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Best of Chuck in the Morning 7-22 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is Chuck in the morning. Why you people are
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  Speaker 1: beyond Let's go, Let's get the game off. Hey, great
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  Speaker 1: morning to you. Welcome into the show. It is a Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: a home day. It is Chuck and Ashley with you
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  Speaker 1: here on Sports Radio ninety three point three k j
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  Speaker 1: R f M, and we do you until ten o'clock
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  Speaker 1: this morning. As I try to stay on top of things. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. It I have boarded the
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  Speaker 1: struggle bus here as just a human being as of late.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so Unicorn's out of town. And believe me,
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  Speaker 1: I don't sit there and depend on Unicorn for just
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  Speaker 1: about anything. I mean, she's occasionally makes a meal, and
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  Speaker 1: she's a germophobe, so she continuously is cleaning the house.
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  Speaker 1: So I always go home to a clean house. But
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  Speaker 1: she's been out of town on the coast looking after
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  Speaker 1: her sister's property out there on the coast, so sort
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  Speaker 1: of like a caretaker, like the shining And she thought
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  Speaker 1: she was going to go crazy being out on the
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  Speaker 1: coast by herself with the dogs and everything else. And
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  Speaker 1: she's thriving. I'm a mess. Oh no, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: have spent I never got married, but I've lived with
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  Speaker 1: island how many four or five women in my life,
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  Speaker 1: Probably twenty years of my adult life have been spent
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  Speaker 1: shacked up, and then half of it has been spent
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  Speaker 1: as as you know, somebody that dates. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: but I've always thrived the most in those moments, Like
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  Speaker 1: I've done the most productive things when you're by yourself,
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  Speaker 1: when I'm by myself, Like I've thrived in like getting
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  Speaker 1: things done. And it's not, you know, being in the
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  Speaker 1: best shape and not because I don't think that the
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  Speaker 1: person I'm with I deserve to be in the best
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  Speaker 1: shape for or she deserves that I'm in the best
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  Speaker 1: shape for her. It's not that. It's more of just
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  Speaker 1: like I have all this extra time now and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to use it very effectively. Oh my gosh, the
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  Speaker 1: lack of effectiveness that I have shown over the course
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  Speaker 1: of these last four and a half weeks, and I
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  Speaker 1: am doing some of the dumbest things and then having
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  Speaker 1: to fix them. I don't even want to go through
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  Speaker 1: the list.
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  Speaker 7: I kind of want you to.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it for you off the air, because I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to go through the list. But I just
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  Speaker 1: it has been a battle. I have battled myself here
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  Speaker 1: for the last four weeks. When I thought, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: she's out of town, she's on the coast. Here's I
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  Speaker 1: can go back to thriving Chuck, productive Chuck. I can
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  Speaker 1: get so much done here. I can't get anything done
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  Speaker 1: because I have to keep fixing the screw ups that
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  Speaker 1: I've made. It's unreal. I don't even know. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I should give examples to explain it. This is not
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  Speaker 1: even example to explain it. But it's sort of like this,
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  Speaker 1: Like if I wash a dish, okay, and then I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: dishes washed, and then I'll take it without thinking and
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  Speaker 1: set it on top of a dirty dish.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, what am I doing?
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  Speaker 1: I now I've got to wash the dish again, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what is happening? I mean, that's not an example, but
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  Speaker 1: it gives you of what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 7: So just creating extra work for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she's a germophobe, and so that's why she keeps
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  Speaker 1: the house. I mean it's perfect. It is perfect. That's
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  Speaker 1: the way she keeps house because she can't stand like
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  Speaker 1: a speck of dust, she can't stay. And that was
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  Speaker 1: hard to adapt to. Not that I'm some dirty person,
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  Speaker 1: but that's hard to adapt to. And so I've kind
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  Speaker 1: of adapted to that. And I don't try to keep
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  Speaker 1: up with her because that's impossible, but I certainly don't
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  Speaker 1: try to create more work for her. So I'm pretty neat.
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  Speaker 1: It's always been pretty neat, whether I was a roommate,
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  Speaker 1: my twenties, are in college with someone or live in boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the case might be. So I am pretty neat.
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  Speaker 1: But there's something about, like, now I'm on my own
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  Speaker 1: and I need to keep up her germaphobic house and
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  Speaker 1: it's not really who I am. And because i haven't
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  Speaker 1: had this much time alone in a while, I'm like
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  Speaker 1: screwing everything up and having to do it like to times.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it is I'm like if I had hair,
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  Speaker 1: i'd pull it out like it, and so it's just
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  Speaker 1: even now, Like I know that I locked the door
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  Speaker 1: when I left the place this morning because it's habitual, right,
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  Speaker 1: But because it's habitual, you don't you don't really remember
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  Speaker 1: doing it. But I've been screwing so many things up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, did I leave the door open? Did I
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  Speaker 1: just leave it wide open?
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  Speaker 7: Did I just just inviting people in?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Did I take the groceries and did I put it?
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  Speaker 1: Did I stack them in the living room rather than
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  Speaker 1: the refrigerator? I mean, is the baby safe? Do I
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  Speaker 1: have a baby? You don't?
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  Speaker 7: You're safe there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a baby, all right, So I didn't
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  Speaker 1: leave the baby alone and stranded?
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  Speaker 7: Okay, patio, very good, very very Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's been one of those things like, uh, did I
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  Speaker 1: leave water out for the cat? Do we have? Has
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  Speaker 1: water been invented yet? Why do I have a cat?
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  Speaker 7: You don't have a cat.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: So see, see, you're not screwing up as much as
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  Speaker 7: you thought you did.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think it's one of those Oh you're
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  Speaker 1: getting old and you're losing your mind. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that's what it is at all, because I feel very
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  Speaker 1: sharp in a lot of areas. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I could do this job if I wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: sharp in a lot of areas. But it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now I have the responsibilities of the home, and I
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  Speaker 1: also have all this free time, which I'm not used
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  Speaker 1: to having, and I want to use it in the
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  Speaker 1: most productive way possible. And I mean, she's coming home
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  Speaker 1: probably this weekend, and it feels like I've just accomplished
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  Speaker 1: nothing because I keep having to redo mistakes that I'm making.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope she's not listening because she'll want an explanation.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, she doesn't.
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  Speaker 7: I hope she didn't decide to start listening.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly when she first moved up here, she listened
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  Speaker 1: to every second, got every drop, and I'd go home
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  Speaker 1: to like, oh, you are so good on this today.
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  Speaker 1: I'd get great reviews. And at some point in every
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  Speaker 1: sports talk shows life, the wife is sick of sports
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  Speaker 1: and does not want to hear about it, does not
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  Speaker 1: want to know about it, and doesn't even really want
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  Speaker 1: to watch them. Yeah, you got a pretty good situation there,
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  Speaker 1: because your husband's actually an even bigger sports fan than you.
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  Speaker 7: Are, right there, Yeah, he is, or at least. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: i'd say he has or were the same?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, equal, and your daughter's being raised the same way
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  Speaker 1: he is, So you got a happy household there, I do. Yay.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, I'm sorry, top of mind.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know did I bring pants today that much?
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  Speaker 7: I can't tell you because I can only see your
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  Speaker 7: top half.
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  Speaker 1: Let me luck real quick. Nope, you are out of luck, Ashley. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you may want to go get me a towel.
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  Speaker 7: I will gladly, and then I'll just open the door
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  Speaker 7: and throw it at you.
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  Speaker 1: They're a k robe around here.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sure there is all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, good morning. Do you welcome to the radio show.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to laugh about my struggle otherwise I'll cry. Yeah. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's not that enjoyable to roll into the topic.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready getting ready to discuss here again this morning.
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  Speaker 1: But we do welcome you to the show. Ashley, Ryan
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  Speaker 1: is here. My name is Chuck Pow. We got all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of things planned for you. I've got what's on
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  Speaker 1: tap here. In a moment, we'll map it out. We
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  Speaker 1: do have you till ten o'clock today, and you will
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  Speaker 1: go nowhere, otherwise you're gonna throw me off.
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  Speaker 6: Again.
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  Speaker 7: That's right, you stay here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't throw me off anymore than I've already been
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  Speaker 1: thrown off. All right, So let's talk about last night.
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  Speaker 1: The Mariners lose four to two to the Cincinnati red
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  Speaker 1: So drop back to five hundred, fall back out of
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  Speaker 1: first place. Probably gonna do that dance for a while. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not so worried about the loss. We're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: win them all, and I don't think that we're playing
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  Speaker 1: all that great of baseball. So I'm not surprised that
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  Speaker 1: in game number two of a three game series with
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  Speaker 1: a talented, young but mistake prone Cincinnati baseball team that
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  Speaker 1: we lost With Chase Burns on the mound. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's pretty much beats everybody that he faces, So I
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  Speaker 1: kind of warned everybody yesterday this is gonna be a challenge,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be a difficult one to get. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not bothered by the lost. I'm not surprised by
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  Speaker 1: the lost whatsoever. And I still don't think this team's firing,
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  Speaker 1: So there's no surprise that they dropped a game in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the series at home against the Cincinnati Reds.
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  Speaker 1: No big deal, right, But man Ashley does it just
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  Speaker 1: do I have to keep getting an example or two
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  Speaker 1: every single night of what is frustrating us about our manager.
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  Speaker 7: I would like to say no, but I think so.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to pile on. I've made
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  Speaker 1: my statement. I don't think that Dan Wilson's the best
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  Speaker 1: guy for this job. I think we'd be better off
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  Speaker 1: if we made a managerial change. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Heally, if you're listening, I made that statement last Monday.
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  Speaker 1: There was some confusion. Yeah, he was like, you made
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  Speaker 1: that Monday after beating this Giins on this. I know
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  Speaker 1: I made it last Monday before during the All Star break.
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  Speaker 1: So I've made it, my points known, I've given my reasons,
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  Speaker 1: I've defended it, I've taken We did an entire show,
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  Speaker 1: or at least an entire hour where I ask for
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  Speaker 1: people to disagree with me intentionally so that I could
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  Speaker 1: see your point of view. And yet the things that
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  Speaker 1: frustrate me just continue to pop back up. And at least,
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  Speaker 1: at least, if you're going to do things that I
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  Speaker 1: feel are wrong, at least be consistent with how you
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  Speaker 1: do it. At least own no, this is how I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do it. And we'll see if it turns
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  Speaker 1: out okay for us, you know, because there's more than
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  Speaker 1: one way to skin a cat. As my mom used
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  Speaker 1: to say, a very evil woman. Yeah, poor cats, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: poor cats. Yeah. I get it, I get it. There's
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  Speaker 1: there's a full there are reasons behind what Dan is doing.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't necessarily see the logic in them sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not placing all of the blame on his
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  Speaker 1: at his feet, and I'm not saying everything that he
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  Speaker 1: does is wrong. I'm just saying the things like the inconsistency.
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  Speaker 1: May it be the biggest part. Example, So yesterday I
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  Speaker 1: had a problem with George Kirby being taken out after
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  Speaker 1: eighty pitches. We're winning one to nothing, and he takes
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  Speaker 1: George Kirby out after eighty pitches and six innings when
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  Speaker 1: he knows war bullpen guys aren't available because our four
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  Speaker 1: best leverage pitchers had to pitch both games Saturday and
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  Speaker 1: Sunday to defeat the Giants. That happens, you might have
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  Speaker 1: to use different guys nine outs to go, though, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I'm taking out one of my starting pitchers
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  Speaker 1: who's dominating the game and has at least one more
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  Speaker 1: and if he's efficient, maybe you can get two more
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  Speaker 1: innings out of him, and really shortened that bullpen so
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  Speaker 1: that you don't have to trust that all three of
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  Speaker 1: your worst relievers are going to be on their game
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  Speaker 1: that night to protect a one nothing lead. Now, as
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  Speaker 1: it turns out, Davila got us out of the seventh,
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  Speaker 1: and then we scored six runs in the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the inning, blew it open and didn't have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about it. Crisis averted. So the logic afterwards, Dan says,
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  Speaker 1: we'd seen enough, he'd given us enough. He's been off
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  Speaker 1: for a while because of the All Star break, and
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  Speaker 1: we didn't want to overtax him, so we decided that
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  Speaker 1: was the time to pull him out. I didn't understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Healey gave me a reason yesterday he thought, I
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  Speaker 1: mean he understood it. I didn't even understand it when
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Healey explained it to me. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: the wrong move. The next night, Luis Castillo throws one hundred.
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  Speaker 7: Pitches, one hundred and one, actually chuck.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred pitches. Hey, wait a minute, what happened to the
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  Speaker 1: We're coming off the All Star break and they've had
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  Speaker 1: a little extra time, and we don't want to extend
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  Speaker 1: them too much the first time out. Yeah, well we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go one hundred pitches with Castillo trailing by three
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  Speaker 1: versus one hundred pitches for Kirby up one.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, can somebody explain that to me?
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  Speaker 7: I sure can't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there is an explanation for that. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I've been studying this sport for a really long period
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  Speaker 1: of time. There is no explanation for that hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I put it out on Twitter last night because I
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  Speaker 8: was like, Okay, there's there's just no rhyme or reason. Clearly,
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  Speaker 8: it's just whatever day, those are the rules for that day.
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  Speaker 8: It's not even and there are the rules though, so
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  Speaker 8: no wonder Dan Wilson has a hard time.
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  Speaker 7: Clearly the rules change every day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think that the rules are being changed
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  Speaker 1: by anybody but him.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe it's an in game decision.
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  Speaker 1: But but you bring that up because people say it's
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  Speaker 1: Jerry and justin making all the decisions like they're not
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  Speaker 1: well the in game decisions. There was no in game meeting,
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  Speaker 1: pregame meeting saying George Kirby should be taken out after
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  Speaker 1: six innings. That was Dan and his staff's decision at
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  Speaker 1: that point. So then you get to the very then
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  Speaker 1: you get to the bullpen, and everybody knows I had
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  Speaker 1: a problem with Scott Service when he didn't do this, like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're within a bloop and a blast of tying this
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  Speaker 1: thing up. I don't think you have to. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: If your bullpen's tired, then you may want to avoid them.
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  Speaker 1: Down three to nothing, okay, that's three nothing. Go to
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  Speaker 1: your plan. B, go to your plan be at three
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  Speaker 1: to nothing. At three to one, they bring in Forrair
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  Speaker 1: and I celebrated a little bit in my heart because
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, we're not giving up on this. All
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  Speaker 1: four high leverage guys had the night off the night before.
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  Speaker 1: We're within a bloop and a blast. It's still relatively early.
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  Speaker 1: We just scored the last run Frere in the game
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  Speaker 1: to keep it a two run game, and then let's see,
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  Speaker 1: let's see from there. Then we score another run to
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  Speaker 1: make it three to two, so we've actually closed the gap.
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  Speaker 1: But who starts the ninth not Bizarre Doo or Spire
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  Speaker 1: against a lefty low who's coming to the plate. We
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  Speaker 1: go to plan see yep and Mike Rucker, we have
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  Speaker 1: the momentum, we're only down one. You've already committed to
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  Speaker 1: a night where Farreer can pitch. We have a day
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  Speaker 1: off on Thursday, so even if we did use a
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  Speaker 1: Bizardo or a Spire, there's no reason that one guy
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  Speaker 1: couldn't go back to back days if you need him
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon. Because we have Wednesday evening off, Thursday off,
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  Speaker 1: all of Friday off until Friday night. That's pretty much
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  Speaker 1: two days of rest. We can extend a Bizardo here
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  Speaker 1: to pitch tonight, to keep it a one run deficit,
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  Speaker 1: to take advantage of the momentum that we gained against
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  Speaker 1: a team with a bad bullpen. Try to win this
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  Speaker 1: thing tonight. And Bizardo could still pitch tomorrow afternoon if
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  Speaker 1: we needed him to. But instead we go to Rucker
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  Speaker 1: and the ninth inning.
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  Speaker 7: And what happens to the first.
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  Speaker 1: Batter home run?
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're down two, yep, and air out of the tire,
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  Speaker 1: completely out of the tire, didn't even mount a threat,
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  Speaker 1: didn't even didn't even give a quality at bat in
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  Speaker 1: the ninth inning, and we lose four to two. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I know when your bullpen is tax that sometimes in
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  Speaker 1: a close game, even when you were winning, in a
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  Speaker 1: close game, you got to go to some guys, have
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  Speaker 1: to get things done that you normally wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 1: rely on in that situation. I didn't have a problem
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  Speaker 1: with de Vila pitching two nights ago. I had a
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  Speaker 1: problem with him pitching in the seventh. I knew that
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  Speaker 1: we would probably have to use him, and I've come
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  Speaker 1: to kind of trust the villa. I think he's definitely
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  Speaker 1: our fifth best guy. But for you to have made
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  Speaker 1: the decision down three to one, hey, we're close enough,
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  Speaker 1: Let's use one of our four best Let's keep it
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  Speaker 1: at two run deficit, then come in and score a run. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we got the momentum. We're only down one. Now, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: who do we go with in the ninth to keep
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  Speaker 1: this a one run deficit? Our worst guy?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we should bring in Rutger. This is the exact
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  Speaker 7: situation that calls for him. It makes no sense.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand, So I guess I am piling on.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna have to pile on. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to point this out every single time
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  Speaker 1: until somebody can tell me that it makes sense. I
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: don't know where the defense is for taking Kirby out
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: after six innings two nights ago, and then I don't
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: know where the defense is for hip the hypocrisy of
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: letting Castillo go one hundred pitches last night. If we're
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: protecting guys who are coming off the break and then
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and then using one of your better guys down two,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: but then not one of your better guys down one,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I just I can't solve it. And so until I
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: can start figuring out the logic behind these decisions, then
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to just have to keep questioning it every day,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: no matter how annoying it gets.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: Well, and I don't think that's piling on because if
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: you are a Mariners fan and you watched that game
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: last night and you aren't questioning those things, then you're
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: not paying attention because those are the things that are
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: hurting this team. And those questions, those those moments, those questions,
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: it makes no sense.
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: You have no reason why Michael Rucker.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: And I'm not trying to bash Michael Rutcker because I
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: think he has some good pitches in him, but that
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: is not a situation where you use him.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: That's it. It's a spire or a bizardo.
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: I'd rather even see Mooney in they're protecting a one
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: run lead than I would see Rucker.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I guess. I mean, if the logic is one, Hey,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: if the logic is were down three, so let's go
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: ahead and get everything we can out of Castillo. I
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: can get that. And then if you are down two
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and you've just decided, hey, we might have to just
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to win the series, let's keep everybody for tomorrow to
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: kind of half commit to staying in the game and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: then get closer and then decide, Nah, let's scrap that plan.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: We're not We're not going to win this one.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Jumpship what Yeah, makes no sense. There's there's no way
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: to I think Dan could sit there and try to
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: explain it to me and I still would have no understanding.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know there are rules, but we don't
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: know what the rules are, right, And so to just
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: look at everything some of you and just say, well,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that's Jerry and justin making it, you're letting Dan off
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the hook for everything. What can he be held responsible for?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Players play listless and sloppy and unfocused. We blame it
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: on the You're gonna blame it on the players. And
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: then every managerial decision that looks ridiculous, you blame it
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: on the front office because they've set rules before. I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: know they set some rules, but we don't know how
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: what rules that they've set. I promise you it wasn't
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: let's go for it if we're down too, but if
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: we get within one, let's abandon that. I promise you
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: that's not a rule.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: No.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: All right, let's find out what's on tap.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: I have your attention, please.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: This is what's on tap.
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• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Rets for Mariners to the MS fall to fifty one
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and fifty one on the season, sixty games even to
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: go on the regular season second place right now because
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the Rangers did win last night and they will have
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a chance well to win the series. Here today this afternoon,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: twelve forty first pitch, it'll be Hancock versus Singer. More
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: on that in Mariners Morning after at six thirty three
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: days till training camp, and we're providing training camp previews
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: a few times per Show throughout the course of the week.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Part of our training camp preview will be Dave Richard
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: joining us. Dave, you know he's already pumped. He's already
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: had sixteen fantasy football drafts, so he's going to join
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: us today and talk about the who he's got his
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: eye on heading into camp. Give you a little refresher.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a bad time to talk fantasy football.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Seahawks have made some news this week. Nick even Warri
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: is on the pup list. We don't exactly know why,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: but that's a little discouraging. Sounds like Devin Witherspoon is
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: close to his extension and should get it done before
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: camp begins on Saturday. So that's certainly a big topic
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: here heading into training camp. And Hard Knocks has said
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: its scheduled. The first Hard Knocks episode is going to
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: be on August fourth, So Tuesday, August fourth. Sounders in
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: action against Austin today at six point thirty. Brian Schmetzer
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: has really been riding his players hard after that five
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to one lost to Portland last week. Stretch is gonna
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: join us. We got to talk to Stretch one last
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: time to wrap up the world Cup and also talk
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: a little Sounders soccer with him today at eight Storm
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Links today they just played the Links won, but they'll
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: play this time here And finally, lebron Watch continues. Apparently
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Miami put out a bad PR release yesterday and it
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: got people overly excited, and it was fake. It was
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: apparently just in case he does sign we want to
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: get this out in a hurry and somebody hit sinned.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: So yeah, so that person in charge of the nuclear
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: code kind of like me.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It must be me. I think maybe I was in charge.
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: Of it trying to be proactive.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I was, you know, I was trying to multitask and
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: probably was half thinking, and I probably sent out a
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Miami heat press release yesterday. All right, Mariners, morning afternext.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: We're just underway here on this Wednesday. Sports Radio ninety
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. We ground ball Naylor well off
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the back Castillo covering had a good flip from the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: belt buckle of Josh Naylor. That was a really nice play.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: A lot of way second and third, Now, how do
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you find in the positive?
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought that was a really good play.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: There actually were some good moments last night, and I
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: don't I don't know. I don't know if I created
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: a basket full of bad moments. So I just had
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: some frustrations that continue to mount on decisions that are
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: being made by the skipper. But I really wasn't expecting
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to win last night. I didn't like the pitching matchup.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Chase Burns has been dominating everybody's been facing as of late.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I didn't feel that great about the matchup to begin with.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that we lost, but I would highlight
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: as somebody did point out on the text line, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I think rightfully, So I again took the opportunity to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: complain about managerial decision. But not scoring is the big thing.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: But sometimes you don't score when you're facing a fantastic pitcher. Now,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: their bullpen's not all that great. Maybe we and we
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: got him out of the game after five innings, so
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: had a chance to win.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: That's some runners in scoring position.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they played great defense last night. A bad
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: defensive team made some highlight plays. We played some great defense.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: The sliding catch by Robladze was as weird how early
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: he started that slide. I don't think I've ever seen
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: anything like that.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: It's like a car.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Emerson made a perfect play at home.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I think that's the exciting, most exciting part about Colt
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: is I don't think that pulse ever raises like you
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: get a groundball the arguably the fastest runner in baseball
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: at six seven looks like freaking predator running down the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: third base line, and he just throws, just calmly, just said,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I throw a perfect strike to Cal and make it
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: really easy on Cal. I don't want to make it
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: difficult on Cal and just throws a perfect I mean
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: that is textbook great play by him. He can write
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: when he's struggling offensively, but he still just continues to
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: impress me. I mean, we got a special second basement
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and short stop going forward here. I'm telling you, ye,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Rosarina had a really patient at that lately. That started
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a potential, you know, inning, started a potential rally which
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: we loaded the bases and then couldn't do anything with.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: So there were some good things about last night, but
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: it ends up being a lost four to two, And
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: we'll talk more about Dan's rolling that a little bit
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: later on in the show. But good morning to you all.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: We roll into our seven o'clock hour hour number two
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• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Let's get to your frostbrewed cors like chrue chill headlines.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Mariners do lose four to two to Cincinnati. They'll try
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: to win the series this afternoon, twelve forty. First pitch
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: it'll be Emerson Hancock for the good guys. Brady Singer
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: we'll pitch for the Cincinnati Reds. He's not at a
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: very good year and should be a pretty decent matchup
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: for this lineup. Right handed pitcher who is not a
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: strikeout pitcher, so I think that could be a productive
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: offensive day. Also, obviously good to see Julio back in
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the lineup after eck, I don't know, weird couple of
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: days after concussion, Yeah, after whatever butt injury he suffered,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: But back at it today at twelve forty. We are
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: three days away from training camp. Nick Emon Worri has
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: been placed on the pup list. I would imagine it's
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: nothing to worry about.
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: But.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: You put people on the pup list for a reason.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: So we'll dig into it, and certainly is going to
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: be a big topic of conversation to start training camp
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: when our coverage begins on Monday. Also, Devin Witherspoon, the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: belief is that he'll be locked up before training camp begins.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Just read yesterday where it's getting close. We kind of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: expected that was the timeline this entire offseason. Just be
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: nice to get that out of the way. I don't
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: think any player, I don't think any coach wants to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: be having a star player in a negotiation while practice
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: gets underway. So nice just to tie on that before
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: we get there. We know what we're gonna have to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: pay him, right right, John, you know.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: What, I'll give them a call after this and just
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: make sure they know.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're not we're not short changing them. Are
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: We pretty much got to go top of the market there. Yeah, okay, okay,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: big guy, you know what you're doing. I don't need
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to tell you. Also, hard knocks first date's gonna be
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: looks like August fourth. First show will be August fourth.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: They'll have by that point two weeks worth of material
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to piece together. But August fourth, Tuesday night will be
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the first Hard Knocks episode featuring the World.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: Champs, which makes much more sense.
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: I put it in last week because someone had asked
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: when it started, and Ai said August eleventh. I said
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: that seems late, because that's a heading into your first preseason.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Game, right, I have it right though, right.
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, you're right. It came out yesterday to put
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: all the promo stuff out.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I don't always trust Ai. It was Ai that told
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: me this money. I make sure I look that up.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: I saw it on the Seahawks put something out with
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: their little video, and then there was a there's like
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: a Hard Knocks poster.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, once you see them, Yeah exactly, yeah,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Cheryl Tigus, yep. All right, Well there your headlines, brought
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• 29:12
  Speaker 1: for goodness sake, choose chill. We're gonna do reckless at
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: breakfast later on this hour. But you know what, we're
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: getting ready for football season and there's gonna be this
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: collision of another Mariners playoff push combined with the exciting
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: start of training camp. Not just any run of the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: mill training camp, training camp for the defending world champions.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: We are Huskies football start. So there's we're getting to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: that point in the season where there's not gonna be
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a breath that you can take in sports talk radio.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: And so here we sit on a hump day. And
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I love hump days. I love Wednesdays for some reason.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: They feel more fun than the rest of the week,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: with the exception of Friday.
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: Yea, Fridays are the most fun.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: But I was listening to something on the way in
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: because we are a little bit in a transition period.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Petros was on the show before us, and he's on
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: every Wednesday at five am. Yeah, and he's fantastic. He's
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: just fent he's so funny, he's so smart.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: It's too bad the other guys are there.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Well, that's true. Well, listen when he's on with soft Yeah,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: because that's gold. That's absolutely well. He's great on both,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: but at least Softy's great too. But anyway, he's on
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: every Wednesday. Well, he was talking about like he really
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: enjoyed the soccer, but he's now had enough officially of
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: soccer guy, and what he meant by that was, Okay,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: soccer guy, I get your feeling your oats like you
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: were front and center, even with people that have bashed
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: you in the past. You know, we had to admit, boy,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: that was a good tournament. Boy, I really enjoyed myself
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: some soccer this past month. That was an event. And
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I really loved, really loved the magnitude of it all.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I love the culture of it all, and certainly I love,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: maybe more than anything else, I love that America had
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: a really great month, really great. Yeah, absolutely, and people finally,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I think globally were reminded, oh yeah, that country's not
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: all about murder.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: Oh they are actually pretty decent.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So it was just it was fantastic. But he
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: made the point like soccer guy's taking a little too far.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: He's still going to the grocery store in his short
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: soccer shorts with his sausage thighs, I think was the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: phrase that he used, sticking out of his soccer shorts
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and you know, just as kind of rubbing in our
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: face now and it's just like, okay, it's time to
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: move on from soccer guy and let's move into training
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: camp guy. Because even though I can't stand training camp guy,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: this is Petros talking that at least it's something different,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and I'm not yet sick of training camp guy. So
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: he went on this whole thing, and he even went
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: as far as saying, oh, and then there's trade deadline
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: guy at this point in the year. So I'm laughing
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: through the whole thing. And I laughed hardest when he
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: got to me, of course, because he called me trade
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: because I'm trade deadline Guy. I'm the guy that's you know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: it's trade season.
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, we celebrate.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I make sure I do a segment every show for
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the entire month of June, at least one to celebrate
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: trade deadline. So he got me, he called me out,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: and I'm certainly trade deadline guy, there's no question about it.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: But here we are in this transition period because football
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: guy's about ready to take over here, and so I
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: thought maybe we could do a SUP with You segment
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: here today where on the talkback feature ninety three to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: three kjar dot com just lay down a thirty second
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: sort of editorial on the sports guy that drives you
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: nuts and will replace some of those coming your way
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: today at eight thirty, because there are a lot of them,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: and frankly, I'm about seven of them, maybe twelve. Pretty
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: much everybody listening, you're at least two or three of them.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I used to do this segment once upon a time
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: down in Phoenix when I wasn't doing sports, and it
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: was called that guy, and it was I mean, I
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: must have done five hundred of those, and they were
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: just little editorials and it would just point out that guy,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: that guy that wears sunglasses at night, that guy who
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: brings his pet to the bar. You know that, you
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: know that sort of thing. So I did that for years,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and that's kind of the waters that were fishing in here.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: So I'm looking for your sports that guy that drives
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: you crazy, And there are all sorts of them out there,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: like football guy. See I talk about everybody talks about
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: baseball guy, and the guy that talks about Baseball guy
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the most is Football Guy. Like football Guy doesn't even
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: know he's football guy, and that part of his character
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: is bashing on baseball guy. But then again, football guy
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: bashes on all other sports. The only football calls himself
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: a sports fan. But only really wants to ever watch
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: talk think about football. And I'm going to go ahead
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: and announce this because Ian Furness has some tendencies to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: be football guy, has some tendencies. He'll bash baseball guy,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and he loves himself some football. But Ian loves a
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: lot of sports, so he's not football, right Ian. I
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: mean Ian probably likes hockey as much, if not more
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: than football, so he can't be football guy.
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: I thought you were just gonna say Ian probably likes hockey,
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: and I was like, you know what, I think you
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: are right.
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: I think he does.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: The biggest football fan I know is not a football guy.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Because you likes other sports, you know he will get
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: into the other sports. So and he also doesn't just
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: like football because of what football does for him. I mean,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: like so many people, you love football, and all you
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: want to talk about football because you just love to
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: gamble or you love your fantasy team or whatever the
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: case may be. Hugh loves football because he loves the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: cracks and crevices of the sport. He loves it in
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: a way that man, it's that's special. He dives in Yeah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I think that he would dive into football if it
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: was the eighth most popular sport in the country just
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: so happens to be the most popular sport in the country.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: But they're the math about it. And how many times
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: have you heard Hughes say the precision is in the details,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the details of it, the pass route where he was
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: a half step off. He sees that stuff and he
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: loves that stuff, you know. So he's not really football
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: guy because football guys only, why are we talking about baseball?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: The World Series is stupid. It's not like the marin
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: are ever going to get back there again. Like we
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: could be in the middle of a Mariner's World Series
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: run and football guy'd be like, why aren't we talking
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: about Sam Darnold.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: Oh, we definitely get those definitely.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So that's football guy. But everybody's got their own
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: guy out there that they would like to like to
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: sound off on. Where We're gonna give you that opportunity
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: today at our talkback feature at ninety three to three
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: KJR dot com. Give us your sports that guy thirty
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: second breakdown of him, the one that drives you the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: most nuts. And if it's me or if it's a
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: one of the that guys that I am in the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: sports world, so be it, so be it. We all
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: got to laugh at it. I laughed out loud when
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Petro started talking about trade deadline guy.
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's funny.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: And it is you, it is me, It is me
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah he nailed me.
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, good, Well, I'm glad he did.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: You have that guy.
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: I have that guy who's your sports That guy speaks
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: an absolutees guy, like, and we.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Get I have a problem with that guy just in general.
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's like especially I feel like in our job,
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: we get you know, we share our opinions, our thoughts,
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: our projections.
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: We're supposed to speculate all of these things.
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: But you get speaks an absolute guy who comes in
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: on the text line or Twitter or YouTube or whatever,
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: and it is like, you guys are wrong.
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: This is gonna happen.
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: And it's like, I understand that's your opinion, but you
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: can't tell me my opinion is wrong. You could just
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: share yours, like, hey, I think this is gonna happen,
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: And then you don't sound like such a turd bag
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: when you're like, oh, you guys don't even know what
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: you're talking about.
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: This is the this is the outcome.
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: It's like you don't know the outcome either, buddy, Like
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: you can't. It's just it's most probably mostly in the wording,
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: but it's like you're speaking in absolutes, like like you
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: know more than everybody else, and everybody else is wrong.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that guy I mean.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: And just to give you an idea, there's hates Lebron guy,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: and there's why does he defend Lebron guy? Yeah? There
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: are so many sports guys out there that people can
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: tackle here this morning, and I know that there's a
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: special specific type of sports fan that drives every single
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: person listening nuts. And by the way, when you do
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: this exercise, I used to say this. This was my
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: tagline when I did my that Guy segment. If what
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I'm saying today offends you in any way, there's probably
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a good reason for it. You're that guy.
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: You're that guy.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So you gotta laugh at yourself when somebody
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: nails you. You kind of got to laugh at yourself.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be mean about it, I don't,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: you know, But nonetheless, I think we could have some
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: fun with this today because we are in that transition period.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: We're coming off soccer guy having his heyday, and as
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Petros pointed out, maybe I'm a little tired of soccer
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: fan feeling so good about himself. Yeah, I'd like to
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: move on, even if I have to deal with training
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: camp guy. He brought up training camp guy, because training
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: camp guy, this is Ian. This isn't Ian Curtis Crabtree.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: He just going over the last three guys on the
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: rock like constantly. That's training camp guy, though, so he said.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: He said, I'm so sick of soccer guy. I'm ready
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: for training camp guy. But at some point, you know
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: he'll be sick of training camp guy. And obviously he's
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: sick of trade deadline guy. So they're all out there.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be just football guy or soccer guy.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: There's specific things within the season. Fantasy football guy, fantasy
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: football guy that can't stop talking about his roster and
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: his match from the previous week. I make sure I
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: only talk fantasy football with someone else when they initiate
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the conversation. But then there is a feeling out process
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: of wait a minute, are you fantasy football guy? Because
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: if I'm going to see you again, I don't want
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you to think that I'm the guy that you can
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: come over and dump on for three hours about your
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: fantasy team. I'm not that interested. If you want to
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: share with me a nice little anecdote, a little crazy
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: story about how you lost last week or who you
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: picked up that you think's the steal. That's a nice
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: little fifteen minute conversation that we can have. And if
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: you're good, if you follow the rules, we can have
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: it every time I see you. Yeah, but let's not
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: be calling me, oh gosh, no, asking me who you
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: should pick up, you know, things like that. All right,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do We're gonna do other things too. We're
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: gonna have other conversations too. But yes, there's fantasy football
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: guy out there as well. Yeah.
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: I also don't like Baba booie guy when you're watching
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: a golf Oh yeah, why do you have to yell
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: baba booe every time someone hits the damn golf ball?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: And who still thinks it's cute? Like the first guy
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: that did it should be bab bab booie guy.
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and he's the only one that there should be.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: A picture of him, and he should probably get some
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: sort of benefit since he started this phenomenon. Yeah, but
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: who's the person that's doing it for the millionth time
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: and thinks it's funny.
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: I wish I knew, because that guy is annoying. And
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: I also don't like attend a.
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: Sporting in a random jersey.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: Guy.
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: Just because you're going to a game doesn't need mean
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: you need to wear a sports jersey of any sort.
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: Like last night's Mariners game, there's a guy in a
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: Lakers jersey behind hop plate.
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: Wrong sport bro.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: See now you got it? Now you got it. I
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: like this. Now we're on it, so yes, get specific.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it next. We've got some
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: other things to do here this morning, but we're going
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: to replay some of your sup with you responses to
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: who is your sports that guy that drives you nuts?
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: We'll play them coming up at eight thirty. And if
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: you can do it, if you can mention someone briefly
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: on the text line, or if you could do it
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel, we can handle that as well.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: So want to hear from you. It seems like a
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: fun topic before we start getting busy with a pennant
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: race and a football season starting and two football seasons starting,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: hockey season training camp right around the corner for that,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: and eventually in the year twenty eighty eight, Adam silver
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Owle announced something about the Sonics. We might have that
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: to deal with. So before we get to all of that,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: we should just have a week of transition and talk
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: about our sports. That guys today, I think.
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: I think it's great.
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: We did get a text on the Tacoma Dodge text
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: line too, about speaks an absolute guy Like when that
• 42:22
  Speaker 8: when absolute guy is like, nobody cares about that?
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: What nobody cares about that?
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: Care about that?
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Right now? Nobody cares about that? Guy is saying, nobody
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: cares about that guy.
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: That guys, Yeah, come on, guys, nobody cares.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody wants to hear other people's that nobody cares
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: You don't speak for everyone, dude.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: All right, well, coming up next, I kind of now
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I kind of want to keep going with it. Yeah,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: you know what, we will get into some of yours.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: We'll do that next, and I'll do my Dan segment
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: for Reckless at Breakfast today Sports Radio ninety three point
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: three KJRFM. All right, we'll get Reckless at Breakfast coming
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: up at seven forty five ish. Also, part of that's
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: gonna be Ryan Heay's comments on Dan Wilson yesterday and
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert's comments about Dan Wilson. So Ryan comments on
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Logan's comments about Dan Wilson's comments that reference my comment.
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that sounds like it's yeah, accurate.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: The comment train. But you know, we did the segment
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: previous segment about here we are in this transition period
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: out of World Cup, getting ready for playoff race, getting
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: ready for training camp to begin next week. Might be
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: a good Wednesday, fun Wednesday to ask for your sports
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: that guys, the sports fan that drives you nuts. And
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: so we've asked for a few talkbacks, and it sounds
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: like we've got a few stacked up here on the
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: old train track. So let's get to it, Ashley.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: All right, here we go talkback number one.
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: Okay, the person or the guy that I can't stand
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: is the I just became a fan, and I'm gonna
• 44:12
  Speaker 9: have an opinion on every play. Fan drives me nuts,
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: Shut up and watch the game.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Oh man, it's so true, and I'm gonna end up
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: sounding like that guy. I'm gonna sound like, oh, that guy,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: the things he knows. But there are situations where like
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to go to games sometimes because
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: you're afraid of who you're gonna sit by, and they're
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: gonna just especially if they find out that you do
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: sports talk radio for a living, because then they're like,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I want you to hear all of my opinions. And
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: so you're at the game and you will hear this guy,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: and if you know, sometimes he's great, great sitting next
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: to him, like he really knows his stuff and you
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: can have some really good conversation and it can enhance
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: the game. But what he's talking about the guy that
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: pretty much just kind of picked it up and doesn't
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: know anything, and you got to humor him, and you're
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: just like, oh.
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I remember years ago there was a guy that
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: was friends with some of my friends and he said
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: he was a San Francisco forty nine Ers fan.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Well, right right away, you know he doesn't know much, right,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I could name more people on his team on his
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: team than he could.
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: He didn't know anyone that played for them. I was like,
• 45:28
  Speaker 8: you are not a You're just saying you're a fan
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: because it's cool.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: You think it's cool.
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: All right, we have another Yeah, we got four lots more.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, Hello, good.
• 45:37
  Speaker 10: Morning, good morning, heading off to a nice golf weekend.
• 45:40
  Speaker 10: So suck at turds, but I got a good one.
• 45:43
  Speaker 10: Early Playoff Guy, just because your team was good last year,
• 45:47
  Speaker 10: it's a brand new team.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: This year.
• 45:49
  Speaker 10: It's a brand new, brand new year. Early Playoff Guy,
• 45:53
  Speaker 10: just because we went to the playoffs last year doesn't
• 45:56
  Speaker 10: mean we're doing it this year. It's a brand new season.
• 46:00
  Speaker 10: Watch the team as it is. Early Playoff Guy.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Play Early Playoff Guy.
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it is true. You can't just assume and the
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: guy that's like, well, we did it last year, we'll
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: do it again.
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, especially if you're Americus fan, you can't assume that.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Early Playoff Guy has already punched his ticket. I'm surprised
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: that that elevated to the top of his list. But
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: he did not hesitate.
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: He did not hesitate.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Early Playoff Guy is on his last nerve. Yes, now
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: I get it, I understand.
• 46:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, here we go.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Soccer Guy is the worst.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: They aren't the greatest athletes in the world. The average
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: NBA or NFL player are bigger, faster, and stronger than
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: soccer players. And the other thing, soccer players are not
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: running around the entire game. If you actually watch a game,
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of walking in soccer. Second place is
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: fantasy football guy. I only want to hear about fantasy football.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: If you're in a high money league and you have
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: one fantasy football team, that's it.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Yeah, Like if you are like
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: really invested and I you know, yeah, I think that's fair.
• 47:12
  Speaker 8: I do as a friend too, Yeah, I would care
• 47:14
  Speaker 8: about my friend's financial well being. If you've got a
• 47:16
  Speaker 8: lot of money on the line and you've got one
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: team that you're riding on.
• 47:20
  Speaker 7: I think that's that makes sense.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I go every Thursday to the kitchen. Wouldn't
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: create the kitchen to watch football during the season. And
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: the bartender Jake I told you about, Like that's our
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: first twenty thirty minutes of conversation. You know, I'll get
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: there a little bit early, you know, get a beer going,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: maybe something stronger, and then but that's just sort of
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: our routine. I enjoy that. I kind of look forward
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: to that. But he's he's so right like fantasy football
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: guy that it just can't stop talking about his roster,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: for sure.
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: And there's nothing worse than someone that's got like five
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: or six teams. And I can say that because I
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: use to have like five or six teams, and I
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: couldn't even remember who was on any given team, because
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: how do you keep six teams straight?
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: I will only have one. I got invited to play
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: in another one and I didn't have the heart to
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: tell them at the time. But I can't do more
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: than one.
• 48:11
  Speaker 8: I played in three last year, and I even think
• 48:13
  Speaker 8: that's too much. But I really only care about one. Yeah, yeah,
• 48:17
  Speaker 8: that's the main one, all right.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: And then I'm just gonna not touch soccer right now. Yeah,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: we'll leave that all. So maybe you and I could
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: have a beer or something that on Thursday.
• 48:28
  Speaker 11: Here we go when I'm Yankees guy, look at me
• 48:31
  Speaker 11: and my nice new Yankees hat.
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: I'm from Arkansas.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Wham.
• 48:36
  Speaker 11: We haven't been in the World Series in two years?
• 48:39
  Speaker 10: Whoam?
• 48:40
  Speaker 11: We only have twenty six World Championships. When when Dodgers
• 48:44
  Speaker 11: are spending all their money.
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's so true.
• 48:50
  Speaker 8: They know Yankees Guy, Yankees guy, Yeah, and just act
• 48:55
  Speaker 8: they act like.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: They're so Oh man, what did we do to deserve this?
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: An owner that keeps his top five payroll every year,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: we make the playoffs four out of every five seasons.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: We have Aaron Judge to root for why us.
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we're so. I mean, don't you guys feel bad
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: for us?
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Sure, it's not fair what the Dodgers are doing in
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the Mets. Yankee guy winer, Yankee, good call?
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah suck it, Yankee guy.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
• 49:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, this is our last one for this.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I hate.
• 49:27
  Speaker 12: The guy who says that this twenty thirteen Seahawks could
• 49:30
  Speaker 12: have won the super Bowl with any quarterback. Russell Wilson
• 49:34
  Speaker 12: was not the only quarterback they could have won the
• 49:37
  Speaker 12: super Bowl with, but he was a big part of
• 49:39
  Speaker 12: why they won. You know, all those games that season,
• 49:42
  Speaker 12: they and the Super Bowl, the trick plays running behind
• 49:45
  Speaker 12: that crappy old line, making those moonshots to Doug Baldwin
• 49:51
  Speaker 12: and Golden Tate and Jermaine Curse.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Not everyone good.
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: All right, It's funny because I actually fully disagree with
• 49:58
  Speaker 8: that guy. I mean, they could have well, not anyone,
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: not anyone, but there are at least a handful of
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: quarterbacks that the Seahawks could have.
• 50:07
  Speaker 7: That defense was so good, well yeah that I.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Mean beyond good. That that was one of the all time,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: if not the all time defense. I think you could
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: have won with a lot of quarterback. I think that
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: was more when Russell was in game manager mode, and
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: he was a lot bigger part the following year, and
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: then he was a lot bigger part of it in
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: the years that you didn't make it to the super Bowl.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: So he did not. He did not spend his career
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: being a game manager. He was certainly much more than that.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: But if there was a time that he was, it
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: was the first Super Bowl.
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: So but I get what he's saying, like, I think
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: there's going to come a time, there's going to be
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: a redemption time for Russell in this town. And it's
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: not right now, but there's going to come a time
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: and that the appreciation will return for him. But there's
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: still a lot of like diehard Russell fans that have
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: had to endure or not only watching him decline and
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: all of their friends who didn't like him, you know,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: kind of waving it in their face, so they've had
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: to kind of be quiet here for the last five years.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: That's a very specific sports That guy though, right there,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: that drives you nuts, is that guy that didn't appreciate
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson enough. No, not anybody could have won that.
• 51:25
  Speaker 8: Super Bowl, Yes, and I'm yes, you are correct, and
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: I don't think anybody could. And I did appreciate Russell
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: Wilson during that time a lot. It was just then
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: he got really full of himself and drove me crazy.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting what they do when they choose
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: to put him in the Ring of Honor. He's certainly
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: going to go in the Ring of Honor, but you
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: want to, but he might have to wait longer than
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: he normally would have, because I do think you're gonna
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: have to let some time pass people to kind of
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: forget about a few things start remembering him for the good.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: There's gonna have to be a time and the distant few.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Like you could put Bobby Wagner in the Ring of
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Honor the day he.
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: Retired, right, You could do it right now while he's
• 52:05
  Speaker 8: still playing for another team.
• 52:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you could put him in the cam Chancellor. You
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: could have put in the day he retired because of
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: the injury. You could have put him in the in
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: the Ring of Honor, and people would have been alright
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: with that. But with Russ, I think you're going to
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: have to intentionally overcorrect, course correct on the backside to
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: make sure that people do remember him. Fondly again before
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: you do it, because you want that there will come
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: a time. There will come a time where he's, you know,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: back in the hearts of people and they will remember
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: him fondly and for his achievements and will want to
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: celebrate him. But you're going to probably have to wait
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: more than a decade. Yeah, I would think so before
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: you before you could do that, because you certainly don't
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: want to do it when people are still anxious to
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: boo the guy. Right, That's that's the biggest nightmare, putting
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: a guy in a ring of honor and the crowd's
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: booing him.
• 52:59
  Speaker 8: No, it's got to be a long time from now.
• 53:02
  Speaker 8: We got some Texas on this on the subject matter
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: as well.
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: From the two six the thinks the Dallas Cowboys are
• 53:09
  Speaker 8: a good team.
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: Guy, that guy drives them nuts.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: That's just a Dallas Cowboy fan. Yeah exactly, it's just
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Dallas cowboy guy.
• 53:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah uh.
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: From the two of six the yells getting the hole
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: on a t shot on par five.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Guy, that guy too, he's right there in right there
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: in the family. He might be the actual father of
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: the family. Baba Booie, is this crazy son?
• 53:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah exactly, from the four to two five suck chuck.
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: If you won't own it, I will. I think you're
• 53:34
  Speaker 8: owning this as well. Though I've recently become the bitch
• 53:36
  Speaker 8: about Dan Wilson.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Guy can't really avoid that one.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and my teammates keep reminding me, so yeah, yeah,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: I've kind of been put front center on that one.
• 53:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: It is, uh, let's see, oh, the from the two
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: five to three. It's the worst is the my team
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: won a bunch of championships decades ago.
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: Guy.
• 53:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the person and I think by that, like, it's
• 54:02
  Speaker 8: not because that person doesn't even admit that it's that
• 54:04
  Speaker 8: their team won the championship decades ago.
• 54:06
  Speaker 7: It's uhh, we've got we've got five how many do
• 54:09
  Speaker 7: you have?
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 54:10
  Speaker 8: But yours were in the eighties, right, and you've done
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: nothing since.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: We've got five?
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: Guy.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you just call him that. Yeah, it's the one
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: that just he can lose an argument dramatically but still
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: thinks he wins it because he points out that his
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: city's won more championships than your city.
• 54:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly. It's like, yeah, that's definitely different.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Arizona rivalry, guy, is a specific thing. I mean, I
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: lived in Phoenix and every single ASU you of A
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: argument and they hang out all the time, they're in
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: each other's families for goodness sake, and yet whenever the
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: conversation starts about as U versus you of A, it
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: always ends with, yeah, but when's the latch time you
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: went to the Rose Bowl because they never been Yeah,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: And then it's like, yeah, but how about basketball season? Yeah,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: but I don't have to live in Tucson and dust
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: And then oh, yeah, but about our medical facilities? And
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: then it ends and then that's it. In our library,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: that's the last word every time, how about our how
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: about our medical how about our medical program? And they
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: think that's the mic drop moment. I'm like, that's like
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: the worst argument, and U of A fans always saved
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: it to the end. Yeah, all right, we're gonna get
• 55:22
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• 55:24
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• 55:26
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• 55:29
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• 55:32
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• 55:35
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• 55:38
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• 55:42
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• 56:43
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• 56:48
  Speaker 1: just felt like he became part of the family here
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: in the mornings, having him on every once in a
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: while just to gauge his enthusiasm level. And then I
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: suddenly get done with a World Cup, And it's like
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: I returned to the house and he'd packed and left
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: and left a really sweet note like thanks for having me,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: but I want to make sure we follow up call
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: him to see if he just had the time of
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• 57:17
  Speaker 1: and he is with us right here on the radio
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: program once again. How are you, sir, I'm good Jack.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: I just assumed I would talk to you in four years.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Oh no, just take a little. Oh we are bonded now,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: we bonded over soccer.
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: I'll move back in four years from that.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning to you. Yeah, all right, did you
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: have the time of your life the last month?
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: I thought it was an outstanding tournament? Yeah I did.
• 57:48
  Speaker 13: I mean, if you want to do the personal route,
• 57:50
  Speaker 13: I went to nine matches, three up in Vancouver, five
• 57:54
  Speaker 13: in Seattle, and one in LA and everything. Travel was easy.
• 57:59
  Speaker 13: This stadiums were unbelievable, the atmosphere. I just thought. I
• 58:03
  Speaker 13: just thought the US nailed it. I mean, yes, there
• 58:06
  Speaker 13: were some downsides, but I just thought, and I was
• 58:09
  Speaker 13: just on the West coast, granted, But yes, I had
• 58:12
  Speaker 13: a time in my life, and hey, you know, from
• 58:15
  Speaker 13: June twelfth to July nineteenth, I didn't get too much done.
• 58:20
  Speaker 13: The US's first game, I guess I should say June eleventh,
• 58:23
  Speaker 13: but yeah, I thought it was an outstanding tournament.
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: I had a blast. I had an absolute.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Blast, And I think it's good to remind people that
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: might be familiarizing themselves with your story for the first time.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: This is how many World Cups have you gone to?
• 58:39
  Speaker 6: This was my ninth tournament.
• 58:41
  Speaker 13: By ninth, my brother and I in ninety four were
• 58:44
  Speaker 13: lucky enough to go to the semi final and final
• 58:47
  Speaker 13: down in la We had cousins living right outside of Pasadena,
• 58:50
  Speaker 13: and I don't remember who won lottery tickets, but we
• 58:56
  Speaker 13: got to the final. Yes it was pretty Italy versus Brazil,
• 59:03
  Speaker 13: but still it was at the final at the Rose
• 59:06
  Speaker 13: Bowl and on my way home. On our way home,
• 59:08
  Speaker 13: Alan just kind of elbowed me and said, why don't
• 59:10
  Speaker 13: we just do this every four years? And that's literally
• 59:13
  Speaker 13: how it started. So it went, you know, France, Germany,
• 59:17
  Speaker 13: South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Qatar, Korea and and we just
• 59:24
  Speaker 13: said we're going to do this until one guy can't
• 59:27
  Speaker 13: push the other guy in the wheelchair. So this is
• 59:31
  Speaker 13: what we do. And then it's been a blast. And
• 59:34
  Speaker 13: not only am I traveling with my very good friend,
• 59:36
  Speaker 13: my brother, but you're discovering the world.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: It's just not a party. So we're you know, doing museums.
• 59:41
  Speaker 13: And and and whatever the countries offer. So we are
• 59:46
  Speaker 13: planning on going to Spain and Portugal in four years,
• 59:49
  Speaker 13: but we thought we would just you know, we just
• 59:53
  Speaker 13: stayed on the West coast on this side. And and
• 59:55
  Speaker 13: then when you're in the host country, you know, you
• 59:57
  Speaker 13: just get to see everything in your own time zone
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 13: as the world bitches about when the games were being played.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 6: So that's what the fortunate part here was. But yeah,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: this was my ninth.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 13: I think I think I got over seventy five matches
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 13: in my belt now for World Cup matches, and yeah, yeah,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 13: it's just a cool tradition that we picked up years ago.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and and look, I'm putting my money on you
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: being in the chair by the way I've seen the
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: way you've lived, so your brother will do the pushing.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: I just want you to know, Yeah.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 6: They're not even taking action on that, you know.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 13: The Calviva it got to three to five and then
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 13: one to nine and they pulled it off the board.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: You can't even bet it on Calshie anymore. It's crazy.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: They pulled it across. If you knew my brother, that's
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: even tenfold.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: So yes, kjr Alum former voice of the Sounders Stretch
• 1:00:53
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• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: So just to kind of tie a bow on that. Okay,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: So you nine and you obviously had a great time.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: So can I assume this is the best experience that
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: you have had? Is this number one ranked out of
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: the nine?
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 13: No, I wouldn't go that far just because traveling, just
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 13: because traveling got it. The accessibility obviously going up to
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 13: Vancouver and then coming home and being in my own
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 13: house and not spending money on airfare and hotel was outstanding.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 13: But for some reason I've always spoke about not for
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 13: some reason, but Korea was just so easy and so amazing,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 13: and and they loved Americans at the time. And we
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 13: got into ten matches in ten straight days, taking speed
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 13: trains around this around the country, and our money system
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 13: was killing theirs five to one, so we came back
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 13: with money. But regardless, I mean, you know, not to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 13: sound dramatic. It's tough to compare them because France in
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 13: ninety eight and with the French team winning and then
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 13: having a great squad, and we saw that team play
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 13: a couple of times and tickets were everywhere, and you're
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 13: in Paris, Paris is your home base, and so they're
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 13: just all unique, you know, So it's.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: Tough to compare.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 13: This was unique because we barely left the West coast
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 13: and barely left shoreline. Yet I got to nine matches
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 13: and I'd much rather, you know, no offense to anybody.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 13: I'd much rather be in Rio dejan Eiro than than
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 13: shoreline Washington. So they're all just so cool in different ways.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 13: Saint Petersburg, Russia is just one of the most beautiful cities,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 13: and then war breaks out a couple of years later,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 13: and we don't think we'll ever go back or be
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 13: allowed back into Russia. So they're all pretty unique. This
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 13: one's way up there because the games. The games were
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 13: so good, and like I said, it was important that
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 13: you know they're in your time zone, so you saw,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 13: you know, I didn't get much done for a month.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 13: You know, I'm watching three games a day, if not more.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 13: DVR help or no, so it was amazing. They're just
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 13: all amazing for different reasons.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Get your go, get your mail at make sure you
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: do your dish, make sure you clean your dish, make
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: your bed for the first time in a month.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: That's all good.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll say this the soccer itself, which I enjoyed,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: and we'll get to that at a moment, But let's
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: talk about Spain. I don't want to go any further
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: without talking about the champion. The older I get, the
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: less I root for the underdog, the more I want
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: the team that looks to me like that's the best team.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: They played the best from beginning to wind. I don't
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: think there's any doubt that's the best team that I
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: watched play. And I don't know a lot about soccer,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: So I leave it to you. Are you satisfied with
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: the champion? Did the right team win this thing?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 13: I thought it was a fair result. The best team
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 13: did win the tournament. They were the best from the
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 13: very beginning. And just heard a stat yesterday that you know,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 13: they gave up one goal during the tournament, more than
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 13: three hundred goals were scored. I mean, they had the
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 13: best defense, they were the most balanced, Yeah, the best
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 13: team won the tournament, which is pretty cool. The final,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 13: I think after the build up, especially the final four
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 13: and then the consolation match was spended I think fourteen
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 13: to thirteen. I think people were expecting more goals, but
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 13: that was kind of a final. That's how finals are played,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 13: the back and forth, the tacticians at work.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: But yeah, fair result, fair.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 13: Tournament, the best team won, and outside of individual country's disappointments,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 13: I think it played out as well as FIFA would
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 13: want it to play out. Also, there were great, great
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 13: matches within group played. They were you know up until
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 13: the quarters, but then the semi finals were the four
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 13: superpowers and the best team won the tournament. I think
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 13: it was very fair.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: What was the hig What was the low moment for
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: you of the tournament? And it could be anything, whether
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: it's play a game, a situation. What what would rank
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: as your favorite part of the last month and your
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: least favorite.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 13: Even though the disappointment, the how the Argentines acted at
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 13: the end of the final was pretty predictable. There's some
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 13: countries that do that sort of stuff. But the high
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 13: moment might have been Argentina versus Cape Verde. I mean
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 13: that that match I was, I was around non soccer
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 13: people out and about and it was I mean, everybody
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 13: was glued to the TV as that went into extra time.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 13: I think there's individual matches that took this World Cup
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 13: and especially in the US, to a new level of interest.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 13: But the low, the low is easy because it was
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 13: USA Belgium being there, having the egg laid, and I
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 13: left early for the first time I've ever never left
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 13: early a game, and then the eighty eighth they just said,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 13: my buddies are like, you're leaving. I said, yeah, I'm
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 13: done watching, I'm done, you know. And I didn't even
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 13: know the fourth goal was scored until the next day
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 13: that that was obviously a low moment. If it was
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 13: two to one, it might have had a different tenor
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 13: going the rest, going the rest of the week, but
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 13: and the rest of the tournament. But those things happen.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 13: Also because Belgium then played Spain. Do a decent met
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 13: you know, do a decent match. But I would say
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 13: I would say some individual matches, you know, Argentina versus
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 13: Kate Verity is number one. And then for me, the
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 13: disappointment was being there USA Belgium was just an absolute
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 13: low point.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: What level of satisfaction did you glean from seeing friends
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: of yours, media, fellow sports media members of yours enjoy
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: this so much, who have done nothing in your life
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: but bash soccer, and yet they couldn't deny that they
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it. How much satisfaction did you get from that?
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, I think we've talked about this. Maybe
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 13: we talked about this when I was with you all
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 13: morning a couple of weeks ago. Was I'm not a
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 13: soccer defender and or argumentative person when it comes to
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 13: people who don't enjoy what I love, and especially soccer,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 13: maybe other subjects. When I was younger, I'll argue tooth
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 13: and nail and go on it. But you know there's
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 13: parts of it that if you don't get it, you
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 13: don't get it.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 6: And if you I.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 13: Don't sit and defend nil nil dra just because both
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 13: teams have shot, you know, twenty times, have both have twenty.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 6: Shots or ten on goal.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 13: I've never been that person, but I think it's it's
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 13: again I'm going to use the wrong phrase of I
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 13: told you so. But it can be entertaining, It can
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 13: be ballet on the pitch, it can.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 6: Be these guys doing amazing.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 13: Now with so many cameras and everyone watching, they're watching
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 13: these unbelievable athletes do crazy stuff flying down the pitch
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 13: and they're only one hundred and forty five pounds and
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 13: yet they're doing things and the power on the ball,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 13: and so that was part I do like, and I
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 13: do like the appreciation of the sport I love.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 6: I have to admit that, Yeah, I do dig that.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 13: But I've never been a guy that defends the sport
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 13: because there it is nil nil, there is flopping. Now,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 13: it's micro managing of a technical offsides. You know, it's
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 13: there's so many things that still, you know, I can't defend.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 13: But I've loved this sport since I was five years old.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 13: I have two fake hips to prove it. And so
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 13: it's just kind of like, I like it that the
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 13: national media or there's maybe interest moving forward into the
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 13: USA of hey will the coach stay, how will they
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 13: do in the Gold Cup? But really everybody goes back
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 13: to you know, college football starting soon, training camps are
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 13: starting soon, and we go on our way. My favorite team,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 13: west Ham United, got relegated from the Premier League, is
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 13: playing in the Championship, and that's rock my world, and
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 13: I only maybe one percent of the country would know
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 13: what the hell I'm talking about, right, So.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 6: There's there's that slight, there's that movement in there. I'm
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 6: glad there was. And the US did well.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 13: Seattle did unbelievable showing off and showing out for the country.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 13: So it only goes so far from me because I
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 13: get it. I mean, it's great, it was appreciated. Then
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 13: we move on.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: Do you think the MLS benefits No, I don't think so.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 6: I don't.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 13: I just it never takes that bump. I mean, yes,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 13: it's got to. I mean a few weeks, it's got to.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 13: Action has started. I believe games are tonight. Yeah, and yeah,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 13: they'll be interested in in players that their names that
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 13: people are familiar with now and oh guy scored or
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 13: that guy scored a lot of the US plays in Europe,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 13: some guys play here. But I think it just goes
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 13: back to, you know, kind of where we were. Yes,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 13: the interest goes up a few percents a little bit,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 13: but you know, I think those soccer fans are already
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 13: soccer fans. And are there going to be more people
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 13: out of Sounders game? Are there more people out of Timbers.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 13: I mean down in Miami they already sell them out,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 13: and Messi's going to take a few games off. I
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 13: mean it just it's still ratcheted in right, It's in
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 13: this little category of fifth or whatever it is where
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 13: people follow. Will people buy more Apple TV subscriptions?
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 6: I doubt it. I don't know.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 13: Maybe maybe they sell one hundred more thousand more. Maybe
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 13: I'm totally wrong. I just think MLS is where it's at.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 13: You know, the European Club, the European leagues will be followed,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 13: and and I think maybe stat sheets and or you know,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 13: the people who aren't soccer fans, they'll look at the scores,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 13: Oh yeah, that guy did that.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 6: That guy did that. Will they sit and watch forty
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 6: five to ninety minutes of MLS? I don't think so.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: Do you think that they will fix some of those
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: frustrating things about the sport? Are they just here to stay?
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: The flopping and the you know, and the constant trying
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: to trick the officials into a penalty kick and all
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: of that sort of thing. Do you think those things
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: that frustrate you and a lot of non soccer fans,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: do you think that they're here to stay? Or will
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: they try to get their arms around that going forward.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 6: No, it's on its way out.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 13: I mean if good they started with this, they called
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 13: it mistaken identity. If a guy flops down, the defender
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 13: got a yellow card, and they go back and look
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 13: at it, and that guy flop down, he got a
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 13: yellow card and they move on. And no, the flopping
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 13: will keep continue to move out of the game because
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 13: there is a penalty. I mean, no, the guy isn't
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 13: fined a thousand or ten thousand dollars. Some of these
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 13: guys that wouldn't even affect the amount of money they're making.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 13: But you know, because they get a yellow card and
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 13: because it's caught, that is a way to phase it out.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 13: Some of the other stuff, like Vaar's got to they've
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 13: got to tweak that. In some of the leagues around
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 13: the world. They're making it much too difficult. They can't
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 13: get out of their own way in England, especially that
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 13: it just takes forever for a decision to be made.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 13: And it just really is changing the way the game
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 13: is not only looked at but celebrated. But the number
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 13: of things are being phased out there and it's good
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 13: first steps. And now on the other hand, some other
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 13: stuff is going to stay because you're dealing with human beings.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 13: But they're just adding so many cameras to the pits.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 13: There used to be three cameras. Now there's what twenty three,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 13: there's there's massive amount of eyes on everybody's actions. So
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 13: the bad will the bad will continue to be phased out.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Good good, good good. All right, So now what do
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: you do with your your life? You're now empty existence, Yeah,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: without show of a human being, You're just gonna stare
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: at a candle and you know, go in your kitchen
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: and just stare at a candle for a week and
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: just kind of clear your thoughts are You're gonna buy
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: a cat? I mean, what are you going to do
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: with your life now?
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 13: Well, yesterday was a yard work in the backyard, you know,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 13: starting on projects, you know, doing things that I haven't
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 13: been doing.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: But I honestly go full scissor hands. Turn that shrubbery
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: into a dinosaur. I'm telling you you're going to kick
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: out it.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 6: Absolutely. Yeah. The neighbors will love it.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 13: They're already I'm way up on the list for the
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 13: neighbors already. H But no, this was planned, you know,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 13: this is this was I was going to you know
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 13: you for a number of us. We worked our schedules
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 13: around this schedule and so now it's back to reality,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 13: which which really stinks. I did go to the Mariner
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 13: game Saturday. I went on Monday. I still think t
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 13: Mobile's top five park in the in the in the US.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 13: And not to sound too cheesy, with light rail, you know,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 13: you get down and back. It reminds me of taken
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 13: a bus three oh five to the Kingdom when I
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 13: was a kid. So you know, it's back to back
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 13: to cheering on looking at the regular sports.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 6: But yeah, it's it's a special time.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 13: I'm already I'm a weird write everything out on uh
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 13: on some card stock guy. So I'm already looking at
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 13: Spain and Morocco. I'm already you know, what do we do?
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 13: How long we want to stay? How much money? That'll
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 13: be expensive? I mean so, but yeah, it's back to
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 13: reality and I get to throw away my bracket here
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 13: one of these days.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: And the words have sould the soul back to life,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: back to reality, back to the here and now.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 13: Yes, stick stick to your original gig. But yep, that's
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 13: exactly right, that's exactly right.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna start to sold the soul cover band, and
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: you're not invited.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 13: Yeah, Hey, I'll be missed.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 6: I'll be missed.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: All right, Man, great to catch up with you. It's
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: been fun having you a part of the morning show
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: here in the last month, and I'm glad you had
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: a great time. It's a really cool thing that you
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: and your brother do. And I'm a little jealous. I
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: think we all are a little bit jealous. So keep
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: it up and we will talk to you very soon.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 13: All right, right, appreciate it, Chuck, thanks so much for
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 13: having me on the last month or so.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: All right, there he is stretch joining us Matt Johnson
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: right here on the radio program. Coming up next, back
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: to your talkbacks, your feedback. Ashley and I started a
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: conversation at seven o five this morning. We're getting ready
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: to get very busy, not that we haven't been very
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: busy in the sports world, but with football getting ready
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: to start, I mean, I mean we're not gonna be
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: able to focus on anything else. Our children, forget about it.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: They can raise themselves. We've got sports to discuss. So
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: we just took this Wednesday to have a fun, little
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: transitional topic. We asked for your feedback on who is
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: that guy that sports fan that drives you the most nuts?
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: And get as specific as you'd like, because the more
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: specific you get, the more fun it is. We're gonna
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: get to your talkbacks, your feedback next Sports Radio ninety
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: three point three k a r FM Tony pet peeve
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: of mine to start the nine o'clock hour. If you're
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: gonna be on television and you're gonna do a talk show,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: you might want to invest in a better looking pen,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: Like what are these people? I'm a pen snob, but
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: what are they doing with their crappy on the end
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: bis and stuff like that? You gotta at least have
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: a pilot.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 7: Also, yeah, how do you hold a pen? How do
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 7: you hold a pen?
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 7: Because I would just click the pen over and over.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but I did get one the other day that
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 8: has a spinny thing on top, so you can just
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 8: spin that around instead of clicking it.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 7: Oh, it's great fun.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: I'd have like a ink, well and quill on my
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: desk if I was doing a television talk shows before,
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: I'd have.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 7: A crappy pen in Miam I can picture that you're
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 7: doing that.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, nine o'clock hour. Ashley Ryan is here.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell, and yes, that's football music.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: We're getting ready for training camp starts here on Saturday.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: It's already started, by the way. Two teams have already
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: reported to camp, Arizona and Carolina because they play in
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame game, so they are already in camp.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: And so we're doing all sorts of training camp preview
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: stuff this week, and to me, part of that preparation
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: is talking a little fantasy football. It's not premature. You
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: can talk fantasy football anytime end of the year in
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: sports talk radio. It's always cool. And joining us now
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: on the radio program, I know you hear them all
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: the time here at KJAR and you probably follow them yourself.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: It is Dave Richard from CBS Sports Fantasy Football expert,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: and he is with us early, not prematurely early in
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: the process here today on Chuck in the Mornings.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 4: Hi, Dave, Chuck. I heard the mini die tribe on pens.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 4: You feel about NFL coaches with pencils, pens, sharpies because
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 4: we see them on the sideline and those things are
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 4: behind their ear, in their ear, in their mouth, on
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 4: their brim of their caps, Like, where do you come
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: out on that?
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: I'm all right if you're keeping it. I hope that's
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: not like a community pin that you're chewing on and
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: everything else. But yeah, I like the old pencil pen
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: highlighter family, but they better be of quality if you
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: have the means.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 4: And it's the NFL, I think they can afford quality
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 4: lighting utensils.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: Right right right. I want to see some shabby highlighter
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: hanging on to its last juice on John Harball's ear.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: That's what I don't want to see.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 4: Dave as Well said, that's what I'm here for.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: I'm just curious before we start diving into some actual
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: things about training camp that you're looking forward to keeping
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: your eye on monitoring. Do you give yourself an off season,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: Like do you go through draft and then like, I'm
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: not gonna think about fantasy football again for a while,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: or is it just NonStop Like you could be at
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: your daughter's wedding and you're there with a legal pad
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: doodling you know your running back order. I mean, how
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: do you operate in the off season?
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 4: Well, the title that I carry at CBS is in
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: your Fantasy writer, so it's not off season. You know,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: hang out at the pool. Guys. It's fantasy football every day,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 4: every month, and I love it. And I literally started
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 4: digging into this season the day after the Super Bowl
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: back in February, when I forgot which team won the
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl. Maybe you can remind me, but it was
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: a pretty cool deal. I did take some vacations along
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 4: the way, and during the vacations, you know what I did.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: I went to the pool. My wife was there. Yeah,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: she's in her bikini. I'm in my shorts and I'm
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 4: laying at the pool and she's listening to music and
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 4: taking a little nap, and I'm thinking about, well, who's
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 4: going to be the next receiver on Seattle to break out?
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 4: Because JSN if he does the exact same thing, is
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 4: it going to be Shaheed? Does Cup have a rebound?
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 4: Does Tony Horton take a step forward? Is there Elijah Royo?
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 4: Does he take a step forward? So I'm thinking about
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 4: it all the time. Our podcast never slows down. We
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 4: do it at least three times a week during the offseason,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 4: and now we're up to five days a week with
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 4: training camp open. So to answer your question, no, I
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 4: don't really take a vacation I'm thinking about football all
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 4: the time.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: It never never stops. For Dave Richard, Well, why you're
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: in demand, that's why we love having you on. All Right, Well,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: let's get to a few things, and I do want
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: to start with the Seahawks. Just your thoughts. I mean,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going to throw out the name AJ Barner. I
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: just said yesterday that he might be end up being
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: the talk of camp for the Seahawks. New offensive coordinator
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: who had a little time with George Kittle turned him
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: into a pretty good player. And Barner had a little
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: bit of a breakthrough last year. I think he's gonna
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: have a bigger breakthrough this year. So that's just me.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: Has Dave already made a note of Aj Barner? What's
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: the buzz around him heading into this season?
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: It's hard for me to get behind Barner when he
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 4: didn't even average four targets per game last year. I
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 4: know we had his moments, but a lot of those
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 4: had to do with the seven touchdowns that he scored,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 4: and for some time ends scoring a touchdown means having
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 4: a great week in fantasy. But I don't think Aj
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 4: did enough on top of those touchdowns to warrant getting picked,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: especially at a time when we're coming off a year,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 4: we're three rookie tight ends. We're outstanding, And now everybody's
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 4: clamoring to draft Colston Loveland in round three or round four,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 4: Tyler Warren in round four or round five, Harold Fannon
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 4: in round five or round six. And that's on top
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 4: of Trey McBride, brock Bauers. I know you guys have
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 4: seen a lot of McBride especially. There are a lot
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 4: of really good young tight ends in the NFL, and
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 4: by the way, there's still a couple of really good
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 4: old tight ends. And so I think you're gonna be
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 4: able to get away with one in your drafts chock ok,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 4: because aj Barner won't be in demand and you will
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 4: be able to get him later on in your draft.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: And he could have some sleeper potential. And he is
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 4: a name that I've thought about. Could he be basically
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 4: what you're looking for from a tight end. Can he
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 4: be first or second on his team in targets over
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: the course of the season. And if a tight end
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 4: can do that, they're probably going to have a big
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: role in fantasy. And I'm a little bit worried that
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 4: he may fall short of that in Seattle, given all
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 4: the other pass catchers that they have in town.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: And on your list of things in training camp that
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: have to be monitored, how highly does the Seahawks running
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: back situation rank on that list.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 4: It's pretty high, and it's obviously very high profile because
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 4: this is a team that ran their way to a
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl victory and then let Kenneth Walker walk out
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 4: the door to Kansas City, and he's going to be
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 4: a popular fantasy pick now because everybody's going to forget
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 4: about the injury history that he had and the limited
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: workload that he had last year, and they're just going
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 4: to assume that Andy Reid is going to sprinkle pixie
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 4: dust on him and he's suddenly going to become a
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 4: great fantasy running back. And it's possible, yeah, but we
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: also know what the downside is with Kenneth Walker, and
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 4: I wonder how popular he will be in fantasy drafts
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 4: in Seattle this year and how many Seahawks fans are
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 4: actually going to take a former twelve with the top
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: twelve pick at running back. Jadaron Price was one of
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: my favorite prospects to evaluate. I think he's certainly better
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: than what the film showed because there wasn't a lot
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 4: of film. He was playing behind a very very good
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 4: prospect in Jeremiah Love. But he showed me in the
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: limited film that he can catch the ball in the backfield,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 4: he can touch a little bit, He's got good speed,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 4: he certainly has good size. It's just a matter of
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 4: whether or not the Seattle coaching staff is going to
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 4: be comfortable putting a lot on his plate right away.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 4: And the longer it takes them to turn him into
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 4: a full time running back, the less likely he's going
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 4: to be great for fantasy because eventually Zach Charbonay is
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: going to come back. Charbonnee will be back, He'll have
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: a ramp up period, and then he will probably resume
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 4: his role of being the passing downs guy, the goal
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 4: line guy. We all know what Sharbonay's great at, and
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 4: the coaches would be stupid to not use him as such,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 4: and that would limited the touches for Jodiarian Price. So
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: I think it's a really tough thread to get through
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 4: the eye of the needle for Jadarion Price to be
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 4: a great fantasy running back when there are so many
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 4: obstacles that are in his path, the least of which
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 4: being that he is going to have to end up
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 4: sharing at some point to some degree to begin the
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 4: season in Seattle.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: If I could answer your previous question, my guess is
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: eleven years of doing sports talk radio here that a
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: lot of Seahawk fans will overdraft Ken Walker one of
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: those like protect my yeah, protect my heart kind of things,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: like like if he goes and has a huge year,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: if he ends up being the running back that we
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: wanted him to be in the regular season for four
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: years here in Seattle, at least my wallet will benefit
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: where my heart will be hurt. I think that got it,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: got it?
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 4: So, so you're telling me that, And I might say
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: this on our podcast as soon as tomorrow, Chuck, like,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 4: Seattle fans are gonna end up rooting for Kenneth Walker.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: Not rooting for him, but protecting themselves just in case
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: he ends up being special in Kansas City. At least
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: I benefited from it in some way. You know what
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: I'm saying? See an emotional headg as it were, Yeah,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: exactly exactly. I might be broken hearted, but at least
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: my wallet will make up for that a little bit
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: if he ends up being special. All right, let's talk
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: about you brought up Jaredmia Love and talking about price.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: So how high is Jeremiah Love being drafted in that
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: Cardinals situation that they'll have going there.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 4: Well, fantasy managers are always excited about rookies, and there's
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 4: been at least one rookie running back that's come out
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: and been a popular pick. Goodness, I think we're going
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 4: back three or four drafts now when it's happened, and
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 4: Love actually is not going as high as I thought
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 4: he would. I thought Jeremiah Love would get taken as
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 4: a top twenty four pick. We're seeing him going in
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 4: round three right now. And I think it's because of
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 4: a couple factors. Number One, we all know this. The
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: Cardinals are not a great football team, and they're especially
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 4: in a tough division in the NFC West. Their defense
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 4: isn't good. Their offensive line is a big question mark,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 4: so that's a factor. It's also a factor that the
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 4: Cardinals signed Tyler Aljeer from away from Atlanta to add
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 4: to their running back group, and he's somebody that could
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 4: handle some of what Zach Charbonney does the shortyardage goal
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 4: line work. Algier has been very good at that. They
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: also still have James Connor as of now their roster,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 4: whether or not they trade him, find a new home
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 4: for him, or keep him because he's got valuable veteran
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 4: experience that remains to be seen. Those two guys could
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 4: cut into what Jeremiah Love's workload can be. And then
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: there's the other factor in Arizona, which is as bad
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 4: as that team is, particularly on defense and on the
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 4: offensive line, they still have a lot of other weapons
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 4: on offense, so they don't have to overload Jeremiah Love
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 4: with twenty touches per game in a similar way that
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 4: maybe the Raiders tried to do with Ashton genty last year,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 4: and once upon a time the Falcons did with Bijon
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 4: Robinson when he was a rookie running back. So I'm
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 4: thinking that the round three price tag is fair for
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: Jeremiah Love. And the reason why you'd be excited about
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 4: him is because he is such an exciting talent. He's
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 4: got amazing acceleration. He will break some big runs that
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 4: the offensive line doesn't really have a lot to do with.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 4: He'll create it himself and that'll make him that'll endear
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 4: him to fantasy managers because he'll put up points. It's
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 4: just a matter of how many of them he will
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 4: have over the course of the season. That keeps me
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 4: from putting him higher than Kenneth Walker, for example, Kyron Williams.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 4: Those two guys also in the NFC West, definitely I
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 4: would take ahead of Jeremiah Love. As we sit here today,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 4: all right.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: Well, give me the rookie that you do think is
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: going to hit the ground running and you should draft
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: him high. And then give me that Dave Richard Special,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: that rookie that you're going to be closely monitoring and
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: training camp because you got a pretty good feeling about him.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: And if you think he lands with the right team
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: and has used the right way, that he might be
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: worth somebody investing in.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 4: Well, that wide receiver is definitely going to be Casey
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 4: conception On on the Cleveland Browns. And this kind of
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 4: grows to talk up a Cleveland Browns wide receiver. But
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 4: you know, one of the things that I did with
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 4: CBS Sports this offseason was right the player profiles and
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 4: evaluate the top players in the NFL Draft. So sort
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 4: of scouted these guys, watched a lot of their film,
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 4: studied when as deep as I possibly could, and when
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 4: I watched case conception on play. He reminded me a
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 4: lot of Zay Flowers, and Jay Flowers was the top
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 4: wide receiver in Baltimore last year. He had a career
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 4: year last year. His play caller last year was Todd Monkin,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 4: who is now the head coach of the Cleveland Browns.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 4: So I bet Monkin saw some of Zay Flowers in
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 4: Casey conception On's game and liked him enough to put
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 4: him on his team with a first round pick. He's
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 4: the one that I'm really going to be paying attention
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 4: to this training camp because I think he could end
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 4: up being better than advertised for the Cleveland Browns. And
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 4: as far as any other rookie goes, Uh, that's a
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 4: tough one for me because this is.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: Both parts of the question there.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 4: You know what, if I can get away with answering that,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go ahead and take it. Because the Kenyon
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 4: Sadiq was the top tight end in the draft class,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 4: I hated where he landed. There were other wide receivers
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 4: who I definitely liked, I hated where they landed in
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 4: the draft class. Makai Lemon, for example, love the talent.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 4: I think he'll be good this year. I'm a little
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 4: worried about him this year in Philadelphia, with all the
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 4: changes that Philadelphia made, I think their veterans are going
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 4: to be good. I'm worried about Lemon being a huge contributor.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 4: Same thing with Carnel Tait in Tennessee. So I want
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 4: to give up most of these rookies a little bit
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 4: of time. I don't think the Browns can afford to
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 4: give their rookies time. I think they need to get
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 4: them on the field and see what they have conception
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 4: and can win at all three levels. He's somebody that
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to target in all of my drafts.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: Fantasy draft expert Dave Richard from CBS Sports joining us. Yeah,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: we're previewing training camp by getting ahead of this fantasy
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: football conversation before camp even begins. All Right, new systems,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: new ocs that have changed places. Things you know, areas
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: people that are going to get unlocked by the fact
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: they got a different play caller who stands out when
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: I describe that scenario.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 4: Throw a rock and hit an LA Charger and you're
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 4: going to find somebody who could be significantly better with
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 4: Mike McDaniel calling the plays in Los Ange, Jelis, and
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 4: I do think there will be a Jim Harbin influence
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 4: to lean on the run game, maybe a little bit
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 4: more than Mike McDaniel did in Miami, maybe because McDaniel
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 4: couldn't lean on the running backs as much as he
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 4: wanted to. There are a lot of games where they
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 4: were competitive or chasing points and the running backs had
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 4: to catch balls out of the backfield. We know that
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 4: with Devon a chan so Amari and Hampton is somebody
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 4: that I look at who could be an outstanding breakout
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 4: candidate just putting a great offensive line in place in
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 4: LA with a great offensive genius like Mike McDaniel who's
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 4: done great things with running backs even before Devon Han
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 4: was in the National Football League. I think Hampton benefits
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 4: same thing with Ladd mccackie. I think he sees his
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 4: target volume tick up a little bit. He gets a
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 4: lot of short targets. Mike McDaniel has talked about giving
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 4: Justin Herbert a lot of easy throws, quick throws that's
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 4: right up Ladd mccackie's alley. He can make plays after
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 4: the catch and do good with them, and that means
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 4: that Justin Herbert is a top twelve fantasy quarterback and
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 4: should be drafted accordingly. I don't believe he's had a
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: year yet in his career where he's averaged below nineteen
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 4: fantasy points per game. The number that we always look
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: for Chuck is twenty when it comes to a quarterback,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 4: and that's in six point for passing touchdown leagues. Herbert's
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 4: right on that border every year of his career. You're
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 4: throwing a little bit of rushing that he'll do, and man,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 4: he could have an outstanding year. So that's my favorite
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 4: offensive play college change. And remember more than half of
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 4: the NFL teams have new play callers this year. I
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 4: like what Detroit did, and I know it sounds a
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 4: little silly because it wasn't like Arizona's offense was anything
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 4: to write home about until Jacoby Brissett got on the field.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 4: But Drew Petsing has this tendency and track record of
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 4: utilizing tight ends more than most other teams. He was
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 4: kind of ahead of the curve there because I think
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 4: a lot of teams are going to use multiple tight
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 4: ends this year, and I think the Lions were looking
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 4: specifically for that, and that's why they hired Petsing, But
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 4: Petsing should be able to unlock not only Sam Laporta.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 4: But if Laporta becomes a big factor, opponents are going
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: to know it and all the other pass catchers are
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 4: going to be a big deal in Detroit and that
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 4: means Jared Goff is going to be an interesting sleeper.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 4: And then in Las Vegas. How could we not mention
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 4: Clinck Kubiak after what he did left and frankly what
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 4: he did the year before New Orleans that got him
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 4: hired in Seattle in the first place. Man, the fact
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: that he was able to make things work like he
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 4: did last year, I think he deserves a ton of
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 4: credit for that. Now he goes to Las Vegas, We've
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 4: got questions about the quarterback there, but they've got two
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 4: top twenty fantasy options. I'm talking top twenty overall in
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 4: Ashton genty and Brock Bauers, and I think those two
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: guys are going to get the ball a ton and
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 4: then Las Vegas and Clint Kubiak is going to use
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 4: them very well.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: All right, who's Dave Richards's crash victim?
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 6: Then?
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: Like somebody who's not going to benefit from an offensive change,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: or maybe somebody that their workload was so great a
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: year ago that you're worried about the follow up.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 4: So let's start with Christian McCaffrey, who is not getting
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 4: a coordinator change and has one of the best offensive
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 4: coordinators in football. But our favorite fantasy running back had
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 4: four hundred and fifty touches between the regular season and
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: the postseason last year for the forty nine ers. Sufficiency
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 4: went down and he had a ton of work. And
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 4: he's had four hundred plus touches in a season before twice, actually, Chuck,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 4: and each time he's missed significant playing time the year after.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 4: Did I mention he's turning thirty years old, by the way,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 4: and that the forty nine Ers coaching staff is starting
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 4: to talk about getting other running backs involved. And so
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 4: I think if you draft Christian McCaffrey, you have to
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 4: downgrade expectations. I do have him as a first round pick,
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 4: but man, I'm telling you, if I draft him, I
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: need to know if he's healthy, and I would assume
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 4: at this point he is. But we've had seasons where
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 4: he's been healthy all training camp and then all of
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 4: a sudden, he's not when Week one comes around. So
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 4: you've got to be really careful, and if I draft McCaffrey,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 4: I want to draft at least one of his backup
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 4: running backs. Jordan James is my favorite one at this
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 4: point in the season, so he's somebody that worries me
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 4: quite a bit. Malik Neighbors is a name that has
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 4: a ton of hype, but he's coming back from a
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 4: real serious injury. The Giants have said that they're not
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 4: sure when he's going to end up being his old self.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 4: He might not be his old self until twenty twenty seven.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 4: I have a hard time taking him as a top
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 4: twenty wide receivers. Some of the guys that we've named already,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 4: lat mccacky being one of them. I didn't really mention
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 4: Devata Smith, but obviously in Philadelphia, those are two guys
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 4: I've taken well ahead of Malik Neighbors at this point
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 4: in the offseason. So those are two names. I think
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 4: fantasy managers they recognize those names. They expect big, big things.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know how big of things they're going to
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 4: end up being. They might disappoint last one.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: I'll let you go. And I'm bringing this up because
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: I was actually I was on a little bit of
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: a run the other day and Trevor Lawrence came across
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: my mind, and I'm like, for some reason, I'm like, hey,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, Man, I think I'm going to target him
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: in the draft. I'm going a real sleeper there. And
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: I went home and I took a shower, and I
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: sat down, and I decided to go do some Trevor
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: Lawrence research. And I'm like, oh, he was the fourth
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: best fantasy quarterback last year. Real sleeper that I've grabbed.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: So I want to ask, who's somebody that maybe people
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: have slept on that had a monster year last year
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: and people don't even realize it.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 4: Right now, let's start with the league MVP, Matthew Stafford,
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 4: who you've seen three times against your Seahawks, and you
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 4: know that he's putting up huge numbers. You might say
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 4: he's overrated, but you know he's going to get a
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 4: ton of opportunities fantas to throw the football. And I think,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 4: I do you remember that press conference after the first
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 4: day of the NFL Draft when Sean McVeigh looked just
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 4: like totally stressed out over the team picking tys system.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: Do you remember that, Oh, yeah, we made a big
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: deal of it.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 4: I think it was because Stafford didn't like the pick.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 4: And if there's one thing a head coach wants to do,
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 4: it's it's keep his league MVP quarterback happy. And so
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 4: I wonder if Matthew Stafford kind of plays with a
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 4: chip on his shoulder this year, as if to say,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 4: you know, screw everybody, I'm I'm better.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: I just had an MVP year.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 4: I've got to go and back it up again. I'm
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 4: not ready for a rookie to take over my job
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 4: just yet. And Stafford goes out there and he has
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 4: another big here. We're seeing Herbert, Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 4: all going, Jackson dart Is going ahead of Matthew Stafford,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 4: And I think you could just wait on draft day
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 4: and you can let people take those other guys. You
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 4: can let people take Trevor Lawrence first. Stafford, I think
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 4: is a good fantasy pick. I don't think he'll be
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 4: as good as he was last year, but he was
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 4: also like twenty eight fantasy points per game last year.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 4: I don't think he needs to be that good to
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 4: be worth a pick that late in fantasy.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Well, camp just getting underway, I know, you're going to
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: be monitoring everything all at once with your little crystal
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: ball that you have there in your CBS office. So
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: we appreciate you joining us now, kind of getting that
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: appetite going here this morning. Have fun during training camp,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: enjoy the process, and I promise you We're gonna bug
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: you again real soon.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 4: I'll answer the phone when you call me, Chuck, I
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 4: always do.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: All right, thanks man, All right. Dave Richard joining us
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: right here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. So
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: of course you can follow them at CBS Sports and
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: of course, well he's with CBS Sports, you can follow
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: him at Dave Richard and he's got the podcast going
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: right now, so there's there's all sorts of access to Dave.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: And the fantasy football world really never does shut down.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: It is a year round spectacle now. They're always dicing
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: it up, chopping it up. And yeah, some great stuff
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: from him today. And I got a million more questions
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: for those of you that were like, why are we
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: talking fantasy football? Well, turns out I left a million
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: questions on the table.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 8: Who knew there was so much to talk about when
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 8: training camp is only three four days away?
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 7: Three days away?
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: I did not realize Trevor Lawrence had that fantastic of
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: a year last year. He had like ten touchdown runs
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 7: I did think he were going to say.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 8: And then I got in the shower and I kept
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 8: thinking about Trevor Lawrence, and I was like, this is
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 8: a lot of information there.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: You realized he was No. Everybody else not.
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  Speaker 1: That excited about fantasy folks ever know. And when I'm shower,
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  Speaker 1: I just clean up. Okay, some parts more.
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  Speaker 7: Aggressive until football season.
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  Speaker 1: All right, ABC's of the M's coming your way next.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. There's any validity
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  Speaker 1: behind the fact that she is my girl?
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  Speaker 7: Oh she's not your girl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like that she's everybody's girl. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't even associate with myself with people that are everybody's girl.
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  Speaker 8: She might be that kind of person though, that everyone
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  Speaker 8: meets her and feels like she just makes you feel like, oh,
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  Speaker 8: that's my girl sharel.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't like a personal thing she was in.
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  Speaker 1: That's an awful, nasty rumor to spread, mi girl.
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  Speaker 7: No, okay, well at least you said it straight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I did want to take a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: time to set that straight. All right, let's get into
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: the ABC's of the m's. We're at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the alphabet. We left off yesterday at the letter W.
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  Speaker 1: What else do you think I'm going to start with?
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: I have to W is for Wilson. And we did
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  Speaker 1: talk about this at six oh five and six point
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  Speaker 1: thirty this morning and also seven forty five this morning,
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  Speaker 1: but we haven't talked about last night's game in the
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  Speaker 1: second half of the show whatsoever because of other commitments,
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  Speaker 1: And so I did want to kind of bring back
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  Speaker 1: up our headline from the way we started the show.
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  Speaker 1: And look, we lost the game last night. We faced
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  Speaker 1: a really good starting pitcher. He's been beating everybody this season,
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  Speaker 1: Chase Burns. I wasn't even expecting to win. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like the matchup last night. So I'm not bothered by
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  Speaker 1: the loss last night. But I just finished another game,
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  Speaker 1: and Ashley's in agreement where we're just sitting there scratching
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  Speaker 1: our heads, like if you're going to have a different
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  Speaker 1: philosophy from me or pretty much any other manager that's
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  Speaker 1: ever lived on a game by game basis, okay, but
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  Speaker 1: at least be consistent with it so that we can
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  Speaker 1: figure out whether or not you're right and I'm wrong right,
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  Speaker 1: or whether you're right or we're wrong right. But when
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  Speaker 1: you go from the night before saying in a one
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  Speaker 1: nothing game that we're leading George Kirby spent way too
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  Speaker 1: much time down during the break and can only go
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  Speaker 1: eighty pitches and we have to take them out of
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  Speaker 1: the game after six innings, up one to nothing, and
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  Speaker 1: then explain it away as we've just seen enough, nothing
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  Speaker 1: really tangible, just we've seen enough. And then the very
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  Speaker 1: next night you let Luis Castillo, who had just as
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  Speaker 1: much time off, go one hundred pitches. How does that
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  Speaker 1: make any sense?
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't to me. I can't figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: Down three to nothing, I get down three to nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but up one nothing when you don't have your bullpen
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  Speaker 1: there from the night before, you didn't have any of
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  Speaker 1: your high leverage guys available from what we understand, and
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  Speaker 1: yet taking George Kirby out with nine out and you
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  Speaker 1: got lucky because you ran into six runs in the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the seventh and bailed you out and you
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  Speaker 1: win the game. But then the very next night, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred pitches for Castillo. Okay, so now I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: your reasons for the previous night. Also, what on earth?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So I was actually glad when I saw Jose Ferrer,
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  Speaker 1: who's one of our foremost reliable guys, even though he's
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  Speaker 1: a little off right now, but down two eighth inning,
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  Speaker 1: and we went with Ferrer. Like, okay, okay, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: would have understood if you didn't go with Farrer, if
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  Speaker 1: you would have gone with relievers five through eight here,
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  Speaker 1: because we're down two, there's six outs to go, even
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: though the Red's bullpen has back. Even though I would go,
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  Speaker 1: I would try to count on our guys getting a
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  Speaker 1: bloop and a blast and tying this thing up or
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  Speaker 1: maybe something more in the last two innings. But at
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  Speaker 1: three to one, let's put Ferrer in the game. We
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  Speaker 1: got a little momentum. We scored the most recent run
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  Speaker 1: for rare pitches. He's kind of all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: but you get out of it still down two. Then
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  Speaker 1: you score a run on the Julio homer. Now you're
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  Speaker 1: down just one. And I thought for sure when we
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  Speaker 1: come back from the break, I'm seeing either Bizardo or
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: spire Yep on the mound for inning number.
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  Speaker 7: Nine, And instead it's Rucker makes no sense.
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  Speaker 1: So down two, we were good to hang in there
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  Speaker 1: with one of our better guys, but then cutting it
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  Speaker 1: to one. Now it's time to cut bait. Now we
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  Speaker 1: clearly aren't going to get back in this one. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they gave up, or that we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have come back, or that Michael Rucker couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: thrown a scoreless ninth inning against the Cincinnati Reds. But
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: he is our mop up guy. That's his role on
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  Speaker 1: this team. And the fact that he was used last
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: night after you'd used for Rare. If you would have
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: used will Cox and then you, then I would have said, Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: they've decided to save everybody. They don't think we can
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  Speaker 1: come back. They've decided to save everybody for the next
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  Speaker 1: days to make sure that we win the series. But
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  Speaker 1: to be down two and throw one of the better
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  Speaker 1: guys and then be down one and decide, man, we
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  Speaker 1: don't have a shot here. Let's go to Rutger.
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  Speaker 8: Or at least even if you didn't say you didn't
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  Speaker 8: have a shot, to take the risk like you want somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I'm oversimplifying that. I know that they weren't giving up
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  Speaker 1: on the game right, but down one, put Bizardo out there.
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  Speaker 1: We're we're one hit away, and I'm not surprised that
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  Speaker 1: we didn't come up with a rally in the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the ninth because it feels like the manager gave
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: up what it felt like last night.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, as you said, either use the either go with
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 8: Rutck or go with Wilcox whatever right after you pull
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  Speaker 8: Castillo and go from there, or go with your good
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 8: with your good guys. It makes zero sense to me
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 8: why you had Ferrera in and then your next move
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 8: was to bring Rucker in when you're only down one.
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  Speaker 8: It seems like you would want to preserve that one
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 8: run deficit.
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  Speaker 1: Plus we have a day off on Thursday. We've had
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  Speaker 1: a day game today. That's like fifty five hours of
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  Speaker 1: no of everybody getting rest. Yeah, until we play again
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  Speaker 1: on Friday night against the Texas Rangers. And we're not
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: going to try to win that game last night because
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: we're down one.
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  Speaker 8: And to try to say because it's a short turn
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 8: around for tomorrow, I mean, come on, these guys can
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 8: handle this.
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  Speaker 1: And then the reason was because Rucker looked good the
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  Speaker 1: night before in an eight nothing game.
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  Speaker 7: Very different situation.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: X is for experiment, because that's all we are when
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: it comes to challenges. We are straight up shampoo.
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  Speaker 7: Give me a little scared of there.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: We are terrible at it. And last night I may
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  Speaker 1: have taken the cake that Randya Rose Arena talked Dan
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: into challenging that play, and then Josh. Josh's challenge was
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: horrible under the situation, and then Cows was the worst
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  Speaker 1: I've seen all season long by any player, manager, anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you really want it to be a ball
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean you challenge it well.
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  Speaker 8: And then on the broadcast they were trying to say, well,
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  Speaker 8: that pitch just had so much moved on it.
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  Speaker 7: It really threw him off.
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  Speaker 8: I'm like, he knew it was a strike, and I
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  Speaker 8: could understand, you have you have one challenge left and
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 8: your that ends the game? Yes, challenge, of course, what
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  Speaker 8: have you got to lose, even if it's the nine.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but not in that moment. Oh my gosh, it
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  Speaker 7: was so like, so clearly a strike.
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  Speaker 1: Those were our three challenges and they were just all
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  Speaker 1: just terrible. Yeah, they were poop and over three, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, not one of them successful. Why is for
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: youngins We got a lot of young'in's playing right now,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: Colt Emerson, the youngest of them all. Great play by him,
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: by the way, I mean, just veteran strike to home
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: to get maybe the fastest player in Major League Baseball
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: and make Col's job perfectly easy. Just a bullet right
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  Speaker 1: to Cal's chest for the easy tag. That's that's a
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  Speaker 1: really good play under the situation. You could rush that
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: throw it wildly. Emerson's really good at that, but he
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: is struggling severely offensively, and I'm curious to see what
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: they're going to choose if and when Brendan Donovan does
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  Speaker 1: come back. I don't think it's out of the I
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: want him to stay. I want cold Emerson. I think
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: this defense makes up for the offense at all times.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: But I'm not sure they're gonna feel that way. I'm
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: not sure that if Donovan gets activated that they won't
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: put Donovan at third and move JP back to short.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: Makes us a really bad infield again, defensively, really.
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  Speaker 8: Bad well, and we had hoped that when you're bringing
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 8: up cold Emerson, you're doing it for good.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 7: I won't for him to go back and forth.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: I want him to stay. I want him to stay,
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: but I don't know. I don't know what they're gonna
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: do on that front. They might decide with him having
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: such offensive struggles that we're a better lineup, which is
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: definitely I mean, I can complain all I want about Dan,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: but scoring has definitely been the biggest issue all season long.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: And they may opt for the offense to have keep
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: JP in the lineup down in the order, have Donovan
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: at the top of the order. So I don't know,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: we'll see. I would do that to Colt Emerson, but
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: they might. Finally, Zia's for Zisc Richie Zisk, the Richie
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: Zisk Bowl, getting ready to start on Friday, four games
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  Speaker 1: against the Texas Rangers. I'd like to go into that
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: game in first place, if you don't mind, And then
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: I would like to make a statement. But I think
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: about the Bucky Jacobson glossary of terms. You don't ever
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: call anything big until it's time to be big. But
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: this will be the biggest i'll say, series of the
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: entire year thus far. Four games against the Texas Rangers
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: starting on Friday, and so we get ready for the
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: Richie Zisk Bowl. Okay, yeah, we played for both teams, Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, coming up next. One last thing to close
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  Speaker 1: this out. Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A
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