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Chuck & Buck 4-6 Hour 4: the M's slow start, Stocking Stuffers and one last thing. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Nine o'clock hour Chuck Poll and Ashley Ryan with you know,
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  Speaker 1: Bucky Jacobson here again today stocking Stuffers coming up in
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  Speaker 1: nine thirty Today it is Draftmas Week number two, a
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  Speaker 1: full week of Draft miss. This week our first full
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: week of draft miss. Yeah, we haven't even gotten to
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  Speaker 1: the new Tuesday of Draft miss. That's tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Exciting.
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  Speaker 1: M got a brand new feature that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: a debut, and of course, jolly old Saint Picholas himself,
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  Speaker 1: Rob Rang will be with us on tomorrow's radio program
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  Speaker 1: at seven oh five. He really took to his very
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  Speaker 1: new nickname, didn't he.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, did he love it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: He was.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking, gosh, we got to have him on
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  Speaker 3: more regularly now he's full on Hucon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think we got to do it every Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'll have to talk I'll have to sweet talk
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  Speaker 1: him maybe between now and next Monday.
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  Speaker 2: But bribe him to talk more football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, really difficult strong arm into talk
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  Speaker 1: in football, that guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. So we got to give credit to our guy,
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  Speaker 1: Nick Allen. By the way, I think he's the one
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  Speaker 1: that came up with the Hucon Cornelius nickname to fit
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  Speaker 1: our Draftmas theme. Great stuff. And look, if you get
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  Speaker 1: a nickname means a lot. Yeah, means you're in the family,
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  Speaker 1: means you're a part of the hierarchy around here.
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  Speaker 3: And he also came up with the picture of Hucon
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  Speaker 3: that we tweeted out for Hughes appearance.
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  Speaker 2: So Nick is an MVP on this show.
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  Speaker 1: He really is. Yeah, I think that that guy deserves
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  Speaker 1: a raise.
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  Speaker 2: He does. You know what Nick, I'm talking to.
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  Speaker 1: So at nine o'clock hour, we've got stocking stuffers coming
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  Speaker 1: your way to celebrate draftness. That's something that we do
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  Speaker 1: every day. We just give you all the latest rumors
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  Speaker 1: and there were a lot of juicy ones from over
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  Speaker 1: the weekends. We got a lot of catch up on.
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  Speaker 1: But we also have to talk about our baseball team
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  Speaker 1: off to a four and six start on this season,
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  Speaker 1: and that is disappointing and the way they've played has
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  Speaker 1: been less than spectacular. And that's about the end of
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. I mean, are we gonna do this again?
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  Speaker 1: Are we going to overreact to a four and six
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  Speaker 1: start ten games into one hundred and sixty two game season.
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  Speaker 1: It's just foolish. It's just foolish and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why this has to happen every single baseball season. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to make any excuses for the ash leay.
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  Speaker 1: They have not played good baseball now, I mean defensively.
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  Speaker 1: That was something that I pointed out as a big
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  Speaker 1: worry of mine heading into this year. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was the weakness going into the year. And there were
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  Speaker 1: you know, Brendan Donovan, who has not played third base
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  Speaker 1: every day at any point in his major league career,
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  Speaker 1: who voiced to us that he was a little concerned
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  Speaker 1: about where he's at right now. Now. That was at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of spring training, but he knew it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a process, and he's looked great at
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  Speaker 1: the play. Does not look good in the field, and
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  Speaker 1: kind of saw that coming. JP spent his entire spring
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  Speaker 1: rehabbing a shoulder injury. So there was a play over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend that I think he's got to make, and
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  Speaker 1: usually JP makes that play running into his right throwing
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  Speaker 1: on the move, but he didn't make it over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and it was critical to the outcome of a game.
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  Speaker 1: So he's not playing all that well. Randia rose Arena
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  Speaker 1: is not a good outfielder.
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  Speaker 2: He's got some issues.
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  Speaker 1: He just isn't. I mean, he's athletic and he'll run
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  Speaker 1: some balls down for you, but I pointed out last
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  Speaker 1: week not cutting off the John Carlos Stanton double into
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  Speaker 1: the alley is unacceptable. You gotta be able to slide
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  Speaker 1: knock that thing down, keep him to a single. And
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  Speaker 1: then his throw yesterday at the end of the game
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  Speaker 1: was affably bad. I mean, he's one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: five feet from home plate and not even close, not
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  Speaker 1: not strong enough, not accurate enough off the market, and
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  Speaker 1: it absolutely was like a perfect one to get your
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  Speaker 1: feet underneath you you were playing in because you've got
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  Speaker 1: to cut down the or they run at home. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty much like it had to
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  Speaker 1: have even been one where they consider not even sending
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  Speaker 1: the runner. That's how perfectly young, yeah, perfectly positioned it
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  Speaker 1: was for a rose Arena to come in, set his feet,
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  Speaker 1: get his momentum toward home plate and didn't even have
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  Speaker 1: to like throw a strike. He just have to get
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  Speaker 1: it to home plate and you're probably gunning the guy
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  Speaker 1: down and it was nowhere near. So he's not a
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  Speaker 1: very good outfielder. This is something that is a concern
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  Speaker 1: but we do have the best you know infield coach
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  Speaker 1: in the world by all accounts, in Perry Hill. And
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  Speaker 1: it's ten games into a season in which camp got
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  Speaker 1: completely disrupted by WBC, and the team is just not
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  Speaker 1: singing right now. They're just not playing good baseball. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it shows up on a sloppy defensive team.
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  Speaker 3: Right and you've got all these You've got your four
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  Speaker 3: big hitters not really performing, and so that's going to
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  Speaker 3: be frustrating for them, and they're trying to figure that out.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, everybody's you know, trying to gel as a team.
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  Speaker 3: And we talked about it after the first series, first
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  Speaker 3: the Cleveland series, in the first game against New York
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  Speaker 3: and we were three and two and we thought, wow,
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  Speaker 3: we're kind of surprised that we're three and two, given
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  Speaker 3: that all of these things are happening. Well, it caught
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  Speaker 3: up with us, and we knew it was going to.
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  Speaker 3: If you're not going to get out of those hitting
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  Speaker 3: slumps and your defense isn't going to improve, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to catch up to you. And so here we are
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  Speaker 3: at four and six, ten games in, and if your
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  Speaker 3: panic button is even above a two, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: you're overreacting. Yeah, I think you can have concern, you
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  Speaker 3: can be worried, you can say, oh, this is a
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  Speaker 3: rough start. I don't like it, but you know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how to how else to explain it other
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  Speaker 3: than your ten games into a one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 3: two game season, and this is not going to go
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  Speaker 3: this way.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team that has come back
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  Speaker 1: and you know, from the dead, like numerous times in
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  Speaker 1: July and August. I where where it on April sixth?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Goodness, we haven't even gone a month through the season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I had to read the what a they're
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  Speaker 1: creating too big of a hole? It's two games, there
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  Speaker 1: are two games under five hundred. They're two games out
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  Speaker 1: of first place.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's the most absurd thing to say they've
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  Speaker 3: created too big of a hole.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we are by Tuesday evening. Both of those
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  Speaker 1: things could be erased and and there would still be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one hundred and fifty games left.
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  Speaker 2: Right if they went to night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if they win tonight and tomorrow, you're not gonna
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  Speaker 3: be like, oh, never mind, all their problems are fixed
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  Speaker 3: and here we go World Series, Here we come again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're not playing well, and I do think
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  Speaker 1: the defense is a concern, and I think that it
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  Speaker 1: looks very shaky. And if you're not hitting the way
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  Speaker 1: that you're capable of hitting, then you better catch the
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  Speaker 1: damn baseball. And they're not doing that right now, even
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  Speaker 1: little Leo, who I came down on hard earlier in
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Dude, you are on this roster because you need
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  Speaker 1: to do the little things well. And yesterday you were atrocious.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a terrible play on what should have been
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  Speaker 1: a routine ground or to third. And then you know
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  Speaker 1: you're getting picked off first after drawing a lead off
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  Speaker 1: walk with the top of the order coming up and
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  Speaker 1: down by one, and then you're facing a relief pitcher
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  Speaker 1: who's never closed the game in his life. You know,
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  Speaker 1: is adrenaline's pumping, and you get ahead two oh and
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  Speaker 1: you're swinging two oh. You are the nine hole hitter.
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  Speaker 1: You're swinging two oh in that situation. Make the guy
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  Speaker 1: throw a strike and instead you pop one up and
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  Speaker 1: you don't get off to the start. You need it now.
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  Speaker 1: You ended up rallying and tying both of those games
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  Speaker 1: and sending it into extra innings and you still lost.
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  Speaker 1: But I need Leo Revas to be better than that. Pillity.
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  Speaker 1: Guys who are barely on the roster have to do
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  Speaker 1: the little things well otherwise we'll find somebody that can.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's frustrating. So certainly it's been a sloppy
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  Speaker 1: brand of baseball, but Ashley hit on it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest issue here four and six. Ten game season,
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  Speaker 1: ten games into the season. I mean, if you would
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  Speaker 1: have told me at the beginning of the year, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: ten games in, Kyle's gonna be hitting one thirty five.
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  Speaker 1: W Tho's gonna be hitting one fifty four, Josh gonna
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  Speaker 1: hitting one twenty five, and none of them will have
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  Speaker 1: a home run, and neither will Randy A Rose Arena.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think the record's gonna be? Well, I
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  Speaker 1: hope four and six. I hope our pitching has been great.
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  Speaker 1: I think with our pitching, we could brought four and six.
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  Speaker 1: I think four and six with that scenario, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where they're at. They're four and six with their three
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: best hitters just can't get on base. They cannot square
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  Speaker 1: a ball up at this point in the year. What
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  Speaker 1: are the reasons for that? I don't know. Angie. Through
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: throughout a Good floated a good theory about WBC and
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: just how difficult it is to stay in rhythm when
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  Speaker 1: you don't have your own hitting instructor right there in
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  Speaker 1: your ear, and you're not doing the same routine every
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: single day. Then maybe you get thrown off. And in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: once you get thrown off, it takes a little while
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  Speaker 1: to get back on track, and you never know what
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  Speaker 1: is going to get back on track. Usually it's a bloop,
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  Speaker 1: like cow got down the line yesterday, and yet he
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  Speaker 1: came up later with a chance to be the hero,
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  Speaker 1: and he couldn't get around on a fastball. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have nobody in this league's gonna win if their
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  Speaker 1: three best hitters are hitting one fifty or lower. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: in this league is going to win that way. So
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: you just you just gotta expect, you got to. We can.
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  Speaker 1: We can go as far as assuming we can assume
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  Speaker 1: that all of those guys are gonna get going here,
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  Speaker 1: and I think you're seeing a few examples of it.
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  Speaker 1: Naylor and Julio starting to hit the ball a lot
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: harder and they just can't find a hole. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna turn around within a day or two,
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  Speaker 1: and we won't be talking about this, But that's baseball
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  Speaker 1: for you. It's just a crazy ass game where sometimes
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  Speaker 1: your three best hitters aren't hitting, and you just don't
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: want it to be at the beginning of the year
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  Speaker 1: because it always gets more dramatized when it starts a season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if it happens in August, you might not
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  Speaker 1: even notice it. But when it comes out of the gates, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's fat and obvious and loud and ugly and
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: disgusting and stinky and everything else. But it's still just
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  Speaker 1: ten games, and it's still three guys with a proven
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: track record of at least being good hitters. Maybe Cal
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: can't repeat sixty homers in a row, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: like he went from zero to sixty last year. Even
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: the pre twenty twenty five Cal Rawley was is still
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: a good baseball player to very good to maybe even
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  Speaker 1: great baseball player, just not historic like he was last year.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we can all trust that those three
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  Speaker 1: guys are going to perform, and they're going to perform
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  Speaker 1: for the bulk of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And we got a text on the Tacoma Dodge
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  Speaker 3: text line saying, well, you know, they're basically saying, I
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  Speaker 3: don't it's not overreacting. These early games count as much
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  Speaker 3: as all the other games. Yes, every single game counts
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  Speaker 3: as much as the games before. We're not saying that
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  Speaker 3: losing now doesn't matter because you don't need those wins.
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  Speaker 3: We're just saying, these certain things that aren't happening are
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  Speaker 3: things that we would expect will work themselves out given
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: a little bit more time. And that's the thing it's not.
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  Speaker 3: Do the losses still suck? Yeah, the losses still suck.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want them to start out four and six?
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  Speaker 2: No? Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think one of the biggest bummers of
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  Speaker 3: this four and six start is that we haven't even
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  Speaker 3: gotten to give Julio credit for being clutch in two
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: games in two situations where he actually stepped up and
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  Speaker 3: got the job done and tie game in the ninth inning,
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: and to send us to extras. And I mean, how
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: many times and how many years has he gotten crap
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  Speaker 3: for not stepping up and do and you know, delivering
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  Speaker 3: when the team needs him.
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  Speaker 2: He strikes out, he's you know, swinging too hard.
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  Speaker 3: And here it is two games within a week of
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  Speaker 3: each other that he that he steps up and delivers,
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  Speaker 3: and we don't even get to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't hit a home run, yeah, four of them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't even run it. They haven't even squared one
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  Speaker 1: up yet. I mean, that's just it's insane. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: under normal circumstances, we would be sitting here saying, oh,
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: my gosh, I can't believe Cowl hasn't hit a home run, right,
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  Speaker 1: or oh, I can't believe ten games and Julio still
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  Speaker 1: hasn't hit a home run. All four of your best
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  Speaker 1: home run hitters and not a single one of them
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  Speaker 1: has hit a home run yet. I mean, this team
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: kind of relies on the home run. They had two
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: taken away the Big Three and one night on Saturday Night.
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  Speaker 1: So to be four and six, to have been in
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  Speaker 1: every game because primarily of your starting pitching, uh, and
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: and to not be any better than this when those
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: three guys are struggling as much as they are. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I really do get it's so old, like if you
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  Speaker 1: don't understand it's early yet, and everybody understands that these
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  Speaker 1: games count too. But the point that every single person
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: that's ever played any level of baseball where there are
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: more than ten games in a year's telling you is
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: that you're going to have slumps at the major league level.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to play great baseball. I guarantee you.
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  Speaker 1: This is not the last stretch of ten games the
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Mariners are going to play this year where they lose
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  Speaker 1: six out of the ten. The Dodgers are going to
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: have stretches like this where they lose six out of ten.
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  Speaker 1: So there, So when people say it's early, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: even say it in August.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, depending on how close they are, much less.
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  Speaker 1: April, that means there's time, and there's just dads of time. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: these games count in the standings, but they don't count
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  Speaker 1: anymore in the standings than the ten games slide that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to experience in June or in August. They
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  Speaker 1: don't count anymore, right, and they don't count any less.
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  Speaker 1: But the point is that the more time, I mean
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: you can have, you can make this up. In the
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: last two games of the year, we have one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty two to go, and they're not playing well.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's saying that they're just not playing good baseball right now.
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  Speaker 1: I think they will and I think that they will
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  Speaker 1: really start to click whenever the WBC boys finally get
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: into rhythm, and they are not in rhythm. My goodness.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: Cal Rawley was getting blown away by Brent Soter two
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: nights ago. That guy throws eighty five miles per hour.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: There are you know how many people throw eighty five
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: miles per hour in Major League Baseball today? Brent suitor.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, maybe Leo Revas when he's pitching.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. He was swinging late on Brent's suitor. There's
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: obviously something wrong here. But you don't go from sixty
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: to oh. I guess it was just a flash in
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: the pan. I guess that was just a fluke. I
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: guess he sold the sole to the devil. You don't
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: just you know, he's not gonna fall completely off of
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: the map, and so there's something wrong. I don't know
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: if I see anything terribly wrong with Josh Naylor's swing.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I see anything terribly wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Bad luck.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Naylor's had terrible luck, and Julio's had some bad luck
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: as well, and even Cold should have a home run.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: But he got.
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  Speaker 2: Adeld yep, and not the good singing time.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, he was rolling in the deep. He was
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: he and he got a deeled. So I mean even
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: that Joeydelle only robs two of three homers and we're
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: five and five. Yep, Okay, So be critical, be critical,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: they're not playing well, but don't be worried. Don't be panicked.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Why do we have to do this every year? Well,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: at the start of it, And it's the same thing
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: with Seahawks football. Do we have to get all worried
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: after one game? Yeah, that they stink? Do we have
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: to label them after one game? Do we have to
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: label everything? A fifteenth of the way through the campaign?
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: That ah ten games four and six?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, Well, it's like we.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Live in either oh, here we go World Series or
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: the sky is falling.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: There's no middle ground. That's what it seems like.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: We did get another text on the text line, by
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: the way, pointing out the Blue Jays were swept by
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: the White Sox over the weekend. Should think the Blue
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Jays think that their season's over or the White Sox
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: think they're heading to the World Series.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, and the examples are countless. The Red Sox have
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: great plans this year. They're two and seven, Yeah, and
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: early and their rookie Roman and he said this is
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: not good. I mean he kind of called them out
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: for you know, we can't we're playing terribly right now.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: But again, you're not gonna panic over that situation. I
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: mean I would hope not. Yeah, so it'll be fine.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you it's all going to be fine.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: And as long as I mean, starting pitchings look really good,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: really good this year. I mean not every single outing.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Castile was not efficient yesterday at all, and Logan's had
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a couple of rough starts. But man, Emerson Hancock, that
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: stuff looks real.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's pretty impressive.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: And Cole Young looks like the real deal. And Brenda
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Donovan looks like a really nice addition to this team.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, we are just one of the big three,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: getting going from having won a couple of these games
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and not lost them.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Someone on the text the YouTube.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Much less all three of them, Yeah, getting going right.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, someone on the YouTube chat was like, we just
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: you know, we can't keep losing these games. Houston is
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: not playing games Houston six and four, six and four.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's again, that's why it's early. Look at it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: That is not some insurmountable problem. Do we need to
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: keep going absolutely.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Look, I'm sure they're they're that. I'm sure that guy
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: who overreacts the first ten games every year is just
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: as frustrated with me being it's early guy.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know why so many baseball fans get bothered
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: by the it's early guys over but they yeah, you
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: lose it over it. And yet do you know, I'm
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: gonna tell you a group of people who are the
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: it's early guys. They're called everyone in Major League Baseball. Yeah, coaches, managers, gentlemen.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, we had Jim Bowden on last year at
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the trading deadline. He used, well, it's early, like when
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: there's time to make up for it, it's early.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I think Sean Figgins ruined it for a lot of
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Mariners fands. That's the problem.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: We have an galaxy of time remaining to make up
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: two games. And yeah, they're not playing well.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Well, no one's disputing that.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think the Astros are playing all that well either.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Believe me, they got a lot more concerns than what
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: we do.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: They got two more whole wins.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I don't know. I guess this
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: is just the relationship that we have they're the uh
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: every game counts guy and it's early guy, and I
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: guess that we won't vacation together, but maybe we both
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: are necessary in this world. I think, to try to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: combat one another and keep things interesting, keep things interesting.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I suppose I do wish you and your children well,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Panic Guy, and I hope human to human the same
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: for me, even though I am a nets early guy.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I think we can all live in a world where
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: we do both of those things.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I'd hug you right now if I could, really, no,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I would, I would, Ashley. I would hug panic guy
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: right now if I could.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: And if he'd let me just hold him tight, calm
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: him down.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I'd stroke the back of his hair, Oh yeah, until
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: he calmed down. Yeah yeah, and then I'll buy you
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: a sandwich, all right, stocking stuffers our next Chuck and
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Box Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM, Good morning,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: happy driving this to you all. Ashley and I have
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: spruced up the place a little bit. It feels a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: little cozier now, a little warmer. We still need a fireplace.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you've got tinsel over the hearth.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: God, can we probably turn that into the fireplace.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I thought, we need to figure out how to Can
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: we do that?
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I bet because Ashley brought in some decorations. We've got
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: seahawk colored garland. And look, if you were ever wondering
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: what color is afmus, it's not red and green, It's
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a seahawk color.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: And I did get pointed out on the YouTube text
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: line that it does look like Cookie Monster or Grover
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: is trying to eat my microphone.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Uh huh. I like that though, but I think, yeah,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: we'll go with it. Yeah, hopefully Kid and Anders and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: everybody else that works in there don't monkey it up.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I'm sure they're gonna rip it off.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fine if you do, just put it back
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: in the box back here, and I'll redecorate every damn
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: day if I have to.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: We'll do what we've got to do. But happy drat
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: miss to everyone. Yes, we've we're now on YouTube now,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: so we realized our theater of the mind. People are
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: seeing us and kind of calling us liars. Yeah, so
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: we spruced up the place a little bit. I got
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: myself a little holiday smoker's jacket, a fake pipe here
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: at rattling to my teeth.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds good.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it feels really special. Now to go over
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to the soon to be hearth uh and to check
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: out some of the rumors for the NFL Draft. Let
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: me first say this, this is not a rumor. There
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: was a pretty significant trade that went down in the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: WNBA today. Angel Reese got traded. Angel Reese got traded
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: to Atlanta from Chicago.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: All her dreams can come true. Now.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty good team down there in Atlanta,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: so she's on a better team. But it does sort
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: of speak. I mean, she was very well known, popular,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: maybe not a popular player, but popular with fans. Yeah,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: And in Chicago there was some talk that maybe she'd
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: rubbed all of her teammates the wrong way, and maybe
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that is proof of it. So she's now with Atlanta,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: So she has been traded away from Chicago. All right,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: But we're here to talk about NFL Draft rumors. I
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: mentioned this one earlier. I think it's worth repeating. In
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the stocking stuffers segment, Rvel Reese are the Cardinals on
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the clock at this point. There are a lot of
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: stories out there saying that the Jets are pretty convinced
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: they've got their guy and that is Ohio State stand
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: up edge guy. Rvel Reese's brilliant talent, no question about it,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: But there are several good edge rushers. I mean, it's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: a spectacular position group. Some are calling it the best
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: David Bailey and and Reuben Bain and others along those lines.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Reese just looks like a playmaker out there, and it
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: sounds like the Jets have kind of fallen in love
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: with him, you know, two and a half weeks short
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft, So, I mean, who knows. Maybe
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: that's stuff to throw us off, but there are an
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: awful lot of stories out there suggesting that the Jets
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: have kind of made up their mind who they're going
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to take at number two in Rvel Reese. And of
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: course we're assuming Fernando Mendoza goes number one to the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders. So does that put the Arizona Cardinals
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: on the clock. It's a very real possibility, it sounds like.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: But let's move on to some other rumors. How about
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. The Miami Dolphins might not be done
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: with this complete and total rebuild that they're going through.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they've got a lot of
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: pieces I think eleven draft picks in this upcoming draft. Well,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: if you have eleven draft picks in a draft that
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: most people are saying not the best draft in the world,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: what are you gonna do. Well, apparently Miami is going
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to move into next year's draft whenever possible. So what
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you do is you move on from some of your pieces.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: And we're even talking about the very first one, the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: eleventh overall that maybe Miami is not gung ho about
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: using that pick but leveraging it into future picks to
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: kind of set their road up a little bit better
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: for the next couple of years when the drafts theoretically
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: will get better. So they right now have two picks
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: because they traded Waddle to Denver. They have the eleventh,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and they have the thirtieth, and I have eleven picks overall.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: But they might take some of those eleven picks and
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: shop them for picks into the next couple of years.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: So Miami, if you haven't figured it out, they are
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: definitely in total rebuild mode, something they should have done
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: like for the last fifteen years. And well, they were
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: showing some promise there for a little while. A little
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: bit under McDaniel. It was like, oh man, that's something
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: that's kind of sexytty smart. Yeah, what have they got
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: going on? All that speed that they have? But it
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: sounds like this time they finally got the group in
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: there that says, no, it only works one way. You
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: got to tear it all down and then build it
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: up the right way. And it sounds like that's what
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the mode of Miami's in right now.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Well, and if they're not going to use those picks
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: in this draft, that means they're going to be rebuild
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: mode next year when they've got all the draft picks
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: for next year's draft. So it's going to be a
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: rough year to be a Dolphins fan, probably in twenty
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: twenty six.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Well, and I think that's going to be by design. Yeah,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I think they're going to want to pick high in
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the next couple of drafts and then theoretically by twenty
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: twenty eight you're loaded. I mean, it can happen that
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: fast if you do it the right way. There's I've
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: said this repeatedly, there is no reason in the National
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Football League to have a rebuilding plan beyond two years. Yeah,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and it can happen in a year. Look at how
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: much the Seahawks improved in one year's time, and they
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: never even went through a rebuilding process. But they certainly
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: since the Russell Wilson trade, sort of re established some
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: draft capital which they'd never been able to experience, you know,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: since their winning ways began in the Pete and John era.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: And so to be able to have a fifth round
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: pick overall and to have a little bit of draft
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: capital and not be picking at the bottom of the draft,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: they certainly restocked in a hurry, There's no question about that.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: And so the improvement that you can show is an
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: NFL team, it can be dramatic from year to year,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: but you've got to go about it the right way.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think the Miami's ever gone about it the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: right way. They've never just.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: It's just it's been short, little bursts.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: You know, let it collapse, let it take over you,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and then and then make the smart decisions to build
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it the right way. And if you do it that way,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: there's no reason it can't be done in two years,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and if you really get a little lucky, you can
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: possibly do it in here. Look at what the Patriots
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: did this past year. So another prime example, speaking of
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, well, the Max Crosby trade rumors
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: are not dead. The New England Patriots have been now
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: linked to Crosby perhaps having interest in a trade with
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. I have heard from a little birdie that
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I know, and we won't mention any names. Raiders don't
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: want him back.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised by that.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Raiders don't want him back. There's a little bit of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're the biggest fans of him
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to begin with.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that part.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: And then to have done what he did at the
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: end of last year, and then they were very disappointed
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to find out the Ravens were backing out of the trade.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: That's what I've heard, and I can understand that part.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Now you're going to put your best foot forward because
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: you want to keep your negotiation chin strong. And so
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: they announced, oh, we're so glad to have him back,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: and we have the cap space and now we've made
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: all these other moves, and man, with Crosby in the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: fold not having to go, they're going to say all
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the right things. But from what I've heard here, I
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: am starting rumors, starting my own stocking stuffer. From what
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I've heard, they don't like him, Okay. I mean he's
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: a good player. They realize what a good player that
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: he's been, but they want him out something and they
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: want good compensation in return, so they can, as I
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: just said about the Dolphins, rebuild this thing the right
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: way around Fernando Mendoza. And so I'm not surprised at all.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I said when the trade
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: got mixed to Baltimore that he's still going to get traded.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I still believe he's going to get traded. And the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: New England Patriots sounds like that works for me that
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he just feels kind of feels like a rable type
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: of player.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think they Yeah, they were going to
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: say everything they needed to say to make him look
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: as attractive as possible, and they're hoping it works. And
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: if New England gets him, then there you go. Success
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: with your pipe and jacket.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I would definitely be it like this elbow out holding it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if you can. I don't know
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: if that would burn your hand if you held it
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: this way, I don't know, but I would never be
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: this guy.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: No, you couldn't be that. You got to hold it
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: at the base.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: And I can't be this guy, that guy. I'm this guy. Yeah.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how old timey pipe smokers do it, all right.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Last one, the Cardinals and the Jets. This might be
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the biggest mystery heading into the NFL Draft. Who's really
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: an amb with Ty Simpson? Who likes Ty Simpson? Maybe
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: it isn't even an enamored situation that we're talking about here.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: The Jets and the Cardinals are sitting there at two
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and three. They both have quarterback needs. They don't look
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: like they're ready to turn it around anytime soon. Would
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: probably behoove them to not go quarterback in the draft
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: this year and kind of count on being near the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: top next year, where the quarterback class is expected to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: be better. So that probably makes more sense. But the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: best laid plans of mice and men right, well, are
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: you gonna worry? Are you gonna think about two in
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the bush? If you possibly have a bird in hand
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: in ty Simpson? Certainly not at two and three. That's
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: way too much of a reach. But the Jets are
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the first round and there at
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the second round. Are they a candidate
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: to come into the second round? Depending on how far
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Ty Simpson slips to get what most people still believe.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Despite those that are so pro Ty Simpson and then
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: those that are anti type Simpson, almost everybody has them
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: on their list as the second best quarterback. Would the
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Jets take them at sixteen, even though the fan base
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't want them to do that. Would they trade into
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the second round? But will there be other people trying
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: or excuse me, into the back of the first round.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: But they're going to be other people doing it, And
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you do wonder if they Jets don't take him at sixteen.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Now you do have to worry about the Cardinals, who
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: have similar draft capital that the Jets have in terms
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: of being at the top of the second round. Are
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: they the ones that sweep in and get ahead of
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the Jets and try to get this guy? So the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: mystery behind who really likes Ty Simpson is going to
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: be one of the biggest stories at the NFL Draft
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: this year. If I were advising both of those teams,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I'd say sit it out, wait till next year. Both
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: of you. You're not going to be any good next season,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: so sit it out, take the bad year, and then
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: get your franchise quarterback next year. When they truly look
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: like franchise quarterbacks.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: We'll say, but dan Orlovsky told me to take him.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, third pick, Yes.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Better than Fernando Mendozo.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I want it this way. If dan Orlovsky has either
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: one of their ears those teams, he'll go second overall.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Yep, exactly, yeah, yeah, maybe even first, maybe maybe even first.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: All right, one last thing to close out this, uh
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Monday morning edition of Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM effectively got my attention.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we were both kind of rocking out to that one.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: A really good song.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Considering, and yeah you should have called it one one.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I should have. Yeah, tired of hitting those pipes. Yes,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: all right, it's the final segment of this Monday edition
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: on what's going to be a really busy, fabulous week
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: around the sports talk world. Uh so we get ready
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: to close it out with one last thing. What do
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you got back there?
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I have been monitoring our YouTube and text chats,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: you know, all morning, and we did get one that
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: I found was an interesting text about the Mariners in
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: the it's early or it's slow start conversation. And I
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: think this is worth a little chat. So it says
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: expectations were fearful because of Mariner's history.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: We want to fly out of the gate like the
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: eighty four Tigers and not have the stress. Here's the problem.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to have a fast start. But if you're
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: a Mariners fan and the Mariners.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Let's say they came out on a twelve game win streak.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: You're gonna be like, well, when are they gonna lose?
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: When's it all gonna fall apart? We're Mariners fans, this
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: is gonna happen. So there's no real.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Scenario that's not going to cause some sort of panic.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: It could be great and you're waiting for the other
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: shoot to drop. It can be crappy and you're you're
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: thinking it's just gonna get worse. There's not a lot
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: of scenarios for a Mariner's fan where we're like, oh,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: this is comfortable and we like this.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I'd have felt really comfortable, Ashley at twelve and zero.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: I mean you would have yeah, yeah, but you don't
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: have the four especially ten games into the season.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, okay, now that's true.
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  Speaker 3: You were if you were twelve and oh ten games
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  Speaker 3: into the season, I think everybody should know we are
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  Speaker 3: winning the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: There's no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Look the thing that I said at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the year when we were making predictions, because by the
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  Speaker 1: time the entire spring off season process came to a head,
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  Speaker 1: almost everyone locally and nationally was predicting very big things
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  Speaker 1: for the Seattle Mariners. My prediction was that this was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a more comfortable year. That I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to sit here and tell you're going to win
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  Speaker 1: the World Series because I think that the postseason is
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  Speaker 1: too unpredictable. I'm not going to tell you you're even going
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  Speaker 1: to make it to the World Series for the exact
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  Speaker 1: same reasons. What I did predict was that this was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a more comfortable trip into the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: than we've seen in the Depoto era, and I still
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: think that it will be. So I get it, you're right,
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  Speaker 1: You're right. We all wanted that. We wanted a fast start.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: We wanted Julio off to a fast start. We weren't
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: thinking Julio, Josh and Cal were going to be terrible
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: ten games into the year. We all wanted that and
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: we're not getting it. Doesn't change the fact though, that
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: there's no way that those three guys are this bad.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: And the reason that we're four and six and not
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: six and four is because those three guys have been
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  Speaker 1: that bad.
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  Speaker 2: At least it's a good chunk of the reason.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: At least they can't I don't think Josh Naylor's looked
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: all that bad at the play, just can't find a hole.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Those things tend to average themselves out. So no, totally
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: disappointing start to the season. Every reason to be critical
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: of the sloppy defense. I think Dan Wilson made a
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: couple weird decisions again, and Cal Julio particular, league look
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  Speaker 1: looked at least for the first a games. I think
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  Speaker 1: Julio's coming out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he seems to be.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: They just don't look right. Cal does not look right
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  Speaker 1: at the plate, and I don't know if that's WBC.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, but I don't think
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: it is. Last year was just a dream season and he's.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Terrible and now he's gone back to being just a
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: normal guy.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So we're off to a disappointing four and six start.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I still think we're going to end up not running
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  Speaker 1: away with the American League West but having a much
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: more comfortable season making it to the playoffs than you've
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: experienced since two thousand and one.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and I hope that's true, and I hope that's
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: what happens. I And again, you know, if you need
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: to lose your mind, if that's what you thrive on,
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: then lose your mind. But it's just I don't know,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: seems to me to be And I'm a lifelong Mariners fan.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, I get the aggravating roller coaster, I understand
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: the nerves associated with it. I just there's no part
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: of me right now that's like in panic mode.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's disappointing. I wanted us to come out
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  Speaker 2: looking better and we're not. Okay, Well let's fix it.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, starting tonight. Yeah, starting tonight, I'm going to close.
• 37:11
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• 37:13
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• 37:58
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• 37:59
  Speaker 1: do that. Also, do want to let you know that
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: tonight the National Championship game is going to be played
• 38:08
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• 38:20
  Speaker 1: fifty tip. I would assume five point thirty three game
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  Speaker 1: on nine to fifty AM KJR. And I think Michigan's
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: gonna win. I've had Michigan the entire time. I think
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I said midway through the year they were going to
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: win the National Championship, So certainly not going to back
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: off now. Not the way that they looked on Saturday,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: my goodness. But as we saw yesterday in the women's
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: National championship game, if Michigan's already celebrated the championship like
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: South Carolina apparently did Friday against Yukon and weren't ready
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: to play, then they're going to lose tonight. But I
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: don't think that's the case, and I think Dusty May
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: was given just the type of material from that game
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: yesterday required to hammer home the point. We haven't won
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: anything yet, So if Michigan comes and plays their game,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: they're not losing.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: And then we get to see Dan Hurley upset and
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: that's always fun. Yeah, I mean he's upset even when
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: he wins. There's always some part of him that's upset
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: at something.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: But there still is that opportunity for him to gloat.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: We still have. We might have to hear him gloat tonight. Yeah.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I know who he is, A really annoying gloater and
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: a cocky guy for with another reason to be even cockier. Yeah,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: what's it gonna tell officials next year?
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: How dare you call that against me? Don't you know
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: who I am? I on the basketball God, I'm the
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: message's ever done it? John Wooden Reincarnate.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Oh God, if you said that, I'd punt him.
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