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Chuck and Buck 4-30 H2: The Emersons, Dick Jerardi, NCAA Tournament expansion · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Flyball walner right field and it carries out of here.
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  Speaker 2: JP Crawford leans into one.
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  Speaker 3: He gets the Mariners on the board. Now the two
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  Speaker 3: two flyball alleyway left center field, bucks in a long
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  Speaker 3: run for it.
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  Speaker 1: He can't get there. It continues from Cool Young. He
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  Speaker 1: ties the game of the seventh inning, driving in yet
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  Speaker 1: another run for the Mariners to two broken back grounder
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  Speaker 1: off to the road in the center field, a Rosa
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  Speaker 1: right ahead, Ravon scores, stay hot, Cool Young. Nothing but
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  Speaker 1: smiles from Young as he has given the Maritors the lead,
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  Speaker 1: and they cannot wait to put him on the plane
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  Speaker 1: and get him out of.
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  Speaker 3: The Twin Cities. Hey, good Thursday morning to you all.
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  Speaker 3: like choose chill headlines. You heard the highlight from Aaron
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  Speaker 3: Goldsmith Mariners Time Television. The Mariners, behind Cole Young's clutch
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  Speaker 3: hit in the ninth inning, end up defeating the Minnesota
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  Speaker 3: Twins five to three, and so the Mariners take two
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  Speaker 3: out of three in the Twin Cities. They will leave
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota finally back at the five hundred mark at sixteen
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  Speaker 3: and sixteen. They have won five of their last six games.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very successful road trip. And now they
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  Speaker 3: have over two days off between games. Now, I mean
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  Speaker 3: a baseball player will tell you it's just one day off,
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  Speaker 3: it's today. But they played an afternoon game yesterday, and
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  Speaker 3: they won't play again until Friday night, so they will
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  Speaker 3: go forty eight hours without playing baseball. That's why I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was crucial that Andres Muno's pitch at some
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  Speaker 3: point yesterday, whether the score was five to three like
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  Speaker 3: it ended up being, or one hundred to two, I
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  Speaker 3: didn't care. Munios needed to get some work in yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: He did. He was spectacular in closing out the Twins,
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  Speaker 3: and so the Mariners have fought their way back after
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  Speaker 3: their or a nine start to sixteen and sixteen on
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  Speaker 3: the year. A beautiful opportunity to press the reset button
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  Speaker 3: as we get ready for the next one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: thirty games of the Major League Baseball season. They are
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  Speaker 3: just a game out of first place right now and
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  Speaker 3: now have their opportunity to prove to everybody in the
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  Speaker 3: world that they are the premier team, the premier roster
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  Speaker 3: in the American League West. So it starts tomorrow at
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  Speaker 3: home against the Kansas City Royals. The rest of your
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  Speaker 3: frost brewed course. Like Chus Chill headlines, Matt Rash suffered
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  Speaker 3: an injury yesterday. It didn't look good. Doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 3: it is as bad as it looked, but it didn't
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  Speaker 3: look good. I'm sure he's gonna miss some time and
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  Speaker 3: we'll see how the Mariners are going to handle that.
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  Speaker 3: We'll probably get some information later on today. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: NBA Playoffs, the Los Angeles Lakers are starting starting to
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  Speaker 3: look like they're in jeopardy of making some rather unfortunate
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  Speaker 3: NBA history. The Houston Rockets, without Kevin Durant, are using
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  Speaker 3: their youth, their length, and their athleticism to kind of
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  Speaker 3: pick apart the Los Angeles Lakers these last couple of games.
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  Speaker 3: Have they figured out the formula well? Ninety nine to
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  Speaker 3: ninety three the final score last night. Game six will
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  Speaker 3: be played in Houston. The Lakers will dropped back to
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  Speaker 3: back games. Kevin Durant's already announced he's not going to
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  Speaker 3: play in Game six, but neither will Luca, So the
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  Speaker 3: Lakers do have two more cracks to try to avoid
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  Speaker 3: the embarrassment of blowing a three to zero series lead.
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  Speaker 3: In the first round of the playoffs, Cleveland won twenty
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  Speaker 3: five won twenty winners over Toronto. Cleveland's up three to two.
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  Speaker 3: The Raptors actually led for most of that game. The
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  Speaker 3: Detroit Pistons stay alive despite all the heroic efforts of
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  Speaker 3: Seattle's own Paolo Bencaro. He scored forty five last night.
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  Speaker 3: Problem is the Motorcade, as Chuck calls them. I think
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people call him that. Cad Cunningham also
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  Speaker 3: had forty five and the Pistons who won last night,
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  Speaker 3: So Game six in Orlando kind of feels like the
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  Speaker 3: Magic need to get it done then at home tonight,
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  Speaker 3: New York at Atlanta, Boston at Philadelphia, Denver at Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: So the NIXT the Celtics, and Timberwolves all have a
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  Speaker 3: chance to win their series tonight. They're all up three
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  Speaker 3: to two in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Montreal one over
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  Speaker 3: Tampa three to two. They're up three to two in
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  Speaker 3: the series Vegas five to four, and double overtime over Utah.
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  Speaker 3: The Knights are up three to two in their series,
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  Speaker 3: and Philadelphia advances. They punch their ticket to the next round.
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  Speaker 3: They defeat Pittsburgh last night one to nothing and move
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  Speaker 3: on to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Chants for huge upsets tonight. Both Minnesota and Anaheim have
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity two chances to knock out Dallas and Edmonton. Respectively,
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  Speaker 3: and those are two of the bigger Stanley Cup favorites.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this entire process. So that'll take place tonight,
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  Speaker 3: Dogs after dark this Friday right here on Khar and
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  Speaker 3: the Kentucky Derby will be held on Saturday. That will
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  Speaker 3: be of course at Churchill Downs. We're gonna actually chat
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  Speaker 3: with Dick Girardi, famous Kentucky Derby or horse racing writer,
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  Speaker 3: Handycapper author. He's going to join us today at seven thirty.
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  Speaker 3: We do it every year with Dick Girardi. So that's
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  Speaker 3: coming up here in a little bit. But let's talk
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about the brand new hit show that's
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  Speaker 3: going on here in Seattle. It's all the Rage. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's a reality television.
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  Speaker 2: What type of television?
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  Speaker 3: It's reality, reality television, lots of drama. Plan We don't
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  Speaker 3: have any answers. We don't know when, we don't know
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  Speaker 3: what's gonna happen from episode to episode. We do get
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  Speaker 3: the impression that the heroes, the Emerson's, will eventually find
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  Speaker 3: a happy ending in all of this, because we're rooting
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  Speaker 3: for both of them, but we don't know how we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get We don't know how many times the story's
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  Speaker 3: gonna twist and turn. I mean, it's such great reality television.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that I'm here for it. So welcome to another
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  Speaker 3: episode of the Emerson and and Here Anders and I
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  Speaker 3: to discuss the latest drama that has been unfolding. Let's
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  Speaker 3: start with one of the storylines, one of the Emersons,
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  Speaker 3: and that is Emerson Hancock, our starting pitcher who this
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  Speaker 3: year was once again given an opportunity out of spring
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  Speaker 3: training because of an injury to one of the five
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  Speaker 3: starting starters in our rotation, to prove whether or not
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  Speaker 3: he belongs in Major League baseball. And he has failed
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  Speaker 3: every single time he's been given this opportunity in the past.
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  Speaker 3: Failed is a strong word. It's just he didn't do
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  Speaker 3: enough to keep one of the other five spectacular starters
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  Speaker 3: from getting their job back. And so Emerson's done this
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  Speaker 3: dance back and forth from Tacoma for the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of years. Remember, this is the guy that was drafted
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  Speaker 3: higher than any of them, and so we know he's
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  Speaker 3: got talent, and this year he's put it together. This
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  Speaker 3: year he's making it difficult. Anders. So we're looking at
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  Speaker 3: a guy that right now is among starters, he is
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  Speaker 3: second in strikeouts per nine Among starters, he is second,
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  Speaker 3: and that's only to Logan. Among starters, he is second
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  Speaker 3: in war and this is Baseball Reference war to George.
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  Speaker 3: Among starters, he is first in whip and the only
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  Speaker 3: starting pitcher that we have that has a sub one whip.
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  Speaker 3: And among starters in terms of ERA, he's sitting there
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  Speaker 3: with a beautiful two point eight six ERA. That's best
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  Speaker 3: on the team. Would you dare in a future episode
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  Speaker 3: of the Emerson take him out of the starting rotation
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  Speaker 3: when the time comes that Bryce Miller returns and we
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  Speaker 3: presumably have the five starting pitchers we expected to start
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  Speaker 3: the season with healthy and ready to go, would you
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  Speaker 3: dare remove Emerson Hancock from the equation the way that
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  Speaker 3: he's pitched so far.
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  Speaker 4: I would not surprise. That's comes as a surprise to
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  Speaker 4: me because I've been Andrew just surprised himself, Yeah I did,
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 2: This is what you get on the Emerson's twist. It's
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen.
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  Speaker 4: But see the thing is in you know, the obvious
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  Speaker 4: answer would be to either put him in the bullpen
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  Speaker 4: or to put Luis Castill in the bullpen, who has
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  Speaker 4: been struggling at this point.
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  Speaker 5: In the year.
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  Speaker 4: But you and I have talked about this before. Louis
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  Speaker 4: Castillo's stuff doesn't really play in the bullpen very much,
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  Speaker 4: so you think it could, Actually you think so?
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  Speaker 3: I think it could.
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  Speaker 4: Is that kind of just because he's so relyant on
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  Speaker 4: his fastball now that it plays up a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think you could buy some time with
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  Speaker 3: him as a long reliever. But I could see him,
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  Speaker 3: like John Smoltz. We just talked about this earlier in
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  Speaker 3: the week, like a John Smoltz type being able to
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  Speaker 3: convince him, Hey, we got a year and a half
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  Speaker 3: with you. You don't have to tell him this. You
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  Speaker 3: don't have any trade.
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  Speaker 2: Value, really, you know, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: So what we could do, though, is your velocity's down
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. I think part of that is you're
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  Speaker 3: trying to get through six innings for us. What if
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  Speaker 3: he did just let it rip for an inning. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you'd have to start him as a long reliever, but
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  Speaker 3: with the chance of getting back into the rotation in
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  Speaker 3: case of an injury or if he starts pitching like
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  Speaker 3: he can. But if everybody does what we want them
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  Speaker 3: to do and that opportunity doesn't present itself, I think
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  Speaker 3: you could start the transition and Castillo's last year as
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  Speaker 3: a Mariner as a late not a closer, but a
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  Speaker 3: late inning. I think the stuff would play. I really do. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: the stuff that we know him to have, the stuff
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing right now, the stuff we're seeing right now,
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  Speaker 3: you can't get anybody out right now. I mean, and
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  Speaker 3: he's so lack of confidence that I mean, all pitchers
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  Speaker 3: work on the fringes, you have to, but he's not
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  Speaker 3: putting anything in the strike zone until he has to,
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  Speaker 3: and then he's getting crushed. And for whatever reason, all
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  Speaker 3: of that movement, that sexy movement that we've watched since
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  Speaker 3: he became a Mariner. Yeah, I mean, it's it's just
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  Speaker 3: not enticing. It's not enticing hitters to swing at the
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  Speaker 3: slider lowing in on lefties, and he's not. They're not
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  Speaker 3: swinging at the two seamer fading away from lefties. He's
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  Speaker 3: he's basically working a full count on everybody, and then
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  Speaker 3: once he puts guys on base, he has to give
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  Speaker 3: in and he's getting crushed. So that's sort of the
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  Speaker 3: that's sort of the description of what's gone wrong with
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  Speaker 3: the Rocks so far this year. But to your point,
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  Speaker 3: is it correctable? I don't know. Maybe warm Weather corrects it. Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Luis says, I'm in a slump right now.
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  Speaker 3: We weighed out slumps for hitters. I think he's earned
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  Speaker 3: the right to wait out a slump as well. But
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  Speaker 3: the problem is, how do you take the guy that's
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  Speaker 3: replacing him potentially when he's I mean, we wouldn't take
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  Speaker 3: the hottest hitter out of the lineup. No, just because
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  Speaker 3: you got back Brendan Donovan right right when Brenda Donovan
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  Speaker 3: gets out activated Friday, he's.
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  Speaker 2: Good comp You're not taking out Cole Young.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not taking out Cole Young. We're gonna find
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  Speaker 3: the guy. And if all nine are hitting, that makes
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  Speaker 3: it really difficult. Right, So you're not taking Emerson out
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  Speaker 3: of the starting rotation right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I would not.
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  Speaker 4: And the biggest thing for me that's different from him
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  Speaker 4: this year than the previous years, I think his stuff
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  Speaker 4: is pretty That everyone talks about the new arm slot.
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  Speaker 4: It's good to see that he's kind of figuring that out.
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  Speaker 4: But he's always been a relatively high pitch to contact guy.
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  Speaker 4: Although you mentioned his k rate, I think the Mariners
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  Speaker 4: overall have had a kind of a lower k rate then,
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of them.
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  Speaker 3: He also has the best FIP on the team. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, which is basically a statistic that judge's luck correct,
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  Speaker 3: Like if you had normal luck, right, then this is
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  Speaker 3: what you're ere with.
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  Speaker 4: It takes out all fielding right fielding and bloops and
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  Speaker 4: all sorts.
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  Speaker 3: Of things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think one of the reasons for that is his
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  Speaker 4: extremely low walk rate, which is vastly different from the
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  Speaker 4: last couple of years. And if you're going to be
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  Speaker 4: a pitch to tac kind of you know, get soft
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  Speaker 4: contact and stuff like that, you can't be walking guys.
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  Speaker 4: And he it has it this year and it's been
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  Speaker 4: a big reason for his success. So I would not
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  Speaker 4: take Emerson Hancock out of the rotation.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how you can. No, And I will say, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, let's break it down like there's no way Logan,
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  Speaker 3: George or wu or leaving the rotation. Agreed? They agree? No, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: not one single person disagrees with that correct correct And
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  Speaker 3: oh wait a minute, I see your hand in the back, Julius,
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  Speaker 3: get out of here. You're an Angels fan.
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  Speaker 2: So who's an Angels fan?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, not even la as Angel fans. So so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so they're not going anywhere. I guess there's the possibility
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  Speaker 3: that Bryce, since he's not in the rhythm of being
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  Speaker 3: a starter, that could start in the bullpen. But I
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  Speaker 3: just think Bryce, I think he was just on the
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  Speaker 3: verge of just having one hell of a year this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: before he got sidelined by the injury and spring training.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you. I don't know if it will happen,
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  Speaker 3: but there's no way I'm taking Emerson Hancock out of
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  Speaker 3: the starting rotation. And my pivot, I'm not gonna sit
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  Speaker 3: here and here where we're trying to win the World
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  Speaker 3: Series and protect people's feelings. No, So my pivot is,
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  Speaker 3: you're pitching the worst, you have a six and a
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  Speaker 3: half era, We're gonna slide you to the bullpen for
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  Speaker 3: a little while, and you have the opportunity, Luis to
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  Speaker 3: get back in it once you fix yourself. But right now,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not taking Emerson Hancock out of the starting rotation. Well,
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  Speaker 3: let's talk about the other Emerson. Okay, gosh, because that
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  Speaker 3: storyline has been juice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's been juicy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's actually his numbers have dipped since last week checked,
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  Speaker 3: he's now under an eight hundred ops. He's hitting just
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  Speaker 3: two thirty two at Tacoma. But Colt Emerson is playing
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  Speaker 3: one heck of a shortstop. It seems I'm not exactly
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  Speaker 3: watching every Tacoma Rayniers game right now, but it feels
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  Speaker 3: like there's a highlight of Colt Emerson defensively every stinking night,
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  Speaker 3: and we're not getting that from our current shortstop right now.
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  Speaker 3: But our current shortstop, as Ryan Healy has told me
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  Speaker 3: off the air, he's not going anywhere. He's too valuable
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  Speaker 3: to the team as a leader. And so that's his
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  Speaker 3: take on it. And so JP Crawford is still our shortstop.
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  Speaker 3: And there's no reason to be in a rush about
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  Speaker 3: this right now. If Colt's not hitting at triple A,
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  Speaker 3: there's no way I'm making the move. But the next
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  Speaker 3: time he gets hot, and I have a feeling he's
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  Speaker 3: going to get hot at some point if JP's not
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  Speaker 3: playing better, what do you do at that point? How
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  Speaker 3: far away are we from possibly making this change?
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  Speaker 4: It would take Cole or Colt Emerson to be very
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  Speaker 4: much like lighting triple A up for me. He has
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  Speaker 4: to be like showing that he's not gaining any sort
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  Speaker 4: of developmental value in triple A because I'm still I'm
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  Speaker 4: still very focused on You've already paid this guy. You
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  Speaker 4: need him to be very good for his tenure here.
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  Speaker 4: If you bring him up too early just because your
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  Speaker 4: current shortstop is not a good shortstop, We've already established that.
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  Speaker 3: I love how you've determined that.
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  Speaker 4: We've established it is very well established at this point.
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  Speaker 4: There's there's I mean, he's I still stand by the
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  Speaker 4: fact that he's actually swinging the bat pretty well this year.
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  Speaker 4: His results haven't showed that, but if you're a baseball savant, savant, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of really good, uh, you know, expected stats.
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  Speaker 4: So I think some regression could be coming his way offensively,
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  Speaker 4: So I don't progression, yeah, positive regression progression. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: But I still see, you know, JP, I see the
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  Speaker 4: value there. I just don't want to see him play
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  Speaker 4: shortstop defensively. And that's the big thing for me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's really the only reason he's in the lineup, supposedly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the sure handedness.
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  Speaker 2: Sure right, Yeah, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: With you, I'm with you. I'm not making the argument
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  Speaker 3: for I'm just being Devil's advocate because that's supposedly the
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  Speaker 3: reason that he is in the line.
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  Speaker 2: No, I understand.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it's going to have to be like the
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  Speaker 3: not the perfect storm. I think the perfect storm was like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, three different storms emerging on poor Marky Mark Wahlberg.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was that. So it doesn't have to
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  Speaker 3: be the perfect storm, but it has to be the alignment,
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  Speaker 3: like if you're going to make such a significant change,
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  Speaker 3: and I do believe that it's a possibility this year,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: it's got to be the combination of Colts on fire, yes,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: and JP's struggling Ice Cold.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, so right now you have JP has been has
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: not been productive now, but maybe it is starting to
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: show that he's productive, where Colt has not done everything
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: you want to see from him at the triple A level.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: And as you said, I'm not going to bring him
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: up until I feel that he's ready, that he can
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: hit the ground running, because the last thing that I
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: want to do is one month from now, Cold Emerson's
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: got a one thirty five batting average and I got
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: to send him back down. Yeah, So it's got to
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: be this combination of you're right, I got to see
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: everything that I need to see out of him that
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: says he's ready for the major leagues. And then I'll
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: probably cheat a little bit because I'm in no rush.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I don't have to take JP Crawford out of the lineup.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: The only thing that I would say in this episode
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: of The Emersons is that if if not win, but
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: if that time does come and we are confronted with
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: that where Emerson's like, I got nothing left to prove
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: down here exactly, and JP's still swinging for the fences
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: and still you know, having difficulty with the throw to first,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: then I'm definitely making the move this year again, same
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: thing I said about Castile. We got Julio, Josh and Cal.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: They get away with whatever they want this year. There's
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: no way you're taking them out of the day. I
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: don't have any other sacred cows on this team. I
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: really don't. You're gonna perform or not, and we're trying
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: to win a world series here. And Ryan Healey actually
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: came around on this a little bit when we talked
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: to him yesterday, said, I thought a lot about what
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: you said to me about that, and I think I
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: agree with you. This is about winning a championship. It's
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: not about protecting veterans feelings. And so if cold Emerson's
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: the better choice, we make the move to cold Emerson.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: But right now I don't think that that is the case.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: And I hope JP Crawford is our shortstop when the
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Mariners win the World Series. Yeah, that's my that's my way. Yeah, yeah,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I honestly really want him to be there. But I'm
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: certainly not going to sit there and go, huh, we
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: got an option down in Tacoma. He hits for more power,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: he's faster, he plays better defense, hits to all fields,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: not always trying to hit a home run. Yeah, quicker.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit there and make all of
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: those conclusions and then say, yeah, but JP's so good
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: in the locker room. No, that's a tiebreaker. That's not
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: keeping me from making the move. It's a tiebreaker a
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: better short stop, correct. Okay, So we got plenty of leader.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: I think we got plenty of leader.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: At this point in time. Take away the leadership aspect.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Who do you think is a better option right now?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: At JP? Okay, I'll go JP Okay. I agree. I
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: do agree right now right now, but that could change.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Could change, And if it does change. I'm not standing
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: on ceremony. No, I'm not just same thing with yeah,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: exactly exactly, And that's what we arrived at on this
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: episode of The Emersons.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: No ceremonies here, right, cliffhangers.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Actual reality television is all about establishing those cliffhangers, getting
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: you to tune in next week.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: What will Emerson do in Triple A?
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Do another episode of The Emersons? All right? Coming up
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: next on our radio program, Dick Girardi is going to
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: join me. Uh, every year, it's an annual tradition. We
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: talked to the legendary horse racing writer about the Kentucky
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Derby on Sports Radio ninety three point three kh a
• 21:30
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• 21:33
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• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Lot going on this time of the year in the
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: sports world. Uh, just came out of draft. Miss got
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: a baseball team. It's fought its way back to five
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: hundred after a rough start. We got NBA playoffs. Stanley
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: cupp playoffs going on right now. World Cup right around
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: the corner, coming to Seattle. There's a lot going on.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Maybe the Kentucky Derby snuck up on you, but it's
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: this Saturday, of course, from Louisville, Kentucky. And we have
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: an annual tradition on this radio show, and that is
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: to check in with the legendary Dick Girardi, national horse
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: racing reporter and columnists for the Philadelphia Daily News for
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: years forty years of experience as a thoroughbred racing public handicapper,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: and he is our guest every year before the Kentucky
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Derby to chat about his thoughts. How are you, sir?
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Good to have you on.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: I'm great, guys, How were you are?
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Terrific? If I remember Dick Girardi loves the Kentucky Derby
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: hates mint julips. Am I accurate right there?
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: That's my exact that love the race, hate the drink.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I've picked up or two about Dick Girardi's profile here
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: over the years. All right, well let's dive into I'll
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: say the first thing that sticks out to me about
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: this field this year. And I know you don't care
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: about this at all, but These are some of the
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: greatest horse names ever. The Puma, Commandment, Chief Wallaby, Renegade.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, these sound like superheroes. They don't even sound
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: like horses. And a horse race here, Dick, it's.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: A very impressive group of names. I agree, and I
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: love those one name horses right, like Secretariat, Citation they
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: get Renegade, Commandment. Yeah, they sound like regal horses.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Right, Incredibolt, and Pavlovian. I mean, I'm not making these up.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: These are real horses. They're going to be racing this Saturday.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Actually we will be twenty of them. We actually have
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: two scratches out of the main body of the race,
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: the thirteen Solid Tactics with scratched yesterday and the twenty
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Full Effort just scratched this morning, so that we'll have
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: two horses come in off the also eligible as twenty
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: one Great White and twenty two O Silly. Not quite
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Commandment or Potente. Not the kind of names we're looking for,
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: but that's what we got.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about who might be the best horse
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: in this erace. Doesn't look like there's a heavy favorite
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: in this one, but the odds I'm looking at has
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Renegade and then also Commandments and oh there's one other
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: horse that oh further Ado. So are those the favorites
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: in your mind?
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they should be the favorites at better Online dot
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: ag At the moment, Renegade is five to one, further
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Through eleven to two, which is basically five and a
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: half to one, and Commandment at six to one. So
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: you're right, it's really close. I don't remember a year
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: where it's we're liable to have a five to one
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: favorite in quite some time. It's just I think it
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: tells you about the depth of the field and the
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: fact that they're just no overwhelming horse. Say like Justify,
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: the Triple Crown winner in twenty eighteen or American Fare
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: of the Triple Crown winner in twenty fifteen. We just
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: don't have that horse this year.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: What is the best horse? And that's not necessarily your winner.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, we've seen plenty of times in the Kentucky
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Derby where the best horse doesn't end up winning the race,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: But in your estimation, what's the best horse in the field.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: I think the most logical winner. It's not going to
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: be my pick. But if you just said give me
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: a horse that's almost certainly going to run. Well, it
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: would be Commandment. He's won four in a row. He
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: won the Florida Derby, which I think was the strongest
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: of all the Derby prep races. So again, if you're
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: just looking for a horse that you don't want to
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: feel bad like, you know the horse is going to
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: give you some effort, Commandment's probably your horse.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: What kind of Kentucky weather are we looking at Saturday
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: afternoon and who does that benefit or hurt?
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I think at the moment, I think we're gonna
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: get a fast track, but subject to change. As many
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: times I've been down there, it can be sunny and
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: beautiful on Friday and you wake up Saturday morning it's
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: pouring and they didn't even predict it. So I wouldn't
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: want to tell you for sure what it's going to be.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's going to Certainly, if it's a
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: fast track, it's not really going to affect anybody one
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: way or another. If it does rain, then unfortunately not
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: many of the horses have run on them off tracks.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: You'd be kind of guessing at this point, But yeah,
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: that's kind of I wouldn't be too concerned about that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: There are other more important things to worry about.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: What are some of those other things? How much stock
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: do we put in a great jockey or a great trainer?
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: How much does that factor into your decisions this time
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: of year?
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Trainer more than the jockeys. Look at it this way
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: for sports, right, So the horses are the players, The
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: trainers are the coaches. The jockeys not that they're not
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: a factor, because they certainly are a factor, but they
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: spend very little time with these animals. They get on
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: them in the paddock and then they ride them and look,
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: would you rather have I red or tease or flabby
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: and pratt or one of the best guys out there
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: on your worst? Yes, but it's called horse racing for
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: a reason. You'd rather have the fastest horse than the
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: best job.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Give me a horse that's a lot of people like,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: but you're not seeing it that you would advise maybe
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: stay away from this horse.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: You know, it's one of those years where there's nobody
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: you know there are. Here's what I can just tell you.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: I'm throwing this horse out. I can really make it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: I could make a case probably for half a dozen
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: horses or more in this race, which is kind of
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: unusual for me. So yeah, I don't want to dodge
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: your question. Yeah, but realistically I have an answers that
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: are single Yeah, all the horses that are single digits,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't want to throw any of them out this year.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: I just don't have that feeling like, hey, this horse
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: has no chance. It's just it's not that kind of
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: a season for me.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Dick Girardi is with US National horse Racing Expert and
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: our guest every year right before the Kentucky Derby, and
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: it's good to catch up with him here today. All right,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: So let's put it on the line here, miss or Girardi.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: What's your pick? Give me your trifecta for Saturday.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: So I like the non Bourbon, the Japanese horse number
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: seven at the moment, about fifteen to one at better
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: online dot ag. I says that's what he'll go off
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: at in the race. And Japanese has come. They came
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: really close to winning this race two years ago with
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Forever Young. He probably was the best horse in a race.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: He just had enough difficulty that he didn't finish in first.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: But I mean watching the non bourbons three races in Japan,
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: you know when you see a great athlete in sports,
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: whatever it is. When when they're just they're just different
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: than the other ones. That's what I'm seeing on the
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: videos at the Non Bourbon. It's interesting. He's Japanese owned
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: and trained, and we'll have a Japanese jockey, but he's
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: a Kentucky break so he's coming back home to Kentucky.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: So that's my pick to win it. I like further
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Ado for sure. I think he's the most the chance
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: to run, maybe the best trace of any of the
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: American horses. He's the eighteen you'll actually move into the
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: seventeen post now with one of the scratches. So that's
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: my exactly is seven eighteen. And if you want a
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: third horse, it would definitely be command at the six
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: seven eighteen six. And if you want if you want
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: to have some fun, get on get on the get
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: on bet online dot ag. They got all those prop
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: bets and be like how much what's the winning margin
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: over over a length and a half? Will some worst
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: break Secretariat's track record, which is held since nineteen seventy three.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: There's probably three dozen of them out there. So if
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: you're into prop bets, better online your.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Place, all right, Well, I'll close with this, You're the expert.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I'm a bit of a novice at this horse racing thing,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: and I'm not going to presume to think that I've
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: asked all the right questions. What as another factor out
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: there or another bet that you want to make on
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Saturday that you think has needs to be in our
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: conversation here today.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: So the Kentuck the Oaks is tomorrow. That's the race
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: for three year old Phillies. I'll actually be on in
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: primetime in the East for the first time. They're going
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: to run it at night. And bet online also has
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: a Great Oaks Derby double odds out there. Let's say
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: you like meaning who's going to be one of the
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: favorites in the Oaks with Renegade, you can get twenty
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: five to one if both of them come in that
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: that might be a fun bet to make. Get yourself
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: live in the Derby Oaks double. And Mike Ropoli, who's
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: the major benefactor for Saint John's basketball, he owns Zany
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: and the Oaks and Renegade in the Derby, and if
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: you put those two together you also get twenty five
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: to one if Zanny wins the Oaks and renegade wins
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: the Derby.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Do you at least like bourbon balls?
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: I do not. I like the non bourbon the seven Horse,
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I love that.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you love the Kentucky Derby, but only a horse
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: racing sounds like I correct?
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the gambling, Yeah, there's no alcohol for me. Thank you.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: And you know, the cool thing is if he if
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: he can stay sane down there, you're betting against everybody else,
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: and a lot of them are not necessarily as sober
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: as you are.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: It's strategy more than anything else, exactly. All right, Well,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: thank you, have a great time at the race, and
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: we appreciate having you on every year.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Dick, you got it. Sounds good, Thanks so much.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: All right, Dick Girardi joining us right here on the
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: radio program bet Online ag as he breaks it down
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: for you. I actually I don't like the menjulips. He's
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: right about that. I've been to the Campilly Derby three times.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: They're terrible. They taste like a earwax and a jar jeez.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: But I really do like the bourbon balls. I mean
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: I didn't even drink at the time, so I didn't
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: even really know what bourbon was supposed to taste like.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: When I went to the Kentucky Derby. But that was enjoyable.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: I liked those. Yeah bourbon balls. Yeah yeah, became my
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: nickname in college.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Look good.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: They do look good.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: They're not just shooting that. Okay, Yeah, they taste good.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: They don't taste good.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: They I didn't like them. I didn't like and I
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: just tasted them. I wasn't a big I wasn't a
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: drinker back then, so I just kind of tasted it.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: But not exactly, not exactly my cup of team. Okay,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: all right, Coming up next, hear on this radio program.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: This is another topic that came up yesterday actually, and
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: we did discuss it. But there's so much to it
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: that it's such a big story we can't just spend
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: a little bit of time on it. So we're going
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: to get into that field of seventy six Next on KJR.
• 32:37
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• 33:01
  Speaker 3: All right, it's Chuck Bowen andrews her Stilling in for
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Ashley Ryan today. Bucky's still out. Coming up at the
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: top of the hour, we're gonna chat with Andy Abolos,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: who is the defensive coordinator at TCU, So we're going
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: to get to some information on recent Seahawk draft pick,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Bud Clark, sixty fourth overall selection. I think he's already
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: done the car wash through Seattle. I think he's already
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: been on a few times. I think he's great, Probably
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: a little weirded out by how interested we are in
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Bud Clark.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know what, I'm sure you love to
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: talk about his former player that he had.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, we'll chat with him coming up at eight o'clock. Also,
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: ABC's of the Ms and Spencer Halls will be with
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: us today, so we got a lot to do. I
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: just think this story, I mean, we did do a
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: segment on it yesterday, we put it in the headlines yesterday.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: But this is a big, big, significant shift in the
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: college basketball landscape, the decision to go to seventy six
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: teams in the NCAA Tournament, and you do get the
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: impression that they're not done expanding it. As I said yesterday,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Anders and anybody that didn't hear it yesterday, that's listening
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: right now. I just don't like any business making the
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: decision we have one awesome thing about our industry and
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: then just tinkering with it until it frust until it's
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: not the same product.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: That's not awesome anymore.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, to me, I think there's a lot better
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: time spent trying to figure out how do we make
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: the regular season awesome again, because once upon a time
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: it was. And I don't think it's bad. I think
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: college basketball is still really good. I watched a lot
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: more college basketball this year. I enjoyed it. That said,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: the lack of familiarity, players bouncing around so much, when
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: you get a superstar, you know he's only going to
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: be there for one year, it certainly just doesn't have
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: the magic that it once had. When Patrick Ewing stayed
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: four years at Georgetown, and Ralph SAMs And stayed four
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: years at Virginia and Michael stayed three years, I mean
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: even magic, and Isaiah stayed two years, I mean, and
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: so that and they were outliers for leaving that prematurely.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: And so when you don't have the familiarity, when you
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: can't count on things, I mean, you're just not gonna
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: like it as much. Just period, end of story. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: so what are you going to do to spice up
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: the regular season? That's how I'd spend my time trying
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: to make it more appealing from November through February versus
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: messing with the one thing you do have going for you.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: But they're going to keep expanding it. This is what
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: seems to happen. Adam Silver's doing it in the NBA
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: as well. Yes, everybody, the season begins with the NBA
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: playoffs for a lot of fans out there, So let's
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: make the playoffs bigger, longer, and more dragged out. Yeah, ike,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: And then you reach a point where it just becomes silly.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: I do wonder, anders, if you're going to go this far,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: and we know the inevitability that it's eventually gonna go
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: to ninety six, just put everybody in it.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Then just have one long tournament the entire year.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, why not? Why not cut your regular season in
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: half and then just start in January. Maybe you even
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: do best of three. I don't know, Maybe the whole
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: season is a damn tournament. I mean, if that's what
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do, and we're gonna bastardize the beauty of
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament a little piece at a time. Then
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: why not just put everybody in it. Start the tournament
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: in February, and then by the time we get to March,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: now we're down to a field of sixty four. Yeah,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: and now we can actually start March Madness. I mean,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: if we're gonna go this far, then let's just go
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: the distance. Why keep anybody out?
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it is funny because you mentioned March Madness
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: is the name and everyone, that's how everyone knows it.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: If you're going to this many teams eventually ninety six,
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: it's gonna have to go past March. I feel like.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: We have to.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: No, maybe not, but no, you can play those games
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: pretty fast. Yeah, and then you can extend it the
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: other way.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: You would just have more play in games. You're you're
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: gonna have four more play in games.
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: I just I liken it to when they expanded the
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: World Cup field. As a soccer fan, thirty two was
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: so perfect. It felt like, you know, you had a
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: couple teams here and there that didn't, you know, end
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: up making it, and they felt like they should have
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: been there. But at the end of the day, it
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: just had such a perfect format. And then of course
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: this year is the first year they're going to forty eight,
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: so it's same kind of thing. More games, more teams,
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: more money, all that stuff.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: And they're saying the reason they're doing it is so
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: that the major conferences can get more teams in the tournament.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: What I mean, isn't that really the crux of the problem.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: It is the problem is that, yeah, we kind of
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: recognize that they're better, but we can't give them the
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: benefit of the doubt. They still have to kind of
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: prove it during their regular season. We can't be putting,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: you know, fourteen and seventeen record teams in from the
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: SEC just be because they finished eleventh in the SEC
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: and they're probably better than the best team out of
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: the sky.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: I didn't watch a ton of college basketball this year.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: I grew up actually a huge U dubbed basketball fan
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: more than anything else because I lived in the area
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: and I was actually a ball boy for them for
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: a while, so.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: I cute, thanks. Thanks.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: It was during their heyday, though, when they would going
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: to tournaments like consistently, do we really feel like you
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: have basketball team deserve to be in the Ncidelway Tournament
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: this year.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Not no, but they didn't even make it into the
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: n I Tournament exactly.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: But I feel like if it expanded to ninety six,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: they'd be at least on one of those bubble teams.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Well, again, maybe if we're gonna go this far and
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: we're going to include teams that have no business competing
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: for a national championship, then just do it. Start in February,
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: have a big tournament of all of the other teams,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: which we kind of already have you do, but go
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: ahead and just see them all and rank them so
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: everybody can have the experience, and then play it out
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: in February while the big conferences play their conference championships,
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: and then we can see them after that, Like who survives.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Out of the there's just.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: The February February frenzy, you know, So we have February Frenzy,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: and then whoever survives that gets plugged in with all
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: of the major conference teams. Yeah, So if that's what
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do, I mean, let's just go ahead and
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: separate them permanently, Like you have to earn your way
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: in if you're not in a power conference in February
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: and then we'll take like twelve of those teams.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: And then they can face off against the Major. They
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: just have such a perfect structure and like way to
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: do it. And I'm totally with you. Why would you
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: mess with such a good thing? And I don't think
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: there's anyone out there that thought that this needs to change,
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: not a single person.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: It's plastic surgery with beautiful Hollywood starlets. It's like, Okay,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: maybe you you are getting a little older, but here's
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: what's gonna happen. You're gonna do your lips and it's
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: gonna change the way your face looks, and then you're
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: gonna try to adjust and try to keep up with well,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: now my eyes don't match. And then you're gonna do
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: your eyes and then and then somebody's gonna then you're
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: gonna look in the mirror and they're like, oh man,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: my nose. And then you're gonna do your nose. The
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: next thing you know, you know, you've gone from a perfect, beautiful,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: sixty four team tournament and now the NCAA attorney looks
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: like a cat. Lady cat. And I'm not talking about
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: a woman that has cats. No, I'm talking about a
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: woman whose face now looks like a cat.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, you're Zach Effron.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: I don't want college basketball's postseason to look like a cat.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: That would not be good.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, is that so wrong of me? All right,
• 40:48
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