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Chuck & Buck 7-7 Hour 1: It's over. We're down with OPQ and a Marlins preview. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the radio program here on this Tuesday, Chuck Powell,
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was I guess. Coincidentally, they hired Bucky and
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for the longest time, I wanted to go. I
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  Speaker 2: wanted us to be the Michael Jordan Show.
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  Speaker 5: That would have been great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I just said, this is Chuck and
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  Speaker 1: Buck filling in for Michael Jordan.
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  Speaker 2: Every day, every single day.
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  Speaker 4: questions would we get about when is Michael Jordan coming back?
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  Speaker 2: What does Michael Jordan's start?
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  Speaker 4: When's that happening?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll just put it this way.
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  Speaker 1: There's a chance that Bucky comes back, Okay, Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: no chance that Michael Jordan is ever going to be
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  Speaker 1: the co host, all right, or the host. At that point,
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm pretty sure we become sidekicks.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning to you all. Welcome into the radio program.
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  Speaker 1: It is good to have you with us. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of great things to talk about today. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: our number one story, which we will discuss at length
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  Speaker 1: with experts and amongst ourselves and with you, quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: is going to be what happened yesterday here in Seattle
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  Speaker 1: with our US men's soccer team as they fell to
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  Speaker 1: Belgium by a final score of four to one. But
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  Speaker 1: we do have some other things we'll discuss during the
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  Speaker 1: course of our four hours together. What's on tap. In
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  Speaker 1: a moment, we'll map it all out for you. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the US loses to Belgium four to one. The final
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  Speaker 1: score turns out all that hand ringing over Balligan was
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  Speaker 1: for naught. They didn't really need us to be down
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  Speaker 1: a guy to sort of dominate us, and in a
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  Speaker 1: strange way, and I do believe it was domination. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I felt that way at the first hydration break.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, it should be five to one. We should
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  Speaker 1: be losing five to one, right, we were that bad? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we were that bad in the game. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: as sports fans, and admittedly, and I keep doing this
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  Speaker 1: every day, I don't really know this sport all that well.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really even care to know this sport all
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  Speaker 1: that well. I'm just not that big a fan. But
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  Speaker 1: I certainly got into the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: I was drawn to.
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  Speaker 1: The magnitude of the event, certainly to the patriotism, you know,
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  Speaker 1: supporting your US team. So I certainly was there front
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  Speaker 1: and center last night. I'm getting ready for this match
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  Speaker 1: and kind of counted the seconds toward it.
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  Speaker 2: I actually showed up at my.
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  Speaker 1: Bar, wouldn't Creek Kitchen prematurely they weren't even open yet. Yeah, yeah, So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's how in anticipation I was. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make sure I got a good seat, make sure
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  Speaker 1: when the door's opened that I you know, I got
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  Speaker 1: there a place at the bar, had a fantastic night there.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly I was invested in what's happening with our
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  Speaker 1: US men's soccer team. But I do want to say,
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  Speaker 1: not a huge fan of the sport, and it does
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  Speaker 1: color my analysis, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But there have been plenty of times as sports fans
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  Speaker 1: where we are very invested, emotionally invested. No every player
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  Speaker 1: on the roster, no the background, every player on the roster,
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  Speaker 1: and you get to the end of the season and
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  Speaker 1: you have your year conclude and you look at, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: if that bounce would have gone that way.
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  Speaker 2: Or if we would have gotten that.
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  Speaker 6: Call, or oh man, if X player would have just
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  Speaker 6: shown up, or if ex player wouldn't have gotten thrown out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they are all.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how many times in your life did your
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  Speaker 1: season end? Did we discuss if Michael Pennix Junior would
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  Speaker 1: have just played as well against Texas as he did,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if he would have played as well against
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  Speaker 1: Michigan as he did against Texas. I mean, there are
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  Speaker 1: all scenarios that you when a season comes to a close,
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  Speaker 1: and the bitter disappointment of that season comes to a close,
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  Speaker 1: you can point to maybe one or two things that
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  Speaker 1: would have changed the outcome.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe we'd still be carrying on.
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  Speaker 1: In a strange way, I feel a bit relieved because
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  Speaker 1: we had no shot in that match. As it turns out,
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  Speaker 1: that was such total domination that you're like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you, Belgium.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck the rest of the way, because we certainly
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  Speaker 1: don't deserve to keep playing.
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  Speaker 2: So again, I don't know the sport all that well.
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  Speaker 1: I can't necessary early break it down for you, but
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  Speaker 1: what I could see last night we were out played,
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  Speaker 1: we were out manned, we were out coached, We were
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  Speaker 1: out hustled, we were out efforted, we were out schemed,
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  Speaker 1: and we were.
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  Speaker 2: Just overall outmatched. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's you'd have to put a list of
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  Speaker 1: five hundred things together that would have had to go
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  Speaker 1: the other way in order to win that match. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: soccer is set up where it doesn't ever look like
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  Speaker 1: a blowout. I mean, you're not losing by forty goals
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  Speaker 1: ever in a match like you might lose forty points
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  Speaker 1: a basketball game or by fifteen runs in a baseball game.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as soccer matches go, that was about
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  Speaker 1: as one sided as it gets. And in a strange way, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: it feels almost like a relief. I'm like, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: tied up in knots over this whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Part of that is I'm not that huge of a
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  Speaker 1: soccer fan, I'm sure, but I'm a better team won.
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  Speaker 1: I feel good about sport, some life and justice right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there was there's no way that the
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  Speaker 4: US can make any argument for if any if this
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  Speaker 4: had happened, or if this had happened, we would have won.
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  Speaker 4: We from the beginning, from the second it started, it
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  Speaker 4: seemed like they were on a mission and we were
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  Speaker 4: tired or slow or something. I don't know what it was,
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  Speaker 4: but we didn't have the energy that they had, which
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  Speaker 4: was I think that was the thing that disappointed me.
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  Speaker 4: You're back here in Seattle. Everybody's been talking about the
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  Speaker 4: energy that you know, this stadium has been giving. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and to then show up flat.
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  Speaker 5: That was the disappointment. It was like, oh, you're not even.
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  Speaker 4: I mean when they got their first goal and then
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  Speaker 4: immediately gave Belgium a goal right back, I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: you just they don't have it.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't have it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I will say normally I might even push
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  Speaker 1: back on that, like I'm not going to base this
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  Speaker 1: off of just how the effort was wanting. There was
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  Speaker 1: so much that they came up short on. I think
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  Speaker 1: that they're to a man. Belgium played better, yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: in the match last night. But I will say this,
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  Speaker 1: for those that they do pay to be experts, that
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  Speaker 1: has been the number one thing that has been brought
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  Speaker 1: up on every expert I've heard or watched talk about this,
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  Speaker 1: like the effort wasn't there, the energy wasn't there. They
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  Speaker 1: were step slow, they were slow to every ball. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: so that's what the experts. I mean, that's where they're
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  Speaker 1: going with all of it is that's the first.
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  Speaker 2: Thing that they are pointing out.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know how that could even be right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, certainly you weren't bothered by the controversy that
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  Speaker 1: Balligan was allowed to play, that you didn't feel like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even want to play if this was going
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  Speaker 1: to be the case. I mean, certainly that wasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly it wasn't the setting because it was beautiful, it
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  Speaker 1: was ideal, it was picturesque. The crowd, the US crowd
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  Speaker 1: showed up in full frenzy, So it couldn't have been that.
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  Speaker 2: So what gives? What is the explanation?
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  Speaker 1: How on Earth and the biggest match of your lives
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  Speaker 1: are you caught a half step slow across your entire roster?
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  Speaker 2: How is that even possible?
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  Speaker 4: I will say the only person who I think, from
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  Speaker 4: start to finish looked like they were ready to play
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  Speaker 4: with Tilman start to finish.
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  Speaker 5: Tillman was out there running around the entire game. He
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  Speaker 5: was trying.
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  Speaker 4: And then when Burholter came in too, he at least
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  Speaker 4: was like pumped up and had the energy.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed that. Yeah, I wrote that down, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But everybody else seemed n yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that I mean that that's why I don't lead
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  Speaker 1: with it, even though they did, even though you have,
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  Speaker 1: I don't lead with it because I can't believe that
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  Speaker 1: it's like we didn't want it, or we didn't want
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  Speaker 1: it enough, or I can't believe that it came down
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  Speaker 1: to energy. What I think it came down to is
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  Speaker 1: they realized very quickly, oh man, we they are in
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  Speaker 1: the right spot every single time. So that's why I think,
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  Speaker 1: in a way it comes down to coaching. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if. I mean, I don't know a lot about this,
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  Speaker 1: but when I watch one team and everywhere you go
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  Speaker 1: on this gigantic field that they play on, and everywhere
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  Speaker 1: you go, the other team has an answer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then in a sport where it's hard to even
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  Speaker 1: get the ball in front of the goal, and for
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  Speaker 1: the entire first twenty two minutes of the match, they
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  Speaker 1: spent the entire twenty two minutes in front.
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  Speaker 2: Of our goal.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, we were lucky to be down
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  Speaker 1: only three to one. It should have been five to
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  Speaker 1: one by the first hydration break. I mean, that's how
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  Speaker 1: many good looks and how many good chances that they had.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go first and foremost to coaching because
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  Speaker 1: whatever scheme they had, I don't think they had better athletes,
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  Speaker 1: but whatever scheme they had, they just seemed to be
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  Speaker 1: in the right place at the right.
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  Speaker 2: Time every single time. And we I think adjusted.
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  Speaker 1: I think there were adjustments made after the hydration break,
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  Speaker 1: and there were even more adjustments made after halftime, but
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  Speaker 1: for an entire first half of the first half, and
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  Speaker 1: you just seem to.
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  Speaker 2: Be late everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I can't believe it's we weren't ready
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  Speaker 1: to play. We weren't ready for the moment. I think
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  Speaker 1: you got out schemed, and I think you just got
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  Speaker 1: out executed. And that is where that goes on the
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  Speaker 1: shoulders of every single person wearing US uniform yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I hear what you're saying. I mean it
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  Speaker 4: was it was embarrassing, honestly, like to watch the to
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  Speaker 4: have gone in and with all the hype and all
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  Speaker 4: the excitement and everything we've been hearing, and oh this,
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  Speaker 4: you know, this Belgium team is older and and US
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  Speaker 4: is younger, and they've got all this energy and they've
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  Speaker 4: got all these things and it's like, Okay, yeah, we've
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  Speaker 4: got this, We've got this, and then for it to
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  Speaker 4: come out as flat as it did, and for them
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  Speaker 4: to come out and score so quickly and just look
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  Speaker 4: so much better. I mean from the fundamentals of soccer.
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  Speaker 4: They looked so much better at everything. And then I
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you couldn't help but laugh in the second half,
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  Speaker 4: when then the guy that everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Talks about all the time, Lacoco, is then coming in.
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  Speaker 4: You're like, so they've been kicking our butts this whole
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  Speaker 4: time and he's been on the bench.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. It was start to finish, it was.
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  Speaker 5: It was embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, like I said, I mean, I'm not embarrassed by it.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose if I had have gone out on a
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  Speaker 1: limb and claim that that we're gonna win at all.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I actually feel kind of good. I do.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not because I'm not patriotic or I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to see the team win. Like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: was there a half hour before they even opened the
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  Speaker 1: doors yesterday to to you know, take in the game,
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  Speaker 1: take in the match. But there's something sort of almost
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  Speaker 1: cathartic about oh yeah, the better team went on yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that makes you feel at least makes me feel okay
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  Speaker 1: about it. I think there were some other things and
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  Speaker 1: and by the way, I want to open this up
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  Speaker 1: to day four nine four or five to one to
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  Speaker 1: text anybody that wants to respond on YouTube. Again, I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of a know it all when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: sports talk radio, but usually just in my fields that
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  Speaker 1: I've studied my entire life as a child, played everything else.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm never going to say you tell me if
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  Speaker 1: I'm right or wrong. You know, I'm never going to
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  Speaker 1: appear more vulnerable when it comes to a sports topic.
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  Speaker 1: Then I'm admitting to being in this. So we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to this a little bit later on in the show.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to hear from your text anything that
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  Speaker 1: you disagree with or agree with. I'd like to know
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  Speaker 1: if you will like agree with because I'm getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to go in hot takey here on a sport.
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  Speaker 2: That I don't know if I should, So feel free to.
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  Speaker 1: Respond, and you can be as funny or you know,
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  Speaker 1: nasty cute as you want to be and your responses.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll get to some of those a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later on in the show. But just a few things.
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  Speaker 1: Number one holistics not a star. I mean, if this
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  Speaker 1: sport is supposedly this dominated by super stardom, and one
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: guy Laonel Messi can join Miami in the MLS and
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  Speaker 1: they go from the worst team in the league to
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  Speaker 1: the best team in the league. If one player can
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  Speaker 1: have that kind of an impact, then we don't have
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  Speaker 1: that kind of player.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I mean, he.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't even the best player on our team.
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  Speaker 1: He's not the best player on our team. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even sure he's in the top five. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: I watched a guy last night who wasn't athletic enough
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  Speaker 1: to get around defenders, wasn't strong.
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  Speaker 5: Enough to separate himself for the injury.
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  Speaker 1: Separate himself from defenders, who wasn't crafty enough in order
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  Speaker 1: to overcome some of those physical limitations. He's obviously not
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  Speaker 1: a physical, hulking figure, so you know there's some limitations there.
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  Speaker 1: But he was supposed to be this wizard, and there
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  Speaker 1: was no wizardry going on on the pitch throughout the tournament,
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  Speaker 1: but particularly last night, he was completely taken out of
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: And if you think I'm harsh about.
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  Speaker 1: It, Carly Lloyd, who got paid to analyze it, said
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  Speaker 1: last night that he played timid, tentative, and scared. I
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  Speaker 1: can't imagine having three things worse said about me if
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  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be the best player on the team
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  Speaker 1: in the biggest game of my life, to have another
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  Speaker 1: person appear, somebody who has competed for World Cups say
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  Speaker 1: of my game, I look timid, tentative, and scared.
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  Speaker 5: No, and I've she nailed it.
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  Speaker 4: Because, especially for a casual soccer fan like us, all
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  Speaker 4: we heard about going into this for Team USA, all
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  Speaker 4: you hear about is Polisic, Polisic, Policic. I mean that
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  Speaker 4: name has been drilled into our brains for the last month.
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  Speaker 4: And then to have watched him, not even just last night,
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  Speaker 4: in this tournament in general, he was a non factor.
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  Speaker 4: And people will say, I understand there's soccer things that
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand that he's doing that I don't get.
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  Speaker 5: But again, to a.
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  Speaker 4: Casual fan who's heard this name the whole time, you
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  Speaker 4: watch a game and you're like, where is this guy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh he was?
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  Speaker 1: It was a non factor last night. If anything, he
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  Speaker 1: was a detriment last night. And Burholter, to your point,
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  Speaker 1: actually came in and provided a lift a little bit
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  Speaker 1: at least some energy. It looked like he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: come back and win, and I realized that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that looked like a legitimate injury. I questioned a lot
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  Speaker 1: of injuries, but when Polisic got kind of caught from
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  Speaker 1: behind trying to full swing his leg, I think he
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  Speaker 1: was really hurt, and so I understand why he went
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  Speaker 1: out of the match. But I don't understand anything about
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  Speaker 1: his game until that point. I'll say that much. Then, Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Belgium did a great job of pushing the ball away
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  Speaker 1: from the middle of the field. They lived in the
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: middle of the field. They kept pushing our ball to
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: the outside, and I think for good reason, they know
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: that our players out there are terrible.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Now again, feel free to correct me on this.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: I can't.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I'll open my I'm very vulnerable in this topic. But
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: what I watched last night were two guys on the
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: outside that just kept turning the ball over every time
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: they touched it. I had one guy that was too passive,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Robinson on the left, and then one guy who is
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: too aggressive dest on the right. And I got news
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: for you. When you pass any kind of ball or object,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: whether it's with your hand or your feet, if you
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: throw it right at the person, it won't pass through them.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: They're not ghosts, they're not apparitions. Okay, that ball, they're
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: not going to dissolve just because you kicked it hard
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and you really want it to go through them. So,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, every time we seem to have a break
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: with dest on the right side, he would her he
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: would sprint with speed, I'll give him that. And he
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: dribbled the ball well, and he would go right to
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the only guy in his path and kick it right
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: at a ship. That can't be strategy. That can't be
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: something that's taught. That can't be Well, if we kick
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: it at his shins, maybe it'll bounce off toward the
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: middle of the field right to one of our guys.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: If that's your strategy, then and this sport, I like
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: it even less than I thought I did.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's also a lot more math involved
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: than I thought.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: And then it didn't It didn't help matters that our
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: goalkeeper had to have authored one of the biggest blunders
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: in American sports history.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's terrible.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, you do know that you can touch the
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: ball with your hands, right.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: He couldn't that when he was outside the box. I
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: think he can't when he's outside that big box. I
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: don't think he Oh was he outside the box?
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know what he was thinking, what he
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: was doing, but it's as if he was started playing
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: hot potato.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: You ever play hot potato? Oh, you can't touch it's hot. No, No,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: you got to get rid of it as fast as
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: you can. And he was like, I don't want it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: You are the goalkeeper, you are the shepherd. You are
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the protector of our net. You are not supposed to
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: allow goals in and you just backed away, Yeah, from
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: an active ball with two defenders standing next to you.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: How does that happen? It was.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: That was like a slow motion train wreck.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Watching it, you're like, oh my, yeah, it was. I mean,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: and again, casual soccer fans, you and I.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: I've never seen anything like that.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: It's got to be one of the biggest blunders.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And I mean, that was the equivalent of like Jim
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Marshall running the other way for the Minnesota Vikings with
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the ball. Yeah, that is that's as bad as you
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: could play that ball. Yeah, it was terrible, and that
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: big of a moment and you're supposed to be our
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: best in the war in our country at the job
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: of keeping the goal safe.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: That is your job.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: What I mean, I've never even I've never walked up
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to a building to the security guard and he's like, here,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: here's your gun and here's my pass.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Now go for that.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: That's a skeleton key to get you in any room.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: You can go shoot anybody you want. That's basically what
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: he did on that play, that individual play. So it's
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: got Yeah, I had a hard time living that down.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: So I guess what I'm saying is.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: When you get.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Beaten that badly and I have, I mean certainly not
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: at this level and this scale, but I have been
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: beaten that badly in a big moment in my life,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and yet you just walk away from like, okay, I'm
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: okay with that. I mean, better team one. We certainly
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: didn't lose by a bad bounce or a bad call.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Those are the things you can't live with. No, that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: was just utter domination, an unexpected domination. I was certainly
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: wasn't expected. I thought we were going to win. I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: thought we would win without Baigan.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: And yet Belgium clearly has our number and They clearly
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: were better coached last night. They had a better scheme,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: they were better executing, they had better energy, they had
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: better effort. They were too a man better than the
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: US team last night. And from that standpoint, Okay, yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I guess. I guess I don't have any complaints.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: At this stage.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: And I'll just say this just to be snarky, because
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I've been a good boy for a month, I'll say honestly,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and I don't mean to hurt anybody's feelings with this.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I don't, And feel free rip on me on the text.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: We're gonna read some of them later.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: If we're not going to be the best at something,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I'm okay with it being this.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: That's fair.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: And we're not. We're not anywhere close, and we're not
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: getting closer.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: No, So if we're not, if there's going to be
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: something in the US because we're proud of being the
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: best at stuff, there gonna be something that we're not the.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Best at, I'm fine with it being this.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Okay, I think that's fair.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I'm good. Yeah, all right, let's find out what's on tap?
• 21:50
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• 22:07
  Speaker 2: We'll get to your responses a little bit obviously.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Ashley and I have a little bit more to say
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: about it about the match last night, and we'll also
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: check in with a couple of experts. Actually I think
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: it's just one person, Danny Jackson Feltz will join us
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: here today both at eight o'clock.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: And nine thirty.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Belgium and Spain advanced to the next round. Will be
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the last World Cup match for one of the all
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: time greats.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Rinaldo.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Also got to be one of the all time most
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: handsome men, handsome yann.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: He's a good looking guy. But thinking of Portugal, right Portugal.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Because Belgium in Spain advance. Oh yeah, Rinaldo played his
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: last match, got it? Okay? Yeah?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Sorry?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Two more spots left in the next round.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Argentina and Egypt play this morning at nine o'clock am,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and then Switzerland versus Columbia at one pm. Wimbledon. There's
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: actually going on right now. Pretty good American matchup right
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: now on the women's side. Jessica Pagoula the four seed
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and Coco Golf the seventh seed. They're playing as we speak,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: so is Men's one seed Yonick Center. He was tied
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: last I saw in the first set Storm eighty two
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: sixty four winners over the Sparks last night, so will win.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: But just the sixth and twenty three games for the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Storm so far this year. We're on Lebron watch that continues.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Brad Stevens of the Celtics, who traded Jalen Brown, spoke
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: about it last night. I thought it was very glib,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: very honest, very candid. Obviously, when you are that honest
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and candid about something that you did behind the scenes,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: it doesn't go over all that well, and so people
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: did not like the answers that he gave. But I
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: do believe him when he said that we just could
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: not in today's NBA pay two players that much money
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and compete. So I do believe that he believes what
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: he said. I'm not sure I'm buying it. As a
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: basketball analyst. Shane Wright trade season, Well, we've got a
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: little bit more news on that we're going to share
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: at seven thirty. Major League Baseball deadline is in four weeks.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: The MLB Draft is in four days and the Mariners
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: will be in Miami taking on the Marlins today at
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: three point forty, and we'll spend plenty of time on
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: that later on in the show. Ryan Heaey will join
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: us today at nine o'clock. But coming up next. All
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I know you, Yanry Bastards, OPQ comes your way next.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: You're always up in the business of OPQ. Sports Radio
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: ninety three point three kJ Are that our letters today
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: for ABC's are also OPQ.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Sounds like a double OPQ show.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: People really done with OPQ today?
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: I kind of like that.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so double OPQ here today. You know what I'm
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: talking about. I sure I don't have to clear that up.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: We all went to college.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Everyone knows.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: It's Chuck and Ashley with you, and Yes, every once
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: in a while, there's it's enough quarterback news that builds
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: up in the National Football League that we decide to
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: share it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: And there's one good reason.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: For it, because you are also interested in that kind
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: of gossip. Yeah, can't get enough of OPQ. So let's
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: start with one of our favorite OPQ subjects, Aaron Rodgers,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: who said over the weekend that he was asked about
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's offense, and his response was, I spent thirteen
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: years in that offense. He's changed some stuff when he
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: was in Dallas. It's stuff that we used to run.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: He just calls it something different.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Now, Okay, is.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: That a shot?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know I read it as a shot,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: so I kind of fed it. But because I'm reading
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it as a shot, I mean, they did not end
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: on the best of terms when they divorced in Green Bay,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and he says, after getting back into practice with Mike McCarthy,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: it's the same stuff we were doing thirteen years ago.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, think about that. Like there there's criticism against
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: guys who aren't changing while they're changing. Hey, we've talked
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to coach Honggrin about this, Like you have to evolve
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: while you're evolving, Like you got to see because you
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: know the other team's going to adjust to what you're doing,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and so you've already got to be ahead. You don't
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: want to abandon what's working, but you already have to
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: have the plan for when they figured out.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: The defense to stop you. So that's how sophisticated the end.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: John Gruden stepped away from the National Football League tried
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to come back and he looked lost. He was an
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: excellent offensive mind, and he looked absolutely lost, and it
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: took him like a half year just to be decent.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: And you've got Aaron Rodgers reuniting with Mike McCarthy. They
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: obviously have this history together and it's not all that positive.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: And his first comments to the media, Yeah, it's just
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the same thing if we were doing thirteen years.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Ago, I would say he probably would say, No, that
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: wasn't a shot.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: It's just a fact.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: But it is a shot because the game has changed
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: so much in thirteen years that if you have a
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: coach who hasn't changed anything in thirteen years, how was
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: that not a diss?
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I think it was a shot. Yeah, I think it
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: was taken a shot. And I don't think it'll be
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the last one that he takes.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Me not, But yay, I'm here for the drama.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I'm here for it too.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, I saw that and maybe I read into
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: it too much, but I loled, like I laughed out
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: loud in my house by myself.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I laughed about it later that night.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about Jaydon Daniels. Oh yeah, we're down
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: with OPQ and Jaydon Daniels. You know what, I have
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: a feeling that there have been a few conversations with
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: people that really care about Jayden and Daniels and not
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the football player, the human being here in the last
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: two weeks that are like, you knew.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: This day was coming.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is actually a good.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Day for you.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: You knew that Brandon was not healthy for you, and
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: this idea that you were going to play together when
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: you were still in college, that you were going to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: reunite in the pros. He's gone a different path, Like,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: you're better with off without Brandon Ayuk. So don't worry
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: about it, honey. You know, pat him on his hand,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: make sure that you don't break any briddle of bones. Uh,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: pat on the hand, Like, I know you feel bad.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: He's been your friend for a long time and he's
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: having a rough time. But you know what, sometimes you
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: just got to say goodbye to someone and now's that
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: time you need to move on from Brandon Ayuk.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you at.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Least three people in his life have had that conversation
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: with him this week.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Oh I'm sure. I mean, I don't know how, which
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: is crazy.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't even think he would need to have that
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: conversation with anyone. You can see clearly that Brandon Ayuk
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: is not good for you. I mean, if the guy
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: wants to leave San Francisco so bad that he's going
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: scorched earth on social media and now is also insulting
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: the team he wants to go to, like there's there's
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: not logic happening there, and there's nothing healthy happening there,
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: and it's not going to be the last time in
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: his life that he has to get rid of somebody
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: that's not good for him.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: So it's a good lesson.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Oh oh, jbabe, jbabe, it's okay on you.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: I like that. That's what they call it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: It's okay, hony biscuits. Like, you know, you did your best,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: you tried to be there for your friend.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: I'll get you some milk and cookies.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like when Tom Brady brought in Antonio Brown.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: You knew at some point down the line he was
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: going to talk about wanting to sleep with your wife,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and if you were upset the day that he actually
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: did it, that's on you, Tom, right.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Now the other stuff you might not have seen coming,
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: that's fair.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Finally, it's not out just yet, so I don't know
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: if we've got the official cover of Madden twenty seven,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: but Cayleb Williams is going to be on it, and uh,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: of course the Madden Jean. So Caleb Williams a little
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: bit of a interesting figure, a lot of young people
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: big fans of his obviously and incredible talent. Seem to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: have a bit of a breakthrough season this past year.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: As you know, Jaybabe kind of slid backwards with all
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: of his injuries. Caleb kind of took a big step
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: forward this past year, but there's still some question marks
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: about him as a leader, and maybe he's too much
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of a gunslinger as well. So, considering that people have
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: been a bit hot and cold on Caleb Williams, do
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: you root for the Madden Jinks against Caleb Williams or
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: do you hope that it side steps in because you
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: just can't wish that on somebody, that kind of voodoo.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't as long as it's just that
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: he has a terrible season.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I root for that. Sign me up the guy.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: He's gotten better. His leadership and whininess have improved. He's
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: gotten less whiny and stepped up a bit more as
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: a leader. Yeah, but that's not saying a lot just
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: to say that they improved, because were real bad before.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: So I think he's gotten better in that sense. He's
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: got more growing to do, And if he has a
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: this would be a great test. Have a crappy year
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: and let's see now if your leadership and whiningess are
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: tied straight to your team's winning success.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I'm still not convinced about him, and there are a
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: lot of people that are blowing up the name Caleb Willms.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I just heard Adam Schefter interviewed this morning about who
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: is the quarterback that you would invest the next five
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: years in, And he didn't list him first, but he
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: put him on the list, put him like on his
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: top five list. I don't know if I feel like
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: that about Kaylee. I mean, I see the talent, I
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: see the incredible throws, but I also see somebody that
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: makes them really stupid throws.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you have to look at the Bear season as
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: a whole. Last year.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they won a lot of games, but how many
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: of those were Like, after we've screwed up the whole game,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: let's figure out a way to win.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: It in the last ten minutes.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah all right, well OPQ in the books and another
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: OPQ coming your way later.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: The ABC's these you cheeky monkeys. I tell you what
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: you and your interest in OPQ, I get it. I
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: figured you out.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, the Mariners back in action after a
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: day off. I'm sure they enjoyed that soccer match that
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: they watched in Miami last night instead of playing ball.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: But they get back to playing ball against a team
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that you should not sleep on. We have a Miami
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Marlin's preview for you next on Sports Radio ninety three
• 32:30
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• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Gloria gives a command.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: Don't just lay it sideways. Turn it upside down.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, turn it upside down, that's what she said. And
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: turn the beat around. Yeah, you you're just keeping in
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the beat in one direction. She's like, turn it around,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: and yet you want to disagree, jerks. Anyway, it's time
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to head down to Miami. We're gonna take our talents
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  Speaker 1: to South Beach. Yeah this morning and talk about this
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  Speaker 1: matchup with the Miami Marlins, which once upon time, not
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  Speaker 1: that long ago, we.
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  Speaker 2: Would laugh this series off. We would just be like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what would happen if we don't get a
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  Speaker 2: sweep against this terrible team, we might as well quit
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  Speaker 2: the year.
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  Speaker 1: That's where we get on the text line, Well, this
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  Speaker 1: team's actually pretty good this year, somehow, some way, and
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  Speaker 1: they're doing it in unconventional means like it will probably
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  Speaker 1: to go over the stats tonight if they're being honest
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  Speaker 1: about them. On Mariners TV, Aaron Goldsmith's head might blow
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  Speaker 1: into bits because the Marlins are winning in all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of ways that are not.
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  Speaker 2: Just sitting around waiting for a home run.
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  Speaker 1: It's a buffer and because ways, he thinks that's the
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  Speaker 1: only way to win today, because it's impossible to put
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  Speaker 1: the ball in play and manufacture runs. Well, the Marlins are,
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  Speaker 1: at least for the moment, proving him wrong. They are
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  Speaker 1: forty nine and forty two on the season. They are
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  Speaker 1: a playoff team right now, and they are just four
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  Speaker 1: games back in the best division at this point in
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, just four games out of first place.
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  Speaker 2: So what has turned it around? Small ball?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they are twenty third in home runs and
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  Speaker 1: yet they are twelfth in runs scored. So it is possible,
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  Speaker 1: and despite what you hear on every single broadcast, every
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  Speaker 1: single inning that the Mariners play. There are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of teams in the bottom ten in Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: and home runs that are having very successful seasons. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to necessarily play like that if I'm the Mariners,
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  Speaker 1: but I'd like to play I like to steal a
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  Speaker 1: little bit from that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like have some of that in some of this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I like to be able to score runs without a
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  Speaker 1: home run every once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: That would be nice. And that's what the Marlins live for.
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  Speaker 1: So seventh and batting average sixth, and on base percentage
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  Speaker 1: sixth and oer ps second and stolen bases. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: they're getting on base, they're taking the next base. They
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  Speaker 1: are first to third on base hits because nearly everyone
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  Speaker 1: in their lineup is quick.
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  Speaker 2: They have two players that.
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  Speaker 1: Are not exactly household names, but they are the two
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  Speaker 1: leading hitters in the National League right now in terms
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  Speaker 1: of batting average, if that still matters to anyone. Otto
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  Speaker 1: Lopez is hitting three forty six and will be in
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game this year. Xavier Edwards is hitting
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  Speaker 1: three twenty eight. And they are just guys that put
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  Speaker 1: the ball in play and run. That's what they do.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the way the Marlins play offense and to
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  Speaker 1: this point, and it might not work long term. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of talent, and yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: you do need home runs in Major League Baseball to
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  Speaker 1: be ultimately successful as an offense, but more than halfway
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  Speaker 1: through the season not exactly a short sample size. And
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  Speaker 1: this team is winning in a lot of old school ways.
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  Speaker 1: I think Brian Kinney always describes it as a ball ballplayery,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that sort of thing. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: way they play, and they pitch they pitch as well.
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  Speaker 1: So twelveth in runs and eleventh in ERA this year,
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  Speaker 1: and they are fifth and opponent's batting average against. And
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  Speaker 1: as luck would have it, we have to face their
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  Speaker 1: all star Max Meyer tonight. Will get the start for them.
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  Speaker 1: He's right handed at least, but he will get the
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  Speaker 1: start tonight for the Marlins. They don't know who they're
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  Speaker 1: going to pitch apparently in Game two, and we will
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  Speaker 1: avoid Yuri Perez, who nearly perfect gamed the A's in
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  Speaker 1: his last outing, and al Contra, who's their most accomplished
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  Speaker 1: starting pitcher. So we're getting kind of the softer part
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  Speaker 1: of the rotation here. Over the course of the next
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  Speaker 1: three days. But this is a team that's playing winning
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  Speaker 1: baseball right now. They are scoring runs, they're keeping other
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  Speaker 1: teams from scoring runs, and that's a pretty good recipe
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  Speaker 1: for consistent winning and that's what they're getting done in Miami,
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  Speaker 1: and way ahead of schedule right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, it does feel weird to
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  Speaker 4: be talking about Miami the Marlins being this way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then they're not star studded and they don't have
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  Speaker 1: a high payroll, they don't have any of that. But
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  Speaker 1: they're put the ball and play, they take the extra base,
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  Speaker 1: they play hard, and they've got pretty good pitching.
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  Speaker 2: They've always had pretty good pitching.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so this is not some pushover, that's for sure. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: I am expecting low scoring games throughout the series, and
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  Speaker 1: of course we're gonna be holding our breath.
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  Speaker 2: Brian wou starts tonight. Oh yeah, and of.
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  Speaker 1: Course he was fantastic in his last outing at home.
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  Speaker 1: But those road woes that he has, how's he going
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  Speaker 1: to handle himself tonight in Miami? We shall see, But
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  Speaker 1: there you go. The Marlins will get started tonight at
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  Speaker 1: three forty in Miami, so make sure you are ready
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  Speaker 1: at three forty to turn the beat around if it's
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  Speaker 1: required obviously.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, don't get like reckless with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, just don't do it unless prompted to.
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  Speaker 2: But just be ready for it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because you might have to always have that in
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  Speaker 5: your back pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you might have to do it. All right.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna hit headlines at the top, and of course
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  Speaker 1: World Cup. I had some hot takes. Ashley had some
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  Speaker 1: hot takes to start the show. I do want to
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