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Chuck & Buck 3-13 Hour 2: 12th Man news with Gregg Bell, WBC pride and we love a good throwback! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Hy seven o'clock hour our number two on.
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Speaker 2: Our Friday show.
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Speaker 1: It is Chucking Buck in the Morning, So Bucky Jacobson, Ashley, Ryan,
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Speaker 1: Chuck Powell with you. Greg Bell is going to be
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Speaker 1: joining us here in about a minute and a half
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Speaker 1: to talk about Emmanuel Wilson and all things Seahawks. Are
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Speaker 1: Seahawks Insider nearly every day at seven oh five, but
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Speaker 1: we always start the hour with headlines brought to you
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Speaker 1: by Frost Brewed Corps Light Choose Chill. There are an
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Speaker 1: awful lot of headlines to go through. We'll start with
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Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball as the WBC resumes tonight, it
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Speaker 1: will be the US versus Team Canada and Josh Naylor
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Speaker 1: at five o'clock. Julio and the Dominican Republic will take
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Speaker 1: on Korea today at three point thirty two. More games
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Speaker 1: will be played on Saturday. We're out of pool play.
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Speaker 1: We're ready for single elimination tournament, and so three wins
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Speaker 1: away some country is three wins away from winning the WBC.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk more about it bit later on in the show.
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Speaker 1: Sounders will be in action Sunday at four o'clock against
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Speaker 1: the San Jose earthquake. Sounders off to a two and
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Speaker 1: one start. Suddenly the Kraken are struggling again. They got
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Speaker 1: demolished by Colorado last night three to nothing after one period.
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Speaker 1: They never got back into the game. Five to one
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Speaker 1: was the final score. They've lost four straight games, six
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Speaker 1: of eight since the Olympic break ended, and they will
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Speaker 1: be in Vancouver tomorrow at seven o'clock still.
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Speaker 2: With no word as to win.
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Speaker 1: Bobby McMahon, the new acquisition by the Kraken, will suit
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Speaker 1: up for the team, a rather frustrating point of fact
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Speaker 1: for the organization. College basketball Husky season ended yesterday. They
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Speaker 1: lost in a tight game to Wisconsin, eighty five to
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Speaker 1: eighty two.
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin, along with seven other Big.
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Speaker 1: Ten teams, will play today. That action will get started
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Speaker 1: from Chicago at nine o'clock. The frenzy ends in the
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Speaker 1: National Football League. As we've had a week of activity.
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Speaker 1: I will give it another day. We'll say another day
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Speaker 1: of frenzy, and then it just moves into the off
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Speaker 1: season before Draft miss gets underway. Yesterday's big note nationally
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Speaker 1: was Kyler Murray agreeing to a league minimum deal with
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings to take over as their starting quarterback. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks did add a player that was not on
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Speaker 1: the team a year ago. His name is Emmanuel Wilson,
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Speaker 1: running back from the Green Bay Packers, and we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about it with Greg Bell right now.
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Speaker 3: With the bell tolls, it must be seven o'clock and
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Speaker 3: time for twelfth Man News with Greg Bell. Brought to
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Speaker 3: only with Copola Diamond Prosecco. Now with twelk Man News,
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Speaker 3: here's Greg Bell with Chuck and Bud Corty.
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Speaker 2: Greg, good morning, Happy Friday to.
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Speaker 4: You, Happy Friday.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, how about that? How much note did you.
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Speaker 4: Get a trace there in the city?
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Speaker 2: How many inches did you get? Buggy? Five or six?
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Speaker 2: Before I left?
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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, way to be there were shelve to
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Speaker 4: the team.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I had to had to bring the truck today.
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Speaker 5: Didn't want to didn't want to test it with the Tesla.
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Speaker 5: And I'm glad because all the way it is squad.
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Speaker 5: It was slushy and yeah it was bad. Well maybe
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Speaker 5: a lot of snowman waiting for you. Oh I guarantee.
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Speaker 5: That's a wonderful man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just uh, I mean tis the season right
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Speaker 1: March thirteenth, that's usually when the first snowfall occurred.
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Speaker 5: That's the season that you need to be making snowmen.
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Speaker 5: But my kids will love it.
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Speaker 2: Nonetheless, go off no school today, two.
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Speaker 5: Hour delay, which then usually they have early release on Friday,
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Speaker 5: so that is not going to happen today. I guess
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Speaker 5: they'll go the normal length. But yeah, a little two
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Speaker 5: hour delay. Yesterday they didn't have school because of the
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Speaker 5: there was two hour delay because of power outage.
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Speaker 1: Well, maybe we're going to get a white draft miss
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Speaker 1: this year. Have you thought about that? I mean, something
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Speaker 1: we've ever had, not mother Nature.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's the NFL doing.
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Speaker 1: I'm dreaming of it right now. I am dreaming of
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Speaker 1: a white draft mist Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I don't necessarily know if I want that,
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Speaker 2: but we'll see. Mother Nature might have that mind.
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Speaker 4: April twenty third, for those of you listening, that's when
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Speaker 4: the draft. That would be bad. You never know.
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Speaker 1: You never know, Greg all right, of other nature seems
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Speaker 1: to be in a weird mood right now, so you
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Speaker 1: never never know. All right, Well, let's dive into this thing.
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Speaker 1: Your reaction to the newcomer, I mean, I like it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm just drinking John schneider kool
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Speaker 1: aid these days, But then again, his kool Aid's been
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Speaker 1: delicious as of late, so maybe I'm guilty. But I
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Speaker 1: kind of like this player, and I like him at
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Speaker 1: one year, two million dollars. What was your reaction to
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Speaker 1: the signing of Emmanuel Wilson yesterday?
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, this is a quintessential John Schnyder move. Many
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Speaker 4: Wilson turns twenty seven and may he rest for five
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Speaker 4: hundred yards each to the last two seasons. Played thirty
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Speaker 4: four games with the Packers, two starts. Denver signed him
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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three as an undrafted rookie free agent
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Speaker 4: Division two Fort Valley State. John Schneider still has a
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Speaker 4: ton of people he knows very well in the Packers' organization,
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Speaker 4: his hometown, the organization he started in, so he's known
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Speaker 4: about Wilson for a while. The thing to know about that, first,
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Speaker 4: he's two hundred and thirty pounds, and John Schneider said
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Speaker 4: up his radio show today, he's a heavy runner, one
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Speaker 4: that they really are excited to bring in to run
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Speaker 4: in that style, which is different than the Kenneth Walker style.
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Speaker 4: Heavy runner means more of a power back, a little
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Speaker 4: bit more like Jack Charbonney, who may not play until
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Speaker 4: deep into the next season, as we know. But the
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Speaker 4: rain reason this is a John Schneider signing. It doesn't
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Speaker 4: count against the comptick formula. You have to have a
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Speaker 4: threshold of playing time and salary from the previous season
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Speaker 4: to qualify in the top thirty five percent at your
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Speaker 4: position to count in the salary for the cap. Excuse me,
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Speaker 4: the comp pick formula. So the Seahawks remain up plus
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Speaker 4: four on track for four compensatory draft choices for the
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Speaker 4: free AGENC They've lost this week, And I keep bringing
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Speaker 4: this up because this is how John Schnyder's playing this week,
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Speaker 4: in this month. He doesn't like this draft. We've talked
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Speaker 4: about it. He set a point blank at the combine.
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Speaker 4: He thought this was a weaker draft than last year
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Speaker 4: and much weaker than next year. So he's loading up
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Speaker 4: on next year. They now have twelve picks. If you
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Speaker 4: count the pick they got from Atlanta for the Mike
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Speaker 4: Juril trade offensive lineman last summer, they'll have twelve picks.
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Speaker 4: A dozen and they only have four in this year's draft,
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Speaker 4: and signing free agents like this, like the safety from
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Speaker 4: the Indianapolis Colts they got yesterday, that also doesn't count
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Speaker 4: against the or the formula. These are John Schneider in
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Speaker 4: the Edges type of deals. One year, two point million,
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Speaker 4: two point one million. As you said, Chuck, that's that's
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Speaker 4: for Seahawk fans to know. This is how he's going
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Speaker 4: about it. We're gonna keep We're gonna throw all our
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Speaker 4: money at keeping Josh Job and Rashid Shihed. We're gonna
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Speaker 4: save some money for Devin Witherspoon and Jackson sent and
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Speaker 4: Jiggis would be at the top of their salaries at
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Speaker 4: their positions in the summer, and we're gonna buy at
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Speaker 4: the fringes and punt this year's draft. Why can they
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Speaker 4: do that Because they're the Super Bowl champions. They think
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Speaker 4: they're team's good as is. And yes, they lost their
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Speaker 4: starting running back and that remains the biggest hole. But
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Speaker 4: as Snyder said yesterday, we're not done at running back.
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Speaker 4: They're still gonna continue looking at that position and fringe
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Speaker 4: creating like Naji Harris that you brought up coming off
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Speaker 4: in Achilles Terror in September. Those guys could come later
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Speaker 4: in the offseason. The Compic formas doesn't matter who you
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Speaker 4: signed for how much money. The Comptic Formula APPLA ends
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Speaker 4: the day after the draft, so they may add a
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Speaker 4: nausey Harris type of veteran the day after the draft
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Speaker 4: in late April or later.
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Speaker 5: Gee, the idea of this making anyone feel like, all right, well,
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Speaker 5: we just replaced K nine and so we're good to go.
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Speaker 5: Obviously that's not the case. And yet, what are the
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Speaker 5: odds of this guy? I mean, his progression up to
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Speaker 5: this point in three years limited usage. Last year haven't
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Speaker 5: his best year yet, but I mean even the year
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Speaker 5: before that, he was effective in the limited amount of
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Speaker 5: carriers that he got. So I mean, is this at
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Speaker 5: least more than just a guy? I mean, is this
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Speaker 5: a guy that you could possibly see being the starter
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Speaker 5: a week one because we know Sharbony is not going
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Speaker 5: to be ready.
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Speaker 4: Well, he could be the starter because Kenny McIntosh might
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Speaker 4: not be ready either, coming off of his torny aco
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Speaker 4: from last July. They think he may be back for
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Speaker 4: some of training camp, but they're not sure of that.
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Speaker 4: So with McIntosh and with Sharboney out, Willilson could potentially
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Speaker 4: compete for that. He's only playing nineteen percent of the
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Speaker 4: team snaps in Grane Bay and his first three seasons
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Speaker 4: combined and the last two it's like nine percent and
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Speaker 4: thirteen percent of the offensive snaps. So he got his
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Speaker 4: five hundred yards and very limited amount of times to
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Speaker 4: carry the ball and be on the field. They really
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Speaker 4: like George alone. We talked about him and what he
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Speaker 4: did after Zach Sharman. He got hurt in the Division
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Speaker 4: round game and Halani was making guys miss them safety
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Speaker 4: valve catches in the NFC title game against the Rams.
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Speaker 4: Snyder brought that up again yesterday on his radio show.
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Speaker 4: George Lawanne might have the insight. If you're going to say,
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Speaker 4: is there a starter the guy? He will be on
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Speaker 4: the field first snap of week one, It could be
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Speaker 4: George Lawi right now. Yeah, I know that's not inspiring
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Speaker 4: to think that an undrafted rookie second two seasons into
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Speaker 4: his career from Boise State is the guy. But it
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Speaker 4: right now shaping up as a committee. And as much
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Speaker 4: as they run the ball, and they're gonna run that's
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Speaker 4: fifty percent of the time again next year. That's why
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Speaker 4: they got Brian Flury from the forty nine ers to
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Speaker 4: be the offensive play caller, to continue to run the
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Speaker 4: outside zone from Shanahan system from San Francisco. As much
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Speaker 4: as they run the ball, they could use a pote
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Speaker 4: prie of running backs. And right now that's the stable
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Speaker 4: they're lining up with.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with US our Seahawks insider here on
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Speaker 1: A very busy week this week with the frenzy going
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Speaker 1: on and Emmanuel Wilson. Finally the Seahawks adding someone from
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Speaker 1: outside their house yesterday, the running back from the Green
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Speaker 1: Bay Packers. All right, So, speaking of stuff inside the US,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned about the long term contracts with JSN and
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Speaker 1: Devin Witherspoon probably being signed in the near future.
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Speaker 2: I would think, so.
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Speaker 4: Are they?
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Speaker 1: Are they for seeing this is gonna be tricky at all?
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Speaker 1: I mean, and usually what happens is all right, we'll
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Speaker 1: make the All Pro wide receiver the highest paid receiver
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Speaker 1: in the National Football League by one million dollars per year,
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Speaker 1: but JSN has sort of suggested, Hey, I kind of
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Speaker 1: I kind of want to blow that figure away. I mean,
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Speaker 1: is this going to be tricky at all? I mean,
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Speaker 1: what's he going to set the market fifty million a year?
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Speaker 1: Forty five million a year?
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Speaker 4: No, I think he'll be a forty million dollar receiver
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Speaker 4: and going to be a two hundred million dollar contract
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Speaker 4: if they go five years, although the vogue now is
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Speaker 4: to go three years on these type of deals. I
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Speaker 4: don't see Smith and jigmin Nor's agent playing hardball with
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Speaker 4: the team that drafted him at twenty years old and
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Speaker 4: has made him what he is. He'll be top of
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Speaker 4: the market, and that's about forty million dollars and it
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Speaker 4: probably will happen in the first days of training camp
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Speaker 4: late July into early August. Same with Devin Witherspoon, which
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Speaker 4: top of the market for cornerbacks is about thirty million.
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Speaker 4: So that's seventy million a year between both of them,
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Speaker 4: and you see why Schneider's being judicious with his money
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Speaker 4: and his salary caps. Now, of course, all that space,
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Speaker 4: all that salary cap charge wouldn't come up in the
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Speaker 4: first year and Schneider will structure it as he always does,
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Speaker 4: and Seahawks players and agents that deal with the Seahawks
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Speaker 4: know it. They don't hang up on would guarantees up
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Speaker 4: front and spreading guarantees across years and the second year
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Speaker 4: guarantee being five days after the Super Bowl. The Seahawks
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Speaker 4: blueprint of contracts. Smith and Jiguin his agent, I'm not
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Speaker 4: going to hang up on that either, because they've been
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Speaker 4: in the program now for three years. They know how
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Speaker 4: it works, and the league knows how it works. And
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Speaker 4: agents aren't going to run and bump up against Schnyder's
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Speaker 4: way because Snyder's way works and it's now won two
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Speaker 4: super Bowls. Do it this way, so I don't anticipate
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Speaker 4: it being sticky, and they don't seem to me to
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Speaker 4: be the type of players who would do that. And frankly,
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Speaker 4: they don't have a ton of leverage because they still
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Speaker 4: have the final year of their rookie deal eleven. And
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Speaker 4: if they really got to Key, Snyder would just say, Okay,
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Speaker 4: play out this year and we'll see what your value
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Speaker 4: is next year. Smith and Jigby the sooner he signs,
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Speaker 4: the better for him, because he'll never be well, I
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Speaker 4: guess it's possible he could be the NFL Offensive Player
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Speaker 4: the Year again this coming year, but he'll never be
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Speaker 4: valued more than he is right now. And Witherspoon's and
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Speaker 4: is coming off as third consecutive Pro Bowl. So it's
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Speaker 4: it's almost I don't want to say it's a favorite
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Speaker 4: to the players because the players should earn as much
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Speaker 4: as they could possibly get. But Snyder doesn't have to
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Speaker 4: redo these deals. They're still under contract for the twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty six season. It has been his custom to do
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Speaker 4: it going into the final year of Foundational players contract.
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Speaker 5: I'm with you, he didn't have to, and yet once
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Speaker 5: the president is set set, then it feels like, yeah,
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Speaker 5: he will the play. Well, the players all of a
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Speaker 5: sudden feel like, well, you have to, and you have
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Speaker 5: to and you have to give me the top of
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Speaker 5: the market if I've proven that I deserve such a thing.
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Speaker 5: So I mean, you're thinking forty million for Jackson Smith
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Speaker 5: and Jigman thirty million. I mean, if if they're they
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Speaker 5: were to try to I don't know if hold John
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Speaker 5: Snyder's feet to the fire is the right term, but
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Speaker 5: if they were to try to go big time, you
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Speaker 5: think there's a chance that John Schneider will be like, hey,
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Speaker 5: this is where I'm going take it or leave it.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's take it or leave it,
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Speaker 4: because again, they're under contract, right so where they're going
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Speaker 4: to go. They're going to play for the Seahawks this year. No,
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Speaker 4: he's budgeted, he's I'm sure I haven't told this, but
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Speaker 4: I'm sure he's told both of those players and their
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Speaker 4: agents that we will take care of you and we'll
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Speaker 4: put you at the top of the market what you deserve.
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Speaker 4: You're foundation, guys. We're picking you. It's why we let
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Speaker 4: Kenneth Walker walk and didn't make him the top running
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Speaker 4: back at the top of the market. We valued you, guys,
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Speaker 4: and this is what we're choosing. It also helps that
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Speaker 4: this sounds absurd to say to someone who's driving around
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Speaker 4: Seattle right now, But it also helps that their quarterback
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Speaker 4: is only in quotation marks making thirty three and a
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Speaker 4: half million dollars on average. Because that relative cost. Jones
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Speaker 4: just signed a deal for forty four million a year
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Speaker 4: from the Colt Daniel Jones. What does he want so
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Speaker 4: that they relatively less night It's crazy to say relatively
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Speaker 4: less money. They're paying the quarterback will help them pay
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Speaker 4: Smiths and Jigba and Witherspoon this year. Now, this time
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Speaker 4: next year, you have a Sam Donald question. That's how
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Speaker 4: the NFL works. The more you win, the more you
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Speaker 4: have to pay. And if Sam Donald has a Pro
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Speaker 4: Bowl caliber, Super Bowl contending season again, how much money
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Speaker 4: he's gonna be worth. He's gonna be worth more than
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Speaker 4: Daniel Jones, and agents come to the bargaining table with comps.
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Speaker 4: That's that's how this game works. It's not how much
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Speaker 4: my guy's worth as much as it is my guy's
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Speaker 4: worth more than this guy and Daniel Jones. Sam Donald
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Speaker 4: is worth way more than Daniel Jones. And that's where
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Speaker 4: their agent's gonna come to John Schnighter this time next year.
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Speaker 4: So Snyder he has to put forecast all of this out.
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Speaker 4: He and his staff to plan their salary. Caps have
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Speaker 4: to think about this stuff. And when when they decided
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Speaker 4: to let boy MafA go for twenty ridiculous million dollars
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Speaker 4: a year, and when they decided to let Kenneth Walker walk,
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Speaker 4: it's for these reasons. Who are we going to keep?
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Speaker 4: We're gonna keep Kenneth Walker and not pay Witherspoon and
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Speaker 4: Smith's and Jigba and Sam Darnold next year, and they decided, no,
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Speaker 4: we're not going to do that. You just can't when
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Speaker 4: they I understand people saying why did you let these
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Speaker 4: guys leave? But you can't think about that in a
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Speaker 4: vacuum because the Seahawks don't. The Seahawks think about it
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Speaker 4: in three year increments, projecting their salary caps three years
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Speaker 4: down the road.
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Speaker 1: In our last minute, do you think John Schneider accomplished
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Speaker 1: exactly what he meant to accomplish this week?
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Speaker 4: I don't know exactly. I don't. I think the market
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Speaker 4: on Kobe Bryant in particular, surprised him. I don't think
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Speaker 4: they could have fathomed that the Bears were going to
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Speaker 4: give him forty million dollars over three years. Brian, to me,
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Speaker 4: was one they thought they could get back. They thought
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Speaker 4: the safety market would be something they could afford to
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Speaker 4: dive into, and it just blew up on him. Walker
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Speaker 4: seemed like he was I told you I thought Walker
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Speaker 4: was gone back in September when they job shared him
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Speaker 4: and was a little bit like Bucky was just talking
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Speaker 4: about if you're a player in the Seahawks locker room
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Speaker 4: and you don't get that big deal going into your
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Speaker 4: final year of your rookie contract. That's a message to
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Speaker 4: you that they don't like me as much as I
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Speaker 4: thought they did, because they've seen it what happens around here.
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Speaker 4: And if you're not getting a Witherspoon, Smith and Jigbit treatment,
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Speaker 4: then you know which side of the tracks you're on.
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Speaker 4: And that didn't set Kenneth Walker off very well either,
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Speaker 4: So that seemed to be a ship that already sailed.
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Speaker 4: But I thought the Kobe Bryant win might have been
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Speaker 4: the one that didn't go exactly as they planned.
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Speaker 1: All right, Greg, well, awesome stuff all week long. Thank
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Speaker 1: you very much. We appreciate it. And yeah, we will
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Speaker 1: get you some time off at some point in twenty.
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Speaker 2: Thirty five or so.
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Speaker 4: Maybe.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I appreciate the commitment there. Thank you. We're
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Speaker 2: thinking about you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I always change my number again.
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Speaker 2: I guess you could.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, go out and there we got play in the snow.
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Speaker 1: Slide down, slide down the hill Tobacca.
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Speaker 4: Isn't exactly Midwest snow. It's like slop, like oatmeal. It's
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Speaker 1: Coming up next the WBC. Are we sure we want
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Speaker 1: more international competition? Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
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Speaker 1: R f M. I'm driving to work today and for
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Speaker 1: Wonderland by the way.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's still like that. Is I
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Speaker 2: still like that out there? I haven't been outside the
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Speaker 2: studio yet. It's snowing out there. It's not sticking out there.
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Speaker 6: But Palmer the Great just woke up and I got
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Speaker 6: a text Mama it snowed, and she sent me a picture.
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Speaker 2: It's thick too there to go do a snow angel.
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Speaker 2: We need video evidence. I love it. I just literally
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Speaker 2: just got it right now. I've been waiting.
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Speaker 6: That was like, I wonder what it's going to be
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Speaker 6: like when she wakes up. So it's still snowy thing, I.
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Speaker 2: Know, and I love it.
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Speaker 1: I love in the faces of children to see them
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Speaker 1: light up over the possibility of a white draft miss
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Speaker 1: this year.
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Speaker 2: That is, isn't it magical?
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Speaker 6: That's what the season's all about.
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Speaker 2: Love it. I love magic of the season. Even God
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Speaker 2: is like, I really like draftness. I want it to
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Speaker 2: be beautiful this year. Yeah, I think that's it. Uh,
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
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Speaker 1: I'd like to I'd like to know who God would
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Speaker 1: take in the disciple draft number one overall, like to
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Speaker 1: find that out.
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Speaker 2: That'd be some really Yeah. Yeah. It was the first
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Speaker 2: ever draft that was held. Is when he picked his disciples.
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Speaker 1: All right, it is Chuck, Buck and Ashley with you.
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Speaker 1: While I was driving through the winter Wonderland to work
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Speaker 1: this morning, John Paul Morosi was on with Brady and
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Speaker 1: what's his Jonas Nutt and he was and John Paul
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Speaker 1: Morosi loves the WBC more than anyone on Earth. Number One,
20:27
Speaker 1: he gets to show off how many languages he can speak.
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Speaker 2: He was speaking Italian this morning.
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Speaker 1: Number Two, he's not really very good as being an insider,
20:36
Speaker 1: but he's a very nice guy and he really embraces this,
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Speaker 1: and he's a go to authority on it, and so
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Speaker 1: he's he loves it. And they were talking this morning
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Speaker 1: about how how can we get more of this.
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Speaker 2: I don't want more of this.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even want us to participate in the Olympics.
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Speaker 1: I mean, in a very short period of time, the
20:58
Speaker 1: world's most perfect superstar has been cast as a villain.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: My favorite analyst in sports, Mark de Rosa, has been
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Speaker 1: cast as an idiot. And I am really fearful that
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Speaker 1: come Sunday we're going to have a bench clearing brawl
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Speaker 1: between the US and the Dominican that I think. I
21:19
Speaker 1: don't want to be a part of witness. I don't
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Speaker 1: want anything. I don't want anything to do with it.
21:24
Speaker 1: I don't need any more international competition. I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: get rid of the WBC, but please don't make it
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Speaker 1: more frequent.
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Speaker 2: Than it already is. I've already had enough. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't need it more than every everything.
21:38
Speaker 2: I'm a Major League baseball fans, That's what I grew
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Speaker 2: up on. I don't want anything to tarnish the Major
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Speaker 2: League Baseball season period.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't want it to tarnish it.
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Speaker 5: And yet I think there's a way where you can
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Speaker 5: have this and it can add to it. There's a
21:50
Speaker 5: fear factor of just you're getting arms loose before they're
21:54
Speaker 5: typically normally needing to be loose, and so that fear,
21:58
Speaker 5: I think is going to be there no matter what.
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Speaker 5: But I don't need it any more than what it is.
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Speaker 5: But I don't want it. I most certainly wouldn't want
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Speaker 5: it to go away. I like the idea of you know,
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Speaker 5: getting to getting to you know, put your country across
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Speaker 5: your chest and go out and play for it, and
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Speaker 5: the idea of that type of pride.
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Speaker 2: It's a different thing.
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Speaker 5: It's different than going out and playing for the team
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Speaker 5: that you were drafted by or the team that you
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Speaker 5: signed with, or the team you're going to go out
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Speaker 5: and try to battle for one sixty two and then
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Speaker 5: the playoffs with it. Those are two totally different things
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Speaker 5: to me, and I think there's a room for both
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Speaker 5: in my baseball world.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've really enjoyed the WBC so far. I like it,
22:33
Speaker 6: but I can definitely understand, like I don't know about
22:35
Speaker 6: needing more more than this. I like this, and this
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Speaker 6: is good, and I think, if you do it too much,
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Speaker 6: you ruin this special I agree feeling that you get
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Speaker 6: from the WBC. It doesn't become a special to put
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Speaker 6: your country across your chest if you're doing it all
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Speaker 6: the time.
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Speaker 1: And look, I mean, I watched a city make it
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Speaker 1: to the American League Championship Series and lost its mind.
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Speaker 1: The US could win the WBC. I don't think there'll
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Speaker 1: be one person celebrating on the streets. No, I mean,
23:04
Speaker 1: so maybe this is just an American running through my
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Speaker 1: American filter that has just watched Major League Baseball his
23:10
Speaker 1: entire life and still thinks that a Mariners championship will
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Speaker 1: be a lot more enjoyable than a Team USA WBC championship.
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Speaker 1: But that's not the way it was in Japan three
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Speaker 1: years ago, and that's not gonna be the way it
23:24
Speaker 1: is for these other countries. So when Julio Rodriguez is
23:27
Speaker 1: asked by a reporter yesterday, wit would be bigger to
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Speaker 1: win a World Series with the Mariners or to win
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Speaker 1: the WBC with the Dominic And I'm not sure we
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Speaker 1: should be surprised when he says this.
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean being honest, though, like I love I
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Speaker 7: love the Mariners, They know I give my best for
23:43
Speaker 7: them every single time that I step on the field.
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Speaker 7: But winning a war basic classes will be top of
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Speaker 7: the list. You know, this is for my country, this
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Speaker 7: for my time, and for my people, my neighborhood, by everybody,
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Speaker 7: my Dominican Republic. So I will say winning the war
23:57
Speaker 7: basic classes will be number one.
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Speaker 2: Got a problem of that? No, No, I do not.
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Speaker 5: No, I mean it's the bottom line is is that
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Speaker 5: most other countries their sport, well I shouldn't say most
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Speaker 5: in all these Latin Ameran countries, baseball is it. There's
24:16
Speaker 5: no football. The NFL doesn't hold a candle to what
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Speaker 5: Julia Rodriguez grew up watching as far as his baseball
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Speaker 5: even like soccer there yeah, I mean, yeah, exactly in.
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Speaker 2: Love the Dominican and so.
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Speaker 5: Exactly you might be part Dominican when it comes right
24:31
Speaker 5: down to so No, I mean, I don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't fault them one bit.
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Speaker 5: I mean it's when all of a sudden, the biggest prize, uh,
24:40
Speaker 5: for the sport that your country loves the most is
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Speaker 5: the World Series, where that's you have to move away
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Speaker 5: from your country, go live in a different country to
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Speaker 5: pursue said career.
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Speaker 2: Except for now with.
24:52
Speaker 5: The WBC, there's a chance where you get to put
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Speaker 5: your country's chest, you know, your country across your chest
24:59
Speaker 5: and play with just a bunch of your buddies and
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Speaker 5: homies and and peers that you all came and basically,
25:05
Speaker 5: like I said, going across the you know map to
25:09
Speaker 5: follow this dream of playing at the highest level.
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Speaker 2: It makes total sense to me.
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Speaker 5: Why they would think that this is just as big,
25:17
Speaker 5: if not bigger.
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Speaker 6: I do also, though, wonder if it is a bit
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Speaker 6: of him being a prisoner of the moment and being
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Speaker 6: in the WBC, Because the only reason why I would
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Speaker 6: think it, and you know that he would reconsider it,
25:29
Speaker 6: is if the Mariners do actually win the World Series
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Speaker 6: and he realizes how effing hard it was to win
25:36
Speaker 6: the World Series. Like, the WBC is awesome, and you're
25:38
Speaker 6: playing for the pride of your country, and you're playing
25:40
Speaker 6: with yeah, all your friends and they're all, you know,
25:43
Speaker 6: representing your same country, but it's not to win the
25:47
Speaker 6: WBC is not as hard as it is to win
25:49
Speaker 6: the World Series. And I do wonder if after one
25:52
Speaker 6: hundred and sixty two regular season games and the grueling
25:55
Speaker 6: playoffs and hoisting a World Series trophy you would feel differently.
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Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean the Mariners made you rich. The Mariners.
26:07
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you were a talent, but they took
26:09
Speaker 1: you on a what sixteen fifteen and developed your growth.
26:15
Speaker 1: You know, you play one hundred and sixty two games
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Speaker 1: a year with the Mariners, So you're right from the
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Speaker 1: standpoint of like being on a quest. Yeah, Like, it's
26:23
Speaker 1: just this is not some I mean, really, we're talking
26:27
Speaker 1: about an exhibition tournament. I mean, our pitchers aren't are
26:31
Speaker 1: limited to how many pitches they can throw, dalking about
26:34
Speaker 1: an elimination turn. So there are some things about it
26:37
Speaker 1: where I'm like, how could But this is through an
26:40
Speaker 1: American filter? How could that be more rewarding than the
26:45
Speaker 1: process of wanting the dream of becoming a major leaguer,
26:49
Speaker 1: becoming a major leaguer, being a part of a team
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Speaker 1: for years on end, knowing how difficult it is to
26:54
Speaker 1: win the World Series, watching a city get behind you
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Speaker 1: completely every step of the way, and then finally pulling
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Speaker 1: off the accomplishment, something that is so difficult that the
27:05
Speaker 1: organization you play for has never even gotten to the
27:08
Speaker 1: top of the mountain, much less celebrated at the top
27:12
Speaker 1: of the mountain. So to me, that seems like that
27:16
Speaker 1: would be a bigger achievement and more worthy of celebrating.
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Speaker 1: That said, I do understand where he's coming from. I
27:24
Speaker 1: have no problem with it. And this is his one
27:26
Speaker 1: opportunity to rep his parents, his grandparents, his people in
27:33
Speaker 1: his neighborhood, his culture, all of that stuff. This is
27:36
Speaker 1: there one opportunity to do it because we don't yet
27:39
Speaker 1: have them on the Olympic stage at this point. So
27:42
Speaker 1: I do understand where he's coming from. But I think
27:45
Speaker 1: here in America, we just we're not going we want
27:50
Speaker 1: the Team USA to win, but it's going to be
27:54
Speaker 1: a much bigger deal in Seattle if the Mariners win.
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Speaker 1: Where in the Dominican they're not going to celebrate Julio
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Speaker 1: Rodriguez much at all.
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Speaker 2: If the Mariners win the World Series. So I get
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Speaker 2: where he's coming from. It's just not my filter.
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Speaker 5: It's just two different things. Yeah, I mean, it's the
28:11
Speaker 5: same sport, and I suppose if you want to narrow
28:13
Speaker 5: it down to winning a championship, then it's the same.
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Speaker 5: That's where it stops. It's not the same any nothing
28:18
Speaker 5: about it is the same. One happens at the beginning
28:20
Speaker 5: of the year, when most people aren't even really ready
28:22
Speaker 5: for their baseball season one, like Ashley said, is super
28:27
Speaker 5: crazy difficult to do. Go through one sixty two, find
28:30
Speaker 5: yourself in the playoffs, and then go through all those
28:32
Speaker 5: series that you have to get to to get to
28:34
Speaker 5: the World Series, and then you got to win the
28:35
Speaker 5: best of seven in that versus how many wins do
28:38
Speaker 5: you actually have to win to win this thing?
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Speaker 2: Six? Six wins? Yeah, and you could basically win this
28:44
Speaker 2: whole thing. You go six and one and you're the WBC.
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Speaker 2: It's not even close.
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Speaker 5: But the thing about playing for your country, playing for
28:52
Speaker 5: you with your buddies, playing for your neighborhood, for your
28:55
Speaker 5: family name, all of that is different. I don't expect
28:59
Speaker 5: juliould have that that said anybody that'll get their feathers
29:02
Speaker 5: ruffled because he said, well, this means more to me
29:04
Speaker 5: right now. Whether it's a prisoner of the moment or
29:07
Speaker 5: just genuine right now, this is what I think means more.
29:11
Speaker 5: The dude's not going to care less in Game seven.
29:14
Speaker 5: Everybody heard the primal scream from the showers when they
29:17
Speaker 5: lost in Game seven of the AOC Championship Series. The
29:20
Speaker 5: dude wants to win, so competitiveness. It just is competitiveness
29:24
Speaker 5: for a different thing. You're wanting to win a baseball
29:28
Speaker 5: game or a baseball tournament, whatever it is. But this
29:30
Speaker 5: is you're wanting to win it with you with your
29:33
Speaker 5: peers from your own country, or you're wanting to win
29:35
Speaker 5: it with your peers for your own team that the
29:39
Speaker 5: organization that you work for in the city that you
29:40
Speaker 5: play for. So to me, it's just two totally different things.
29:43
Speaker 5: I don't think there should be an issue.
29:44
Speaker 6: Either way, very different I would have.
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Speaker 2: I don't.
29:46
Speaker 6: I have no problem with what he said, And yeah,
29:48
Speaker 6: maybe this is more emotional or more sentimental to him
29:53
Speaker 6: versus what will happen when the Mariners do it. But again,
29:56
Speaker 6: I just would be curious if his feelings would change
29:59
Speaker 6: come the time that Berners actually hoisted World Series.
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Speaker 1: Well, just to bring it full circle, I still don't
30:04
Speaker 1: want any more of it. Not one more pitch. Yeah,
30:07
Speaker 1: the WBC every three years, Okay, that's the that's the thing.
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Speaker 1: I don't need one more pitch of international competition because
30:14
Speaker 1: obviously too many hurt feelings occur in this in this arena,
30:20
Speaker 1: and I don't want to deal with any more drama
30:23
Speaker 1: coming up next there's an NFL team that is gonna
30:27
Speaker 1: showcase new uniforms next year that are a tribute to
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Speaker 2: Oh I no better.
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Speaker 1: Day than to hitch up your toboggan to the old
30:48
Speaker 1: Clydesdale out in the Corral and head on out to
30:52
Speaker 1: Talala Resort Casino. Yeah yeah, they embrace the winter wonderland
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Speaker 1: that has hit us here in the spring. Uh, and
31:01
Speaker 1: just load up the family that Clydes Delle strong and
31:05
Speaker 1: let him pull you to talalap Resort Casino for a
31:08
Speaker 1: weekend of adventure.
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Speaker 5: That's a great idea. Slip and slide right in there.
31:12
Speaker 5: And matter of fact, you still got time. You could
31:13
Speaker 5: probably sled right into the Soul Asylum concert tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I wear Mittens winter Tunes I
31:21
Speaker 2: like to call them.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, nothing like a little spring snow winter sol Asylum Launcher.
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Speaker 2: T water tunes.
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Speaker 1: Runaway train can't be stopped by the weather, Nope.
31:34
Speaker 5: One thing I know for a fact too, is the
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Speaker 5: Orca ball room there warm toasty. You could probably get
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Speaker 5: some hot cocoa, do it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I bet there's some fireplaces around, you know, like
31:45
Speaker 6: little loungey spots and.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, warm your feet roastersis warm your feet by the
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Speaker 1: fire of some soul asylum.
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Speaker 2: That sounds like heaven.
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Speaker 1: Alright, Ocho, coming your way at the top of the hour,
31:56
Speaker 1: your eight top stories of the day. We do it
31:58
Speaker 1: every Friday. You just see what I did before the segment.
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Speaker 1: I gave you a little tease to make you think
32:03
Speaker 1: that maybe it was the Seahawks that had new uniforms
32:05
Speaker 1: that were going to be flashing from the past. It's
32:08
Speaker 1: not sorry to disappoint you, but I had to keep
32:11
Speaker 1: you through the break. See what we do to you. No,
32:14
Speaker 1: it's the Tennessee Titans, and sharp this up to Sometimes
32:18
Speaker 1: people just changed to change even though they're not making
32:22
Speaker 1: anything better. And I realized that the Houston Oilers had
32:26
Speaker 1: to leave Houston. Well they didn't have to. They chose
32:29
Speaker 1: to leave Houston and go to Nashville. And they wanted
32:32
Speaker 1: a new identity with the Tennessee Titans. So they created
32:36
Speaker 1: the biggest clown looking uniform in the history of the
32:38
Speaker 1: National Football League and left behind one of my favorite brands,
32:43
Speaker 1: not the best, not the most iconic, but one of
32:46
Speaker 1: my favorite brands in the National Football League. Growing up
32:50
Speaker 1: the Love You Blue Tennis Houston Oilers uniforms.
32:54
Speaker 2: They had to leave that in the past, even though
32:56
Speaker 2: Houston ended up getting a team two years later. It
32:59
Speaker 2: really was all of this necessary.
33:01
Speaker 1: Couldn't you just give them the expansion franchise to the
33:03
Speaker 1: Nashville Maybe we could have done that Adam's Family maybe,
33:07
Speaker 1: But they are going to have new uniforms, not just throwbacks,
33:12
Speaker 1: new uniforms, logos, everything, and it is a complete throwback
33:17
Speaker 1: to the Houston Oiler love Your Blue uniforms that so
33:20
Speaker 1: many people loved back in my childhood.
33:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, Ayody bringing the past ells back. And I like
33:26
Speaker 5: those uniforms. They're keeping that tea, that titaned tea on there,
33:30
Speaker 5: which on the helmet or whatever, which I like. It
33:32
Speaker 5: does look a little like the Dolphin UNI to me
33:37
Speaker 5: a little bit, but I don't I don't mind it.
33:39
Speaker 5: I typically it's almost like you feel like when you
33:41
Speaker 5: get a new quarterback or some young rookie quarterback a
33:44
Speaker 5: year or two into it, they're like, all right, we've
33:45
Speaker 5: got to change our brand. We got a new cam
33:48
Speaker 5: word time.
33:48
Speaker 1: Well, I think it was the fan base, like we
33:50
Speaker 1: just they every time they went to the throwback oiler uniform.
33:53
Speaker 1: That's what people wanted, and they should have never changed
33:56
Speaker 1: it in the first place. They just changed it for change.
34:00
Speaker 1: But that brand was liked, it was enjoyed, and even
34:04
Speaker 1: in Nashville, they're like, no, we.
34:05
Speaker 2: Want those old uniforms back.
34:07
Speaker 1: And here we are twenty five years later and they're
34:09
Speaker 1: going back basically to the lovely blue oilers looking uniforms.
34:13
Speaker 1: And so I'm here for it, and so it's about time.
34:16
Speaker 1: You should have never got rid of it. They should
34:17
Speaker 1: still be the oilers, if you ask me, Yeah, I'm
34:19
Speaker 1: with you on that too. I don't understand the whole switcheroo.
34:22
Speaker 1: I guess with Nashville oilers, you're wrong with that.
34:24
Speaker 2: What's wrong with the Nashville oil I don't know. Is
34:27
Speaker 2: there a bunch of I don't know if there's much
34:29
Speaker 2: oil there's not, but no change anybody else.
34:32
Speaker 6: They have a lot of great restaurants and they.
34:34
Speaker 2: Cook with oil. Okay, so it still works. It's like
34:38
Speaker 2: a big rig for the garrets, the extra olive oil. Okay.
34:43
Speaker 1: Like every team picks something that is regionally responsible.
34:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, no, well yeah, I mean, are there even
34:50
Speaker 6: any Cardinals in Arizona?
34:53
Speaker 2: Seahawks don't even exist. They made it up. Yeah, it's
34:57
Speaker 2: a fake bird.
34:58
Speaker 5: Well that's true, that's true. But we're near the C
35:01
Speaker 5: and it has C S E A like Seattle. Okay,
35:05
Speaker 5: I see, I mean there's something.
35:08
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, how many buffalo are in Oh no, that's
35:11
Speaker 6: the Buffalo period.
35:13
Speaker 2: How many bills? Well, why are they the Buffalo bills?
35:16
Speaker 2: And they have a buffalo on there?
35:17
Speaker 1: Shouldn't there be a picture of Buffalo Bill on their helmets?
35:21
Speaker 2: Or just any guy named Bill? Yeah, Jill Pullman, Yeah,
35:25
Speaker 2: he's great. Just to picture a bill, right, yeah, Bill Cosby.
35:30
Speaker 6: And you know what each a fan that one might
35:32
Speaker 6: get turned down. A fan could submit, you know, all
35:35
Speaker 6: the bill, all the fans named Bill. Yeah, you can
35:38
Speaker 6: switch change out the picture of it.
35:39
Speaker 5: They could have an LCD screen on the side of
35:41
Speaker 5: their helmet and just scroll through all the bills in Buffalo.
35:44
Speaker 1: The point is that nobody, very few makes regional sense.
35:48
Speaker 1: So why would we screw up such a great brand
35:51
Speaker 1: like the Eilers brand?
35:52
Speaker 2: That was fun? Yeah, memorable? Warn moon all
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