speaker 1: Ryan Helick joining us right here on Chucking Buck in
11:40
Speaker 1: the Mornings as as we celebrate an eight four victory
11:44
Speaker 1: here live from Detroit with Ryan Healy there on the
11:48
Speaker 1: old zoom call. He's right there was the middle of
11:52
Speaker 1: the order didn't even contribute. You had an eight run
11:54
Speaker 1: effort and the middle of your order did nothing. They
11:57
Speaker 1: came up snake eyes last night, including the heroes of
12:02
Speaker 1: Game number two, Julio and Polanco. Even we're empty and
12:06
Speaker 1: we're still waiting for Josh Naylor to get going. But
12:09
Speaker 1: when you get the contributions like you did from the
12:11
Speaker 1: bottom of the order, which is something I repeated a
12:14
Speaker 1: lot yesterday throughout our broadcast day, I kind of felt
12:18
Speaker 1: like we were going to get some contributions, but more
12:20
Speaker 1: than contributions, Bucky, we got just pure damage from the
12:23
Speaker 1: bottom of the order. Six of the eight runs scored
12:26
Speaker 1: were from hitters six through nine in that game last night. Man,
12:30
Speaker 1: you get that on this team, with this pitching, you're
12:33
Speaker 1: winning every single game that you play, regardless of opponent.
12:38
Speaker 1: And so it's just as it's the roster is set
12:41
Speaker 1: up so well. They're just so many ways that they
12:44
Speaker 1: can win a baseball game.
12:46
Speaker 3: They really do. I mean, there's good signs and bad signs.
12:50
Speaker 3: I said it earlier, and I think that it's something
12:51
Speaker 3: that it's always sticks in my head of how good
12:55
Speaker 3: or how bad is anything, any given thing, any pitch,
12:58
Speaker 3: any bat contact. It doesn't always boil down to just
13:04
Speaker 3: what the outcome is. Now, outcomes matter because I don't
13:07
Speaker 3: care if you just have twenty seven good at bats,
13:09
Speaker 3: if you get no hit, it was not very good.
13:12
Speaker 3: It wasn't good enough. That said, I think this team
13:15
Speaker 3: kind of has the feel right now. You heard it
13:18
Speaker 3: from Polonka when you interviewed him that anybody can be
13:21
Speaker 3: the hero in any given night. And yet that means
13:24
Speaker 3: that they don't have to go up there trying to
13:26
Speaker 3: be the hero. You go up there to have a
13:27
Speaker 3: good ab and you might end up being the dude
13:30
Speaker 3: that gets the thing started, like robusted, or then you know,
13:34
Speaker 3: gets that knock, the little I mean signature swing of
13:38
Speaker 3: JP's where it kind of almost gets jammed a little
13:40
Speaker 3: bit and hits a little filet out there into left
13:42
Speaker 3: field or left center field that gets the scoring started.
13:45
Speaker 3: A Rose Arena backs it up. It's all of a sudden,
13:47
Speaker 3: like once that contagious part of hitting starts going, everybody
13:51
Speaker 3: chips in on it. Well, you're still going to I've
13:53
Speaker 3: been on the end where I'm the guy that goes
13:55
Speaker 3: four for four or I'm the one guy that goes
13:57
Speaker 3: zero for five and everybody else we scored fifteen runs.
14:00
Speaker 3: I don't care. You don't care if you right now,
14:03
Speaker 3: I can promise you Hulu, Rodriguez, Polonco and Naylor, who
14:06
Speaker 3: hasn't gotten a hit in the entire series, none of
14:08
Speaker 3: them are feeling sorry for themselves because they're one game
14:11
Speaker 3: away and they all feel like, today's my day. Today,
14:14
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go do it. Watch and I wouldn't be
14:16
Speaker 3: surprised if that threesome just goes off today.
14:18
Speaker 1: Who knows, Well, there's some fluky things that happen in sports.
14:22
Speaker 1: There's some outlier stuff that happens in sports. Baseball can
14:25
Speaker 1: be crazy. It's a postseason is unpredictable as any postseason
14:30
Speaker 1: in American professional sports, there's no question about it. But
14:35
Speaker 1: the longer these series gets, more often the cream's going
14:38
Speaker 1: to rise to the top. And maybe we're seeing that
14:41
Speaker 1: happen right before our eyes. I mean, yeah, it's an
14:43
Speaker 1: unpredictable thing until it is predictable. Jack Flaherty yesterday a
14:48
Speaker 1: very predictable outing for him. He is somebody that has
14:52
Speaker 1: really good stuff, and his numbers suggest that he should
14:54
Speaker 1: have had a better season than what he had for
14:57
Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers. I mean, low opponent's batting a bridge
15:00
Speaker 1: against high strikeouts, low walks, and yet a high eer.
15:04
Speaker 1: What does that tell you about Jack Flaherty is when
15:06
Speaker 1: he does give up damage, he gives it up in clusters.
15:09
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what the Mariners took advantage of. Meanwhile,
15:12
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert more often than not just gives you a
15:14
Speaker 1: steady eddy performance, and he gave you that last night
15:18
Speaker 1: for six strong innings. I even sort of suggested to
15:22
Speaker 1: Cal that maybe he wasn't as sharp in the first
15:24
Speaker 1: two innings, and Cal said.
15:25
Speaker 3: Nope, you're wrong.
15:27
Speaker 1: He was sharp from pitch number one. Now, would you
15:30
Speaker 1: please get out of my face, my face of the franchise. Yeah, no,
15:36
Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't get angry with me at all.
15:37
Speaker 1: But yes, it was sort of predictable. I mean, that's
15:41
Speaker 1: the kind of game that Tiger fans are worried about
15:44
Speaker 1: from Flaherty, and it's the kind of game that Mariner
15:47
Speaker 1: fans are almost to the point of expecting out of Logan.
15:52
Speaker 1: And now that we have this offense that can show
15:55
Speaker 1: up and score eight runs in a night, man, it
15:57
Speaker 1: really does add another weapon. I mean, it's like, Okay,
16:02
Speaker 1: you've got a knife, but when you had a gun,
16:05
Speaker 1: you know, you got probably a better chance of coming
16:08
Speaker 1: out of the war with that. All right, Coming up
16:11
Speaker 1: next on the other side, here Chucking Buck Live from
16:14
Speaker 1: Detroit to Al Kaniski knows what it's like to come
16:17
Speaker 1: to hockey town. So we're on the eve of the
16:20
Speaker 1: Krakens season opener at home against Anaheim, and it's our
16:24
Speaker 1: first official conversation of the year with Kracking color analysts
16:28
Speaker 1: Al Koniski next on Chuck and Bucks Sports Radio ninety
16:31
Speaker 1: three point three kJ R f M. Yeah, that's what
16:34
Speaker 1: it means.
16:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes Yeah, no one knows, but it's provocative.
16:40
Speaker 5: You.
16:40
Speaker 1: You're right, Maybe no one does know, but I'm pretty
16:43
Speaker 1: sure Kid rock Detroit. Kid, I think babwa taba means
16:48
Speaker 1: we're going down, and yeah I hear that.
16:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yeah, yep.
16:53
Speaker 1: Right here, yep, Sorry about it, Kid, That is your
16:57
Speaker 1: real name.
16:59
Speaker 3: It's not our It is his real name, Christopher Kidd.
17:02
Speaker 2: Definitely Yeah.
17:04
Speaker 1: A little bit later on, Bucky and I are here
17:06
Speaker 1: in Detroit, Michigan. Some people call it Motown, other people
17:10
Speaker 1: call it the Motor City. There are some people out
17:13
Speaker 1: in the world, like our next guest, that probably know
17:15
Speaker 1: it as hockey Town. Something tells me that Alkonisky has
17:19
Speaker 1: punched a person in this city before. It's just my guest.
17:22
Speaker 1: It's just my guest. But joining us now on the
17:24
Speaker 1: program is our color analyst for your Seattle Cracking, who
17:27
Speaker 1: start their season tomorrow. Al Canisky is with us. Ow
17:31
Speaker 1: We're a fired up to have you back for another season.
17:35
Speaker 6: I'm fired up too, boys, I'm excited. And you know,
17:38
Speaker 6: even though you're in Detroit to it feels like you're
17:41
Speaker 6: right around the corner. As per usual, We've got you know,
17:44
Speaker 6: opening night coming up here. Tomorrow night, and I can
17:47
Speaker 6: tell you I'm excited. Ever it's excited, Benton's excited, and
17:51
Speaker 6: we're ready to go.
17:52
Speaker 1: Every hockey guy's got to have a Detroit store. Do
17:54
Speaker 1: you have a Detroit story that you could share with
17:57
Speaker 1: us out before we start talking cracking hockey.
18:00
Speaker 6: Well, the Detroit story is actually tied back to Canada,
18:03
Speaker 6: and it's my homeland. It's not a personal story, but
18:07
Speaker 6: I always think it's fascinating how close Detroit is to
18:12
Speaker 6: Canada and you and I hear a lot of people
18:14
Speaker 6: talk about going across the border, which I mean, what
18:17
Speaker 6: is it thirty minutes twenty minutes away? But it's a
18:22
Speaker 6: very different experience when you go across the border into
18:26
Speaker 6: Toronto versus versus a Detroit in terms of you know,
18:30
Speaker 6: Canadians and food and maybe not so much weather, but
18:34
Speaker 6: people don't lock their doors. It's it's it's quite quite
18:37
Speaker 6: a yin and yang from from Detroit.
18:40
Speaker 1: I want you, at some point in the future to
18:42
Speaker 1: define canadianness.
18:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're gonna have you do that.
18:48
Speaker 6: Tell you I can't do that now.
18:51
Speaker 1: We're going to pin you down to that in the future.
18:53
Speaker 1: But today we got too much to talk about. So
18:55
Speaker 1: I know you're fired up for the season getting underway tomorrow.
18:58
Speaker 1: Why is that, Why are you excited for this year's
19:01
Speaker 1: Kracking team.
19:04
Speaker 6: I'm excited because of the changes that were made in
19:06
Speaker 6: the offseason. We can talk about coaching, we can talk
19:09
Speaker 6: about players that came in, players that went out, we
19:11
Speaker 6: can talk about a three goalie competition for you know,
19:16
Speaker 6: who's going to be one, who's going to be two,
19:18
Speaker 6: and who's not going to be one or two. I
19:20
Speaker 6: think all of those things lead to a better hockey
19:25
Speaker 6: team that should be competing for a playoff spot come April.
19:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on that. I'll go to one
19:32
Speaker 3: of those. Then the three goalie thing, I mean, obviously,
19:36
Speaker 3: a long time ago, it was everybody had one guy
19:39
Speaker 3: and then they had a backup for if needed. And
19:41
Speaker 3: now it's moved more into the kind of a goalie
19:44
Speaker 3: by committee. A couple guys, what is the benefit of
19:47
Speaker 3: having three or is this really Joe to Coords the incumbent,
19:51
Speaker 3: and then it's Grew and the other kid that are
19:53
Speaker 3: going to be fighting to see who is the backup.
19:56
Speaker 6: Well, it's a couple of things. And starting with a
19:58
Speaker 6: new goaltending coach and Collins Uliano, who you know, some
20:02
Speaker 6: of these guys know better better than others, which which
20:04
Speaker 6: is always a good way to start. But in terms
20:06
Speaker 6: of the competition itself, Seattle is one of six teams
20:10
Speaker 6: that are starting the season with three goaltenders. And it's not,
20:13
Speaker 6: you know, it's not like, hey, teams that don't have
20:16
Speaker 6: a shot at making the playoffs are going to carry
20:18
Speaker 6: three goaltenders to see what No, it's not that at all.
20:20
Speaker 6: In fact, some of the other teams include Tampa Bay,
20:23
Speaker 6: include Colorado, include Carolina, And I think what it is
20:27
Speaker 6: is you've got three good quality choices and you're not sure,
20:30
Speaker 6: you're sure yet who the two best are going to be.
20:32
Speaker 6: How do you figure that out? Well, you keep them
20:34
Speaker 6: around a little bit longer and you get into some
20:37
Speaker 6: regular season games. I'd be shocked if we still had
20:40
Speaker 6: three goaltenders on the on the roster come January first.
20:43
Speaker 6: So I think that this first month of October where
20:47
Speaker 6: Seattle's going to face a ton of top playoff teams
20:51
Speaker 6: from last year, including Vegas, including Edmonton twice, Toronto, Washington,
20:57
Speaker 6: like they're going to get tested these goaltenders, and I
21:00
Speaker 6: think you're going to see each of them get some
21:02
Speaker 6: games in the month of October and come Halloween, we're
21:05
Speaker 6: going to have a pretty good sense of who number
21:08
Speaker 6: one is and who number two is. But if not,
21:11
Speaker 6: we might push that into November. But I don't think
21:13
Speaker 6: it goes much beyond that where we're carrying three goaltenders.
21:16
Speaker 1: Alcaniski is with US color analyst for yours Seattle Crack
21:20
Speaker 1: and they start the season tomorrow at home against Anaheim.
21:22
Speaker 1: And you have complete coverage right here with Everett, with
21:26
Speaker 1: Al with Mike Bnton, with Ian Ferness, cast of thousands
21:30
Speaker 1: that got you covered for opening night. It's going to
21:33
Speaker 1: be a special occasion. You dropped it right in the
21:36
Speaker 1: middle of a divisional series in Major League Baseball, and
21:39
Speaker 1: yet it's as if God ordained for the divisional series
21:42
Speaker 1: to take the night off for the Kraken to debut
21:46
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six. You know a
21:49
Speaker 1: lot of talk over the first few years of this
21:52
Speaker 1: organization's existence about do they have a superstar player? Is
21:57
Speaker 1: there one close? And there seems to be a big
22:02
Speaker 1: question mark about that going into this year. Maybe Jared
22:06
Speaker 1: McCann's never going to reach superstar status. Al Is Shane
22:10
Speaker 1: wright somebody that could achieve that in the near future,
22:15
Speaker 1: as early as this year. Is Maddy Benier's ever going
22:17
Speaker 1: to turn into that player? What is your outlook on
22:21
Speaker 1: whether or not the Kraken are going to have a
22:23
Speaker 1: special player on the ice this year?
22:26
Speaker 6: Well, I think in the second half of the season
22:28
Speaker 6: one of the conversations we'll be having is who has
22:32
Speaker 6: the higher ceiling in terms of offensive potential? Is it
22:36
Speaker 6: Shane Right, is it Maddy Benaer's And you know, maybe
22:39
Speaker 6: down the road. I don't think it will be this season,
22:41
Speaker 6: but is it Berkeley Cat? You are really strong up
22:44
Speaker 6: the middle on the offensive offensive lines. I think in
22:48
Speaker 6: terms of Jared McCann and even Jordan Eberley for that matter,
22:52
Speaker 6: last season injuries plagued them a bit. If those two
22:56
Speaker 6: can stay healthy through this season, I think they could
22:59
Speaker 6: make the guys that I just spoke of down the
23:01
Speaker 6: middle be better hockey players. And you know, health is
23:04
Speaker 6: obviously an important part of any team's success. I think
23:07
Speaker 6: that if this team can stay healthy, then you're going
23:11
Speaker 6: to see McCann scoring more goals. You're going to see
23:15
Speaker 6: Everly scoring more goals. You're going to see those two
23:17
Speaker 6: leaders helping the youth on this team, Yannie Newman for
23:22
Speaker 6: the games that Berkeley Caton ends up playing. So in
23:25
Speaker 6: terms of high end offensive talent, I think in the
23:28
Speaker 6: January to March timeframe, we're going to be talking a
23:31
Speaker 6: lot about Shane Wright's season, the impact that Kappo Coaco
23:36
Speaker 6: has on a full twelve months, She's been a full season.
23:40
Speaker 6: Once he gets back on the ice, it's going to
23:44
Speaker 6: be interesting to see. I think that that again askis
23:49
Speaker 6: next to the word health. If you've got these guys
23:52
Speaker 6: playing a full eighty eighty one eighty two games this season,
23:55
Speaker 6: they all have a high upside potential.
24:00
Speaker 1: Do you have anything special planned yourself personally? I mean,
24:03
Speaker 1: it's a special night for the kracking for yourself, for
24:06
Speaker 1: the entire crew. But I don't know if you buy
24:09
Speaker 1: new pants or anything for the upcoming hockey season.
24:13
Speaker 6: Hey guys, I just hope my pants fit. Let alone
24:15
Speaker 6: buy new ones. It was a long summer and a
24:19
Speaker 6: lot of brisket and and enjoyment and golf feed and
24:23
Speaker 6: that sort of thing, so I gotta shed a few
24:26
Speaker 6: pounds to make sure those suits still fit.
24:30
Speaker 1: Well. We're excited about it, excited about tomorrow, Excited about
24:33
Speaker 1: a brand new cracking season and excited about getting the
24:36
Speaker 1: chance to chat with you every week. So Al, thanks
24:39
Speaker 1: for joining us. We appreciate it. Have a great year,
24:41
Speaker 1: all right, absolutely, you guys have fun out there in Detroit.
24:45
Speaker 1: All right, Al konisky with us here on Chuck and Buckets.
24:48
Speaker 1: Rad a koy about that. Pretty sure he's punched somebody
24:51
Speaker 1: in this town.
24:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh guarantee you. Yeah, he didn't like to now
24:55
Speaker 3: that he's not, you know, dropping the gloves. He likes
24:57
Speaker 3: to just totally be nice all the time.
25:00
Speaker 1: It's a nice guy, but he's not a tiny guy,
25:03
Speaker 1: larger hockey.
25:04
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he's had to punch a few people. It's
25:06
Speaker 3: okay to just connect with mentally with the guy that
25:10
Speaker 3: you were at one point in time, and you ever
25:12
Speaker 3: walk around punching people now at your age, you know,
25:16
Speaker 3: but it's okay to you know, reminisce a little bit.
25:19
Speaker 1: You know what. There were a couple of guys we
25:21
Speaker 1: ran into the press box yesterday. Huh, I would like
25:24
Speaker 1: all the maybe punch them. Yeah, it's been sensational. But
25:28
Speaker 1: there are a couple of guys in the press we
25:30
Speaker 1: are point nine percent. Yeah, they could have been out
25:35
Speaker 1: of towners. Yeah, they weren't from Detroit. I mean, because
25:37
Speaker 1: everyone from Detroit is wonderful. Wouldn't it be nice to
25:40
Speaker 1: just like just go out get him?
25:43
Speaker 3: Oh al sick punch that dude. Yep, got it.
25:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like six foot five inch Rick Astley getting
25:51
Speaker 1: over to just whip you.
25:52
Speaker 3: Yeah. And he doesn't even like walk over. He like
25:54
Speaker 3: fake skates, you know, like just go sideways and sideways
25:58
Speaker 3: on shoes and then bake so like he's dropping clothes.
26:04
Speaker 1: Now, that is a henchman right there, that.
26:10
Speaker 3: You don't you have skates on? Shut up fun the guy.
26:13
Speaker 1: If you'll be my bodyguard, I will also call you out. Yes, yeah,
26:20
Speaker 1: I tell you Betty all right? Coming up next week.
26:25
Speaker 1: Close out to this Wednesday edition live from Detroit to
26:29
Speaker 1: Chucking Buck in the mornings, we got one last thing
26:31
Speaker 1: coming your way on Sports Radio ninety.
26:33
Speaker 3: Three point three kJ r F M.
26:41
Speaker 1: Oh Yes, Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r
26:44
Speaker 1: F MS. Postseason baseball coverage is powered by Seattle's Close
26:48
Speaker 1: to Sports Book, Snow, Qualm Casino and Hotel. Seattle's Close
26:51
Speaker 1: to Sports Book is your place for a true end
26:53
Speaker 1: game betting experience. Download the Snow Qualm Casino Sports Book
26:56
Speaker 1: have to get in on the action while watching your
26:59
Speaker 1: favorite games at snow Qualmi Casino and hotel details at
27:03
Speaker 1: snocasino dot com. They are also sponsoring, of course, our
27:08
Speaker 1: coverage tonight after game number four. Bucky and I are
27:12
Speaker 1: here for a reason in Detroit, and we will be
27:15
Speaker 1: part of the postgame show again tonight. Maybe it's a closeout,
27:19
Speaker 1: Maybe Bucky's gonna get sprayed with champagne. I don't know.
27:23
Speaker 1: Only time I suppose we'll tell. But we got you
27:26
Speaker 1: covered here in Detroit, Michigan as we close out a
27:30
Speaker 1: second morning show here from Michigan on the Sports Radio
27:34
Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM. And we'll be doing tomorrow
27:37
Speaker 1: morning show as well from Detroit, and then we fly
27:41
Speaker 1: back home to Seattle, hopefully with a series win. All Right,
27:44
Speaker 1: one last thing, Let's go round the room, Ashley.
27:46
Speaker 3: What you got?
27:47
Speaker 4: Well, A lot of people are posting on social media
27:50
Speaker 4: about the anniversary of the nineteen ninety five Edgar Martinez
27:55
Speaker 4: driving in Ken Griffey Junior in the bottom of the
27:57
Speaker 4: eleventh of the Alds, and I know that we briefly
28:02
Speaker 4: mentioned it, and I just wanted to say again I've
28:04
Speaker 4: watched the video now forty five times. I think this morning,
28:08
Speaker 4: it never gets old, and I'm ready for an exciting
28:11
Speaker 4: moment today.
28:12
Speaker 1: You're ready for a new memory, a new memory. Yeah,
28:14
Speaker 1: I got to forget about the double. Let's just add
28:17
Speaker 1: to it.
28:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I and I will never get old.
28:19
Speaker 1: I'll watch it.
28:20
Speaker 4: I can listen to Dave Neehouse and his voice, I mean,
28:23
Speaker 4: all of it, and it will still give me chills.
28:26
Speaker 4: But I need I'm ready, let's get I need another
28:28
Speaker 4: ald Ds moment to give me chills.
28:30
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it.
28:32
Speaker 3: It's a hard one to beat, it is, but I mean,
28:35
Speaker 3: I think maybe cow going hitting another one to the
28:41
Speaker 3: dude wearing the sixty two jersey today, Yeah, get ready.
28:46
Speaker 3: Maybe a grand Slam, get your glove ready game. Yeah,
28:49
Speaker 3: I think maybe that'll do it. I'm down with that. Yeah,
28:53
Speaker 3: I'm excited. I'm excited about today. I think I think
28:58
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a fun game to watch. Hope. Well,
29:00
Speaker 3: they just go out and play the way they're capable of.
29:02
Speaker 3: It feels to me like they're feeling it though. Yeah,
29:04
Speaker 3: I agree, they're feeling themselves. Yeah, and that's a good thing.
29:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, keep it up.
29:09
Speaker 3: Might not sound like a good thing.
29:13
Speaker 1: That thing, what's your one last thing?
29:16
Speaker 3: I would also like to be smelling of champagne and
29:20
Speaker 3: uh yeah, and then go to Tommy's and celebrate some
29:23
Speaker 3: more there, because Tommy's is amazing, and uh we could
29:29
Speaker 3: walk in there shooting champagne around the place and they
29:32
Speaker 3: would be like, you want another bottle? You know what
29:35
Speaker 3: I mean. It's sure you'd beat us, but it's just
29:38
Speaker 3: so nice, and I just I don't. I don't think we.
29:42
Speaker 1: Should do it or will do it, but we might
29:45
Speaker 1: be able to get away with it.
29:47
Speaker 3: I think we could. I mean, you said we're gonna
29:50
Speaker 3: do the postgame show tonight. True, thank you Sna Kawami
29:52
Speaker 3: Casino for that, and then we're doing our show tomorrow
29:55
Speaker 3: here before we fly home. I may not. I mean
30:00
Speaker 3: he said, stay another night. I'll take you to the
30:02
Speaker 3: opening day of the Detroit were Head Wings game's box.
30:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, crack, you gotta step it up, bring
30:10
Speaker 4: these guys home.
30:12
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I mean we're not going to make it
30:14
Speaker 3: in time to get back to Climate Pledge.
30:16
Speaker 1: I know that, but you could stay the other night?
30:20
Speaker 1: Well it was crazy, like, uh this is what we
30:23
Speaker 1: were told last night. Actually I'm not even kidding. He said,
30:27
Speaker 1: you know what, you came in here last night and
30:29
Speaker 1: you left as friends. You came in here tonight and
30:33
Speaker 1: you're leaving his family. Wow after two days?
30:36
Speaker 3: Yep, two days, two days, and then hugged us, gave
30:39
Speaker 3: us his number. Anytime you're in Detroit, hit me up
30:43
Speaker 3: and if you ever want to just call and keep
30:45
Speaker 3: in touch do so.
30:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's impressive, good work.
30:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, we walked out dumbfound and I'm like, what is
30:52
Speaker 3: going on? This is like abnormally nice. Yeah, you don't
30:56
Speaker 3: need to step it up as Seattle. Oh yeah, get
30:59
Speaker 3: nicer Seattle. That Seattle freeze is real. It is, so
31:03
Speaker 3: they say it has to be because it's a matter.
31:06
Speaker 3: I'm in the twilight zone here. Wow, this is Yeah,
31:10
Speaker 3: this is twilight.
31:11
Speaker 1: Zone because it's not what I was expecting, that's for sure.
31:13
Speaker 3: And it just keeps compounding itself. All right.
31:16
Speaker 1: On my one last thing, and I do want to
31:18
Speaker 1: talk about this. Maybe it's when we get back to town.
31:21
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Friday. Hopefully we don't have a baseball game
31:23
Speaker 1: to preview on Friday. Maybe we can have a little
31:26
Speaker 1: time to talk about it. But I mentioned this in
31:28
Speaker 1: the Matt Brash interview. I was in the clubhouse last night,
31:32
Speaker 1: Julio was standing there. Tom Verducci comes over their recognition.
31:36
Speaker 1: Berducci's a legend, Julio's a virgeoning legend, and he comes
31:40
Speaker 1: over to the locker and Tom Verducci's only question to
31:44
Speaker 1: him was about the Mariner's pitching staff, and he's like, what,
31:48
Speaker 1: what amazes you about being around this pitching staff and who?
31:52
Speaker 1: And I really think Tom was looking for something about
31:55
Speaker 1: the stuff. I've never seen five guys with, you know,
31:59
Speaker 1: ninety eight US mile power velocity that can locate it.
32:02
Speaker 1: I think that's what Tom Berducci was looking for. And
32:05
Speaker 1: Julio just kind of like, I've never seen people get
32:09
Speaker 1: along so well. I mean, it's so crazy how they
32:14
Speaker 1: share information and have each other. It's just a really
32:18
Speaker 1: fascinating I mean, I'm taking license liberties with the actual quote,
32:23
Speaker 1: I don't have it written down, but it was something
32:25
Speaker 1: to the fact he was He's truly like gobsmacked over
32:30
Speaker 1: just how close that this group is. And I want
32:33
Speaker 1: to dive into it in the future, but it is something,
32:37
Speaker 1: it is something special. I mean, they're not only very
32:40
Speaker 1: good to great, but the relationship is unique between all
32:44
Speaker 1: of them. They support each other. They're all ridiculously talented,
32:48
Speaker 1: and maybe most of them their best days are ahead
32:51
Speaker 1: of them. And I get Pete Woodworth's some credit for
32:53
Speaker 1: that as well. But it is a special group, and
32:57
Speaker 1: Kate Anderson's joining it going forward. I mean, how long
33:00
Speaker 1: is it going to be special? We got a long
33:02
Speaker 1: time with these guys and I'm here for it.
33:05
Speaker 5: Yeah.
33:05
Speaker 3: Well, I think there's a lack of selfishness that has
33:09
Speaker 3: to be there, where you can compete against one another
33:13
Speaker 3: but also cheering for the other. There's a bunch of
33:16
Speaker 3: times in professional baseball where it's there's an eye guy.
33:19
Speaker 3: They're thinking about themselves first and foremost, and so they
33:21
Speaker 3: almost want other people to fail so they look better,
33:24
Speaker 3: or other people to fail so they get the opportunity.
33:27
Speaker 3: And I don't think this team has that. I think
33:29
Speaker 3: it's more like, go out and shove George, is what
33:32
Speaker 3: Bryce was thinking, so I can come out and do
33:35
Speaker 3: it too, or one up what you did, or whatever
33:37
Speaker 3: it might be. I think there's something it's eerily cool,
33:42
Speaker 3: but it's from a place of just zero selfishness. They
33:45
Speaker 3: want the best for each other and then they feed
33:47
Speaker 3: off of it. And share information with one another so
33:49
Speaker 3: the whole team benefits.
33:50
Speaker 1: Postgame coverage tonight here from Detroit, from Bucky and myself.
33:54
Speaker 1: Will be back here again tomorrow in these same chairs,
33:57
Speaker 1: delivering a reaction to Game nine, number four of the Alds,
34:02
Speaker 1: and hopefully it'll be a celebratory show tomorrow starting at
34:05
Speaker 1: six am. Kid and MJ coming your way next. Sports
34:08
Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
34:11
Speaker 5: You can't miss a thing from today's show because we're
34:14
Speaker 5: on demand. Their podcast will be up right after the show.
34:17
Speaker 5: Just click on demand on our website at ninety three
34:20
Speaker 5: three kjr dot com and click on Chuck and Bug
34:23
Speaker 5: podcast to replay anytime anywhere. From Sports Radio ninety three
34:28
Speaker 5: point three kjr FL.
34:31
Speaker 1: This report is sponsored by Robert Half