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Chuck & Buck 3-26 Hour 4: Evaluating the M's hot hitters, Jerry Dipoto and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:11
  Speaker 1: All right. It is Chuck Powell, Buggy Jacobson, and Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Ryan with you, Bucky and I down here at Jimmy's
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: on First, right across the street from the stadium T Mobile,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: which is going to be rocking tonight, the opener of
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball season. Some people call it opening Day.
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: Bucky, that's a good couple words. Yeah, that makes sense.
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: Now then I really think about it, wrapped my head
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: around it. I'm glad that we're using that.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're going to go with a day
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  Speaker 1: opening day. So come on down to Jimmy's. By the way,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: they're serving breakfast here. You can have your first I mean,
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: I realized the game's not till seven o'clock tonight, but
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: if you want to make a day of it, or
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: you know, do it in shifts, come on down. We're
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: gonna be broadcasting down here for most of the day.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty certain about that right here from our location
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: in the corner at Jimmy's on First here at the
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: Silver Cloud Hotel. So yes, it's here. The season is here.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: We got a bright sunshiny day for goodness sake. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is it, this is living right here.
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  Speaker 2: This is a living I mean, it's beautiful right now.
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  Speaker 2: The sun's beating on my back. It makes me feel
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: a little bit like spring training.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Now, it's a bit nippy outside, so it's not gonna
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: feel quite like Arizona. But the sun coming in when
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: I'm in the ambient temperature in here, I'm liking it.
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  Speaker 3: You're feeling very opening dayish.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: It's like you're carrying a backpack of summer.
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: I am, yes, yeah, yes, and I'm going to carry
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  Speaker 2: it with me the rest of the day.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: Well, I do want to let you know. But however
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: you're taking in the game, whether it's going to be
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: on twelve sixty one, which is the new Comcast channel
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: by the way, for Mariners Baseball, or if you've got
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: a streaming service, whatever the case may be. Mariners dot
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: Com slash watch is where you get the information for
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: where you can watch not just this game, but game
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Mariner games all season long. Uh and if all else,
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Phil's head on over to Tulala Persort Casino, go to
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: the DraftKings sports book. That's a nice way.
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  Speaker 3: That's a better in the season.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, you know, absolutely packed and you can't get
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  Speaker 2: a bigger TV to watch than what they got in
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  Speaker 2: the sports book over there.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a great idea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, go to Tulala Presort Casino, DraftKings, sports book, take
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: in a little baseball. Do they make a couple of
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: baseball bets while you're at and then it rolled in
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: you got your tournament games tonight as well.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, so so much fun, so.
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  Speaker 3: Much a whole lot of cool stuff going on.
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  Speaker 1: Too much cool stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You can do it a lot of slap some sense
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  Speaker 4: into him, cold water.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: In my face so I can recover. Uh well, I've
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: got a draft to do, all right. So every year,
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: during our opening day celebration here on Chuck and Buck,
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: we do usually one draft. It's our Mariner's home run
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  Speaker 1: derby drafted a way to preview the Mariners roster heading
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: into the season. So we're gonna draft for three rounds
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: here today and then our teams. However many collective home
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: runs they hit this baseball season, they will theoretically win
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  Speaker 1: the Green Jacket at the end of the year. We
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  Speaker 1: leave that fourth round open for pickups during the course
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  Speaker 1: of the season, and so we just need a draft order.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley got the fourth pick when we did our MLB
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  Speaker 1: teams draft earlier in the show. I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm hoping she gets fourth again. Yeah. Yeah, let's see.
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  Speaker 4: Well, guess what, guys, I got fourth again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I seven or eight drafts in the last couple months,
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  Speaker 5: and I have had fourth in every single one randomizer
• 3:44
  Speaker 5: my butt.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: We're going to change that. We're gonna we're gonna adjust that.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: That shouldn't happen to you that frequently. You should, but
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't have time to change it. That's all right,
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  Speaker 1: there's too much to explain today.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I get it.
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  Speaker 5: Here's our order here first, Oh, Buck, your second kid
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  Speaker 5: is third and I am fourth.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, boy, I really lucked out on the two drafts.
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  Speaker 6: I really.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody else's order changed except mine. Well yeah, so I
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  Speaker 5: really lucked out too.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a little unfortunate for kid, a little funny
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  Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, chokes Bucky, and I though pretty good position, right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've had a good day as a Mariner fan because
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: I got the Mariners in our team draft. And now, look,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I get I get it, and I Hopelio
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  Speaker 1: it's more home runs than Cal this year. That'd be great.
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  Speaker 1: That means Julio's had his breakout season. It's probably on
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  Speaker 1: path for an MVP type year. But I just after
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: what we saw last year, cannot possibly pass on a
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  Speaker 1: guy that hit sixty home runs in one campaign. So,
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  Speaker 1: to me, a bad season for cal Rawley is thirty
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  Speaker 1: five floor seasons forty. I'm gonna say cal Rawley hits
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  Speaker 1: more than forty north of forty this year. He is
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  Speaker 1: for me, the number one pick and our Mariners home
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  Speaker 1: run derby shocking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really shocked that you took him there. Yeah, understandable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're right, the decent year last year, and
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  Speaker 2: I think even if there is a slight regression back
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  Speaker 2: to the norm, I'm with you. I think forty is
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  Speaker 2: probably where he's gonna land, somewhere around.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere around, yeah, I mean, and that's probably gonna lead
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  Speaker 1: the team. I mean, Julio's got the capability of getting
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  Speaker 1: more than that, but it's probably gonna lead the team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not one hundred percent sure, how I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: jo E can get off to a good start, he
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  Speaker 2: could he could eclipse that forty mark, and it'd be
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  Speaker 2: nice to have a couple guys at forty dingers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to load you up. If you weren't
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  Speaker 1: thinking maybe Julio snuck up on you weren't thinking about
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  Speaker 1: Julio with the number two pick, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: You're going hut broke out.
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  Speaker 1: Mitch Garver, Mitch Garver, Okay, I'll start writing it down,
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  Speaker 1: write that down.
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  Speaker 2: And then throw your pin away. But no, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: go Julio. Part of me wants to go Naylor here,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Go, Oh, really, how do you think Naylor's going to
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  Speaker 1: hit H? I think that's the headline in that pick.
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  Speaker 3: I think you could get thirty thirty Yeah, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: If we have to have this conversation before kids made his.
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  Speaker 3: Pick, Yeah, okay, I mean I don't think you'll hit
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  Speaker 3: any Yeah. I think that's zero homers this year for Naylor. H.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad enough that Ashley has to pick forth. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to evaluate the entire roster before she can pick.
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  Speaker 1: How many do you think Julio's gonna hit this year?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going forty forty season for Julio this year.
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  Speaker 2: But then you think that's the third year in a
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  Speaker 2: row have said that, so eventually it's gonna come true,
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  Speaker 2: because I do one hundred percent believe in his talent.
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  Speaker 2: He just has to get off to a hot start.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is highly commendable what this dude does
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  Speaker 2: year in and year out. When he does not show
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  Speaker 2: up until June. I mean, it's that's not an easy
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  Speaker 2: thing to do, to be looking at your numbers, like, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be a superstar and I'm hitting very
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  Speaker 2: poorly in the first half the season. If he gets
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: off to a hot start, look out. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's legitimate that there's people that are talking about
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  Speaker 2: him above Cal, who had, I mean a historic season
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  Speaker 2: last year, and there's probably more people thinking that Julio
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  Speaker 2: has a better chance of being an MVP this year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh and even Cal, and I can understand why.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go forty four for Cal this year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go thirty eight for Julio. But I think
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  Speaker 1: it's more than just hitting home runs. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna have just a more well rounded, get off to
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  Speaker 1: a better start season this year. So I think we're
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  Speaker 1: we got two superstars on this team. I mean, in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, one that's established it and one that I
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  Speaker 1: think this year is going to establish it. All right, kid,
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  Speaker 1: you are up next. You got the third pick back
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  Speaker 1: there at the studios. How you taking in our home
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  Speaker 1: run derby?
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  Speaker 7: I will take Josh Naylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys, Okay, I don't hear? Yeah, kid, there is
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  Speaker 1: there is, there is.
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  Speaker 7: I will take Josh Naylor.
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  Speaker 1: He is Josh Naylor.
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  Speaker 5: Na elation that you gave when he picked Julio. Remember
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  Speaker 5: that's who you were supposed to be evaluating Julia.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think you're all. I actually think there's
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  Speaker 1: somebody out there that will have more home runs than
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  Speaker 1: Naylor this year. I think Naylor's a low twenties guy.
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  Speaker 1: I think he got a mid twenties guy still on
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  Speaker 1: the board there, Ashley. But Bucky likes naylored at thirty
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  Speaker 1: this year, So blame him, I guess, is what I'm trying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna yeah, all right, he'll take the blame that
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  Speaker 1: Ashley didn't get Josh Naylor. Yeah, all right, good pick kid.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Ashley, you get back to back selections here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with Randy Rose Arena Yeah and Dom Canzone.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, she's going with can Zone. All right.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good pick. Yeah, Dom has got some serious pop.
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  Speaker 2: I think that what he showed last year, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he was real happy about the fact that he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't getting an everyday opportunity. And yet when he went
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: down to the minor leagues, he didn't do anything but
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  Speaker 2: go down there and perform, so he would kind of
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  Speaker 2: force their hand.
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  Speaker 3: They'd bring him back up, and he was hitting balls hard.
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  Speaker 2: If he just finds the bottom half of the ball
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, he's going I mean, I think that
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  Speaker 2: he's a thirty home run guy if he gets.
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  Speaker 3: Thirf he gets, if he gets every day at bats, I.
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  Speaker 1: Feel have some lofty home run total.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's it's really not that hard to run
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  Speaker 3: into thirty balls.
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  Speaker 2: If you get five hundred abs, I think he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be the guy to start off getting the abs
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  Speaker 2: at d H.
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  Speaker 3: Now they're probably gonna platoon him.
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  Speaker 2: They're definitely going to platoon him at least at first
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  Speaker 2: and then if he all of a sudden is raking
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  Speaker 2: and dropping bombs against right, he's like, you can you
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  Speaker 2: got to start giving him opportunities to maybe be the
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  Speaker 2: everyday guy. If he can get five hundred abs, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it's far fetched at all for him to
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  Speaker 2: run into thirty.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, sorry, Ashley. You don't get Ref Snider with him.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I can't just have whoever's playing in right field.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Nope, you don't get a Ref Schnyder backpack like Buck.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: He's got a summer backpack on right now. All right, kid,
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  Speaker 1: you got the next selection. You got Josh Naylor. Who
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  Speaker 1: you gonna take here in round number two? Who's gonna
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  Speaker 1: hit the next most homers?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Boy?
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  Speaker 7: This is yeah. Okay, I guess I will go with.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. You know what give me?
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  Speaker 7: I guess I'll go Luke Rayley.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: Luke Rayley. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know he had a rough year, and
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  Speaker 1: he had a rough year last year in every way
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: other than his family life. But twenty two home runs
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  Speaker 1: the previous season when he was healthy, played a full season.
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  Speaker 1: I just that's just two seasons ago. We had twenty
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: two home runs for this team, and he had nineteen
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  Speaker 1: the previous year in a platoon situation in Tampa. So
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: that's forty one homers from that guy over a two
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  Speaker 1: year span, which sort of shows you that that wasn't
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: just a fluke two years ago. I think last year
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: was the fluke. As long as he stays healthy, he's
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: going to produce.
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's got some serious, big boy pop and
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: he's a guy that's going to go out there trying
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  Speaker 2: to do damage.
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  Speaker 3: More often than not.
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  Speaker 2: He just is a guy that's you know, he's not
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  Speaker 2: He's There's a few guys that are gonna get drafted
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  Speaker 2: in this thing that are gonna have limited at bats
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  Speaker 2: until they they prove that they have to be written
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  Speaker 2: in the lineup every day. He's one of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: But I think he has twenty home run power if
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  Speaker 2: you can get enough abs.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Bucky, you are up next. You got Julio
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: and round one. Ah boy.
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  Speaker 3: Part of me wants to take number thirty three, but
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna. I'm gonna go, oh you, I'm gonna.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Sniper Colt Young. Oh you, Cole Young.
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: Cole Young.
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  Speaker 1: I just told him yesterday. I think Cole Young's gonna
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: hit over twenty and now Bucky's gonna steal him from.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: You wanted Donovan the whole time. I know you had Donna.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Donovan's a guy that's going He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: even try to hit home runs. Yeah, Cole Young's swinging
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  Speaker 2: for the Downs a whole lot more than Brendan Donovan does.
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  Speaker 1: I do think Cole Young is hitting more than twenty
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: this year. I do. I think he's gonna be a
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: twenty plus home run hitter this year. I think that
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: for those that for whatever reason ran out of patience
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: with a twenty one year old Cole Young and didn't
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: think he was the answer, I think you're gonna be
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: eating your words the year. I think he's gonna have
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: a breakout here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised one bit. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: got serious power. He's a first round pick. I think
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: that he took him a second to kind of go
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: through the learning phase last year.
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: He kind of got off to a.
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  Speaker 2: Decent start, then scuffled a little bit, and then was
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: trying to kind of stay above water and it didn't
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: necessarily work. I think that that cup of coffee, or
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: he was more than a cup of coffee, but that
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: taste he got last year was the was gonna propel
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  Speaker 2: him to be up here and start playing like an
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  Speaker 2: everyday guy.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Well, I'm gonna take Brendan Donovan, and I
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: think it will be more than the teny at a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, probably not quite the twenty. But I'll take
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: Donovan there. And I'm gonna pull a little upset here.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna look into my crystal ball with my third
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: round selection. Give me Colt Emerson.
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: Oh that's a good one.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: Take Colt Emerson for an early call up in May,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: and I think he has more home runs than anybody
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: else that's left on the list. So I'm gonna take
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: a kid that's gonna start the season in the miners.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: All right, Bucky, you're a next.
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy, boy, you know what that was. I had
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: him down on my list to do that same thing
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: that you did. And yet I'm gonna go ahead. I'll
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: go ahead and take the guy that I think is
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: gonna get the everyday spots every day nod and that's JP,
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: at least once he gets healthy.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: All right. JP Crawford goes to Bucky in round three. Kid,
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: you are up next. If you were struggling in round two.
• 13:17
  Speaker 7: Well the stroke continues, let's sake, Ryan Bliss.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: The struggle continues. Ryan Bliss is the pick. I don't
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: know if he's gonna get the advats. We shall see,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: but he does have a little bit of a pop.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: All right, Ashley, you can do the right field backpack here. Yeah,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: if you'd like.
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: Well, I think i'm gonna I think I'm gonna take
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: Victor Roblaze.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: Please, you're gonna take roe Blaze?
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
• 13:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think Roeblaze and Raleigh are the right fielders most
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: of the time, and then Canzone and refs Snyder are
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: gonna share the DH. That doesn't mean that they won't
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: play the outfield, but I think most of the time
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: it's Roeblaze and Raleigh. We shall see. So you're gonna
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: go with Victor Roeblaze. So Ref Snider not taking in
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: the draft, nor was Revos, nor was Mitch gar Would
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: you like him for your fourth picky right now?
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: Let me think about that. No, No, I'd prefer not to.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: You want him for your second round pick. I'd still
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: like to have Cole Young.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well you could take him. I'll let you go.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Ahead and take.
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: Take him, and I'll take Julio.
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me think about it. I'll get back to you.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: We'll give you the break to think about it. Okay,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, Jerry Depoto is gonna join US Sports
• 14:26
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• 14:43
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  Speaker 1: yourself properly prepared for the first pitch tonight of the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners season. Joining us now on the program is the president,
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  Speaker 1: the architect, Jerry Depoto is with us here on opening Day.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, sir, Good morning guys. That is unchanny.
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  Speaker 8: The number of times in my over my years in Seattle,
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  Speaker 8: you wake up on opening day and we have this
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  Speaker 8: to look at, sunny and beautiful and you know, good
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  Speaker 8: for baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I realized that you pull some strings with this roster.
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  Speaker 1: But how do you get this done? How did you
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  Speaker 1: get the sun to come out today?
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  Speaker 3: Jerry?
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  Speaker 1: What did you do? What miracle did you work?
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  Speaker 8: You know, that's the same miracle that we work, you know,
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  Speaker 8: day after day, year after year. It's called luck. Get
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  Speaker 8: a little lucky.
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  Speaker 1: You need to take credit for more things, Jerry, So
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  Speaker 1: did you did you figure out your food boast? Or
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna score tickets to the game tonight?
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  Speaker 6: You know, I am the score tickets. Suposedly.
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  Speaker 8: I'm looking forward to getting in the ballpark, and I
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  Speaker 8: think all the pregame festivities on opening Day, the bunting
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  Speaker 8: and the it's it's, you know, if it doesn't turn
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  Speaker 8: you on as a sports fan to be there for
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  Speaker 8: those moments. Obviously, we'll have a you know, a cool
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  Speaker 8: banner to to unveil up in the right field corner,
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  Speaker 8: and then we'll get a you know, five minutes of
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  Speaker 8: nostalgia before we turn the page and focus on trying
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  Speaker 8: to win a World Series this year.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry, I I think this is the best opening day
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  Speaker 2: roster that you've had.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, top to bottom as far as your position
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  Speaker 3: players go.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, we all we all know and commend you for
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  Speaker 2: the rotation that you have, and you always find a
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  Speaker 2: way to put a great bullpen together. I mean as
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  Speaker 2: far as you're going, which from your opinion, is this
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  Speaker 2: the best opening day roster you feel like you put together.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, and I think we all saw this
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  Speaker 8: evolving over the last few years and obviously couldn't be
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  Speaker 8: happier with some of the things we were able to
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  Speaker 8: do starting really Midsummer last year in adding to the team,
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  Speaker 8: and obviously, you know from July forward tough to impact
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  Speaker 8: our team more than Josh Naylor did. And you know,
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  Speaker 8: the off season pickups with guys like Brendan Donovan and
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  Speaker 8: Jose Ferrer, it help solidify areas of need.
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  Speaker 6: I think a sneaky.
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  Speaker 8: Pickup that people really learn to appreciate is Rob Restneier
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  Speaker 8: and the things that he does well. And you know,
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  Speaker 8: one through twenty six and even the depth behind this
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  Speaker 8: twenty six man roster is just better than it's ever been.
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  Speaker 8: And in the years I've been here, I know, and
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  Speaker 8: I'm thrilled by it. It's it's a fun group to
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  Speaker 8: be around, and I think the optimism around our team
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  Speaker 8: has never been higher. And and and I think that's
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  Speaker 8: forty good reason.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto is with us right here on talking about
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  Speaker 1: care On opening day, Marinerscardi tonight first pitch at seven
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  Speaker 1: to ten the shortstop position. With JP's injury, how much
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  Speaker 1: conversation went into do we start Colt Emerson's career? Do
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  Speaker 1: we go Revoss, how do we want to handle this?
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  Speaker 1: Could you give us a little bit of the behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes conversation that you had in this area.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, sure, you know, I mean we had all of
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  Speaker 8: those conversations, and I think where we came away was
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  Speaker 8: waiting for JP flew out and an independent visit with
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  Speaker 8: a doctor, and we were waiting for the feedback from
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  Speaker 8: that meeting or appointment before we really started to chart
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  Speaker 8: a course, and it was mostly how long.
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  Speaker 6: Do we expect JP to be out?
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  Speaker 8: And you know, I think the conclusion that we drew
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  Speaker 8: was if this is a short term thing, you know,
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  Speaker 8: a series of homestand you know, ten days, then we
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  Speaker 8: would probably prefer to allow Colt Emerson to go start
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  Speaker 8: his sea in normal fashion, not be disrupted, disjointed, whatever,
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  Speaker 8: and we could piece it together with Leo Revas and
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  Speaker 8: potentially Cole young guys that we have in the house,
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  Speaker 8: and we feel like we have the depth to do that.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 8: What we didn't want to happen was for Colt to
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  Speaker 8: come up, feel the pressure to perform, do it for
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  Speaker 8: seven days, and then you know, be removed from the roster.
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  Speaker 8: Here comes JP, and now you've created this false alarm
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  Speaker 8: start for Colt where we think he's going to be,
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  Speaker 8: you know, a cornerstone contributor here for many years, and.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't think the right thing to do was to give.
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  Speaker 8: Him a cameo at the start of a season, rather
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  Speaker 8: let him build into and prepare for having a good year.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry, I was pumped about the acquisition of Brendan Donovan,
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  Speaker 2: and yet when I got to meet him, it only
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  Speaker 2: grew and so one really pumped that we have somebody
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  Speaker 2: we're in number thirty three that can swing it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. But I'm just wondering at this point, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: four thirteen in spring training. Is Ted Williams shaking his boots?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what we got? Did we get the next
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  Speaker 3: Ted Williams?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? You know, I think so good. I was.
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  Speaker 8: I was blown away by just the quality of the
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  Speaker 8: human being. And you know, when we have had and
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  Speaker 8: you all know this, we've we have had our eyes
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  Speaker 8: on Brendan Donovan for a number of years. We tried
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  Speaker 8: to acquire him, you know, dating back over the last
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  Speaker 8: three years with the Cardinals and discussions, and we're never
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  Speaker 8: quite able to get there. And you know, it took
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  Speaker 8: about five minutes into you know what I think was
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  Speaker 8: probably about a twenty five minute call with him the
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  Speaker 8: night we acquired him. And just to be so impressed
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  Speaker 8: by the humility, the quality of the questions, the very
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  Speaker 8: clear just a good person. And you know he too,
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  Speaker 8: like we've talked about with Josh Naylor, insanely high baseball IQ,
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  Speaker 8: but maybe as maybe as impressive as anything is how
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  Speaker 8: quickly he has just assimilated to our group and immediately
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  Speaker 8: became aware of the organization at large, the coaches that
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  Speaker 8: could help the you know, the information suppliers that could
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  Speaker 8: give him, you know, something that he could use to
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  Speaker 8: advantage the way he leaned into, you know, helping our
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  Speaker 8: young players grow and get comfortable at.
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  Speaker 6: The major league level.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe no one more so than than Colt Emerson, you know.
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  Speaker 8: And I just such a great guy to have on
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  Speaker 8: a team. And we were rewarded tenfold for believing in
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  Speaker 8: the player with what we got as a person.
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  Speaker 1: Cole Young's spring numbers meant what to.
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  Speaker 8: You that I would imagine that he's probably gonna hit
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  Speaker 8: sixty homers this year and potentially.
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  Speaker 1: Third base and cal Raley at the second It.
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  Speaker 6: Sounds like, yeah, I say that, you know, have a
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  Speaker 6: little bit of fun.
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  Speaker 8: He couldn't have had a better spring, and you know,
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  Speaker 8: he got off to a slow start that first week,
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  Speaker 8: and you know, but that belied what he showed when
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  Speaker 8: he came in. He worked so hard this offseason and
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  Speaker 8: you guys could see it the day you walk into
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  Speaker 8: spring training. It's there's there's a different there's a leaner,
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  Speaker 8: more explosiveness to to his body. It's a there's a
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  Speaker 8: quicker twitch. I think he showed huge improvement defensively, especially
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  Speaker 8: with his throws. Got some exposure on the shortstop side,
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  Speaker 8: which is something he's always done, you know, in his
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  Speaker 8: life until he got to the big leagues last year,
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  Speaker 8: which I think is in advantage to us with a
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  Speaker 8: short term absence of of JP, because you know he
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: can spell us there. But you know where Cole is
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  Speaker 8: Cole is really starting to grow is in the power department.
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  Speaker 8: You know, he's got sneaky snap in his swing, and
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  Speaker 8: we saw him hit a couple of long homers last year,
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  Speaker 8: one at home, one in Philly where you're like, wow,
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  Speaker 8: that's big boy area and he has that he has
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  Speaker 8: some sneaky pop and and he has on base ability,
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  Speaker 8: and he doesn't strike out an excessive amount. He does
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  Speaker 8: a lot of things that really appeal and he's twenty
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  Speaker 8: two years old. And I know everybody wants things to
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  Speaker 8: happen for a player immediately, but I think Cole is
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  Speaker 8: being rewarded for his hard work, and I think the
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  Speaker 8: you know, the Mariners are being rewarded for their belief
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  Speaker 8: in him.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry, what is your your plan as far as how
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  Speaker 2: you're going to attack with the d H position? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine Dom kind of has maybe put his
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  Speaker 2: hat into the ring as far as handling some of
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  Speaker 2: those abs. Refschneider maybe another guy that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: doing that. What's your plan of attack heading into day
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  Speaker 2: one for that position?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's similar to what we've always done there. There'll
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  Speaker 8: be some type of rotation I think, just based on
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  Speaker 8: right and left him pitchers. The normal everyday rotation will
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  Speaker 8: likely be some combination of Dom and Luke Rayley and
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  Speaker 8: Rob Repschneider, but there'll be a fair dose of cal
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  Speaker 8: Raley in there like there was a year ago. And
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  Speaker 8: you know, those are the days where you'll see Mitch
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  Speaker 8: Garber behind the plate and you may see ref Schneider
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  Speaker 8: rotate out to right field, or it could be one
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  Speaker 8: of the left handed hitters if the opposite side is throwing.
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  Speaker 8: I think that combination of of left hand bats. Obviously,
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  Speaker 8: Dom was north of eight hundred ops last year. Luke Rayley,
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  Speaker 8: you know, for a couple of years in a row,
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  Speaker 8: was a near three win player. And you know, that's
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  Speaker 8: an exciting combination of talents. And you know, add to
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  Speaker 8: that the fact that you know that the what Luke
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  Speaker 8: brings defensively, what Victor Roblaze can do defensively, it's just
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  Speaker 8: a nice.
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  Speaker 6: I guess a.
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  Speaker 8: Group of players that can rotate through right field, d
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  Speaker 8: h And and Cal will play a role in that.
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  Speaker 8: But I would say primarily an zone ref Schnyder Raleigh.
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  Speaker 8: If you're going to get you know, seven hundred played
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  Speaker 8: appearances or six point fifty out of your DH, the
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  Speaker 8: bulk of them are going to come from those three guys.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto, the president, with us here on opening day.
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  Speaker 1: He summoned, he asked for sunshine from the baseball gods,
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  Speaker 1: and they delivered, and now we ask for a win.
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  Speaker 1: First pitch at seven ten. Look, everybody's seeing the plan
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  Speaker 1: come together, not just locally, but nationally, people just can't
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  Speaker 1: stop picking the Mariners to get to the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: And in a lot of cases, when the whole darn thing,
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  Speaker 1: are you enjoying that? Are you embracing that personally, organizationally,
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  Speaker 1: or do you kind of wish that people would allow
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you to sneak up on them for another year or two?
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  Speaker 8: You know, I think I preferred the latter. Sneaking up
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  Speaker 8: on people is far more fun.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 8: But when we finished the season where we did last year,
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  Speaker 8: obviously Game seven of the ALCS. We have a lot
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  Speaker 8: of high profile players, I think we had, you know,
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  Speaker 8: a strong offseason that that leaned into the success we.
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  Speaker 6: Had a year ago.
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  Speaker 8: It's tough to be better than we were from the
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  Speaker 8: start of September or thereabouts until the end of October,
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  Speaker 8: and and that got people excited. And you know, if
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  Speaker 8: if you can't appreciate the fact that that, you know,
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  Speaker 8: there's there's a nuance to going from hunting to being hunted.
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  Speaker 8: And I know our guys are confident. They they want
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  Speaker 8: to go out and win, enjoy it, enjoy the ride,
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  Speaker 8: have fun with it. And you know, I've generally believed
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  Speaker 8: throughout my career you know, pressure is what you make
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  Speaker 8: of it. You know, it's a if you feel it,
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  Speaker 8: then it's there. If you don't feel it, and you
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  Speaker 8: just have fun and go do your thing, and you know,
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  Speaker 8: play your game the way you play it, it all
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  Speaker 8: works out. And I think right now our team is
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  Speaker 8: in the ladder bucket. They're just playing their game. They
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  Speaker 8: feel confident, they know they're good. And I find satisfaction
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  Speaker 8: in the fact that from a national perspective, you know,
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  Speaker 8: people are are interested in the Mariners, and the fact
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  Speaker 8: that we're a popular pick right now, I'm saying is
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  Speaker 8: a little more fun than it is scary.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you built this thing first and foremost. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: shouldn't say first foremost, but the first thing that started
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  Speaker 2: popping on this was your starting rotation. And you know, you,
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  Speaker 2: outside of Bryce having that oblique thing and going to
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: start on the shelf a little bit still, you've got
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  Speaker 2: four guys that you're going to run out there, and
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  Speaker 2: another one in Amberson Hancock that we love. So I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just how are you feeling right now about how the
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: health of the starting rotation is and how you could
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  Speaker 2: feel like they might be ready to take another step forward?
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  Speaker 2: Because every single one of them feels like they're right
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  Speaker 2: in their prime, and.
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  Speaker 6: Then you really are.
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  Speaker 8: And you know, I would say the quality of our
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: starting pitching on any given night is and tonight it's
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: Logan Gilbert. But you know, any one of those guys
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  Speaker 8: could go out and start a game on opening night
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  Speaker 8: for most major league teams, and you know it's the
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  Speaker 8: Rock has done it before, Logan has done it before.
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  Speaker 8: Nobody pitched better last year, you know, maybe certainly for
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  Speaker 8: the Mariners, but across the American League, few people pitch
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  Speaker 8: better than Brian wu And you know he's just rising
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  Speaker 8: into you know, his prime as as one of the
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  Speaker 8: best pitchers in our league. And and I can say
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  Speaker 8: the same about George Kirby. You know, it's a if
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  Speaker 8: any one of those four guys went out and made
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  Speaker 8: an All Star team or contended for a Cy Young
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  Speaker 8: you wouldn't be surprised.
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  Speaker 6: And and that's you have to pinch yourself.
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  Speaker 8: That's the lot, you know, that's waking up on opening
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  Speaker 8: day in Seattle with the weather we have today, and
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  Speaker 8: they're healthy, they're throwing great. Each one of them really
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  Speaker 8: trended as the spring went along. They've each had All
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: Star seasons and and have all done it over the
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  Speaker 8: last you know, I guess three years and and to
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  Speaker 8: have that kind of depth.
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  Speaker 6: Is pretty crucial.
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  Speaker 8: But you know, Emerson, I would say, of all those guys,
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  Speaker 8: I don't think anybody threw the ball any better than
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: Emerson's in the spring. So you know, we'll miss Bryce hopefully.
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  Speaker 8: It's it's more of a of a wait and see,
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  Speaker 8: but you know, we're pretty confident that that he should
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  Speaker 8: be back by the end of April.
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  Speaker 6: And and you know, if if.
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: We have to mask a spot in our rotation per month,
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: that would much rather that be the first month than
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: the last month.
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  Speaker 1: What Worth told us, you pick the starting pitcher for
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: opening Day based on who's the tallests. That's what he said.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: The strategy was behind it all.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it was who had the most gadgets
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: in their Duffel bag, and you know, nobody wanted to
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: get hit with the you know, the water ball. I
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: think you know, Logan. Logan is the longest tenured at
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: least on our club, of the starting group, and obviously
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: he was last year's opening day guy. And you know,
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: I've said this publicly over the last couple of days.
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: A lot of what goes into making this decision, you know,
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: for us is just generally looking at where everybody's innings
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: were a year ago. You know, where they were when
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: they came into camp, and how we built up their
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: pitch counts as camp went along. And the guy who
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: came in furthest along and who built up quickest was
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: Logan Gilbert. And you know, it was pretty evident to us,
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: you know, with a couple of weeks left in the spring,
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: that the wisest thing to do in managing the innings
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: was to set up the rotation the way that we did.
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: And you know, it's a again, it's good fortune and
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: having four guys that you feel confident you could run
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: out there as your opening day guy, and four guys
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: who are also awesome teammates and humble enough to say, hey,
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: if I pitched second or third and this rotation.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: On opening day, no big deal.
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: And I think they all take pride in knowing that
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: the day they go out there, they're the ace of
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: the team.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So got a new suit for opening day,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: lucky pocket, scarf, lucky tie. I don't know, maybe you
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: just show up like in one of those Shay Gilt
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: just Alexander out. That's today, like, you know, one of
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: them big fur coats to really make a fashion statement.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: What's the what's the plan for the tire tonight?
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  Speaker 6: You know there's now that you mentioned it.
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  Speaker 8: I did pick up a new sport coat, but that
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: was only because I was debating between it and the
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: cutoff hoodie. But it's usually usually at my my sport
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: coade game is more interesting than than it probably should
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: be for for the you know, otherwise, you know mundane
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: wardrobe that I rock, but I think it'll be something
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: in the Blue family. I shunned ties simply because unless
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: unless you have a job that requires you to wear one,
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: and I don't, I would prefer to leave them in
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: the drawer and uh, and whatever I'm wearing, it's as
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: soon as I walk off the field for pregame ceremonies,
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: that will be back in a pullover of some type.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, happy opening day, Thank you very much
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: for taking some time with us this morning. Have a
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: great year.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you guys, really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the plan, all right, Jerry Depoto joining us right
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: here on chalking back will close things out on our
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: opening day show next with one last Thing Sports Radio
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• 32:30
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's very true. I have gotten a
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: lot of liver hugs. Yeah, Jimmy. So first, I just
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: walked by. They actually have a some sort of infused
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: BlackBerry something for like some sort of mohito.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Probably gonna have that with breakfast. Yeah, just you know,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: it's about that time. You want one? Okay, I can.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: I can save one for you.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Actually get the breaking ball buck, send them the mo heater.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Send them the moater. I'm gonna get one BlackBerry mo
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  Speaker 3: heater on my way.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: One last thing around the room. What do you got, Bucky.
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  Speaker 3: Ninety nine wins? How's that taste?
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you're doing that because that's where I was
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: gonna go. Yeah, predictions, and then I decided I wouldn't
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: take your one last thing.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's where my mind is.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Julio win the MVP, wohow Logan winning the cy
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  Speaker 2: Young Whoa we win ninety nine minimum, maybe one hundred
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  Speaker 2: or one hundred and twenty seven. Again, I mean it's
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit I'm going a little bit over
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: the top, but I do think that this team is
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: ninety five plus wins, and so I want to say
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: ninety nine. I want to be the guy that's usually
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I usually am the most optimistic, and.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: I want to kind of stick with that to some degree.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: You know what, script I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Hundred wins, and I really would love to see Julio
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: just get off to a good start. I think if
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: this dude gets off to a good start, that he
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: could be absolutely on fire, like run away MVP TX.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: And so that's that's kind of where my head's.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: At, Ashley, where you're at, where's your is yours at?
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  Speaker 7: I'm going ninety seven wins, ninety seven that's good.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty good.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: And I also, just as a quick one last thing,
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: did really enjoy the part of the Pete wood Woodworth
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: interview where Bucky showed his inner non athlete and started
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: talking picture and Pete Can called you on it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh well, I mean I know what those nerds say,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: I know what their lingo is like. I was a
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: pitcher for a long time and then I realized this
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: is for dorks and I can hit, and so then
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: I switched.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Woodworth knows he likes.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: He likes to stick up for his guys, even they know.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Let's be real.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Let mean, could you imagine Julio coming out and taking
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: swings with a water I love you, Logan.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: But you're at dork. You're their picture.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I love them. I love pictures. I mean I love
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: our pictures. I hate all the other ones.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, but it's yeah, they're painting and getting more
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: horizontal break, dropping down a little more, getting a little
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: more armsided run. I know what they say because they
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: ate me up with it for years. It's part of
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: the reason I don't like them.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: They were good. It made me feel bad about myself.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: So now they don't get a chance to do that,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: and I just get to talk trash grenades.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there were a lot of people really important
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: to the Jackson five's career, but the five guys were
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the reason they were successful.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they were like position players. They went every day.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Imagine if if four of.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Those guys just performed every time, starting rotation was really
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: important to their careers.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, the everyday guys, they were closer to position players.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: How many wins do you think, Chuck?
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I got ninety eight, and I've built that up from
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I think ninety four the start of spring training. I
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: think there's going to be a lot more comfortable year
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: than we've experienced in the photo era. Then we've added
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: in the past. I'm not saying we're running away with things.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying order your World Series tickets at this point,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: but certainly that is the goal, that is the objective,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and it seems within within grasp of this year. But
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I think, more so than anything else that I would predict,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a lot more comfortable
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: season than we are just accustomed to seeing. I think
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: we're going to hold the lead and a pretty comfortable
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: lead in the American League West for most.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Of the year. I love the sound of that. Yeah, yeah,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: get out to a lead, hold the lead, maybe pull
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: away a little bit at the end of the year.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sign me up.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Give me that and some of that drink that Bucky's
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: gonna get, and I'll be Atady Camper.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: You give him the mo heater, Ricky, all right, thanks
• 36:47
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• 36:51
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