Latest / Chuck in the Morning / Chuck & Buck 6-16 Hour 4: Ryon Healy, Sorsby's situation and one last thing.
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- 0:11Speaker 1: Oh, we need a little Healy in our lives.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Man.
- 0:13Speaker 3: We got a lot of things to discuss here about
- 0:15Speaker 3: this baseball team, a lot to discuss, and most of it,
- 0:18Speaker 3: believe it or not, despite the recent the poor play
- 0:21Speaker 3: is really incredibly exciting and positive that we're going to
- 0:25Speaker 3: get into with the former Mariner now part of Mariner's TV.
- 0:29Speaker 1: And of course they would.
- 0:30Speaker 3: Have never known about him if not for Ashley and
- 0:33Speaker 3: I and he's been with us for the last US
- 0:36Speaker 3: season and a half. Every Tuesday here at nine o'clock
- 0:39Speaker 3: it is Ryan Healey joining us here on Chuck and Buck.
- 0:42Speaker 1: How are you man?
- 0:45Speaker 2: Good mood today?
- 0:46Speaker 4: I wonder if there was just like the off day
- 0:49Speaker 4: reset gave you and everyone else with the Maritors a
- 0:51Speaker 4: chance to, you know, kind of digest and move on
- 0:54Speaker 4: from the road trip. And we've got some big bodies
- 0:57Speaker 4: coming back this week.
- 0:58Speaker 3: I'll say, I'll say, and look at us matching black teas.
- 1:01Speaker 4: Man, we were thinking like this morning, all you get
- 1:04Speaker 4: to wear is a black team. You're always matching with me,
- 1:06Speaker 4: So just remember that every Tuesday, a.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Right Tuesday, Black tea Tuesday. I love it already.
- 1:12Speaker 3: All right, Well, let us start, because I do think
- 1:15Speaker 3: I think we have a lot of great topics to discuss,
- 1:19Speaker 3: like positive topics to discuss, but let's start with the
- 1:21Speaker 3: negative topic, because I think a lot of baseball fans
- 1:25Speaker 3: have a really hard time figuring out how teams could
- 1:29Speaker 3: seem to be on track, have two exciting wins in Baltimore,
- 1:34Speaker 3: and then over the course of the next five days
- 1:37Speaker 3: it just feels about as gross as it could feel.
- 1:41Speaker 1: And you know this.
- 1:42Speaker 3: You've written one hundred and six the highs and lows
- 1:44Speaker 3: of one hundred and sixty two games schedule. You know
- 1:47Speaker 3: what it's like to go in a slump and be
- 1:49Speaker 3: hot as a player slump and a hot as a team.
- 1:52Speaker 3: So how are we supposed to feel about the last
- 1:55Speaker 3: five days that have been so grossly lackluster from this team.
- 2:00Speaker 4: I'll tell you this first and foremost. I look at
- 2:02Speaker 4: the standings more now than I ever did as a player,
- 2:05Speaker 4: and I will confidently tell you this from the perspective
- 2:08Speaker 4: of the clubhouses. Guys aren't looking at the standings of
- 2:11Speaker 4: oh my gosh, we're only a half game up from
- 2:13Speaker 4: the Athletics now, and the Rangers they've been pretty hot too,
- 2:16Speaker 4: and they're only a game and a half back like
- 2:19Speaker 4: that type of pressure that I think fans are looking at,
- 2:21Speaker 4: and I know that I'm looking at too, so I'm
- 2:23Speaker 4: guilty of it. I think that subsides a little bit.
- 2:26Speaker 4: It's more of the reality of man. That was a
- 2:29Speaker 4: really tough road trip geographically speaking. The weather was pretty
- 2:33Speaker 4: miserable in Baltimore. It can get hot human it's sticky,
- 2:36Speaker 4: and then went to DC and the same combination there,
- 2:38Speaker 4: the injuries that happened.
- 2:40Speaker 2: It just felt like everything spiraled.
- 2:42Speaker 4: Everything that could spiral out of control did spiral out
- 2:44Speaker 4: of control. Since that walk off in Detroit that ended
- 2:48Speaker 4: that first leg of the trip, then obviously going to
- 2:50Speaker 4: the four games in Boston and then the three in DC,
- 2:53Speaker 4: it just felt like things spiraled. And my frustration that
- 2:58Speaker 4: I think a lot of fans share is everyone felt
- 3:01Speaker 4: like this was a soft spot in a schedule. It
- 3:04Speaker 4: was three teams I under five hundred. It was a
- 3:06Speaker 4: chance for the Mariners to create some separation in that
- 3:08Speaker 4: Al West Division and really start to allow kind of
- 3:12Speaker 4: that separation in that you know, flow state is the
- 3:17Speaker 4: word that comes.
- 3:17Speaker 2: To mind of just like, oh, we're gonna win every day.
- 3:19Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's just not realistic. Baseball reared its ugly
- 3:23Speaker 4: head and dealt that. The team dealt with a lot
- 3:25Speaker 4: of adversity over these last ten days.
- 3:26Speaker 3: Is there anything about the five days that you do
- 3:30Speaker 3: find troubling? I mean, beyond the injuries. Obviously we're worried
- 3:33Speaker 3: about the injuries, but we had a couple of starting
- 3:36Speaker 3: pitching performances that were uncharacteristic the bullpen to have to
- 3:42Speaker 3: get to mid June and have to take two days
- 3:45Speaker 3: off from your bullpen to kind of reset things because
- 3:48Speaker 3: guys have been overused. The defense continues to be sloppy,
- 3:51Speaker 3: particularly Josh Naylor of all people.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Over at first base.
- 3:56Speaker 3: Is there anything about the last five days that is
- 3:58Speaker 3: particularly concerning to Ryan Heay?
- 4:02Speaker 4: The bullpen or lack there of bullpen depth, I think
- 4:05Speaker 4: is concerning. And we are all waiting today to see
- 4:09Speaker 4: what the decision is gonna be, and maybe it's not
- 4:10Speaker 4: finalized today. The TVD starter for I believe it's Thursday's
- 4:14Speaker 4: game of this week for the Mariners is a big
- 4:17Speaker 4: question mark that we're all quietly watching and waiting, maybe
- 4:20Speaker 4: not as quietly some but just waiting to see what
- 4:23Speaker 4: that transition is going to be. It's going to be
- 4:24Speaker 4: a really hard conversation with someone about what the transition
- 4:28Speaker 4: is because there are some non negotiables in this decision
- 4:31Speaker 4: making process that I think can help the Mariners, like
- 4:34Speaker 4: Bryce Miller has solidified himself, and quite frankly, if the
- 4:38Speaker 4: oblique injury didn't happen spring training, he never would have
- 4:41Speaker 4: been in the situation of the piggyback the starter surplus. Sorry, So,
- 4:45Speaker 4: quite frankly, I feel like he's come back, has done
- 4:48Speaker 4: his job in whatever role they'd asked, and he's executed
- 4:50Speaker 4: at a high level.
- 4:51Speaker 2: He deserves his own start at this point.
- 4:53Speaker 4: But then the question goes down the ranks of does
- 4:55Speaker 4: someone else get put into the situation of the starter
- 4:58Speaker 4: surplus where you throw Cassillo on the back if someone
- 5:00Speaker 4: else's start to give, you know, maybe some of those
- 5:03Speaker 4: guys a breathe and say, hey, you've been struggling to
- 5:05Speaker 4: get past the fifth or sixth inning. Let's just give
- 5:07Speaker 4: you a concrete five today. This is your ceiling. We're
- 5:10Speaker 4: going to put a cap on what you're able to
- 5:11Speaker 4: accomplish today, and let's just get your body back healthy.
- 5:15Speaker 4: So the combination of obviously how the bullpen injuries have
- 5:18Speaker 4: unraveled with Chris Wall and brash going down Munno's coming
- 5:21Speaker 4: out with we think the back being sore, hoping to
- 5:24Speaker 4: get some more answers today with the pre batting practice
- 5:27Speaker 4: press conference as well the injuries to the arms. Though
- 5:31Speaker 4: we knew this was going to be a tough stretch,
- 5:33Speaker 4: how they respond and make adjustments going forward.
- 5:36Speaker 2: I'm really interesting to watch.
- 5:37Speaker 3: Bryce Miller and Luis Castillo are arguably the two most
- 5:41Speaker 3: easy going guys on the entire roster, maybe in all
- 5:45Speaker 3: of Seattle, and yet if you tried to piggyback someone
- 5:51Speaker 3: else tightly wound George Kirby, who's not pitching his best,
- 5:56Speaker 3: not pitching as well as Castillo right now, or you
- 6:00Speaker 3: do it to Brian wu who said in his postgame
- 6:04Speaker 3: comments after his last outing, I'm tired of sucking. I mean,
- 6:07Speaker 3: if you tried to go back to the piggyback, but
- 6:10Speaker 3: you tried it with two other guys, how do you
- 6:12Speaker 3: think that would go over with the group?
- 6:17Speaker 4: I hope better than the first go around, because obviously
- 6:20Speaker 4: there was a lot of feelings around it. My guess
- 6:24Speaker 4: is that it would go over better because there is
- 6:26Speaker 4: some understanding of what it looks like from the player's perspective,
- 6:30Speaker 4: and how those adjustments, you know, honestly worked.
- 6:33Speaker 2: There was a lot of success. The performance was great for.
- 6:35Speaker 4: Both of those starters, and they went through that starter
- 6:37Speaker 4: surplus you know cycle, and then everyone was waiting for
- 6:40Speaker 4: the six man rotation to see how that was going
- 6:42Speaker 4: to play out, and we just got, unfortunately a pretty
- 6:45Speaker 4: brutal glimpse of reality of what that looks like when
- 6:48Speaker 4: the bullpen depth is just less than and then also
- 6:51Speaker 4: you lose some leverage arms. I'm not sure how they
- 6:53Speaker 4: would handle that. My brain immediately goes to unfortunately, like
- 6:57Speaker 4: the player, where you are into in your career, and
- 7:00Speaker 4: none of those other three guys of you know, obviously Kirby,
- 7:05Speaker 4: Gilbert and Wu, none of those guys have a long term,
- 7:08Speaker 4: established contract, so financially they're not like secure for a
- 7:12Speaker 4: long period of time. So now you're thinking about arbitration
- 7:14Speaker 4: and then value that goes into that arbitration case and
- 7:17Speaker 4: the money that could be lost in there if all
- 7:19Speaker 4: of a sudden they don't start a game, or if
- 7:21Speaker 4: they don't get to a certain inning limit. And I
- 7:24Speaker 4: also know Casillo has an option after next season which
- 7:27Speaker 4: is vested off of I believe there's a certain amount
- 7:30Speaker 4: of inningcs to hit. So if he now steps out
- 7:32Speaker 4: of that starter role, now that vesting option in that
- 7:35Speaker 4: money that he thought he could earn kind of adjust.
- 7:38Speaker 4: So like there's personal, you know, trickle down effect that
- 7:42Speaker 4: can happen here on the earning side, because this is
- 7:44Speaker 4: a business not just for the team but also for
- 7:46Speaker 4: the players of maximizing your value, and if it ends
- 7:50Speaker 4: up going there with their mindsets of the things that
- 7:52Speaker 4: they're worried about, it takes it away from this team
- 7:54Speaker 4: that I know wants to accomplish more than they did
- 7:56Speaker 4: last year.
- 7:57Speaker 3: Ryan Heley is whether it's Tarkas and Marion or baseball,
- 7:59Speaker 3: we do it every two day at nine o'clock with
- 8:01Speaker 3: the former Mariner. I am one hundred percent with you.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Not only does Bryce Miller stay and whatever wrote, I
- 8:07Speaker 3: don't care it's three man rotation.
- 8:09Speaker 1: I don't care.
- 8:10Speaker 3: He's one of our best pitchers right now, maybe the
- 8:13Speaker 3: best right now. I would also ask you about Kate Anderson.
- 8:17Speaker 3: Do we need a seven man rotation?
- 8:20Speaker 1: Ryan?
- 8:20Speaker 3: I mean I went through the numbers. You take out
- 8:22Speaker 3: the one bad start he had, he's given up tour
- 8:25Speaker 3: and runs in fifty one and two thirds innings down
- 8:28Speaker 3: in double A Arkansas. What else does he need to
- 8:31Speaker 3: prove before he becomes a major leaguer. I realized there
- 8:36Speaker 3: might not be a spot for him, But are we
- 8:38Speaker 3: just wasting zeros down there in Arkansas right now with
- 8:40Speaker 3: this kid?
- 8:42Speaker 4: No, not in the slightest None of this is wasted.
- 8:44Speaker 4: This is development in this That league I think is
- 8:47Speaker 4: so valuable, and that league used to be a lot
- 8:50Speaker 4: tougher with the travel that came with it. Kad being
- 8:53Speaker 4: on the north side of that Texas League, the travel
- 8:55Speaker 4: was a little bit better than the south side. But
- 8:57Speaker 4: I experienced the south side of that Texas League and
- 8:59Speaker 4: the travel that comes with it is really tough.
- 9:02Speaker 2: And you have some great competition.
- 9:04Speaker 4: In there, and I felt like Double A had such
- 9:07Speaker 4: quality hitters, such quality pitchers, the baseball was at a
- 9:10Speaker 4: different level all of a sudden. The experience he's gathering
- 9:13Speaker 4: right now is great. The Mariners have a plan for
- 9:15Speaker 4: Kate Anderson. We don't know what it is, but I
- 9:18Speaker 4: think there's a reason why he hasn't been stretched out
- 9:21Speaker 4: past the five or six inning mark, because there's a
- 9:24Speaker 4: lot of every inning he throws as valuable, and at
- 9:27Speaker 4: some point this season the Mariners will make a decision
- 9:30Speaker 4: of who are the best thirteen pitchers we have available
- 9:32Speaker 4: within our entire organization, and how do we get every
- 9:34Speaker 4: single one of those guys onto this pitching staff so
- 9:37Speaker 4: that we can make the or they can make the
- 9:39Speaker 4: run that they really want to the playoffs. When that
- 9:42Speaker 4: decision is made, I'm not sure. Like they're still in
- 9:45Speaker 4: the first half of the season right now, there's so
- 9:48Speaker 4: much baseball to be played. It's it's the marathon, truly is.
- 9:51Speaker 4: Even though these series in these tough pockets have going
- 9:54Speaker 4: four and six on a tough road trip, it feels like,
- 9:56Speaker 4: oh my gosh, we just sprinted to our death. And
- 9:58Speaker 4: it's like, no, it was just it's a rough couple
- 10:00Speaker 4: of games. Guys are banged up. Let's get him off
- 10:02Speaker 4: their feet, let's get the regulars back out there, and
- 10:04Speaker 4: let's get him healthy and then we'll start piecing together
- 10:07Speaker 4: what the pitching staff looks like. But I don't think
- 10:09Speaker 4: his innings are being wasted in double as. He's experiencing
- 10:13Speaker 4: some tremendous development that'll serve him when he is ready
- 10:15Speaker 4: to come to major leagues.
- 10:16Speaker 3: All right, well, let's talk about what's gonna happen today
- 10:19Speaker 3: Over at a T mobile because the team coming off
- 10:22Speaker 3: a rough road trip with a couple of nights to
- 10:24Speaker 3: sleep in their own beds, getting ready for a brand
- 10:27Speaker 3: new homestand and all of a sudden, walking through the
- 10:30Speaker 3: door comes the face of the franchise and he kind
- 10:33Speaker 3: of looks reborn based on the damage he was doing
- 10:36Speaker 3: down there in Tacoma. What's it gonna mean to this
- 10:40Speaker 3: team to get Cal Raley back tonight?
- 10:43Speaker 2: Everything?
- 10:45Speaker 4: And I think, watch like col watching this team have
- 10:47Speaker 4: a ton of success with success with his absence motivated him.
- 10:51Speaker 2: A little bit more.
- 10:52Speaker 4: Not that Cal needed motivation, but I think the perspective
- 10:55Speaker 4: that it gave him to be away from the game
- 10:57Speaker 4: for a second to get that confidence back of I
- 11:01Speaker 4: know what my worth is the player, and I can
- 11:04Speaker 4: now see what this team is capable of without me
- 11:07Speaker 4: needing to hit sixty home runs. And oddly enough, when
- 11:10Speaker 4: that mindset all of a sudden shifts of like let
- 11:12Speaker 4: me think small, and you know, big things happen.
- 11:15Speaker 2: He hits what five.
- 11:16Speaker 4: Home runs in his rehab assignment, has a couple of
- 11:18Speaker 4: games with two home runs, hits a home run on
- 11:20Speaker 4: the right and the left hand side of the plate,
- 11:21Speaker 4: and Saturday's game in Tacoma. I really hope that the
- 11:24Speaker 4: fans in the Northwest were able to go to all
- 11:27Speaker 4: those games and Everett and in Tacoma to just enjoy
- 11:29Speaker 4: that and see that spark that Cal even brings to
- 11:32Speaker 4: a minor league team when he shows up, because that
- 11:34Speaker 4: same spark is coming back to the Meritors today and
- 11:37Speaker 4: he's going to be such a jolt of energy in
- 11:38Speaker 4: that clubhouse and on that field.
- 11:40Speaker 3: He sold out every seat, I'll tell you that much.
- 11:42Speaker 3: He sold out every seat in every pay in. They
- 11:46Speaker 3: even made like makeshift T shirts just for the moment.
- 11:50Speaker 3: Raleigh Rainiers, they were great. Is there any truth? And
- 11:55Speaker 3: this is this just me speaking from complete ignorance. I've
- 11:58Speaker 3: not been in that k every day like you've been
- 12:01Speaker 3: in the past and faced major league getters, but his
- 12:04Speaker 3: timing looked off to me the entire season. Is there
- 12:09Speaker 3: any truth to this? Was a blessing in disguise that
- 12:12Speaker 3: he had to be forced to rest that side and
- 12:15Speaker 3: he kind of got to restart his swing all over again,
- 12:19Speaker 3: and that maybe when he restarted it.
- 12:21Speaker 1: He fixed it. That maybe he's.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Getting started a little bit earlier with his feet and
- 12:27Speaker 3: it's getting his hands started a little bit earlier, and
- 12:29Speaker 3: that he may have needed that time off to just
- 12:33Speaker 3: recalibrate that swing again.
- 12:36Speaker 4: There's definitely a storyline surrounding that topic, Chuck, I watched
- 12:41Speaker 4: a ton of hitters a second, and think about the
- 12:42Speaker 4: amount of swings I've taken in my life. In the
- 12:44Speaker 4: swings that I've watched in my life, I can usually
- 12:47Speaker 4: pick up an adjustment that a hitter makes right away.
- 12:51Speaker 4: I spent a lot of time watching cow slwings on
- 12:52Speaker 4: this rehab assignment, comparing them to swings that he was
- 12:55Speaker 4: taking last year in some of his hottest pockets when
- 12:57Speaker 4: he was hitting the homers, and the timing definitely looks
- 13:00Speaker 4: a little different. It looked like to me, the front leg,
- 13:02Speaker 4: especially with his left handed swing, that front leg wasn't
- 13:05Speaker 4: coming up is high to start his move. He almost
- 13:09Speaker 4: was able to hover it earlier and longer. So to
- 13:12Speaker 4: your credit, there the feed are moving a little bit sooner.
- 13:14Speaker 4: He looks like he's moving more under control, and I
- 13:17Speaker 4: see him getting to that launch position, kind of this
- 13:20Speaker 4: spot where he can move really quickly and make a
- 13:22Speaker 4: decision what he wants. He's getting to that spot sooner.
- 13:26Speaker 4: The sooner your body gets to that spot where I'm
- 13:28Speaker 4: ready to swing, your eyes can turn on and start
- 13:30Speaker 4: picking up pitches. I saw that happen. But I'll backtrack
- 13:33Speaker 4: to this. The game of baseball has a way of
- 13:36Speaker 4: speeding you up mentally, and when you're sped up mentally,
- 13:40Speaker 4: the physical is going to follow. And think about Cow's
- 13:42Speaker 4: twenty twenty six seeds and so far from start to finish,
- 13:45Speaker 4: from going to spring training really early, going to WBC,
- 13:49Speaker 4: really struggling against some great competition that not playing, grinding
- 13:52Speaker 4: in the batting cage every single day, trying to get
- 13:54Speaker 4: his timing down, knowing that you can't find timing in
- 13:57Speaker 4: the batting cage because there's nothing that simulates it. Coming
- 14:00Speaker 4: back to spring, getting a ton of it bats in
- 14:02Speaker 4: a short amount of time. Everything that Kyle did this
- 14:05Speaker 4: year leading up to the spring the regular season was
- 14:08Speaker 4: speeding him up. And I think to your point, this
- 14:11Speaker 4: injury forced him to slow down for the first time
- 14:14Speaker 4: this entire year. And I think last year, when you
- 14:17Speaker 4: watch him, he looked really slow, He looked methodical, he
- 14:20Speaker 4: looked like everything had a purpose, and this year the
- 14:22Speaker 4: purpose was trying to find something that was almost unobtainable
- 14:25Speaker 4: because internally his clock was just moving faster. So what
- 14:29Speaker 4: it looks like to me is he was able to
- 14:31Speaker 4: slow it down. He got some perspective that you can't
- 14:33Speaker 4: get when you're playing of Man, this game, I really
- 14:36Speaker 4: miss it. Or Man, these guys are having so much fun.
- 14:38Speaker 4: I want to be out there with them. Look at
- 14:39Speaker 4: these guys having so much success. They don't need me
- 14:41Speaker 4: to be an MVP. They just needed me to be
- 14:43Speaker 4: a leader and can contribute. So when he comes back,
- 14:46Speaker 4: I'm anticipating that version of Cal show up or when
- 14:49Speaker 4: he does strike out, It's not the end of the world,
- 14:51Speaker 4: not that he ever showed emotion, but internally it's not
- 14:53Speaker 4: the end of the world. I know that I'm going
- 14:55Speaker 4: to get him the next time. That confidence that comes
- 14:57Speaker 4: with that slowing down is what we're going to see,
- 15:00Speaker 4: and I'm excited for that.
- 15:01Speaker 3: I'm expecting him to just crush like immediately. Am I
- 15:05Speaker 3: setting myself up for a fall?
- 15:06Speaker 1: There?
- 15:07Speaker 2: Always? But do what you gotta do, Chuck, you know, yeah?
- 15:10Speaker 3: True? And it's not just Cal. I mean, I know
- 15:13Speaker 3: JP's been on the road with him, but to get
- 15:15Speaker 3: your two leaders of your clubhouse back in the lineup
- 15:20Speaker 3: on the same night, I told you This is going
- 15:22Speaker 3: to be mostly optimistic this conversation. I I realize that
- 15:27Speaker 3: there are a lot of sabermetrics people, analytics people that
- 15:30Speaker 3: don't even calculate chemistry. They can't they don't have a
- 15:33Speaker 3: number to attach to it, so they don't think that
- 15:36Speaker 3: it's a factor in baseball.
- 15:39Speaker 1: But man, if.
- 15:40Speaker 3: Getting Cal and JP back in your lineup, considering how
- 15:43Speaker 3: much they are respected and loved in that clubhouse doesn't
- 15:46Speaker 3: provide some sort of lift that you can't put a
- 15:50Speaker 3: value on, then maybe I don't understand how the psychology
- 15:55Speaker 3: of sports works.
- 15:57Speaker 4: I think you understand enough. The only thing you maybe
- 16:01Speaker 4: don't understand is like what the players are thinking. But
- 16:03Speaker 4: if you did, then you wouldn't need me. So stay
- 16:05Speaker 4: right where you're at, Jack, you know.
- 16:08Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 16:08Speaker 4: I think that the calm energy that those two will
- 16:10Speaker 4: bring between JP and Cal just into some of the
- 16:13Speaker 4: pregame prep work, the clubhouse music, all those things that's
- 16:17Speaker 4: gonna play into how this team shows up on the field.
- 16:22Speaker 4: They have a great chance to play this Baltimore team
- 16:24Speaker 4: again right away, which I always loved. I always love
- 16:26Speaker 4: seeing teams out of the division multiple times in a
- 16:29Speaker 4: short window because as a hitter, I'm more familiar with
- 16:32Speaker 4: the pitching staff, the starters and relievers, so the game
- 16:34Speaker 4: planning is a little bit simpler, and I know what
- 16:36Speaker 4: the identity of that team is. And yeah, they took two,
- 16:39Speaker 4: but there's no way that they're gonna take, you know,
- 16:41Speaker 4: a series here in a home, our home ballpark. I
- 16:43Speaker 4: think there's a lot of pride when this Mariners team
- 16:45Speaker 4: shows back up, the team mobile and the fans always
- 16:47Speaker 4: show up in support, which I always loved as a player,
- 16:50Speaker 4: And as the team becomes more successful, more and more
- 16:52Speaker 4: fans show up. It's awesome. It's a special place to
- 16:55Speaker 4: be and I know they're all excited to be back
- 16:56Speaker 4: there today.
- 16:57Speaker 1: It's gonna be a crazy weekend.
- 16:59Speaker 3: You know, I got this World Cup thing going on too,
- 17:01Speaker 3: so we're gonna have Ryan Roland Smith's Azzie's here Friday
- 17:06Speaker 3: afternoon into Mariner Baseball on Friday night. I mean, other
- 17:11Speaker 3: than you know, getting sick of Ryan Rowland Smith's national allegiance,
- 17:15Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a pretty fun weekend, don't you.
- 17:19Speaker 2: I respect it.
- 17:20Speaker 4: I respect the Ozzy, like the fandom ship and just
- 17:24Speaker 4: the passion that they share for the country. It's gonna
- 17:28Speaker 4: be electric in Seattle. I'm bum I'm not up there
- 17:30Speaker 4: this weekend, but I'll definitely be watching from afar.
- 17:32Speaker 1: Are you checking out any World Cup action? It's all
- 17:36Speaker 1: right if you aren't. I'll respect you.
- 17:39Speaker 4: I respect you, will you though I'm not worried about
- 17:41Speaker 4: your respect. I feel like we have mutual respect and
- 17:43Speaker 4: we're with the listeners and like this.
- 17:44Speaker 2: Guy can't even watch soccer.
- 17:46Speaker 1: They might be judging. They might be judging a little bit,
- 17:49Speaker 1: but it's all right.
- 17:49Speaker 4: Does it matter that I was traveling with two young
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- 17:55Speaker 4: I'm watching is is kids cartoon movies right now and
- 17:58Speaker 4: trying to keep kids somewhat quiet on the flight because
- 18:01Speaker 4: I try to respect the people around me. But I
- 18:03Speaker 4: know Team you saying. Someone told me I was at
- 18:05Speaker 4: the gym this morning. They said, Team say place Friday.
- 18:07Speaker 4: So I'm gonna have to clear my schedule and make
- 18:09Speaker 4: sure I watch out the very least.
- 18:10Speaker 1: Everybody knows your two year old hates ties. Everybody knows
- 18:14Speaker 1: that he.
- 18:15Speaker 2: Does want to be told what to do it. Neither
- 18:16Speaker 2: does my daughter.
- 18:17Speaker 4: So I'm just, you know, do with the word that
- 18:19Speaker 4: I hear the most every single day, Chuck is No,
- 18:22Speaker 4: Is that right?
- 18:22Speaker 1: Okay?
- 18:23Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well you know what, it's a yes from us.
- 18:28Speaker 1: You're gonna come here here.
- 18:30Speaker 2: I come here for support week the otherwise I wouldn't survive.
- 18:33Speaker 1: Was that a great segment? Yes? Is Ryan Healey grated
- 18:36Speaker 1: breaking down baseball? Yes? Are we looking forward to seeing
- 18:39Speaker 1: Ryan Healey again? Yes? There you go.
- 18:41Speaker 2: Do my kids care about any of that?
- 18:42Speaker 1: No? All right, man, thanks appreciate it. We'll talk to
- 18:47Speaker 1: you next week.
- 18:48Speaker 2: Have a great day, guys.
- 18:49Speaker 3: All right, Ryan Elik joining us right here on the
- 18:51Speaker 3: radio program. All right, coming up next. The Sword and
- 18:54Speaker 3: Soresby affair has taken another turn, and it's gonna be
- 18:58Speaker 3: interesting to see how the National Football League now deal
- 19:02Speaker 3: It's their problem.
- 19:03Speaker 1: Now, how are you going to deal with it?
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- 20:15Speaker 3: to former Mariner Ryan Healey, former you dub basketball big
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- 20:34Speaker 3: Uh huh. And so great to have them all on today.
- 20:37Speaker 3: Have some really good conversations with those fellas about their
- 20:40Speaker 3: three respective sports. But there's another big story today. We
- 20:45Speaker 3: nibbled on it earlier, probably need to get into it
- 20:47Speaker 3: a little bit more now because it's now NFL's problem.
- 20:51Speaker 3: Brendan Soresby. That's now your problem. We have washed our.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Hands of it.
- 20:55Speaker 3: College football apparently does not have to deal with Brendan
- 20:59Speaker 3: Soresby anymore. But I am curious if the ruling made
- 21:05Speaker 3: by the judge does continue to impact college football, because
- 21:10Speaker 3: Soorsby is just like, I don't want to go through
- 21:12Speaker 3: all that red tape. I don't want to keep fighting
- 21:14Speaker 3: this legal battle. They're not guaranteeing me when I'm gonna
- 21:17Speaker 3: be on the football field. If I'm not on the
- 21:18Speaker 3: football field, then I don't get my nil money.
- 21:21Speaker 1: What on earth? It's such an unknown.
- 21:24Speaker 3: How long are they going to drag this out?
- 21:28Speaker 1: Screw it. I don't want to go through it.
- 21:30Speaker 3: All I'm gonna do is just get booed everywhere I
- 21:32Speaker 3: go throughout the entire season.
- 21:34Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna give Texas Tech a bad name.
- 21:36Speaker 3: I do have this option to go to the National
- 21:38Speaker 3: Football League, so I'm gonna do that. So he just
- 21:41Speaker 3: kind of excused himself from the headache of it all.
- 21:45Speaker 3: Trinidad Chamblins just kept battling his situation and fought through it. Well,
- 21:48Speaker 3: this was going to be an even bigger headache obviously
- 21:51Speaker 3: for Soresby. And he just like jumped out of the
- 21:54Speaker 3: plane and pulled the shoot and is hoping to land
- 21:57Speaker 3: safely in the National Football League somewhere. And so does
- 22:01Speaker 3: college football still get impacted? I don't know by this,
- 22:05Speaker 3: as that judge's ruling. Does now anyone on a college
- 22:09Speaker 3: campus that is gambling on their own team, well, I
- 22:12Speaker 3: can get out of it. Yeah, because the ruling still
- 22:15Speaker 3: stand even though we didn't see it to the end,
- 22:20Speaker 3: is my question.
- 22:21Speaker 5: Yeah, I would think the NC two A would still
- 22:23Speaker 5: fight it to have somebody else overturn that injunction even
- 22:26Speaker 5: though it was technically Brendan Sorosby only. I would think
- 22:30Speaker 5: you want to don't want to set a precedent because
- 22:32Speaker 5: what I was reading yesterday, other people who have gotten
- 22:35Speaker 5: in trouble for other things but are saying that it's
- 22:37Speaker 5: an addiction or it's something else, are already citing that
- 22:41Speaker 5: this judge issued an injunction based on the mental health
- 22:45Speaker 5: aspect of it. And you know as far and that's
- 22:50Speaker 5: not saying that there's no mental health part of this,
- 22:52Speaker 5: but you can't have this be the precedent that you're
- 22:55Speaker 5: setting in the NC two A.
- 22:57Speaker 1: You need to shut that down.
- 22:58Speaker 5: The gambling part of it, and then you can work
- 23:01Speaker 5: on you know, however legal jargon you need to do
- 23:03Speaker 5: to make sure this isn't a problem moving forward. But
- 23:06Speaker 5: I would think you can't just leave that hanging out there.
- 23:08Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. I think that's a great point.
- 23:10Speaker 3: And so college football still got to like suture that up.
- 23:14Speaker 3: It's still a wound and they better put a suture.
- 23:16Speaker 3: Everybody put some you know, peroxide on.
- 23:18Speaker 1: That or something.
- 23:19Speaker 6: I would think, so, yeah, i'd get an affection. Yeah,
- 23:21Speaker 6: then maybe a bandage. Yeah, you're gonna need to gauze
- 23:24Speaker 6: that up, clean gauze. Don't just think that you can
- 23:27Speaker 6: use yesterday's gauze. So yeah, I would think that that
- 23:32Speaker 6: college football still has some work to do to make
- 23:34Speaker 6: sure that this doesn't happen again.
- 23:36Speaker 1: And that really does go back to the overarching point.
- 23:39Speaker 3: It's got to be collective barging agreement, players association, commissioner
- 23:44Speaker 3: rules that govern it that can stand on their own,
- 23:47Speaker 3: so an outside judge cannot interfere, and that means both
- 23:50Speaker 3: players and league have to agree on terms. So I
- 23:56Speaker 3: think that's how college football moves forward. But now this
- 23:58Speaker 3: is the sorts me think is an NFL problem. I
- 24:02Speaker 3: heard this morning that the NFL has to decide whether
- 24:06Speaker 3: or not they're going to they're going to rule on this,
- 24:09Speaker 3: if they're going to act, if they're going to keep
- 24:11Speaker 3: somebody that gambled on his own team in college from
- 24:16Speaker 3: joining their league, because they could possibly make Brendan Soresby's
- 24:21Speaker 3: life miserable. On the other side, he could run into
- 24:23Speaker 3: another dead end. On this side, it sounds like that
- 24:28Speaker 3: won't happen. He will be allowed to enter the supplemental Draft,
- 24:33Speaker 3: but with no guarantee that the NFL might make some
- 24:36Speaker 3: ruling at some point down the line, which seems very
- 24:40Speaker 3: sketchy to me. My guess is for Soorsby too have
- 24:45Speaker 3: abandoned this. Either he or his agent got word from
- 24:51Speaker 3: somebody within the National Football League that he would not
- 24:53Speaker 3: be stopped, and probably from an NFL general manager like
- 24:58Speaker 3: what less Need did for Tysimson, and yeah, you can
- 25:01Speaker 3: go ahead and come into the league. We'll definitely take
- 25:02Speaker 3: you in the first round. If nobody else does their fools,
- 25:05Speaker 3: we'll take you in the first round. Maybe somebody got
- 25:09Speaker 3: in Soresby's ear and said, well, we'll definitely draft you.
- 25:13Speaker 3: You're not going to go through seven rounds. Of a
- 25:15Speaker 3: supplemental draft. We'll definitely put a bit in on you.
- 25:18Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about not being taken. And
- 25:21Speaker 3: maybe that assurance led him down a road that is
- 25:25Speaker 3: not without questions. I mean, he doesn't have all the
- 25:28Speaker 3: answers about how he's going to be received in the
- 25:30Speaker 3: National Football League and.
- 25:32Speaker 1: By Roger Goodell right now.
- 25:33Speaker 5: Yeah, And I would think too, there is possibly some
- 25:37Speaker 5: word from his legal team or something that said, you
- 25:39Speaker 5: know what, the NC two A is going to win
- 25:41Speaker 5: this and that injunction is going to be reversed and
- 25:44Speaker 5: you are going to have to fight it again, or
- 25:46Speaker 5: if we do win.
- 25:47Speaker 1: It, it might not be till halfway through the series.
- 25:49Speaker 3: Right.
- 25:50Speaker 5: So, Yeah, your season's kind of a moot point, yeah,
- 25:52Speaker 5: or a moot point Cow's opinion.
- 25:54Speaker 3: Yes, well, at least you didn't say mute. I hear
- 25:56Speaker 3: a lot of people say a mute point. No, that's
- 25:59Speaker 3: wrong mood. She's mouthing, Yes, he's mouthing something.
- 26:04Speaker 5: But I just would think, yeah, that he had to
- 26:07Speaker 5: have probably hurt on both sides. They probably did some
- 26:09Speaker 5: research and you know, but as far as this goes
- 26:12Speaker 5: with college football, yeah, the damage was done in the
- 26:15Speaker 5: fact that people are up in arms, you know, the
- 26:18Speaker 5: conference saying they're not going to play Texas Tech. And
- 26:22Speaker 5: there was a whole you know, the fights between the ads,
- 26:24Speaker 5: and I mean he caused a leap storm.
- 26:27Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what, before I get off college
- 26:30Speaker 3: or back to the NFL, I would just say I
- 26:31Speaker 3: got to give some credit the Big Twelve. I mean,
- 26:34Speaker 3: Texas Tech had a chance with soresby of kind of
- 26:37Speaker 3: representing them in the tournament, and who knows how far
- 26:40Speaker 3: they could have gone. That's programs obviously growing by leaps
- 26:43Speaker 3: and bounds under this new kind of era of college football,
- 26:47Speaker 3: and the Big Twelve is like, no, I don't care
- 26:50Speaker 3: if you are our best team or if you might
- 26:51Speaker 3: be our best team, or we're not. No, right, we're
- 26:54Speaker 3: not going to stand at us. So I get Big
- 26:56Speaker 3: Twelve a little bit of credit. Now it shifts to
- 26:58Speaker 3: the NFL's end of it duel teams because the supplemental
- 27:01Speaker 3: Draft I think happens next week.
- 27:03Speaker 1: I think it happens in very short order.
- 27:05Speaker 3: The supplemental Draft is there every single year, but there's
- 27:09Speaker 3: not always a player that goes into the supplemental Draft,
- 27:13Speaker 3: and it is a silent auction. So you've been to
- 27:15Speaker 3: one of those charity events where you see like, oh
- 27:18Speaker 3: my gosh, it's a two nights day at the Hilton
- 27:22Speaker 3: Garden Express, you know, and then you yeah, and then
- 27:25Speaker 3: you put in your bid, and then you leave it alone,
- 27:27Speaker 3: and you might only put ten dollars. You never know,
- 27:29Speaker 3: maybe nobody will see it. I'll get this for ten bucks,
- 27:32Speaker 3: but if you're really charitable, you go over the mark.
- 27:35Speaker 3: So that's kind of the way it works. Every team
- 27:37Speaker 3: just puts it on a slip of paper.
- 27:39Speaker 1: This is what we were willing to go. You don't
- 27:40Speaker 1: get to bid against someone else.
- 27:42Speaker 3: You don't get to wait to find out if, oh,
- 27:45Speaker 3: the Cardinals are going to give a second round.
- 27:46Speaker 1: Oh we'll do it first. You know it gon't work
- 27:48Speaker 1: at that one.
- 27:49Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's written down beforehand, and then whoever has
- 27:52Speaker 3: the best silent bid gets the player. I've heard that
- 27:57Speaker 3: it's probably going to be a third, fourth round selection.
- 28:01Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to be left out. I
- 28:03Speaker 3: don't think he's going to be made an example of.
- 28:06Speaker 3: I don't think NFL teams are going to get scared
- 28:08Speaker 3: off by his story either.
- 28:10Speaker 1: I really don't.
- 28:11Speaker 3: Now there is an element to a guy who handles
- 28:15Speaker 3: the ball every play is admitting to having a gambling addiction.
- 28:18Speaker 3: I mean, there's an element to that. But my guess
- 28:21Speaker 3: is this is talented. He's certainly draftable. There's talk that
- 28:26Speaker 3: he could be a first rounder if he would have
- 28:28Speaker 3: played this full season.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Somebody's going to.
- 28:31Speaker 3: Look at that as an opportunity to possibly get rich
- 28:34Speaker 3: at the quarterback position and spend only a third or
- 28:37Speaker 3: fourth round pick this year. And I would suspect the Cardinals,
- 28:41Speaker 3: the Jets, teams like that are going to be the
- 28:45Speaker 3: ones that would be on him.
- 28:47Speaker 1: But I wouldn't rule out teams that already have established.
- 28:51Speaker 3: Veteran quarterbacks that you know that might be a little
- 28:54Speaker 3: long in the tooth right now, that if you could
- 28:56Speaker 3: just sit on this young man for three years and
- 28:59Speaker 3: all you have to do is invest a fourth round
- 29:01Speaker 3: pick in him, then maybe it's for a team that
- 29:05Speaker 3: you know is thinking about, Hey, maybe after Aaron Rodgers'
- 29:12Speaker 3: day is done, then we've got sores b there to
- 29:16Speaker 3: fill in. That's a bad example because we know he's
- 29:18Speaker 3: only going to play one year. But I think he's
- 29:20Speaker 3: going to be drafted. I don't think it's going to
- 29:22Speaker 3: be barely either. I think it's going to safely be
- 29:26Speaker 3: right around the third or fourth round.
- 29:28Speaker 5: Well, and I think we have to remember too, these
- 29:29Speaker 5: NFL teams can put whatever things in the contract that
- 29:33Speaker 5: protect them, right. I mean, the Cardinals had a clause
- 29:35Speaker 5: in there that said Kyler Murray had to actually practice
- 29:38Speaker 5: or like read and study, so they could put something
- 29:41Speaker 5: in there that if he, you know, even comes close
- 29:44Speaker 5: to violating the NFL standards which you can't gamble, then
- 29:49Speaker 5: maybe they get out of it for you know, without
- 29:51Speaker 5: any damage.
- 29:52Speaker 3: I love the idea of anybody that's bought a house
- 29:55Speaker 3: or a car and they just keep throwing things at
- 29:57Speaker 3: you to sign. Now, if you will sign this insure
- 30:00Speaker 3: it's adendum. Now, if you will sign this little uh,
- 30:03Speaker 3: you know you gotta note this, you gotta you gotta
- 30:06Speaker 3: alphabetize this. Yeah, you gotta. I need your John Cancock
- 30:11Speaker 3: on this. I mean there's always like I'm just picturing
- 30:15Speaker 3: sores be sitting at the table and then the you know,
- 30:17Speaker 3: the Ravens are like, yeah, and we're just gonna need
- 30:20Speaker 3: you to sign.
- 30:21Speaker 1: You can't bet on us.
- 30:23Speaker 7: Right, I'll only bet on other teams in games. I'm
- 30:26Speaker 7: not playing it. Yeah, we're gonna need your sores be
- 30:29Speaker 7: on this. Don't ever bet on us. Yeah, you know,
- 30:32Speaker 7: sort of a dindom. We've never had to file this before,
- 30:35Speaker 7: but we're gonna need that from you, budd.
- 30:37Speaker 5: And also while we're at it, let's add in a
- 30:38Speaker 5: Kyler Murray.
- 30:39Speaker 1: You do need to study?
- 30:40Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you can't choose video games over practice. All right,
- 30:46Speaker 3: One last thing NEX Sports Radio ninety three point three
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- 31:01Speaker 3: My vinyl segment of today's radio program beforehand, thanks off
- 31:05Speaker 3: to Greg Bell and Christopher Kid and so we always
- 31:08Speaker 3: conclude the show with one last thing. What do you
- 31:11Speaker 3: got back there, Ashley?
- 31:12Speaker 5: Well, have you seen that the Seahawks are offering up
- 31:15Speaker 5: seventy six replica rings like Super Bowl rings that fans
- 31:20Speaker 5: can buy on the jeweler's website. Some people are not
- 31:24Speaker 5: very happy about it. I think it's pretty lame, but
- 31:26Speaker 5: I went, I was like, wait, are these really fifteen
- 31:29Speaker 5: or sixteen thousand dollars? So you can buy two options.
- 31:32Speaker 5: You can buy one that's just silver and cubic zirconia.
- 31:35Speaker 5: That one's fifteen hundred and ninety five dollars. But if
- 31:40Speaker 5: you want to add, if you want to upgrade to
- 31:42Speaker 5: the white gold and genuine diamonds like Chris Pratt has
- 31:46Speaker 5: that will set you back fifteen nine hundred and ninety
- 31:49Speaker 5: five dollars so you can have a ring that celebrates
- 31:52Speaker 5: a championship you didn't win, right, Is.
- 31:56Speaker 1: That what they're valued? I thought they would be even
- 31:58Speaker 1: more than that.
- 31:59Speaker 2: I don't think it's the whole thing.
- 32:01Speaker 5: I think it's just it doesn't open, It doesn't do
- 32:03Speaker 5: all the stuff that everyone else's does. It's just the ring.
- 32:07Speaker 5: It's like a replica version, a fan ring.
- 32:10Speaker 1: They're following it. Did Pratt pay for is? Or do
- 32:12Speaker 1: they give him one? That's a great question. I bet
- 32:14Speaker 1: you they gave him one. Yeah, like that.
- 32:17Speaker 3: When Charles Barkley asked Ben Stiller after the NBA Final,
- 32:22Speaker 3: when did you start getting your season tickets?
- 32:24Speaker 7: What year?
- 32:25Speaker 3: He goes, I've never had season tickets. Wait a minute,
- 32:28Speaker 3: what do you mean you haven't had seasons? I've never
- 32:31Speaker 3: paid for one ticket as a Knicks fan. Like celebrities
- 32:34Speaker 3: get all sorts of stuff for free.
- 32:36Speaker 5: Yeah, always, especially Yeah, the rich people that don't need
- 32:40Speaker 5: He didn't.
- 32:40Speaker 1: Pay for it. You might, you listening, you'd have to
- 32:43Speaker 1: pay for it.
- 32:44Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd have to pay for it.
- 32:48Speaker 1: I doubt it.
- 32:49Speaker 5: But I just wonder who's going to though, Like, who's
- 32:54Speaker 5: who's really out there thinking? You know what, I got
- 32:55Speaker 5: an extra sixteen grand to drop on a ring to
- 32:58Speaker 5: celebrate my Seahawks softy probably No, just kidding, No, he'll
- 33:03Speaker 5: get the sixteen hundred dollars ring.
- 33:04Speaker 1: I actually don't think you'd get that either. Yeah, I
- 33:06Speaker 1: don't know. I would imagine you'd be surprised, but who knows.
- 33:11Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it. I personally wouldn't have any interest
- 33:14Speaker 1: in that. No, I have no interest at all.
- 33:17Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
- 33:18Speaker 3: All right, all right, By one last thing, I'm just
- 33:21Speaker 3: gonna go back because you know, we had a lead
- 33:24Speaker 3: story today, but that was all the way back at
- 33:26Speaker 3: six o'clock. I think it's worth repeating. I mean, I've
- 33:30Speaker 3: made it clear. I'm not the biggest soccer fan in
- 33:32Speaker 3: the world. So I'm not sitting here doing back handsprings,
- 33:37Speaker 3: you know, down Elliott, just because we've.
- 33:41Speaker 1: Got the World Cup here in town. Yeah.
- 33:43Speaker 3: You know, I don't have that kind of enthusiasm for
- 33:46Speaker 3: the sport or for the event.
- 33:47Speaker 1: It just doesn't end me and it never will be
- 33:49Speaker 1: in me. But I will tell you this, man.
- 33:52Speaker 3: What a I love the fact that we're getting at
- 33:56Speaker 3: least I'm seeing, and what you see in social media
- 34:01Speaker 3: platforms are all the negativity. So for me to see
- 34:05Speaker 3: so much positivity from international journalists, from people that are
- 34:11Speaker 3: coming into town and talking about what a great day
- 34:14Speaker 3: they were having and what in a great event, and
- 34:16Speaker 3: how much they liked the city, They can't believe the stadium.
- 34:19Speaker 3: They are blown away by it, and they just seem
- 34:22Speaker 3: to be having the time of their lives. I mean,
- 34:24Speaker 3: they spend a lot of money to come over here
- 34:26Speaker 3: to have the time of their lives, and probably had
- 34:28Speaker 3: some reservations because internationally, they've got some biases built up
- 34:33Speaker 3: against them, and I think a lot of them are misled.
- 34:36Speaker 3: But nonetheless they carried with them a lot of biases
- 34:42Speaker 3: against America and Americans.
- 34:44Speaker 1: And for them to.
- 34:45Speaker 3: Be this short into their stay over here and be
- 34:48Speaker 3: reporting just overwhelming positivity, how much they love the city,
- 34:53Speaker 3: how much they love the stadium, how much they love
- 34:55Speaker 3: watching the game at that stadium, how good a time
- 34:59Speaker 3: that they're having, It's awesome.
- 35:00Speaker 1: I love it.
- 35:01Speaker 3: I love it for Seattle, I love it for soccer fans,
- 35:04Speaker 3: and I love it for America.
- 35:05Speaker 1: I mean, we could use some of that.
- 35:07Speaker 3: Yeah, let's face it, in this country, we could use
- 35:10Speaker 3: some eyes being wide open to like, oh yeah, America
- 35:14Speaker 3: is pretty cool, isn't it. It's just not cool to
- 35:17Speaker 3: say negative things about America to actually experience it and go, oh,
- 35:23Speaker 3: I gotta admit this is pretty awesome.
- 35:25Speaker 1: Yeah, that wasn't too bad. I love it.
- 35:27Speaker 5: I do think too, especially for FIFA, all the drama
- 35:31Speaker 5: we heard about ahead of time. You know they're not
- 35:32Speaker 5: going to sell tickets. Everything's not doing as well. I mean,
- 35:35Speaker 5: it looks like it's going great.
- 35:36Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, looks like every seat is sold out
- 35:38Speaker 3: in every stadium.
- 35:39Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 35:40Speaker 3: Way for Belgium and Egypt, I know, and almost all
- 35:43Speaker 3: of it was Belgian's. It's so pretty crazy that many
- 35:46Speaker 3: people from Belgium, that's not that big a country. It's
- 35:49Speaker 3: like the size of New Hampshire for that many people
- 35:52Speaker 3: to come into this country to watch their soccer team
- 35:55Speaker 3: play and then report such a good time here.
- 35:57Speaker 1: I think it's right. Now, keep it up.
- 36:00Speaker 3: Read any negative things about tours being scared or anything
- 36:03Speaker 3: like that.
- 36:04Speaker 1: Keep it up.
- 36:05Speaker 3: Yes, please, gus up awesome positive experience with all of this.
- 36:10Speaker 1: Let's let's make it everything that you dreamed it could be.
- 36:13Speaker 1: That's right, we got five more games.
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