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Chuck & Buck 3-6 Hour 3: The Ocho, Check Yes or No and Dipoto's genius moves. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 2: Oh, Spencer is He's the most fullest Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And Spencer's really tall. He's like seven feet tall.
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Speaker 2: Spencer's are tall than all of it. You're right, you
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Speaker 2: are right. I'm glad we're gonnae this. O Joe pause.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, by way, uh, I didn't even put this on
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Speaker 3: the Oat show.
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Speaker 2: But is it daylight savings this week?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we changed the clocks back Saturday nights over into
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Speaker 4: Sunday morning.
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Speaker 2: Whenever okay, means we gain an hour of sunlight, right, yeah,
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Speaker 2: lose an hour of sleep. Yes, my least favorite day
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Speaker 2: of the year, is that, right? Yeah? I love sleep.
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Speaker 4: I do too, but I like next week I'll appreciate it.
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Speaker 4: But for Sunday, Monday, and probably Tuesday, I'm gonna be grumpy. Okay,
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Speaker 4: and Sunday we have to be real early.
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Speaker 2: That's a real shake. Yeah, changing there, Oh you're gonna
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Speaker 2: be wow.
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Speaker 4: Sunday we have been early. So now it's like we're
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Speaker 4: basically waking up at the equivalent of five thirty.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be thrown off by actually being grumpy. Something's different. Wow,
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Speaker 2: you've seem grumpier.
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Speaker 4: Is It's like if jess Man decided to be nice?
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Speaker 2: Exactly similar lot like that.
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Speaker 3: All right, well, let's get into the top stories and uh,
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Speaker 3: let's face it. I mean, yeah, we've been jumping the
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Speaker 3: gun for a couple of weeks on this, but NFL
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Speaker 3: free agency is almost here. The first official day of
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Speaker 3: NFL free agency is next Wednesday. But that's not the holiday.
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Speaker 3: That's not the party we celebrate. What we celebrate is
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Speaker 3: what gets going on Monday morning. Tamper Fest is almost here.
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Speaker 3: Free Agency Frenzy the network's call it. By the way,
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Speaker 3: Vick's really good at these promos.
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Speaker 2: Rich does a good job right.
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Speaker 3: In these promos. But you have mashed mashed up March
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Speaker 3: Madness promo with frenzy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because there's a frenzy in March madness and I
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Speaker 4: am like, no, that's madness.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's not a frenzy. You got to know the
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Speaker 2: difference between frenzy and madness. People.
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Speaker 4: Frenzy happens two weeks prior to the madness.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's going to be madness and there's going
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Speaker 3: to be frenzy, and we're going to enjoy both parties.
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Speaker 2: You can't mesh them. You can't have like a March frenzy.
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Speaker 2: Madness can get arrested. Yeah, I did not know a
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Speaker 2: felony or misdemeanor at a minimum might not slap the
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Speaker 2: cuffs on you, but they should. Second letter of the
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Speaker 2: Low says they should. But what's his name from Shashank?
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Speaker 2: He was in for that. I heard maxon I believe
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Speaker 2: in this in frenzy. Yeah, I think that.
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Speaker 3: I don't remember it exactly, something along those lines, but
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Speaker 3: it was something along those lines, and he paid the ultimate.
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Speaker 2: Price for it. Go easy, if you ask me, I agree.
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Speaker 2: I agree.
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Speaker 3: Well, the free agency frenzy is going to get going
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Speaker 3: next week. We've already seen some significant trades this week
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Speaker 3: in the National Football League which are leading up. I mean,
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Speaker 3: this is just an added bonus to get sort of
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Speaker 3: a trade deadline before teams can put their financial houses
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Speaker 3: in order for how aggressive that they want to be
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Speaker 3: during the free agency period. We saw Trent mcduffey, the
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Speaker 3: former Husky, get traded to the Los Angeles Rams. There's
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Speaker 3: really nothing to like about that. In Seattle, Dj Moore
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Speaker 3: is now a Buffalo Bill being traded from the Chicago
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Speaker 3: Bears yesterday for a second round pick. David Montgomery is
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Speaker 3: now a Houston Texan, and the Texan also made a
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Speaker 3: trade where the player going out of the market and
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Speaker 3: that is Titus Howard going to the Cleveland Browns.
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Speaker 2: And so it's been more.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we've had a lot of trade activity. I
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Speaker 3: have a feelinger going to see another one today. We've
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Speaker 3: been hearing all week long that Max Crosby deal could
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Speaker 3: be made soon. The Seahawks have been a name mentioned,
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Speaker 3: and the Max Crosby trade word cloud here this week aggressively,
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Speaker 3: but probably the Chicago Bears have been most prominently mentioned
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Speaker 3: as a suitor, and according to reports that Dj Moore
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Speaker 3: trade giving them a little more draft capital heading into frenzy. Well,
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Speaker 3: maybe Chicago's in the pole position to get the pass
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Speaker 3: rusher from the Las Vegas Raiders.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it seems as if that's where the reports
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Speaker 2: are heading. But boil boy. I mean, it was a
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Speaker 2: couple of days ago when you know, somebody just kind
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Speaker 2: of pointed out the you know, when John Schneider gets
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Speaker 2: his you know, kind of it's smitten for somebody, if
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Speaker 2: you will, he tends to go out and get him.
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Speaker 2: And I think that they've already made a couple swipes
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Speaker 2: at this thing in years past with Max Crosby. So
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Speaker 2: the fact that now he's more available, it seems like
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Speaker 2: the Raiders have shown their hand and he's shown his hand,
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Speaker 2: and he doesn't want to be into silver and Black anymore.
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Speaker 2: Maybe Chicago does have the pole position, but I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: be surprised if John Schneider does that snake charmer thing
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Speaker 2: you're talking about. Hey, look over here, Yeah, look at
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Speaker 2: our shark, Druce Color. You like that? Yeah, I not
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Speaker 2: only got our guy, Mike, I got him for a
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Speaker 2: third and a fifth, so good at this? That would
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Speaker 2: be impressive. He does impressive things. You get him for
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Speaker 2: a third and a fifth. They just put you in
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Speaker 2: the Hall.
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Speaker 3: Of Fame right now, third and a fifth and tyokatta,
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Speaker 3: you want to pat me on the back? Now, which
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Speaker 3: of six ree agent starters might the Hawks retain? That's
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Speaker 3: more of the question, I think than even who might
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Speaker 3: they add to the Super Bowl roster coming up. We're
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Speaker 3: gonna go over that with a final round of check
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Speaker 3: yes or No at eight thirty today. But certainly, it
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Speaker 3: seems like there's some sticker shock going on right now
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Speaker 3: with Ken Walker and Rashid Shaheed and kind of feels
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Speaker 3: like the markets saying we're gonna pay them more than
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Speaker 3: the Hawks would have ever dreamt of paying them. And
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Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know how many of these
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Speaker 3: guys we're gonna end up retaining of the six starters,
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Speaker 3: but we'll talk about it in check yes or No.
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Speaker 2: But yes, that is part of this as well.
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Speaker 3: There's a weekend of trying to beat the tamperfest and
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Speaker 3: get the guys that you want under contract before they
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Speaker 3: reach free agency. I mean, the Rams just did it
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Speaker 3: this morning with Cam curl. So they had McDuffie earlier
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Speaker 3: in the week and then they resigned one of their
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Speaker 3: own to keep him from hitting free agency. So the
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Speaker 3: Rams are getting some stuff done. Of course, they're not
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Speaker 3: world champ.
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Speaker 4: Did they Did we play them on?
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Speaker 3: We did?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah. I think they're in the same division too.
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Speaker 2: I think we won that as well.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, good luck Seahawks. Yesterday did reward Drake Thomas with
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Speaker 3: a brand new deal, and what a success story he
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Speaker 3: turned out to be. I mean, he just kept getting
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Speaker 3: better every single game last year. Greg Bell was with
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Speaker 3: US our Seahawks insider one hour ago discussing the significance
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Speaker 3: of the move.
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Speaker 5: This time last year, he was still behind Tyree Knight,
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Speaker 5: who was the starter and by training camp McDonald said,
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Speaker 5: Drake Thomas is doing everything we've asked him to do
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Speaker 5: it more. He's a short tackler. He needs to be
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Speaker 5: in more than special teams. He's our new starting inside
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Speaker 5: week sideline packer. That was the same time Tyree Knight
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Speaker 5: we got injured during training camp and Drake Thomas seized
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Speaker 5: the role. It was the full time start of the
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Speaker 5: entire season. He was a restricted free agent, meaning that
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Speaker 5: the Seahawks had the rights to him, but if they
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Speaker 5: didn't want to get him a contract or even tender
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Speaker 5: him an offer, then he could have become an unrestricted
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Speaker 5: free agent on Monday. But instead of tenoring him an
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Speaker 5: offer for just this year, they give him a whole
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Speaker 5: new deal for two years. His agent confirmed to me
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Speaker 5: yesterday that it was at one point five million dollars
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Speaker 5: signing bonus, two years, eight million dollars and up to
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Speaker 5: nine million dollars total coming some potential bonuses. And that's
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Speaker 5: a pretty good deal for a guy who was a
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Speaker 5: fringe player waived by the Raiders a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know, I mean, maybe we make too
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Speaker 2: big a.
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Speaker 3: Deal out of the name players that the Seahawks retain
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Speaker 3: or go after in free agency.
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Speaker 2: I mean, maybe just having Mike McDonald, I don't know,
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Speaker 2: makes all the difference.
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Speaker 3: I saw guys in preseason games named Tylecotta and Drake
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Speaker 3: Thomas who looked like bad football players, and by the
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Speaker 3: end of the season.
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Speaker 2: They were heavy contributors to a Super Bowl champion.
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Speaker 3: They just both got better every single week, so maybe
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Speaker 3: it didn't matter. Maybe it is they Maybe they just
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Speaker 3: get arrogant and say, we'll operate with half the calf.
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Speaker 3: Mcdonald'll make them all better. It'd be a bold move,
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Speaker 3: bold move. I don't know if I would recommend that.
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Speaker 3: I still think good good players combined with great coaching
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Speaker 3: does well. We see what that turned into this last
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Speaker 3: year with Super Bowl. It is interesting that they've re
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Speaker 3: upped him. But then again, yeah, he was behind on
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Speaker 3: the depth chart and ended up taking the job and
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Speaker 3: never looking back.
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Speaker 2: And you're right. You combined Drake Thomas and Tyle Coott
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Speaker 2: a couple of guys that are maybe fly under the
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Speaker 2: radar as far as household names go, but they most
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Speaker 2: certainly contributors.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, JSN and Spoon are likely to be extended for
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Speaker 3: big money this offseason, but those are things that the
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Speaker 3: Seahawks are going to deal with after the frenzy is
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Speaker 3: over and after the roster is mostly set.
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Speaker 2: So yes, let's get it on. We're gonna get.
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Speaker 3: Our tamp on on Monday, so hopefully you will be
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Speaker 3: with us starting at six am. We will having pretty
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Speaker 3: intense coverage for Monday and Tuesday right here.
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Speaker 2: On Chuck and Buck in the mornings.
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Speaker 3: Now, the NHL trading deadline is today at noon and
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Speaker 3: the Kraken still have not made a move. Al Koniski,
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Speaker 3: color analyst for the Kraken right here on the flagship
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Speaker 3: sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, joins us every
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Speaker 3: Wednesday at nine to thirty, and we spoke a lot
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Speaker 3: to him about the deadline and we asked Al about
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Speaker 3: what a big trade, a significant ad could mean to
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Speaker 3: this Kraken team's playoff hopes this year.
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Speaker 6: Well, you have to ask yourself, you know, you know,
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Speaker 6: let's use Robert Thomas. He is an absolute proven one seed,
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Speaker 6: is twenty six years old. You put him in that
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Speaker 6: one sea spot with the Kraken. Maybe Maddy Veneers is
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Speaker 6: your two seed. Does that win you a playoff series?
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Speaker 6: I think the answer is yes, if you've got the
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Speaker 6: blue line and the goal to mean that this team
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Speaker 6: seems to have right now. I think that's tweak you're
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Speaker 6: looking for in that top six group. You're not looking
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Speaker 6: for depth. This is an identity shift with the team.
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Speaker 6: So you've got to change that mindset of we're not
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Speaker 6: going to wait in need or we're not gonna be patient.
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Speaker 6: We want to win now. And to do that, you've
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Speaker 6: got to give something up big. And it might be
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Speaker 6: a shameewright. You know, it might be an election chick,
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Speaker 6: it might be both of them, it might be prospects.
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Speaker 6: You know, you've got to give something up big to
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Speaker 6: get something big, because I guarantee you other teams are
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Speaker 6: doing the same thing for a guy like Robert Thomas.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels important. We had this discussion to start
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Speaker 3: the show. We've had it a couple of times this week.
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Speaker 3: It just feels important to me that they do something
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Speaker 3: right now. I just think it's good for business. I
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Speaker 3: think the last thing the Kraken can have happened this
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Speaker 3: year for the good of the Crack and going forward
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Speaker 3: is to end up this season missing the playoffs by
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Speaker 3: a point or two, and then looking back at the
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Speaker 3: NHL trade deadline where they weren't aggressive and.
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Speaker 2: Didn't add anything.
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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I do abscribe to the theory that
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Speaker 3: sometimes the best trades you make are the ones that
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Speaker 3: you don't pull the trigger on and you end up
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Speaker 3: keeping the guy that you almost dealt and he ends
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Speaker 3: up being.
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Speaker 2: Better than the guy you brought in.
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Speaker 3: I get that, but just from a perception standpoint, I
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Speaker 3: think that it would behoove the Kraken to get into
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Speaker 3: the playoffs this year and let that represent the growth
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Speaker 3: that this organization and this roster needs to start making
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Speaker 3: their way, one step at a time toward a Stanley Cup.
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Speaker 2: I think they got to make the playoffs this year.
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Speaker 2: It would be nice. Obviously, you don't you don't want
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Speaker 2: to miss out on the party. It seems like, you know,
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Speaker 2: this entire city of Seattle is kind of in this
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Speaker 2: little playoff mode, right whether it's the Mariners and then
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Speaker 2: the Seahawks follow with a Super Bowl. You want to
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Speaker 2: kind of stay on that, stay in the in the
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Speaker 2: fold as one of the relevant teams. And they've been
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Speaker 2: kind of in the same mode where they're kind of competitive,
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Speaker 2: and yet they missed the playoffs a couple of years.
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Speaker 2: You know, close a couple times, but miss the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: And it's the same type of thing where you just
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Speaker 2: you're hoping that maybe some of these younger guys that
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Speaker 2: you have pop and turn into frontline superstar forwards, and
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Speaker 2: nobody's really done that yet. So go out and get it.
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Speaker 2: Go out and spend a little bit, or trade somebody
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Speaker 2: if you have to, to get somebody that you think
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Speaker 2: is bona fide upgrade as far as one of your
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Speaker 2: front front line or two forwards, and start putting some
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Speaker 2: more biscuits in the basket. He's bone fat. We need
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Speaker 2: the biscuits in the basket. We need a suitor.
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Speaker 3: The deadline today at noon, so less than four hours
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Speaker 3: from now. Krack and still haven't made a move. It's
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Speaker 3: not a certainty that they will. Yesterday, Seattle was linked
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Speaker 3: to Florida Panthers winger Maki Samuskevitch, which I do believe
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Speaker 3: is a town near BUCkies.
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Speaker 2: Between Snowpaumia and North Bend. Skevitch Washington gets Wendy, I
13:46
Speaker 2: hear it. Yeah, Actually there's a sasquatch sighting in Samas Skevitch.
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Speaker 2: Is that right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it happens. Five trades were made yesterday in the league.
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Speaker 3: The NHL trading deadline usually features like up to a
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Speaker 3: million trades. So we're going to get active at some
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Speaker 3: point here today, but we haven't seen really anything take place.
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Speaker 3: I guess NHL general managers.
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Speaker 2: Like to sleep in they need their winks lazy.
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Speaker 3: The team is currently in playoff position but narrowly. Cracken
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Speaker 3: host the Ottawa Senators tonight at six thirty, which means
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Speaker 3: Mike Benton will be on the pregame show at six
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Speaker 3: thirty here on KJAR, and he'll be joining us today
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Speaker 3: at nine thirty. We always check in with Mike right
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Speaker 3: before the NHL trade deadline, so he will be our
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Speaker 3: last item of business this week as we discuss with
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Speaker 3: him the deadline at nine thirty.
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Speaker 2: All right, next item on the O Show.
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Speaker 3: The WBC is now underway. The World Baseball Classic. Australia
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Speaker 3: has already played like fourteen games. It feels like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: and no one else has played. That's what it feels like.
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Speaker 3: But this morning Japan finally got their WBC underway and
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Speaker 3: it didn't take show Hey very long to make headlines.
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Speaker 2: The two one now lights it up.
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Speaker 7: It is gone. Oh tell me Love Doors. Todova's on fire.
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Speaker 3: At this one broadcasting the game early this morning show
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Speaker 3: I had three hits, including that Grand Slam in Japan
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Speaker 3: won easily over Chinese Taipei. The Aussies are off to
15:41
Speaker 3: a two and oh start in pool play, but everybody
15:45
Speaker 3: else is going to get going as the day progresses.
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Speaker 3: Cuba will take on Panama. I think that just got underway.
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Speaker 3: Julio and the d R will play at four o'clock
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Speaker 3: versus Nicaragua, and US meets Brazil at five o'clock today
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Speaker 3: for their FO game. Cal Rawley and the Americans getting
16:04
Speaker 3: it started today against.
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Speaker 2: Brasile soccer players rose. Yeah, they're going to kick the
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Speaker 2: ball soccer'd hilarious. Yeah, you're not gonna have much of
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Speaker 2: a chance. I'm gonna swear don't bring a soccer ball.
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Speaker 2: Do that your best chance?
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Speaker 4: And I think Mexico plays this morning too, Right, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I can somehow convince Aaron Judge to kick the ball
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Speaker 2: around a little bit, Maybe you get a chance.
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Speaker 4: Sure, if Aaron Judge kicked the ball, the ball would
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Speaker 4: explode because he'd kick it so hard.
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Speaker 2: To fly out of the stadium.
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Speaker 3: Maybe if they confuse us and somehow get us to
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Speaker 3: play soccer instead of baseball today, they've got a chance.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm not so sure. We're going to be
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Speaker 3: confused by your tactics. Mariners says spring training yesterday. Oh
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Speaker 3: my gosh, uh, you want to talk about a blowout
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Speaker 3: in the Casts League.
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Speaker 2: Inside out towards left center field. It's carrying.
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Speaker 8: Well, Packer turns to watch and this one gonna go.
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Speaker 8: A three run homer for Pryce Johnson. That is the
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Speaker 8: Padres seventh home run of the day. And in the
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Speaker 8: seventh inning they now lead twenty four.
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Speaker 2: To four, and they weren't done.
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Speaker 3: Yeah Padres Radio netwhere twenty seven to six was the
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Speaker 3: final score. Yesterday, I realized it's a Cactus League and
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Speaker 3: we don't worry about a six game losing streak in
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Speaker 3: the Cactus League. But Bucky, it just can't be fun
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Speaker 3: in any way to lose a baseball game twenty seven
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Speaker 3: to six.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think he just ran out of time. They
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Speaker 2: had him where they wanted a two days. Yeah, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: we were on our comeback trail there. I mean it
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Speaker 2: was I mean we were only lost like three to
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Speaker 2: two in the final couple innings. Oh, you're right. I
17:45
Speaker 2: think we were getting ready to come back. It was
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Speaker 2: just we just ran out of time. And so it
17:50
Speaker 2: is what it is. But again, my buddy Scotty yesterday
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Speaker 2: when we were a group texting about that, he's the
17:56
Speaker 2: one that brought up the well they balked an extra
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Speaker 2: point somewhere to keep it from twenty eight. So good
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Speaker 2: on them. And it doesn't matter. We're playing a bunch
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Speaker 2: of minority guys. You see today's lineup, I mean it's
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Speaker 2: JP Crawford leading off and then it's eight guys that
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Speaker 2: are not going to be on the team.
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Speaker 4: I think the Padres are similar to though, because they
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Speaker 4: have what seven guys that are in the World Baseball
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Speaker 4: Classic as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that it doesn't matter in the big picture,
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Speaker 3: but believe me, nobody with the Mariners wanted that game yesterday.
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Speaker 4: They're just hoping it would end.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Luis Castillo, Yeah, that wasn't good.
18:27
Speaker 3: He got through the first inning and in the second
18:30
Speaker 3: inning he was part of a twelve run Padre second inning,
18:34
Speaker 3: they were up seventeen to two after three innings.
18:37
Speaker 2: That was a rough one.
18:39
Speaker 3: They play again today at noon. They'll take on the
18:41
Speaker 3: Texas Rangers. The Sounders are going to Saint Louis. Speaking
18:46
Speaker 3: of Saint Louis, Saint Louis and Jason Tatum is going
18:50
Speaker 3: to return to the court today for the Boston Celtics. He,
18:55
Speaker 3: of course, tore his achilles in the middle of the
18:57
Speaker 3: NBA finals last year. After ten months, he's getting ready
19:02
Speaker 3: to return to his team. Unbelievable, crazy, incredible. I heard
19:06
Speaker 3: a conversation today about they're not you know, are they
19:09
Speaker 3: rushing him. There's no way they're rushing Jason Tatum. Number one,
19:12
Speaker 3: they don't need him back right now, and he is
19:16
Speaker 3: their superstar player. They're not going to rush. Plus they're
19:19
Speaker 3: really good without him, So I think this is more
19:22
Speaker 3: Jason Tatum's just ready and we might as.
19:25
Speaker 2: Well get him back.
19:27
Speaker 3: And I mean it's one thing to add like a
19:29
Speaker 3: role player at this stage in the season when you're
19:31
Speaker 3: playing well, to have to reintroduce your best player onto
19:34
Speaker 3: the roster when you're playing well, I mean, that probably
19:37
Speaker 3: will be a little bit of an adjustment period. And
19:40
Speaker 3: so I would think Tatum's gonna hit his groove right
19:44
Speaker 3: as the playoffs start.
19:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that. That's good for my for my
19:49
Speaker 2: fantasy team. Oh you're fine, You're in good shape.
19:52
Speaker 5: There.
19:52
Speaker 3: That was a real big upset pick, right, Yeah, that
19:54
Speaker 3: was I did not think the Celtics are going to
19:56
Speaker 3: be good without Jason Tatum.
19:57
Speaker 2: They've been great well.
19:58
Speaker 4: And it was what I heard this morning too. They
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Speaker 4: were saying, oh, well, actually he was probably ready a
20:02
Speaker 4: week and a half or two weeks ago, but they've
20:04
Speaker 4: just taken their time with bringing him back, which is
20:07
Speaker 4: just even more incredible to come back that fast from
20:09
Speaker 4: that injury.
20:10
Speaker 3: College basketball regular season ends this weekend. The Huskies can
20:16
Speaker 3: at least finish a disappointing season with a winning record,
20:20
Speaker 3: and they'll.
20:20
Speaker 2: Have to defeat a rival to do it. There you go, Well,
20:37
Speaker 2: Duck hunt going on this weekend.
20:39
Speaker 3: As bad as the Huskies have been, the Ducks have
20:42
Speaker 3: been worse eleven and nineteen on the year, four and
20:45
Speaker 3: fifteen in conference play. They will tip off at eight
20:48
Speaker 3: o'clock tomorrow from Eugene, and then the regular season comes
20:53
Speaker 3: to a closed. Big Ten Tournament begins next week. Meanwhile,
20:57
Speaker 3: the WCC Tournament began last night Portland and San Diego
21:01
Speaker 3: both winning. Portland earned a date with the Koogs tonight
21:04
Speaker 3: in Vegas at six o'clock. Meanwhile, San Diego now faces
21:08
Speaker 3: Seattle You tonight in Vegas at eight thirty. Zags won't
21:12
Speaker 3: play until Monday. They stagger their tournament. It's actually quite
21:16
Speaker 3: interesting to try to make sure that either the Zags
21:19
Speaker 3: or Saint Mary's get their automatic bid.
21:22
Speaker 2: They stagger it out so that they don't risk losing
21:26
Speaker 2: one of those two teams, I guess.
21:28
Speaker 3: And so you if you finished last, you gotta win
21:30
Speaker 3: like six games where the Zags have to win like
21:33
Speaker 3: two very interesting.
21:35
Speaker 4: Forces like favoritism. But all right, you're they're your best products.
21:38
Speaker 2: Yeah uh.
21:39
Speaker 3: And of course the GEESEA state championships taking place in
21:42
Speaker 3: Tacoma all weekend long. We got broadcasts for you tonight.
21:46
Speaker 3: Greg Bell Mike Beent gonna both be on the call
21:48
Speaker 3: of games tonight. But we're gonna claim we're gonna crown
21:51
Speaker 3: some state champions by the end of the weekend.
21:54
Speaker 2: So best of luck. They're in Tacoma, all right, coming
21:57
Speaker 2: up next, We've done it all week long.
21:59
Speaker 3: We have our check yes or no finale as we
22:02
Speaker 3: get you ready for NFL Free Agency. Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 3: three point three kJ RFM Psyche is going to be
22:07
Speaker 3: officially released today by the Raiders. By releasing Smith, the
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Speaker 3: Raiders will open up eight million dollars in salary cap
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Speaker 3: space while taking on eighteen point five million dollars in
22:18
Speaker 3: dead money.
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Speaker 2: We've had eight million dollars. Mark Davis could head on
22:23
Speaker 2: over to tu Laylapris or Casino.
22:24
Speaker 3: I suppose oh, get your pumpkin high pie haircut freaking
22:29
Speaker 3: thing over there and put down some eight million ducats
22:33
Speaker 3: on stuff.
22:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I guess. Yeah, if you just got
22:36
Speaker 2: an extra eight mil running floating around after getting rid
22:39
Speaker 2: of Gino, yeah, you might as well head to to laylup.
22:41
Speaker 2: That's where money take my eight mil. I mean when
22:45
Speaker 2: I had eight mil just floating around the other day,
22:47
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm as well go up there to laylup.
22:49
Speaker 2: We ride on. You only threw down eight mil. Yeah, pansy, Yeah,
22:54
Speaker 2: I am. I am. Everybody knows that. But I you know,
22:58
Speaker 2: I thought I'd just let it ride, put it all
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Speaker 2: on black and see how it worked out. Didn't work
23:02
Speaker 2: out all that well, but I had fun.
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Speaker 3: Let's see if he puts it all on silver and black.
23:06
Speaker 3: Mark Davis. So Geno Smith. That didn't That didn't turn
23:10
Speaker 3: out so well for them?
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Speaker 2: Didn't work?
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Speaker 5: No?
23:12
Speaker 2: But check yes or no? Did Geno Smith work for
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Speaker 2: the Raiders?
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Speaker 6: No?
23:17
Speaker 2: Another John Schneider masterpiece. By the way, Like, hey, you
23:21
Speaker 2: did good for us. How about you go over there
23:23
Speaker 2: and suck. Yeah. I decided to start you with an
23:25
Speaker 2: easy one. We'll go. No on Geno Smith working.
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Speaker 6: That's a no.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's get into the last of our
23:34
Speaker 3: check yes or no free agent previews, and I just
23:38
Speaker 3: want to operate with our guys, our six big free agents,
23:42
Speaker 3: the Seahawks that are heading into free agency, and it's
23:45
Speaker 3: very simple process. Do you think they're still going to
23:48
Speaker 3: be Seahawks at the end of free agency? So let's
23:52
Speaker 3: start with Ken Walker. Is he still going to be
23:54
Speaker 3: a Seahawk at the end of the day?
23:56
Speaker 2: Check yes or no? That's a check no box dog. No,
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Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to be I mean, I
24:01
Speaker 2: think that they've had their opportunities, and maybe he did
24:05
Speaker 2: something down the stretch after Zach Charboney got hurt to
24:11
Speaker 2: you know, change the opinions of John Schneider and company.
24:15
Speaker 2: Maybe they they like him even more than they did before.
24:18
Speaker 2: But I don't think he did enough to change whatever
24:20
Speaker 2: their opinion has been over the course of the last
24:23
Speaker 2: four years leading up to them making the decision to
24:25
Speaker 2: not re sign him last year at this time. And
24:28
Speaker 2: so no, I have a feeling he priced himself out
24:31
Speaker 2: of it. And even if he gave himself a boost
24:34
Speaker 2: in house, I don't think that he gave himself enough
24:37
Speaker 2: of a boost that they're going to come up to
24:39
Speaker 2: the numbers that the free agent market's going to pay him.
24:41
Speaker 3: I think the thing that's been discussed the least amount
24:44
Speaker 3: about this topic is I don't think Mike McDonald's that
24:48
Speaker 3: big of a fan. I mean, I think that there
24:51
Speaker 3: were plenty of times this past year where Mike got
24:55
Speaker 3: frustrated in key moments and Charboney was in the game
24:58
Speaker 3: ken Walker and yeah, I get it, ken Walker got
25:01
Speaker 3: hot and it was just his his backfield for the
25:04
Speaker 3: playoffs and put together three great games and probably did
25:08
Speaker 3: make them double think a little bit like, oh, now
25:11
Speaker 3: that's what we were hoping to see out of that
25:13
Speaker 3: guy and didn't see it until now. But we got
25:16
Speaker 3: a super Bowl ring for it. But I don't think that,
25:20
Speaker 3: and they're certainly they're not going.
25:22
Speaker 2: To overpay for ken Walker.
25:24
Speaker 5: Uh.
25:24
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna wear another uniform and I think
25:26
Speaker 3: it's gonna happen pretty early on Monday.
25:29
Speaker 2: This is a check no for me, Ashley.
25:32
Speaker 4: I still want to I want to say yes, but
25:35
Speaker 4: I think that your guys' points are too valid that
25:38
Speaker 4: I think I'm just wishful thinking and I don't even
25:40
Speaker 4: really know why I'm wishful thinking, because I do trust
25:42
Speaker 4: that they could find somebody that would come in and
25:45
Speaker 4: and do a great job.
25:46
Speaker 2: And we do have Charbonay coming back at some point
25:49
Speaker 2: in the season. So I think I am gonna shift
25:52
Speaker 2: to oh oh, look at that. That is a shift.
25:55
Speaker 2: You guys have mm hm as a dramatic.
25:56
Speaker 4: He's going to be a Bronco, proven quite a bit,
25:58
Speaker 4: and he'll probably just have three thousand yard rushing season.
26:02
Speaker 7: For you guys.
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Speaker 2: I have a feeling he's going to be a Titan. Okay,
26:05
Speaker 2: that's what I think.
26:06
Speaker 3: All right, Rashid sa Heed? Simple check yes or no?
26:10
Speaker 3: Is he going to still be a Seahawk at the
26:12
Speaker 3: end of the free agent he he going?
26:14
Speaker 2: I checked no. I mean I think that they want
26:16
Speaker 2: him back. I just think that they. I mean if
26:19
Speaker 2: I can sit here, and you can sit here, and
26:21
Speaker 2: a lot of people that we've had a bunch of
26:23
Speaker 2: textures when we bring him up, can sit and go.
26:25
Speaker 2: Why would you pay top of the market wide receiver money,
26:29
Speaker 2: maybe not top of the market, but top of this
26:31
Speaker 2: market's free agent wide receiver money when you already have
26:35
Speaker 2: it in a youngster and Tory Horton. I have a
26:37
Speaker 2: hard time thinking John Schneider's going to do the same.
26:39
Speaker 2: I just don't think that they're in the market of
26:42
Speaker 2: right now being in a position where they feel like
26:44
Speaker 2: they have to pay top of the market for anybody. Yeah.
26:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I do think they will add a receiver,
26:50
Speaker 3: but I think it's going to be in the third
26:53
Speaker 3: wave a free agent. We discussed a couple of them
26:55
Speaker 3: like that Jalen Naylor of the Vikings or the Christian
26:59
Speaker 3: Kirk from the Texans, somebody like that. They will add
27:02
Speaker 3: to the wide receiver depth. But I don't think there's
27:05
Speaker 3: any world that John Schneider's going to operate in that's
27:08
Speaker 3: going to allow him to spend eighteen million dollars a
27:10
Speaker 3: year on a guy that wasn't all that active in
27:15
Speaker 3: a passing game that won the Super Bowl. So checking
27:18
Speaker 3: no on this one, Ashley.
27:19
Speaker 4: I think the only reason why I would have thought
27:22
Speaker 4: yes was because it seemed like his agent maybe was
27:26
Speaker 4: just playing the game. And then this whole Adam Schefter
27:28
Speaker 4: Mike Florio conversation and all of that, and that Adam
27:31
Speaker 4: Schefter kind of is the mouthpiece of the agents. It
27:33
Speaker 4: seemed like maybe they're just putting it out there to
27:35
Speaker 4: make it sound like he's more in demand and then
27:38
Speaker 4: he'd returned to the Seahawks. But I don't know.
27:41
Speaker 2: I don't.
27:42
Speaker 4: I also don't think schun Schneider wants to play those games,
27:44
Speaker 4: so he's like, all right, if that's what you're doing
27:46
Speaker 4: by even if.
27:46
Speaker 2: It's fourteen, I think that's too much. All right, let's
27:49
Speaker 2: go to boy A mafe check yes or no on
27:52
Speaker 2: the pass rusher. I think yes, wow, I think yes.
27:57
Speaker 2: I think that they will, but I think it's because
27:59
Speaker 2: they're his down year they're going to be able to
28:02
Speaker 2: bring him back at a fairly discounted price.
28:05
Speaker 3: I don't think they are. I think he's gonna make
28:07
Speaker 3: a lot more than what you think. And I don't
28:10
Speaker 3: think the Seahawks are interested in the boy A Mafey
28:12
Speaker 3: business at all. I think they want a defensive end
28:15
Speaker 3: that is good against the pass and the run. And
28:17
Speaker 3: I'm not sure Mafey qualifies. He's not going to qualify
28:21
Speaker 3: for the price he's gonna end up fetching on the
28:22
Speaker 3: free agent market. I think this is a clear and
28:26
Speaker 3: a way no on boy A Mafey.
28:28
Speaker 4: I think it's no as well, because it just seems
28:30
Speaker 4: like they're using him less and less, and he's playing
28:32
Speaker 4: less of a vital part in that defense.
28:34
Speaker 2: And I think Mike McDonald has other plans.
28:36
Speaker 3: But somebody will see that talent and that upside, and
28:39
Speaker 3: I think they will spend a pretty penny on I
28:41
Speaker 3: think he's gonna I think he's gonna get rich in
28:44
Speaker 3: the free agency process. All right, let's go to the
28:46
Speaker 3: defensive backs. Kobe Bryant check yes or no?
28:49
Speaker 2: Ashley Yes, he's coming back, Bucky. I think no. I
28:53
Speaker 2: think it's another one. I mean, I think that they
28:55
Speaker 2: want to but again, top of the market, this year's market,
29:00
Speaker 2: free agent market. I mean, he's going to be asking
29:02
Speaker 2: for a pretty penny. The fact that they you know
29:04
Speaker 2: they're going to go re up JSN, you know they're
29:06
Speaker 2: going to do spoon. I mean, they have a lot
29:08
Speaker 2: of salary cap money, but they don't have a cap room,
29:12
Speaker 2: I should say, but that goes pretty darn quick when
29:15
Speaker 2: you start signing number one wide receivers.
29:18
Speaker 3: And number one cornerbacks this year, though they can manipulate
29:22
Speaker 3: it so that counts in future years.
29:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's there, will some of it will go onto
29:26
Speaker 2: this year. There's it's going to cut into that number
29:29
Speaker 2: for sure. I mean I'm just saying that those numbers
29:32
Speaker 2: get dwindled down really quick. Now they figure out ways
29:34
Speaker 2: to manipulate that, manipulate that with signing bonuses and whatnot.
29:37
Speaker 2: But I just don't know for sure if they're going
29:41
Speaker 2: to be in the market of signing anybody at the
29:43
Speaker 2: top of the price. If all of a sudden, you
29:45
Speaker 2: win a Super Bowl and now some of your free
29:46
Speaker 2: agents their prices are going through the roof, I don't
29:50
Speaker 2: know for sure if John Schneider isn't going to be
29:52
Speaker 2: in the business of signing any of those. I think
29:54
Speaker 2: this one's coming back.
29:55
Speaker 3: I think Mike McDonald values Kobe Bryant more so than
29:58
Speaker 3: any other coach there or general manager. I think Kobe
30:02
Speaker 3: Bryant is the one coming back. Josh Job Ashley yes
30:06
Speaker 3: or no.
30:07
Speaker 4: Yes, I think Josh Job as well. I think they're
30:09
Speaker 4: gonna bring him back. I think the right price, and
30:11
Speaker 4: I think clear. I think McDonald really likes what he
30:15
Speaker 4: gets from him.
30:16
Speaker 3: This might be same category. They might value him more
30:19
Speaker 3: than other teams will. I think there's a better chance
30:24
Speaker 3: he's I think he's the second most likely to come back,
30:27
Speaker 3: But I'm still gonna check.
30:28
Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't be surprised if they do again. This
30:34
Speaker 2: is not one that I think you're paying a crazy
30:36
Speaker 2: amount of money for. That's where it's I think that
30:38
Speaker 2: this is your team is really stacked. You know, you're
30:42
Speaker 2: going to have to continue to pay superstars year after year,
30:45
Speaker 2: the two that we just discussed, and then every year
30:47
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to start re upping these guys to
30:50
Speaker 2: keep this championship nucleus intact. And I think in part
30:53
Speaker 2: of that is keeping some of your other key role
30:56
Speaker 2: players on more discounted. So I think, yes, he's the
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Speaker 2: guy that they're going to bring back.
31:01
Speaker 3: All Right, The final one, Reek Woolan. Is he coming
31:05
Speaker 3: back to the Sea Hawks or will they be in
31:07
Speaker 3: another uniform? Will Reek Woolan return to Seattle Bucky check
31:12
Speaker 3: yes or no?
31:13
Speaker 7: No?
31:14
Speaker 2: I don't think so. And I think it's I think
31:16
Speaker 2: that while everybody can fall in love with what he
31:20
Speaker 2: brings to the table speed and you know, the measurables
31:23
Speaker 2: he brings to the table, I think I think that
31:26
Speaker 2: Mike McDonald wants consistent play. I'll take a little bit
31:29
Speaker 2: slower guy, a little bit less rangy guy, but a
31:32
Speaker 2: guy that I know is going to be where he's
31:34
Speaker 2: supposed to be and then mentally keeping himself under control
31:38
Speaker 2: at all times or most of the time. I just
31:42
Speaker 2: think that there's inconsistencies in his game that probably I
31:45
Speaker 2: would think a tactician, a genius defensive guy like Mike
31:48
Speaker 2: McDonald probably gets really irritated with certain things that he does. Ashley,
31:54
Speaker 2: he's I'm gonna check. No, yeah he is.
31:57
Speaker 4: I don't think he's here. I just think I think
31:59
Speaker 4: he improved move towards the end of the season. Obviously
32:01
Speaker 4: we didn't have any issues. I think he did learn
32:04
Speaker 4: a lesson from the screw up. Yeah, but that's I
32:08
Speaker 4: think that's what I think the problem is is I
32:10
Speaker 4: think it's too uncertain if he permanently learned his lesson,
32:13
Speaker 4: and I don't think Mike McDonald's gonna play around with
32:15
Speaker 4: somebody that that is that much of a liability.
32:18
Speaker 3: Well, there are a lot of coaches, there are a
32:19
Speaker 3: lot of executives out there that have monster egos, and
32:23
Speaker 3: they're going to see this talent, and they're going to
32:25
Speaker 3: see some of that improvement toward the end of the year,
32:27
Speaker 3: and they're going to see some of that highlight film
32:30
Speaker 3: and they're going to convince themselves, Oh, man, he's just
32:34
Speaker 3: getting started. I think he's gonna fetch. I think we're
32:36
Speaker 3: gonna have some sticker shock when we see how much
32:38
Speaker 3: Reek Woolan ends up fetching in free agency. And I
32:42
Speaker 3: think there's a little too much water under the bridge
32:45
Speaker 3: for him to stay here in Seattle. So I'm gonna
32:49
Speaker 3: say no on Reek Wooland as well. I think it
32:52
Speaker 3: is time to move on from him. And certainly I
32:55
Speaker 3: don't think that they're going to pay an exorbitant amount.
32:58
Speaker 3: I mean, the reason that I think that Kobe Bryant
33:01
Speaker 3: is my one check out of the six is because
33:05
Speaker 3: I think they will make him a sexy enough offer
33:09
Speaker 3: before Monday, because keep him mind, we still have the
33:12
Speaker 3: entire weekend.
33:13
Speaker 2: Like he it's free agency.
33:14
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know how how high it goes.
33:17
Speaker 3: But if they read, you know, John Schneider is great
33:20
Speaker 3: at reading the market, I think they're.
33:22
Speaker 2: Gonna get to him before Sunday. They're gonna lock him up.
33:26
Speaker 3: So to me, Kobe Bryant is the one of the
33:29
Speaker 3: six that I feel good is going to return, and
33:31
Speaker 3: Job would be my second guy that I think is
33:34
Speaker 3: going to return. But I think most of this group
33:38
Speaker 3: is leaving us.
33:39
Speaker 6: They won a.
33:39
Speaker 3: Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks, and their prices of
33:43
Speaker 3: all are all going to go up because of that.
33:47
Speaker 3: And I think that John Schneider and Mike McDonald feel
33:52
Speaker 3: perfectly fine not overpaying in a market and figuring out
33:56
Speaker 3: ways that we can still be as good, if not
34:00
Speaker 3: next year without all of them, potentially. I don't think
34:04
Speaker 3: they have any concerns about it.
34:06
Speaker 2: That's the game plan for sure. And if there's one
34:08
Speaker 2: guy that Seahawk fans should be able to trust, it's
34:11
Speaker 2: John Schneider.
34:13
Speaker 3: All right, coming up next here on the radio program,
34:15
Speaker 3: we are going to talk about something that needs to
34:19
Speaker 3: be mentioned before this baseball season goes one more step forward.
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Speaker 3: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. All right, we're
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Speaker 3: in the ointment with our system right now, so the
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Speaker 3: commercial break was abbreviated.
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Speaker 2: I'd say, I'd say that is that is the shortest
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Speaker 2: break in my nine years even radio. I don't even
34:53
Speaker 2: think we even played a spot.
34:54
Speaker 4: So all those listeners who try to tell us that
34:57
Speaker 4: we our commercial breaks are too long, that's.
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Speaker 2: A thirty second one. There you go. I have to
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Speaker 2: go to the bathroom in this.
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Speaker 4: Chair now as of right now, the next one's going
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Speaker 4: to be fifty two seconds.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well we might roll right into Hugh Millen here
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Speaker 2: in a little bit.
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Speaker 3: So anyway, so we'll try to get that fixed on
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Speaker 3: the behind the scenes, but right back into our next
35:20
Speaker 3: conversation here on Chuck and Buck in the mornings, and
35:23
Speaker 3: that I want to I want to have this conversation.
35:26
Speaker 2: I'm going to have it now.
35:27
Speaker 3: I'm going to get this off my chest right now
35:28
Speaker 3: before we go one more step forward here in this
35:31
Speaker 3: baseball season.
35:32
Speaker 2: Okay, And I heard this on our airwaves.
35:34
Speaker 3: I heard Mark James say this, and I'm not exactly
35:36
Speaker 3: sure how he meant it, and maybe I interpret it
35:42
Speaker 3: in a way that he didn't mean it this way.
35:45
Speaker 2: But there was sort of a suggestion.
35:47
Speaker 3: In his interview with Gary Hill Junior earlier this week
35:52
Speaker 3: that Jerry Depoto did a one to eighty turnaround this year,
35:56
Speaker 3: just when the entire fan base had given up hope
35:59
Speaker 3: on Jerry Poto, all of a sudden, he started making
36:02
Speaker 3: all the right decisions. And now he's turned his he's
36:07
Speaker 3: turned his the feeling about Jerry to Poto around completely,
36:12
Speaker 3: all right, I'm going to end this right now, okay,
36:17
Speaker 3: because I fought too long and had too many arguments
36:22
Speaker 3: with people over this. Jerry Depoto and Justin Hollander, as
36:26
Speaker 3: I have been saying for years, have been doing phenomenal
36:29
Speaker 3: things behind the scenes for years.
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Speaker 2: Now. Okay, Now, I.
36:34
Speaker 3: Also think that they were doing some things worthy of
36:37
Speaker 3: criticism over the years as well, and I think that
36:41
Speaker 3: maybe they've shored up their weaknesses in the last eighteen months.
36:46
Speaker 3: I think that they've done some things like, for example,
36:48
Speaker 3: give you an example, the offensive mindset. I think they
36:51
Speaker 3: had too much control over it, and I didn't agree
36:55
Speaker 3: with their offensive philosophy. And yet you bring in Kevin
36:59
Speaker 3: Sitz and you hand things over to he and Edgar Martinez,
37:03
Speaker 3: and that was something that I do believe that they
37:06
Speaker 3: corrected that I feel was wrong. I think that they
37:09
Speaker 3: were reluctant to sign rental players like, for example, Josh
37:16
Speaker 3: Naylor and Gino Suarez this past year. They were reluctant
37:20
Speaker 3: to do that. I think in a championship window, you
37:24
Speaker 3: do make room for that guy that can help you
37:28
Speaker 3: make sure you get into the playoffs and helps you
37:30
Speaker 3: give yourself a shot at winning the World six. So
37:33
Speaker 3: I think they've course corrected that, and I think for
37:36
Speaker 3: too long they were holding on falling in love with
37:39
Speaker 3: all of their prospects and had a tight grip on them,
37:43
Speaker 3: and now that they are certain where a World Series contender,
37:47
Speaker 3: they've loosened their grip on that. But those have been
37:50
Speaker 3: the criticisms that I've had of the front office.
37:54
Speaker 2: For years now.
37:55
Speaker 3: Even though I get accused of never criticizing Jerry Depoto,
37:59
Speaker 3: That's nonsense, because I've been doing it for years now.
38:03
Speaker 2: But I have consistently defended him.
38:06
Speaker 3: I have consistently said, there are genius elements to this
38:10
Speaker 3: front office and to Jerry Depoto as an executive. There
38:14
Speaker 3: are great things being done to not only win a
38:17
Speaker 3: World Series, but keep us in the World Series conversation
38:21
Speaker 3: for years, for a decade, and not just win one
38:25
Speaker 3: and then rebuild again, but to keep the things sustained
38:29
Speaker 3: and going like an engine, smooth run an engine for
38:32
Speaker 3: years to come. And what's happening now is people are
38:36
Speaker 3: finally realizing that, even though it's been going on.
38:39
Speaker 2: For years, the structure of this, the great.
38:43
Speaker 3: Things that they've been doing behind the scenes, drafting, developing,
38:48
Speaker 3: all of those sorts of things that people are now
38:51
Speaker 3: just finally, now that you've gone to the American League
38:54
Speaker 3: Championship Series and almost made it to the World Series, finally,
38:57
Speaker 3: some credit is being given to Jerry and Justin, But
39:00
Speaker 3: they've been doing a lot of great things behind the
39:04
Speaker 3: scenes for years. We've had a winning product for five
39:07
Speaker 3: consecutive seasons, and now it looks like we have entered
39:11
Speaker 3: that championship window period and are gonna be in it
39:15
Speaker 3: for a long time. Credit Jerry and Justin. They didn't
39:20
Speaker 3: just last year go from we stink at what we
39:22
Speaker 3: do and now we're good at what we do. Thank
39:25
Speaker 3: you critics, we've seen the light. You've turned our game around.
39:29
Speaker 2: Mmmmm yeah, yeah, No, I mean I the word patience
39:34
Speaker 2: is something that is not a good one when Jerry
39:38
Speaker 2: Depoto used it a few years back, like you've got
39:41
Speaker 2: to be patient. I'm doing you a favor by like
39:43
Speaker 2: he said some things that he would I guarantee you sick.
39:47
Speaker 2: I wish I hadn't said that. Doesn't mean it's not true.
39:50
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean that you didn't want him to go all
39:53
Speaker 2: in in twenty twenty or twenty nineteen or twenty eighteen,
39:57
Speaker 2: whenever you thought they were on the verge. You didn't.
40:00
Speaker 2: I want him to go all in. There's a process
40:02
Speaker 2: to this. Now, if there's a genius quality, it's how
40:06
Speaker 2: in the hell do you create a sustainable championship caliber
40:10
Speaker 2: roster when you're kind of hamstrung by the ownership, when
40:13
Speaker 2: you're hamstrung to some degree by how much money you
40:16
Speaker 2: can spend. Well, you got to be creative. You got
40:17
Speaker 2: to build the farm system so that you have that
40:20
Speaker 2: as capital to use in going out and getting somebody
40:23
Speaker 2: like Naylor. That then he hopefully comes and falls in
40:26
Speaker 2: love with your city and your fan base and wants
40:28
Speaker 2: to resign if you just give him a fair deal.
40:31
Speaker 2: I mean, again, the whole process, the big picture of it.
40:34
Speaker 2: I'm not going to sit here and tell fans that
40:36
Speaker 2: have watched fifty years of Mariners baseball that you need
40:40
Speaker 2: to be patient. But I do think that there's some people.
40:44
Speaker 2: Mark James is one of them that ten games into
40:46
Speaker 2: a season is ready to jump on and say a
40:48
Speaker 2: team is bad or a team is good. Patience, young Jedi,
40:53
Speaker 2: Patience about when what the season's going to be. Now,
40:56
Speaker 2: ten years of Jerry Depoto, you can criticize things and
40:59
Speaker 2: you have yeah, you have criticized plenty of things about it.
41:03
Speaker 2: I am one that typically just trusts that in the
41:08
Speaker 2: long run, the cream is going to rise to the
41:10
Speaker 2: top in the long run. So do I think Jerry
41:13
Speaker 2: Depoto is a snake oil salesman that is just selling
41:16
Speaker 2: me a bill of goods and that he doesn't really
41:18
Speaker 2: care about putting a winning team, that he doesn't have
41:21
Speaker 2: any clue of how to do it. No, do I
41:24
Speaker 2: think that he needed to make adjustments in you please
41:28
Speaker 2: stop trying to manage the offensive philosophy from the suite upstairs. Yeah. Yeah,
41:35
Speaker 2: I think you needed to step out of that. I
41:36
Speaker 2: think you needed to get Edgar Martinez back in there
41:41
Speaker 2: and bring in a guy like Kevin Sitzer, two old
41:44
Speaker 2: school guys that understand the new data understand it. I
41:47
Speaker 2: talked to Kevin Sitzer during spring training. I said, tell
41:49
Speaker 2: me just the difference between swinging down on the ball,
41:51
Speaker 2: which we were taught and now He's like, yes, you
41:54
Speaker 2: want to be down into the zone, but then you
41:55
Speaker 2: want to be on plane. On plane is a thing
41:57
Speaker 2: we didn't hear about quite as much when we were
41:59
Speaker 2: playing as they do now. That's an old school hitting
42:02
Speaker 2: coach like Edgar is with new school understanding and the
42:07
Speaker 2: fact that Jerry Depoto stepped aside and said, Okay, let's
42:11
Speaker 2: let's do this a little bit different than the way
42:13
Speaker 2: that maybe I was presenting it before. Is I mean,
42:16
Speaker 2: it does deserve kudos, and yet there's some people that
42:18
Speaker 2: are just not going to give it. But I mean,
42:21
Speaker 2: I guess I'll give credit where credit is due to
42:23
Speaker 2: some extent at least better late to the party of
42:26
Speaker 2: recognizing that there's some good stuff going on and has
42:29
Speaker 2: been some good stuff going on. But the idea of
42:31
Speaker 2: he just turned over a new leaf and became a
42:34
Speaker 2: good general manager, but he was crap general manager for
42:37
Speaker 2: the first eight nine years. That's just not true.
42:40
Speaker 3: He's been one of the better, if not one of
42:43
Speaker 3: the best, with some of the things he's done, but
42:45
Speaker 3: his weaknesses and his stubbornness to adjust was getting in
42:48
Speaker 3: the way. I'll give you another example. I don't think
42:50
Speaker 3: he was putting enough value on a good clubhouse. He
42:53
Speaker 3: didn't think the team chemistry was a factor. I think
42:57
Speaker 3: the entire organization ran that way. Now, all of a
42:59
Speaker 3: sudd and they see a team that gets along like
43:02
Speaker 3: this team does, sees how the pitchers get along. Now,
43:04
Speaker 3: it's suddenly become a vital part of how they acquire
43:08
Speaker 3: players like Brendan Donovan. Part of why he was acquired,
43:10
Speaker 3: one of the biggest reasons he was acquired is because
43:13
Speaker 3: he's a perfect fit for us, right and so I
43:17
Speaker 3: think that's another change that they've made. But man, I'm
43:20
Speaker 3: telling you, and I've been saying it for years, they've
43:23
Speaker 3: been doing some borderline genius stuff for a long time
43:27
Speaker 3: to get us in a position to win consistently every
43:31
Speaker 3: year and to challenge for a World Series every year.
43:34
Speaker 3: And now it feels like they have recognized their weaknesses
43:38
Speaker 3: that they've been slow to address, and now, man, it
43:42
Speaker 3: is a highly functioning I'm so glad that we didn't
43:45
Speaker 3: run him out of town. Executive front office that we
43:48
Speaker 3: have that you are now starting to see. Do you
43:51
Speaker 3: know how hard it is to have a middle of
43:53
Speaker 3: the road payroll and be a World Series contender without
43:57
Speaker 3: sacrificing the future. I mean, that's a near impossible in
44:01
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, And that's the situation that we have.
44:05
Speaker 3: We're not only considered American League favorites right now, but
44:09
Speaker 3: we also have a top five farm system at the
44:12
Speaker 3: exact same time, wonderful wow and chef's kiss.
44:16
Speaker 4: And honestly they should get credit to for figuring out like, okay,
44:20
Speaker 4: we are getting in our own way, because that's a
44:22
Speaker 4: hard thing to do. And then did it take them
44:24
Speaker 4: a little longer than we would have liked, Yeah, it did,
44:26
Speaker 4: but they figured it out and the team is more
44:28
Speaker 4: successful as a result of it. They figured out, Okay,
44:30
Speaker 4: all these things that we think are more important maybe aren't.
44:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I just want to get that out of
44:35
Speaker 2: the way now.
44:36
Speaker 5: I like it.
44:36
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna we went a world soo like, oh man,
44:39
Speaker 3: he sucked and then he saw the light and then
44:41
Speaker 3: he became up.
44:42
Speaker 2: Suddenly he figured it out, because.
44:46
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