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Chuck & Buck 5-22 Hour 2: Headlines and the Great Roster Remodel, The Inevitables and Sup with you? · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see. I say search see hurricane.
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Speaker 2: Ski very excited.
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Speaker 1: He totally mispronounced everything.
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Speaker 2: The loser went on to their X page to just
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Speaker 2: look for a highlight. They're all in French.
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Speaker 1: Kind of broadcaster mispronounces every word.
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Speaker 2: You kind of said hurricanes correctly, but it was a
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Speaker 2: little off, a little off.
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Speaker 1: Kind of said it with a fancy air about him.
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Speaker 1: That r It's Chuck and Ashley with you. Happy Friday
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Speaker 1: to you all. Yes, that from Montreal Canadians television. Last
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Speaker 1: night as the Canadians, the Habs won six to two
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Speaker 1: over the rusted solid Carolina Hurricanes, who hadn't played in
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Speaker 1: eleven games. They lost their first playoff game and three
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Speaker 1: series last night to start the Eastern Conference Finals. Six
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Speaker 1: to two was the final score tonight Las Vegas at Colorado.
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Speaker 1: Colorado was a bit rusty too. They lost to the
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Speaker 1: Golden Knights in game number one. So they'll play game
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Speaker 1: number two tonight. Is it a must win? Can Colorado
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Speaker 1: afford to lose both games at home to start this series?
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Speaker 1: Some might say that, so they'll get started tonight f
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Speaker 1: five thirty in the National Hockey League. That starts our
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Speaker 1: frost brewed Corse like choose Chill headlines the NBA Playoffs.
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Speaker 1: The New York Knicks were sixteen point winners over the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers. They won nine straight playoff games, believe it
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Speaker 1: or not, and they will play game number three on
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Speaker 1: Saturday tonight. Ok See at San Antonio for the first time.
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Speaker 1: The Spurs and the Thunder are even at one game
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Speaker 1: apiece tips at five thirty there. For San Antonio, they
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Speaker 1: look like going to be without Dylan Harper and Deer
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Speaker 1: and Fox and Oklahoma City looks like they're going to
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Speaker 1: be without Jalen Williams and so Man limping through the
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Speaker 1: playoffs the two best teams in the West. They'll play
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Speaker 1: game number two or three tonight. I should say, have
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Speaker 1: I been saying game number two all day? Obviously that's
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Speaker 1: game number three.
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Speaker 2: I hadn't heard of that, so, but maybe I also
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Speaker 2: wasn't paying enough attention to the number. I think you've
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Speaker 2: been all right.
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Speaker 1: Storm versus Sun at seven o'clock tonight. They've faced each
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Speaker 1: other for the second time this week, and both times
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Speaker 1: in Seattle. The Sun won earlier this week, so the
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Speaker 1: Storm around for their.
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Speaker 2: Reverge revenge game. It's been the long two days if
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Speaker 2: they've had to live with that loss.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Sounders Sunday this weekend, they'll be in Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles taking on LAFC and they've chosen it as the
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Speaker 1: national game to broadcast on Fox six point fifteen. They'll
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Speaker 1: start that on the pitch in Los Angeles. Sad news
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Speaker 1: from the NASCAR Worldyle Busch stunningly passed away yesterday at
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Speaker 1: the age of forty one. He had not been feeling
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Speaker 1: well as of late. He had recently raced even though
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Speaker 1: he had a bit of a sounds like a sinus infection.
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Speaker 1: He was taking some medication as well. There is some
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Speaker 1: thought that maybe he'd been dealing with a ongoing issue
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Speaker 1: to his health, but keept trying to drive through it. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: By the time he got to the hospital, they were
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Speaker 1: describing as as a serious assume me a severe illness,
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Speaker 1: and unfortunately he did not make it through. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just a shocking thing for the entire NASCAR world.
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Speaker 1: So at age forty one, one of the biggest names
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Speaker 1: in the sport, still very active in the sport, left
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Speaker 1: us yesterday. We'll talk a little bit about it later
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Speaker 1: on in the show. Mariners Have the Day off. They
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Speaker 1: will be in Kansas City tonight. First pitch there is
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Speaker 1: at for forty. It'll be left hander Noah Cameron. That
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Speaker 1: should not make us like tremor, but it does.
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Speaker 2: It does. Yeah, it could have been left hander Taylor Brown.
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Speaker 2: She's in Palmer's Little League. Oh well, then I think
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Speaker 2: the Mariners would still be scared.
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Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert will start for the MS tonight, first pitches
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Speaker 1: at four forty. The Kansas City Royals limping into this series,
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Speaker 1: the Mariners hopefully getting going with two out of three
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Speaker 1: against the Chicago White Sox. We shall see, and of
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Speaker 1: course we don't know what position JP Crawford will be
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Speaker 1: playing tonight, if at all, but we'll find out probably
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Speaker 1: around one thirty today when the lineup comes out for
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Speaker 1: the first game of this series in Kansas City. Also
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Speaker 1: should mention Matt Stafford an extension. We'll talk more about
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Speaker 1: that in the Oat Show at eight o'clock. But Stafford
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Speaker 1: signs a one year, fifty five million dollar extension with
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Speaker 1: the Rams, So we're gonna have to deal with the
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Speaker 1: reigning MVP of the National Football League for at least
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Speaker 1: two more seasons, it sounds like, and then they'll hand
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Speaker 1: things over to Simpson, their first round draft pick, who
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Speaker 1: I'm still convinced Sean McVay hates perfect.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how. It just all of a
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Speaker 2: sudden changes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Didn't seem like he was thrilled.
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Speaker 1: for your shot at one thousand dollars. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about the Mariners, because some men, you don't quite
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Speaker 1: see this much of a reshuffling. I mean, a team
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Speaker 1: that starts the season as American League favorites in a
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Speaker 1: lot of circles, certainly American League West favorites. We knew
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Speaker 1: that they had some players up and coming through the
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Speaker 1: system that could impact the twenty twenty sixth season. We
5:44
Speaker 1: were also aware that, hey, there might be a couple
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Speaker 1: of guys this year that could have some breakthrough years.
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Speaker 1: And we've gotten that, and yet it hasn't really positively
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Speaker 1: affected the record. We're sitting here at three games under
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Speaker 1: five hundred in a head scratching fashion, but it is
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Speaker 1: affecting roster decisions. And so here we sit two months,
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Speaker 1: nearly two months into the year, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: we're looking at some real major changes to this roster.
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Speaker 1: I mean it is like Ty Pennington came in here
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Speaker 1: or Gordon Ramsey.
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Speaker 2: A big truck in front, and then they pulled it away. Yeah, Like,
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Speaker 2: look at this new lineup.
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Speaker 1: Came in here with their crew and like, I don't
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Speaker 1: like that over there. I mean, I don't like the menu.
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Speaker 1: You know, we're going to shorten that menu. I don't
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Speaker 1: like what you've done with this crawl space. You know,
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Speaker 1: the Mariners have self diagnosed their roster two months into
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Speaker 1: the season, and they have already made some major changes
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Speaker 1: to it, and there could be more major changes to come.
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Speaker 1: But for a team that believed they had it's their
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Speaker 1: best roster they've ever assembled, their best chance for a
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Speaker 1: World Series since taking over a decade ago, And to
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Speaker 1: have kind of decided two months in the year, a
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Speaker 1: third of the way into the season because Memorial Day,
7:02
Speaker 1: it's Memorial Day weekend, and you know what they say
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Speaker 1: about Memorial Day weekend in baseball. If you're not a
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Speaker 1: contender by Memorial Day weekend, more often than not, you're
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Speaker 1: not a contender. And even though our record doesn't suggest
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Speaker 1: we're a contender. We're very much in the race both
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Speaker 1: for wild card and for division at this stage. So
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Speaker 1: we're a contender no matter how poorly we've played. And
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Speaker 1: yet some really profound decisions have been made about this
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Speaker 1: roster two months into the year, and when you kind
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Speaker 1: of step back from it, you wonder just how much
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Speaker 1: different it's going to look going forward. But let's just
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Speaker 1: take the decision on Sunday that cold Emerson's being called up.
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Speaker 1: That is a major move. I mean, we knew it
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Speaker 1: was going to happen, but cold Emerson wasn't exactly dominating
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Speaker 1: Triple A this year as an offensive player slick as
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Speaker 1: could be on the defensive side of the ball, and
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Speaker 1: they just felt this entire offseason he's just one of
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Speaker 1: those special players. He's just ahead of the of the curb.
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Speaker 1: And so when we had the Brendan Donovan injury and
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Speaker 1: the decision that was made, you know what, let's get
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Speaker 1: him right. He's going to be on the shelf probably
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Speaker 1: for more than ten days, and it's time to activate
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Speaker 1: cold Emerson. We gave him a shot of making the
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Speaker 1: team in spring, and now, even though he's not killing
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Speaker 1: it in Tacoma, he is not embarrassing himself either. He
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Speaker 1: looks like he belongs and we just have belief in
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Speaker 1: this young man and what he's made of. So the
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Speaker 1: activation on Sunday didn't want Leo Revos to be playing
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Speaker 1: third base every day anymore. And I get it. I
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Speaker 1: was sick of watching that too.
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Speaker 2: We're real sick of that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, But even that Revos is no longer on this roster,
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Speaker 1: and who knows if or when he's going to get
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Speaker 1: his utility job back now that we've made this move,
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Speaker 1: because think about what kind of impact it's had. First
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Speaker 1: of all, we thought cold Emerson was being brought up
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Speaker 1: to play third base, and then we find out three
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Speaker 1: days later, Nope, he's going to play shortstop. JP has
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Speaker 1: volunteered to move to third base. But that's Brendan Donovan's job, right, Well,
9:17
Speaker 1: maybe it's not anymore when Brendan Donovan comes back because
9:21
Speaker 1: of the injuries he's dealt with and he wasn't exactly
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Speaker 1: Brooks Robinson over there at third base. Maybe the Mariners
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Speaker 1: two months into the year are going to change the way.
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Speaker 1: If JP Crawford can embrace and excel in any way,
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Speaker 1: let's not say excel, embrace and hold down third base
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Speaker 1: if he's if he can make that transition and it
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Speaker 1: can be smoother than not, because he's not going to
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Speaker 1: excel over there, but he might be proficient at playing
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Speaker 1: third base if he can do that, and they want
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Speaker 1: to keep his bat in his lineup and they want
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Speaker 1: to keep his leadership. Now you've got a better defensive
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Speaker 1: shortstop who probably is going to struggle offensively. Almost all
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Speaker 1: of them do at age twenty coming into the league.
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Speaker 1: Very few of them hit the ground running at that point,
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Speaker 1: So he's probably gonna struggle defensively or offensively. But as
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Speaker 1: long as he can hold it down defensively, I think
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Speaker 1: the organization's going to view that as an upgrade. And
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Speaker 1: then if JP moves to third and you're a little
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Speaker 1: worried about Brendan Donovan being able to with the types
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Speaker 1: of injuries that he has. I mean we're talking groin
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Speaker 1: and core and hip and all sorts of things that
10:35
Speaker 1: he jarred on that base pads hernia surgery, not hip
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Speaker 1: hernia hernia surgery. In the offseason. Maybe maybe when he
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Speaker 1: does come off the injury list, there will be this
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Speaker 1: feeling of he's not going to be an everyday player
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Speaker 1: for us. He wasn't really much more than a platoon
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Speaker 1: player and utility player for the Saint Louis Cardinals, and
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Speaker 1: the Mariners fell him with him, and we came pretty
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Speaker 1: close to doing it. We just haven't gotten to see
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Speaker 1: him enough on the field because of all of his injuries.
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Speaker 1: But if he comes back and JP's doing all right
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Speaker 1: at third base, maybe better than what Donovan was at
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Speaker 1: third base, I would love that. Would the Mariners then entertain, Well,
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Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan now can become our super utility player and
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Speaker 1: he plays more often than not, but it does free
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Speaker 1: us up to not have to play him every day,
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Speaker 1: which could possibly rest him. We could also use him
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Speaker 1: at the corner outfield. We could use him for a
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Speaker 1: day off for Cole Young and until we do something
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Speaker 1: at the trading deadline, prime candidate that could be our
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Speaker 1: DH every day, and you want to talk about something
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Speaker 1: that might be able to preserve him, so you move
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Speaker 1: him around the field, give guys rest, and maybe that's
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Speaker 1: what Brendan Donovan I mean. There's a utility player that
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Speaker 1: was what Leo Revas was supposed to be, and then
11:55
Speaker 1: there's a super utility player, which Ben Zobras sort of
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Speaker 1: started and that means they play pretty much every day,
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Speaker 1: they just might not play the same position every day.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I'm talking about with Donovan. I'm not
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Speaker 1: talking about turning him into Leo Revos, but maybe he
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Speaker 1: becomes the ben Zobrist on this team, which is a
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Speaker 1: really valuable asset.
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Speaker 2: Well, and if he's already had success doing that in
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Speaker 2: Saint Louis, I mean why not. It sounds like that
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Speaker 2: might be where he flourishes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if JP stumbles upon success at third and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're getting Donovan back. Okay, Now we
12:27
Speaker 1: can play him at third, and we can play him
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Speaker 1: at second, and we can play him corner outfield, and
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Speaker 1: we can d h him. We'll keep him in the
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Speaker 1: lineup frequently. But maybe it's just not playing third base
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Speaker 1: every day, and maybe that's an asset to this team.
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Speaker 1: So then that takes Revos off because now, all of
12:42
Speaker 1: a sudden, I've got a shortstop that can play shortstop
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Speaker 1: in third, I can play a third baseman. I got
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Speaker 1: a third baseman now that can play third base in
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Speaker 1: short I got a super utility player that I can
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Speaker 1: use at any given day at about seven different positions.
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Speaker 1: And even Cole Young can still So what need do
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Speaker 1: I even have for you, utility player? I don't even
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Speaker 1: have need for Leo Revas anymore. Yeah, so I don't
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Speaker 1: even need to bring him back. I don't need to
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Speaker 1: call him up. I can maybe keep a Patrick Wisdom
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Speaker 1: on the roster so that I've got some big threat
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Speaker 1: coming off the bench. So that's a possibility. So that's
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Speaker 1: a change already. That's another change. That's already four changes
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Speaker 1: we've talked about and we're not.
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Speaker 2: Even to June goodness yet.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I think maybe Johnny Pareda as much as
13:29
Speaker 1: Cal fought to get Mitch Garver back. I like what
13:32
Speaker 1: I see out of Johnny Pareda. I think he is
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Speaker 1: just seamlessly transitioned into this backup catcher role.
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Speaker 2: Seems like it.
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Speaker 1: He seems to make more contact than what Mitch does.
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Speaker 1: And Mitch has a reputation of being a far better
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Speaker 1: power hitter and a far better masher of lefties. But
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Speaker 1: we just haven't seen it. We just have not seen it.
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Speaker 1: This is three years of waiting for this and it's
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Speaker 1: just not there. And Mitch has a great relationship with
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Speaker 1: the pitchers, and they don't seem to struggle at all.
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Speaker 1: When he's behind the plate with their stuff, I think
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Speaker 1: they really trust him. But Parada seems to have already
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Speaker 1: won that trust in a week and a half. And
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Speaker 1: I love his energy. I think it's infectious. And I
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Speaker 1: don't dislike the idea of having Mitch Garver on the roster.
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Speaker 1: But when Cal comes back, we might have a different
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Speaker 1: backup catcher. Johnny Parada might take over this job. Now
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Speaker 1: he's got options. I believe where Mitch Garver would, you
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Speaker 1: would be just getting rid of him. But I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's out of the realm of possibility. And then
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Speaker 1: we still have right fielders and dhs. We have two
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Speaker 1: right handed hitters that can't hit lefties, Ref Schneider and Joe,
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Speaker 1: and I do believe they are going to give those
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Speaker 1: guys more time to prove themselves. I think it has
14:49
Speaker 1: been a short sample size, but it's getting longer and
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Speaker 1: we still don't get production out of Ref Snyder and
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Speaker 1: I think Joe's been slightly better. But let's face it,
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Speaker 1: bring Connor Joe in here to be a big roster
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Speaker 1: piece that was just a veteran in case some things
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Speaker 1: went sideways, which they did. But Victor Roblaze is about
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Speaker 1: ready to return from Tacoma. He's like right on the
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Speaker 1: lip of being ready to come back to this team.
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Speaker 1: And Brennan Davis is hitting four hundred and forty foot
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Speaker 1: home runs in the Pacific Coast League over the batter's
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Speaker 1: eye and dead center field. Maybe Brennan Davis, it's time
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Speaker 1: to activate him. You had to activate him because of
15:28
Speaker 1: a clause in his contract to the forty man roster,
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Speaker 1: so he's on the forty man roster, and I don't
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Speaker 1: think he can be too far away from being activated
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Speaker 1: on this team. They're gonna give ref Sneider a lot
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Speaker 1: longer look when Roeblaze comes back. I'm sure Connor Joe's
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Speaker 1: the guy that goes out, but I gotta believe that
15:50
Speaker 1: ref Sneyder doesn't have too much longer to get it going.
15:53
Speaker 1: When I've got Brennan Davis, a younger, stronger, faster, more
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Speaker 1: athletic outfielder who's killing the ball and Tacoma and was
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Speaker 1: killing the ball and spring training, I gotta believe he's
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Speaker 1: not too far away from taking ref Snyder's job. So
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Speaker 1: that would be two more roster maneuvers, and one of
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Speaker 1: those two would be significant.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And it is, yeah, very hard to sit
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Speaker 2: there and make a case for Rob Refsneider to stay
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Speaker 2: here with what's been going on and nothing against him,
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Speaker 2: but I you know, I thought maybe or a lot
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Speaker 2: against him, well, I mean personally, nothing against him personally, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but you know, you had we had a moment where
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Speaker 2: we thought, Okay, now he's out of his slump. He
16:37
Speaker 2: talked about his struggles, and nothing other than a couple
16:42
Speaker 2: hits here and there has happened.
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Speaker 1: And he's admitted to he's mentally messed up right now,
16:48
Speaker 1: and and we thought maybe he pushed through that, and
16:51
Speaker 1: right now he's right back in a slump and looks
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Speaker 1: defeated again. And I'm rooting for him. And I don't
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Speaker 1: blame Jerry or Job at all, and neither should you.
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Speaker 1: Listening that that was not a bad decision in the offseason.
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Speaker 1: The Boston Red Sox fans were weeping when Rob Rethschneider
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Speaker 1: got away from them this offseason. Well, he's been really
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Speaker 1: good lately. He's a good teammate, and he's proven it's
17:17
Speaker 1: a lot better defensive player than he gives credit. He's
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Speaker 1: given credit for as well, So it was not a
17:22
Speaker 1: bad decision. But for whatever reason, it's one of the
17:25
Speaker 1: great mysteries of the world.
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Speaker 2: Why it keeps happening.
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Speaker 1: That whenever guys that dominate left handed hitters or pitchers
17:32
Speaker 1: come to Seattle, they stink.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why.
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Speaker 2: And anyone who would be blaming Jerry or Justin for
17:37
Speaker 2: that would only be doing it in hindsight, because I'm sure,
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Speaker 2: pretty sure most people were really positive about that move
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Speaker 2: when they added him.
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Speaker 1: They were. It's very similar to the Aj Pollock move,
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Speaker 1: which people hated, right, But that just shows you what
17:50
Speaker 1: happens when you come off nearly going to the World Series,
17:53
Speaker 1: people are a little more open minded yeah about things.
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Speaker 1: And then pitching wise, again, Emerson Hancock has forced some
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Speaker 1: thing here that maybe the organization kind of hoped would occur. Certainly,
18:06
Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock was creating some buzz in spring training, Pete
18:09
Speaker 1: Woodworth told me on air, and then more off air,
18:13
Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock looks fantastic. So I knew that Emerson had
18:19
Speaker 1: taken a new step in his development, but until you
18:23
Speaker 1: actually see it in games, you can't believe it. And
18:26
Speaker 1: now we've seen it in games, and so now think
18:28
Speaker 1: about that in two months time, Emerson Hancock feels like
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Speaker 1: a fixture. And what do we do with Luis Castillo
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Speaker 1: is the question right now? Do we have a relief pitcher,
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Speaker 1: a twenty four million dollars per year relief pitcher on
18:41
Speaker 1: our hands in Luis Castillo? Can he still be the
18:43
Speaker 1: leader of the pitchers if he's coming out of the bullpen.
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Speaker 1: So that's a significant move. Farrer has looked real out
18:50
Speaker 1: of the bullpen. But we nearly have that solved, all
18:54
Speaker 1: things being weak equal, everybody's healthy. A bullpen of munios Farrer, Brash,
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Speaker 1: the Zardo spire and Chriswell and potentially Castillo, who I
19:04
Speaker 1: love the way he looked in the seventh inning a
19:06
Speaker 1: couple of nights ago. I mean that is that's a
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Speaker 1: bullpen right there, that is deep, and that is lights
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Speaker 1: out from the seventh inning on bullpen right there, and
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Speaker 1: who knows what Castillo could add to that. So just significant,
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Speaker 1: significant changes. And that doesn't even take into account what
19:26
Speaker 1: you might do with the trading deadline this year. And
19:30
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you right now, I'm already on
19:31
Speaker 1: the go get Byron Buxton bandwagon, because if we continue
19:35
Speaker 1: down this road of just not being able to hit
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Speaker 1: left handers. What do you think we're going to see
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs?
19:40
Speaker 2: Probably a lot of left handers.
19:41
Speaker 1: They're going to build their rosters, they're going to build
19:44
Speaker 1: their rotations in the playoffs to throw as many lefties
19:47
Speaker 1: as us at us as possible. We have got to
19:50
Speaker 1: if we don't prove it with who we have that
19:52
Speaker 1: we can hit lefties, then we're going to have no
19:55
Speaker 1: choice but to go acquire somebody at the deadline that
19:59
Speaker 1: is a little more proven, and not just against left
20:01
Speaker 1: handers but overall. And I like, I've got Byron Buxton
20:04
Speaker 1: on my radar, and then that shakes up the roster
20:07
Speaker 1: as well, because then where do you put him. So
20:10
Speaker 1: it's it's been a heck of a remodel already. I mean,
20:13
Speaker 1: it's like buying a brand new house and you're sure
20:15
Speaker 1: you love it, and then you've been around that neighbor
20:18
Speaker 1: two months later, it's six months of reconstruction, Like, why
20:21
Speaker 1: did you buy that house if you didn't love it
20:24
Speaker 1: the way that it was. No, we just had a
20:26
Speaker 1: real problem with you know, the basement.
20:29
Speaker 2: With the everything.
20:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so it's been a bit of a tide
20:33
Speaker 1: Pennington situation that the Mariners have undergone and I didn't
20:37
Speaker 1: think we would see that much roster upheaval two months
20:40
Speaker 1: into the year. But I think it's the right path.
20:43
Speaker 1: I think we're heading in the right direction to making
20:45
Speaker 1: this a better team, and the moves are certainly not
20:49
Speaker 1: done at this stage. All right, coming down next, we
20:52
Speaker 1: will discuss the inevitables. No, not the incredibles. Yeah, I'd
20:56
Speaker 1: like to talk about that cartoon as a really good way,
20:59
Speaker 1: but no, this is the inevitables, a topic that I
21:01
Speaker 1: brought up yesterday and we really didn't get to flush
21:04
Speaker 1: it out, especially some of your suggestions. So the inevitable
21:08
Speaker 1: things that are going to happen to our sports lives
21:10
Speaker 1: in the future. We'll go ahead and go through those
21:13
Speaker 1: next on KJR. Hey, great Friday morning to you. Hey,
21:31
Speaker 1: June fourths, gonna be here before you know it. Maybe
21:33
Speaker 1: you want to get me something? Oh? Is that?
21:37
Speaker 2: Are we supposed to force something special for you?
21:41
Speaker 1: It is my birthday, is it? Yeah? So if you
21:44
Speaker 1: wanted to like give me a nice gift or something.
21:47
Speaker 2: Okay, if we were getting me a gift, what would
21:49
Speaker 2: you like?
21:50
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not gonna be picky about it,
21:54
Speaker 1: but I like.
21:55
Speaker 2: Pants, Okay, like a pair or just like one.
21:58
Speaker 1: Leg, probably a pair of legs, a pair of legs
22:02
Speaker 1: into one full.
22:03
Speaker 2: One whole pants.
22:04
Speaker 1: Yeah.
22:05
Speaker 2: Okay, Well I am on a budget, but I'll see
22:06
Speaker 2: what I can do.
22:07
Speaker 1: Well, if your team with a listener, that's true, you
22:09
Speaker 1: go in havesis each pay for one leg? Yeah, each
22:13
Speaker 1: pay for one leg?
22:14
Speaker 2: And okay the listener has to pay for the butt. Okay,
22:17
Speaker 2: I'm only paying for one leg.
22:18
Speaker 1: That's fine. Yeah, I'm just saying I think of your
22:21
Speaker 1: old boy on June fourth. Don't get off don't get
22:25
Speaker 1: caught off guard.
22:26
Speaker 2: Okay, what I'm saying about something in your calendar.
22:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want you to feel bad you didn't
22:30
Speaker 1: get me anything for my birthday. But maybe we'll give
22:33
Speaker 1: you something for my birthday. And that is tickets to
22:37
Speaker 1: see Colin Ray at the Talala p Resort Casino. He's
22:40
Speaker 1: coming country music star on June fourth. He will be
22:44
Speaker 1: playing at the Orca Ballroom, and we got a pair
22:47
Speaker 1: of tickets to give away. Here's what we're gonna do.
22:49
Speaker 1: We're just gonna four nine, four to five, won it?
22:51
Speaker 1: So just send us a text saying you're interested, that
22:54
Speaker 1: you're free to go, and then you like to have
22:56
Speaker 1: a pair of tickets to see Colin Ray. And and
23:00
Speaker 1: then I don't know how many were going to get,
23:02
Speaker 1: but we'll just grab somebody at random before the end
23:04
Speaker 1: of the show today, and that person's gonna win them
23:07
Speaker 1: selves some tickets to see Colin Ray and the two
23:10
Speaker 1: of you, you and Colin can just get drunk celebrating
23:13
Speaker 1: my birthday.
23:14
Speaker 2: That's right, dream come true. Country music star Colin Ray
23:17
Speaker 2: and Chuck Powell's birthday.
23:19
Speaker 1: Hey, maybe I'll show up with my new pant.
23:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you will. Yeah, we should be so lucky.
23:26
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about something that I brought up yesterday,
23:30
Speaker 1: the inevitables. We didn't get to a lot of your
23:33
Speaker 1: suggestions yesterday, and I still had some others to get to. Obviously,
23:37
Speaker 1: in the sports world, we realized here recently that college
23:41
Speaker 1: basketball's tournament expanding was inevitable, even though none of us
23:45
Speaker 1: want it except the NCAA apparently, and the conferences. Nobody
23:50
Speaker 1: else wants it. Just the money grubbers want it, but
23:53
Speaker 1: nobody that actually loves basketball and integrity wants it. We
23:57
Speaker 1: also don't want the college Football Playoff to it expand.
24:00
Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty across the board feeling amongst
24:04
Speaker 1: football fans. We're just getting used to having a college
24:06
Speaker 1: football tournament. We haven't even got to know it yet.
24:09
Speaker 1: I haven't even slept with it yet, and yet we're
24:12
Speaker 1: supposed to marry ourselves to an expanded family of college
24:16
Speaker 1: football Committee people or participants. Yeah, it just feels feels unnecessary,
24:23
Speaker 1: and yet it feels also inevitable. So we were going
24:27
Speaker 1: to take some other suggestions from you. We didn't get
24:30
Speaker 1: to a lot more because of time, and we don't
24:33
Speaker 1: have a lot of it right now either, frankly. But
24:36
Speaker 1: one was the MLB lockout looks like inevitable that I
24:40
Speaker 1: brought up was also brought up by another Texter as well.
24:44
Speaker 1: And the MLB lockout, I do think is inevitable. How
24:47
Speaker 1: ugly it gets, I'm not sure. I do believe that
24:51
Speaker 1: the MLB is really determined to end up with a
24:55
Speaker 1: salary cap out of this, and I think that the
24:58
Speaker 1: Players Association is real determined never to lose to Rob
25:02
Speaker 1: Manford in a negotiation. So how this maps out, I
25:06
Speaker 1: don't know, but I think we're in store for in
25:10
Speaker 1: the very near future living without baseball next season for
25:14
Speaker 1: a stretch of time, and that stinks. But every once
25:19
Speaker 1: in a while, yes, you got to do this. It's
25:21
Speaker 1: got to get that serious. And I would just say
25:23
Speaker 1: just quickly and then try to get to some other suggestions.
25:26
Speaker 1: I do believe it's a little bit different. I don't
25:28
Speaker 1: think this is going to be the typical money grab.
25:30
Speaker 1: I don't think that's necessarily where the league is coming from,
25:33
Speaker 1: even though there's certainly something to that. I'm not naive,
25:38
Speaker 1: but usually it's for the pieces of the pie. And
25:42
Speaker 1: there's no way that the owners can beat the players
25:47
Speaker 1: because they can lock them all out for a season.
25:49
Speaker 1: Who cares. Once upon a time, there are a few
25:52
Speaker 1: guys in the league, a lot of guys in the
25:53
Speaker 1: league that actually lived paycheck to paycheck. None of them
25:57
Speaker 1: do anymore. Yeah, I mean, the last guy on the
26:00
Speaker 1: roster makes a million dollars a year.
26:02
Speaker 2: That'd be nice.
26:03
Speaker 1: Nobody is struggling for money. They can all sit it out.
26:06
Speaker 1: And as I said yesterday, if there are a couple
26:08
Speaker 1: of struggling then you know, Mike Trout and Aaron Judge
26:12
Speaker 1: just get together and give the guy a loaner until
26:14
Speaker 1: they get back on their feet again. So they're not
26:18
Speaker 1: gonna win some sort of battle for a money grab.
26:22
Speaker 1: Where they're gonna come from with this, and I don't
26:24
Speaker 1: know if it'll work, probably won't. What they're gonna come
26:28
Speaker 1: at them with is, Look, this is about the future
26:30
Speaker 1: of the league. This is about us making the league healthier.
26:35
Speaker 1: The NFL and the NBA both have salary caps, and
26:39
Speaker 1: their fans don't sit around ninety percent of their fans
26:42
Speaker 1: of their sport don't sit around saying the league's unfair.
26:45
Speaker 1: We have no chance because whoever spends the most money wins.
26:49
Speaker 1: Even though that's not true, and we all know that
26:51
Speaker 1: it's not true, they still most baseball fans, most baseball
26:57
Speaker 1: fans think that the that we don't have a chance
27:00
Speaker 1: because we don't get to spend like the Dodgers and
27:03
Speaker 1: the Yankees. And that's the pitch from Rob Manford convincing
27:07
Speaker 1: them that for the betterment of the league, for the
27:10
Speaker 1: health of the league, for the growth of the league,
27:12
Speaker 1: it would be nice if eighty five percent of our
27:16
Speaker 1: fans didn't think that their favorite team didn't have a
27:19
Speaker 1: chance to win the World Series. You realize how much
27:22
Speaker 1: healthier the sport would become, how much more robust our
27:25
Speaker 1: national ratings would become if if we had that at
27:29
Speaker 1: our disposal like the NFL does. And so I think
27:32
Speaker 1: it's a lot more about that, and I don't think
27:34
Speaker 1: I'm being naive about it than it is just a
27:37
Speaker 1: money grab and fighting over percentage of the pie. I
27:39
Speaker 1: think it's about the health of the league. That's what's
27:41
Speaker 1: at stake right now. Anyway, do we have any other suggestions?
27:44
Speaker 2: Well, I was going to say on that note, we
27:46
Speaker 2: did get a text from the four two five that
27:47
Speaker 2: said I didn't go back to baseball for years after
27:49
Speaker 2: the first strike, and I might not go back after
27:51
Speaker 2: this upcoming one. So I mean they do run that risk,
27:54
Speaker 2: but sure eventually, sure people forget, I guess or forgive. Okay,
27:59
Speaker 2: so we have from the four to one zero. I
28:03
Speaker 2: think that NC two A Football will eventually break away
28:06
Speaker 2: from their NC two A body and form their own
28:08
Speaker 2: governing body that essentially acts as a semi pro league
28:10
Speaker 2: that buys affiliation with schools. I think I've heard you
28:13
Speaker 2: say sometheople.
28:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's been a reckless at breakfast in that past. Yeah,
28:17
Speaker 1: I don't rule it out. I'll put it that way.
28:19
Speaker 1: I mean, it's reckless of breakfast for a reason, I mean,
28:21
Speaker 1: being admittedly reckless with it. But yeah, I think that
28:24
Speaker 1: that's eventually where it's going to go. Doesn't mean it
28:27
Speaker 1: has to. And I'll tell you this, the fact that
28:29
Speaker 1: we have inil and there are millionaires playing college football
28:32
Speaker 1: is going to actually help college football a lot from
28:35
Speaker 1: becoming that. But it might be an inevitability. I'm with you.
28:39
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Texter, Okay, all right?
28:41
Speaker 2: From the four two five, I believe it is inevitable
28:43
Speaker 2: that more professional franchises will relocate in the future. Look
28:46
Speaker 2: at the mess down in Portland. Is that owner grandstanding
28:49
Speaker 2: just to get a new arena built or is the
28:51
Speaker 2: long term game to move that team perhaps with the
28:53
Speaker 2: unspoken blessing of the NBA.
28:55
Speaker 1: Well, it's inevitable we're going to have relocation, probably in
28:59
Speaker 1: every single But is that all that different from the
29:02
Speaker 1: way it's been in the past. No, are you suggesting
29:05
Speaker 1: we're going to see more of it? Yeah, he said,
29:07
Speaker 1: I think it's professional franchises will make well more meaning
29:11
Speaker 1: additional or more than usual.
29:14
Speaker 2: That's a great question.
29:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we are going to have more And I
29:17
Speaker 1: do think Portland's going to move, and I do think
29:19
Speaker 1: Memphis is going to move from the NBA alone, and
29:23
Speaker 1: if Tampa doesn't get a new stadium, they're going to
29:25
Speaker 1: eventually move because there are a lot of cities lining
29:28
Speaker 1: up to get baseball franchises right now, probably waiting for
29:33
Speaker 1: the lockout to end. Probably, So, yeah, are we going
29:38
Speaker 1: to have an uptick? We're certainly going to have more
29:42
Speaker 1: franchise relocation. Will we have more than usual, more than
29:46
Speaker 1: any normal pattern? I'm not sure about that.
29:48
Speaker 2: Okay. From the four, two five, this one oh sorry,
29:50
Speaker 2: two five to three, this one hurts my heart. I
29:52
Speaker 2: think it's inevitable that the Mariners will never make the
29:55
Speaker 2: World Series. Come on, that hurts.
29:58
Speaker 1: They're making it. They're making it. They're going to win.
30:03
Speaker 1: They're going to make multiple and win at least one
30:07
Speaker 1: in the next five years.
30:09
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I'm trying to see if there's anything that
30:14
Speaker 2: we didn't read or something we haven't already talked about.
30:17
Speaker 1: I got a couple here. I think eventually college basketball
30:21
Speaker 1: will be their tournament will be everyone. And what's weird
30:25
Speaker 1: about that is it already is.
30:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is.
30:29
Speaker 1: Why it didn't need to be changed. This is why
30:31
Speaker 1: it's just a total money grab and bastardization of an
30:35
Speaker 1: already great product that you've already watered down once. The
30:41
Speaker 1: fact that we have conference tournaments and it's the conference
30:44
Speaker 1: tournament champion that gets into the tournament and not the
30:48
Speaker 1: regular season conference champion means everybody's invited to the tournament, right,
30:54
Speaker 1: everybody's got a chance, which is completely unlike college football.
30:58
Speaker 1: Everybody's got a chance college basketball to win the national championship,
31:02
Speaker 1: which is why we never go there. But it's not
31:05
Speaker 1: formatted that way. It's not obvious. We can't fill out
31:08
Speaker 1: a bracket that way. So that's where it's eventually going
31:11
Speaker 1: to go. I think that eventually everything in sports will
31:15
Speaker 1: be pay per view. It won't just be like fine streaming,
31:18
Speaker 1: but it will be pay per view for every single
31:21
Speaker 1: thing except for and this is weird fighting.
31:25
Speaker 2: Oh.
31:26
Speaker 1: I think Rousey and Krano shed light on a few
31:33
Speaker 1: people very angry. Again, did I really just pay that
31:37
Speaker 1: much money to watch US seventeen second fight? Yep, No,
31:40
Speaker 1: I don't care how good you make the undercard. We
31:43
Speaker 1: buy it for the main event. And I think they'll
31:46
Speaker 1: end up with their own network, a fighting network, And
31:49
Speaker 1: yet everything else in the world will be pay pay
31:52
Speaker 1: per view. Used to be the other way around. Boxing
31:55
Speaker 1: was the only thing. Boxing match was the only thing
31:57
Speaker 1: you bought pay per view and then you lived with.
32:00
Speaker 1: Hopefully the undercard was good because there was a chance
32:03
Speaker 1: that the boxing match would be over in thirty five seconds.
32:06
Speaker 1: But I think that's we're going to see a reversal
32:08
Speaker 1: of it in the in the future. All right, coming
32:11
Speaker 1: up next on the program on Fridays, now we do
32:15
Speaker 1: SUP with You. So I've got a question for you.
32:18
Speaker 1: Mariners related Dan Wilson related Next Sports Radio ninety three
32:21
Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. Sometimes you're very, very nosy.
32:26
Speaker 2: Very invasive, as a lot of fun questions.
32:28
Speaker 1: Into our personal lives, which is fair fair, we're opening
32:31
Speaker 1: that up. We were allowing you to play in our sandbox.
32:34
Speaker 1: And if we have to stumble upon a cat turn
32:36
Speaker 1: every once in a while, you know what, we'll deal
32:38
Speaker 1: with it.
32:38
Speaker 2: I'll kick it out of it sandby.
32:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, but we'll answer it. We'll deal with it,
32:43
Speaker 1: you know. So you you go, you be you, You
32:45
Speaker 1: ask us whatever you like, but that's on Thursdays on Fridays,
32:48
Speaker 1: we ask you a question. So welcome to SUP with You.
32:52
Speaker 1: Gonna ask me questions about myself and my.
32:55
Speaker 2: Opinion, we're turning this around.
32:57
Speaker 1: It's called turning the tables.
32:58
Speaker 2: People on board, get on the turntable, so you.
33:03
Speaker 1: Could use the text line four nine four five one.
33:05
Speaker 1: We're now on YouTube, which still getting adjusted to so
33:09
Speaker 1: you can communicate with us there on the YouTube channel
33:12
Speaker 1: where you can watch us talk. And then we still
33:16
Speaker 1: have that talkback feature and i'd actually like to, you know,
33:19
Speaker 1: dust that off, that little talkback feature here this morning
33:22
Speaker 1: because I have a question for you. It is Mariner related.
33:25
Speaker 1: There are a lot of opinions on this here as
33:27
Speaker 1: of late. It's very easy to be harsh in this area.
33:31
Speaker 1: But I don't want just the harsh answers. I'm want
33:35
Speaker 1: honest answers. I want honest reaction to this question. And
33:38
Speaker 1: my question for you' sup with you? What is your
33:41
Speaker 1: letter grade for Dan Wilson as a manager so far
33:44
Speaker 1: this season and why? And this is your opportunity, especially
33:49
Speaker 1: those of you that want to defend Dan, because he's
33:51
Speaker 1: been getting crushed quite a bit both certainly on social media.
33:58
Speaker 1: I think on most of the shows here at kJ R.
34:01
Speaker 1: Can't speak for other shows in town, probably not as
34:05
Speaker 1: much so because they're scared. Uh, but you know, he's
34:09
Speaker 1: been taking it. He's been taking it, but I kind
34:11
Speaker 1: of I want honest reaction to the question, but it
34:15
Speaker 1: would be kind of nice to hear somebody that thinks
34:19
Speaker 1: he's doing a great job as well. Like That's why
34:22
Speaker 1: I kind of liked your take Tuesday about the piggyback,
34:26
Speaker 1: because it's very easy to take the low road that
34:30
Speaker 1: everybody else is taking, just be mad that they lost,
34:33
Speaker 1: to be mad and critical, but to have a really
34:36
Speaker 1: well fought out take of I didn't mind it as much.
34:40
Speaker 1: You know, it was just interesting, kind of refreshing to
34:44
Speaker 1: hear that against everything else. It's like it's like squeezing
34:47
Speaker 1: lime on top of a you know, like rice salmon
34:52
Speaker 1: and rice dish. Like it just added a little extra spark,
34:55
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So whatever your honest reaction,
34:59
Speaker 1: Dan Wilson, give me a letter grade on how you
35:02
Speaker 1: think he's done his manager of the Mariners so far
35:05
Speaker 1: this year, and then give me an explanation as to
35:07
Speaker 1: why four nine four five one. I'm not gonna have
35:11
Speaker 1: time to get to your responses at this point. We'll
35:13
Speaker 1: do it at eight thirty today where we normally do SUP.
35:16
Speaker 1: But yes, it is SUP with you now. I gave
35:18
Speaker 1: him a C minus last year. That was my letter
35:21
Speaker 1: grade for Dan Wilson any year where we nearly made
35:24
Speaker 1: the World Series, and I'm not sure he lived up
35:27
Speaker 1: to C minus in the postseason, and I'm not sure
35:29
Speaker 1: i'd give him a I know I wouldn't give him
35:32
Speaker 1: a higher grade than C minus so far this year,
35:35
Speaker 1: So you know where I'm coming from with it. But
35:38
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear from Mariner fans everywhere, because look,
35:41
Speaker 1: Dan Wilson's beloved and that doesn't have to stop even
35:45
Speaker 1: if he ends up crashing and failing, which I don't
35:47
Speaker 1: think he'll do as Mariners manager. I think he's going
35:51
Speaker 1: to end up having a very successful year, and I
35:53
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to be let go. Doesn't mean
35:56
Speaker 1: he's not above he's not above being criticized.
35:58
Speaker 2: I would agree with that.
36:00
Speaker 1: So he's of a love figure in this town and
36:03
Speaker 1: I hope that he always remains that way because he's
36:06
Speaker 1: a really good dude and the players love him and
36:09
Speaker 1: swear by him. But we've even heard a few players
36:13
Speaker 1: maybe in their postgame remarks, maybe bring into question a
36:17
Speaker 1: few things. We've had Munhose do it. We've had Bryce
36:19
Speaker 1: Miller do it, and those are like the two biggest
36:21
Speaker 1: sweethearts on the roster. So if they're starting to expose
36:27
Speaker 1: maybe we're a little frustrated about some of the decisions
36:29
Speaker 1: that are being made here as of late, then certainly
36:32
Speaker 1: you fans are frustrated with it. So we'd like to
36:35
Speaker 1: hear from you today.
36:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think this is a great opportunity for
36:38
Speaker 2: people to share what they're thinking about it, because it
36:42
Speaker 2: is you want him to be great, especially growing up
36:46
Speaker 2: a Mariners fan and how beloved he is. You want
36:48
Speaker 2: him to be just the best manager and for it
36:50
Speaker 2: to have been the perfect choice and for it to
36:51
Speaker 2: work out, and so far it's been a rough road.
36:54
Speaker 2: So it does it's kind of an emotional well, not
36:59
Speaker 2: roller coasters, not the right but it's like this emotional
37:01
Speaker 2: dichotomy right where you're like, oh, willing him to be great,
37:06
Speaker 2: but then frustrated with certain things, and not just with
37:08
Speaker 2: him either, because I do care. I do question how
37:10
Speaker 2: much the organization themselves are letting him make choices, I
37:15
Speaker 2: do wonder, or if they just don't feel confident in
37:18
Speaker 2: him making choices.
37:19
Speaker 1: Well a lot more than it goes way too far
37:24
Speaker 1: the other way. I have been assured by both Justin
37:28
Speaker 1: and and Jerry on air and off air that yes,
37:31
Speaker 1: they make decisions upstairs, like the piggyback was a collective.
37:35
Speaker 2: Decision, which I would assume that was and Dan had to.
37:38
Speaker 1: Say in it, but they all whether or not they
37:40
Speaker 1: were all one hundred percent on board with it. I
37:43
Speaker 1: don't think there was any way to be one hundred
37:45
Speaker 1: percent on board with it, but they all collectively came
37:47
Speaker 1: to the decision and then it was up to Dan
37:49
Speaker 1: to execute that. Now, once and I think that it's
37:53
Speaker 1: the front office says you're going to play raf Schneider.
37:56
Speaker 1: That's what we brought him in for. We're not going
37:58
Speaker 1: to back off of this. But that isn't But then
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Speaker 1: once the lineup is made, that's Dan, and the in
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Speaker 1: game decisions are all Dan.
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Speaker 2: That's Dan. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Now, they have a philosophy that they.
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Speaker 2: All agree on kind of following those guidelines.
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Speaker 1: He's trying to follow the guidelines which he's a part of.
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Speaker 1: But the in game decisions and the lineup I have
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Speaker 1: been assured numerous times that is Dan's job. All Right, Okay, okay,
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