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Ian Furness 10/1 H1: Bad baseball is better than no baseball... Week 4 with Ross Tucker and M's manager news. · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 2: rough and tumble one tonight based on who may or
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  Speaker 2: may not be in the lineup. Well, just one series
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  Speaker 2: remains in the wildcard round in the MLB playoffs. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Game three tonight, Phillies-Braves, 5 o'clock. They had to wait
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  Speaker 2: until last night to find out when they were playing,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. Boy, baseball's got it.
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  Speaker 3: That's weird.
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  Speaker 2: They've got it just down pat, don't they? Yankees swept
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox. Astros, more importantly, first team out. Big
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  Speaker 2: thanks to the White Sox. Two days of angry Houston.
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  Speaker 2: I wish it would just continue for them so they
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  Speaker 2: could play a game three and get booed on game
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  Speaker 2: three when they lost, but that's okay. as well. Red
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  Speaker 2: Sox get eliminated by the Yankees as well. Week 4
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  Speaker 2: NFL season gets underway tonight. Steelers-Cleveland. That game can be
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  Speaker 2: heard over on 950 on the AM dial. Our guy
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  Speaker 2: on the call is Ross Tucker. He'll be there for
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  Speaker 2: Westwood 1 as well as his game for CBS Sports
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. He's going to join us at 1220. CX
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  Speaker 2: running back Zach Charbonnet has been designated to return to
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  Speaker 2: practice after starting the season on the PUP list. He
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  Speaker 2: won't play this weekend. He's actually ineligible even if he
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  Speaker 2: was healthy. He'll start to ramp up. Julian Love, Jadarian Price,
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  Speaker 2: Crazy Abel, Jaron Reed, all limited in practice yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I already woke up today and thought it was Friday,
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  Speaker 4: so I can't keep up with that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be glorious if it was the case, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not. Thursday edition of the show. I was just
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  Speaker 2: thinking about this. Gray Zabel listed as limited. He came in...
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  Speaker 2: Are we a jinx or something? What's going on? Because
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  Speaker 2: I think it was last week we had Barner in, right?
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  Speaker 2: Barner was limited. Now Barner played well and he caught
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of passes. He was fine.
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  Speaker 3: But still, maybe it's like they put them on the
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  Speaker 3: air and then they're like, we need to just.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a tough interview. Now we're limited. Limited
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  Speaker 2: in practice. So we'll check in with a lot of
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  Speaker 2: football coming up today. We will... Just to run down
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  Speaker 2: the show, this will be it as far as baseball
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  Speaker 2: talk on this show is concerned for a while. We'll
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  Speaker 2: do our final... Our final deal, our final situation with
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  Speaker 2: Ian Osiris from The Athletic and Rates and Barrels podcast,
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  Speaker 2: that's at 1.30 today, and then we're done.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I will— Yeah, I think that's fair. I think that's good.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm ready for a break.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready for a break?
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, because it's—there are plenty of places, starting at 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: on the radio station until 10 a.m., that if you
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  Speaker 2: want to speculate guests and talk about who the next
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  Speaker 2: manager might be, they'll have that for you. Chuck will
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  Speaker 2: do a great job with it.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Me, I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I'd use Mike McDonald's line. I did not care.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll just be excited when they hire someone. Or
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  Speaker 3: I'll be angry, one or the other.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me know when you hire a guy. You know,
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  Speaker 2: let me know. Wake me up at that point. We'll
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  Speaker 2: ask Eno about that a little bit. I think the
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  Speaker 2: bigger thing with baseball is, and I heard Ryan Healy
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  Speaker 2: say this this morning, and it caught my attention, and
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  Speaker 2: I want to just touch base on this real quick
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  Speaker 2: to start. You know, Ryan Healy, you know, he's a
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  Speaker 2: former player and not too far removed from playing, member
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  Speaker 2: of the Players Association, all that. And he just said
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  Speaker 2: point blank, yeah, we're going to miss games next year. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: I hate that.
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  Speaker 4: See, and that's what, I think that's the one reason
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  Speaker 4: why I'm like, I'm not, I didn't want baseball to
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  Speaker 4: end even more.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Because you just don't know when you're getting it again.
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  Speaker 4: So even crappy baseball, I guess, I still was hanging
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  Speaker 4: on to.
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  Speaker 2: And that line actually, I think of that all the
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  Speaker 2: time because I worked, I did this particular job in
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  Speaker 2: two other markets, Salt Lake and Portland. We didn't have
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. And I've always said that, like, bad
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  Speaker 2: baseball is better than no baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say that. You know, people mad about, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know already, Anders has already written off the Kraken.
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  Speaker 2: He thinks they're the worst team in the history of hockey,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Well, they haven't even played a game. They
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  Speaker 2: haven't even played a game. But, you know, like, here's
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  Speaker 2: the thing. It's better to have a team than not
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  Speaker 2: have a team.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Would you rather have a 15-win NBA team than not
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  Speaker 2: for the last 20 years? You want a team, right?
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  Speaker 4: Well, and I mean, nobody had expectations for the Kraken
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  Speaker 4: in year two when they went to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So I wouldn't count them out.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the best years, aren't they?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't those the best years?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the surprise.
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  Speaker 2: Like all of a sudden you're better than you think. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I think the Seahawks gave us that last year. Yes, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: If you guys remember this, the Seahawks a year ago,
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  Speaker 2: they were picked fourth in the NFC West by most.
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  Speaker 3: People thought they were going to win like eight games.
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  Speaker 2: That was behind the Arizona Cardinals.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, like it, the way it works for us
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  Speaker 2: out here is that, yeah, you sometimes expect the unexpected
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  Speaker 2: and hope for the unexpected. But, um, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: with the baseball team, the fact that they, they didn't
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  Speaker 2: achieve what they wanted to, I think the hard thing, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: like all the other stuff aside, like we've, we've bashed
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  Speaker 2: them enough. We've bashed the, how the ownership and how
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  Speaker 2: they operate with news conferences and firings of Dan Wilson
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  Speaker 2: and all this stuff we've discussed. All that stuff aside,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that's really sad is that when
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  Speaker 2: you do turn on the TV during the baseball playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm watching the Padres game last night with the Cubs,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, God, baseball, like, playoff baseball is just awesome.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 3: It really is so fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's just so awesome. And, like, I'm not the biggest
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  Speaker 2: regular season baseball fan by any means. Like, I'll watch
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  Speaker 2: our team every night.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to flip on Cardinals, Cubs. I just don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't watch any other teams during the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball and hockey have really turned into the regional sports.
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  Speaker 2: You watch your team, and that's kind of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But then the playoffs start, and it's different. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: watching last night. I was like, damn, man. This is
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  Speaker 2: a bummer. Like, this is really a bummer. And it's
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  Speaker 2: also why I hate the fact that when the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: do get in the playoffs every year because of the Mariners,
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  Speaker 2: they play in the middle of the day. Like, T-Mobile
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  Speaker 2: at night in a playoff game? It's electric.
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  Speaker 5: Special.
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  Speaker 3: It's electric.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely special. Absolutely special.
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  Speaker 3: I'd still take the day game over nothing. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of like having bad team over no team.
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  Speaker 5: Right. Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Day game better than no game. And that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, until then, it's, it's, I haven't officially invoked, refused,
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  Speaker 2: hashtag refused to talk, but it's close. It's close. We're
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  Speaker 2: getting there.
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  Speaker 4: I think what hurt, too, was watching the celebrations yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: like when the White Sox beat the Astros, and you're
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  Speaker 4: watching Munataka Murakami.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm drunk, I'm drunk, I'll be hungover.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Philly, you've got a couple days, you're good.
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  Speaker 3: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: But just the genuine excitement, I mean, it made me
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  Speaker 4: think of our team last year celebrating that, and that's
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  Speaker 4: where it was like, oh, that stings.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you fall on the, they celebrate like they've
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  Speaker 2: won a championship after every series?
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: Do you? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Because I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Especially as a Mariners fan, we should be celebrating every
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  Speaker 4: level we make it through the playoffs every time.
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  Speaker 2: I've come around on it. I went from, what are
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  Speaker 2: we doing? Like, you won a playoff series. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: win the whole thing. And we're celebrating like you won
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing. It's uniquely baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine. I think it's great. Yeah, you do you.
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  Speaker 2: You have fun. I mean, I know last year, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a couple, I think Benton and I know
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  Speaker 2: Jess was in the clubhouse when they won the series.
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  Speaker 2: The divisional series against the Tigers and, you know, covered in,
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  Speaker 2: you know, champagne, beer, whatever. And I mean, that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of cool. And again, rather have that than what we
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  Speaker 2: have now, which is not having that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I was at that game five against the Tigers.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, we were floating out of the stadium, right?
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  Speaker 4: Why shouldn't the players be down there? You know, at
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  Speaker 4: least take, especially look at how hard it is for
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  Speaker 4: us to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: So celebrate every single playoff momentum thing you get when
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  Speaker 4: you get it.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently it is hard. Six, six times in 50 years.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently it's really difficult.
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  Speaker 2: It's really difficult to do that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're going six times every 50 years, celebrate the,
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  Speaker 3: you know what out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I would, I would a hundred percent agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of football conversation coming up today. In addition
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  Speaker 2: to talking to, you know, at one 30 and kind
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  Speaker 2: of putting a bow on the, on the Mariner season
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  Speaker 2: with him, uh, We'll get to Ross Tucker here in
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  Speaker 2: a few minutes. He's got the game tonight. That's our
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  Speaker 2: Factor Fiction pick from a couple days ago, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: So here we go. We're loving that. So go Browns
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  Speaker 2: against the Steelers tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Is it the Dog Pound?
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  Speaker 2: The Dog Pound, yeah. That place is pretty awesome. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be honest. I think so.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be great tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I was lucky enough to go there a few years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I only went there. I go to Cleveland twice,
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  Speaker 2: maybe just once or twice during my time covering. The
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  Speaker 2: stadium is just kind of, and then they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get a new one. It's on the lake. It's downtown.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like the modern version of the cookie cutter.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the old cookie cutter riverfront stadium and all those
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  Speaker 2: like three river stadium. They all kind of look the same.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of that way. It's almost similar to Cincinnati's,
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  Speaker 2: but the fans are unreal. Like the Browns fans are unreal.
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  Speaker 2: And Pittsburgh coming to town with Aaron Rodgers, that atmosphere
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  Speaker 2: is going to be electric tonight. It'll be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've won games already. I mean, they're going to be,
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  Speaker 3: they're starved for something to celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: They were thinking they'd be 0-3 and it'd be Shadur
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  Speaker 2: Sanders starting tonight. That's not the case. That's not the case.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the case at all. So we'll bang that
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  Speaker 2: out with Ross coming up here in just a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes time and then talk about the rest of the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: talk about our local team as well. Steve Palazzolo is
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  Speaker 2: going to join us. He starts his weekly visits with us.
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  Speaker 2: If you've been listening to the show for a while,
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  Speaker 2: you know Steve quite well. He works for the 33rd team,
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  Speaker 2: which is the think tank that Greg Cosell, Hugh Millen
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  Speaker 2: are part of, former executives, players, and others around football.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a great little deal. They also do, when
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  Speaker 2: they were hired by the 33rd team, they do their podcast.
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  Speaker 2: It's called Check the Mic. He and Sam Monson every week.
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  Speaker 2: It's a really cool podcast. They do a great job
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  Speaker 2: taking a tour of the NFL. Very easy to listen.
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  Speaker 2: And they've got multiple shows every week, previews of every game.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll talk to Steve. He's kind of a roster builder.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of a numbers nerd. Started at PFF. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, PFF, I wouldn't say this to Steve. PFF
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter anymore. Everyone left. They laid everybody off. I
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  Speaker 2: see people still quoting PFF numbers. It's like, how can
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  Speaker 2: you do that when all of your analysts are gone?
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a robot, it seems like. Yeah, it's probably AI.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll talk to Steve. His weekly visits are brought
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  Speaker 2: to you by Zeke's Pizza. Really thrilled to have him
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  Speaker 2: on every week. So that's coming up today. 1 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: As I mentioned, Eno at 1.30. And then, Ashley, it's
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  Speaker 2: fantasy football time. The unofficial start of the weekend at
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  Speaker 2: 2 o'clock with our guy, Brandon Funson. Can't wait for that.
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  Speaker 2: Funson will join us and we'll break down everything. All
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  Speaker 2: things fantasy football. Three weeks in. Most fantasy leagues are
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  Speaker 2: 14 weeks long. So by and large, you've got 11
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  Speaker 2: weeks to get it together. If you're sitting there at 0-3...
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  Speaker 2: Or others, and you've got some work to do. We'll
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  Speaker 2: take your phone calls first, and then obviously the text
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  Speaker 2: messages as well at 49451. Ashley has a pick today
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  Speaker 2: for Fact or Fiction.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You know what it is already?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Nope, nope, nope.
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  Speaker 3: Because I haven't seen who's done the picks today.
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  Speaker 2: Good things come to those who wait.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, is there something good up there?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm just thinking that for you, a good thing
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  Speaker 2: for us and the show would be for you to
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  Speaker 2: continue to have great success.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I'd love that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 5: Today.
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  Speaker 2: Anders took Seattle minus seven against the Chargers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a good pick.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I thought my pick last week against the Commanders
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  Speaker 2: was good too, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree.
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn took Detroit minus three and a half at the Panthers.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: That's a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about that one. I don't know about
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  Speaker 2: that one.
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  Speaker 3: I think Detroit will win, but maybe by a field goal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but we'll see. We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: That's a little sketchy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm opening my college and my pro right now to
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  Speaker 4: see where I fall.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so you've got your chance to win $ 1, 000 weekly prize,
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  Speaker 2: $ 10, 000 grand prize coming up today. So that'll be a
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  Speaker 2: ton of fun too as well. So yeah, busy show
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  Speaker 2: as always. We'll take your text somewhere in there, 49451.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: I always kind of mention this. Thursdays are a better
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  Speaker 2: day for talkbacks because I look at our text line
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  Speaker 2: and we can only open up 200 at a time.
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  Speaker 2: And normally by the time I open it up at
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  Speaker 2: two o'clock, it's I'm lucky to see the ones that
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: came in at noon for our, for our, our fantasy
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  Speaker 2: football questions. So usually if you've got some thoughts today, feedback,
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  Speaker 2: what have you, four, nine, four, five, one, sure. Or
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  Speaker 2: send us a talk back on the little word microphone,
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: fire away your thoughts, comments, questions, concerns. We'll do a
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  Speaker 2: daily power play at one 45 today, crack and opening
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  Speaker 2: it up tonight. Benton will have the pregame 40 starting
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  Speaker 2: at five 30, and then we'll have drop of the puck.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be after six, by the way, they
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  Speaker 2: say six o'clock it's, it's opening night. So there's all
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  Speaker 2: bunch of stuff going on in Calgary. So, But we'll
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  Speaker 2: have that for you. That means the NFL game goes
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  Speaker 2: over to 950 on the AM dial, Westwood 1, with
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  Speaker 2: our guy Ross Tucker. Speaking of Ross, he will join
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  Speaker 2: us coming up next.
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• 13:09
  Speaker 2: I know you're all working together, but you're all over
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: the place every weekend. But I think he's probably loving
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: what you're doing. How are you, sir?
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: I am absolutely loving what I'm doing. I am doing fantastic.
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: Always good to hear your voice in. And yeah, I
• 13:23
  Speaker 5: think Kevin has me beat because he does every Monday
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: for Westwood one. Whereas I do not do every Thursday,
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: although Kurt Warner is doing the London game on Sunday.
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: So I'm actually doing triple duty this weekend. I'm actually,
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: after I do the bills game Sunday, I'll be flying
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: down to New Orleans to do Falcon saints with Kevin
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: on Monday. So I got them beat this weekend. I
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: have the rare, the rare, the very rare triple header.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: That's man. I thought I was busy. We, I do
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: a crack and hockey TV and we, we start tonight
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: and I thought I had a busy time with three
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: games in four days and a radio show, but I'm not,
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not going all over the place like you are
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: right now, so you're a busy man. But it would
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: be great to hear you on the call. By the way,
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: our game tonight, because of the Kraken, over on the
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: 950 side on the AM dial and the iHeartRadio app
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: as well for Russ. I've got to ask you this,
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: because we talked about food in the press boxes a
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: couple weeks ago. And I mentioned this, Ashley mentioned this
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: to me in the last segment about Cleveland and the
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: dog pound. And I've been there. I loved it. I
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: thought it was a little bit out of control at times,
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: but I thought it was pretty cool. And then there's
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: a part of the food I'll get to in a second.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: But I know they're trying to build a new stadium,
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: but how would you describe, because every fan base thinks
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: they're the best in the NFL, how would you describe
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns fan base?
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: Well, it's funny that you say that because I do
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: do a weekly in Cleveland every week. And I have
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: said for a long time, I think they have a really,
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: really strong argument for being the best fans in the NFL.
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: Because if you think about since they returned, whatever it is, 1999,
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: if you think about how bad they've been, and how
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: little return on investment they've gotten, and yet how diehard
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: they remain, it is extremely, extremely impressive. I mean, I'm
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: blown away by their loyalty. I can't say enough about it.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of Browns fans. They live
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: and die with this team, even like this year. I
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: think they know that the Browns aren't really good. I
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: think they know that the Browns aren't really gonna do
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: anything of consequence this year, but they still live and
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: die with every decision. They care so much. It's, it's
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: really endearing. It really is. You know, I, you know, there's,
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: there's lots of good fan bases out there. Certainly where
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: I'm from, the Eagles have a great fan base and, others,
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: but a lot of them, you know, those teams are successful.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: Those teams are playing primetime games. A lot of times
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: those teams are, you know, playoff books. Cleveland is like,
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: for the most part, pretty much none of that. I mean, that, that, that,
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: like those things are not happening and yet they are
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: still this loyal, this diehard just to get a win,
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: you know, just to, Just to get a win, to
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: be able to enjoy it, I love it. I love them,
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: and I'm looking forward to the night. They have this
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: weird thing, you can hear it on the TV, where
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: they bang on the top of like a... I think
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: it's right above the press box. There's like these metal things,
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: and they bang on it the whole game.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: So forget the dog pound. It's that part of it
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: that I feel like is really unique slash... maybe a
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: little bit annoying, but certainly in that category. It's funny, though.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: You'll appreciate this, Ian. One time in 2004, I was
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: playing for the Buffalo Bills at Oakland Alameda Coliseum against
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: the Raiders. And I thought about the black hole, the
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: very well-known... Raiders fans in the end zone. And of
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: course that's where the away team, you know, warms up.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: And I thought, you know what? It was my fourth year.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: It was my first time playing there. I had never
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: been there before. And I, and I recognized, I was
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: pretty well aware of my career mortality and knowing that,
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: you know, every year was a year to year thing. Right.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: So I went to, During pregame warm-ups, I went right
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: to the black hole. I got like five feet away,
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: and I was like, is this it? Is this all
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: you guys got? I thought there'd be more than this.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: And they all start screaming at me. The guys with
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: the shoulder pads and the spikes, they're all reaching and
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: grabbing out and trying to get after me. And I
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: was just far enough where they couldn't do it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: But I wanted the full experience. I wanted to get
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: the full experience. You know, Raiders black hole experience, and I.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Feel like I got it. You did. You got it
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: all right there. Yeah, the full experience in Oakland, too,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: is also– I did live shots there. We're doing our
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: pregame shows for preseason games and regular season games. We
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: do live shots next to the dugouts for baseball. And
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the thoughts of like, is it sewage or what is
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: that weird water that we're standing in right now always
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: was there. Yeah, that place had its charm. You mentioned
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: that in Cleveland. I just looked it up. I grabbed
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: my phone. October 13th, 2019 was the last time I
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: was there. And the thing that stood out, two things. One,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: the press box. So you're in the broadcast booth. The
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: rest of us media guys, the press box, the stands
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: go right up to the glass on the press box.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I got a picture of this guy. He got there
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: an hour and a half beforehand. Ross, I'm not exaggerating
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: when I say this fella had at least six or
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: seven clear cocktails, looked like a vodka crayon. like he
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: was going hard and the whole time pounding the glass,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: pounding that, that what you mentioned, that metal there underneath,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: I found it fun at first, then annoying and then
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: kind of fun again and laughing about it. Cause then
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: the dude had, you'll love this halftime. Well, you know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: better slow it down. I better switch. So he switched
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to like mega beers instead. Like that was, and it
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: wasn't just him. It was a whole section and that
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: stood out in the stadium mustard that they have there.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And for halftime, the stadium mustard is phenomenal. That's I'm a,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: That was actually awesome. Yeah, in Cleveland. It's called the
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Authentic Stadium Mustard. I'm not usually a halftime eat guy,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: but this guy, I went, I'm going to try this.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: The mustard was sensational. They have the guys that oversee
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: the press box, these older gentlemen. And I'm telling him,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: that mustard's unbelievable. He goes, you like it?
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: I go, yeah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: He said, can you get it in Seattle? I go, no,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I've never seen it before. Five minutes later, the guy
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: comes back and he's got a full unopened bottle and says,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: take this back with you. Like the hospitality just stood
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: out between dude man firing off like six or seven
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: hard cocktails before the game, switching to beer and that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I want to go back to Cleveland. I loved it there.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: That is awesome. I'll try to get some of the
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: stadium sauce.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: That's amazing. And what I remember from the last time
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: I was here is they have, like, their soda brand
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: is RC Cola. Yes. Yeah. Yes, it is. Which is, like,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: I had no idea that RC Cola still existed. I, like,
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: did not believe that RC Cola was actually still a thing.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: No, it is in Cleveland. Ross Tucker joining us, brought
• 21:23
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• 21:25
  Speaker 2: on tonight's game. We do a thing called Factor Fiction.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: It's agree or disagree with the host for a contest
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: we do at the show every day at 235. I
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: picked Cleveland. They're a home underdog, plus two and a half.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I picked Cleveland in this game. Part of it is
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: because we don't like the Steelers out here. We're still
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: bitter about the Super Bowl years ago. But I picked Cleveland.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I think they're a fun story. Give us a little
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: feel for what you're going to think to see tonight.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: You know, I think it's going to be an awesome game.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: I love the fact that one of these teams is
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: going to be 3-1 after this game. The Browns have
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: really picked it up on defense the last two weeks.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: They've been much better than they were week one against Jacksonville.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: And then Deshaun Watson's just been clutch. Deshaun Watson has
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: played his best football in the fourth quarter when it's
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: mattered most. He has back-to-back... game winning touchdown drives. It's
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: kind of, I mean, the guy after five years, he's
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: finally going to do it in the last year of
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: his contract. And, and, and he's moving around like he
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: did when he was in Houston. He looks athletic moving
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: around the field.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: It's, it's really, really surprising and impressive. And that's their
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: combo right now. Their combo is really good defense. Deshaun
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Watson using his legs and making enough plays late for
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: them to be able to win these games. And then
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: for the Steelers, I had their game on Sunday for CBS,
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: and they were awesome in that game, offensively especially. I mean,
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Burrow carved them up a little bit, and they were
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: fortunate that the Bengals had two major, major games. special
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: teams errors, which probably ended up being the difference in
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: the outcome of the game.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: But after not being able to move the ball at
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: all the first two weeks, the Steelers were able to
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: move it very effectively over 400 yards of offense.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Guys were open.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: They were scheming guys up. Rodgers played well. He can
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: still move better than I would have thought at this age.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: And I thought he was pretty impressive in that game
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: last week. So I think it's going to be an
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: awesome game. I don't think there'll be a ton of points.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: I think it'll be 20 to 17, something like that.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: But a good, fun game that can go either way.
• 23:53
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• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Our team last week loses in Washington to the Commanders
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: and Marcus Mariota. Turnovers, probably you just talked about special
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: teams in the game with Pittsburgh last week in Cincinnati.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Felt like a lot of us out here kind of
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: looked at that game and said, well, you turn the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: ball over that many times, you lose that turnover battle 3-0,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: you're probably going to lose a football game. Jadarian Price, though,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: had another turnover, two fumbles in two weeks, was benched
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: for a while. Just some quick thoughts from you on
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Seattle and where they are at 2-1 after that loss
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: to the Commanders.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, listen, it was just kind of one
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: of those games where You know, if you watch that game,
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: I don't think you come away from it thinking the
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: commanders are the better team. Yeah. I think they made
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: some really nice plays. Yeah, I mean, the McLaurin touchdown
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: catch was really good. They made some other plays. Give
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: them credit for that. And there was the turnovers. I mean,
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: the problem with the Price fumble is this. Yes. Now
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: he's a known fumbler. And you know this. And what
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: that means is he is going to be a marked man.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: They are going to try to attack the ball every
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: time he has it, which just makes it even harder.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Because now, you know, they all know he'll fumble. So
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: they're all going to be trying to rip it out
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: even more than they already would be. He's going to
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: be more conscious of it. He's going to be more careful.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Does that affect him personally? as a runner? Does it
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: make him less explosive because he's so afraid of losing
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: the ball? There's just a lot that goes into it
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: at that point for a young player. And then obviously
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: not a good throw by Donald on the interception and
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Medrano made a really, really nice play. I mean, I've
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: watched that a couple of times. He barely caught that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I mean, it was like not even the back half
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: of the ball. He caught the back quarter of the ball.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: It's actually super impressive.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt. I want to go back to
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Jordan Price. You've been in those rooms afterwards, and what
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: you said there resonates a little bit. Yeah, I know
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: every team knows that. He's a known fumbler after three
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: games into his NFL career, two straight, and so forth.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Every coach is different. We can't get inside Mike McDonald's head,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: but how hard is it to earn trust back from
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: a coaching staff or even teammates when you're, as you said,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: the known fumbler?
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Well, the good news for him is he was the
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: first-round pick, and also... they don't really have anybody else
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: like him. Now, I think I saw, are they getting
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Charbonnet back this week?
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: No, his window opened for his coming off PUP. He's
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: got 21 days. He can't play anyway. This will be
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: game four. So the earliest he could play would be
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: next week.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just saw that pop up on my feed
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: or whatever. So they need him. So they need to
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: support him, and they need to have confidence in him.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: And he's a first-round pick. If this was... a guy
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: that was a fourth-round pick or a little bit different,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: or a guy that, you know, some veteran that was
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: on the cheap, it might be a little bit different.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: But they've invested too much to just drop him. They
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: need to help him work through this.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Totally agree. Ross Tucker joining us. I'm going to get
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: your thoughts on a couple other things. Rams and Eagles,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: two teams you know well, Eagles especially. Rams are 1-2.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Watching them play, I don't think anybody would be worried necessarily,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: but losses in the NFL are not a good thing
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: if they start to accumulate. And they go to the Eagles,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: who are 2-1 this season, coming off that loss to Chicago.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Kind of a pivotal game for both teams.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Huge game for both teams. And interestingly, you know, on
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Tuesdays on the Ross Tucker Football podcast, I do my
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: power rankings on I still have the Rams as a
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: top five team. You know, I'm not one of these
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: guys that just looks at the record and says, oh,
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: the Vikings are 3-0. The Rams are 1-2. That means
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: the Vikings are better. That means the Raiders are better. No,
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: it doesn't. You know, who you play matters. How the
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: game unfolds matters. I still think the Rams are awfully good.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Sounds like they're getting Puka Nakua back. And, you know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: I do a lot of stuff. in Philly, including, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: the Ross report, social media, right? You know, I predict
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: the outcome of the game at Ross Tucker NFL. It's
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: not that often just because they've been so good that
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: I predict the Eagles to lose, but I have them
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: losing this one, right? I think that the Rams are
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: going to win the game. The Eagles have beaten them
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: four straight times, and that sounds great, and it is,
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: but that's not going to continue forever. You know, and
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: so to ask him to beat them five straight times,
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: to ask him to knock the Rams down to one
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: and three, it's certainly possible, and it feels like a
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: toss-up game, but something's a little off with the Eagles
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: to start this season, and because of that, I think
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: the Rams win the game. I think they're both two
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: and two after this one.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Maybe it wasn't the DV receiver where something was off.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Speaking of that, the Patriots and Bills, last one I
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: want to get your thoughts on on this. Last year's
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: AFC champion, 1-2, the Patriots. So you should be able
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: to get, oh no, you're going to take on Buffalo
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: this week. You have that game, I think, on CBS.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Mike Vrabel and company, it's getting a little dicey there.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: It is, and for a budget. reasons. I mean, no A.J.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: Brown has really hurt them. They were really counting on him, obviously.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: You know, I think I've read and heard so much
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: already this week about what the issues are with Drake
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: May and is it his shoulder, is it just his confidence, blah, blah, blah.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: It's never one thing, you know? I mean, without A.J. Brown,
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: their receivers are pretty pedestrian. It's not like they're running
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: the ball all that effectively. They're playing way better defenses.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: You know, last year he put up huge numbers against
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: by far the easiest schedule in the NFL, and they
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: were driving the ball down the field. His mobility was awesome.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: People have a little bit of a better bead now
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: on how to play him and how you need to
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: attack him. and they're playing a lot more zone. They're
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: trying to make him take his time, and he's losing patience.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: I do think he's lost some confidence a little bit.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: So it's a bad combination right now of they're playing
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: much better. I mean, think about the playoffs. Jesse Minter
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: in the Chargers, the Texans, the Broncos, maybe the two
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: best defenses, and then the Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: And then this year, Seahawks. Steelers, Jaguars. I think all
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: of them, if they're not all top 10 defenses, they're
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: at least in the running. I think it's a combination
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: of a bunch of different things.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Have a great call tonight, Sunday, and Monday, Ross. Tell
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: folks about all the things you've got going on. I
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: mentioned a little bit of gambling. I know you can
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: help folks if they want to do some wagering as
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: well at the local casinos.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I've got the Even Money Betting Podcast, if
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: you're into that. The Ross Tucker Football Podcast is daily,
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: 25 minutes or less, just kind of give you a
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: national perspective on the league. And then, obviously, follow me
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: on social media, at RossTuckerNFL. You can see what the
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: Browns are serving in the press box tonight. You can
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: see what I eat tomorrow night in Buffalo. I can
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: give you a hint right now. It's going to be
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: wings and Labatt Blue Light.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: And then Sunday, we'll see what the new Bill Stadium
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: has to offer.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Ross, thanks so much. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 2: you next week.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: All right, see you.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: That's Ross Tucker joining us. Again, you can hear him
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: over on 950 tonight. Hear him on Monday on 93.3 KGRFM.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: As well, watch him on CBS on Sunday. Got some
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Mariner news for you. It's probably not good for what
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: some of you are hoping. That's next. Big thanks to
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Ross Tucker. I'll post those pics. I don't like posting stuff.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I'm sick of Twitter. But I'm going to post the pics.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: The guy I was talking to in Cleveland, just an
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: epic fan. It was him and a bunch of his buddies.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: They were club seats, too, by the way. Oh, really?
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Them dudes were getting after it that year. Oh, they
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: were getting after it. And then, like I said, we
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: were all laughing in the press box. It's like, okay.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Halftime comes guys like two minute warning. The guy disappears,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: comes back before second half starts figuring he's going to
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: have like four more of those, you know, vodka crayons
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Nope.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: We're just going beer.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, because at some point you have to think, Ooh,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: I probably have to work tomorrow.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: I've got to lighten this up a little bit. I've
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: got to figure that one out along the way. Uh,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: that and the mustard was fantastic. Okay. Well, there goes
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: a hashtag refuse to talk. Now I did say I
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: wasn't going to implement it.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: It lasted really long.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: It really lasted long. Lasted one segment. I did say
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: in my defense, we have one more segment coming up with,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: you know, Sarah's at 130 today, right? But here's the
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: news that I think this will make some upset. I
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe Tori Lovallo is out as a candidate
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: to come here because he is signing a two-year deal
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: to remain the manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: That's a bummer.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people either had hopes that
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: he would come here, Or were thinking he would come here.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I heard somebody say the other day, I don't even
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: know who the national guy was. He was the leading
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: candidate to come to Seattle. It just made sense, blah, blah, blah. Now,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Luke Arkins, who's been on this station a bunch of times,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: does a great job doing stuff with the Mariners. He
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: had this post yesterday, which jumped out at me a
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: little bit. Torrey Lovello, in his 10 years as a manager,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: a win percentage of 494. and just two postseason appearances. Well,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: I guess that would fit perfect with Jerry. But no,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: I digress. Dan Wilson, two years, 187 and 171, a
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: 522 winning percentage in one postseason. Scott Service, in his
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: nine years, had a 514 winning percentage in one postseason
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: as well. Now, that's not the be-all, the end-all, but
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: as Luke says, I don't understand why the chic candidate
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: for the mayor's job is chic in terms of Torrey Lovello. So,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: you know, what are you losing?
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Eh.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know either because I don't know. That's why
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm not going to speculate on who should
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: or shouldn't be the manager. All I know is I
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: want it to be someone who has been a manager before.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Well, and I think that's the one thing. If we
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: take the 494 winning percentage and just two postseason appearances
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: in 10 years. Now, in fairness to his two postseason
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: appearances in 10 years, they've been playing in a division
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: that's massively hard. You've got two playoff teams in that division.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: One of them is named the Dodgers. Might've heard of them.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: They're pretty good. And the Padres, pretty good.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: Yep. Decent. Yeah.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: So you're, you're as you're behind the eight ball to start.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: It's like playing in the American league East. So, but
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I'm with you. Like the one thing with him is I,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: he's done it for 10 years.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: He's seen it all. And you know, that wasn't the
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: case with Scott. That wasn't the case with Dan. Those
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: two guys had not seen it all. Those two guys had,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: had been thrown into the fire. So, I think a
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: manager like Ashley, like you said, with experience, I think
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: that would also ease the minds of many Mariner fans.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: From this standpoint. The feeling that everyone has that Jerry
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: runs everything, day-to-day lineups included. You know, decisions are all made.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Like there's like a little, I used to joke with
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: the Jack Bauer 24, got the little earpiece in, you know,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: and it's like. Go to Bizzardo. Go to Bizzardo. All right, Chloe,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I got you.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: Bizzardo?
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bizzardo it is. Here we go to Bizzardo. Cooper, Criswell.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: I wish that is how it went.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's– but he's off the market. And
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I know that will upset Son along the way. Also,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: you ask yourself, is that a better job than Seattle?
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Because he could have chosen.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, here's the thing too, though, is he has
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: the opportunity to stay where he's at, which means his
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: family stays where they're at. And those things can, you know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: can't be underestimated. Some people just like that. They like
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: where they're at.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: They, you know, I can understand that.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I can totally understand that as well. Julian Love, by
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: the way, saying just a few minutes ago that he
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: is expecting to play this week.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, I saw that.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I'm very excited about that. So if you want to
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: look at the good news, bad news, the good news
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: is Julian Love should be back. Bad news is if
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: you wanted Tori Lovello as a mariner manager. He ain't
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: coming back.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Nope.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: He is not coming back to an organization he once
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: was a part of here in Seattle. Okay. Still coming
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: up on the show, our first visit of the year
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: with Tori Lavella. Well, he's actually not going to join us.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: That would have been one weird coincidence.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not going to join us. Coming up, our
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: first visit of the year in just a few minutes
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: with our guy Steve Palazzolo. All Things NFL 33rd Team.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Check the Mike podcast. We'll check in with Steve, get
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: his thoughts on what he's seen so far in the
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: first three weeks of the season, including with our local team,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: your Seattle Seahawks, and look ahead to the Chargers game.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: I know they did a preview on their Check the
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Mike podcast, so we'll get some thoughts on an 0-3
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Chargers team, hopefully an 0-4 Chargers team after Sunday. So
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: that's coming up in a few minutes. Final visit of
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: the year with Eno Saris. Daily Power Play at 145.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: And don't forget our guy, Brandon Funston, at 2 o'clock.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Now I'll give you a little pro tip here. If
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: you texted in right away at 12 o'clock, within the
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: first few seconds, then you got a chance to have
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: your question read. Pretty good chance. If you text in
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: between really 12.05 and 2 p.m., probably not much of
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: a chance.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Because we do the early ones.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: And it refreshes.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: It refreshes. We do the early text and the late
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: text for Funston at 2 o'clock. So just keep that
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: in mind. Plan accordingly. You can start texting in again
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: at 2. We will open up the phone lines as
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: we go to break.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: Yep. At about 1.54 p.m. Correct.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: We're always on time.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: That's all without a hesitation on time, especially during a
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: daily power play on a cracking opening night. We'll 100%
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: be on time.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Especially with Eno coming up and also Steve Palozole. Our
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: first visit with Steve brought to you by Zeke's Pizza
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: is coming up next.