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Chuck & Buck 2-19 Hour 1: Preparing the platoons, Dom Canzone and sale speculation. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 5: I don't want to Yeah, Yeah, that's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: and welcome here to day four coverage of Mariners spring
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  Speaker 4: It is uh Chuck Powell with you.
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  Speaker 3: And normally I would say former Mariner Bucky Jacobson. But today,
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  Speaker 3: because it's a little chillier, it's Darth Ginger and it
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  Speaker 3: looked like a Sith lord with your hood up over there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a tidbit nippy out here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, ashually, it's like forty two today. Can you believe
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  Speaker 3: what we're suffering? Oh so you guys probably also had
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  Speaker 3: to scrape a half an inch of snow and ice
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  Speaker 3: off your car.
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  Speaker 5: No, let's not be ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean we're not suckers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, gage probably, but it was still there was
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  Speaker 3: still snow on the ground.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah no, no, no, didn't park of the garage. We're
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  Speaker 6: still outside. N yeah, we're yeah, we're outside. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: mean we were still story Yeah, well not really, No, No,
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  Speaker 6: you got left behind and it's snowing and freezing and
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  Speaker 6: we're just a little chilly just until the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 6: I mean it's it's the price you pay to watch
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  Speaker 6: the beautiful sun rise. I mean the blue and the
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  Speaker 6: orange and the pink, and I mean God's still smiling
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  Speaker 6: down upon us.
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  Speaker 3: He's just not smiling on me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, right now.
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  Speaker 6: But that's yeah, yeah, wow, yeah there you know what
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  Speaker 6: I meant by yeah, s, Pacific.
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  Speaker 3: Northwest is a frozen landscape because Ashley Ryan reaps what
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  Speaker 3: she's so I apologize. Well, don't apologize to us, apologize
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  Speaker 3: to your fellow citizens of Seattle, Y.
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  Speaker 1: That's who I'm apologizing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yes, it is colder.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it is a little chillier here today, but
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  Speaker 3: the sun is starting to rise and it is a
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  Speaker 3: glorious landscape as we get ready to get things kicked
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  Speaker 3: off here in day number four, a Thursday, and man,
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  Speaker 3: it's been a great.
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  Speaker 4: Week so far.
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  Speaker 3: We feel we feel like we've delivered some great shows
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  Speaker 3: filled with all the guests that you want to hear from.
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  Speaker 4: And it's no different here today.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, Thursdays, I mean, this show
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  Speaker 3: might be studied for the rest of time. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the year three thousand, five hundred, somebody's
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  Speaker 3: gonna crack open the you know, some sort of capsule
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  Speaker 3: and they're gonna say.
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  Speaker 4: Man, did those guys kill it on that day? It's
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  Speaker 4: spring Training? Unbelievable that show.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is a job.
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  Speaker 6: This is one I was planning on putting in on
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  Speaker 6: a thumb drive in a bottle, sending it out into
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  Speaker 6: the ocean so that, like you said, at some point
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  Speaker 6: someone finds it and looks it up and goes, wow,
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  Speaker 6: this is what it was all about.
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  Speaker 4: This was radio. This is Spring Training coverage right here,
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  Speaker 4: February nineteenth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, I don't want to get too carried away,
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  Speaker 3: but it's probably the best show in.
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  Speaker 4: Radio history that we have planned for.
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  Speaker 6: Well, let's not over promise, right, because there's a but
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  Speaker 6: I think you might have underpromised the best.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's probably it is. Yeah, it is without a
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  Speaker 5: doubt going to be the best one.
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  Speaker 3: So settle in four hours with you here on Chucking Buck.
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  Speaker 3: And later this hour we're going to chat with the
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  Speaker 3: dom Canzone. And it's one of the topics that we
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  Speaker 3: really haven't discussed all that much since we've been down here.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we had Pitchers Day yesterday, which was fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, the party that we had afterwards, the after party,
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  Speaker 3: me and all the pictures. Oh, we stayed up till
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  Speaker 3: she's four in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just talking pitching, wow, oberating life sounds boring, sounds awesome.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds sounds really nerdy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, nerds are cool.
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  Speaker 5: Look at how I hold this one. Hey, you guys
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  Speaker 5: ever try to hold it like this?
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  Speaker 3: There's oh yeah, like the elevated talks that hitters have
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  Speaker 3: when they get together. Oh sh I'm swinging thirty three
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  Speaker 3: on mat. You're changed thirty two in a quarter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then my bats me didn't pretty know my VLocity
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  Speaker 3: off the bat. Never Blair, never say that. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just summarizing. You ever hit the ball and then smell
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  Speaker 3: the wood? Oh yeah, that's when you know you got one.
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  Speaker 3: It just smells like burnt forest.
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  Speaker 6: It does, it really does. No, we don't ever do
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  Speaker 6: that very high. First of all, we have more to
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  Speaker 6: talk about. Just Hey, I don't know, I think I'm
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  Speaker 6: kicking my knee up just a little too high.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: What else do you talk about?
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  Speaker 5: Like me?
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  Speaker 6: Well, we talk about all kinds of things. We're well rounded.
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  Speaker 6: Everyday players, meat beer, part time.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, meat beer and yes, what ounced bat in two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and six.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're you're nailing all the main things.
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  Speaker 5: There's more. We have a little more depth than that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, never not not baseball players.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's they never talked about focused on the game.
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  Speaker 6: Flo seeds, seeds gum, that's yes, do we definitely cover that,
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  Speaker 6: But you do not talk about ladies and no.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what though. They are these these kids now,
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  Speaker 3: like man, these young kids, they are racing to find
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  Speaker 3: their you know, mother of their children.
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  Speaker 4: That's for sure. Get that family started.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's something going on.
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  Speaker 4: There is something going on.
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  Speaker 6: Some research, some somebody should study what was in the
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  Speaker 6: water last year, because yeah, they're all either engaged or
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  Speaker 6: getting married, I know, out babies or.
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  Speaker 4: And they really look in love.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I'm watching Gilbert and his wife, those those two,
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  Speaker 3: they really seem to love each other.
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  Speaker 5: I think they do. Yeah, I think they do. I
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  Speaker 5: don't think it's fake. I don't think that Gilbert.
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  Speaker 4: Really seems to like his kid.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it really does.
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  Speaker 6: Comes over he holds him uh huh, like kind of
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  Speaker 6: doddles on him a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Google, you got spiky hair, It won't even lay down.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if i'd like him as much as
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  Speaker 3: Logan's right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, honey, can you get control of this thing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, spit on your hand or something Logan.
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  Speaker 3: Mohawk, Yeah, just you know, just comb it over something.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe it's he's wanting him to be taller, you know,
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  Speaker 6: because he's only like, he's not even two feet tall yet,
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  Speaker 6: but with.
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  Speaker 5: His hair, he's like two and a half.
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  Speaker 3: You could tell there's a rivalry between Gilbert's baby and
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  Speaker 3: Hancock's baby.
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  Speaker 4: They're already side eyeing one another.
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  Speaker 5: Who oh who you yeah? Or about who I am? Yeah? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Uh but uh, yes, yesterday was a picture's Day. The
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  Speaker 3: day before I ended up being Infielder's Day. I mean
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  Speaker 3: that that happened by accident. I didn't plan that the
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  Speaker 3: whole world played Pitcher's Day yesterday, but infield Day on
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  Speaker 3: our show just kind of happened. And so we haven't
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  Speaker 3: talked a lot about the outfield, and I think there
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  Speaker 3: are a lot of questions out here.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Julio, you know, locked in center field, and
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  Speaker 4: I think maybe that's it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yes, Randy rose Arena is gonna play every day,
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  Speaker 3: hear me out on this, and he's probably going to
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  Speaker 3: play left field every day. But I mean, you now
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  Speaker 3: have Resneider added to this mix with can Zone, Rayley's
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  Speaker 3: back in the mix Roleblaze is coming off an entry
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  Speaker 3: play season right now, all five of those guys are healthy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure they'll carry all five on the opening day roster,
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  Speaker 3: even though dom Canzone did not make the cut coming
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  Speaker 3: out of spring training one year ago. He was kind
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  Speaker 3: of left on the outside in and had to work
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  Speaker 3: his way back onto the roster in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm guessing that they go They're gonna keep all
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  Speaker 3: five on the roster, But I'm not sure how they
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  Speaker 3: divvy up that playing time. Are we having two platoons?
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  Speaker 3: Are we going to have a platoon and right and
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  Speaker 3: a platoon and left? Does that mean a rose Arena
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  Speaker 3: made d H this year? Some I think those are
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  Speaker 3: some questions that I don't have answers to, and we've
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  Speaker 3: certainly not yet been given them.
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  Speaker 6: No, I mean, and I don't know for sure. You
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  Speaker 6: have time. Stuff typically works out right. It seems like
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  Speaker 6: every year that we have somewhere where there's a log jam,
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  Speaker 6: if you will, or more players than you think you're
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  Speaker 6: going to be able to carry, and yet it kind
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  Speaker 6: of works its way out, whether it's the way they
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  Speaker 6: play or you know, unfortunate situations of injuries or stuff
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  Speaker 6: like that.
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  Speaker 5: So we still have time.
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  Speaker 6: That's that maybe the one downside have come down as
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  Speaker 6: early as we are is if we have a conversation
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  Speaker 6: like this, you still have six weeks for this to
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  Speaker 6: kind of play out.
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  Speaker 5: Where they're playing games.
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  Speaker 6: And you're you're gonna have a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 6: are just going to either jump up take a job,
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  Speaker 6: or other guys are going to kind of concede the
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  Speaker 6: job with their play or or unfortunate circumstances kind of
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  Speaker 6: play a role in it. I would say, though, just
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  Speaker 6: for the sake of having the conversation, because it's conversation
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  Speaker 6: that Jerry Depoto and Justin Hollander and and you know
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  Speaker 6: they're probably even including the skipper Dan Wilson in is
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  Speaker 6: you know, what are you thinking with this?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 6: You get the full pantry of groceries. Here's what you got.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think? And if we don't have anything,
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  Speaker 6: if all of them play well during spring training or
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  Speaker 6: play adequately or evenly. Uh, and there's no injuries to
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  Speaker 6: speak of.
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  Speaker 5: What are you thinking?
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  Speaker 6: And I mean there's Yeah, Randill Rosary is gonna play.
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  Speaker 6: You're gonna have his bat in the lineup, whether or
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  Speaker 6: not you feel like you can upgrade left field. As
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  Speaker 6: far as defense goes, there's definitely a conversation to be
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  Speaker 6: had there. I think the dom canzone, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 6: excited to talk to him just because he brings. He
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  Speaker 6: brings as much danger as just about anybody up there
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  Speaker 6: at the dish when it comes to power potential.
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  Speaker 4: We thought last year it didn't hit many wall scrapers
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  Speaker 4: that guy.
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  Speaker 6: No, No, And he looks even thicker than he was
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  Speaker 6: last year. Last year was the first year that it
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  Speaker 6: was significantly No two years ago, big two years.
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  Speaker 5: Ago, was it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so's he's now had his bolt for three years now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's he's thick, and he's even more put together
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  Speaker 6: this year. And so it is going to be interesting
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  Speaker 6: to see how that plays out. I mean it basically
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  Speaker 6: it boils down to, you know, you got to go
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  Speaker 6: take it, you know, I mean everybody wants to have
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  Speaker 6: a guaranteed spot where you just kind of show up
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  Speaker 6: spring training and you go through the motions working on
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  Speaker 6: your craft, and you know you're going to be the
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  Speaker 6: starter regardless of how the outcomes are in your spring
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  Speaker 6: training games. But that's not the case for guys like
• 11:32
  Speaker 6: Dom Canzone, Domkenzone's and I have to go out and
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  Speaker 6: show hey, I want that. You've got to basically force
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  Speaker 6: a manager's hand where he can't help but write your
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  Speaker 6: name in the lineup.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, they they they have embraced the platoon player,
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  Speaker 3: and I know a lot of Mariner fans can't stand it,
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  Speaker 3: and they they act like Jerry and Justin invented this,
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  Speaker 3: but it's been around since Casey Stengele. For goodness sake,
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  Speaker 3: the platoon player and the two teams that probably do
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  Speaker 3: it the most are the Tampa Bay Rays, who've had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of success in the last you know, quarter century,
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  Speaker 3: and the Los Angeles Dodgers, who are the top of
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  Speaker 3: the heap in Major League Baseball, and they platoon like
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  Speaker 3: nobody platoons. I mean, Jack Peterson could have gone five
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  Speaker 3: for five with five homers and in his sixth at bat,
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  Speaker 3: Dave Roberts pinch hit for him. Because they brought a
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  Speaker 3: lefty in you know, I mean, I'm exaggerating for emphasis
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  Speaker 3: because obviously no one's ever hit five home runs in
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  Speaker 3: a game. But that's the way the Dodgers. So this
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  Speaker 3: isn't anything new. This isn't anything that the Mariners concocted.
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  Speaker 3: They have embraced it and it hasn't always worked out.
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  Speaker 3: By the way I've said this all along with the
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  Speaker 3: addition of Refsnyder, it's really no different than the AJ
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  Speaker 3: Pollock edition a couple of years ago. Their numbers were
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  Speaker 3: very similar. At that stage in their career. They were considered,
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  Speaker 3: you know, mid thirties guys that could still run down
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  Speaker 3: a baseball, but were mostly known for their hit tool,
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  Speaker 3: and specifically the hit tool against left handed pitching.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's what Pollock was brought in here for.
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  Speaker 4: That's what ref Nyder's being brought in here for.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, everybody hated the Pollock signing because they were
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  Speaker 3: coming off a disappointing year. Versus ref Snider. They're coming
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  Speaker 3: off a year are you're eight pitches away from the
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  Speaker 3: World Series, and so everybody sees the merits now in
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  Speaker 3: the ref Nider signing. But there's gonna be at least
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  Speaker 3: the way it looks on paper. Now, a rose Arena
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  Speaker 3: is gonna play every day, Julio's gonna play every day,
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  Speaker 3: But the DH spot and the right field spot is
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  Speaker 3: most likely going to They're most likely both going to
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  Speaker 3: be platoons at this stage. And I don't know who
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  Speaker 3: those guys are. I guess it doesn't matter. They're not
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  Speaker 3: a bonded pair, But certainly we're gonna see a couple
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  Speaker 3: platoons in this lineup this year.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think that ultimately that's probably the way
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  Speaker 6: that they'll start it out, just simply because they want
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  Speaker 6: to give hitters the best opportunity, and well, I think
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  Speaker 6: that it's hard to I would have hated to have
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  Speaker 6: been in a platoon sit situation where I didn't get
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  Speaker 6: the opportunity to hit against right handed hitters because I
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  Speaker 6: didn't feel like I was overmatched against rieties and far
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  Speaker 6: superior against lefties. I didn't feel like that was the case. Now,
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: as a right handed hitter, you grow up facing far
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  Speaker 6: more righties. As a lefty, you don't face as many
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  Speaker 6: left on left situations. And so just because there's not
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  Speaker 6: as many left handed pictures while you're growing up, so
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  Speaker 6: I think that there's it's more of a disadvantage for
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  Speaker 6: left handed hitters against left handed pitchers as it is
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  Speaker 6: than it is righties against right handed pictures, if that
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  Speaker 6: makes sense. So, but I would if you get kind
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  Speaker 6: of pigeonholed into well, we're just we don't trust that
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  Speaker 6: you can do it against that that type of a matchup,
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  Speaker 6: then you get thrust into that.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 6: I also think there's a part of it where it's
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  Speaker 6: like you're going to have a better chance even if
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  Speaker 6: you don't like it, you know. I mean, I bet
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  Speaker 6: if you look up my splits, I probably was better
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  Speaker 6: against lefties than I was against righties, even though I
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  Speaker 6: didn't feel like there was a drastic difference. I think
• 14:52
  Speaker 6: that they're gonna probably go with the analytics and with
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  Speaker 6: just the overarching statistics that most lefties are gonna better
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  Speaker 6: against righty's and vice versa, and they're gonna play it
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: that way, trying to give everybody the best chance while
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  Speaker 6: you're also giving everybody the opportunities. So it's like, hey,
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: you deserve your AB's, Chuck, I deserve my abs. Well,
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  Speaker 6: you're gonna get years against lefties. I'm gonna get mine
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  Speaker 6: against righties. Blah blah blah. However that works out. So uh,
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  Speaker 6: it's gonna be interesting to see how how it pans out.
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  Speaker 6: But you're right, you do have a few different guys
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  Speaker 6: with Roebus, ref Schneider and Canzone all kind of searching
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  Speaker 6: for some of their abs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the platoon blade cuts both ways. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it's you know, we're you struggle against lefties, so
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: we're going to primarily let you hit against righty's. But
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: there's also the scenario of, yes, even though you don't
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  Speaker 3: struggle against lefties, the guy that you're facing today really
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: dominates lefties. Yeah, so we're gonna we're gonna sit you
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: in this in this situation, So that sometimes gets lost
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: in the conversation as well. The platoon blade, it certainly
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: cuts both ways. But Luke Rayley has told us for
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: years he's just looking for the opportunity to hit lefties,
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: and but when he was given more opportunities at the
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: beginning of last year, he didn't come through, and then
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: he got hurt and kind of lost his season. Victor
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: Roblaze actually hits righty's historically better than lefties. And yet
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: if there's gonna be a platoon you're not gonna You're
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: probably gonna bat him against mostly lefties. And they definitely
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: see him as a role player. They don't look at
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: him as somebody that's going to be playing every day
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: unless he hits the way that he did when he
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: came over in the trade or excuse me, not in
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: the trade, but when they picked him up off waivers
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: from the Nationals. Can Zone showed that he could hit
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: lefties a little bit last year, not for power, but
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: he was putting the ball in play, which was improvement
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: over the previous year where he had only one hit
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: against lefties the entire season. So I think maybe he's
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: earned a little bit more time hitting against lefties. And
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: then ref Snyder, I think that his reputation purely is
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: this isn't just oh circumstantial. I mean, it's pretty obvious
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: this guy crushes lefties and can't hit righties. Yeah, and
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: yet he can play a little defense. At thirty five,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: he's an athlete out there. He can play a little defense.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: He'll make a couple highlight catches in the outfield this year.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: He always does every single year, So.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: That's that's interesting.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I Mean, the big camp battle is you know it
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: seems to be second base here, but don't lose sight
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: of the mysteries, the questions surrounding DH and outfield. Those
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: are also gonna get hammered out here in the next
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: few weeks in Peoria. And then I'll just throw one
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: more wrinkle before we get to what's on tap, and
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: that is, if cold Emerson and Cole Young show here,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: you gotta put both of us in the lineup. That's
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: how well we're playing at spring training.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, Brendan Donovan becomes potentially a super
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: utility player in that case, and maybe he plays a
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: little bit of outfield, but ninety five to ninety nine
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: percent Shore Donovan starts at third base, and ninety percent
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Shore he probably plays that position for most of the year.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's it's possible cold Emerson comes out
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: and shows you just can't you flat out can't send
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: me down.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: I would love that.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I would love for both of those kids to say, no, no,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: we're two of then nine best position players in this organization.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: We play every day.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but one thing you can be certain of is
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: that they're not going to bring those guys up and
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: then have those guys platoon. They don't want to have
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: those they if they're going to be playing, they're gonna
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: be wanting to have those guys play every single day
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: because they're young, and you don't want to pigeonhole them
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: into the you know, the mindset or the scenario playing
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: scenario where they're only playing half the time. So I'm
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: with you, it would be interesting to see how that
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: plays out. It's a nice thing to happen because it
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: doesn't feel like, oh my gosh. I mean, before they
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: signed don Brendan Donovan, it was kind of like, boy,
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: Now you're kind of hoping that both of the youngsters
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: step up and prove that they're ready to break camp
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: and be contributors right off the bat, and I don't
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: want to put that pressure on both of them.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: rest of the show.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: What's on TEP, what's on tap?
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: All right, our spring training coverage continues.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: That's what's on tap, day number four of our five
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: days down here in Peoria, Arizona. And here's what we
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: got coming up on the show. Oh, we will ask
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Dom canzone some of those questions that we just covered
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: coming up here at six point thirty. Also the manager,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: his nickname is the Man for goodness Sake, Dan Wilson
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: will be joining us today at seven point.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Fifteen cal Raleigh at eight o'clock.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Today, the big Dumper, superstar that he is stops by
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: our set at eight o'clock to discuss twenty twenty five
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: and what he's got in store for us in twenty
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: twenty six. And then Andres Munos. Every year we've been
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: down here, we get closer and closer to convincing Andres
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Munjos to join us on the show, and he always
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: dodges us a little bit, dodges, ducks, dives out of
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: the way of our conversation.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: But today there's no getting around it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Will I will handcuff him to the chair if we
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: have to, because this fan base needs to hear from
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: one of the great people in this organization. Not to
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: mention they're all star closer. Andres Munos will be with
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: us at nine clock today headlines for you just quickly
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: at his picture day around here. So everybody's in their
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: marin her finest right now except Josh Naylor. He's I
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: don't think those are prescription glasses that he's wearing.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: No, those are scripture, which is good because if he
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: had those and it was because his eyes weren't good,
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: that would be a bad deal. No, he's ready to rock.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna send out a tweet right now, Yeah, with
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: the picture of.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Those Yeah, I think those yeah, I don't think those
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: are right for his face. Also, there's a game tomorrow.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Preseason games get started tomorrow for goodness sake, and so
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: so yeah, we're leading you right up to the first
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: game of the year. Something we'll talk about today. Mitch
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Garver could be back with the organization. He signed a
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: minor league deal yesterday, so we'll certainly spend some time
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: talking about. You know, Mitch Garver as a favorite approach
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: to hitting in the game, according to Bucky Jacob.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: So the Seahawks sale a huge story yesterday.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: We will not ignore it. Guess what our QB one
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: rumor has it he is circling the facility and could
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: land here today to discuss with us. A couple different
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Seahawks stories right here from spring training. College basketball, JT
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: top And, a National Player of the Year candidate from
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Texas Tech, is going to be out for the season
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: after injuring himself earlier. This week and in the Olympics,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: US and Canada their hockey teams. Men's hockey teams survived
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: scares yesterday. They both won in overtime and so we
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: remain on track to have them meet for the gold medal.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: But they still got to get through the semifinals and
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: both had a close call yesterday that would have disrupted that.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: All right, we are underway here on this Thursday. Dom
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Canzone joins us next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Chuck a Box Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: as we can continue here from Mariner Spring training twenty
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: twenty six. Joining us now on our set is outfielder
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: dom can Zone is with us.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Good to see you man.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: That's dom Ken's owner John Cena. The year it gets bigger?
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Do you go bigger or did you get bigger that
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: one off season and just maintained it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I come in a little bit heavier every uh after
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: every off season, and I lose probably about five ten
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: times during the year, So just trying to maintain that
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: body weight throughout the year is kind of tough. So
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: could definitely come in a little bit heavier every spring training.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: You could pull of Michael Lorenzen and just do like curls,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: you know, show curls in between the innings.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: And the definitely those in the off season for sure.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: That's the fun part.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: It's that's abundantly clear, and now we're recognizing why you
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: can hit the tape measure shots. Man, How was how was?
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: How was your off season overall? Besides just getting yoked,
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: it was awesome.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, I got I got engage this off season,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: so that was that was definitely special. Just planning the wedding,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: being busy with that definitely a great moment for Britt
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and I and future family. So that was definitely special.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: And then it was it was pretty damn cold, so
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: it's great to be out here.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: We talked to the pictures about there, you know, their
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: proposals this off season, George and Bryce?
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Did you top them?
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Was yours more romantic? More spectacular than theirs? Have you
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: compared notes?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: We haven't quite compared notes yet. That's not guys don't
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: always talk about that stuff. But I felt like I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: was pretty prepared. I felt like I was pretty prepared,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: So it was it went really smoothly, just besides the
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: fact that I had no clue where my photographer was.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: But luckily she was hiding in the bushes. I just
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: didn't see her. So she did a very good job
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: of keeping it secretive, and yeah, it went well nice.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: It must be something in the water. I don't know
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: if I want to drink this anymore. Everybody's either getting
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: married or engaged. I have kids, I'm I'm already married,
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: I have two kids.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: I'm done.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go ahead and just set this water down. So,
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: other than it being freezing and obviously hitting the weight room,
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: what was your main focus when it comes to getting ready?
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Because last year you had a good year when you
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: finally got your opportunity up there, you had a good year,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: So what were you working on this year to get
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: ready for this year?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I think it's more just building off kind of what
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I was able to do last Year's just keeping my
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: body healthy. That's always been I think that's an obstacle
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: for obviously every single player, but me, especially with my legs.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I've had some corn issues, had some hamstring and thigh issues,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: So just trying to get my legs in shape, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: then just building off of last year, trying to stay
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: through the middle of the field. Talking to sites and
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: mags about that type of stuff, stay on top of it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So yeah, just sticking with that type of approach.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Tom can zone on us on with us here on
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Chuck and Buck. Did you prove last year you don't
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: have to take me out against left handers?
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I feel comfortable against left ease. I
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: think a big part of that was definitely just getting
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the consistent reps. So it's for any ballplayer, when you're
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: not doing something a lot, whether it's in the field
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: or facing lefty, your facing righties, whatever it is, we're
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: racking those consistent reps, it's gonna be a little bit tougher.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So when I was able to get the consistent reps,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I just felt a little more comfortable. And I think
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: that's how any hitter feels.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean you're the dude that I want
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: out there, you know, d H and I want your
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: bat in the line up, just as the danger that
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: you bring to the table when it comes down to
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: DH and or playing in the outfield, do you care.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: I mean, I some guys don't like DH and I
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: love love. I love to sitting there eating seeds and
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: then go raking. Now on the flip side of it.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: If you don't do anything in your four times up there,
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: you don't didn't get to really contribute, so it's a
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: little bit more pressure.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: A lot of people feel that way.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Do you like DH in or no? Yeah, I loved it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's definitely a lot easier on the body,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: for sure, So I think that was part of the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: reason that kept me healthy. But I still feel like
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I can improve defensively for sure.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: I like being out there.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Obviously, it's pretty fun with Hulio out there, So either
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: or is definitely fine with me. But I'm not one
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: of those guys that is as opposed to to d H.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: And and if you do go over fort I'm not gonna,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: you know, beat yourself up over it and stuff like that.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Well, the addition of ref Snyder, it kind of makes
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: sense that you two will do some sort of platoon,
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: whether that's d H or outfield, and then you got
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: role blazed back and you got Raylely back this year.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Is it feeling kind of crowded in that outfield right now?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: No.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I think everybody understands their role and what we all
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: need to do to you know win a World Series,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and I think all four of us can help in
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: different ways, in different aspects to make that possible. So
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I think all the additions have been great. Everybody understands
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: their role and why they're here, and as long as
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: we stick to that process, I think we're gonna have
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a really good year.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe you show them you can.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Play shortstop a little bit, or a leftie closer out
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: of the pen. What do you think you know? Show
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: made it, show him a little show hey action out there.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I wish I was that athletic, So I'm glad I
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: got the bat. So hopefully hopefully that sticks around a
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Maybe those stretching routine from Etro, he's out there doing
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: it right now. I don't think they guy's ever even
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: thought about pulling a growing muscle doing all this stuff.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: He's a different animal. Different people are built different. So yeah,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I just definitely got to know yourself.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean last year I think
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: was a step. Obviously there was a big step. You
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: guys were what eight outs from getting to the World Series,
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: and I think you guys would have been competitive and
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: quite possibly could have knocked off the Dodgers. Just like
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: the Blue Jays ended up coming close to it? Was
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: that the way in which it felt for you after
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: you get over the feeling of the season being over,
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: did it feel more like a step in that in
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: the direction you guys are wanting to go.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, obviously we accomplished a lot last year,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, you feel in the locker
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: room after a tough Game seven like that, like we're
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: right there, and yeah, we accomplished a lot, but it
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: definitely some unfinished business. And that's a team last year
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: that definitely had had the power to win a World Series.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: So obviously when you when you don't accomplish that, it
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: seems like a letdown. Again, winning the West was great
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and all and special moments for everyone. I mean, I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: know myself personally, just being in that type of moment
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: in front of those fans is something that you can
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: only dream of. But when you're in that type of moment,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you just want more.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Dom Can Zone is with us Chucking Box Sports Radio
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: ninety three point three kJ R f M. I think
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: one thing you've proven is that when you know you've
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: got it, you got it. You you know you got it,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: you're really good at them. You are like ten out
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: of ten when you there. There are no wall scrapers
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: that dom Canzone's gonna watch. He watches when he knows
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: it's gone.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, if you if you, I feel like,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: if I flush it, it's it's definitely. Uh, it's got
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: a pretty good chance to go almost one hundred percent.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: So yeah, unless I'm hitting it off the end or
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: something and I know that I kind of launched it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta that doesn't happen too often in
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: life in general, So you gotta appreciate those home runs
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and uh sometimes I mean without showing up the picture
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: just uh, you know, you work for that type of
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: stuff and try to enjoy it as much as possible.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: When you do round third and you do the the
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: third base coach, the you know, your your gesture, your
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: little chef's kiss gesture. Do you look up in the
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: crowd to see how many people are doing it along
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: with you? No?
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: But I do. I do love the music. I think
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that's uh, that's that's something my my parents do love
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and my family and friends also love. So it's just
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a cool part that again, you didn't think that was
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: probably gonna happen in your life. So it's one of
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: those things that you never take for granted. And again,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you don't know how many times it's it's gonna happen again,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: So you just try to enjoy every single moment.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the best feeling in the world. I'm with
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: you on that.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: You just said something about showing up the picture, not
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: trying to show up the picture. I didn't even know
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: is that that's still a thing, because I mean, it
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: was a thing back in a year hold, but I
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: mean nowadays that you know, everybody kind of pimps it
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: and I'm all about you get it and you know
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: it's gone, don't sprint one step. You know, there was
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: a little subtle deew to pimp in it, but you
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: kind of had to be subtle back in the day. Nowadays,
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: bat flipping's fine. The pictures they strike out, they basically
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: have a seizure on the mound.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: So I mean, I mean showing up part of it.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Showing people up is kind of just.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: That is just part of it is now.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I think I think as long as you're taking like
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: a step or two towards first and not you know,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: just sitting there looking at it, I think I don't.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think the pitcher's mind as much, but I well,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: with the bat flips and stuff, I think that's fine
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: as long as you're you know, a step or two
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: towards first and not you know, just standing there.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: I saw a big poppy one time down in Dominican
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: hit a ball and it went mild. It was way
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: out over trees and stuff, out beyond the fence, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: I watched it and then I turned around and he
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: was still in the batter's box taking his gloves off.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: He took them both off.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: That's a that's a little different. That's big Poppy. I
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: don't think anybody's going after him. But for me, I'm
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I'm still only a six foot guy. So if there's
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: a big picture on them, and I'm gonna make sure
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I get out of there a little bit. Just a
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  Speaker 1: tad bit quicker, are you hitting clean up for Team Italy?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. We're We definitely got a great squad
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  Speaker 1: and I'm excited for what we got. We got a
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: lot of great guys returning, and again, just appreciative of
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: them extending the offer to me. And it's super excited
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: with the kind of the matchups. We've got to being
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: able to play Mexico and US is going to be
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a zoo. So it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: great time. And I'm excited to see the fans and
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  Speaker 1: and just see how routed they come out.
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  Speaker 6: You thought about getting I don't know, Cal, like a
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: gift card to Dave and Busters or something. Maybe maybe
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: you just let you know when one pitch is coming
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  Speaker 6: or no.
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  Speaker 1: Well no, so yeah, Gab already told me he's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna throw them any heaters, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 5: We'll see what happens with that.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And I know Cal loves the heater, so I know
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: they're going to be bickering back and forth out there
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  Speaker 1: on that, I bet, So we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, family excited about that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how how much of a part of your
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: heritage is the can Zone family?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's mostly on my dad's side. My
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  Speaker 1: mom's side is completely Spanish and then my dad's side
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  Speaker 1: is Italian.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, my dad's super excited.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: He's going to be out for a couple of the
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: exhibition games in Arizona. I think it's at the Cubs facility,
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  Speaker 1: so he'll he'll be there for that. I'm not sure
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: if they're coming to Houston, but I know my fiance's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: family is going to be in Houston for some of
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the games, so it'll be a good time and I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: think everyone will enjoy it.
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  Speaker 5: Do you set goals?
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  Speaker 6: Are I mean, it seems like most of the guys
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: I talked to or we talk to, you know, it's
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: more about like I did every day, they just get
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: one percent better. I'm just working on my approach and
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: I'm all about approach and mentality. But it used to
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: be a thing, but a lot of guys would set goals.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: I want to hit three hundred, or I want to
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: you know, I want to hit thirty bombs, or I
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: want to do this that or the Do you set
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  Speaker 6: goals or is it just about the process?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's more about the process for me specifically.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of guys have kind of gone
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: that route, just with again, how good, how good the
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: pitching is developed. If you're trying to chase homers, not
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: only the pitcher can see that, but uh, the other
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the whole entire other side, in the whole stadium can
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: see that you're chasing homers. So it's it's really hard
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to kind of chase those type of power numbers, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: it kind of kind of just comes with sticking to
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the process and for me specifically, sticking to the middle
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: of the field and again if I if I get it,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I get it. But that's not what I'm trying to do.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to hit homers. I'm trying to hit
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  Speaker 1: line drives.
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  Speaker 3: Well, have a great year, take it easy on Team
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  Speaker 3: America in the WBC, and we can't wait to watch
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  Speaker 3: you play baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Law Man.
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  Speaker 5: Needs to go.
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  Speaker 1: I heard, I heard it happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well let's talk about the Seahawks sale again.
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  Speaker 4: Headlines coming up at seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson's gonna join us at seven point fifteen this
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: morning here live at our set in Peoria. But there
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: was a big news story yesterday. I mean, you just
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: don't see. This doesn't happen every day that your NFL
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: franchise goes up for sale, to begin with, but for
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: it to happen in the days after winning a Super
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Bowl where the franchise's value seems to be at its
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: very highest. I guess they say sell hi whenever you
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: have something. I mean, we kind of knew this was coming,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: or we did know this was coming at some point,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: but the timing of it is just if not unique,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: that you win a Super Bowl championship and all of
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: a sudden the ownership puts the team up for sale.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: So it is official, the Seahawks are going to be sold.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: And there is a little bit of I mean, hand
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  Speaker 3: ringing I think from fans, breath holding from fans. You
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: never know who's going to buy your operation that you
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: love so much, and it seems to be going so well.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: You just there's this fear that we can't have some
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: egomaniac that destroys the what we've got going right now.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine that there is a billionaire dumb enough
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: to come in here and lay heavy his weight up
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: against a football operation that is running so seamlessly right now.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: But sure there is a risk that there is an
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: egomaniac out there, and most billionaires are let's face it,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: that comes in here and says, you know, I don't
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: like the way Mike McDonald shook my hand, maybe he's
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: not the.
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  Speaker 4: Man for the job. You do run the risk for that,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: not for Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 3: I'm using that as an exaggerated example, but certainly, you know,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I would think that whoever takes over understands maybe these
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: people know football pretty well and I need to just
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: sit back and watch them do their things.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean I think and sign their checks.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Okay, So if you spend a ton of money on something,
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: you know, I mean, who spends six billion dollars on
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: a house and then remodels the whole thing, tears it
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: down and remodels, I.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Would think not.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I see people do it.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: Well, you've seen people buy something maybe not quite as
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: lavish as an organization NFL organization, and and want to
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: make changes. But I mean the idea of well they
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: wouldn't change anything is that's just not the case. There's
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: going to be something that is going to do. There's
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: going to be some sort of ripple effect from it. Now,
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: how negative is that?
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: I would?
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: I would think it when you purchase it, right, you're
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: purchasing the defending Super Bowl champions, So you're thinking kind
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: of buying a nice finished product, you know, Now, there's
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: processes to keep you in that same window and continue
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: that as long as you can. And I think that
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: whoever comes in is probably going to there's going to
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: be some differences in the way in which they want
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: their organization to run. That's going to be different than
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: the way that Paul Allen and Jody Allen have run it,
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: regardless of the success. And they've had a lot of
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: success since he's since Paul Allen bought the team, a
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: lot more success than they then with the previous ownerships.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: But a new person comes in, that's a person that
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: obviously has some money, They're going to have some sort
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: of say I mean, Broncos just were bought by the
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: family that owns Walmart. They didn't come in and say
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: we are drastically changing everything that's ever happened here. But
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: they came in and they said, we've liked the way
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: in which the Broncos were running from this aspect, we
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: didn't like this way, and so they make it some
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: tweaks and whatnot. So, yes, there's going to be changes.
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: Is it something that I would be crazy worried about. No,
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: because I feel like you're whoever it is that buys
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: it is coming in buying a pretty darn close to
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: finished product, and then their changes are going to be
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: how do they think you need to run the business
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: to make sure it's sustainable.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think there can be a wrong choice,
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: but I think that that is the small percentage that
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: it's going to be such the wrong choice that your
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: life as a Seahawk fan is going to.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: Be ruined because of that.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: But I think I mean, if I'm to give an example,
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: if it was Balmer, I think Balmer comes in here,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: how much he loves Seattle, how much he loves winning,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: I think that thumbs up. If it's Bezos, then I'd
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: be worried. I mean, if he was buying the Mariners
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: and he pulled a Cohen and does what so many
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Mariner fans want their baseball owner to do and just
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: not run a business and just spend wildly to get
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: us the best talent possible. Maybe you might root for that,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: But there's a salary cap in the National Football League.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Whoever buys it is going to spend up to that
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: salary cap on players.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: There's no question about it.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: So don't run the risk of bringing in somebody that
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: would possibly annoint Lauren Sanchez as the GM because he
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: might do that. He sent her into space fake, so
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: he might actually fake his way into having her be
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: the GM of the Seahawks, and he'll fire John Schneider.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: So if I were to say which horse type of
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: horse you should be rooting for, I would say those
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: are my rules for rooting.
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: I would just say, hey, can we just get Todd
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: Laiwicki as part of the group.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Which would be crazy phenomenal.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: Throw him into the mix, and I feel like of
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: a lot more comfortable headlines.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Next plus Dan Wilson at seven fifteen this morning, It's
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