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Chuck & Buck 4-27 Hour 2: Headlines and 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, the NFC West drama and ABC's of the Mariners. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: O'Brien has been one of the very best out of
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  Speaker 1: any bullpen dan. He faces Connor Joe representing the go
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  Speaker 1: ahead run second and third. It's hard to make contact against,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: and he's hard to lift, and.
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  Speaker 2: The right field base head Garber is in Young is
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: coming home and Connor Joe ties the game in the
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  Speaker 2: eighth inning, back and forth we go in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 2: Bases are loaded Mariners and the Cardinals are tied.
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  Speaker 1: In the ninth.
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  Speaker 3: Into center field, Leo Rivos delivers. In the ninth inning,
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  Speaker 3: Brawford scores garter right behind him, and Leo Rivos burns
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  Speaker 3: the Cardinals again.
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  Speaker 1: The Mariners have come.
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  Speaker 2: Back to tan the lead eleven to nine in the
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  Speaker 2: ninth inning.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron and Anji on the call Mariners Television, that was
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  Speaker 1: Saturday's crazy ass.
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  Speaker 4: Affair, need some love.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Wu got roughed up, and yet the Mariners managed
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  Speaker 1: to come back from a couple different double digit deficits,
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  Speaker 1: not double digit but multiple run deficits in order to
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  Speaker 1: win eleven to nine. Then they cap off the series
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  Speaker 1: Sunday with a three to win a little more conventional,
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  Speaker 1: little more Mariner like Rob Refsnyder with the game winning
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  Speaker 1: home run and the top of the ninth inning, and
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  Speaker 1: Jose for Rare closed it out. The ms of one
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  Speaker 1: four straight. They are now fourteen and fifteen on the
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  Speaker 1: season as they sweep the Saint Louis Cardinals, and they
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  Speaker 1: have a chance, despite this terrible start that they got
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  Speaker 1: off to this year, as a team predicted to do
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  Speaker 1: damage this year in the Major League Playoffs and maybe
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  Speaker 1: make it to the World Series, they have an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: tonight to get back to the five hundred mark. They'll
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  Speaker 1: be taking on the Minnesota Twins. First pitch is at
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  Speaker 1: four forty. Connor Prelip, it might be pri Lip, not sure.
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  Speaker 1: Don't really know this guy all that well, I think.
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  Speaker 4: You're fine, just to guess.
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  Speaker 1: He's a left handers, made one career start for the
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins, so he'll get the start for them. Luis
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  Speaker 1: Castillo gets the start for us. More on that with
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  Speaker 1: ABC's to the M's coming up a little bit later
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  Speaker 1: on this Our first pitch there is at four forty
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  Speaker 1: and that's where our frost brewed Corslight Choose Chill headlines begin.
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  Speaker 1: We have not talked about a lot of these things
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  Speaker 1: in the headlines here today. The red Sox crazy mass
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  Speaker 1: firings over the weekend. Alex Korra and five assistants all
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  Speaker 1: fired on Saturday. Remarkable turn of events. It's a remarkable story.
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  Speaker 1: And then whether they do They went out and won
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  Speaker 1: with their interim manager Chad Tracy on Sunday, but could
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  Speaker 1: it start an avalanche of firings and hirings. I'm expecting
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  Speaker 1: that Mets Carlos Mendoza is going to be let go today.
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  Speaker 1: They just got swept by the Rockies. I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll talk more about that a little bit later
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  Speaker 1: on this hour. The NBA Playoffs, the Toronto Raptors, San
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs, Boston Bruins, and Houston excuse me, Boston Celtics
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  Speaker 1: and Houston Rockets all won over on Sunday. Toronto evens
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  Speaker 1: up there series. San Antonio Boston they're up three to one,
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  Speaker 1: and Houston stayed alive where they went over the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: They're still down three games to one. Kevin Durant has
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  Speaker 1: been out for most of this series. Tonight Detroit at Orlando,
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  Speaker 1: as the Pistons need to win just to even up
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  Speaker 1: that series. Oklahoma City at Phoenix. Oklahoma City can win
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  Speaker 1: the series and so can the Minnesota Timberwolves. Can they
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  Speaker 1: take out the Denver Nuggets? That would be quite the upset.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna play without two star players. Devincenzo is out
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the playoffs with an achilles injury,
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  Speaker 1: and Anthony Edwards is out for a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: with a hyper extended knee. That looks yeah, So Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: chance to take out the Nuggets, but they're down to
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  Speaker 1: their superstar and another pretty good player for that game
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  Speaker 1: and then Stanley Cup playoffs as well. Winners yesterday were Buffalo, Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and Anaheim. For Colorado, they win the series
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  Speaker 1: in a sweep, four to zero over the La Kings.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight just two games on ice, Philadelphia at Pittsburgh and
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas will be at Utah taking on the Mammoth.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, the NFL Draft finished up on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to talk some draft with our Seahawks insider
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 5: With the Bell Tolls.
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  Speaker 6: It must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth Man
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  Speaker 1: Now with twelf Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck.
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  Speaker 5: And Bud Well.
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  Speaker 1: You survived NFL Draft weekend, Greg, Congratulations.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, it was too bad. Other than
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  Speaker 5: a perfect Saturday, it was inside a building that.
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  Speaker 1: It is amazing. Greg and I talked about this on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday during our broadcast. There is something weird that every
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  Speaker 1: time it's NFL Draft Saturday, it is the best weather
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  Speaker 1: day of the entire year, and you just sit there
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  Speaker 1: with this view of the lake and it looks gorgeous,
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  Speaker 1: And even though I love covering the draft, there's certainly
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  Speaker 1: an element of wow, I probably should be outside.
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  Speaker 7: Or like, could we just move us to a tent
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  Speaker 7: out there on the practice field.
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  Speaker 1: It's unreal.
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  Speaker 5: It's uncanny when Chuck, the Draftmas guy, mister Draftmas himself
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  Speaker 5: is longing and looking out the window, which he was
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  Speaker 5: somewhere else. I know, it's a pretty nice day outside.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, we should have known John Schneider wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going to draft four guys this week, and by the
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  Speaker 1: time Saturday came to a close, he had eight draft picks.
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  Speaker 1: For goodness sake, what is it that stood out to
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  Speaker 1: you on Saturday about all of John Schneider's maneuverings.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, before we came eight and a draft that
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  Speaker 5: he had said was weak. Bo Stevens was the trigger
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  Speaker 5: for all of it. The All American guard from Iowa
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  Speaker 5: in the fifth round. Some people thought he would go
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  Speaker 5: in the third round, and when he was still on
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  Speaker 5: the board come Saturday morning, that was a surprise. And
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  Speaker 5: then he was still on the board at the end
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  Speaker 5: of the fourth round. In the middle in the earlier
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  Speaker 5: fourth round, John Schneider was walking through our draft room.
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  Speaker 5: All the reporters were just hanging out, lounging around like
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  Speaker 5: he had nothing to do, just joking with us, and
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  Speaker 5: it was about nine nine thirty, nothing to do, and
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  Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, Oo, Stevens is still available
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  Speaker 5: in the fifth round. He started making calls and he
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  Speaker 5: found teams willing to trade with him, so he trades
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  Speaker 5: back into the fifth round. He didn't have a fifth
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  Speaker 5: round pick. He hit a sixth when the day began,
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  Speaker 5: and that was he said that just they were very
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  Speaker 5: surprised and they had to take him. And by doing it,
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  Speaker 5: how much did they want to get both Stevens Because
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  Speaker 5: he fell so far, they've dipped into their stash of
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  Speaker 5: twelve picks and next year's stronger draft to get bo Stevens.
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  Speaker 5: They traded a twenty twenty seven to fourth round pick
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  Speaker 5: to get into the fifth round to get him. It's
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  Speaker 5: interesting that he has started both a left guard and
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  Speaker 5: right guard for Iowa, a team coached by Kirk Friends,
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  Speaker 5: former offensive line coach. It's just he's an NFL savant
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  Speaker 5: for developing offensive line lineman and just blue collar offensive
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  Speaker 5: power blocking. The NFL loves seeing his prospects compared to
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  Speaker 5: everybody else's in two point stances all the time, and
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  Speaker 5: the fact that bo Stevens has been both left and right,
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  Speaker 5: of course, is intriguing because of Anthony Bradford's situation and
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  Speaker 5: the starting right guard is in the final year of
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  Speaker 5: his contract. So of course we ask after the draft ended, oh,
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  Speaker 5: which not you're going to start po Stevens on. They
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  Speaker 5: were too smart to answer that, and Mike McDonald just
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  Speaker 5: parried that question and didn't give us an answer. They
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  Speaker 5: didn't want to put Anthony Bradford on the spot before
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  Speaker 5: both Stevens has even entered the building. But suffice to say,
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  Speaker 5: they're not going to start both Stevens on the left
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  Speaker 5: side with Gray's Abel their stud rookie left guard. Still,
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  Speaker 5: I think at least three proybe four years under contracts
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  Speaker 5: last year's first round pick, so that to me triggered
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  Speaker 5: the whole thing. And then once Snighter was able to
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  Speaker 5: trade trade into the fifth round there he started trading
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  Speaker 5: back from the sixth round. This was the first time
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  Speaker 5: I haven't covering drafts since what two thousand and two
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  Speaker 5: at the Raiders down in Sacramento, b This is the
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  Speaker 5: first time I've ever heard of, or even thought about
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  Speaker 5: a team drafting a gunner, A punt team gunner. Emmanuel
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  Speaker 5: Henderson is on the board as a wide receiver, the
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  Speaker 5: sixth round pick from Kansas, but they picked him because
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  Speaker 5: he's a gunner. He ran almost twenty three miles an
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  Speaker 5: hour by GPS tracking as a gunner at Kansas. I
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  Speaker 5: mean he runs fashion you're allowed to drive through school zones,
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  Speaker 5: and I've never heard of a guy that is drafted
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  Speaker 5: specifically to be an outside punt coverage guy. He's also
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  Speaker 5: a punt returner at Kansas, so he's a punt returner
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  Speaker 5: who also tackles punt returners. When you're a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 5: champion with twenty one of twenty two returners coming back.
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  Speaker 5: You make picks like that specialty boutique niche picks, And
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  Speaker 5: that's what Emmanuel Henderson was in the sixth round. That
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  Speaker 5: was pretty interesting. And then the other thing that I
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  Speaker 5: took away from Saturday Truck the final part of the
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  Speaker 5: draft was Michael Dansby, the cornerback from Arizona. He was
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  Speaker 5: the two hundred and fifty fifth pick in the draft,
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  Speaker 5: the second the third to last pick. There were only
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  Speaker 5: two other picks in the whole draft, mister Irrelevant two
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  Speaker 5: behind him. And Michael gets on the phone with us
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  Speaker 5: and says that he ran a four to two five
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  Speaker 5: during his training. Well, what he told us that we
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  Speaker 5: all looked at each other, those of us a couple
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  Speaker 5: of Draft two or three drafts. There's no way in
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  Speaker 5: hell this guy's seventh round, pick three from the bottom
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  Speaker 5: of the draft ran in a four two five. He
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  Speaker 5: would have been in the third or fourth round just
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  Speaker 5: it would have been like Rinaldo Nea Maya and just
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  Speaker 5: pick him because he's fast. And I mean it was
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  Speaker 5: like his dad was timing him when he said that.
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  Speaker 5: He said he did it during his training before the draft,
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  Speaker 5: and we asked John Schneider about four to five and
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  Speaker 5: he he just shook his head and laughed. He so, well,
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  Speaker 5: he's a cornerback. Of course he's going to tell you that.
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  Speaker 5: But it just speaks to the bravado of this draft class.
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  Speaker 5: We all heard Julian Neil the other night Friday night
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  Speaker 5: with unbelievable quotes about Cam Chancellor and I'm coming to
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  Speaker 5: smash people's faces and all of that. Well, the bravado
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  Speaker 5: was pretty much the theme through the whole thing, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm right ready for tomorrow for the distribute about that.
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  Speaker 5: They had a task entering the draft of they actually
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  Speaker 5: have a competition scale. They're board. Schnyder was explained. He
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  Speaker 5: said to me, Greg, I could spend the hours to you,
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  Speaker 5: but they have a competition scale where they measure in
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  Speaker 5: tangibles of competitiveness, and they wanted to draft guys who
• 11:17
  Speaker 5: were not in awe of Super Bowl champions. They wanted
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  Speaker 5: the draft bravado swag. I heard the word swag and
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  Speaker 5: swaggy through Snyder and McDonald the whole weekend, and that's
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  Speaker 5: what this whole picks are. Julian Neil, that personifies it
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  Speaker 5: Bud Clark, another confident, swaggy guy. We're going Chris and
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  Speaker 5: I are going to talk to his position coach from
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  Speaker 5: TCU at eleven o'clock. But even the seventh round pick
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  Speaker 5: with swag Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us. Our Seahawks insider draft coverage
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  Speaker 1: came to a close on Saturday, the Seahawks coming away
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  Speaker 1: with eight selections. And yeah, we haven't even had the
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  Speaker 1: chance here on the morning show to talk about what
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  Speaker 1: happened Friday. You mentioned the names Julian Neil on the
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  Speaker 1: third round and then Bud Clark in the second round,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, if I'm hurd it correctly, Mike McDonald was
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  Speaker 1: trying to play down. No, we weren't just trying to
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  Speaker 1: replace body types, but it really does feel like they
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  Speaker 1: were trying to replace Kobe Bryant and Reeq wolland to
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  Speaker 1: some degree, they were trying to fill needs in that
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  Speaker 1: secondary a long corner and Neil and then a hybrid
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  Speaker 1: corner corner slash safety and Bud Clark. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that they should be embarrassed about that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think that they should own that that they may
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  Speaker 1: have found a Bud Clark, a guy that could step
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  Speaker 1: in for Bryant, if not this year, soon and maybe
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  Speaker 1: Neil is somebody that can match up against long receivers
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  Speaker 1: in the future.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, the first four picks were just straight linear. Here's
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  Speaker 5: what we lost. We can replenish. Jadarian Price, Kenneth Walker
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  Speaker 5: super Bowl NB. He goes Kansas City. They draft a
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  Speaker 5: running back in first round. Kobe Brant goes to the Bears.
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  Speaker 5: They draft a safety, Bud Clark, in the second round.
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  Speaker 5: Rik Wolling goes the Eagles. They draft Julian Love in
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  Speaker 5: the third round. Anthony Bradford is entering the final year
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  Speaker 5: of his contract as the starting right guard. They draft
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  Speaker 5: both Stevens's guard. It's turnkey, and they did it last
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  Speaker 5: year with their first pick, Gray's Abel with the issue
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  Speaker 5: they had at left guard at the time, a wide
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  Speaker 5: open position they needed to fill. So yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 5: And that's unusual for John Schneider. He could say all
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  Speaker 5: he once about how the best player of the spot,
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  Speaker 5: but he drafted for need, which he doesn't always do
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  Speaker 5: and says he often gets in trouble doing. But in
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  Speaker 5: their minds, they had the best players at that spot
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  Speaker 5: at the need. It bears saying again, if people were
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: out in the beautiful sunshine. It may not have heard
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  Speaker 5: this weekend. I've mentioned a few times on our draft
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  Speaker 5: coverage here Jadarium Price. They intended to be a second
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  Speaker 5: round pick. They once they didn't get Chris Johnson. I
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  Speaker 5: was told that Chris Johnson, the cornerback from San Diego State,
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  Speaker 5: became their target. Round one continued, and as the cornerback
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  Speaker 5: started pushing down, and when Chris Johnson went a few
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  Speaker 5: spots ahead of thirty two, I think I can't remember
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  Speaker 5: which body went exactly. Then that's when they pivoted to
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  Speaker 5: let's get to Drian Price in the second round and
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  Speaker 5: trade down. And then all the trades down happened right
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  Speaker 5: before him. In round one, they had six trades between
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  Speaker 5: the twenty and thirty one spots, Seattle picking thirty two,
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  Speaker 5: and what happened there is they ran out of teams
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  Speaker 5: to trade with. All the teams that wanted to trade
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  Speaker 5: into those late first round picks got used up by
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  Speaker 5: San Francisco trading down twice, for instance, in front of him,
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  Speaker 5: and they had no one to trade with at the
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  Speaker 5: bottom of around one, and the jets that wanted to
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  Speaker 5: jump up had already jumped up above them. So they
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  Speaker 5: weren't available as to pick right behind Seattle, and so
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  Speaker 5: they were left with nobody to trade with, and that's
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  Speaker 5: why they took Price where they did. They didn't believe
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  Speaker 5: and rightly so, that Price would still be there at
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  Speaker 5: sixty four their original pick at the bottom around two,
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  Speaker 5: So they took him at thirty two when they couldn't
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  Speaker 5: trade with anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us are sax Ins. Of course,
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: you can follow his entire coverage of the draft at
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Thenewstribune dot com, or you can follow him and I
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  Speaker 1: should say you can follow him on x at g
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  Speaker 1: Bell Seattle. The one thing they didn't get accomplished that
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  Speaker 1: we all thought that they would is to draft an
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  Speaker 1: edge rusher. Why did they not get to it and
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  Speaker 1: why should we not be concerned about it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, they tried, and they didn't. It was a case
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  Speaker 5: of we're not just going to force picking an edge
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  Speaker 5: dresser to pick an edgeresser, and that's what it came
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  Speaker 5: down to, especially in the later rounds. You're not going
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  Speaker 5: to pick a guy that you don't think is going
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  Speaker 5: to help you. And so that's what happened. And now
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  Speaker 5: they'll look into free agency and now so here's the
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  Speaker 5: deal on free agency as of today Monday, the league
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  Speaker 5: rules are, if you sign a veteran free agent from
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  Speaker 5: this day forward, he does not count against the pick
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  Speaker 5: formula for twenty twenty seven. And Johnson there's very in
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  Speaker 5: tune to the fact that he, because of compiics, is
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  Speaker 5: lined up to have eleven picks in a stronger draft
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  Speaker 5: next year. So he does not want to give up
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  Speaker 5: any of those compics and he waited until now to
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  Speaker 5: sign any more veterans from the outside. And so that's
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  Speaker 5: that's basically what they're doing. And they're playing the compic
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  Speaker 5: formula game and keep holding onto their eleven picks, and
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  Speaker 5: now they can sign a veteran from outside and now
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  Speaker 5: because we're in this stage of free agency, they don't
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  Speaker 5: have to wait and or they don't have to bid,
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  Speaker 5: or they can just take their time and do it
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  Speaker 5: on their terms. Dante Fowler, ventured edge rusher in the NFL,
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  Speaker 5: visited the Seahawks last week, made a free agent visit.
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  Speaker 5: That's just one of a few that they can now
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  Speaker 5: sign without it affecting the COMPIC formula. But yeah, they're
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  Speaker 5: not done there. And Mike McDonald has said repeatedly This
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  Speaker 5: is just part of the process. The draft was in
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  Speaker 5: the next part of the process, they've Doggie Harris has
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  Speaker 5: made a free agent visit, the running back coming off
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  Speaker 5: an achilles stare for more thousand yard rusher for four
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  Speaker 5: seasons with the Steelers. So now we're going to enter
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  Speaker 5: that phase of them shopping in free agency all the
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  Speaker 5: way in through the summer when there's salary cap cuts
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  Speaker 5: in training camp.
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  Speaker 1: Did you at least get to enjoy a wonderful sunset
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  Speaker 1: on your drive home Saturday from three days a draft coverage.
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  Speaker 5: I did. I actually got home a little bit before this.
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  Speaker 5: That's my goal every Saturday before the sunsets, and I
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  Speaker 5: did get to home before the sun was setting. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's I mean, it's the only three days you're actually
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: wedded to that building beside the mini camp days and whatever.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, you're right, it is uncanny how Saturdays are there.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun though, that's a great energy and I know,
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  Speaker 1: you know somebody that covers the beat that you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's something old hat to you to be around that building,
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  Speaker 1: But I love, you know, and I'm not around it
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: nearly as much, so I kind of enjoy the energy
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: of the whole thing as well.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: So every yeah, you're right, Chuck, And again, every one
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: of the two hundred and fifty seven picks this weekend
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: has a story. Yeah, and they came from somewhere, and
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: that Bud Clark got married as a college sophomore. He
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: has a three year old and I asked him about
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: that second round pick. I said, how did you? I mean,
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: it wasn't like he was just a side job as
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: he was being a young father. He was a full time,
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: big time college football player. That's an eighty hour week
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: job and he's got to go to class and then
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: he's got his young fiance and young son at home.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: And he said, yeah, that was an eye openers that
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: there's a lot more to life than football. I had
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: to grow up really fast. My fiancee was awesome with
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: our baby at home. I mean, that's stuff like that.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: And Tod Aaron Price, we mentioned his mom battling breast
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: beating breast cancer and the motivation for that. And there
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: were there were stories all through the Seahawks that Devin
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Eastern overcame an emotional disorder well at the University of Minnesota,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: and he talked to the Minneapol let's press a couple
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: of years ago about that and about how vital counseling
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: and talking about things were to him to get through medison.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: I was in the NFL. Every one of those two
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: hundred fifty seven people have a story and a path
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: and their dreams were realized this week, and it was
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: really cool. That will never If I'm callous to that,
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: I need to get out of the business, because that's
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: the coolest thing about the draft.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: All right, Greg, Well, thank you very much for everything.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. It was a great draft. Miss holiday,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and you're a central part of it, so we appreciate
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: all your health.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Oh thanks, Check, I'm sorry your holiday season is over.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, it has to come to an end
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: after a while. You're just like, I'm exhausted.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: And that's what makes it mask. If it went all year,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: yeah that's.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: True, you couldn't sustain that level. But now wasn't for
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: twelve months. No, I was.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: About at the end of my rope. Come about Saturday
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: at three o'clock.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Does the tree come down or you just keep that up?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: For Puster, we move the tree down. Yeah, the tree
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: is down. It's otherwise Homenger and we'll get pissed at us,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: you would, all right, So ten o'clock today, Yes.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, all right, we'll talk to the We'll talk
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: to the position coach for Bud Clark at eleven o'clock
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: from TCU Juice Brown. All right, eleven o'clock sounds good.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Greg, Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider joining us
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  Speaker 1: up next. Well, the NFC West had a really interesting weekend.
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  Speaker 1: US excluded. We were just so vanilla and solid that
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  Speaker 1: there really wasn't any fanfare or controversy or tumult that
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: surrounded the Seahawks. But all the rest of our division brethren,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: they certainly had the pooh hit the fan at some
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• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and yeah, we were a part of We did our draft,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: So I'm just going to give everybody a Monday update
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: on where we at. Scoring. Turns out, Brandon Hegel's the
• 22:02
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  Speaker 4: Who knew.
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  Speaker 1: I end up having to spell everything every single name
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  Speaker 1: twice because my phone was like, that's not a real name,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: which is.
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  Speaker 7: Weird, right, because when you capitalize it, it should you
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• 22:59
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• 23:01
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• 23:03
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• 23:06
  Speaker 1: your team, So sorry about it. Yeah, you don't have
• 23:09
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• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Connor mulady.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: You don't have Leon dry Citle, you have Leon Draidel.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: You have Leon dry cleaning. All right, let's talk some
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: draft here. The NFC West had quite the weekend Seahawks excluded.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: We had pretty much just a solid draft with nothing
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: controversial about it. But our fellow NFC West teams seem
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: to rule the headlines over the weekend. Going all the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: way back to Thursday night, the Ty Simpson pick for
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams, and it has since been explained
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: away by Sean McVay that whatever you saw from him,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: his mannerisms, his affect, you know that his body language,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and I guess we all became body language. Read your
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: experts on Thursday night. He said, that was just me
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: trying to make sure that Matthew didn't think. Matthew Stafford
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: didn't think I was celebrating the pick too much. That
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: was to protect Matthew, and I guess I overdid it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: But I am on board. I am in lockstep with
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: our general manager, less Need, and I do really like
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the pick.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Well, then you're both idiots, and yet I.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Still don't believe you. Yeah, and then okay, there is
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: an argument to be made for you got to be
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: out of your mind if you don't think that Sean
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: McVay doesn't like Ty Simpson, that less Need would take
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a player that Sean mcvag doesn't like. You're right, I
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: don't think there's any way that that's possible. I don't
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: think there's any way that that's true. I don't think
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: there's any way that les Need just went rogue and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: didn't include Sean McVay and the conversation and tell him
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: what he was going to do at pick number thirteen.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: But I also have lived, also followed sports my entire life,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and I know that there have been plenty of times
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: where a general manager and a head coach didn't see
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: eye to eye on a pick. I mean, is it
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: out of the question that they sat there on Wednesday
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: night putting together the final board, and less needs said
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to Sean McVeigh, I really want to get Simpson. I
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: really believe in him. I really like him. We've done
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: our due diligence. You like him, you think he's good
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: for the system. I think it's time to get Stafford's replacement.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And Sean might have said, I like him. I get
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: where you're coming from, but I would like to add
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a piece that helps us get over the hump this year.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're not that far away from the super Bowl.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: We've got this luxury of the thirteenth pick in the draft,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: which we kind of lucked into, you know, we got
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: to get better. Yeah, and blow this pick and taking
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: a quarterback that's going to play three four years down
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the road doesn't help us get better tomorrow. And so
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: is it out of the question that they went to
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: bed with that disagreement and that less need the next
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: day told him, I'm going with Simpson. I'm sorry, I
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: have the heavy hand here. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Simpson.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And and so that's that's what we're gonna do at thirteen.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Is that out of the Is that crazy?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I don't either. I mean, Sean McVay was not in
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the room when they made the pick.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: No, and he and there's I'm sorry, but there's no
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: way that you look that angry when you go to
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: the press conference after, because you want to make sure
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: that Matthew Stafford knows it's still his team. If that
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: was the case, you call Matthew Stafford before you make
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: the pick and say, hey, here's where we're going, but
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: this is your team.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: This isn't for right, which they did right, but this
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: is yeah.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: But I'm saying, but then you're not worried publicly about
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: how Matthew Stafford is taking it because you've already.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Talked to him.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I see it. Yeah, And look, I mean John
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Schneyder didn't want to trade for Jamal Adams and I
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: know he's denied, and of course I was on board
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: with jamal A.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I deny, deny if I was him.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: But they are all, but they are all in the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: game of protecting yes, the other person. I am in
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: this relationship with Pete Carroll. I do have a good
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: relationship with Pete Carroll. But he started. He did a
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: couple of things where he overruled me and we went
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: with his route and we didn't go what I thought
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: was the smarter way to go. And yeah, I signed
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: off on it. I'll take the heat for it, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to spin it in the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: media and say Pete made me do it, because that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: makes me look bad. But I don't think it's out
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of the question at all to arrive at the conclusion that, yes,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: they evaluated Simpson. They all liked Simpson. Sean McVay liked Simpson,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: but when it came down to making the pick, there
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: was a disagreement on what we should do at number thirteen,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: and less Need said I'm doing it right and pissed
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: off Sean McVay. Is that crazy. I don't think that's crazy.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: No, I don't think it is at all.
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: I think he got overruled, and I don't think and
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: I do think, Yeah, he wanted a wide receiver or
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: somebody that he could see on his field this year
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: making a big difference, and especially for him because he's
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: the one that gets the most irritated when they lose,
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: especially close games and things like that. He wanted somebody
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: that was going to help put them over the top.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: And he didn't get it, and he hadn't talked to
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: Ty Simpson. I mean, there's certain things that are pretty
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: obvious that it was not his favorite choice.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Well, and look, I mean I think about it, like
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: maybe you get to Wednesday night and you're like, I
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: want to go with ruben Bain Junior, just throwing out
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: in a game. Yeah, I want to go with ruben
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Bain Junior. Well, then if less Need goes with ruben
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Bain Junior, is it crazy that less Need's not happy
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: about it? No, less Needs angle, I wanted to go
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: with Simpson, and now we can't agree. Here we are
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: at the midnight hour and we can't agree with what
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: we want to do at number thirteen. Yeah, so okay,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: if I go with ruben Bain Junior, then I'm going
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to be pissed because I wanted to take the quarterback now.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I think it's time to take the quarterback now. So
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: somebody's got to win the disagreement. I mean, just because
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: you went through the process together and you've had a
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: good working relationship, and you've won a Super Bowl and
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: all of that sort of thing in the past doesn't
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: mean that you're not going to get to the midnight
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: hour on something like this and have a difference of
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: opinion as to who we should take at thirteen, and
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: somebody's got to win. Somebody's got to win that argument.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: So if Les got to work on Thursday and said,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I hear you loud and clear, I understand where you're
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: coming from. But I know you like Simpson. I like Simpson.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Matt's not playing forever. To me, it feels like the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: time to use the luxury pick is on a luxury item,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: like a backup quarterback. So I'm taking Simpson. Otherwise we
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: take Bain And I'm pissed off, but I think it's
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the smarter thing to do. I have hand. I'm taking
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: se Is that crazy? That's not crazy?
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: No, No, it's not. You're not gonna make everybody happy
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: with that. It's not going to happen.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I think. I mean two parents that are trying to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: figure out what their only child where she's going to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: go to grade school on the time where it comes
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: down to we got to make a decision, like they
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: need to know tomorrow. One parent, if you disagree with
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: what the right school is, is going to lose that argument, correct,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and they might be angry, and especially if things go
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: sideways the first couple of days at school. Yeah.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Absolutely so.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Even even parents who absolutely love each other and have
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the absolute best interest in their child and their child's future,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: can when it comes to a big decision, get to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the midnight hour and haven't agreed one hundred percent on
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: what they want to do, and one of the parents
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: is going to win the argument. Yes, Yeah, So why
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: couldn't a coach and a general manager also arrive at
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that conclusion on drafting?
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: No, And I completely agree any partnership where you are
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: close with somebody, you are working intimately with somebody, you're
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: going to have those moments. And their moment was just
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: shown on television and McVeigh couldn't hide his disappointment when
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: he had to go sit there and try to sell it.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't blame him. I mean, sometimes you have
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: a real human moment. They're not all robots, right, So.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling Sean McVay wears his emotions on
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the sleeve a lot. Yeah, what we kind of like
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: about it, even though he's our rival. I kind of
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: like him for that. Yeah, But I think that's what happened.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I think that's a perfectly reasonable conclusion to draw from
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: what happened Thursday night with a Los Angeles Rams. And
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: we don't even have time to get into what the
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers apparently got accused of over
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the weekend and the Arizona Cardinals, who a lot of
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: people are split on water whether or not they had
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: a great draft or a bad draft. It's interesting. So yeah,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: we'll break that up over the course of the next
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: couple of days. But coming up next, I am going
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to get a little baseball in before we bring Hugh
• 32:01
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• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and so Hugh's going to be with us from eight
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: to ten breaking down all the draft picks for the
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  Speaker 1: the letter E is for the Emersons, Man, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock another really good outing. He has an ERA
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  Speaker 1: at two point eight six. He has been our most
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  Speaker 1: consistent starting pitcher this season. We can even now place
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  Speaker 1: him ahead of Brian wu on that list of consistent
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  Speaker 1: Luis Castillo, it feels to me like all of starts
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  Speaker 1: are important because he's been the least consistent of our
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  Speaker 1: for me to take my most consistent starter and replace
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  Speaker 1: him with my least consistent starter and keep him into
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  Speaker 1: the starting rotation just because one has more seniority over
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  Speaker 4: That would be a terrible way to judge it about it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Well, that decision is starting to it's starting to now
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: bubble to the surface. Now, I mean, we're gonna have
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• 34:41
  Speaker 1: two fifty average, three sixty on base eight twenty one ops.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you something, plays a really
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: good defense, fast, and he has power. He's at two
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: home runs in his last four games. JP's batting average
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: is still well below two hundred. His arm strength is
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: obviously affected by whatever injury he had in the offseason.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: He had a couple of throws over the weekend where
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: it was like, can you even get the ball across
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  Speaker 1: the diamond?
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  Speaker 4: Seemed like a struggle.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: He is slow, and he is even struggling with his
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: batter's eye. At this point, He's got a high on
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: base he's getting a lot of walks, but like he
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: had a bad challenge yesterday, that was a bad moment,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: and he still won't cut down on his swing. He's
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: still trying to hit a home run. It feels to
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: me like every other swing, which is just not his role.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, at some point we might have to make
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the decision. We just have a better shortstop in Tacoma
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: than we have in Seattle, and so I mean, I'm
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: going to give it a little more time, a little
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: more time. But every day that passes, I'm a little
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: more convinced that our best shortstop in the organization's a
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: twenty year old, freckle faced kid put living in Tacoma
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it is getting harder and harder to ignore,
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  Speaker 7: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fs for Firings Man, what a weird day in
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Boston on Saturday. And I'll tell you somebody that doesn't
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: subscribe to it's early. Craig Breslow. Yeah, clearly, the general
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: manager of the Red Sox. Here's what he clearly did.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: He's taking heat for Red Sox fans for the bad
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: start that they're off to, and Craig Breslow's passing the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: blame on to his coaching staff. He feels that he
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: gave them a great roster this year, one that should
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs and maybe contend in the American League.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: But they got off to a nine and seventeen start,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: And so was he going to blame himself for that? No,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: he decided to blame a very successful in a Red
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Sox uniform manager in Alex Cora, and whatever disagreements they'd had,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: because apparently there's been a lot of them, he just
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: decided he was going to take all of Cora's buddies
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: out to one because he didn't want them lingering around
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the locker room after, you know, he gets rid of
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: If he just gets rid of Cora, you still have
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the message to the players that that was a mistake
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: from the five other guys that were his cronies, if
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: you will. And so he decided, I'm just going to
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: get rid of all of them. I mean, it is
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: a bold move, but it has to work otherwise. Craig
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Breslo's out. And even the president of the Boston Red
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Sox said, nope, this was the general manager's decision alone,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: which usually you kind of present a United Front president
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: said nope, this was the GM's decision. He wanted to
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: separate himself from it as much as he possibly could,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: so Craig Breslow, the general manager of the Red Sox,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: putting himself on the line.
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: Right now, I saw somebody tweet out It's like it
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: was it was a tweet that they got or a
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: comment they got from a former Red Sox player who
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: said it's like pooping your pants and changing your shirt.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, and so I mean, thank goodness, the Mariners started
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: turning around a little bit. But I didn't mention this
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: with Dan Wilson. They are just a lot of teams
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball who believe they've got really good teams,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: and they got off the bad starts. The Blue Jays
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: are still three games under five hundred. The Royals, who
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: thought they were going to win the division this year,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: are still six games under five hundred. The Astros are
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: eleven and eighteen. The Mets. I'm expecting any second now
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: that the Mets are firing their manager. Philadelphia is nine
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: and nineteen. At this point, they thought they were winning
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the World Series this year. It's one of those years.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I said this about Dan, and I never said to
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: fire him. Don't get me wrong what I said, though,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: this is a precious year, and if after a four
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: and nine start, if we end up eight and eighteen,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: it's something you got to consider. You can't waste this year,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and I think a lot of teams feel that way.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I can't waste this year, and if I'm not in disagreement,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: not in harmony with my manager. I may have to
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: shake something up, So I'm not I'm surprised that Cora
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: was the example of this, but I'm not entirely surprised.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I think maybe this starts an avalanche effect. I think
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that maybe Alex Cora could become the next head, excuse me,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the next manager of the Phillies or the Mets. I
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: think that his availability suddenly makes him a hot candidate
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: for maybe a couple of other teams that just will
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: not accept a slow start this year, not with the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: talented veteran roster that we've pieced together. We may have
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to shake it up. We may have no choice but
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: to shake it up. So we'll see. I think we're
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: going to see a couple more of these before the
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, And thankfully, Dan's not going to
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: be one of them, because he's kind of pulled himself.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Out of the start, Thank goodness.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Coming up next, Hugh Millan is with
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