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Chuck in the Morning 8-31 Hour 1: M's worst weekend ever? Mariners Morning After and a look at the Seahawks 53. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: on Hey, great Monday morning to you all. Welcome into
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  Speaker 1: a ton to discuss during our four hours together. There
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  Speaker 1: is no way we can get it all done in
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  Speaker 1: four hours. That's why I have signed Ashley, Ryan, and
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  Speaker 1: I up for a 14-hour show today.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I didn't ask beforehand, but I figured you'd
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  Speaker 1: be fine with it.
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  Speaker 3: What a pleasant surprise.
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  Speaker 1: We're just going to blow off all the other shows.
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  Speaker 1: They're not that important anyway.
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  Speaker 3: No one listens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Everybody knows this is the show that carries
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: So welcome into the radio program. Hope you all had
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  Speaker 1: a great weekend out there. We've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things to discuss, as I mentioned, and we will take
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  Speaker 1: you to at least 10 o'clock today to discuss them.
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  Speaker 1: How was your weekend? It was... Did you kill it?
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  Speaker 1: You're coming off a trip to Hawaii. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear like, oh, it was a little boring.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was great.
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  Speaker 2: It was really relaxing, which is I thought about going
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  Speaker 2: to meet up with some friends on Saturday evening, and
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  Speaker 2: they ended up playing golf longer, and I ended up
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  Speaker 2: putting on sweats and reading. And then when they were like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: come up here to the club, I was like, nah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to hang out here and we had a
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  Speaker 2: movie night.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to compare you to Hawaii. I'm just coming
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  Speaker 1: off Hawaii and you don't match up.
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  Speaker 3: You're not there.
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  Speaker 1: You're not that interesting or charming or funny.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we did movie night.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, now's an opportunity to watch
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  Speaker 2: a classic I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Seen in a long time. Oh, no way.
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  Speaker 3: So I watched Blades of Glory.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no. Still not getting it. We tried. Nope,
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  Speaker 1: you're not there yet. It's funny, though.
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  Speaker 3: I'd never seen it before.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm even going to give you
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  Speaker 1: any credit there for any kind of effort made toward
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  Speaker 1: watching a classic. But Chaz Michael Michaels can be funny.
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  Speaker 1: He can also be unfunny, as it turns out. It's both.
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  Speaker 2: But I was like, you know, I've only seen bits
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  Speaker 2: and pieces of this, so let's dive in.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you missed. Sorry about it.
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  Speaker 3: That's all right.
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  Speaker 1: But hopefully you did enjoy movie night, even though I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that you technically watched a movie.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then we actually watched two movies.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, geez.
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  Speaker 3: We also watched a Key and Peele movie called Keanu.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Don't recommend it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one with the cat, right? That's right.
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  Speaker 3: So Palmer, of course, wanted to watch that one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, I kind of get why Palmer would want
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  Speaker 1: to watch that. And those guys are hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: They are, but it was.
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  Speaker 1: Not good? I haven't seen that one.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say, I mean, no, it wasn't good, but
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  Speaker 3: it kept my, I mean, it was entertaining. It's, it
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  Speaker 3: was fine. You knew going into it, it wasn't going
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  Speaker 3: to be like an Oscar winner.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever the lead, whenever the lead character's a cat, it's
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  Speaker 1: probably not going to get there.
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  Speaker 3: Should have been up at least for like a kiddie award.
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  Speaker 1: Well, remind me later in the show, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: about my movie going experience on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm excited for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we both did a movie night of some sorts.
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  Speaker 1: I did a movie day. You did a movie night.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, because you were at Rainier's
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  Speaker 2: on Friday night. So I'm excited to hear about this
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  Speaker 2: daytime activity.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into it. I'll have a movie review for
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  Speaker 1: you of a major motion picture a little later on
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  Speaker 1: in the radio show. Well, great morning to you. I'd
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  Speaker 1: tell you about my Friday movie day now, but we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of big topics to get to today.
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  Speaker 1: So we better dive in. We better get dirty. Get
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  Speaker 1: it all over ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Might as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right off the bat. I might argue that that was
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  Speaker 1: the worst Mariners weekend of my 11 years of being here.
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  Speaker 3: It was pretty ugly.
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  Speaker 1: Just atrocious.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I do leave room open that maybe I'm
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  Speaker 1: forgetting something. But in terms of seemed like you'd turn
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  Speaker 1: the season around. Seems like you were giving yourself a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Survive a gauntlet by going 8-5 against over 13-game stretch
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  Speaker 1: against some of the best competition and hottest teams, frankly,
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  Speaker 1: going into the series that you've played all season long. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're going on the road. It's not the comforts of home.
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  Speaker 1: But you did seem to build a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: momentum for this road trip. You knew what was at stake.
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  Speaker 1: You knew this was a rival. You knew this was
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  Speaker 1: the team that in that building knocked you out of
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  Speaker 1: going to the World Series a year ago. And I
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  Speaker 1: just thought I expected a team that was just going
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  Speaker 1: to be chewing through the walls to get out onto
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  Speaker 1: the baseball field and keep this thing going into the
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  Speaker 1: month of September, where eventually the schedule does lighten up,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't really afford to lose ground to those
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  Speaker 1: who you are chasing. And not only did you lose ground,
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  Speaker 1: you lost it in spectacular fashion. And when I say spectacular,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you were disgustingly bad all weekend long. And
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  Speaker 1: it started with Friday, and I did do the Rainiers game,
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  Speaker 1: so I wasn't able to watch it. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the first update I got was that Emerson Hancock was
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  Speaker 1: already down 3-0. By the time I got off the
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  Speaker 1: air with Softie and Fane on Friday, we were down 3-0.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's how the weekend started. And then the
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  Speaker 1: choice to, okay, well, number one, we don't have a
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  Speaker 1: long reliever. Number two, if we take Emerson Hancock out
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  Speaker 1: of this game, Dan's screwed for the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: year because he won't be able to figure out how
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  Speaker 1: to get through nine innings with a bullpen. And so
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  Speaker 1: we're going to let an injured pitcher pitch. And then
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  Speaker 1: the next thing you know, one run tacks on to another.
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  Speaker 1: He obviously wasn't right. You could see how uncomfortable he
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  Speaker 1: was on the mound. Now he was telling them the
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  Speaker 1: right things. It's just pain. I'm fine. And you would
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  Speaker 1: have liked, you would have hoped that you could stick
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  Speaker 1: with him and you could stay in the game and
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  Speaker 1: that there's nothing wrong and that he just has to
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  Speaker 1: deal with pain and not a true injury. But it
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  Speaker 1: turns out he was pitching through an injury on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's how the weekend starts. A blowout loss.
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  Speaker 1: And your starting pitcher pitching through an injury and not
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  Speaker 1: pitching well because your manager can't manage a bullpen if
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  Speaker 1: any kind of disaster occurs early in an inning or
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  Speaker 1: early in a game. Then you roll into Saturday, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll say this. This has been a team that has
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  Speaker 1: shown one thing this season, if nothing else. When they
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  Speaker 1: lose horribly, they tend to win the next game. When
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  Speaker 1: they lose horribly, we watch them. We're sure they're done.
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  Speaker 1: They're cooked. And then they come back the next day
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  Speaker 1: and play one of their better games that we've seen
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  Speaker 1: in a while. They've done it repeatedly. And yet, after
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  Speaker 1: a 3-0 lead.
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  Speaker 1: And it looked like they were going to do it again.
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  Speaker 1: And Kate Anderson's on a roll. And you've got all
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  Speaker 1: your best bullpen pieces available to you. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: Edward Bazzardo comes into the game, looks terrified. He won't
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  Speaker 1: throw a strike to anybody. He's just living, not just
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  Speaker 1: on the edge, off the edge. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he was... horrified over what he experienced last year
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  Speaker 1: in the American league championship series in that building. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he thinks Vladimir Guerrero jr. Is hitting
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  Speaker 1: the way that he typically does. That guy hasn't hit
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  Speaker 1: a home run at home. Why are we scared of him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then, so he loads the bases and then he
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  Speaker 1: walks George Springer and we know the history between those two,
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  Speaker 1: but he walks by throwing a ball 10 feet off
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  Speaker 1: the plate and goes to the backstop, and so fear
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  Speaker 1: leads to the first Blue Jays run of the game,
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  Speaker 1: and then stupidity leads to the second because Bazzardo apparently
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  Speaker 1: checked out of the game. Your catcher's hustling after the
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  Speaker 1: ball and threw the ball hard to you at home plate.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think he did that? I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: one thing to not be aware of your surroundings and
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  Speaker 1: know that with the bases loaded in that wild of
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  Speaker 1: a pitch and they're going to get a running lead
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  Speaker 1: off of second base, that that runner has a chance
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  Speaker 1: to come around and score. It's one thing to not
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  Speaker 1: be aware of that. It's another thing to have it
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  Speaker 1: happen right in front of you where your catcher's hustling
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  Speaker 1: to get you the ball and you don't know why?
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  Speaker 1: And so another run scores, and it was over at
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  Speaker 1: that point, Ashley. Game was over at that point. 3-2,
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  Speaker 1: they'd just taken the lead, and the relief pitcher who
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  Speaker 1: came in to provide relief for Kate Anderson absolutely just
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  Speaker 1: folded right there before our eyes. And that combination of
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  Speaker 1: fear and stupidity set the tone for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the game, and you lost it. Plain and simple. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was, I mean, just even going back to that, um,
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  Speaker 2: to that Emerson Hancock injury in the beginning on.
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  Speaker 3: Friday my first thought was well I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Miller won't be going to the pen because I mean
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  Speaker 2: the second he slid over and made the play.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, great for him. Good hustle.
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  Speaker 1: And he does that all the time. Yes. Too often, frankly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. I was going to say, he wants
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  Speaker 3: to get the out.
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  Speaker 2: I love that about him, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: you also have to remember that your main thing is to.
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  Speaker 3: Stay healthy enough to pitch, right?
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  Speaker 1: And you're our gangly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You've got limbs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Long limbs. Yeah. Like a transformer going down a stairwell.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, basically.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that was my exact first thought is, well,
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  Speaker 2: there goes the idea of Miller to the pen because
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  Speaker 2: Hancock's going to be out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then you get to Sunday and And you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you have to play desperately on Sunday. I mean, that
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  Speaker 1: just has to be the mode. And I know Logan
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  Speaker 1: gave up the two-run homer, but I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: Logan credit because that guy competes. And yeah, he gave
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  Speaker 1: up the two-run homer. He had a 30-pitch first inning.
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  Speaker 1: And you're like, oh my gosh, where is this going today? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he gave you a chance to be down two
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  Speaker 1: to nothing in the sixth. But we have a shortstop
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  Speaker 1: with no range. Literally no range. You might as well
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  Speaker 1: put Johnny Parade at shortstop.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's supposed to be like your most athletic
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  Speaker 1: person on the entire field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a shortstop with no range who can't
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  Speaker 1: catch a ground ball that every starting shortstop in Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball gets to, but our guy. So now it's
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  Speaker 1: three to nothing. But Gilbert, once again, I mean, Pete
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  Speaker 1: Woodworth came out and said, you might as well let
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  Speaker 1: it rip. You're coming out after the fifth inning. And
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  Speaker 1: he was like, nobody is scoring another run. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: give Logan credit for that. Nicest guy in the galaxy,
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  Speaker 1: but he is the one guy that showed backbone, it
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  Speaker 1: felt like to me. Cal did too. Cal played pretty
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  Speaker 1: well this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 1: He can't throw anymore, which we'll talk about later in
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  Speaker 1: the show, but he did show grit. Logan showed grit.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: And then after that, Just nothing. No offensive performance. You
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: get one hit off of Max Scherzer. He's throwing 92
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  Speaker 1: miles per hour, and you're late to the fastball.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: He has a six-point-something ERA, and we made him look
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: like a Cy Young contender.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: We made him look like Max Scherzer, the 30-year-old, instead
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: of the thousand-year-old pitcher that he is right now. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's a legend, but he is a washed-up, googly-eyed legend.
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  Speaker 2: It was the most innings he's pitched, it was the
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  Speaker 2: least hits and runs he's given up, and it was
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: the most strikeouts he's given.
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  Speaker 3: Up, or that he's had.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: He had twice the number of strikeouts he's had in
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  Speaker 1: his best performance this year. It looked like our hitters
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: were swinging underwater. That's how slow their bats look. They
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: could not catch up to a 92-mile-per-hour fastball. And then
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  Speaker 1: once that, then he just carved them up with his guile,
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: with his knowledge. Just carved every single person up that
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: wasn't Cal Raleigh in the contest on Sunday. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can't play worse than that. And a weekend series
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  Speaker 1: against a rival, against a team that knocked you out
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  Speaker 1: of the playoffs, considering your backs are against the wall,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the fight you want to show? That's it?
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  Speaker 3: That was not a fight, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: That was disgusting. Yeah. And look, five games out with
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: a month to go. I mean, yeah. I get that
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: Dick Fane is promoting... That he picked this 19 days ago. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so did I. At the exact same time, it looks
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  Speaker 1: like it's over. You remember that. I said, it looks
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: like it's over. I don't think they're going to come back.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: That's what I said. But that doesn't mean that they
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: don't have a chance of coming back. And they certainly
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: have the talent to come back. We stare at our
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: team every day. We know it's warts and it's flaws
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  Speaker 1: and we're frustrated with it after five months of this garbage.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Were frustrated with it. But the thing is, the Astros
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: fans are just as frustrated with their flawed team, and
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  Speaker 1: the Rangers fans never did believe in their flawed team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were going to get rid of everybody.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: They were going to trade everybody at the deadline. Neither
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: of them added. We're the only team whose ownership and
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: front office actually believed in the product on the field.
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  Speaker 1: So certainly those two teams can be tracked down, and
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: they can be tracked down in no time. But you
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: have to go on a run. And we thought maybe
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: a run had started. Eight and five against great competition.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Toronto and Boston aren't bad teams, but Boston's cooled off
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: and Toronto's never clicked this entire season. This was sort
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: of the chance to like, okay, four and two, three
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: and three at worst over the course of the next
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: six days. And then we get home against soft competition.
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  Speaker 1: We're sitting there three, two games out of first place,
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  Speaker 1: and now we run the table.
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  Speaker 3: That's how it was supposed to go.
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  Speaker 1: That's got to be the mentality, right? Yep. And instead,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: you lose ground in Toronto because not only can you
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: not win a game, you can't even compete. And that
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: does reflect to me on the manager. I think it
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  Speaker 1: has all season long. I don't know. I know they
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  Speaker 1: like him, but he cannot press the right buttons. He
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: cannot get them to play hard, play well, play with passion,
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  Speaker 1: play with... That's not it. It's not that they don't
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  Speaker 1: play hard. I know they want it, but where's the focus?
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Where is that eye of the tiger? That was missing
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  Speaker 1: from the first pitch on Friday when it should have
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: been the first thing that arrived in Toronto. It should
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: have shown up before your plane landed on the tarmac
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  Speaker 1: that you couldn't wait to get out there, beat the
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: crap out of the Blue Jays, and really set the
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  Speaker 1: tone for the month of September. And instead, you were garbage.
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  Speaker 1: All garbage. weekend long it is to me the worst
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  Speaker 1: they've played all season and maybe the worst they've played
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  Speaker 1: in 11 years considering the talent they have on the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it was just i mean i i turned the
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: game off early yesterday because i was just that i
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: was that irritated i was that annoyed i was that
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  Speaker 2: disappointed you know what it's like when it's it's like
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: when your kid does something wrong Or your friend screws
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: up and you say, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not even mad. I'm just disappointed. It's like the
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  Speaker 3: worst thing you could say to them, right?
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just disappointed.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: And when we talked 19 days ago and you said
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: that you didn't think they were going to come back
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: from this, I said, I know that I'm going to
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: do this. I'm going to be this eternal optimist who's
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: going to think that they've got a chance until they're
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: mathematically out of it.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: And even then, I'll refuse to believe that they're out
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Because that is the stubborn-ass Mariners fan that I have
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: been for my whole life. And I wish that I
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: could give myself.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: A break and just be like, you know what? Okay,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: they're done. I'm just going to kick my feet up
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: and not stress about it anymore.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: But after this past weekend, I found myself more pissed
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: than I've been all season long. And also having more resolve. Like,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: come on, you guys are effing better than this.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Because they are.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Supposed to be.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But nine games under. 500 right now. Dan Wilson,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I suppose, showed some urgency afterwards. He actually, after saying
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: again it was a tough one, which is every game
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and how somebody has not corrected him on this is
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: beyond me.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, they have to know that fans get really
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: irritated that he does the same thing every time.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: And there is no way that somebody that is nervous...
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: in the shadow of answering questions from Shannon Dreher.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Is a leader. Like he is sitting there chomping his gum.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Nervous.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Won't look anybody in the eye as he tells everybody. Yeah.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: We're running out of time. Yep. That's the extent of it. Like,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: and that's no shot at Shannon, but you have three reporters,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: three reporters. Cause everybody's trimmed down their payrolls and the,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: You have Ryan Divish, Daniel Kramer, and Shannon. That's it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Those are the three people that you face every day.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: And you can't even look them in the eye and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: tell them, we played like garbage. And if we don't
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: fix it starting tomorrow, we are going to fail miserably
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: at our stated goals. Something of that effect. Something.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, again, I'll go back to when he got
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: kicked out and Manny Acta did the post game and
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: it was the most information or at least the most.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Relief I've felt after a poopy game.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: It was like, oh, okay, so you do recognize that
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: things aren't going great. I want Dan to recognize that
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: things aren't going great.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: There's nothing inspirational that we see about Dan.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: No, there's certainly not.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Now, what he's like behind the scenes, I don't know.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I know he's a good guy, and I know they
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: like him. Good guys tend to not get the most
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: out of a team that has a penchant for playing absent-minded.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: And that's where we have been. All season long. Even
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: when the season seems to be on the brink. Even
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: when you would think this would be the weekend of
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: all the weekends they played where they cannot wait to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: get on the baseball field. And then you play like
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that for three days. That does reflect leadership.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Reflects leadership. All right. let's find out what's on tap
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: for the rest of the show this is what's on
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• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the best in Toronto 7, Mariners nothing. We'll recap it
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: for you. Unfortunately, with Mariners morning after coming up at
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, Sweet puts the M's nine
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: games under. 500 with a month to go. Five games
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: back in the division. The Mariners will be in Boston tonight.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: It does not get easier. The Red Sox got beat
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: up by the Yankees, there was a controversial play. They
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: ended up losing 16-1. They're angry right now. They're also
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: at home, and they are throwing not just a left-hander
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: in Peyton Toley. He's the type of left-hander that I
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: don't even see us having a chance against.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, perfect.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Because he's going to come after you.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And so that's the matchup today, and it's at 345.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: The Mariners have help on the way. They have called
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: up Laz Montez. From Tacoma, the guy that's hit 38
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: home runs in the minor leagues this year, top prospect,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: has been for quite some time. He will make his
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: major league debut. I don't know if it'll be tonight.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll put him in a lineup
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: against a lefty as tough as Toley, but the Red Sox,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I think, only have lefties. So he's got to play against,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I would imagine, I would imagine he's going to be
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: activated tonight. Can't imagine you brought him up for just
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to sit him on the bench. But Laz Montez, who
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about more later on in the show, Emerson
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Hancock was placed on the entry list, which means Bryce
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Miller will not be taken out of the rotation. The
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Seahawks roster is now set. It is 53 men strong.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Greg Bell about that at 7.05.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: We'll go over the Hawks roster at 6.45 this morning.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Hawks traded for another cornerback yesterday, Avery Smith from the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers for a sixth round pick. John Schneider
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: had glowing things to say about Avery Smith. Then again,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: isn't that what you would say after you traded for someone?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Not many people are going to say, well, we'll see
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: how it works out. He might be decent.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: The preseason is mercifully over, and it ended in a tie, 9-9.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: That was fun, keeping score of last night.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: That's how that should go.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen will join us for Monday Morning Quarterback a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: little bit later on in the show at 8 o'clock today.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald made it official. He is now back with
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams, having come out of retirement. I
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: still haven't heard word as to how they're going to
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: fit him under the salary cap at $ 30 million, but
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: maybe that information will leak out today. It is Apple
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Cup week. Yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, that sounds so weird.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: That is the weirdest thing that I've said in days.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Apple Cup week. So we count down the days till
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Sunday where the Apple Cup will be played. We'll get
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that started today. The season is underway, and college football
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: highlighted by Bill Belichick actually starting his second season with
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a victory over TCU. Scotty Scheffler won the FedEx Cup,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Curacao won the Little League World Series, and Dejan Jovalic
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: scored two goals in his debut with the Sounders, and
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: they at least got a draw out of that game.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: against chicago all right a lot to do today mariners
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: morning after next sports radio 93.3 kjrfm uh a preseason
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: game yeah uh and actually forgot my notes at home.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah that would have sucked that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: If i took the time to sit through that and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: all the commercials and i had to watch it on
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: nfl network because i didn't have the local So it
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: was through the eyes of Chiefs broadcasters.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Perfect.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: So they weren't really highlighting any of the Seahawks things
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that were happening. Right. So I had to do a
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: lot more like pausing and rewinding because they were only
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: showing Chiefs stuff. Yeah. So if I wanted to pick
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: up on the Seahawks stuff, I had to pick up
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: on it on my own. So it took forever.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: But at least you got to watch a tie.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: And it ended in a tie. And we have a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: kicker problem. But we'll get into that later on in
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the show. At least I didn't forget my notes.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: At least you got your notes.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: All right. Greg Bell is 7.05. Hugh Millen at 8
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: o'clock today for some Monday morning quarterback. And the next game,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks play, will be a regular season affair.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Thank goodness.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Let's go. And we're only nine days away from that. Yeah.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. Let's go. But first, we have to talk
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: about the Mariners.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: It is Mariners morning after our post-game show. And we
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: do it after every Mariners game, and we will, till
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the bitter end, do it after every Mariners baseball game.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: And the Mariners, of course, in Toronto taking on the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays, blown out Friday, fell apart Saturday, blew a
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: 3-0 lead. And then on Saturday with Logan Gilbert on
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the mound, you feel like you have a good chance
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to at least take a game. especially going up against
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: 1,000-year-old Max Scherzer, who hasn't been good in four years. Instead,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert gives up damage early. Mariners TV, Aaron on
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the call of the two-run Omer for Alejandro Kirk. I
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: play that because that really was the game. The Mariners
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: did not mount any offense yesterday. I give Logan Gilbert
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of credit last night. That's pretty much all
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: he was going to give up if he had a
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: shortstop with any range. He would have only given up
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: those two runs. He battled, he competed through his five
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: innings and was taken out of the contest where the
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: game got away from the Mariners. But really, the story is,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: once again, MLB's worst offensive team could not score a run.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: They only had one hit against a pitcher with a
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: 6.5 ERA in Max Scherzer, who absolutely diced them up
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: yesterday and unfathomably diced them up. One hit, a Cal
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Raleigh double off the top of the wall. He hit
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: another one to the wall as well. So Cal brought
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: something to the ballpark yesterday, but no one else in
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the lineup did. 15 strikeouts for the Mariners yesterday in
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: what had to have at least crossed their mind. This
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: is a really big game. We better win this game, fellas.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: And instead, you get one hit off of a legend
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: four years removed from greatness, and can't hit the bullpen
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: guys they brought in any better than what you did, Scherzer,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and you lose 7-0 yesterday.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were making a big deal over Scherzer's 10 strikeouts.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I feel like it should come with an asterisk, though,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: because half of that was on us. So he should
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: really only get credit for 5 strikeouts, and we should
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: just be responsible for the other 5 because we are terrible.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Right off the bat, first inning, he struck out the side,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and Rosarino, Canzone, Julio, none of them stood a chance,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: it looked like. What on earth was that? And then
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: it just got repeated, inning after inning after inning. 7-0
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: blowout loss at the hands of the Blue Jays, and
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: that means the Mariners were swept this weekend in Toronto.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson, this is his best version of stating urgency.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Tough game today, tough series.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: We're not getting it done right now. We all need
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: to be better. And, you know, it's a tough series.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: We need to make our improvements. You know, Logan gave us,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: you know, five innings there. I thought for the long
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: first inning, he really pushed us through and got us
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: a chance to get deeper into the game. And, you know,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: just weren't able to do anything offensively. And, you know,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Scherzer was just hard and soft all day long.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: And.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: We just weren't able to get anything going, and the
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: bottom line.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Is all of us need to be better. How disappointing
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: is this? You kept waiting for the bounce back game,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and it just never came.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: And today, when you try to avoid a sweep, you
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: go out and get one hit.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Again, this is a time of year where we've got
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: to get it done and we've got to find a way.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Today we weren't able to find a way.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: It's time right now. You guys have been good, kind
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: of bouncing back the next day from a tough loss.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: What do you feel about the fight level in-game, especially
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: when you get down early?
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: We've got to find a way. Again, it's just where
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: we are. It's where we are in the season, where
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: we are in this year, and we've got to find
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: a way. I think our guys know how to do it.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: It's just a matter of us, like I said, all
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: of us getting better.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: And doing it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Hope is not a game plan.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: He didn't answer one of those questions. How disappointing was it?
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: We've just got to be better. No, but that's not
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: the question I asked you.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. How are you going to turn around? We've got
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to find a way.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to find a way.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. What are you going to say about the loss?
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Glad we had that conversation.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Tough one.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: The Mariners, 64 wins this year, 73. Tough one tonight. Um,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: so nine games under 505 games back in the division
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: with an entire month to go. And the teams you're
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: chasing down, uh, aren't exactly Goliaths. Um, they are extremely
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: flawed as flawed as the mayor, more so than the Mariners, but, uh,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: they are playing better baseball, uh, than what this team
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: is playing and has all season long. Um, I, I,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I don't remove anybody from the heads have to roll
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: kind of conversation that we may be in store for
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: when this season comes to a close. I think, and
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I'll state this repeatedly and I'll be forced to state
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: it repeatedly in the offseason. I think that what Jerry
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and Justin bring more good to the table than bad.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I realize a lot of people don't agree with that.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: That's just my opinion. I believe that the roster they
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: put together should have won over 90 games and we
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: should have run away with this division. And we didn't
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: do that this year. But if the decision is made
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: after something this startlingly disappointing that everybody goes, yeah, I
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: get that. Yeah, I'm not going to fight that. They
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: have to wear that. They hired this manager. I certainly
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: think he's going to go. And I think he can
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: save his job. If he rallies and you have a
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: nice run and you get as far as you did
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: a year ago or beyond, then yeah, he's going to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: keep his job. He should. If you can rally this
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: team from this depth and go to back-to-back ALCS or beyond,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: then yeah, that's the way to save his job. For
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: those that think, oh, I don't want to make the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: playoffs because that means they'll keep Dan. I don't think
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: that's happening. I mean, if you make the playoffs and
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: get bounced, you still have had a grossly underachieving season
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: under Dan Wilson's direction. Yes. And so getting 500 team
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: that barely wins a division that wanted to hand you
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the division this year? I mean, everybody else in the
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: American League West thought so highly of the Mariners' roster,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: they were sure they were going to pull away at
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: some point. They didn't do anything at the trading deadline
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: because they matched their roster against our roster and said,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: we don't have a chance against them. And yet, five
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: games back in the American League West, for goodness sake.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: So if you rally somehow, it's not out of the question,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: You rally somehow, get into the playoffs, but get bounced
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: in the first round of the playoffs. The only reason
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: you even got in is because the rest of the
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: American League West handed it to you. And that's not
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: grounds for keeping someone. Qualifying for the playoffs in a
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: bad division is not grounds for keeping someone. We still
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: have grossly disappointed this season under Dan Wilson's leadership. So
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: bottom line here, I know they're not going to fire
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: him Now, there's no point. They're not going to fire
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: him before the end of the season. You make the
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: American League Championship Series or you're out. Bottom line. And
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: if that is the same thing that Jerry and Justin
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: have to face the rest of the way, I get it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know if any of them will be fired.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: John Stan seems pretty loyal to all three of those guys.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: But I'm certainly not going to live this season like
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the rest of you And get into the offseason and
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: think to myself, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Give
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: it time. Yeah, I think everybody's.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: You don't have time.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I think everybody's job's on the line right now and
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: should be on the line. And if they all lose
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: their jobs, I get it. I understand. Even though I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: would have arguments for why one or two people should stay.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have time.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: We've talked about this championship window. And you have a
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: great pitching staff. And you're not going to be able
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: to keep them all.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: And you've got to. a lot of great players and
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: you're not going to be able to keep them all.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: And you've got people whose contracts are up and you,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: you don't have time. It's not, you don't have, this
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: isn't a, well, let's give Dan two or three years
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: and he'll warm up to it. No, you don't start,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: you don't, that's not a major league manager type situation.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: That's not the way that that should be working with
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: a major league baseball manager.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: He should have been fired, should have been fired coming
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: out of the all-star break. And I think there's an
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: argument that he should have never been hired. I think
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: there is a good argument for that.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Because it seems, yeah, they didn't hire him on qualifications.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: They hired him because they love him.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: You have one chance, in my opinion, to save your job,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: and that's to get back to the American League Championship Series. Otherwise, yeah,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: it's over. All right, coming up next, let's talk some Seahawks.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: A lot to talk about with the Seahawks. We brought
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen on today, Greg Bell on today, but that
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: won't start till 7.05 with Greg. So, We'll tell you
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: about the 53-man roster. Our thoughts next. Sports Radio 93.3
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  Speaker 1: KJR FM. Hey, great morning to you. Happy Monday. Ashley Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Powell with you here from the studios, our fantastic studio,
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Greg Bell's going to join
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  Speaker 1: us at 7.05. We also have your headlines, lots of
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  Speaker 1: headlines to get to at 7 o'clock. We will have
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  Speaker 1: the ABCs of the M's as well. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of football here today. Not only do we
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  Speaker 1: react to the preseason ending, we begin the countdown until
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  Speaker 1: opening day. We also now have a roster countdown.
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  Speaker 3: To pour over.
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  Speaker 1: The 53-man roster set yesterday for every team in the
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  Speaker 1: National Football League. The Seahawks, just because they're world champs,
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  Speaker 1: they also had to meet the deadline.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay. They don't get to have extra time?
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  Speaker 1: No, they don't get. They probably should.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then what's the point of winning the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: if you don't get the perks?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you don't get to. We'll give you until
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow at noon. Take some time.
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  Speaker 3: Sleep on it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you would think. So, I mean, some interesting things.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there's ever anything startling that happens
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  Speaker 1: with a 53-man roster, but certainly some interesting things popped
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  Speaker 1: out about it. Montori Foster Jr. is probably the feel-good
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  Speaker 1: story of the roster, has been featured on Hard Knocks
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  Speaker 1: and will be again on Tuesday. There's no question about it,
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  Speaker 1: but that came at the cost of Cody White, who's
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  Speaker 1: been scrapping and scratching and crawling and biting to try
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  Speaker 1: to be on this roster here for the last few years.
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  Speaker 1: But Montori Foster Jr. is the one kept, and Cody
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  Speaker 1: White did not make the roster. Doesn't mean he won't
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  Speaker 1: be back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he could go to practice squad. And I was
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  Speaker 2: happy to see that Foster had made it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he really has been a very good feel story, or
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  Speaker 2: very feel.
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  Speaker 1: Feel good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, feel-good story? That wasn't English, but you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it is a bummer for Cody White because
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  Speaker 2: he has worked his butt off for this team in
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  Speaker 2: the last couple years. And you did kind of get
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  Speaker 2: a sense that, okay, well, first it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be if Bobo was there, probably Foster's.
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  Speaker 3: Not making it.
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  Speaker 2: So White would have been out as well. And then
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  Speaker 2: when Bobo went down, Montori made the most sense. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. I mean, I thought it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of a given that he was going to be the guy.
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  Speaker 1: But then one Sunday rolled around, I'm like, are they
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  Speaker 1: really going to have to decide between White and Foster?
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  Speaker 1: And they did. And they went with Foster. As for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of the interesting things, cornerback, I mean, Trayvon
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  Speaker 1: Diggs was not kept. So he gets an interception on
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  Speaker 1: the first drive on, what was it, Saturday?
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  Speaker 3: Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Friday.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Friday, I watched it last night.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever that last game was.
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  Speaker 1: I watched it last night. So Diggs gets the interception,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously there was a lot of stories about him
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  Speaker 1: coming here in the first place, but they didn't protect him.
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  Speaker 1: They did make it very clear they want him back.
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  Speaker 1: And right now you only kept five corners, and one
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  Speaker 1: of them's hurt in Julian Neal. And we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: get an update from Greg on that here in a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Plus, you traded for another corner in Avery Smith,
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  Speaker 1: so he automatically was going to make the roster. So
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting, certainly something that will chop up with Greg.
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  Speaker 1: And then the running back situation, you kept only three
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  Speaker 1: running backs, and two of them have been hurt the
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  Speaker 1: entire preseason. In Jadarian Price and Emmanuel Wilson, they, of course,
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  Speaker 1: are pouring over the waiver wire. Other guys that have
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  Speaker 1: been cut by other teams. And maybe they do add
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  Speaker 1: another running back to the room, considering the fragility, it seems,
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  Speaker 1: of that group right now. But then that, obviously, you
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  Speaker 1: would have to take somebody from another of the position groups.
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  Speaker 1: So curious that George Helani, now you know why George
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  Speaker 1: Helani was put in bubble wrap for the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of preseason games, why we never saw Jadarian Price take
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  Speaker 1: a snap in the preseason, and Emmanuel Wilson was the
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  Speaker 1: third guy. that ended up making the roster. It'd be
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  Speaker 1: a little surprising to me that if we start next
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday with only those three running backs on our roster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I was surprised by them releasing Jakardia Wright
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  Speaker 2: because I feel like we heard a lot about him,
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  Speaker 2: at least from Greg. He talked a lot because he
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  Speaker 2: was getting a lot of the reps because everybody else
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  Speaker 2: was hurt.
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  Speaker 3: But that one was the one that surprised me, I think,
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  Speaker 3: the most.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't exactly play well. on Friday night. I'll
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  Speaker 1: say that. But now you've got the opportunity to pour
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  Speaker 1: over that waiver wire and maybe bring in somebody that
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  Speaker 1: you've liked from afar. But we'll see. We'll see how
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  Speaker 1: it happens. Again, you're just nitpicking at the bottom there.
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  Speaker 1: This is a great roster. I don't think there's anything
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  Speaker 1: alarming or crazy about the decisions that we're made yesterday
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  Speaker 1: by John and Mike. And bring it on, Rams. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've signed another guy. What's his name? Darnold. What's
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  Speaker 1: his name?
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  Speaker 3: No, we have Sam Darnold. Who is it?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But bring it on. Let's go. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see what happens. We're the champs. All right, Greg Bell's next.
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