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Chuck & Buck 6-23 Hour 1: Talk about a Blockbuster! ICYMI: Jason Boterill and Argh, it's the Pirates... · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: This morning, didn't money? Is anybody out there?
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Speaker 2: the morning. What's that? Why you people are beyond Let's go,
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Speaker 2: Let's get the game off. Hey, hey, great Tuesday morning
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Speaker 2: to you. Thirty five years in the business. Sometimes you
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Speaker 2: forget to turn your mic on. It happens to start
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Speaker 2: a show. Those fancy actors, they got it easy. That's
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Speaker 2: why Anne Hathaway still looks amazing at age sixty.
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Speaker 1: Because someone turns their mic up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I always have people doing stuff for them.
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Speaker 2: They don't have to remember.
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Speaker 1: Squat would be nice.
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Speaker 2: Think about all the things I have to remember. A button.
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Speaker 1: Three things to bring with you in the morning.
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Speaker 2: Three things to bring with me in the morning. Water, water,
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Speaker 2: have I mentioned a button? Yep, yeah, I got a
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Speaker 2: button to remember. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, great morning to
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Speaker 2: you here on this Tuesday. Good to have you with us.
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Speaker 2: When I say us, I mean Ashley Ryan and Chuck
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Speaker 2: Powell could to be with you. We've got you for
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Speaker 2: the next four hours till ten o'clock today, and a
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Speaker 2: lot of things to discuss again today. There is no
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Speaker 2: dull moment anymore in the sports world, and we even
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Speaker 2: have a blockbuster NBA trade even though we don't have
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Speaker 2: the Sonic back. There are just some deals that are
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Speaker 2: just so monstrous that even when you don't have a
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Speaker 2: local professional basketball team yet again, they you still have
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Speaker 2: to You got to sink your teeth into that sucker.
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Speaker 2: So we'll do that here in a moment. We do
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Speaker 2: have the three days of the heat going on right now,
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Speaker 2: But I didn't it felt good outside to me yesterday,
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Speaker 2: And believe it or not, I don't know what's going
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Speaker 2: on in the universe. I didn't even have to turn
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Speaker 2: my air conditioner on yesterday. For some reason. It never
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Speaker 2: got above sixty nine in my place. What. I don't
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Speaker 2: know why. I don't even know why.
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Speaker 1: I'm jealous.
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Speaker 2: I don't know I guess it's the way the sun angled.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but yeah, I just kept it cool
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Speaker 2: and I kept it was like prepared to turn it on. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I was. As soon as I get home, I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: turn that air conditioner on. I was gonna get really hot.
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Speaker 1: It is gonna get really hot.
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Speaker 3: We took Palmer the Great to go practice some softball
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Speaker 3: out the high school field.
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Speaker 1: It lasted about thirty minutes.
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Speaker 2: Oh it is that right.
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Speaker 3: Well, one she decided to get dressed in like normal
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Speaker 3: softball gear, not like just a T shirt and shorts
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Speaker 3: since it was hot.
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Speaker 2: She went parka and leg warmers exactly, you know, normal softball,
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Speaker 2: normal softball gear.
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Speaker 3: And then she was that could be normal softball gear
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Speaker 3: when we're playing in the winter. Yeah, and then she
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Speaker 3: was instantly hot and miserable. So we got through about
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Speaker 3: thirty minutes of it, and then we were all like,
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Speaker 3: all right, let's go home.
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Speaker 2: If I ever told you about the time, and this
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Speaker 2: was like in you know, I've been for the most
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Speaker 2: part in my life in pretty decent shape. Okay, So
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Speaker 2: you know, played a bunch of sports in high school
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Speaker 2: and then that stayed with me and I kept playing
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Speaker 2: sports through college, and then when I really started doing
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Speaker 2: mornings and kind of living high off about about my thirties,
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Speaker 2: that's when I started like kind of neglecting things like sleep, yeah,
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Speaker 2: and nutrition and stuff like that. So I ended up,
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Speaker 2: for the first time really in my life, like in
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Speaker 2: my mid thirties, I I felt like, man, I am
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Speaker 2: in terrible shape right now, and I just decided because
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Speaker 2: I really wasn't into long distance running, which eventually got
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Speaker 2: I got into long distance running, and I still enjoy
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Speaker 2: long distance running to this day. But at that stage,
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Speaker 2: you know, that's the first time I'd been out of
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Speaker 2: shape in my life, and all that long distance running
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Speaker 2: had meant to me in the past was punishment, Like
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Speaker 2: you played sports and if you were running, you were
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Speaker 2: probably in trouble, and so I always associated with that.
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Speaker 2: So I'm like, well, I'm still young enough, I've been
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Speaker 2: in shape most of my life. There is no reason
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Speaker 2: why I couldn't just go back to the way I
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Speaker 2: used to get back in shape. Screw long distance running.
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Speaker 2: It takes too much time. Yeah, it hurts for too long.
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Speaker 1: Right, I'm going to go.
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Speaker 2: Out in the middle of a park and do.
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Speaker 1: Sprints, perfectly smart idea.
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Speaker 2: That's what I was going to do. Just out of
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Speaker 2: the b I was I'm not going to do lot.
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Speaker 2: I'm not stupid, right, So I went out and I
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Speaker 2: lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and it was summertime, and I
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Speaker 2: decided to go out and I was just going to
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna do ten sprints, that's all I'm going
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Speaker 2: to do, not consecutively, but I'm gonna do two back
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Speaker 2: to back and then another two back to back. I
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Speaker 2: got through about four, laid on the grass and puked. Okay,
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Speaker 2: well number one, you can't just jump right back into sprints.
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Speaker 2: Number two. It was like one hundred and ten degrees
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Speaker 2: that day. And that's the day I decided, you know what,
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Speaker 2: I'm not that far removed from being seventeen on my
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Speaker 2: undefeated basketball team. I don't know if you remember telling
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Speaker 2: you that undefeated basketball team, and so I'm like, you
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Speaker 2: know what, screw that whole build up long distance running nonsense.
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go back to doing sprints like real athletes.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 2: And then, like a real athlete, I crumpled like a
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Speaker 2: lawn chair in the middle of the outfield on a
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Speaker 2: softball field in Phoenix, Arizona, and puked my guts out.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so not the time to go back to sprints
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Speaker 3: or the way to get back in shape.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not saying that's what happened to Palmer yesterday,
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Speaker 2: but suddenly I could relate.
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Speaker 3: Well, I will say it all went downhill when we
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Speaker 3: started and five Iron said okay, run out to that
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Speaker 3: fence in back, and she looked at him like, I'm
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Speaker 3: sorry what I thought. We were here to play softball.
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Speaker 3: I'm supposed to be taking ground balls, not running. So
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Speaker 3: I started running, and then she had to beat me,
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Speaker 3: of course.
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, did you lay down in puke?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 1: I just ran slowly.
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Speaker 2: Oh you just ran slowly? Okay.
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Speaker 1: It was a yog.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's smarter than sprints.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, we weren't sprinting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just if anybody's listening and is wondering if
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Speaker 2: they drove to work today. You know what, Tomorrow I'm
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Speaker 2: going to start doing sprints. Yeah, on the ninety degree day,
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Speaker 2: the warmest day of the year. Right this you probably
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Speaker 2: heard this conversation just in time.
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Speaker 1: You Chuck saved. You Chuck saved.
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Speaker 2: I can't even blame it, like on being young. It
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Speaker 2: was really like a thirty four year old's decision that
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Speaker 2: that's how I'm gonna.
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Speaker 3: Get But I understand like some of the logic behind it, though,
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Speaker 3: because you get so sick of like, oh my god,
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Speaker 3: I used to be in good shape and now I'm not.
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Speaker 1: Oh it's annoying. I gotta just get back into it.
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Speaker 3: And I'm not gonna I can't just ease myself into
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Speaker 3: it because then I'll just stop.
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Speaker 1: I need to just go.
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Speaker 2: And I wasn't that far removed, like I was in
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Speaker 2: phenomenal shape from like twenty nine to thirty two. It
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Speaker 2: was probably about thirty five thirty six, you know, after
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Speaker 2: a little couple years of morning radio.
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Speaker 1: I just yeah, yeah, it all goes downhill.
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Speaker 2: It does pretty fat. All right, Well, good morning to
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Speaker 2: you all. Welcome into the radio show. We have a
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Speaker 2: lot planned for you here on our four hour extravaganza,
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Speaker 2: and we will start, as I mentioned, with that monstrous
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Speaker 2: blockbuster trade. There are just some things that happen in
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Speaker 2: the sports world that transcend all other things, including local
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Speaker 2: story topics. Janis Antetakoompo was in fact traded last night
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Speaker 2: from the Milwaukee Bucks to the Miami Heat. The Heat
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Speaker 2: won the sweepstakes We've been hearing for a while, but
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Speaker 2: it was Boston and Miami as the front runners. We
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Speaker 2: came out of the weekend hearing that it is either
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Speaker 2: going to be Boston or Miami. There really is nobody
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Speaker 2: else in contention here. And then late last night we
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Speaker 2: find out that in fact, Antatakompo is traded to the
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Speaker 2: Miami Heat in exchange for a lot players. Tyler Harrow,
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Speaker 2: who's an All Star caliber player, guard khalil Ware, young
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Speaker 2: player Heimi Hakes, you remember from Ashley's favorite school, UCLA.
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Speaker 2: He's heading from Miami to Milwaukee. Heimi Hakes just seems
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Speaker 2: like a Miami guy, handsome young man. My guess is
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Speaker 2: he had one hell of a time being a Miami
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Speaker 2: professional athlete, and now he's going to cheese curd country.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure he's like it as much.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was feeling bad for all the guys that
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Speaker 3: were having to leave Miami. I mean, Tyler heroes from
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Speaker 3: Milwaukee apparently, so he's going back home.
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Speaker 1: So that's a fun thing for.
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Speaker 2: Him if he even stays there.
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Speaker 1: If he yeah, and if he liked where he was from,
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe he hates it. Maybe he drove by his
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Speaker 2: old place and started crying. Maybe that's where he ran
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Speaker 2: sprints when he was out.
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Speaker 1: Here, maybe when on the hot, humid days.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, Heimi Hawkins goes from LA to Miami to Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: You know what, Hymie, I'm a Midwest guy. Enjoy the
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Speaker 2: slower life here. You'll become more enriched. She's not buying him.
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Speaker 2: And then Casparis Yakashuns, who's formerly of Illinois, actually not
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Speaker 2: a bad player. Plus they get three first round picks,
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Speaker 2: including the thirteenth pick in tonight's NBA draft. And this
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Speaker 2: is the most loaded NBA draft at least in ten years.
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Speaker 2: I was hearing Jay Billis talk about it last night
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Speaker 2: and he, I guess has been covering makes me feel old.
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Speaker 2: I guess he's been covering the NBA draft for a
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Speaker 2: quarter century. And he says it's the best draft that
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Speaker 2: he's ever covered in terms of talent. Got a lot
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Speaker 2: of good drafts over the years. There, Jay, I think
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Speaker 2: maybe you may be prisoner of the moment. There's a
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Speaker 2: pick swap in there, there's a second round selection, so
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Speaker 2: Milwaukee ends up getting quite the hall in all of this,
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Speaker 2: but there without Gianis going forward and Frankly, I don't
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Speaker 2: think they had a choice. Janis Antetokoumpo went from being
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Speaker 2: like universally beloved to suddenly becoming a damn near a
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Speaker 2: heel in the NBA, damn near a villain the last
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Speaker 2: couple of years. I mean, I'm not sure of anybody
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Speaker 2: that I liked more thoroughly has been more off putting
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Speaker 2: than what Janis has been the last couple of years.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's acted petulant. I mean, somebody that for
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Speaker 2: his first what ten years in the NBA acted like
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Speaker 2: this is a dream come true. I never thought that
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Speaker 2: I would have these riches and could bring my family,
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Speaker 2: entire family over here and live such a good life.
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Speaker 2: And Milwaukee loves me, and I love Milwaukee, and you know,
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Speaker 2: all is good, and the and the even the reporters
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Speaker 2: when they ask me silly questions, I handle it in
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Speaker 2: such a cute and intelligent fashion that I usually shoot
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Speaker 2: them down without hurting their feelings. And I come across
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Speaker 2: looking that much better. And then in the last two years,
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Speaker 2: he's been poudy, he's been indifferent, he's been testy. I
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Speaker 2: don't know how your life got so difficult just because.
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Speaker 1: He didn't want to be somewhere that was paying you
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Speaker 1: millions of.
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Speaker 2: Dollars, right, And not only that, but then you started
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Speaker 2: because you're a superstar, putting your hands all over the product. Hey,
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Speaker 2: I want to be the GM too. You're gonna listen
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Speaker 2: to me on who we should acquire. I mean, Lebron
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Speaker 2: James is terrible at it. Michael Jordan was terrible at that.
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Speaker 2: Magic Johnson was terrible at that. Just because you can
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Speaker 2: play basketball doesn't know you how. It doesn't mean you
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Speaker 2: know how to build a roster. It's happened over, run over,
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Speaker 2: especially when you're purely an active player. And so he
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Speaker 2: started doing that and then his moves backfired. He wanted
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Speaker 2: Damian Lillard, and they brought in Damian Lillard, and Lillard
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Speaker 2: got hurt and they were worse, and so he did
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Speaker 2: that to them, and then he got angrier. Instead of like,
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Speaker 2: you know what, my bad, that was my call. I
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Speaker 2: know I put pressure on you. No, he was like, well,
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Speaker 2: you should stop me from making stupid decisions. Then it's
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Speaker 2: your job to stop me from making dumb personnel decisions
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Speaker 2: for the Milwaukee Bucks. Now make me better.
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Speaker 1: Also, thanks for having my brother on the team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, brothers, I think there are a couple of them,
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Speaker 2: both of them. Uh, And so he only has himself
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Speaker 2: to blame for that, and yet just kept getting angrier
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Speaker 2: and angrier, getting a nastier disposition. That's what it is,
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Speaker 2: a nasty disposition that he's carried with him the last
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Speaker 2: couple of years. And then they're like, okay, fine, well
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Speaker 2: we'll trade you, and he's like, I don't want to go.
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Speaker 2: I like Milwaukee. They're very nice to me. It's the
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Speaker 2: only city I've known. I just don't I want to
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Speaker 2: leave the Bucks. I don't want to leave Milwaukee. These
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Speaker 2: people have treated me. I got a house, I got
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Speaker 2: a family, I got kids that have grown up here,
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Speaker 2: They've got friends. I don't want to leave Milwaukee. I
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Speaker 2: just want to leave the Bucks. Can't you trade me
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Speaker 2: to the other Milwaukee NBA team?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: How hard would it be for us to get another
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Speaker 3: NBA team here?
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Speaker 1: For me to plan?
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Speaker 2: I love? There was a line that I saw on
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Speaker 2: Twitter over the weekend. It was like knowing the Brewers,
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Speaker 2: they probably would trade for him. Yeah, teach him a
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Speaker 2: nasty sinker and he'd probably thrown ninety eight miles per
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Speaker 2: hour by next year. I thought that was pretty funny,
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Speaker 2: But yes, there's no you can't stay in Milwaukee and
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Speaker 2: still be an NBA player, so you had to be traded.
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Speaker 2: He does get traded. He's heading to South Beach and
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Speaker 2: he's going to taking his talents to South Viak if
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Speaker 2: you oil, and he's going to join the Miami Heat,
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Speaker 2: and the Heat really rolling the dice. I mean, pat
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Speaker 2: Riley has a history of really knowing what he knows
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Speaker 2: what he really knowing what he's doing in basketball. Now,
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Speaker 2: pat Riley, I don't know how with it he is.
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Speaker 2: He's an old man. Now, he is an old man.
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Speaker 2: So this to me kind of feels like a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a desperation move to add a superstar. Gianness
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Speaker 2: has been hasn't exactly been healthy the last couple of years,
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Speaker 2: and so I still think he's one of the ten
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Speaker 2: best basketball players in the game. But he's going to
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Speaker 2: have to remain healthy at age thirty one going forward
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Speaker 2: in order to justify this monstrous of a package that
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Speaker 2: the Heat gave up, and so he's heading there. If
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Speaker 2: he stays healthy, I think he makes them a lot
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Speaker 2: better team, maybe even a contender in the East. But
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Speaker 2: I don't think there's any doubt about it that Milwaukee
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Speaker 2: made the best choice for their organization here by moving
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Speaker 2: him away. And there's been some criticism like, how could
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Speaker 2: you give up the superstar player and not get something
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Speaker 2: superstarish in return? And I'd push back on that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: number one, the superstar player forced his way out. They
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Speaker 2: never wanted to get rid of him. Ever. He's the
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Speaker 2: one that made it more difficult to stay in Milwaukee,
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Speaker 2: and he just kept getting more difficult and more difficult.
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Speaker 2: He just apparently doesn't understand that there are rules to
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Speaker 2: building an NBA team. You can't just go out and
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Speaker 2: get two other star players to put around him because
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Speaker 2: he wants it, right, Hey, yeah, I want it, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but I really want them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, I asked nicely first.
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Speaker 2: So he forces his way out, and Milwaukee's got to
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Speaker 2: make the best decision. And you know what, they could
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Speaker 2: have traded him at the trading deadline. They decided not to.
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Speaker 2: You can only get two first round picks. Weird rules
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Speaker 2: in the NBA. A lot of hidden rules in the NBA.
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Speaker 2: I don't know them all. You can only get two
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Speaker 2: first round picks if you trade somebody before the trading deadline, apparently,
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Speaker 2: But if you wait for the offseason, you can get
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Speaker 2: as many as you want. And they end up getting
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Speaker 2: three first round picks from the Miami Heat. So that's
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Speaker 2: why they didn't trade him at the trading deadline. They
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Speaker 2: waited for the off season. And also I get that
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Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics also had a killer offer that included
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Speaker 2: Jalen Brown in the deal, And that's a whole other story.
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Speaker 2: What's Boston now going to do with Jayalen Brown.
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Speaker 1: They've tried to trade him twice.
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Speaker 2: But their choice was their situation was Milwaukee like, okay, yes,
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Speaker 2: I get okay, hard to get a superstar player, we
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Speaker 2: could get one back in return, but he's not gonna
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Speaker 2: want to be here, and he's got a contract that's
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Speaker 2: going to expire soon, and so where you'd have to
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Speaker 2: flip him for another deal, and we would do that
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Speaker 2: if Boston will give us more. Boston's giving us two
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Speaker 2: first round picks, but if they have Giannis, those are
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Speaker 2: going to be two late first round picks. They might
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Speaker 2: as well be second round picks. So we're gonna need more.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna need them to do something similar to what
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Speaker 2: Miami is doing for us in terms of the depth
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Speaker 2: of the proSP young players or draft picks that they're
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Speaker 2: going to give us, and then we will consider that
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Speaker 2: because then if we can get that surplus of picks,
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Speaker 2: and then we can take Brown and flip him and
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Speaker 2: then we can get another surplus of picks. Now, now
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Speaker 2: we're talking. But if all you're going to do is
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Speaker 2: give us two first rounders that are going to be
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Speaker 2: late first rounders the next couple of years, and a
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Speaker 2: player who's going to be disgruntled and doesn't want to
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Speaker 2: be here that we got to move anyway, then it
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Speaker 2: sounds to me like the Miami deal is the better
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Speaker 2: deal for us, And so I think they actually made
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Speaker 2: a really good decision here. Under the circumstances in the NBA,
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Speaker 2: it's kind of crazy to let go of a superstar player.
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Speaker 2: They are really hard to come by and you have
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Speaker 2: to have one in order to win. But this is
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Speaker 2: Milwaukee announcing this is a true rebuild. We had a
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Speaker 2: great time with Jannis Anta Katunpo. We got more out
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Speaker 2: of them than we ever dreamed when he drafted that
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Speaker 2: skinny kid out of Greece years ago in the second
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Speaker 2: round for goodness sake, and watched him develop into a superstar.
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Speaker 2: He was great for us, great for our community, great
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Speaker 2: for the organization, great for the Bucks logo and reputation.
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Speaker 2: But obviously that time has run its course. We won
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Speaker 2: a national championship. We feel he'll be forever remembered as
18:20
Speaker 2: a Milwaukee Buck. But it's time to rebuild. It's time
18:23
Speaker 2: to start over. And frankly, the Miami rebuild package kind
18:28
Speaker 2: of fits our needs better than adding Jalen Brown and
18:31
Speaker 2: then having to trade him again and hoping we can
18:33
Speaker 2: get something similar. So I think Miami did really well.
18:37
Speaker 2: I think Miami, Milwaukee and Miami both did really well
18:40
Speaker 2: in this deal. And I think the NBA is better
18:43
Speaker 2: for it. And I hope we get good Giannis back
18:46
Speaker 2: going forward, because good, great attitude, Giannis is so good
18:51
Speaker 2: for sports. And I did not even recognize that guy
18:54
Speaker 2: that we were watching the last couple of years.
18:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was beloved. After they won the championship. He
18:58
Speaker 1: was so fun.
18:59
Speaker 3: He was like he just had a childlike quality about him,
19:03
Speaker 3: Like he just was a happy seemed happy, kind and.
19:08
Speaker 1: Fun.
19:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then went he went, Yeah that's where he went.
19:12
Speaker 2: Well he can go in Miami, now, I'm.
19:14
Speaker 1: Sure he can.
19:15
Speaker 2: All Right, let's find out what's on tap for today's show.
19:21
Speaker 1: What's on Tech?
19:23
Speaker 2: What's on Tech? NBA Draft tonight at five o'clock. Spencer
19:27
Speaker 2: Hawes is going to join us today. I told him
19:29
Speaker 2: we were gonna bug him for a while, but my goodness,
19:31
Speaker 2: it's the biggest draft and at least a decade Giannis
19:34
Speaker 2: has been traded. We got a chat with him, so
19:37
Speaker 2: we'll do that at nine o'clock today. Also, there was
19:40
Speaker 2: another trade last night. There was a three way deal
19:42
Speaker 2: where Julius Randall ended up with Brooklyn at the end
19:45
Speaker 2: of the evening. And so a couple of significant trades
19:49
Speaker 2: last night, one of monstrous quality, of course, and one
19:53
Speaker 2: other basketball note, And I do want to talk about
19:55
Speaker 2: this later this hour. Dusty May, the head coach of
19:58
Speaker 2: the national champion Michigan Wolverine, has decided, Hey, that was fun.
20:02
Speaker 2: I'm going to the NBA, you know, where things are
20:05
Speaker 2: a little more stable. That's that's how far the stability
20:12
Speaker 2: of college athletics has gotten that somebody would go to
20:15
Speaker 2: the NBA because it's more stable. But Dusty May is
20:19
Speaker 2: going to the Dallas Mavericks, and I do want to
20:21
Speaker 2: talk about that today. At six forty five, the storm man,
20:24
Speaker 2: they're in a bad way. They lost their franchise record
20:27
Speaker 2: eleventh straight game last night to the Dallas Wings. Their
20:31
Speaker 2: last win was May twenty fourth. It is June twenty third.
20:35
Speaker 1: It's a long time.
20:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's going to be a month anniversary since
20:39
Speaker 2: they last won a basketball game. World Cup, Oh man,
20:43
Speaker 2: what a day for superstars. Yesterday you had Messi scored
20:47
Speaker 2: both goals for Argentina and they're to nothing or too nil,
20:50
Speaker 2: went over Austria. He sets a World Cup record for
20:54
Speaker 2: all time goals and he had two of them, so
20:57
Speaker 2: he jumps it up to eighteen. And then kill and
21:00
Speaker 2: bop A scores two for France and their three nothing
21:03
Speaker 2: win over in Iraq, and he's just two behind Messi
21:07
Speaker 2: for the all time. He now has sixteen in his
21:10
Speaker 2: glorious career, and then Norway's Earlin Holland. He's already on
21:16
Speaker 2: pace to blow away both of them if he can
21:18
Speaker 2: play enough matches, because apparently he averages two goals every
21:23
Speaker 2: match he plays at the World Cup. He had two
21:25
Speaker 2: more last night and Norway beat Senegal three to two.
21:28
Speaker 2: Of course, he was asked about facing France in the
21:31
Speaker 2: next match, and he said, we're not gonna win. Oh okay, yeah, yeah,
21:37
Speaker 2: really upbeat Norwegian right there. College World Series. Congratulations to
21:42
Speaker 2: the Oklahoma as soon as they are national champs. And
21:44
Speaker 2: they really did wipe the floor with the competition. They
21:47
Speaker 2: got hot at the right time, they grew and they
21:50
Speaker 2: became the best team in college baseball from what I seen,
21:52
Speaker 2: because they kind of beat up everybody that they faced
21:55
Speaker 2: throughout this process. Mariners back in action after a night
21:58
Speaker 2: off last night there in Pittsburgh to take on the Pirates.
22:01
Speaker 2: It'll be nighttime in Pittsburgh, it'll be afternoon for US
22:04
Speaker 2: three forty. First pitch George Kirby against Mitch Keller. That's
22:09
Speaker 2: your pitching matchup there. Logan won Pitcher of the Week
22:12
Speaker 2: this week in the American League, and the Mariners did
22:16
Speaker 2: say front office did say yesterday we are committed to
22:19
Speaker 2: this piggyback thing like we were before Friday. So we're
22:24
Speaker 2: gonna see it two more times. At least. Seahawks have
22:27
Speaker 2: agreed to another joint practice with the Tennessee Titans this fall.
22:30
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll ask Greg Bell about that at eight o'clock.
22:33
Speaker 2: But our bigger objective is to have Greg Bell participate
22:37
Speaker 2: in the Seahawks one series. Today at eight o'clock one,
22:40
Speaker 2: analysts break it down one key Seahawk player for one
22:43
Speaker 2: entire interview. And speaking of interviews, yesterday we chatted with
22:47
Speaker 2: the general manager, Jason Bottrel of the Seattle Kraken, coming
22:51
Speaker 2: off a big trade that he made on Sunday and
22:54
Speaker 2: an extension to Bobby McMahon. They also have the number
22:57
Speaker 2: seven pick in the NHL Draft coming up on Friday.
23:01
Speaker 2: We'll talk about all of those things in case you
23:03
Speaker 2: missed it. A little bit of our conversation with Jason
23:06
Speaker 2: Bottrel coming up next here on Chuck and Box Sports
23:09
Speaker 2: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
23:26
Speaker 4: Ah.
23:26
Speaker 2: Yes, here we sit on this lovely Tuesday morning, and
23:35
Speaker 2: of course, blockbuster trade, that's what everybody's talking about. And
23:39
Speaker 2: I'm discussing, of course Sunday's acquisition of Mackie Samuskevitch from
23:45
Speaker 2: the Florida Panthers.
23:46
Speaker 1: Do you also want to keep calling him Sammy Samuskevitch.
23:50
Speaker 2: A little bit? Maybe we will.
23:51
Speaker 1: I think maybe we will.
23:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll just give into it, Sammy.
23:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, just keep Sammy Samuskevitch. It sounds like a movie character.
23:58
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, yep. And the last forty eight hours, there's
24:01
Speaker 2: been a blockbuster trade involving a team from Miami, and
24:07
Speaker 2: yes it's the Kraken. Yep, I'm pulling off a deal
24:10
Speaker 2: for Sammy Samus Skevitch.
24:12
Speaker 1: Everyone's talking about it for.
24:13
Speaker 2: A first round pick, not our seventh overall, the twenty
24:16
Speaker 2: fifth overall, also a second rounder in twenty twenty seven,
24:21
Speaker 2: who had the twenty twenty one first round pick of
24:24
Speaker 2: the Panthers, twenty three year old Sammy Samuskevitch. But that
24:28
Speaker 2: wasn't even the biggest day. I mean, we're already pulling
24:30
Speaker 2: off the biggest blockbuster in the history of Florida sports.
24:33
Speaker 1: That's right, at least especially this week.
24:35
Speaker 2: And then about five minutes later, Jason Botrel is back
24:40
Speaker 2: at it and he extends Bobby McMahon, who of course
24:43
Speaker 2: made quite the impression on us last season acquisition at
24:47
Speaker 2: the trading deadline. He didn't make the impact in the
24:51
Speaker 2: standings that we hoped he would, but he scored ten
24:54
Speaker 2: goals in eighteen games and looked exactly like the thing
24:59
Speaker 2: that the Kraken could use heading into next year. And
25:02
Speaker 2: so yesterday we caught up with Jason Botrel, the general
25:05
Speaker 2: manager of the Krack and in case you missed it,
25:07
Speaker 2: we thought might be a good idea to replay it
25:09
Speaker 2: early in the morning. So here's a little bit from
25:13
Speaker 2: our conversation with Jason Bottrell and we'll start where I
25:17
Speaker 2: asked him, was signing McMahon the biggest priority heading into
25:21
Speaker 2: this offseason of our returning players? Yes, it was.
25:24
Speaker 4: You know, Bobby came in at the trade deadline, had
25:27
Speaker 4: a huge impact on our team right off the bat.
25:30
Speaker 4: He saw his size, his speed, his shot just fit
25:33
Speaker 4: really well into lane system here and you know, it's
25:36
Speaker 4: fun watching things As things progressed here. We obviously told
25:39
Speaker 4: Bobby we had a lot of interest in bringing them back.
25:42
Speaker 4: I think after the season he really got to know
25:45
Speaker 4: Seattle on the Pacific Northwest, hiking, did a little swimming,
25:49
Speaker 4: even in the celt Lake Union, which was a little chilly,
25:53
Speaker 4: I think for sure, golf like, he.
25:55
Speaker 2: Got to know the area really well.
25:57
Speaker 4: And you know, we continued to talk laying myself through
26:01
Speaker 4: this entire process with him and ecstatic to have him
26:04
Speaker 4: on board and great that Bobby made a decision to
26:06
Speaker 4: be out in Pacific Northwest for the next six years
26:08
Speaker 4: right now.
26:09
Speaker 2: Now, Unfortunately he didn't do a lot of winning when
26:11
Speaker 2: he was in that cracking uniform, but he did a
26:13
Speaker 2: lot of scoring. So what does this say about the
26:16
Speaker 2: strength of the organization that a player can come here,
26:19
Speaker 2: be here for a short period of time, not really
26:22
Speaker 2: win a lot, and yet this is where he wants
26:25
Speaker 2: to be.
26:25
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's just how we treat people off
26:27
Speaker 4: the off the ice here. You know what facility, the
26:30
Speaker 4: facilities we have here, you know, strength and performance staff.
26:34
Speaker 4: You know, Bobby's a guy that really impressed. These are
26:36
Speaker 4: the things that we didn't know about him or you know,
26:39
Speaker 4: you know, you see it firsthand, just his dedication to
26:41
Speaker 4: his craft, whether it's in the weight room or it's
26:45
Speaker 4: preparing for practice or working on his game in practice.
26:49
Speaker 4: And I think he actually enjoyed he saw some of
26:51
Speaker 4: the young talent we have, certainly later on the season
26:54
Speaker 4: two with some of these guys that we called up
26:56
Speaker 4: from Coachella Valley to he saw the young talent coming
26:59
Speaker 4: through here, accept a little bit of a more of
27:01
Speaker 4: a leadership role. That got him excited moving forward here too.
27:03
Speaker 4: So no, these are the things that we talked about
27:06
Speaker 4: just how we would utilize him. Lane spoke extensively with
27:10
Speaker 4: him I'm just you know, trying to maximize Bobby as
27:13
Speaker 4: a hockey player, but then also selling them just on
27:16
Speaker 4: our vision here with our young players. You look at
27:19
Speaker 4: obviously with the trade with Mackie Semaskevitch yesterday, young players
27:22
Speaker 4: like Berkeley Catton, Fisker, Molguard, Ryan Winterton, like, we have
27:27
Speaker 4: a lot of young Fords coming in the mix, and
27:30
Speaker 4: those that's what got Bobby excited about signing up with us.
27:32
Speaker 2: Moving forward here, Jason Botral is with us here general
27:35
Speaker 2: manager for the Seattle Crack and a busy Sunday for him.
27:39
Speaker 2: Not only does he extend Bobby McMahon to a six
27:41
Speaker 2: year contract, also made a trade. You heard him mention
27:45
Speaker 2: the name Mackie sam As Skavitch over from the Florida Panthers.
27:48
Speaker 2: So this is just blank canvas for a lot of
27:51
Speaker 2: us Cracking fans. Tell us about Sama Skavitch, give us
27:54
Speaker 2: the scouting report.
27:55
Speaker 4: Well, at the end of the day, you know, you
27:56
Speaker 4: look at what we've tried to bring into this organization,
27:59
Speaker 4: whether it's Chandler Steve, it's in Vince Dunn, Brandon Monter.
28:01
Speaker 4: You're trying to bring in players who have won Stanley Cups.
28:04
Speaker 4: We're also been trying to bring in younger players into
28:06
Speaker 4: our mix, right we you know, players who are in
28:09
Speaker 4: and around that's a twenty to twenty five year old
28:12
Speaker 4: age category, and Mackie we have both. We have a
28:14
Speaker 4: young player who has won a Stanley Cup, you know,
28:18
Speaker 4: similar to you know, fits in that same age category
28:21
Speaker 4: of age twenty three, played with Matty Beniers at the
28:23
Speaker 4: University of Michigan. You know, some of the things that
28:26
Speaker 4: we just talked to you about Bobby McMahon and the
28:29
Speaker 4: things that we really liked about Bobby's game, Macki has
28:32
Speaker 4: the same attributes. Great speed, gets it on the ford check,
28:36
Speaker 4: has a great release. We believe, you know, he can
28:39
Speaker 4: be a score in our system moving forward. Obviously playing
28:42
Speaker 4: on a very talented Florida team, think he'll get more
28:45
Speaker 4: of an opportunity here and was very excited to bring
28:47
Speaker 4: him into our mix.
28:49
Speaker 2: You know, last year I heard from Lane Lambert a
28:52
Speaker 2: little frustration that we're not getting enough shots on goal
28:56
Speaker 2: near goal, just not being aggressive enough with our with
28:59
Speaker 2: our shooting. McMahon seems to satisfy that last season. I'm
29:04
Speaker 2: hearing that maybe Samuskevitch is the same way. Is this
29:08
Speaker 2: something that we can arrive at a conclusion that you're
29:12
Speaker 2: trying to find guys that are answering the bell that
29:16
Speaker 2: that Lambert was ringing last year.
29:18
Speaker 4: One percent. I think both of these players have a
29:21
Speaker 4: shooter mentality and we love to see that. It's also
29:24
Speaker 4: what gets us excited about Yanni Newman, who's played some
29:26
Speaker 4: games with our organization up in Seattle here too excited
29:30
Speaker 4: about his future again another shooter. We think we continue
29:34
Speaker 4: can continue to develop these playmakers that are in our
29:37
Speaker 4: centers in Veneer's and Berkeley Catton and Chandler Stevenson here.
29:41
Speaker 4: Finding guys who want to Hey, their first thought is
29:44
Speaker 4: get pucks the net. That's what we're looking for, and
29:46
Speaker 4: both of these players, Mackie and Bobby can certainly do that.
29:49
Speaker 2: Now, you guys have had quite a public announcement declaration
29:54
Speaker 2: that you were gonna not You're gonna turn over every
29:56
Speaker 2: stone try to figure out why this organization is is
30:00
Speaker 2: not having more success. So what was the overall conclusion
30:06
Speaker 2: that you drew from it.
30:07
Speaker 4: Well, it's an ongoing process obviously with Sportsology Mike Ford,
30:10
Speaker 4: who runs their organization, and it's been actually a really
30:14
Speaker 4: good process from us. You know, it's been enjoyable working
30:17
Speaker 4: with him evaluating, you know, each one of our departments
30:22
Speaker 4: going through it, not only evaluating what we've done over
30:25
Speaker 4: the first five years as an organization, but also here
30:28
Speaker 4: you look at Sportsology, what they've done with different organizations
30:32
Speaker 4: and NBA, NFL, Major League Baseball, just certain ideas on
30:36
Speaker 4: how we can communicate better, how we can organize things
30:39
Speaker 4: better as our organization continues to grow. So no, I've
30:43
Speaker 4: certainly enjoyed working with Mike a lot. You know, we're
30:47
Speaker 4: going to continue to sort of work with him from
30:49
Speaker 4: a consultant basis to actually implement some of these things
30:52
Speaker 4: as we move forward here. They have certainly gave us
30:54
Speaker 4: the information. I know our business side is going to
30:57
Speaker 4: roll some of the stuff out to our season ticket
30:58
Speaker 4: holders in the near future. But overall, it's been a
31:01
Speaker 4: great process just to have a reflection on, hey, what
31:05
Speaker 4: are we doing well, but where are the areas that
31:06
Speaker 4: we can really improve on.
31:07
Speaker 2: There's a lot of good information in there. Listening to
31:09
Speaker 2: it back, yeah, yeah.
31:11
Speaker 1: It's like he knows what he's talking about.
31:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like the host had asked good questions and stuff.
31:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got really good stuff out of them.
31:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was dynamite. Jason Botrel, there wasn't a lot
31:22
Speaker 2: more to it. There was a little bit extra to
31:24
Speaker 2: that conversation yesterday. If you want to hear that extra
31:27
Speaker 2: a little bit. Ninety three to three kjar dot com
31:30
Speaker 2: hopefully appreciate the honesty. I could have said there was
31:33
Speaker 2: a ton more and then made you listen to the
31:35
Speaker 2: same interview eighty percent of the same interview again, but
31:39
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, there was.
31:40
Speaker 1: A little more.
31:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a little more, but we only had him on.
31:42
Speaker 3: For what ten twelve minutes anyway, and we just played
31:45
Speaker 3: six of it, Yeah, exactly.
31:47
Speaker 2: So that's the nuts and bolts of it with Jason Botrell.
31:50
Speaker 2: I guess I could recap what else I just said,
31:53
Speaker 2: was that going to be the big splash of the
31:55
Speaker 2: off season? Are you planning to do more? And he
31:59
Speaker 2: didn't really commit to an aggressive off season, but certainly
32:04
Speaker 2: they're in on a lot of things, including they have
32:07
Speaker 2: the seventh pick in the draft on Friday. It is available.
32:10
Speaker 2: He did say that on our airwaves that it is
32:13
Speaker 2: available in trade for the right veteran piece to add
32:17
Speaker 2: to this roster, and obviously they're in search of scoring
32:22
Speaker 2: right now. So some good stuff from him. We appreciate
32:25
Speaker 2: him hopping on with us yesterday and thought that maybe
32:28
Speaker 2: our early morning audience, our six o'clock audience, would like
32:31
Speaker 2: to hear from the Crack and GM after Sunday's busy day.
32:35
Speaker 2: Coming up next, we've got the Mariners getting ready for
32:39
Speaker 2: a little more baseball here tonight. They'll be in Pittsburgh,
32:42
Speaker 2: back on the East Coast, getting ready to take on
32:44
Speaker 2: a new look Pirates team. Will provide a preview. It's
32:48
Speaker 2: a service we provide right here on Sports Radio ninety
32:50
Speaker 2: three point three KHRFM. Hey, great morning, see you, Chuck
33:06
Speaker 2: and Ashley with you. Coming up. We do have Greg
33:09
Speaker 2: Bell for our Seahawks one series today. Sorry seven five
33:12
Speaker 2: people that might miss Greg Bell. He's coming on at
33:14
Speaker 2: eight today for the Seahawks one series. Also Spencer Hawes. Yeah,
33:19
Speaker 2: we couldn't go much longer without chatting with Spencer Hawes.
33:22
Speaker 2: Plus there's a lot of big stuff going on in
33:24
Speaker 2: the NBA right now, So he'll join us today at
33:28
Speaker 2: nine o'clock. And the Mariners did not play yesterday and
33:34
Speaker 2: they'll be back on the field tonight. They'll be in Pittsburgh.
33:38
Speaker 2: It'll be afternoon for US three forty first pitch against
33:40
Speaker 2: the Pirates, and this is a completely different story. I mean,
33:43
Speaker 2: for the last decade or so, going to Pittsburgh always
33:47
Speaker 2: led to the Mariner twitter, Well, we don't sweep this team.
33:52
Speaker 2: We're cooked now, silliness, frankly. I mean, it's hard to
33:58
Speaker 2: sweep anybody in Major League Baseball. It's just the way
34:00
Speaker 2: that the game is built. But the point is that
34:05
Speaker 2: the Pirates have been a team that has been one
34:07
Speaker 2: of the worst in Major League Baseball the last few years,
34:10
Speaker 2: and they're not that team anymore. They were very aggressive
34:13
Speaker 2: this offseason in bringing in some veteran pieces, not some
34:17
Speaker 2: big superstar. They didn't spend gazillions on their roster, but
34:23
Speaker 2: they certainly increased payroll to bring in a few veterans,
34:26
Speaker 2: namely Brandon Low, pretty good hitting second baseman, Ryan O'Hearn,
34:31
Speaker 2: pretty good hitting first basement. And they've already gotten return
34:34
Speaker 2: on that investment. The strange part about it is this
34:38
Speaker 2: was an organization that was building itself, like the Mariners.
34:41
Speaker 2: They were building that through pitching, starting pitching one hundred
34:45
Speaker 2: mile per hour arms, and they've got them. But lo
34:50
Speaker 2: and behold, the Pirates are five hundred right now. Just
34:53
Speaker 2: a game difference between us and them, and it's with
34:57
Speaker 2: their offense. It's not because of pitch, even though that's
35:01
Speaker 2: what they've built their entire foundation on. The pitching staff
35:05
Speaker 2: is sixteenth in era in Major League Baseball, Paul Skins
35:09
Speaker 2: in company. They're seventh in opponent's batting average, which is good.
35:14
Speaker 2: They're fourth in ks, which speaks to the electricity that
35:19
Speaker 2: they're starting pitchers have in their arms. But they're twenty
35:23
Speaker 2: second and walks allowed, and that leaves them kind of
35:26
Speaker 2: middle of the pack in terms of ops. They also
35:30
Speaker 2: don't field as bad as we've been defensively this year.
35:33
Speaker 2: They've committed fourteen more errors than we have now.
35:37
Speaker 1: That would be so frustrating to watch as a Pirates fan.
35:39
Speaker 2: Believe it or not, our error total is middle of
35:42
Speaker 2: the pack. We're like twelfth in errors now. We found
35:45
Speaker 2: out through analytics errors don't tell the entire story about
35:48
Speaker 2: whether or not you're a good, great, bad defensive team,
35:52
Speaker 2: but they do still tell some sort of story.
35:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, and having fourteen more than what we've had, that's
35:56
Speaker 1: a lot.
35:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, and extra outs could be why the pitsur Pirates
36:00
Speaker 2: pitchers haven't been more efficient more effective this year. But
36:04
Speaker 2: this is a top five offense, top five offense. The
36:08
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh frickin Pirates have a top five offense. We're last
36:12
Speaker 2: in baseball and hitting against left handed pitchers, and the
36:15
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Pirates have a top five offense. So that's what
36:19
Speaker 2: we're heading into. We're gonna be able to miss Paul Skeens,
36:23
Speaker 2: we don't have to face him, and the Pirates do
36:26
Speaker 2: not have a left handed starting pitcher, so we don't
36:28
Speaker 2: have to face one of those dudes, of which they
36:31
Speaker 2: all turn into Paul Skiings against us. So we're gonna
36:35
Speaker 2: face three ridies the next day. Mitch Keller tonight, who's
36:38
Speaker 2: been struggling mightily as of late, Braxton Ashcraft tomorrow, who
36:43
Speaker 2: actually has a higher war than Paul Skins. He's been
36:47
Speaker 2: one of the pleasant surprises out there. So three right
36:50
Speaker 2: handers the next three days. That's good news for the
36:53
Speaker 2: Mariners lineup. But this Pirates lineup is not the doormat
36:59
Speaker 2: that it once won. They've actually come alive their fifth
37:02
Speaker 2: and run scored fifth, and ops fourth, and on base
37:05
Speaker 2: percentage fourth and batting average, and Brandon Lowe and Ryan
37:07
Speaker 2: Hearn have come through. And then the names like Brian
37:10
Speaker 2: Reynolds and O'Neil Cruz have had really good seasons this
37:15
Speaker 2: year for the Pirates. The good news is O'Neil Cruz
37:18
Speaker 2: is on the injury list right now, so we don't
37:20
Speaker 2: have to face that menace. So that's what we're up
37:22
Speaker 2: against the next three nights. A little different experience taken
37:26
Speaker 2: on the Pirates. They are going for it this year.
37:28
Speaker 2: They think they've got the team that if they make
37:30
Speaker 2: a couple of adjustments at the trading deadline, that they
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Speaker 2: can actually be a playoff team. And it's been a
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Speaker 2: long time since the Pirates had that mentality, and so
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Speaker 2: this is not going to be easy the next three nights,
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Speaker 2: and yet there's no reason that on paper, we shouldn't
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Speaker 2: win this series. So there you go, all right. Coming
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Speaker 2: up next on the radio show Headlines Plus, it's time
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