Latest / Chuck in the Morning / Chuck & Buck 3-30 Hour 3: Opening weekend takeaways, ABCs of the M's and can anyone stop Bucky?

Transcript

Chuck & Buck 3-30 Hour 3: Opening weekend takeaways, ABCs of the M's and can anyone stop Bucky? · Chuck in the Morning

0:24
Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Happy Monday to you all over.
0:26
Speaker 2: We had a great weekend, taking into the Mariners baseball
0:29
Speaker 2: season for the first time, frustrations and all, not with
0:34
Speaker 2: the team, but with your television.
0:38
Speaker 1: We'll get to that here in a moment.
0:39
Speaker 2: Also, Final four was set two days away from draftmus
0:43
Speaker 2: My goodness. There is a lot going on here in
0:45
Speaker 2: the sports world, and it's great to be here with
0:48
Speaker 2: your air on this Monday morning. We'll take it till
0:50
Speaker 2: ten o'clock. And when I say we, I mean Ashley
0:52
Speaker 2: Ryan and myself because Bucky is out today, I'm probably
0:55
Speaker 2: gonna be out for the rest of the week. And
0:58
Speaker 2: so we welcome you to our number three of our
1:02
Speaker 2: little radio program and certainly a lot to catch up
1:06
Speaker 2: one and there's no question about Ashley won a golf
1:08
Speaker 2: tournament over the weekend. Not just a match, He won
1:11
Speaker 2: the whole tournament.
1:12
Speaker 3: That's right, started back in November, I believe.
1:16
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's a long time coming.
1:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, played about once every yeah, once a month ish once. Yeah,
1:23
Speaker 3: so five or six rounds, Yeah.
1:26
Speaker 1: Just tournament.
1:27
Speaker 4: Just beat everyone, including five iron.
1:29
Speaker 1: I will never know what that feels like.
1:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty awesome, and I will say this too,
1:34
Speaker 3: because it's a partner thing, you know, so some and
1:36
Speaker 3: it's it's a Chapman style so it's not like scramble
1:40
Speaker 3: where you both just get to hit a shot and
1:42
Speaker 3: see what happens or any so.
1:43
Speaker 4: Anyway, it's a fun format. I really like it. But man,
1:47
Speaker 4: on whole nine, I've hit probably the put of my life. Oh,
1:52
Speaker 4: with all these people on the hill.
1:54
Speaker 1: Watching, you're like Braylen Mullins.
1:56
Speaker 4: I felt like him.
1:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, just I did it before he did, and I
2:00
Speaker 3: was like, I'm gonna feel like that kid from you
2:01
Speaker 3: Con tomorrow.
2:04
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
2:04
Speaker 4: Yeah.
2:05
Speaker 1: And was it the difference?
2:06
Speaker 4: No, we won by quite a bit.
2:08
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, but well but it's on it's we went.
2:13
Speaker 4: I think I think we took a three whole lead
2:16
Speaker 4: at that point.
2:16
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, well maybe it was the difference.
2:20
Speaker 4: We'll say it was.
2:21
Speaker 1: Had you not been up.
2:22
Speaker 2: Three maybe you would have cracked under the pressure down
2:24
Speaker 2: the stretch or your partner.
2:25
Speaker 1: Maybe not you. I mean, your partner's known for it.
2:28
Speaker 4: Yeah he is. He does not handle pressure, right.
2:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you didn't go up three holes at
2:33
Speaker 2: that point, maybe it'll bit a different outcome.
2:35
Speaker 1: So as far as i'm concerned. It was the game
2:37
Speaker 1: winning putt.
2:37
Speaker 4: We'll go with that.
2:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, tournament winning putt last over the weekend, So congratulations,
2:43
Speaker 2: that's exciting.
2:44
Speaker 4: It was pretty fun.
2:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, and bragging rights over five iron for the.
2:47
Speaker 4: Rest of time and I'm gonna make him hear it forever.
2:51
Speaker 2: Mariner's weekend was also this weekend two and two. To start,
2:55
Speaker 2: I mean, there were a few things to be a
2:56
Speaker 2: little bit concerned about, and we'll talk about that. I'm
2:59
Speaker 2: not concerned about, but a few things that stood out
3:01
Speaker 2: on the negative front, but on the positive front, to
3:04
Speaker 2: have the weekend d with Emerson Hancock.
3:07
Speaker 1: Looking that good.
3:09
Speaker 2: Look, I mean, this is the guy of all of
3:12
Speaker 2: these starting pitchers and he's the sixth man. He was
3:17
Speaker 2: the one drafted highest of all of them. So Emerson Hancock,
3:23
Speaker 2: you know, has been kind of tabbed as as talented
3:27
Speaker 2: as the rest of the guys. And you can obviously
3:31
Speaker 2: tell the type of guy they look for high in
3:33
Speaker 2: the draft, long limbed, you know, gumby like, and they
3:38
Speaker 2: have a few of those in the organization. But Hancock
3:42
Speaker 2: was certainly originally drafted thought he's going to be one
3:44
Speaker 2: of our best five, but he ends up getting passed
3:47
Speaker 2: by Logan, and he ends up getting passed by George
3:50
Speaker 2: and he ends up getting passed by Brian wu who
3:53
Speaker 2: was far later down in the draft, and even Bryce Miller,
3:56
Speaker 2: And so suddenly Emerson Hancock's in the sixth man the rotation.
4:00
Speaker 2: And even when he was given his opportunities, I don't
4:04
Speaker 2: think that he was ever as bad as what some felt,
4:07
Speaker 2: but he certainly wasn't good enough to hold on to
4:11
Speaker 2: a starting rotation spot. Well, that zip forward to spring
4:15
Speaker 2: training came in with the same great attitude that Emerson Hancock.
4:20
Speaker 2: All we've come to spring training enters the season with.
4:23
Speaker 2: This is somebody that was kicking around the idea of
4:25
Speaker 2: maybe transitioning into a reliever at the end of the year.
4:30
Speaker 2: And I don't know, maybe that experience because it introduced
4:34
Speaker 2: him to a different arms slot, maybe it introduced him
4:37
Speaker 2: to a new way of pitching. But he took that
4:39
Speaker 2: into the off season. They told him, now, you're going
4:42
Speaker 2: to be a starter. You're still going to be a starter.
4:44
Speaker 2: Even though he's looking around at his best friends and
4:48
Speaker 2: saying to himself, got him, I gonna have to spend
4:50
Speaker 2: another year in Tacoma.
4:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think I'm a.
4:53
Speaker 2: Major league pitcher, and I realized that I'm the sixth
4:59
Speaker 2: best at this point in my career, and yet I'm
5:03
Speaker 2: staring at being in Tacoma again to start this season.
5:07
Speaker 2: Bryce Miller gets the injury, opens up the door that
5:10
Speaker 2: maybe starts in the starting rotation for the third year
5:12
Speaker 2: in a row. Will it be different this time? P
5:15
Speaker 2: Woodworth and Jerry Depoto both told us on opening Day
5:19
Speaker 2: Emerson Hancock was their best pitcher.
5:22
Speaker 1: In the spring.
5:24
Speaker 2: Encouraging, but will it translate? Oh my, I mean, one
5:29
Speaker 2: game does not a solution make, But that was a
5:34
Speaker 2: different Emerson Hancock. That was Emerson Hancock's full arsenal. I mean,
5:38
Speaker 2: he threw a slider at one point that Kyle Rowley
5:40
Speaker 2: could barely catch. He was living up in the zone,
5:44
Speaker 2: just like Wu and Miller have found their success living
5:48
Speaker 2: up in the zone. He was blowing away good hitters
5:52
Speaker 2: last night that with that high rail fastball of his,
5:57
Speaker 2: and he was getting a lot of swinging miss last night.
6:01
Speaker 2: It wasn't just like Oh Cleveland just grounding into heart
6:04
Speaker 2: outs or lining into hard outs. He was blowing them
6:08
Speaker 2: away to the tune of six no hit innings for
6:12
Speaker 2: Emerson Hancock to start the year. I mean, I'm all
6:15
Speaker 2: for an embarrassment of riches. Yes, if Emerson Hancock wants
6:18
Speaker 2: to prove that, hey, I'm as good as any of
6:20
Speaker 2: these guys right now and it just took me a
6:22
Speaker 2: little while longer to get there, well that's a good
6:25
Speaker 2: problem to have. I still don't think that you're gonna
6:28
Speaker 2: go beyond five starters, So there will have to be
6:31
Speaker 2: a decision to make down the line if Emerson can
6:34
Speaker 2: keep this up, but you're going to certainly take a
6:39
Speaker 2: sixth guy to this already considered one of the best
6:43
Speaker 2: rotations in the game's staffs. And so I man, I
6:46
Speaker 2: sure hope it's real for a lot of reasons, but
6:49
Speaker 2: I sure hope it's real, and I'm sure hope that
6:52
Speaker 2: they give They present Dan Wilson with the issue of
6:56
Speaker 2: how do I incorporate six outstanding starting pitchers?
7:00
Speaker 3: Well, and that was gonna be My question is, realistically,
7:03
Speaker 3: could they do that?
7:04
Speaker 4: Does that look like something they could do?
7:06
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think that you ruined,
7:09
Speaker 2: not ruin. I don't think that you.
7:12
Speaker 3: Set everybody else off their normal right schedule.
7:15
Speaker 2: For one guy, but who knows. I mean, the Dodgers
7:19
Speaker 2: are going to a six man this year. The couple
7:22
Speaker 2: teams have kicked it around that they're going to go
7:25
Speaker 2: with a six man rotation this year.
7:27
Speaker 3: Because wuldn't you think now you're kind of preserving their
7:29
Speaker 3: arms even a little bit more because they're having to
7:31
Speaker 3: pitch less.
7:31
Speaker 2: I'd say it's not out of the question, but you
7:35
Speaker 2: do what you do. Run through the filter is and look,
7:38
Speaker 2: we're putting the car before you know.
7:40
Speaker 3: It's one game, one game, one game, yes, but it's
7:43
Speaker 3: just kind of a fun thing to wonder, right.
7:45
Speaker 2: And if you know Bryce is a couple of weeks away,
7:48
Speaker 2: he's going to get a couple more starts. If he's
7:50
Speaker 2: sitting there at three and oh with a zero point
7:52
Speaker 2: seven to two ERA and he's averaging strikeout in a
7:56
Speaker 2: half per inning, I mean, yeah, you've got to contemplate
8:00
Speaker 2: how do we take him out of the starting rotation.
8:02
Speaker 2: So I would say I would say that it's not out.
8:06
Speaker 1: Of the question.
8:07
Speaker 2: But the conversation you have to have is how does
8:09
Speaker 2: that affect everybody else and their routine and their ramp up,
8:14
Speaker 2: because you never know how the rest of the group.
8:16
Speaker 2: I'm not going to spoil the bunch to create for one,
8:21
Speaker 2: his opportunity to be in the starting rotation. So I
8:24
Speaker 2: hope it's a problem we have because I really want
8:27
Speaker 2: this kid.
8:27
Speaker 1: To be successful.
8:28
Speaker 3: Well me too, and I yeah, as you said, an
8:30
Speaker 3: embarrassment of riches. It would be really fun to have
8:33
Speaker 3: to navigate that issue or figure out like how they
8:36
Speaker 3: do it.
8:36
Speaker 4: But I hope that we see another start like last night.
8:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yesterday it was an encouraging sign. I mean
8:44
Speaker 2: that was just not oh man, he six shutout innings
8:47
Speaker 2: because he kept getting hard contact, but they were flying
8:50
Speaker 2: out the.
8:51
Speaker 1: Right guy or just hitting it at him.
8:53
Speaker 2: I mean they were really having He certainly looked like
8:56
Speaker 2: the best starter that we had this weekend, I'll tell
8:59
Speaker 2: you that. And he's just I just don't think that
9:01
Speaker 2: you can realize how difficult it must be to be
9:07
Speaker 2: the highest drafted of the group. And those starting pitchers
9:10
Speaker 2: are so close. It's like scary how tight they are.
9:13
Speaker 2: They are brothers. They're not teammates. Those are like best
9:17
Speaker 2: friends and brothers. And you know, we joked about it
9:21
Speaker 2: throughout spring training. You know, they're babies. It's uncle Brian,
9:25
Speaker 2: it's uncle Bryce.
9:26
Speaker 4: Oh I'm sure.
9:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the way that they're that tightly knit and
9:31
Speaker 2: I just loved it. And I don't know if you
9:33
Speaker 2: caught it or not, Ashley, but when Hancock struck out
9:36
Speaker 2: the last batter in the sixth and he came walking
9:38
Speaker 2: off the mound and everybody kind of knew that he
9:40
Speaker 2: was done for the day.
9:41
Speaker 1: Did you see who was up on the top step?
9:43
Speaker 2: No, Logan Gilbert was standing five steps outside the dugout
9:49
Speaker 2: standing ovation, applauding his buddy Brian Wu. I think it
9:54
Speaker 2: was Brian Wu because he was apparently cold. He had
9:56
Speaker 2: like a hood up and everything else. Brian Wu is
9:59
Speaker 2: slapping the top of the padded rail in the dugout.
10:03
Speaker 2: He's up on the top step and slapping it in
10:06
Speaker 2: celebration because the guy who's yet to break through, like
10:10
Speaker 2: they have, had his best night.
10:13
Speaker 1: Ye had his best night as.
10:15
Speaker 2: A professional baseball player, and they were there for him.
10:18
Speaker 2: And that can't be easy to watch all of your
10:21
Speaker 2: best buddies thrive and you're still trying to figure it out.
10:27
Speaker 2: Maybe he figured something out in the offseason. Maybe he
10:30
Speaker 2: figured something out of the end of last year as
10:33
Speaker 2: a relief pitcher, and he took that into the offseason
10:36
Speaker 2: and then got into spring training. Sometimes it just clicks.
10:40
Speaker 2: Can you never know when that's gonna happen. But there's
10:43
Speaker 2: no doubting his talent, and there's no doubting what a
10:46
Speaker 2: great teammate he is and what a great duty is.
10:49
Speaker 2: If he figured out that extra edge that others beat
10:52
Speaker 2: him to. Man, you saw last night. I mean they
10:58
Speaker 2: knew when they drafted him there was a special talent there.
11:02
Speaker 2: Maybe he's finally figured out how to tap into it.
11:05
Speaker 2: It'd be an exciting problem to have.
11:08
Speaker 4: It really would be.
11:08
Speaker 3: I and I hope just for him, because, as you said,
11:11
Speaker 3: a good teammate, a good dude, and you know, you
11:13
Speaker 3: love to see that all of a sudden just work
11:16
Speaker 3: for somebody. And he's proven he's a dedicated member of
11:19
Speaker 3: the soralization. I mean, he's done whatever they have asked
11:21
Speaker 3: him to do. Yeah, and that it's got to be
11:24
Speaker 3: hard to be, you know, up on the opening day
11:26
Speaker 3: starting rotation or opening series starting rotation and then get
11:30
Speaker 3: sent back down to tumble a and then get called
11:32
Speaker 3: back up when they need you.
11:33
Speaker 2: And yeah, Brian Woo's winning picture of the month and
11:37
Speaker 2: you're in Tacoma. Yeah, you know, and you gave up
11:40
Speaker 2: five runs and five innings tonight. Yeah, so and you're
11:43
Speaker 2: and you're sitting there like, the only chance I'm going
11:45
Speaker 2: to get is if one of my best friends gets hurt.
11:47
Speaker 3: Right and then and then yeah, then the relief possibilities
11:50
Speaker 3: in the postseason.
11:51
Speaker 4: But gosh, yeah, good, good for him. I couldn't be
11:53
Speaker 4: happier for him.
11:54
Speaker 1: On the down side, obviously, you don't want to blow that.
11:58
Speaker 2: It's felt like, you know, he had logan on the mound,
12:00
Speaker 2: you had a lead on Thursday, so that didn't come together,
12:04
Speaker 2: and then of course you don't win the extra inning affair. Yeah,
12:08
Speaker 2: and and Donovan throws the ball down the right field
12:10
Speaker 2: line and through his own admission, like, I'm not one
12:13
Speaker 2: hundred percent comfortable as an everyday third baseman just yet,
12:17
Speaker 2: but he worked so hard he'll I think he'll get there.
12:21
Speaker 2: But and then Munnos, I mean, de laughter was just
12:23
Speaker 2: on fire this week and I wasn't even a bad
12:25
Speaker 2: pitch and he.
12:26
Speaker 1: Still hit it out the other way.
12:28
Speaker 2: So on the downside, uh, you know, there was an
12:32
Speaker 2: opportunity to win all four of those games, and you
12:34
Speaker 2: came away with two. But I'm mostly encouraged by what
12:39
Speaker 2: I saw this weekend.
12:40
Speaker 1: And there's the other thing.
12:41
Speaker 2: I mean, you slugged over the weekend, but eight home
12:44
Speaker 2: runs in four games, and yet Cal Rawley, Josh Naylor
12:48
Speaker 2: and Julio Rodriguez were your three worst hitters this weekend.
12:53
Speaker 2: I mean Cal had two hits and four games, Julio
12:56
Speaker 2: had one, and Josh Naylor had zero. Yeah, zero for
13:00
Speaker 2: fifteen Josh Naylor in that contest with I think sixteen strikeouts,
13:05
Speaker 2: So combined, what three, four forty five your three best hitters.
13:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think goodness for the rest of the tea.
13:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, your three best hitterstry Well, that's kind of encouraging though,
13:16
Speaker 2: It's like, because you know they're gonna get hot.
13:17
Speaker 1: But is there something to worry? Like?
13:20
Speaker 2: Do I read into our World Baseball Classic guys were
13:23
Speaker 2: the ones that struggled? I mean, theoretically, wasn't you got
13:27
Speaker 2: to see more truly live pitching.
13:30
Speaker 3: Well except dom Can's own he hasn't struggled, true, the
13:34
Speaker 3: only one though, But yeah, but it is I think
13:37
Speaker 3: it is odd because you have to look at it,
13:39
Speaker 3: look at them, and obviously the three of them are
13:40
Speaker 3: the more prominent World Baseball Classic player.
13:43
Speaker 1: Er Judge struck out four times in his first game.
13:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
13:46
Speaker 2: Maybe I might have to do a deep dive into
13:49
Speaker 2: every single one of these WBC players. Maybe it's something
13:53
Speaker 2: else to criticize Mark de Rosa for did you screw
13:56
Speaker 2: up our hitters?
13:57
Speaker 4: Just screw up our hitters?
13:59
Speaker 1: Yeah? What happened here?
14:00
Speaker 2: Why are our best hitters the ones not contributing in
14:02
Speaker 2: the for opening?
14:04
Speaker 1: They should have, in.
14:04
Speaker 2: Theory, been the most prepared to face the beast Iron
14:08
Speaker 2: Sharpen's iron, right, they it's the best pitching in the spring.
14:11
Speaker 2: Why are they coming out of the gates so slowly collectively?
14:15
Speaker 3: But yeah, and you've also got different managers, so I mean,
14:18
Speaker 3: there's just a lot of It is a weird thing
14:21
Speaker 3: to look at and say, well, that's so strange that
14:23
Speaker 3: those guys, I mean, especially with cal he didn't and Naylor.
14:27
Speaker 3: Neither of them I don't think had a great WBC.
14:30
Speaker 3: So for that to carry over, I would have thought, like, Okay, well,
14:33
Speaker 3: at least we're getting the kinks out while we're in
14:35
Speaker 3: the WBC, get all that gunk off and be ready
14:38
Speaker 3: to go when the season starts.
14:39
Speaker 4: And it seems like it's carried over a bit.
14:41
Speaker 2: Bobby Wits got four hits, but all singles. You're not
14:43
Speaker 2: doing any damage.
14:44
Speaker 1: Gunner.
14:45
Speaker 2: Henderson's off to a one for twelve start with six strikeouts.
14:48
Speaker 4: That's not great. He played well in the WBC.
14:51
Speaker 2: Need I keep going like there might be something here.
14:54
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it seems like all the WBC
14:58
Speaker 2: guys are struggling out of the gates here American players
15:03
Speaker 2: here at the start of the Major League baseball season.
15:05
Speaker 2: But we're just four games into it. We're certainly not
15:07
Speaker 2: worried about that. No, no, no, And I'm actually a
15:10
Speaker 2: little encouraged that you go to and two against a
15:13
Speaker 2: good team with you know, famously good starting pitching, and
15:18
Speaker 2: you didn't get much of a contribution at all from
15:21
Speaker 2: your three best players.
15:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
15:23
Speaker 3: I mean that first game, losing the first game was
15:25
Speaker 3: really a bummer, just because it was Opening Day and
15:27
Speaker 3: you always want to win Opening Day. But I didn't
15:30
Speaker 3: leave that game thinking like, oh, that was a gross feeling.
15:33
Speaker 3: I didn't love the Saturday, you know, to tie it,
15:36
Speaker 3: to go into extra innings, You've got all that momentum
15:39
Speaker 3: and everything, and it just it was like somebody not
15:42
Speaker 3: just deflated the balloon, but like ya stabbed the balloon
15:45
Speaker 3: with a large machete.
15:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good bun. I don't think he's
15:50
Speaker 2: going to throw him out and it ended up not
15:54
Speaker 2: being a good throw No, And then the latter was
15:57
Speaker 2: just the latter.
15:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, he dislaughtered.
15:59
Speaker 1: Us, Yeah, he really did.
16:02
Speaker 2: And then, of course the other big story from over
16:04
Speaker 2: the week well, ABS, which arguably was the biggest story
16:07
Speaker 2: even in sports, and that's when the Final four going on.
16:10
Speaker 2: So many people we're talking about ABS. But we've already
16:13
Speaker 2: discussed that in our seven oh five segment. Another thing
16:15
Speaker 2: that we've already discussed without trying to just repeat what
16:20
Speaker 2: I said at six o'clock about this topic, but certainly
16:23
Speaker 2: I do want to hit on it again, was the
16:25
Speaker 2: TV nonsense, And it was nonsense over the weekend. And
16:28
Speaker 2: I guess the Mariners even recognize it, and they're trying
16:31
Speaker 2: to make good on that. I guess they're got a
16:34
Speaker 2: new deal that they worked out with King five. Yeah.
16:36
Speaker 3: I saw they're going to show ten games locally, So
16:39
Speaker 3: April tenth, seventeenth, May fifteenth, twenty ninth, June nineteenth, so
16:44
Speaker 3: a couple of month basically through the summer. That'll be easy,
16:49
Speaker 3: easier to access for everybody in the Pacific Northwest on
16:52
Speaker 3: your local King five affiliate, because I think it'll be
16:57
Speaker 3: in Portland, it'll be in Spokane, it'll be in Boise
16:59
Speaker 3: as well.
17:00
Speaker 2: But that's the thing, like, and not to just go
17:03
Speaker 2: through the whole speech, but just to kind of summarize
17:05
Speaker 2: the speech I gave at six o'clock and during the
17:09
Speaker 2: time when everybody has told me since I was like
17:12
Speaker 2: fifteen years old that baseball's dying, fools. Forty years later
17:18
Speaker 2: and it's you know, it's you know, it's it's certainly
17:21
Speaker 2: in the shadow of the National Football League. The NFL
17:24
Speaker 2: has become the undisputed king, there's no question about it.
17:27
Speaker 2: But it's financially successful. It's contracts are still guaranteed, they're
17:31
Speaker 2: through the roof. You know, there's intense local interest in
17:36
Speaker 2: the game. There's not as much national interest in the game.
17:40
Speaker 1: I'll give you that.
17:42
Speaker 2: But that was one of the things that Rob Manford
17:44
Speaker 2: was trying to correct. I want what the NFL has,
17:47
Speaker 2: I want a big national TV deal. So he has
17:49
Speaker 2: systematically tried to lure away from their local television agreements
17:57
Speaker 2: each team into a national agreement. They get a bigger
18:00
Speaker 2: piece of the pie and then split it up equally
18:04
Speaker 2: amongst the teams. Yeah, well, good luck trying to get
18:07
Speaker 2: the Yankees away from Yes Network. But right now, I mean,
18:10
Speaker 2: he's up to I think fifteen teams in Major League Baseball.
18:14
Speaker 2: So that's the idea, and I get that that's the idea,
18:17
Speaker 2: but it can't come at the sacrifice of making baseball
18:21
Speaker 2: available to the local audience.
18:24
Speaker 1: And so I get it.
18:25
Speaker 2: It's more of an MLB problem than it is a
18:28
Speaker 2: Mariner problem. But the Mariners did choose to go down
18:31
Speaker 2: this road, so they got to wear a little bit
18:33
Speaker 2: of the blame for the chaos and the nonsense and
18:35
Speaker 2: the anger that was spewed throughout the course of the weekend.
18:39
Speaker 1: And I'm right there with you.
18:40
Speaker 2: I've got your back on this, all of you that
18:42
Speaker 2: were frustrated and angered, because, in my opinion, the argument
18:46
Speaker 2: that I always had against people that said baseball was
18:48
Speaker 2: dying was I'm not worried about twenty year olds who
18:52
Speaker 2: are going out six nights a week watching baseball when
18:58
Speaker 2: they're thirty five and they've got two chin, they're going
19:00
Speaker 2: to school, and they're working fifty hour weeks and they're
19:04
Speaker 2: tired and they want to come home and they just
19:05
Speaker 2: want to put the ballgame on. They'll be converted. They'll
19:08
Speaker 2: be converted to baseball fans. So to me, Rob Manford's
19:14
Speaker 2: missing the boat if he squanders that aspect of being
19:21
Speaker 2: a baseball fan. I always compared it to that tattered
19:26
Speaker 2: robe and those comfy old slippers that you won't throw away.
19:30
Speaker 2: You can't you still you've had them for years and
19:32
Speaker 2: you can't wait to put it on and sit there
19:34
Speaker 2: in your lounger, grab a beer out of the refrigerator
19:39
Speaker 2: once you've gotten home, and sit down with the game
19:41
Speaker 2: on in the background. Even if you're still you know,
19:45
Speaker 2: reading the newspaper or sifting through the news, or you know,
19:49
Speaker 2: carrying on a conversation with your spouse, there's still baseball
19:54
Speaker 2: will survive based on the routine during the spring, summer,
19:58
Speaker 2: and fall of the game is on right, And if
20:03
Speaker 2: you introduce I can't find the game, and you introduce, oh,
20:10
Speaker 2: I found the game, but I have to spend how
20:12
Speaker 2: much more? Yeah, per month?
20:15
Speaker 4: If I have to look every night to know where
20:17
Speaker 4: it's playing tonight.
20:18
Speaker 1: I just found the game.
20:21
Speaker 2: But they want ten dollars for me every month so
20:24
Speaker 2: that I can watch one baseball game. Now, if you
20:27
Speaker 2: start introducing that there is nothing that's going to take
20:32
Speaker 2: the baseball not the die hard to die or to watch,
20:36
Speaker 2: but even the just casual I like baseball, I like
20:40
Speaker 2: having the game on fan. They're not going to climb
20:43
Speaker 2: mountains and go through bramble to make sure that they
20:47
Speaker 2: can find through an act of frustration every night, where
20:51
Speaker 2: the game is and whether or not I've paid for
20:53
Speaker 2: it or not, or whether I have access to it.
20:55
Speaker 2: And I thought I paid for it and I still
20:57
Speaker 2: don't have access to it.
20:59
Speaker 1: It's a mistake. It is not good for the sport.
21:03
Speaker 2: And as Ashley pointed out, when the Seahawks are on
21:06
Speaker 2: national television, a local carrier still provides it for all
21:11
Speaker 2: of those that subscribe to the local networks.
21:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if it's on Amazon on a Thursday night,
21:18
Speaker 3: you still have it on Fox or King five or
21:20
Speaker 3: one of them.
21:21
Speaker 2: Do whatever you want, Bobby, with the national television package
21:26
Speaker 2: if you want to make it difficult to access, and
21:28
Speaker 2: occasionally the Mariners play a national game and we don't
21:30
Speaker 2: have access to it, Okay, but you better make the
21:34
Speaker 2: local product available cause right now your entire industry is
21:40
Speaker 2: driven by the local fever for the local baseball team.
21:46
Speaker 2: And then if I watch some national games on top
21:48
Speaker 2: of it.
21:48
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, sometimes it's nice to just put it on.
21:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you better not run off the local fan
21:56
Speaker 2: that watches baseball because it's part of the and summer
22:01
Speaker 2: routine of theirs. Nobody is going to wear slippers, those
22:07
Speaker 2: comfy slippers, and then five days later, wait a minute,
22:09
Speaker 2: I need another pair of slippers just to do this.
22:12
Speaker 1: Activity in the house.
22:13
Speaker 2: What I mean, the whole point of this is to
22:15
Speaker 2: relax in my slippers, and now you're telling me every
22:18
Speaker 2: five days I got to purchase a different pair of
22:20
Speaker 2: slippers for a different activity.
22:22
Speaker 3: They're not going to follow you, no, and nobody has
22:24
Speaker 3: room in their closet for that means.
22:25
Speaker 2: Nobody has room in their closets. They're not going to
22:28
Speaker 2: follow you. So better figure it out and figure it
22:31
Speaker 2: out quick. I'll give you a year. I'll give you
22:33
Speaker 2: this year to realize the mistake that you're making, but
22:35
Speaker 2: it better be fixed by next year.
22:37
Speaker 1: Yeah.
22:37
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I mean you look at the crack and yes,
22:39
Speaker 3: they're available on Amazon, but they're also available on Kong.
22:42
Speaker 3: For every game that's on Amazon, it is also on Kong.
22:45
Speaker 3: There's some that they do like TBS and things like that,
22:48
Speaker 3: but you usually don't have to have a separate app
22:50
Speaker 3: for that. So I just don't know why Major League
22:53
Speaker 3: Baseball thinks that that's the route to make people jump
22:56
Speaker 3: through hoops.
22:57
Speaker 2: I can tell you why, because Rob Manford is more
23:00
Speaker 2: with trying to get the people that don't like him
23:03
Speaker 2: to like him, and he continues to neglect the people that.
23:06
Speaker 1: Have been loyal to him for years. Yeah.
23:08
Speaker 2: Well, and I just don't think that's how you run
23:10
Speaker 2: a business. I don't think you spite your your best
23:14
Speaker 2: customers just to try to get into your store people
23:18
Speaker 2: that don't like you.
23:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, agreed.
23:20
Speaker 2: I don't like that person either, Like, wait a minute,
23:23
Speaker 2: you're surrounded by friends. Why are you bothered that that
23:25
Speaker 2: guy doesn't like you?
23:27
Speaker 1: Yeah?
23:27
Speaker 2: You know.
23:28
Speaker 1: I don't like that in a person. I don't like
23:29
Speaker 1: that in a human being. Yeah. I don't want it
23:32
Speaker 1: as a customer either.
23:33
Speaker 4: Focus on the friends, all right?
23:34
Speaker 1: Coming up next, ABC's of the MS, the debut.
23:37
Speaker 2: Of twenty twenty six on Sports Radio ninety three point
23:40
Speaker 2: three KJRFM. He's going to miss the start of Draftmas,
23:43
Speaker 2: which I know breaks his heart.
23:45
Speaker 4: That is going to be crushing to us.
23:46
Speaker 1: Poor fella, poor little.
23:48
Speaker 3: Guy, I send him a gift basket. M yeah, maybe
23:51
Speaker 3: well Draftmas essentials, or we.
23:53
Speaker 2: Could put together a gift basket, have it here like
23:56
Speaker 2: we do every draft miss and he can show up
23:58
Speaker 2: for Draftmas, okay.
24:00
Speaker 4: And then if it doesn't do we get to eat
24:02
Speaker 4: it and drink it. Yeah, damn straight, we've done that before.
24:04
Speaker 4: Yeah someone else.
24:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that was a Draftmas basket.
24:09
Speaker 4: No, that's right.
24:10
Speaker 3: No, that was a thanks for the season coach, have
24:13
Speaker 3: fun at Alabama, all right.
24:19
Speaker 2: So we do have the ABC's returning today. It's a
24:23
Speaker 2: staple during the Mariner season, a daily Mariner segment and
24:27
Speaker 2: allows us to talk about a few different topics that
24:29
Speaker 2: aren't just the headline topics, and so we do it
24:32
Speaker 2: every single day. We don't even do Marin this morning
24:34
Speaker 2: after every single day, but we do do the ABC's
24:37
Speaker 2: every single day. And we get to start, of course,
24:39
Speaker 2: at the right at the beginning of the alphabet. And
24:42
Speaker 2: even though we have discussed this topic, I don't know.
24:45
Speaker 2: I mean, it's as if the entire it's like the
24:47
Speaker 2: alphabet is even telling us to talk about this today.
24:50
Speaker 2: A has to be for ABS. The new Challenge system
24:54
Speaker 2: introduced over the weekend to Major League Baseball and it
24:59
Speaker 2: created some really interesting observations results that we're going to
25:05
Speaker 2: be talking about all season long. I think they're going
25:09
Speaker 2: to be talking about it other officials. We reached out
25:14
Speaker 2: to Gene Sterotor because I want to talk to him
25:17
Speaker 2: about it, like what is he that even though he
25:19
Speaker 2: never run part of a Major League Baseball game, but
25:21
Speaker 2: just to get his thoughts on in a sport where
25:25
Speaker 2: the umpire is kind of always ruled, and now we've
25:27
Speaker 2: taken away from them, we don't really trust you to
25:30
Speaker 2: make the right call on the base path.
25:31
Speaker 1: So yeah, we got an eye in the sky that's
25:34
Speaker 1: going to monitor that.
25:35
Speaker 3: I still want you to stand there and try to
25:37
Speaker 3: get the calls right, but just in case.
25:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, but we got a backup plan.
25:42
Speaker 2: And now we're doing it behind home plate, and we
25:47
Speaker 2: sort of a few guys got exposed over the weekend
25:51
Speaker 2: for not being very good at it, and then it
25:55
Speaker 2: was just the first time they were behind home plate.
25:57
Speaker 2: You do wonder how are they going to take the
26:01
Speaker 2: rest of the season, because now fans are seeing on
26:05
Speaker 2: the scoreboard how bad the umpire is and even though
26:10
Speaker 2: they get most of the calls right, Still, yeah, there
26:15
Speaker 2: are some standouts out there, and they stand out in
26:18
Speaker 2: a bad way. That were headlines over the weekend for
26:22
Speaker 2: their repeated missed calls, and so what are you going
26:27
Speaker 2: to do major League Baseball? You might have introduced a
26:30
Speaker 2: little bit of a headache for yourself. And that's why
26:32
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to Gene to go from I've
26:35
Speaker 2: never had balls and strikes. There is a rule in
26:38
Speaker 2: baseball that if you argue balls and strikes, you're immediately rejected,
26:43
Speaker 2: ejected from the game.
26:46
Speaker 1: That's a rule.
26:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can sit there, and you can I mean, yeah,
26:50
Speaker 2: they bark it from the but you can't legitimately.
26:52
Speaker 4: Go out and get all angry about it.
26:55
Speaker 1: Or you'll get ejected.
26:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yet we have empowered the entire building to
27:02
Speaker 2: see once and for all how bad umpires some are
27:07
Speaker 2: in this sport. So I was interested in asking Gene
27:10
Speaker 2: about that. How you can go from nobody's questioning my
27:13
Speaker 2: calls to now everybody in the building can see when
27:16
Speaker 2: I'm a fool.
27:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they're gonna boom me and cheer for meeting wrong.
27:22
Speaker 2: Right, But I think that's what those like C. B.
27:26
Speaker 2: Buckner who struggled, of course, and the opening weekend are
27:29
Speaker 2: gonna have to That's what you got to hang your
27:31
Speaker 2: hat on. Is you're gonna have to hang your hat
27:33
Speaker 2: on the fact that the guy that is jumping up
27:36
Speaker 2: and down and things, you're a moron.
27:38
Speaker 1: Now you've got the screen that can show him. Oh
27:41
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, I was right on that one. So
27:44
Speaker 1: we'll see.
27:44
Speaker 2: But it's a it's off to a really fascinating start.
27:48
Speaker 2: It's kind of the talk of sports right now, and
27:50
Speaker 2: we are just getting into it. It's like getting an
27:55
Speaker 2: eight layer dip and we've only gone like one layer
27:59
Speaker 2: deep and we all already thinking, oh, this is interesting,
28:02
Speaker 2: Oh this is delicious. We haven't even mixed it with
28:05
Speaker 2: the other layers yet.
28:06
Speaker 4: Josh I can't wait to find out what the other
28:07
Speaker 4: layers are.
28:09
Speaker 2: Bias for Bronx bombers there in town Tonight the New
28:12
Speaker 2: York Yankees. It'll be Ryan Weathers against Luis Castillo first
28:15
Speaker 2: pitches at six forty. Yankees are good, I mean, Aaron
28:19
Speaker 2: Judge has been off to a slow start. They've got
28:23
Speaker 2: injury issues they always do with their starting pitching. But
28:26
Speaker 2: they're good. We know that they're good. We know that
28:28
Speaker 2: they're playoff caliber. We know that they're a championship contender,
28:33
Speaker 2: but I know that in the last few years, I've
28:36
Speaker 2: tried to argue with people about there's not really a
28:39
Speaker 2: gap at all between the Yankees and the Mariner. As
28:41
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I think maybe the Mariners over
28:43
Speaker 2: the course of the last four years, maybe they're a
28:46
Speaker 2: record doesn't indicate it, but if we'd have met them
28:48
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, we'd have beaten them. I just felt
28:51
Speaker 2: that we were I thought the Mariners had a better
28:53
Speaker 2: team than the New York Yankees more often than not
28:55
Speaker 2: the last four years. But it's hard to convince the
28:58
Speaker 2: average sports fan of that because of the pen stripes
29:00
Speaker 2: and the attention that the Yankees get, and in this
29:05
Speaker 2: town where a lot of people were frustrated the last
29:07
Speaker 2: four years with the Mariners just being goody and not
29:12
Speaker 2: being great. And so here we sit getting ready to
29:16
Speaker 2: face them for the first time. And usually what happens,
29:19
Speaker 2: Ashley is we get ready to face the Yankees and
29:21
Speaker 2: the statement of.
29:22
Speaker 1: Oh boy, here we go. Now we'll see how good
29:25
Speaker 1: we are.
29:28
Speaker 2: Shees on the other foot, this is the Yankees chance
29:32
Speaker 2: to measure themselves against the best team in the American League.
29:36
Speaker 1: That's my feeling.
29:37
Speaker 4: That just gave me Bucky goosebumps.
29:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is their chance to see how good they
29:41
Speaker 2: are because I know, I know the Mariners are good.
29:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think too, I will say too though
29:47
Speaker 3: I don't think. I think if the Mariners were to
29:49
Speaker 3: not win this series, it doesn't mean oh, the Mariners
29:52
Speaker 3: aren't as good as we thought, No at all.
29:54
Speaker 4: But it will be fun.
29:56
Speaker 3: And I do think it's nice to, yeah, to not
29:57
Speaker 3: be like intimidated that the Yankees are coming to town
30:00
Speaker 3: for once.
30:00
Speaker 1: And I don't think the players were, but I do
30:02
Speaker 1: believe that the fan base fans were, yeah, like, oh,
30:05
Speaker 1: now we'll find up. Well, they're good. They're good.
30:08
Speaker 2: I don't think they're great. I think we're good. Yeah,
30:11
Speaker 2: And we still have to go out there and prove
30:13
Speaker 2: that were great. Yep. The Mariners have to prove that
30:16
Speaker 2: they're great on paper. I think they've got the potential
30:18
Speaker 2: for doing that. I think they've got a better potential
30:20
Speaker 2: for doing that than what the Yankees have.
30:22
Speaker 1: I think we have a better roster on paper.
30:25
Speaker 2: But we certainly are facing a really good opponent tonight,
30:29
Speaker 2: and we get to measure ourselves certainly at the beginning
30:32
Speaker 2: of the year and they get to measure themselves against
30:35
Speaker 2: the Mariners because I realize Vegas says they're going to
30:38
Speaker 2: win more games, but that's Vegas taking bets, and you
30:42
Speaker 2: know you're gonna get more Yankee bets than you're gonna
30:44
Speaker 2: get Mariner.
30:44
Speaker 3: Bets because you have Yankee fans all over the country,
30:47
Speaker 3: I mean fake Yankee fans, but they still will bet
30:49
Speaker 3: on them.
30:49
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, but the experts that are weighing in on it,
30:54
Speaker 2: Yankees aren't even being mentioned.
30:56
Speaker 1: The Mariners are like ninety.
30:58
Speaker 2: Percent of national analysts are picked in the Mariners as
31:01
Speaker 2: the best team in the American League. And then finally
31:03
Speaker 2: see as four catalyst, We've gotten our first glimpse of
31:07
Speaker 2: Brendan Donovan as a Mariner.
31:09
Speaker 1: I love it.
31:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think there's much not to like. I mean, yeah,
31:13
Speaker 2: bad throw down the third base line. Through his own admission,
31:16
Speaker 2: he said, I'm not comfortable with everything yet. Yeah, but
31:20
Speaker 2: I'll get there as a starting everyday third baseman.
31:24
Speaker 1: So something worth monitoring there.
31:25
Speaker 2: But in terms of like a leadoff hitter, a catalyst,
31:27
Speaker 2: a guy that's going to work the count is going
31:30
Speaker 2: to see pitches, he's going to get on base and
31:32
Speaker 2: actually has a little bit of pop as well.
31:34
Speaker 1: Boy, I mean it looks pretty much ideal at this point.
31:38
Speaker 3: And I think as defensively, yeah, we couldn't even attempt
31:41
Speaker 3: to think he would be all the way ready to
31:44
Speaker 3: do something he doesn't do right. I mean, it's the
31:47
Speaker 3: first weekend, so I was that, Yeah, was.
31:51
Speaker 1: An easy play either, but he really made it.
31:53
Speaker 4: He made it worse.
31:54
Speaker 1: He really watched it. Yeah.
31:56
Speaker 2: Now, as far as a leadoff hitter, I mean, I
32:00
Speaker 2: spent the off season on our Stove podcast Andrews and
32:02
Speaker 2: I talking about Brendan Donovan. Here's the bottom line. I
32:06
Speaker 2: wanted to add him on the team. I saw him
32:07
Speaker 2: as an asset. I thought he could improve this baseball team.
32:10
Speaker 2: I didn't watch Brendan Donovan play every game. Probably didn't
32:14
Speaker 2: watch Brendan Donovan played ten games last year. What I
32:17
Speaker 2: saw of him I liked, didn't love. The trade possibilities
32:22
Speaker 2: that were being floated around during the Hot Stove out
32:26
Speaker 2: of Saint Louis were silly, and they proved to be
32:29
Speaker 2: silly because the deal that we ultimately gave up for
32:31
Speaker 2: Brendan Donovan seemed like, Okay, that's kind of where I
32:34
Speaker 2: thought it was going to be I thought that was
32:35
Speaker 2: the ballpark where that deal would land in. But I
32:38
Speaker 2: spent a lot of offseason kind of reacting to the
32:41
Speaker 2: ridiculous trade suggestions that were being made out of Saint
32:45
Speaker 2: Louis as to what Brendan Donovan is worth. And part
32:48
Speaker 2: of that stems from I grew up in Saint Louis.
32:51
Speaker 2: I know how Cardinal fans are, and Cardinal fans love
32:55
Speaker 2: the guy that.
32:55
Speaker 1: Gets the uniform dirty.
32:57
Speaker 2: I mean, when I grew up, Ozzie Smith was the
33:00
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame player on the Cardinals, and he was
33:03
Speaker 2: everybody's favorite player because he was the best player. But
33:07
Speaker 2: the second favorite player was Joseah Kendo, and Joseah Kenda
33:12
Speaker 2: was just a bench guy who did who played like
33:14
Speaker 2: nine different positions and played them all pretty well and
33:17
Speaker 2: would come through in the clutch every once in a while.
33:19
Speaker 2: Saint Louis fans love they're scrappy, I'll do anything for
33:24
Speaker 2: the team kind of player. And when you get to
33:27
Speaker 2: marry that with a Brendan Donovan who's that and he
33:30
Speaker 2: also has a little bit of talent, he turns out
33:33
Speaker 2: to be like their favorite players. So they really overvalued
33:37
Speaker 2: how good Brendan Donovan was and but but but but
33:43
Speaker 2: he's really good and he's going to add a lot
33:46
Speaker 2: to this team. So I'm hanging out with Over the weekend,
33:49
Speaker 2: I went on a buddy's trip and one of my
33:51
Speaker 2: buddies is a diehard Cardinal fan, and I was waiting
33:55
Speaker 2: for him to start talking about Brendan Donovan, and he
33:57
Speaker 2: brought it up like immediately when I was there. You're
33:59
Speaker 2: a love him. He's just great. You're gonna love my
34:02
Speaker 2: typical Cardinal for Yeah, loves Brendan, loves the guy who
34:05
Speaker 2: gets the uniform, dirty, does all the little things, you know,
34:08
Speaker 2: talks about God, family after the game. You know, that's
34:12
Speaker 2: not surprised at all that my buddy Doug loves Brendan Donovan.
34:17
Speaker 2: Fast forward a little bit in the night, a few
34:19
Speaker 2: Maker's marks into my buddy Doug, and then all of
34:22
Speaker 2: a sudden it was I can't believe Brendan Donovan. He
34:28
Speaker 2: is the best. I love that guy. You're gonna love
34:32
Speaker 2: that guy.
34:35
Speaker 4: Love that guy, poor Doug.
34:36
Speaker 2: Oh best, Brendan Donovan. He's awesome. Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, He's awesome.
34:43
Speaker 3: Brendan Donovan, who would have been the best if he
34:46
Speaker 3: had photos of him and his phone.
34:48
Speaker 4: He's like, look at this photo of him. He wouldn't
34:50
Speaker 4: have made this play. Look at him here. I was
34:52
Speaker 4: dirty his uniform, he was here.
34:53
Speaker 1: There's my daughter. Don't worry about that. I don't know
34:55
Speaker 1: why that's in here. Look at this shot of Brendan
35:00
Speaker 1: guy's face.
35:02
Speaker 2: So know that as you're watching Brendan Donovan get his
35:06
Speaker 2: dirty uniform, dirty his four to twenty nine on base
35:10
Speaker 2: or excuse me, five point fifty on base, four to
35:12
Speaker 2: twenty nine batting average already, two home runs in four games. No,
35:16
Speaker 2: and maybe this will make you feel even better about
35:18
Speaker 2: things that it is eating away at the souls of
35:22
Speaker 2: Saint Louis Cardinal fans everywhere.
35:24
Speaker 4: Good.
35:26
Speaker 2: All right, coming up next the NCAA tournament. Our brackets
35:31
Speaker 2: are coming to a head. How did they look? Sports
35:33
Speaker 2: Radio ninety three point three kha RFM. All right, Healy
35:47
Speaker 2: will join us at nine o'clock this morning.
35:49
Speaker 1: Here on Chucking Buck.
35:50
Speaker 2: No Bucky here today, so Ryan won't have his buddy
35:54
Speaker 2: to salute too.
35:55
Speaker 4: You've told him yet, he's gonna be sad.
35:57
Speaker 1: Really cute. They salute each other every time on zoom.
36:00
Speaker 4: It's pretty adorable.
36:01
Speaker 1: Conversation. It's that you hit homers. I hit homers.
36:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're Dinger buddies.
36:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dinger buddies. Yeah.
36:12
Speaker 2: Ah man, we do love our Dingers, don't we.
36:14
Speaker 4: You and I look at my sweet Dinger buddy.
36:17
Speaker 2: Never met anybody more than the two of us. I
36:20
Speaker 2: like our Dingers more. That's right, yep, that's the way
36:22
Speaker 2: they operate. So anyway, he'll miss it, but we'll still
36:27
Speaker 2: talk some baseball with Ryan Healy at nine o'clock this morning.
36:31
Speaker 2: Also final fource going on. How are your brackets looking?
36:34
Speaker 2: How did you end up now that we're here to
36:37
Speaker 2: the final four? I like the Final four, you know,
36:40
Speaker 2: I don't. There's not some crazy Cinderella there, but at
36:43
Speaker 2: least it wasn't all chalk. Yeah, you do have to
36:46
Speaker 2: me a villain in it, and Dan Hurley and Yukon,
36:48
Speaker 2: which always makes every movie a little more interesting. Then
36:51
Speaker 2: I've got my own team. I grew up with local
36:54
Speaker 2: rooting interest. There with Illinois and then Arizona Michigan having
36:58
Speaker 2: to face one another, though they clearly look like the
37:01
Speaker 2: two best teams in college basketball, and that won't be
37:04
Speaker 2: our championship game.
37:06
Speaker 1: It won't be Arizona and Michigan.
37:08
Speaker 2: It'll be Saturday's semifinal game, and so yeah, I think
37:14
Speaker 2: it is a little bit unless you're rooting for Illinois, right,
37:18
Speaker 2: which I am as well.
37:20
Speaker 1: So you add them all the way to the four.
37:22
Speaker 4: I have them in the finals, Arizona Finals.
37:24
Speaker 1: So how is that doing for you? Are you doing? No?
37:28
Speaker 4: Terrible?
37:28
Speaker 2: Because I can't imagine a lot of people have Illinois
37:31
Speaker 2: going to the time.
37:31
Speaker 3: I'm actually one of very few in our I think
37:34
Speaker 3: there's maybe one other person that has them in the finals.
37:38
Speaker 3: But the problem is I had Michigan State out of
37:41
Speaker 3: the top bracket and I had Iowa State out of
37:44
Speaker 3: the other. Okay, I don't think there's any chance that
37:48
Speaker 3: I can do well even if I go.
37:50
Speaker 4: If I get Illinois and Arizona into the finals in
37:52
Speaker 4: Arizona wins.
37:53
Speaker 2: I have Michigan Arizona getting this far. I didn't even
37:55
Speaker 2: have Illinois, who I do openly root for. I didn't
37:58
Speaker 2: have them making it past huge, But I'm happy that
38:01
Speaker 2: there are. I'd rather Illinois be in the final four
38:04
Speaker 2: then to be, you know, having my bracket be in
38:08
Speaker 2: a better position. So that's great. And then in terms
38:11
Speaker 2: of our green Jacket draft.
38:12
Speaker 1: That we did.
38:13
Speaker 2: Going into the tournament. We drafted four teams and just
38:15
Speaker 2: purely based on wins. I have ten wins out of
38:19
Speaker 2: that with Michigan and Illinois still alive. Kid has ten wins,
38:25
Speaker 2: but he only has Yukon still alive.
38:27
Speaker 4: Oh he has Yukon. Oh yeah, that's right.
38:29
Speaker 2: He did pick them and then Bucky, Yeah he picked them. Ah,
38:32
Speaker 2: he picked them third overall. Then Bucky has eight wins
38:36
Speaker 2: and he still has Arizona still a yeah, and yet
38:40
Speaker 2: he could get it done. I mean an Arizona because
38:43
Speaker 2: the tie breaker will be if you have the champion.
38:45
Speaker 2: So if he gets Arizona to win over Michigan, that
38:48
Speaker 2: gives him the ninth win that he needs, and if
38:50
Speaker 2: they win the national Championship, that gets them eleven. So
38:53
Speaker 2: there's a scenario where Bucky can still win this. Obviously,
38:55
Speaker 2: Yukon's got to win out if Kid's going to win it.
38:58
Speaker 2: And then I seem to be in the best position
39:01
Speaker 2: the fact that I'm tied for the lead and have
39:03
Speaker 2: two teams remaining.
39:05
Speaker 1: But you never know, yeah, never know.
39:07
Speaker 4: Yeah it is. I do like the mix in the Final.
39:10
Speaker 1: Four, Yeah, yeah, I like it. I like the Final four.
39:12
Speaker 2: I like what they came up with I mean, I
39:15
Speaker 2: do like a good Cinderella story, and yet I don't
39:20
Speaker 2: need it to make the story fascinating. There was a
39:23
Speaker 2: lot of talk about having to have a Cinderella at
39:26
Speaker 2: the beginning of the year.
39:27
Speaker 1: And I just don't buy that.
39:29
Speaker 2: As I was discussing with my buddies, like, the Cinderella
39:33
Speaker 2: story is great in that moment, until you step back
39:35
Speaker 2: and you realize, oh, that's not a very good game the.
39:38
Speaker 4: Next one, right, that's the problem.
39:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there were a lot of blowouts, but I
39:42
Speaker 2: will I'm going to defend the Cinderella a little bit
39:46
Speaker 2: because I say that on one hand, but on the
39:48
Speaker 2: other hand, let this also be a lesson to all
39:51
Speaker 2: the people that don't want to give the Cinderella a chance.
39:53
Speaker 2: And then every time a Cinderella gets deep into a
39:56
Speaker 2: tournament and loses by fifteen points to a one seed, see,
40:01
Speaker 2: that's why you can't have them in there. Well, Michigan
40:05
Speaker 2: toyed with Tennessee, yeah, who's a sixth seed?
40:07
Speaker 1: Pretty good team.
40:09
Speaker 2: Arizona pretty much had its way throughout the entire tournament
40:13
Speaker 2: with everybody that they faced, and Illinois, I think is
40:16
Speaker 2: won by ten in every game.
40:19
Speaker 1: That they play ten or more.
40:20
Speaker 2: And so yes, even when a great team is playing well,
40:26
Speaker 2: they can beat out a good team playing well, they
40:29
Speaker 2: can destroy that team. And what we've seen out of Michigan,
40:32
Speaker 2: Arizona and Illinois and Yukon, they've just been playing some
40:35
Speaker 2: great basketball. So I like it as a final four,
40:37
Speaker 2: and I think Michigan Arizona should determine the champion.
40:41
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this.
40:44
Speaker 2: Usually when it's really dangerous, when you had the one
40:47
Speaker 2: and it feels like the national championship game, and so
40:51
Speaker 2: the survivor of that comes out, but they feel like
40:53
Speaker 2: they just won the national championship. There's this feeling of
40:56
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, we just beat the team that is
40:58
Speaker 2: the best one we're gonna face. And then variably you
41:01
Speaker 2: have a letdown when you get ready for that championship game.
41:05
Speaker 2: It's what we're worried about. Team USA didn't beat Russia
41:09
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty in the finals, right, maybe even in
41:11
Speaker 2: the semiphon Yeah, yeah, And so you still had to
41:15
Speaker 2: get up for the championship game afterwards, and that's not
41:18
Speaker 2: always the easiest thing to do. So I think it's
41:20
Speaker 2: anybody's ball game. At this point, I would agree. I
41:23
Speaker 2: would agree exciting. Also, I'll tell you that you're within
41:28
Speaker 2: eight and a half points by the way of Bucky
41:29
Speaker 2: in the NBA Green Jacket.
41:31
Speaker 4: Draft, but it's not going to happen.
41:33
Speaker 1: I think it's going to happen, and I think he's
41:35
Speaker 1: going to win the crack and One too so Celtics.
41:38
Speaker 1: I think he's on. Bobby McMahon's been unbelievable. Yes, all right,
41:43
Speaker 1: Ryan Heally's next.
41:44
Speaker 2: It's Chuck and Ashley with you Sports Radio ninety three
41:46
Speaker 2: point three kh A r f M