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Chuck & Buck 2-17 Hour 3: Brendan Donovan, Everett Fitzhugh and the lore of Josh Naylor. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hey, good morning. Our number three of day number two
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  Speaker 1: of our spring training coverage live from Peoria, Arizona, which
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  Speaker 1: started today a little damp. We had some overnight desert
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  Speaker 1: rains and miss you Latin desert. Missed the rain. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there you go, Bucky, that was great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably did it for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so here we go. Then we had some overcast
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  Speaker 1: and now just bright sunshine. Don't mean to rub that in.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to Ashley, we do, but not to everybody
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  Speaker 1: listening right now, uh here from our set in Peoria.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been a great day show and a half
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  Speaker 1: so far. My goodness. Yesterday Jerry Depoto, Gabe Spire, Rick Riz,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Cameron, Kate Anderson, Ryan Sloan, and already today we've
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  Speaker 1: had Kevin Sitzer on, Chris Rose from NFL Network has
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  Speaker 1: been down here to cover spring training for John. We've
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  Speaker 1: had Cole Young on, We've had Colt Emerson on, and
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  Speaker 1: now we get to the interview that we were looking
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  Speaker 1: most forward to. I think here, Josh Naylor, you always
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to the new guys. Can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: talk to the new guys during spring training coverage. But
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  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan acquired this offseason from the Saint Louis Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: in one of the most stretched out trade processes I
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  Speaker 1: think I've ever heard ever been on record. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners were just trying to work this deal out
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  Speaker 1: for months to get Brendan Donovan, and they finally landed him.
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  Speaker 1: And so now here he is in a Mariner uniform,
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to be what looks to be the everyday
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  Speaker 1: third baseman. We had a chance to chat with him yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We were sitting here Bucky and I at our set
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  Speaker 1: here in Peoria, and we were trying to squeeze some
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  Speaker 1: lunch in and what happens. Here comes the newcomer, Brendan
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  Speaker 1: Donovan with his flowing locks, just walking making a bee
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  Speaker 1: line over to us, and he comes up to us, said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I might as well get to know some of you
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  Speaker 1: people in Seattle. Mind if I sit down. That's how
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  Speaker 1: he started, uh, the entire process of interviewing him yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It was outstanding. So yeah, we shoved our lunch aside,
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  Speaker 1: we made room for Brendan Donovan here at the set
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  Speaker 1: and had a great conversation that will play for you now.
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  Speaker 1: And I just started it off by saying, good to
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  Speaker 1: meet you. Man, man, it's great to meet you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for having me. I actually crossed their lunch,
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  Speaker 1: so they're doing me a favor right here.
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  Speaker 3: So it's good to be on all right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We would have actually rather be eating in the cafeteria,
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  Speaker 1: but we've been banned because of our attitudes.
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  Speaker 2: It could have been because of me. They were like,
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  Speaker 2: you put oh, Bucky, we can't let you crush and
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  Speaker 2: spreads in there. We need our real players to get
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  Speaker 2: in there and get their nutrition. That could be why
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  Speaker 2: they stick us out here with Chiil.
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  Speaker 3: Just let me know, all right, I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Were sneaky about three sticking together right there.
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  Speaker 3: That's what that is. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome to Seattle, and everybody's excited about having you
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  Speaker 1: here in the organization. I mean, the process went on
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  Speaker 1: for so long. You were attached to Seattle for so long.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was arduous I think for the front
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  Speaker 1: office their work to try to get you here. You
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  Speaker 1: heard the rumors. What was that experience like for you
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  Speaker 1: waiting on whether or not you were going to be
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  Speaker 1: traded where you were going to be traded to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'll go even deeper than that.
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  Speaker 4: So we've been linked for I think it was a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years now, so like I kind of see
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  Speaker 4: my name floating around, and I do a pretty good
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  Speaker 4: job of not looking too far into it. Like I
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  Speaker 4: said in an interview the other day, like rumors are
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  Speaker 4: just rumors, right, so you never really know.
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  Speaker 3: And things started to ramp up.
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  Speaker 4: It was like GM meetings when things like kind of
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  Speaker 4: got flooded, and then it was like winter meetings and
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  Speaker 4: things got flooded, and then after the new year, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was kind of like radio silent. So I wasn't really sure.
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  Speaker 4: I knew that Seattle was in the mix, I knew
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  Speaker 4: that San Francisco was in the mix. I wasn't sure
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  Speaker 4: what else that was, is kind of what I was hearing.
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  Speaker 4: And like I said, my wife is a thank you
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  Speaker 4: amazing does a just a great job of being family oriented.
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  Speaker 4: And we just hang out with our daughter in the
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  Speaker 4: off season, so we kind of had an idea that
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  Speaker 4: we were getting gonna get moved, and once that happens,
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of that's just like, you know, I just
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  Speaker 4: worry about my family, right. I think in baseball teaches
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  Speaker 4: you how to be adaptable, how to how to just
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  Speaker 4: move on the fly. But and That's one thing. Is
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  Speaker 4: like when I got the call from the from the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 4: and then when I got a call from Jerry, I
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  Speaker 4: was like, this is a real thing, And let me
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  Speaker 4: tell you what so telling you I was worried about
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  Speaker 4: my family. They have been amazing of welcoming my family, myself,
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  Speaker 4: players reaching out, family, liaisons, reaching out.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was been is amazing.
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  Speaker 4: So just from walking in this door, obviously you know
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  Speaker 4: how much about the baseball side of things, but I
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  Speaker 4: want to touch on just how good the people are here.
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  Speaker 3: And I've been blown away by that.
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  Speaker 1: That's great to hear. That is good to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, we'll get talking to Brenda Donovan. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the dude, the idea of you getting to come to
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  Speaker 2: a team that was a few it's away from getting
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  Speaker 2: to the World Series. It's got to be something where
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  Speaker 2: you know you're getting ready to kind of embark on something.
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  Speaker 2: They obviously, with all that lead up to the trade,
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  Speaker 2: you knew they wanted you. It was just a matter
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  Speaker 2: of what's it going to take to get this whole
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  Speaker 2: job done. So walking into the building, you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: how everything from the top down has been very welcoming,
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  Speaker 2: but how excited it is on the baseball side of things,
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  Speaker 2: how excited are you about just joining the squad?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, super stoked.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously we have one of the best infield coaches, right, amazing, amazing, amazing,
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  Speaker 4: Just how simple and how brilliant it is just from
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  Speaker 4: the from the first day, it was like we took
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  Speaker 4: some ground balls and it was like it wasn't like overhaul.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, which was cool.
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  Speaker 4: From like my perspective, I was like, all right, cool,
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  Speaker 4: we don't have to revamp anything. It was like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: let's get the ball, let's get it to the middle
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  Speaker 4: of our body, and then let's just like let our
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  Speaker 4: feed take over, which as an infielder it sounds like
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  Speaker 4: so crazy, but just like doing that over and over
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  Speaker 4: again in that attention of detail, it's like why guys
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  Speaker 4: are just walking around with gold gloves. It's like, that's
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  Speaker 4: that's what he does. And it's been really cool to see.
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  Speaker 4: So that and then obviously on the hitting side, we
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  Speaker 4: were talking about number thirty three sites. He gave me
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  Speaker 4: the number, so I may sure I hooked him up
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  Speaker 4: with some wine. He's a red wine drinker, so I
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  Speaker 4: had to get that number back and I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: live up to your expectations.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't doubt that. I don't doubt that one bit.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm excited about having you. You wear the
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  Speaker 2: number thirty three. But tell some of our listeners just
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  Speaker 2: what it is like, explain yourself. I mean, we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about you leading up to the trade and wanting you
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  Speaker 2: to them to make this move, but I want to
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  Speaker 2: hear from your words, like who is it that our
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  Speaker 2: fans are going to get to get to get out
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  Speaker 2: there and watch play?
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  Speaker 1: And how is it that you play the game? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So from a personal side of things, I love culture,
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  Speaker 4: I love chemistry. I come from military background, so I
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  Speaker 4: believe in discipline and preparation, which seems to mesh really
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  Speaker 4: well with this organization. On the baseball side of things,
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  Speaker 4: I want to have a quality of bat want I
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  Speaker 4: want to take care of the baseball, and I want
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  Speaker 4: to play hard. That's one thing that I like. I
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  Speaker 4: like to play hard, you know. And I think that
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  Speaker 4: this game is so crazy that you can't really control much, right.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I can hit the ball good, and I
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  Speaker 4: can't control if I get a hit or not. But
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  Speaker 4: I can control my preparation, my mentality, my effort, and
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  Speaker 4: those are the three things that I really try to
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  Speaker 4: lean into.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like that also.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of takes the I mean, there's always gonna be pressure,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm not gonna sit here and say that there's not.
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  Speaker 4: There will always be pressure at this level. But I
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  Speaker 4: think if I can focus things and bucket them into
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  Speaker 4: what am I focused on, I think it can help
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  Speaker 4: with that.
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  Speaker 1: Also, hitting's locked ben in a row boat, you got
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  Speaker 1: to keep your ore in the water otherwise you'll get
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  Speaker 1: off balance. That's a little sights aer for you there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: little Kevin Sitzer for you right there.
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  Speaker 3: I think you just morphed into him.
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  Speaker 1: For a second. Brendan Donovan with us the newest Mariner.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we just talked to Jerry early this week
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  Speaker 1: and he says, third base. You've played a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different positions. Are you ready to tackle third base like
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  Speaker 1: all out or are you in your back of your
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  Speaker 1: heads in? I'm just gonna be ready and prepared for
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  Speaker 1: all the rest of this stuff too.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm gonna go ahead first in.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, It's it's been a few years since I played
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  Speaker 4: third base, but you know, obviously we got the best
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  Speaker 4: info coach in the world.
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  Speaker 3: So that helps too.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I want to be on the field,
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  Speaker 4: so it doesn't it doesn't really matter where. I could
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  Speaker 4: care less. If you need me to play third base,
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  Speaker 4: I got you. If you need me to go run
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  Speaker 4: around somewhere else, I got you. I think that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of that attitude as a young player. I took an
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  Speaker 4: approach of like, I want to be on the field,
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  Speaker 4: and I want to be here and I want to
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  Speaker 4: help us win. So I need to solve a problem.
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  Speaker 4: What is that problem? I need to be able to
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  Speaker 4: spill guys, give them days off. And I think that
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  Speaker 4: kind of taught me a little bit more about the
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  Speaker 4: utility role, and that kind of helped me with being
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  Speaker 4: comfortable being uncomfortable, because when you're at a new spot
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  Speaker 4: yet and been in a while, it's a little uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm being honest, I'm a little uncomfortable. But that's
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  Speaker 4: okay because we're working at it. We're making sure that
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  Speaker 4: we're getting some strong, accurate throws across the infield. We're
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  Speaker 4: working our feet getting ready for some hot shots at
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  Speaker 4: the hot corner. And I'm really excited for a new
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  Speaker 4: task and a new challenge.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun to watch when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: you at the plate. I mean, you know, career two
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  Speaker 2: eighty hit or somewhere around there. I mean, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: like hitting three forty back when I was playing. And
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  Speaker 2: what is it that you do when you're at the
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  Speaker 2: plate that makes you more of a guy that you
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  Speaker 2: know handles the stick versus going up there and is
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  Speaker 2: okay with walking back to the dugout with two hundred
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  Speaker 2: bunchies a year?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do not like striking out. I cannot stand it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a firm believer in trying to stay inside the
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  Speaker 4: strike zone. I mean, there's times you do have to
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  Speaker 4: tip your cap and you're never gonna see me walk
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  Speaker 4: back to the doug happier looking content like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: be a.
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  Speaker 3: Little pissed off, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 4: But I just feel like if I can put the
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  Speaker 4: ball in play, if I can go on the right
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  Speaker 4: pitch and put the ball in play, I have a chance.
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  Speaker 3: It gives us a chance.
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  Speaker 4: I can't really do anything if I'm walking back to
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  Speaker 4: the dugout, And that's kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of how I see it.
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  Speaker 4: I've really tried to lean into my game and There's
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  Speaker 4: been times where I think I hit the ball a
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  Speaker 4: little bit harder each year. I think that comes with
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  Speaker 4: growth and maturity and being understanding the game a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more and taking more shots and learning how my
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  Speaker 4: body understands and maybe getting a little stronger as I
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  Speaker 4: get older. But I want to be myself, and myself
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  Speaker 4: is staying inside the strike zone, trying to put the good,
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  Speaker 4: good part of the bat on the ball that's over
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  Speaker 4: the middle and go from there. A couple of things
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  Speaker 4: that I'm working on right now as we ramp up,
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  Speaker 4: because I do tend to have a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: of a passive approach in spring training. I will work
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  Speaker 4: on getting my swing off a little bit more. I
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  Speaker 4: have to kind of get my mind in that the
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  Speaker 4: frame of like, hey, you need to be ready to go,
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  Speaker 4: ready to go, ready to go, and then I can
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  Speaker 4: always dial it back because that's just kind of how
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  Speaker 4: I am as a player. But I make my practice
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  Speaker 4: very very challenging. I want my practice to be It's
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  Speaker 4: never going to look easy or slow out there, but
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  Speaker 4: I want my practice to be like my goodness, like
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  Speaker 4: this is this is not this is not very fun,
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  Speaker 4: And I want to take that approach off with the
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  Speaker 4: traject machine, mix VP, whatever it is, and I want
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  Speaker 4: to do that so I can fail out there and
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  Speaker 4: I got a chance of success on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you face our pitching staff enough to this spring
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  Speaker 1: and then Neill make it about as difficult as you
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  Speaker 1: as you need it to be. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I just got Gilbert Munno inspire. I was like, Holy
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  Speaker 3: my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Day two. Well they hit live.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, i'd love to you got the kind
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  Speaker 3: of chuckled and they told me. I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: here we go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But that's the thing when they would come into town.
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  Speaker 4: Or we'd go to Seattle, I'd be like, my goodness,
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  Speaker 4: there's no breaks now.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm on the same team. This is nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Brenda Donovan our guest here on Chuck and Buck
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. Leadof is what I see in all
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  Speaker 1: the mock ups. I don't know if Jerry or Dan
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  Speaker 1: has gone as far as having that conversation with you,
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  Speaker 1: but is that your preferred spot in the order you
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  Speaker 1: want to lead things off of this team?
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  Speaker 4: Man, It's just kind of whatever the team needs. I
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  Speaker 4: don't mind being the first in the fire. That's okay
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  Speaker 4: with me. Try to have a good at bat, you know,
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  Speaker 4: relay some information, maybe create some havoc out there. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm healthy now. I had a little bit of an
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  Speaker 4: operation and kind of cleaned up some things. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: looking to run a little bit more this year. Last
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  Speaker 4: few years have kind of been dealing with something, but
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  Speaker 4: we got to clean up this offseason. I'm feeling great physically,
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  Speaker 4: so that's something that I'm looking forward to doing. But honestly, man,
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  Speaker 4: I don't I don't really care. Kind of the same thing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, as a young player, kind of hitting all
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  Speaker 4: over the lineup.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, I just want to be in there. Duh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I knew that I was on goose
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  Speaker 1: bumps easily. I think he's got them over well. I
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  Speaker 1: just hearing a ballplayer talk about playing ball, but he's
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  Speaker 1: an old school ball player, you can tell.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I mean, you're talking about the military background that
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  Speaker 2: creates discipline and then you want to play hard, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's that whole I'm okay being first in
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  Speaker 2: the fire. I mean, where where does that come from?
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  Speaker 2: Probably the military background, but then like where it is it?
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  Speaker 2: Because I talk about mentality, I talk about approach, I
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  Speaker 2: talk about things that you can control right, because it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter if you hit it hard and it goes
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  Speaker 2: right to somebody. Job, Yeah, you get it hard, that's
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  Speaker 2: what your job was. But you got to be able
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  Speaker 2: to handle that between the ears. And yet, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: when you're talking about goosebumps, it's because you're coming. You're
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  Speaker 2: coming on here and talking about things with the mentality
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  Speaker 2: about a mentality. So what is it about your mentality
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  Speaker 2: that that you would probably pride yourself on? I would imagine,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously this game is frustrating, right, but I try not
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  Speaker 4: to ever throw anything.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know how it can get you know.
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  Speaker 4: He has some rough spells, and that helmet's looking at
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  Speaker 4: you a little funny, and sometimes, yeah, you want to
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  Speaker 4: want to see what it looks like on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: But I pride myself I'm not I'm not doing that
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  Speaker 3: like I wanna.
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  Speaker 4: This is gonna sound a little crazy, but the body,
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  Speaker 4: the body to me doesn't really know the difference between
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  Speaker 4: right and wrong. It just gets reactions to the nervous system.
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  Speaker 4: So I want to just like try to hammer it
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  Speaker 4: with as much positivity as possible. But that's how I'm speaking,
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  Speaker 4: how I'm reacting to things, you know, getting excited when
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  Speaker 4: you when you do something right in the cage, so
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  Speaker 4: you can kind of help build that muscle memory. But
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  Speaker 4: then like kind of coming back to the training right
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  Speaker 4: the mint that that's kind of where that mentality comes from.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, man, I have just faced the hardest thing
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  Speaker 4: off this traject, and that traject is no fun.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen it?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you might have to peek your head in there
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  Speaker 3: and take it.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the video of you hitting off of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's not fun.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like it. It's coming in there firm. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So it's it's what's a hologram and the machine actually
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  Speaker 4: changes in an orients.
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  Speaker 3: The ball exactly how the shape of it. And we
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: take the.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: Best thing that guy throws and you can move it
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: around the best shape, best velocity, best whatever, his best bolt,
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: the nastiest. Yeah, and I'm going to face that over
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: and over and over and over. So I think that's
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: kind of where some of that mentality comes from.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Also, if you play one hundred and sixty two games,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: how many games do you end up with just a
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: completely filthy uniform?
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: I think the uniform should be dirty by the second inning. Yeah,
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: whether that's me just rubbing dirt on it.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: You don't like me. They're like, what happened?
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: But I think that I think it's got to be dirty.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Like I think if I look down, like, I mean,
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: we didn't do anything that got a little dirt on
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: me right now. But if I if I look down
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: and I look pretty good, I'm like, that wasn't.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: A very good day.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh. And I know that you were
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: in Saint Louis. I'm from Saint Louis, so great fan base.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I know they loved you there, but but you're leaving
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: them and now you're coming up here to the Pacific Northwest.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: So how excited are you to introduce yourself to a
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: brand new fan base try to win them over. Yeah? Absolutely.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: I mean that that is a very passionate fan base,
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: and they're very good to me and my family. So
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: I'm excited, right, I'm I mean, I can't promise them
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: anything besides the things that we talked about. I'm gonna prepare,
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna play hard, So I'm excited to play in
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: front of them. And that place gets rocking, So I'm exciting.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: It does, Yes, it does. And got to know your
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: teammates a little bit. Anybody been a jerk to you?
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: No talking to.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: A lot of hugs, a lot of cool conversations, and
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: like I said, it's just been like, it's a really
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: really good group.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: It is. Yeah, you're gonna have fun and you're not
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: shy about growing the lettuce out.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, you know it's funny because military, you
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: think like military, growing up with a colonel and it's
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: like I got long hair and a beard.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: So how's he feel about that?
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've actually.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Had long hair since since high school, on and off
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: a little bit. In the minor leagues, we weren't supposed
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: to have everyone's supposed touch our collar until we got
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: above a certain level. But you know, my favorite, not favorite,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: but like, as a left handed hitting shortstop growing up,
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: the one player that you were kind of envious of
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: was Brandon Crawford and and he had the lettuce and
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: so I got to play with him his last year
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: when he was in Saint Louis. But I told my dad,
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: I was like, hey, like I want to grow my
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: hair and I want to be like Brandon Crawford. He
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: kind of like my dad's bald, no facial hair bald,
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: and he kind of looked at me like what did
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: you just say? And then and I was like, no,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: like I want to do it, and he kind of
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: like took a step back, and this is how cool
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: my dad is. And he was like, let me think
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: about it. And he's like, all right, keep your grades
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: up and be nice to your mom. Don't get in trouble.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: He's like, but just don't look. There's times where I've
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: seen pictures of me. I think at one point last
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: year I was like, I probably should saved that a
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: little sooner. But but you know, that's kind of the
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: moral aspect of like, hey, just be a good person.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: You don't want to be the gateway too, you know,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: some malevolent activity. No, you have that all right? Man. Well, hey,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: thank you very much for joining us. We appreciate we're
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: very excited to have you a part of this organization,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a part of this city. We've heard nothing but good
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: things about you, and I think you just put that
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: on display for all of our listeners and back in Seattle.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: So have a great enjoy it all, man.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it. And I'll let him get back to
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: their lunch.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Before the dog eats it. Brendan Donovan
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: with us yesterday first time we've aired it here at
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: our spring training coverage the brand new acquisition for the
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Saint Louis Cardinals. I mean, how likable is that guy, Ashley?
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: How likable is that guy? Yeah, he's awesome.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I was like, man, I could listen to everything this
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: guy says.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: He's unbelievable. Like Bucky and I just looked at each
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: other like this is too good to be true. I mean,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: what on earth.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Is introspective but not corny?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And he's just like easy to listen to.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Sounds like he was easy to talk to.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: I kind of want him to like give me life lessons.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: He's got a good outlook, there's no doubt.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: And then I mean could take it to the you know,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the part that matters the most when it comes to,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: you know, us analyzing the team. You just need a
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: couple of the just you have to have I mean
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: not just one or two. That has to be the
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: overarching kind of feel of what the team is is
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the hard work and you grind through one sixty two
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: because there is so much failure in the game that
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: if you don't have that mindset you become poudy, and
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: if majority of your team has that type of a
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: head on their shoulders, then you're a powdy ball club.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: And that's when you get into the ten fifteen game
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: losing streaks, and next thing you know, you're you're fighting
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: an uphill battle. He just has the right mentality that
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: goes into creating a good ballplayer, somebody that can deal
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: with the ups and the downs. It sounds like he's grounded.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: It sounds like you add him now to cal Rawley.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Josh Naylor has that same type of a head on
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: his shoulders. That's where you want your leaders to have that,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: and then everybody else just watches how they go about
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: their business and kind of falls in line, so to speak,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: and next thing you know, you got a team that's
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: really tough to beat.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: It was a grind to get him. I know that
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the organization was put through a trade process. I've had
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: numerous people tell me that unlike anything they've ever seen,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: like just the waiting game to try to finish off
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: this deal. And whenever you're doing that, you never know
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: who else is slipping in the back door and is
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: about ready to take away your coveted Prize, but they
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: wanted him. They've wanted him for a couple of years.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: He was a priority. This offseason, Gino Suarez ended up
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: going to the Cincinnati Reads for far less than what
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: we imagined or what spoke Track was suggesting he should
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: go for. And I think he was Plan B, possibly
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: even Plan C for the Mariners. But Plan A was
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: always to get Brendan Donovan away from the Saint Louis Cardinals,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: who had made it clear that he was available with
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: just two years left on his contract. And they're in
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a bit of a rebuild there in Saint Louis, which
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: is rare for that organization. And so I think that
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: when Gino went to Cincinnati that it was okay, there
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: went Plan B or Plan C or whatever it was,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and maybe they were eating the offer a little bit. Okay,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: we know we're close with you. Here you go, We're
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: gonna just sweeten it a little bit and secure our
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: guy so that we don't lose him. And you know,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: it's just like when you buy a house. Everybody always
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: says buy a little or bigger of a house than
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you plan. Spend a little bit more money on a
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: house than when you planned, because you won't regret that,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: And that's what I think they did, Like there's no regret,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: There is no regret within these walls. They are so
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: happy to have him here. They feel that he fits
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: perfectly into this system, into this organization, into the lineup,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: into what they have planned for twenty twenty six. And
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that they did it. And I'm even more
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: glad that they did it after having met him. I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: said before, I think he's a real asset that this
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: team could add. Now I sort of understand why they
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: wanted him so badly. I think justin Hollander twice. I
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: did it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Right after we talked to him. Yesterday, I went over
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: in Reut to the game of catch with his son.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I said, I don't want to interrupt. I just want
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: to say thank you. And he's like, for what, And
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I said, for getting Brendan Doughtovan, thank you, thank you.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Just talk to him and I couldn't be happier. And
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: then today I'm walking to the bathroom. We passed other
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: in the hall and I said thanks again. He goes, Yep,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: you're welcome. We're pretty happy about it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it turns out Holland are much better at making
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: deals than throwing a baseball.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, right right, we have good thing. He's not in
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: our bullpen and he's in our front office. Yeah yeah,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: all right, coming out next on the radio program. Yeah,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: we're at spring training, but we always check in with
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: our guy Everett fits you to find out what's going
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: on in his life. He's got like three weeks off
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: before the crack and play again, but he's a huge
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: baseball fan. He's watching the Olympics. We got a lot
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to discuss with our guy Everett, who we haven't talked
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: to in a couple of weeks. So we'll do it
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: next on Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: F M.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: All right, Chuck a bog here. Sports Radio ninety three
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: point three kJ r FM live coverage of spring training.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: But you know, you get to a point in the week,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and it's usually right around Tuesday at eight thirty, where
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you're like, I'm tired of rubbing it into just Ashley.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah that we are in the sunshine and around baseball,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: but yeah, you're saying yeah, and you're just like, I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: want to rub it in the face with somebody else,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: So why not our great friend Everett Fits You. The
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: voice of the Kraken who joins this now, huge baseball fan,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: huge fan of wonderful weather, and he's just like us,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and we wish you were here, but since you're not,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: we're rubbing it in your face.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Hey, I don't know what you guys are talking about.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: I'm sitting here on this beautiful Northgate beach. It is
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: uh yeah, it's a shade over forty three degrees right now,
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: a little misty, little misty. But I'm looking outside at
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: the trees in my backyard. A couple of straggler leaves,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: a couple of buds. I don't know if they're starting
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: to bloom yet. There's a lot of moss growing on
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: my fence. Yeah, this gorgeous beau. I don't know you
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: guys are talking about.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Gorgeous. Step outside, get my get my park up. Oh boy, oh.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Guy, Well you're a living You've got it nailed though.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: And like if you're like, I'm living in paradise right now,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: just let me go get my parka and clean the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: moss off my fence. Well was it?
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: I had my I had my fun the sun. Last week,
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: my my wife and I we took our son.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: On a very ambitious southern California, trip to Lego Land
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: for a few days. We've made the hour and a
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: half drive from San Diego to Anaheim, went to Disneyland
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: for a few days. Somehow, some way, we all survived
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: and we got back all in relatively one piece.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Uh, like the Griswolds survived.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: Yes, exactly, exactly lost the cool ones.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: That's really good. That fits you with us right here. Yeah,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: so vacation last week, three weeks off from krack and hockey.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: But how much of the Olympic hockey are you watching
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: right now? Uh?
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: You know, I've actually tried to watch as much as
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: I can.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: I've this is the first time since the twenty ten
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Olympics that we've had NHL players competing, and it's been
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: it's been nice and fun to watch best on best competition.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Players have been clamoring for it for years. This is
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: the first time that we've gotten to see McDavid and
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: McKinnon and.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: And you know, Crosby on the same team.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: The first time that we've gotten to see Icle and
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Matthews and the Kentuck brothers for the US.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: All on one team.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: So you know, it's really nice to see and to
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: have that experience of the best on best competition.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: The NHL is the best league in the world, and now.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: They're being able to showcase it over in Italy and
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: I also too. One of my favorite parts about the Olympic,
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: especially the hockey side of it, are all the players
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: in other leagues around the world that you might not
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: know at all, and the Finnish leagues, the Fish leagues,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: all the guys coming up that potentially could make their
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: way to an NHL arena near you.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: So it's been fun. The hockey has been great.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: I think we're getting ready for another US Canada final.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: We have it in the women's side coming up on Thursday,
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: so I think the band are on their way as
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: well to a US Canada final as well.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Well, let's hope we get another one of those finals
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: and we figure out a way to get it done
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: this year. When it comes to Kraken players that are
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: playing on Olympic squads, I saw a lot of guys
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: are putting up some points to anybody that you've been
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: thoroughly impressed with, cracking guy that's gonna come back on
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: fire because of this.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Well, you know what You're you're hoping they all do.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: I mean, there's three regulars over in the Olympics right now,
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: and Philip Grubauer for Germany, Coppocco and Elie Tolbin and
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: for Team Finland. And then Oscar Fisker Mulgard who was
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: called up at the end of you know, or right
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: before the break. He's played four games with the Kraken
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: this year, so he's one of those up and down players.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: I think next year will be a full time in
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: each other. But everyone's got points.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Coppol Cocko leads the way with four points and a
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: plus five rating. Philip Grubauer's got a sub two five
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: goals against and a say percentage north of nine ten,
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: so he's continuing his hot streak. And I think for me,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: I was looking for two things at the Olympics. I
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: was looking for one the kracking players first and foremost
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: to stay healthy. Right there's only four guys from the
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: Kracking organization that are at Thelympics, whereas you look at
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: the Lights of Vegas, they've got eight nine players at
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: the Olympics. Kevin Fiala, who plays for the Kings, broke
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: his leg against Team Canada the other day.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: He's out for the rest of the season.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: So many teams have four or five, eight nine guys,
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: so you know there's bound to be injuries. So first
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: and foremost you want to stay healthy. But also too,
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: you want your guys to do well. Listen, I will
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: bleed red, white and blue for the Olympics. But I'd
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: be lying you if I said I wasn't given a
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: little fist bump when Elie Tolbinen and Kappogaka were scoring
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: goals and Philip Grubauer is making big saves. So you
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: want to see those guys do well. From a personal standpoint,
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: you want to see those guys stay healthy. From a
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: playoff race standpoint, remember you've got twenty four games left
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: the stretch of the season coming up. We're the only
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: league in the world that takes a three week break
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: for the Olympics. I wish you would go to basketball
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: route and have hockey in the summer Olympics, but that's
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: another conversation for another day. So you want these guys
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: to stay healthy, and you want these guys to come
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: back motivated to continue their Cup runs.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Everett fits you voice of your Seattle crack and joining
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: us right here this morning in our spring training coverage
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: on Chuck and Buck you know he the WBC ar
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: it's a WBC or in baseball. Yeah, and a lot
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: of Mariner players in the organization, I think more so
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: than any other team. And even though they like accept
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: it and they're not prohibiting anybody or getting in the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: way of players playing for their country, you know, they
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: don't like it. They don't want to sit here and
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: watch this and worry that somebody's gonna get injured playing
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: for their country and it could affect what they could
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: contribute to the Mariners this year. It's happened to them before.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: What's the insight to the crack And I think they're
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a little more open minded to the international competitions than
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: what baseball executives have been. But what is the talk
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes about whether or not they even want
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: their guys participating in international competition.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Well, I think listen, the players drive the bus here,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: and the players hockey players, they want to compete. They
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: don't care where it is, they don't care what it is.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: Hockey players want to compete. And if the players want
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: best on best, if the players want to go to
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: the Olympics, and then the players are going to the Olympics.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I think that you know, management.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: Teams of NHL teams, you know your your gms and
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: your presidents and all that they've got more of a
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: say over whether or not to release a guy for
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: the World Juniors because they're younger. But I mean, listen,
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: the oilers are not telling Connor McDavid, Hey, you can't
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: go play for Team Canada, right, That's not going to happen.
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: So I think the management understands the risk. I think
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: ownership groups as a whole are are more kind of
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: on the fence because you know, as much as we
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: love to humanize players and as much as we know
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: these guys personally, at.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: The end of the day, their.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: Assets, right, you're paying twenty million bucks for these guys,
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: fifteen million bucks for the guys to win a championship
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: in the phil Seeds, So there is always a bit
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  Speaker 6: of that trepidation. But I think the country pride, the
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  Speaker 6: players wanting to go over there that will win out
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  Speaker 6: every day and twice on Sundays. But also too, I
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: think there's a there's an assumed risk, there's an understanding
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: every tournament, every single tournament, someone's going to get hurt.
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  Speaker 6: You just hope it's not your guy. Like I said,
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: Kevin Fialla broke his legs, he's done for the year.
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  Speaker 6: Probably everyone knows that, and you just hope and pray it's.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Not your guy. Yeah, yep. Well, look, I mean we've
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: talked about you coming down with us as spring training,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: you had a three week break. This would have been
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the perfect year for you come down here and hang
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: out with us.
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  Speaker 6: I will tell you this, when when my wife and
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: I were planning our Disney Lego Land excursion, I caught
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: her in a very good mood and I said, Hey, so.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: When we get back, what if just hypothetically has been
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: the worse.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: What if I took you know, a couple days and
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: you know, went down on the spring training.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's a bucket list item of mind.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: And I can't tell you what she said because this
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: is an FCC regulated station.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: But it was not.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: It was it was not of the of the supportive variety.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: I will leave it. However, I do think that as
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: as as our.
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: Son gets older and and maybe I'll bring him down
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: with me, you know, next year of the year after.
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: But I promise you I swear to you on on
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: what or whoever you believe in that I will be
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: down there one of these years, sooner rather than later,
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: for for your yearly pilgrimage down Peple.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, I will hold you to it. Yeah, uh,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: for a very long time. Yeah, you're probably gonna have
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: another baby, and then it's gonna start all over again.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Well in that case, she'll be begging me to take
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: both kids down there.
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  Speaker 1: Break all right, man, Well, hey, thank you very much.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We'll check in with you again next week.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, fellas, enjoy it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: If you come across one of those very nice fancy
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: spring training hats, let me know.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I honestly let's remember to grab I'll
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: do a hat and right now until Yeah, and Ashley, uh,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: what do you want Ashley anything? She'll take any Sanwich.
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: Okaye, col rally bats, you know anything?
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: You know, game born Jersey love you know? One week
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you guys are really adding to your shopping last
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• 33:38
  Speaker 1: can do. We're yeah, all right, thanks ever, talk to
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you later, all right, fellas. There he is the voice
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  Speaker 1: upcoming crack at game. Evert's a really big baseball fan.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, he is. I didn't even
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: think of it at the time because he's a Tigers fan.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: He grew up a Tigers fan, and now he's a
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Mariners fan too, but he's going to be a Tiger's
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: fan at heart. When we've knocked off the Tigers, Bucky
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: and I are racing to Silver Cloud and Jimmy's on
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: first to do the postgame show, and he's the first
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: recognizable face that I saw coming down the stairs down
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the stairwell, and I jumped up like in his arms,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: like we did it, not realizing he was probably a
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: little bit sad.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had Tiger gear on and then he unzipped
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: it to a Mariners shirt.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So he and I will always have that memory
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: where I apparently rubbed it in his face that the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Mariners beat the Tiger for him. Man, I guess he'll
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: grow from it. Coming up next here Kevin Seitzer's thoughts
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: on our first baseman, Josh Naylor Sports Radio ninety three
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: point three kJ r F M. Else Oh boy, man,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: what a day we're having here, day number two of
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: our spring training coverage on Chuck and Buck in the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. It's turned
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: into an infield show, and so we'll just go ahead
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and adapt to that theme. The old Judge will stop by.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: We're gonna do a camp battle infield the positions and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: combine it with our segment with the old Judge who
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: made the trip all the way down here to Arizona
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: for his segment coming up Tuesday at nine thirty. Also,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: in case you missed it, more from Jerry Depoto. If
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you missed our conversation yesterday, and you might have missed
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: it because it was President's Day and a lot of
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: you had the day off, and so we'll dive into that.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: We'll replace some of that for you coming up on
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the program. Also, Kevin Seitzer was on with us to
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: start today's show, and you might have missed that as well,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and man, he said some fascinating things about his time
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: last year with Josh Naylor. I didn't know him before.
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: When he got here, you know, you're in the you're
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: in the heat of battle, man, I mean, you're pushing
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: towards playoffs and all of that, and you just kind
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: of want to come alongside them and ask questions. And
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: you don't want to ask too many questions because they're
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: in the middle of the season and you want them
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: to do what they do. But it was really mostly
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: let him play, ask questions when I saw things that I,
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: you know, kind of didn't care for, maybe thought adjustment
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: might be needed. And he was stinking awesome. I mean,
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: flat awesome. Dude can flat hit. Dude knows how to
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: play the game. Dude has the greatest feel and quart
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: awareness between the lines maybe of anybody that I've ever
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: been around. And that's a big statement for me, because
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: I don't I won't make that.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I played with a lot of.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: Guys who were just flat ball players, who who knew
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: the and saw the game and saw the little details
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: that you know, it's like, oh that was pretty good.
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: Oh the second basement shading a little bit on changeups
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: and you know, da da da da da, and you know,
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: when the picture does this or that, you know, it's like,
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: holy cow, that was that was pretty impressive that Josh
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: is picking up on that.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: He'd be barking.
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: He he's up on the rail watching everything all the time,
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: and and just great leadership qualities, hitters, meetings, giving feedback,
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: helping the young guys, and dude just got flapped back
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: to ball skills. I mean he can just hit hit
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: for average. When when he stays with I'm just gonna
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: be a base hit machine, that's when it's really special.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Kevin Sitzer again, the entire conversation available on our podcast
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: ninety three three KJR dot com, and we'll be podcasting
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: all our shows we always do, but it certainly our
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: ones here from spring training. I love that expression because
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: it's usually I mean, it's court awareness. I mean, it's
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: obviously an expression that we use with basketball players. But
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: for him to say that he has the best court
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: awareness of anyone that he's ever been around, I mean,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Keevin mind. Kevin Sizer had a very successful playing career
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: and he played on some pretty good Kansas City Royals
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: teams once upon a time. He just came from the
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves organization where they won a world championship for
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: goodness sake, and so they got some pretty good players
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: over there with Atlanta that he was around. And he's
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: been with this organization for one year and is a
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: guy named cal Raley who has an eighty out of
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: eighty intangibles rating according to his boss, Jerry Depoto. And
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: yet he's saying, this guy, Josh Naylor has the best
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: court awareness on a baseball field that he's ever been around.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: How about that?
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I mean that's why I couldn't help but
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: say wow when he said it, because I'm saying, what
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: that's I mean, you watched him and obviously what he's
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: talking about there is just the idea of kind of
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: having your eyes and ears open, paying attention to what's
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: going on around you because there's little tidbits of information
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: you can pick up all over the place. I mean,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: you know, if you're at the plate, and I can remember,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I can remember people telling me this, So it wasn't
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: something that I knew until somebody but like kind of
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: relate it to me. Where back then it wasn't pitchcolm,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: but it was you know, fingers and the shortstop could
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: see what pitch was going to be called right. And
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: so all of a sudden, if you're standing at the
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: plate and it's too too count and you see the
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: shortstop too early take two steps towards the six hole,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: you're thinking, oh, here comes off speed because they're thinking
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I'm going to roll over that ball and he wants
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: to be there to get it if I hooked that
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: thing into the six hole, So you could sometimes get
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: information like that. I think it's little things like that.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: The fact that Thicky Henderson goes out and swipes thirty
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: bags nineteen for nineteen when he comes over to Seattle.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: That's not all got faster.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's one of the slower players in the league.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: It's not because he got fast because he's reading something.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: He's picking up on something, whether it's picking what pitch
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: he thinks the guy's going to throw in this said
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: count and so good chance that balls in the dirt,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: which gives you a better chance of stealing a bag,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: or whether it's you've just read how if the pitchers
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: come and set and and and going to home plate
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: at the same time, not mixing up his looks and
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: mixing up his pickoff moves. So I mean that that
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: is the quart awareness type stuff. But it's you, We've
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: seen it, and but for it to come out of
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: the mouth of a guy that was watching him every
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: single day since he became a Mariner and to say
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: he's the maybe the best I've ever been around.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, did he play with George Brett? May probably
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: George Brett Okay.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybybe not anyway, I mean it's there were some
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: good players on the Cannasee Royals team. So for him
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: to be in the game as long as he has
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: and for the compliment that's about as high praise as
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: you can get about the mental side of the game.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. And it also speaks to
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the little nuances of baseball whenever, I mean, and I
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: get it, the game moves slowly, there's a lot of
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: standing around. There's a lot of one on one moments
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: where everybody else is, you think, just standing around and
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: doing nothing and waiting for the ball to get hit
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: from them. But it's that it's a guy like Josh
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Naylor is the guy is proof of like how not
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: boring the game of baseball is that everything is changing
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: on every single pitch, and this the thinking changes on
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: every pitch and unless you understand that, I guess you
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: would find the game boring. You and I never do you,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: And I didn't need a pitch clock to, you know,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: seduce our interest. I mean, it's just a fascinating game.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: And Josh Naylor's playing chess the entire competition, every single
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: pitch for nine innings.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would just say, public service announcement. If you've
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: ever uttered the words baseball is boring because there's not
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: enough action going on, just just recognize that anybody that
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: does understand baseball.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Now knows you don't know it.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: So don't just if you want to pretend that you
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: know baseball, don't say it's boring because there's nothing going on. No,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of things going on. You just don't
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: know it because it's between the years until all of
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: a sudden it pans out to something, some sort of action,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: and Josh Naylor brings that action.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: To the table. All right, we'll talk more about Josh
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: for the end of the hour, But in case you
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: missed it, we had a great conversation with Jerry Depoto,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and I'm only replaying it because I don't do a
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: lot of replaying of interviews during the course of our
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: week because we get so many different guests. We try
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: to get so many different guests here from the Mariners
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: on for you. But yesterday was a holiday. We also
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: had a couple of technical difficulties, and so I think
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: that it is worth now that it's been edited and
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: cleaned up all nice and pretty, for us to replay
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: that conversation with the boss, the Executive of the Year,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto. So we'll do it next right here on
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.