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Chuck in the Morning 8-21 H1: Kade Anderson called up, Marines Morning After, Matt Calkins resigns · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, sounds like our open's not working. But what's
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  Speaker 1: new that's just been the last couple of weeks, has
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  Speaker 1: it not? Hey, great morning to you all. Welcome into
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  Speaker 1: the radio show. My name is Chuck Powell anders Hurst
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  Speaker 1: we've got a very busy show planned for you today
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  Speaker 1: as we get things started here on this Friday, and
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  Speaker 1: thank god that it is Friday. And it's so nice
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  Speaker 1: to be back in the studio, the cushiony studio here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a studio. I mean, it's nice to go out
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  Speaker 1: to Huskies camp and they were very welcoming. I mean Jedfish,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he gave me as he bought me a car.
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  Speaker 1: question about it. But you know it's time to get
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  Speaker 1: and much much more so. Welcome into the show we
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  Speaker 1: got you for the next four hours. And here we
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  Speaker 1: And there certainly is a lot to discuss here today,
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  Speaker 1: but I think maybe our top story is from our
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  Speaker 1: local baseball team. As mister Anderson, it finally is going
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  Speaker 1: to be chosen to be really the chosen one. He
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  Speaker 1: is neo. Can you say the Mariners season, mister Anderson.
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  Speaker 1: We've been keeping our eye on you, mister Anderson, And
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  Speaker 1: so now he arrives onto the scene, will he choose
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  Speaker 1: the blue pill? Will he choose the red pill? What
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  Speaker 1: will Kate Anderson do with the rest of this season?
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  Speaker 1: He is going to be activated by Saday to start
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  Speaker 1: for the Mariners against the Chicago Cubs, his first career start.
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  Speaker 1: So their number one prospects since Colt Emerson was promoted
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  Speaker 1: earlier this year, and the number one pitching prospect in
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  Speaker 1: the entire sport, a guy that dominated Double A Arkansas
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  Speaker 1: to the point where it was I mean, you were
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  Speaker 1: just looking at at that and you're like the genius
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth grade, and it's like, man, if you
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  Speaker 1: keep him around these fourth graders. Any longer, you're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna waste a genius. He needs to be promoted to something,
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  Speaker 1: and so the promotion goes to the major leagues. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean I'll hit the ground running, but it's certainly high
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  Speaker 1: time that we find out. So how excited are you,
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  Speaker 1: mister Anderson Hurst, to see Kate Anderson finally make his
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  Speaker 1: Mariners debut.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's gonna be a big moment
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  Speaker 2: because I think this has been anticipated for quite a
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  Speaker 2: long time. But having a namesake, not only you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the with the first name, but with the last name,
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  Speaker 2: is well we could say Kate Anderson Hurst.
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Oh is that what you want?
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  Speaker 3: I think we should. I think we should. Definitely I'm
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  Speaker 3: going neo.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I'm banging neo, especially if he saves the season. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when he is the chosen one.
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  Speaker 3: If he is, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of you know, signs, and every prospect
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  Speaker 2: person that I know has been raving about this guy.
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  Speaker 2: And the stat I saw yesterday was that the double
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  Speaker 2: a hitter slash line versus Kate Anderson a one seven
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  Speaker 2: batting average, one eighty three on base and a two
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  Speaker 2: to sixteen slug for a three ninety nine ops. That
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  Speaker 2: is the worst batting line any picture has permitted at
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  Speaker 2: any level of the miners across the last ten years
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  Speaker 2: with a minimum of fifteen starts.
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  Speaker 1: So or best depends on how you look at worst
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  Speaker 1: for positives, yes, worse for the hitters.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, that's a that's awesome. Hopefully that translates. I
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  Speaker 2: mean everyone has said that he's like the most major
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  Speaker 2: league ready prospect one of them that has been drafted
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  Speaker 2: in the last few years for sure. So having him
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  Speaker 2: kind of come up and help this team who I think?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there was thought that he could help the
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  Speaker 1: team last last year down the stretch. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 1: that and that's not unprecedented. There have been plenty of
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  Speaker 1: guys that have been drafted and ended up in a
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  Speaker 1: playoff push, you know, a month or two later, once
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  Speaker 1: they just realized, Okay, you're not overwhelmed by professional baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It does work, it does play. There was a thought
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  Speaker 1: that he could be one of those guys. Obviously he wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: They completely shut him down after a long season at
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  Speaker 1: LSU and pitched them to a national championship and threw
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  Speaker 1: a lot of innings. They didn't want him to throw
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  Speaker 1: any more pitches, but there was even conversation of you know,
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  Speaker 1: he could be one of the best five guys coming
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  Speaker 1: out of spring training, even though there's no way we're
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  Speaker 1: going to activate him out of spring training. So so
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  Speaker 1: to your point, this is an advanced student. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: very much so. And I I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the corresponding move is. There's speculation that it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be Brian woubing pushed back and then Bryce Miller
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  Speaker 1: maybe being put to the bullpen, or maybe there's a
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  Speaker 1: six man or maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Brian Wo's hurt.
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  Speaker 2: We don't really know until they make the actual roster move.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm very curious as to what the outcome of
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  Speaker 2: that is for him kind of moving up into this spot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Wo's definitely getting pushed back. We know that because
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  Speaker 1: he was slated to start on Saturday, right, and so
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  Speaker 1: read into that what you will. Perhaps this is a
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  Speaker 1: situation where they were just looking for any kind of excuse,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Brian WU might be just pitching just you know, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I feel great one hundred percent. Are you sure for
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  Speaker 1: sure about that? Yeah? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the gun says ninety eight, but that feels
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  Speaker 1: like a soft ninety eight. I think they are looking
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  Speaker 1: for an excuse and they don't want to put Anderson
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  Speaker 1: in the bullpen, and I don't know why. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: plenty of prospects have pitched a few innings of the
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  Speaker 1: bullpen to start the careers before it really got going,
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  Speaker 1: but they seem reluctant to do that, so I think
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  Speaker 1: maybe they were looking for a reason. Yeah, it's it
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  Speaker 1: feels strange to me, and it's something that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about throughout the show. Maybe I'll get into
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  Speaker 1: because there's another line on this that I want to discuss.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk about number one, kind of the position
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  Speaker 1: that the organization has put itself in with Kate Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: because this really is I mean, I'm not gonna say
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  Speaker 1: a no end situation, because he could light the world
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  Speaker 1: on fire here on Saturday, and he could give a boost.
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  Speaker 1: And we've seen pictures rookie pitchers do this down a
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  Speaker 1: stretch where the league's not familiar with them. They can't read.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's apparently one of the things about Anderson's arsenal.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just a skinny kid. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he's ever seen a weight room. Like
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  Speaker 1: when you see him, you're like, you're the top pitching prospect.
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  Speaker 1: I got Ryan Sloan sitting over here. He looks like
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  Speaker 1: master blaster. And then you come over and you look
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  Speaker 1: like my nephew, you know, Jacob, and so you roll
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  Speaker 1: over here, and I'm like, I don't know if I'm
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  Speaker 1: buying this. So he really is just like a prodigy
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  Speaker 1: of pitching. Apparently he's a hell of a hitter too, really,
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  Speaker 1: even though we'll never see that, but he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like just a baseball prodigy, that's what. That's kind of
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  Speaker 1: how it plays here with Kate Anderson, so as he
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  Speaker 1: so he could just hit the ground running. Leagues not
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  Speaker 1: used to him. One of the attributes of his pitching
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  Speaker 1: style is that hitters have a hell of a time
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  Speaker 1: trying to pick up the ball coming out of his hand. Well,
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  Speaker 1: major leaguers are going to have that same difficulty. I
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  Speaker 1: mean they're a little more talented, a little more schooled.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is the highest level. We'll see how
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  Speaker 1: it works on Saturday. But maybe he hits the ground running.
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  Speaker 1: But here's where the Mariners kind of put themselves in
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  Speaker 1: a position where they still can't win because they could
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  Speaker 1: activate him and he's successful, and we'll say, well, why
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  Speaker 1: wasn't he activated earlier?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly exactly. I think that'll be the overwhelming emotion from this.
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  Speaker 1: Or they activate him and he's not successful and the
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  Speaker 1: fan base be like, why did you even activate him?
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  Speaker 1: You waited this long? There are eight games under five hundred,
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  Speaker 1: like a starting pitcher is gonna save the season at
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  Speaker 1: this point, So there's really this tug and pull with
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners with this decision. Yeah, I think maybe I
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  Speaker 1: will get into that strand of conversation. It kind of
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  Speaker 1: speaks to like the mixed messages that I've gotten from
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  Speaker 1: this team in the last month and a half, Like
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  Speaker 1: some things they do speak to urgency and some things
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  Speaker 1: they do don't speak to it at all. And that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of the thing about urgency. I mean, I could
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  Speaker 1: look up the definition. I guess maybe I need to
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  Speaker 1: brush up on it, but that's kind of the thing
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  Speaker 1: about urgency. You always have to be urgent. If you're
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  Speaker 1: in a state of urgency, there's you don't get to then.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're running out of the building, because
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  Speaker 1: it's on fire. You don't get out to the stairwell
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  Speaker 1: and say, whoo, thank god, I got to the stairwell.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a sandwich. Great, Yeah, and then you
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  Speaker 1: raise it. Okay, I better get out of the stairwell.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta smell this smoke.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta get out.
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  Speaker 1: Of the stairwell. And then you get to the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the stairwell like, oh my gosh, I want to
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  Speaker 1: hear that new song by Drake. Anybody up for dancing? Yeah, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: the building's on fire. It's all right, let's dance. Well
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  Speaker 1: if you're if you're going to sort of Even Dan
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  Speaker 1: Wilson's managing like some games lately, He's like, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: put Jose Ferrera into the fourth inning, but then two
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  Speaker 1: days later, I'm gonna let Christian Yelich hit a three
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  Speaker 1: run homer off of my tired ass pitcher to plow
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  Speaker 1: this game out, even though Ferrer's up in the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: and ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and with Bryce Miller having not had a good
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  Speaker 2: start in the last six before that.
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  Speaker 1: Even yesterday, and granted I didn't invest a lot in
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  Speaker 1: yesterday because I was spent. When you're in insomniac, and
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  Speaker 1: you can sleep. You fall asleep when you can. Great.
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  Speaker 1: So I slept through. I mean once it was six
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  Speaker 1: to nothing, right, I ended up sleeping a lot. Had
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  Speaker 1: we come back, I probably would have rewatched it from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, but I didn't. I didn't want to watch
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  Speaker 1: a loss.
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  Speaker 3: But you're not alone.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so, I mean, correct me where I'm wrong here,
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  Speaker 1: But you're down too. You've been acting somewhat with urgency lately.
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  Speaker 1: Gabe Speier threw two pitches the night before. You're a
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  Speaker 1: bloop and a blast away from a comeback of your
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  Speaker 1: own against the Milwaukee Brewers, and you throw Jonathan Diaz,
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  Speaker 1: who's going to get cut tomorrow. Hey, you're not really Yeah, Like,
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  Speaker 1: are you urgent about this or not? And it's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing about the front office. I called Kate Anderson
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year the September South Paul
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  Speaker 1: because I thought we were going to see him in September.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he's going to put pitch some meaningful innings.
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  Speaker 1: But I also thought we would already have like a
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  Speaker 1: nine to ten game cushion in the American League West,
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  Speaker 1: and you could just experiment with Kate and try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out the right role. I have in my head
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  Speaker 1: thought Kate Anderson was going to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: our playoff roster all season long. Well, now we've got
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  Speaker 1: to somehow get in the playoffs for that to be
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  Speaker 1: a possibility. But it's strange that you've I mean, he's
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  Speaker 1: not doing anything differently now than he was two months ago,
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  Speaker 1: and that's dominating Double A baseball. You haven't tested him
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  Speaker 1: against Triple A baseball. And yet I mean, yes, he's
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  Speaker 1: shown more domination. He's giving you more evidence, but not
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  Speaker 1: any different evidence. So this team, I think should have
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  Speaker 1: been in an urgent mode, and some of the things
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  Speaker 1: that they've done, including the trading deadline where they added,
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  Speaker 1: have suggested urgency abs And yet here you have have
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  Speaker 1: we as we've discussed this weapon in Kate Anderson, and
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  Speaker 1: then we're just gonna wait. And so I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: are we really doing the We're gonna wait till September
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  Speaker 1: call ups and not start his clock. I thought we
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  Speaker 1: were done with that in Major League Baseball, And no,
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  Speaker 1: we're not doing that either. We were really waiting for
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  Speaker 1: a pitch to possibly not make his next start. After
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  Speaker 1: the whole piggyback experience and the six man rotation and
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  Speaker 1: the trading of Luis Castillo, they were still just waiting
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  Speaker 1: on an opportunity for Kate Anderson to make a spot start. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is that what I'm reading at this point, so Andrews
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  Speaker 1: is just like, let's make no mistake about it. You
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  Speaker 1: need to be in urgency mode across the board. That
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  Speaker 1: means Julio Rodriguez doesn't show up after a day and
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  Speaker 1: a half off and have one of the worst at
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  Speaker 1: bats of the entire season with a runner at third
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  Speaker 1: and two outs. That means if you are down three
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  Speaker 1: to nothing and your starting pitcher doesn't truly have it,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we got to try somebody else. Maybe we got
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  Speaker 1: to avoid six to nothing. Yeah, and then thirteen to
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  Speaker 1: nothing and then twenty two to nothing. You know, but once,
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  Speaker 1: like I said earlier this week, once it was six
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  Speaker 1: to nothing, I didn't really care. The game was over
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  Speaker 1: at that point. But you see what I'm saying, Like
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  Speaker 1: some of the things they're doing, from the players to
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  Speaker 1: the manager to the front office suggests it's go time,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta go now. Yeah, And then one day later,
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  Speaker 1: let's take our foot off the gas. Yeah, let's be
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  Speaker 1: prudent now, Gabe just did pitch two pitches yesterday. He's
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  Speaker 1: had an injury riddled season. We can't throw him again today.
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  Speaker 1: Let's throw Jonathan Diaz. So I don't know, I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: mixed messages from the team. I'm not really sure how
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  Speaker 1: to read the Kate Anderson thing. Is it really just
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  Speaker 1: the spots start? Is that what we're doing here? I
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  Speaker 1: know that there's a role for him, And I know
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  Speaker 1: that if you're trying to erase four games in thirty
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  Speaker 1: four games and thirty four days, you ought to throw
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  Speaker 1: one of your best pitchers in your organization. You better
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  Speaker 1: find a role for him. Uh, And I'm still hazy
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  Speaker 1: on exactly what that role is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And if you're getting mixed messages and you're confused
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  Speaker 2: on what the kind of urgency level should be is
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  Speaker 2: in the organization that I'm sure the players are as well,
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  Speaker 2: because they can be being told one thing, of course,
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  Speaker 2: like hey, you know, it's go time. We're a few
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  Speaker 2: games back, we need to go make the playoffs. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's go time. But then, you know, actions speak
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  Speaker 2: louder than words, right whatever, How the team is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: performing with the Kate Anderson situation, with whatever you're doing
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  Speaker 2: in uh, you know, bullpen decisions and all that stuff
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  Speaker 2: that that tells the guys what's going on too. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not excusing a lack of focus, a lack of urgency
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  Speaker 2: for the entirety of the season up until now, but
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  Speaker 2: the lack of being on the same page. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we are in Seahawks training camp right now. All of
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  Speaker 2: those guys know exactly what the deal is, yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: they know they are all like they're all bought in,
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  Speaker 2: They're all zoned in on what the what the goal is,
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  Speaker 2: what time of year it is, what the level of
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  Speaker 2: you know, push and pull that there is.
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald has his pulse on that.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like the Mariners have a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a lack of a continuity on that front at all levels,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest. And it reminded me of the Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Healy discussion we had earlier this week when he was
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  Speaker 2: talking about the hitting philosophies, and there was like there's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a chasm between the guys that want more
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  Speaker 2: information and want all the data and the guys that
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  Speaker 2: just want to go by feel and they don't really
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  Speaker 2: have a way to communicate with both sides.
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  Speaker 3: Of it at this point.
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  Speaker 2: And I think this is another example of where the
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  Speaker 2: lack of, like I said, continuity is kind of playing
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  Speaker 2: itself out right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a bigger conversation at another time, sure, but
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  Speaker 1: I would just speak to I mean, if I'm coming
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  Speaker 1: home thirty four games to go, and despite what happened
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  Speaker 1: over the course of the last three days in Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't lose any ground, even with a twenty two
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  Speaker 1: nothing defeat at one point, I mean, I'm having somebody say,
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  Speaker 1: let's make no mistake about it, we are in urgency mode.
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  Speaker 1: We have to play every game damn near like a
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  Speaker 1: playoff game. I mean, that's that's what That's the corner
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  Speaker 1: you've painted yourselves unto. Okay, And and I know you
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  Speaker 1: can't go as far as ever like a playoff game
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  Speaker 1: and a must win and all of that stuff, because
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  Speaker 1: there are a bulk of games, But it just feels
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  Speaker 1: like one day they play like that and the next
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  Speaker 1: day they don't. And it feels like one day they
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  Speaker 1: manage that way and the next day they don't. And
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  Speaker 1: even with the Kate Anderson move, it's like, are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to save this season or you're just trying to
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  Speaker 1: get a look at Kate Anderson to see what you've
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  Speaker 1: got to see if he's ready for this. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm a little confused. I'm a little confused
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  Speaker 1: by how they're handling the last month and a half,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd like for them to get on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you play with your hair on fire for
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  Speaker 1: three days in Houston, and then in the first inning
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee you are sleep walking onto the field even
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: though you've had a day and a half off to
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: get rested up. It's not like you got jet lag, right,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: It's not like you flew in from Amsterdam. Yeah, So
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: why the lack of energy, Why the lack of focus
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: in the very first inning of the first game that
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: set the tone for a twenty two nothing blood letting
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. So, I mean, if they're not on the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: same page, if the message is not clear, I mean,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I get it. We keep asking for them to have
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: meetings and closed door meetings and ass chewings and everything
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: else because we don't know what's really going on behind
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the scenes. But my gosh, if you are having these conversations,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: it's not soaking.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: In No, it's not.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And I would love for that to start tonight. All right,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: let's find out what's on tap. I have your attention, please.
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• 19:06
  Speaker 1: So the sixty and sixty eight Mariners in action tonight
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: at home against the Chicago Cubs. My goodness, at the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: beginning of the year, this was a weekend that I circled.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Oh man, how great is that gonna be? Cubs are
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: gonna be vying for the division title, Mariners are going
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to be trying to put their playoff positioning together. We
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: could probably start having a conversation about how you would
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: set your roster and your rotation for the playoffs at
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: that point.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: World Series preview.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Very fair, Yeah, completely different scenario. It's like when yeah,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: wake up.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: No other calls about it, Just win please.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Mariners four games back of the Houston Astros. Emerson Hancock
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: starts tonight for us, and of course the Cubs are
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: gonna throw a lefty. I'm sure they reshuffled the entire
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: they did to make sure that they threw a lefty
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: against us. So we'll face David Peterson. NFL preseason Week
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: number two got started last night. The Las Vegas Raiders
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: won somehow over Houston twenty two to twenty, even though
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: when the starters were on the field, the Texans were
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: up seventeen to nothing. In a blink, Fernando Mendoza took
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a step back. It looks like against the ones, or
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: at least a few of the ones on the Houston defense.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: He was eight for fifteen passing. He threw a pick
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: six last night and Houston one point at a seventeen
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: to nothing lead before the end of the first quarter.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Then in the second game, San Francisco just demolished the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers forty one to seventeen. And this is
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the problem. This is what I hate about preseason football,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and I really am to the point where I hate it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: You're on Softie's camp now, I guess, Yeah, you.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Can't tell anything from it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: They can.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: You can't even tell a Fernando van knows that had
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: a bad game. You can't read anything, do it. So yeah,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you read into it what you will. The forty nine
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Ers had a laugher against the Chargers last night and
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: preseason game number I thought preseason game number two was
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the game where really this was a dress race.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: This is the one.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it just gets worse every year. Seahawks
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: will be in Nashville for Sunday's game, the only Sunday
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: game at five o'clock against the Titans. The joint practice
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: is today, So get ready for all of the fist fights.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: This is this is another strange thing. I mean, they
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: all swear by it, and they want to do it,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and we control it, and yet it looks like it's
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: absolutely out of control. Every single one of these joint
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: practices there were three that had to be shut down
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: earlier this week. Saquon Barkley came out and said, can
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: we please stop doing these? There are fights everywhere in
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: every one of these, and so get ready. We're going
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: to fight today the Nashville Titans. It's going to be
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: like Man two, like an hour long fight. Yeah. All
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: sorts of celebrities will pop up in the middle of it.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Next thing you know, Cooper Cup will be fighting Luke Wilson.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Richard Sherman will come out and just lay some punches.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Richard Sherman versus Tim Robbins right in the middle
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: of the field. Husky's camp continues without us. I guess
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: they're going to continue, you know, though we're not out
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: there today. The mock game tomorrow and fan fest at
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: four to twenty, so a busy day out there on Montlake,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: and the Sounders need a win desperately. They'll be in
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati tomorrow at four thirty to try to snap their
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: eight game losing streak within the MLS. Taken on FC Cincinnati,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: which is a pretty new franchise. They have a winning record.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, weird, Yeah cracking, take note.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mariner's Morning After next Sports Radio ninety three point
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• 23:00
  Speaker 1: We do have to recap the Mariner's game from the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: day before. Even when it's a day game, we do
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Mariners Morning After. It's our post game show, a highlight,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a sound by, a preview of what's going on tonight
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and yesterday. I mean, you want to talk about things
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: happening fast. I was driving home from Husky's Camp and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: our Huskies camp coverage and I'm listening to the start
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: of the Mariner's game, and I'm thinking about the sushi
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy from my friend Perry, yes, and taking
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: that home and watching the Mariners game well late morning action,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: very excited about it, ended up in a phone conversation
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: where pull Back the Curtain gotten a huge argument with
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: my girlfriend over the phone, very angry, hung up on
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: her in the parking lot. Went in saw Perry at
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the Woodenville bodega and I walk in and he goes,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: he's just shaking his head at me, and I'm like, what,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I know, I haven't seen you in a couple of weeks,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: but you know with your old friend Chuck, is there
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: is there? I got a booger in my nose? What's
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: going on? What's happening? Do I look old?
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Did you overhear your phone conversation?
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Did I say exactly? Do you think? I mean? You
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: didn't like the jetfish Demon Williams interview, Why what's going on?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And he goes, well, you don't know? And I go
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: what what's happened? And he goes, six nothing already. I'm like, no,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: it isn't because I'd forgotten that I spent some of
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the drive, more of the drive than I realized arguing
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: with the unicorn, and so by the time that I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: got back to thinking about Mariners baseball, the team was
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: already down six to nothing. What happened to that whole
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: pitching advantage nonsense that we were discussing yesterday, Robert versus
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: George Kirby. We had the edge in that, but unfortunately
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: George did not bring his edge. Hi, chopper, that's into
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the outfield. That's gonna chase hold two more Yelich is
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: gonna score or Tease is gonna score.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: It. Kirby's afternoon has taken a drastic turn.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: And it's a lovely place to fame.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Trust me, I've been there, have plenty with you come
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: out and all of a sudden five runs have only
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: got the one out. With George Kirby, I feel like
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: any kind of contact they're making is fine in the outfield.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Somehow, I wasn't gonna rewatch this.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: No, you don't want to let me guess.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Was there a bluep hit at some point in the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: first inning and he just stopped being competitive?
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: He can go That's exactly what happened.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And this, honestly, I did not watch it. I wasn't
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: gonna go back and watch a six run inning on
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a Friday when I'm I'm struggling with insomnia and had
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: a chance.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: In fact that what I'm gonna do it This hit
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: that I just played Garrett Mitchell, he chopped it against
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the ground, It goes over Josh Naylor's head into the
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: outfield for a hit.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Well, that was already five to nothing right when I'm
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: asking is was there anything before that?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a couple of close ones. One goes
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: down the line barely stays fair.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Because that's the moo that is him. And we see
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: we've seen it with Wu a little bit on the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: road this year, even though I think he's a competitive dragon,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: maybe too much, but I think that was like some
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: psychological damage to Brian. He was like he goes in
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: every time like this is gonna work out this time.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Oh no, it's not. And then then the roof caves in,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and I think there's an issue there. Well, with George,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: this has been sort of his bugaboo. Yeah, and that
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: is if he has a little bit of bad luck,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: if a guy beats him on a pitch, he thinks
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: he shouldn't have beaten him on. Then the next thing
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: you know, he's not competitive right on the mound. And
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that's the only thing I could think of, Like, how
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: do you fall behind six to nothing with a talent
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: like George Kirby on the mound when we're supposed to
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: be operating in this time period of urgency. My guess
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: was that George fell into the same old condition. Yeah.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I think maybe it wasn't like full on, like oh
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: my God, bring me to triangle parachute ball or something
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: like that, but it was it was it was just contact,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Like there was the double down the line from Gary
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Sanchez to make it one zero, I believe was like
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: a foot from being foul, right something like that. And
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: it wasn't like smacked hard or anything like that. Wasn't
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: a full online drive. It was like a pretty like
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: halfway down the line.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: But there was a yeah, woe is me, Yes, look
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: at my crappy luck yep, oh man, he should Gary
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Sanchez should never get a hit off me. It's true
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: kind of mentality.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's kind of exactly the vibe that And
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: it was like, okay, well, game over.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: First inning.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: It does feel that way with this team. They did
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: come back, they did score twice in the second. They
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: scored twice more in the fourth. To George's credit, they
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: thought to the end, whatever conversation, Well, I don't think
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that whatever conversation was held with him between the first
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and the second inning, he dug a little deeper, kept
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: him in the ballgame. It was six to four. But
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: then you don't score another run. Chad Patrick is too
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: difficult to solve. Yeah, and so you don't score another run,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and you're within a bloop and a blast, and Dan
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Wilson puts Jonathan Diaz in the game, who had just
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: been activated. Garrett Mitchell hits a home run to make
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: it seven to four, and then that's pretty much all
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: she wrote. Mariners do lose to the Milwaukee Brewer seven
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to four. They do lose the series two games to one.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Here is Dan after the game. Well that's not Dan
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: after the game.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: But like, you know, this is a team that even
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: when you get to strikes, they're going to put some
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: you know, they're gonna make you work. And it just
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: seemed like we couldn't put put guys away there in
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: that first inning, and then they were able to find
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: barrels and and keep the line moving on George. And
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: you know, oftentimes we talk about it. You know, if
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: you can get to a guy in.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: The first inning, that's you know, when you want to
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: And you know, before I think George was able to,
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: you know, get settled in that they were able to
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: get to him. And I thought he, you know, to
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: be fair, I thought after that first inning, you know,
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: he did his best to give us as much as
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: he had today, which.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Was you know, which is what we needed.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: And but you know, the damage was done early and
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: we just weren't able to overcome it.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson after the game. Emerson Hancock starts tonight against
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs, who were in town for a weekend series.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: It'll be a seven to ten first pitch tonight. And
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: forgive me, I was previewing in my brain two different
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: games because we have the Kate Anderson start on Saturday.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Anderson will be facing the left hander David Peters. Tonight
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: will face left hander Matthew Boyd. Wrong lefty Chuck, Yeah exactly.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: But I mean at this stage, I mean it's pretty
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: clear teams are just like planning weeks in advance to
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: throw man. We are facing three left handers this weekend. Lovely, Yeah,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Boyd Peterson Emnaga.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and let's let's give Kate Anderson his debut against
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: the team that hits the lefties the best, by the way,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: in the Chicago Cups.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so yeah, themes have realized your weakness, yes,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: and they are attacking it with fervor. So Matthew Boyd,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: local product, former Mariner, will start for the for the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Cubs tonight. First pitch is at seven ten. We'll certainly
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: be talking more about this a little bit later on
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: in the program, including more on Kate Anderson, but coming
• 30:53
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• 31:36
  Speaker 1: o five to talk some Seahawks football from Nashville. He's
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: getting ready to go to the fights today, so we'll
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: talk to him about who he likes on the undercard.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Who's the main event? M Yeah, Yeah, it's gonna be great. Yeah,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: so well we have a knockout. Well, we have a knockout.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: We got anybody gonna go with the distance? Yeah, yeah,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: that'll be a great conversation with Greig at seven from
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: U six City. And I do I want to apologize
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: real quickly, not that I did anything terribly wrong, but
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I really I mean, we are all of the early
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: riser community that listen here in the six o'clock hour
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: that are part of this entire you know, extravaganza, if
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: you will, you the listeners, us the hosts. And I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: don't ever want to bring up sleep or lack thereof,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: because I know that you're having to get up early
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: out there as well, and I don't want to remind
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: you of that. So forgive me. It just was part
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: of the story. It was just part of the story
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to say that I've been battling insomnia when I didn't
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: want to go back and rewatch a sixth run inning
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: in the first inning yesterday. So that's fair forgive me
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: for that. But it did produce a very very great
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: comment on the text line. Somebody suggested, if you're struggling
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: with insomnia, make the best of it and start a
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: fight club.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Maybe the Seahawks. I want to join with the Titans.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Exactly. I don't want any of them there. Yeah, you're right.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I could just start a fight club. You know what,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I really do need to challenge myself. I think you're right. Yeah,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: it might be time for that, you know, take a
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: good beating or two. Maybe, once I've taken enough and
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: hardened my chin, I can hand a few out.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Bring in that, bring out that inner manhood, right right,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: right right.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe learn a few things about myself. Yeah, and material
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: goods and how they're not important.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, bring Brad Pitt on with you.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I what a great movie I've seen that?
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Oh god? Yeah, Well, don't say oh god, yeah you're
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: like this person. Oh no, I've never watched anything until
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I was fifteen.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I didn't mean oh god. Yeah, Like, why are
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: you even suggesting that? I was like, oh god, yeah,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: of course, Like that's a great movie.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Phenomenal movie. So yeah, maybe I will do that. And
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I think maybe Matt Culkins might want to fight me.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I know it has nothing to do with it, but
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: isn't it strange that he makes new who was yesterday
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: stepping down when the day before, for the first time ever,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I called him out by name to criticize one of
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: his columns. I had never done that before, never called
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: him out by name, and so I do it. And
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: it was the one that he wrote about the Mariners
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and comparing them to the Brewers. And then the very
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: next day he resigns, and it did kind of cross
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: my mind. I'm like, oh gosh, did he take that
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: really hard? Did I have anything to do with that?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: And turns out, of course, it didn't have anything to
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: do with that. He took a stand. He took a stand,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and this doesn't have to be a political conversation that
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: we're having When I say, hey, man, do I admire
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: that that somebody has just decided I'm not getting to
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: write what I want to write. I'm being stopped from
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: doing that. I feel like, you know, I'm being you know,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the word puppet has come up a lot here this
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: baseball season. I don't want to be handled like a puppet.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I'm a journalist. I want to be able to write
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the columns that I want to write. And so, I mean,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: if you think that it's not scary to just walk
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: away from a pretty good job and a pretty good
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: market with no promise of what's coming next. I mean,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: that's terrifying, and I love that he admitted that yesterday
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: that it is terrifying. And yet, if I'm not going
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: to do this now for myself and what I want
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: to do with the rest, when am I going to
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: do it? And so you know, all political stuff, whether
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: he's right or whether he's wrong. I'm not even going
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: to get into that conversation about what it was that
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: he wanted to write about and got shot down about.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I'll leave that for others to haggle over. I only
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: got a minute left, and I'm not going to start
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: that thirty eight day conversation. I will just say, just
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: from the standpoint of we've seen it before here in
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: a couple of instances here in the last year, where
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  Speaker 1: just somebody just drew a line in the sand. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to be treated that way. And I'll roll
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  Speaker 1: the dice and I'll see what comes next. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: not just gonna keep taking the paycheck when I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe in the way that I'm being allowed to produce
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  Speaker 1: the product. So I give him all the credit in
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  Speaker 1: the world. And despite my criticism of his one column
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  Speaker 1: right earlier this week, I like Matt a lot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done a good job here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: I know that the staff over there likes Matt a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He's part of a brotherhood over there with the local newspaper,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'll just say I wish him the best.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know where it's gonna take you either, Bud,
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  Speaker 1: but I hope it's in a good place.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know Matt personally, so I can't speak to
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  Speaker 2: the personal relationship side of things. But everything I've been
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  Speaker 2: told from people in the business is he's a great dude.
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  Speaker 2: I listened to the interview with him in Softy in
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  Speaker 2: Dicky yesterday and it was awesome to hear from him.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, and I totally agree with you, like
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  Speaker 2: wherever you stand on the actual issue. The quote is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got to stand for something or you'll
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  Speaker 2: fall for anything, right, So I agree that. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you feel like that, especially in journalism, right, it's
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  Speaker 2: one thing to you know, in another line of work.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to give an example, but if you
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  Speaker 2: feel like you're you're just kind of a shrew or
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  Speaker 2: a puppet like, so to speak. And but it's you're
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  Speaker 2: you're collecting a paycheck and you're not affecting someone else journalism,
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  Speaker 2: you are like reporting to the world or you're giving
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  Speaker 2: your opinions to the public, right And that's where it
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  Speaker 2: feels like, Hey, if I'm not allowed to do that,
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  Speaker 2: do my job in the right way. I need to
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  Speaker 2: find a place where that will be the case. So
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  Speaker 2: good for him, and you're right, it is scary, just
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  Speaker 2: kind of jumping off ship for not knowing what's coming next.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the good news the good news for mad as
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  Speaker 1: he will continue to be a ladies man in Bellevue.
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  Speaker 1: The bowflex that he purchased a few years ago is
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