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Chuck in the Morning 9/1 H3: They're surely done now... Donald is surely not and here comes football season! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday. It is Chuck Powell and Ashley Ryan with you.
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  Speaker 1: We roll into our third hour of our four-hour radio
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  Speaker 1: program here this morning. We do have Aaron Donald and
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  Speaker 1: the Rams to get to a little bit later on
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  Speaker 1: this hour. Rick Neuheisel joins us at 9 o'clock. We
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  Speaker 1: do have the ABCs and the Ms before the close
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  Speaker 1: of the show, so still a lot of ground to cover.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of feels like we should go over some of
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  Speaker 1: the same ground again here to start the 8 o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 1: Because it does feel, it surely does feel done now,
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  Speaker 1: does it not, Ashley? No. It doesn't? No. You still
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  Speaker 1: are not there?
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  Speaker 2: I am not there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I mean. Good, I'm glad.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I probably should relieve myself of the
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  Speaker 3: frustrations and emotions.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go through by still holding on to hope.
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  Speaker 3: But I just can't because I have seen glimpses of
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  Speaker 3: this team doing some good things. And, I mean, we
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  Speaker 3: just saw it two weeks ago or a week ago.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, since I came back from Hawaii, basically, they
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  Speaker 3: have sucked. So if you need me to fly somewhere else, I'll.
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  Speaker 1: Go somewhere else. You should have never even mentioned that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not just me. People are reminding me on
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  Speaker 2: the text and the YouTube. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And trust me, if I could afford to go on
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  Speaker 3: vacation again and take the days off, I would do
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  Speaker 3: it to help this team.
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  Speaker 2: I would do pretty much anything.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hear that, John Stanton? Yeah, why don't you
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  Speaker 1: contribute some money to getting Ashley the F out of here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you want this team to win, apparently that's
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  Speaker 3: what it takes. And I will be a willing participant.
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  Speaker 1: What is the... Because I don't use the text line
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  Speaker 1: in front of me. I know I got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of response last night on social media. Maybe record setting
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  Speaker 1: for me personally. A PR. I said a PR last night.
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  Speaker 1: And it was mostly on board with me. Um, obviously
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot of, I told you this roster
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  Speaker 1: wasn't any good. And I told you, Jerry, and I
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  Speaker 1: disagree with that. I think the roster was fine and
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  Speaker 1: should have won this series, this, uh, league, this division, um,
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  Speaker 1: by 10 games this year, but there's no getting around
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  Speaker 1: the fact that this team has earned its record. They've
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  Speaker 1: played terrible baseball this year. They are a 10 games
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  Speaker 1: under 500 baseball team, and certainly we're going to spend
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time in the offseason trying to get
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  Speaker 1: to the bottom of that. It's a bit mysterious for me.
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  Speaker 1: There's no question about it. I could go through all
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  Speaker 1: the things that I started the show with, and I
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  Speaker 1: probably will get to all of them again, that land
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  Speaker 1: as the sources of my runaway frustration at this point
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  Speaker 1: but what is the gist what what are people because
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  Speaker 1: ashley said the text line's just blown up yeah here
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  Speaker 1: today what is the gist of their conversation uh i
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  Speaker 1: mean it's.
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  Speaker 3: Just a really a lot of frustration a lot of
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  Speaker 3: uh irritation with julio yesterday uh someone saying i don't
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  Speaker 3: think julio has enough common sense to be a great
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  Speaker 3: baseball player i disagree with that but he made a
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  Speaker 3: mistake last night absolutely Uh, Dan sucks. The guys are
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  Speaker 3: lost without passionate leadership. We need Gino Suarez. We needed
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  Speaker 3: Gino Suarez all year. Dan sucks. The last two playoff seasons,
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  Speaker 3: you could say Gino got you there both years.
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  Speaker 2: They let him go. We floundered. Dan sucks. That's from Aaron.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Wanting to make sure that we knew that he thinks
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  Speaker 2: Dan sucks.
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  Speaker 1: And look, we did an entire segment, uh, just a
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  Speaker 1: half hour ago about his press conference that he had
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  Speaker 1: last night, stopping it at moments that aggravated me, us, um,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he has what it takes to be
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  Speaker 1: a leader of men. And Luke Arkins has done this
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Our friend, Luke Arkins, like, um, and he's
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  Speaker 1: also criticized him harshly for this. And I don't, I
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily fall in line with that theory that soft.
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  Speaker 1: He's going with right now. And that is that he
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  Speaker 1: needs to yank people out of games and, and he
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  Speaker 1: needs to call them out necessarily in the media.
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  Speaker 2: That's no.
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  Speaker 1: Or he has to be behind the scenes. He better
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  Speaker 1: be chewing him a new one. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: today's athlete responds to that, but I do think what
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  Speaker 1: they respond to is directness and firmness and expectations. And
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  Speaker 1: this is a word the softies use a lot, accountability.
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  Speaker 1: And they reinforce those things. I mean, to watch Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald on hard knocks and then to compare him to
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  Speaker 1: what we hear from Dan Wilson. Now, we're just hearing
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  Speaker 1: that publicly. Hard Knocks is not following Dan Wilson around.
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  Speaker 2: It would be great if they were, though, because I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to know.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to know. We're not getting the nitty-gritty
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  Speaker 1: of it, but my guess is that what you see
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  Speaker 1: is what you get. And if that's what the players
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  Speaker 1: are getting, too, is this soft mamby-pamby, oh, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get him this time, oh, it was a tough one
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  Speaker 1: this time, there's no way that you're going to lead
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  Speaker 1: a group of grown-ass men to chew through walls for
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  Speaker 1: you when it matters. And last night was another example
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  Speaker 1: of it. I mean, there were some excellent performances last night.
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  Speaker 1: Randy Rosarino was spectacular. Cal, I think, has turned the
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  Speaker 1: corner here as of late. And we're still not winning,
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  Speaker 1: even with Cal having turned the corner here as of late.
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  Speaker 1: But he's playing with some grit. Saw Logan pitch with
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  Speaker 1: grit two days ago. I mean, There are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of examples of that. Dominguez, Spire, and Munoz all pitched
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  Speaker 1: well last night. But there's also these examples of, I
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  Speaker 1: call it hero ball. Like, JP should stop swinging for
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  Speaker 1: the fences, and yet he's been doing it for three years.
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  Speaker 1: And if the explanation for it is, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not swinging for the fences. I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 1: hit the ball really hard and it's throwing me off balance.
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  Speaker 1: That's a problem. If you're off balance and you're swinging
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  Speaker 1: yourself into a circle, you have pipe cleaner arms. You
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  Speaker 1: are not a power hitter. The fact that he hit
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  Speaker 1: 10 home runs is the problem because he thinks he's
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  Speaker 1: a power hitter and him coming outside of his comfort
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  Speaker 1: zone in order to be the hero in every stinking moment. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't do it last night.
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  Speaker 2: He was good last night.
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  Speaker 1: He contributed by just staying within himself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the bunt. But I think Dom Canzone, even though
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  Speaker 1: he played a good game last night, played hero ball
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  Speaker 1: last night, bases were loaded. Nobody out. And you got
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  Speaker 1: those bases loaded by unconventional means. Cole got brushed with
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  Speaker 1: a pitch on the elbow. And then you got a
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  Speaker 1: walk from Weston Wilson, which was kind of miraculous. And
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  Speaker 1: then Randy, because he did everything right last night, gets
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  Speaker 1: a base hit. And then you just keep the chain moving.
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  Speaker 1: Keep it going. And Dom comes up with three swings
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  Speaker 1: to try to hit a grand slam 1,000 feet. That's
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  Speaker 1: not what I want to see in that moment. And
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  Speaker 1: where is the coaching? Where is the heavy hand? But
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  Speaker 1: that's the way that we operate. And maybe it is
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  Speaker 1: because we just have a bunch of nice guys. Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Seitzer is like a syrupy sweet nice guy. Pete Woodworth.
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  Speaker 1: He instills confidence in his players by constantly being a
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  Speaker 1: form of affirmation for them. He's like a handsome Stuart Smalley,
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  Speaker 1: that Pete Woodworth. It's just always like, you got this.
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  Speaker 1: And it works. It works for him. But if you
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  Speaker 1: have an entire staff that's operating that way, that's just
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  Speaker 1: about back rubs and attaboys, Can you get where you
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  Speaker 1: want to go with a group of professional men? They
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  Speaker 1: don't have that competitive edge. They lose it from game
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  Speaker 1: to game. There's fire and focus one day. There's fire
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  Speaker 1: and focus for five days. And then suddenly you show
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  Speaker 1: up at the ballpark in Toronto and there's none for
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  Speaker 1: an entire weekend. And maybe that does have something to
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  Speaker 1: do with leadership. Maybe that's what it's all about. And
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  Speaker 1: forget the X's and O's mistakes that I thought Dan
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  Speaker 1: made last night, which I'm happy to outline for you
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  Speaker 1: here in a little bit. But I don't need him
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  Speaker 1: jerking people out of games. We need those guys. We
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  Speaker 1: need Julio Rodriguez. He's one of our better players. But
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  Speaker 1: I do need more evidence that you are holding people
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  Speaker 1: responsible and accountable and that there is some sort of
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  Speaker 1: This is how a professional operates. This is how a
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  Speaker 1: teammate operates. And this no-brainer, keep the guy to a
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  Speaker 1: single thing that every center fielder from high school baseball
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  Speaker 1: on knows to do in that situation. And our all-star
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  Speaker 1: center fielder who plays 160 games that position every stinking
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  Speaker 1: summer makes that mistake in that moment, and that is
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  Speaker 1: not a tough break, as Dan described it. That is
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  Speaker 1: a boneheaded decision, probably from somebody that thought he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be the diving hero and make the highlight, rather
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  Speaker 1: than make the sensible, boring, keep-em-to-first play. We don't have that.
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  Speaker 1: We don't exhibit that as a team and haven't all
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  Speaker 1: season long. And yeah, a lot of that falls on
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  Speaker 1: the players. But where is the coach to say that's
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  Speaker 1: not how you win? Where is that? I hope it's
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  Speaker 1: happening behind the scenes. But my guess is after 128
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  Speaker 1: games or whatever, Ashley, it's not happening behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: any more than it's happening in front of our eyes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I get the impression that the players are
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  Speaker 3: harder on themselves than their manager is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And that they're harder on each other and on themselves
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  Speaker 3: and that their manager.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't adding anything. He's not.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. He's not.
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  Speaker 3: Calling them out, and I don't want him to do
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  Speaker 3: it publicly, but in a locker room, I mean, bring someone,
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  Speaker 3: bring someone into your office and say, Hey man, you.
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  Speaker 2: Got to be better than that. You're not calling them out.
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  Speaker 1: You're not being rude.
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  Speaker 3: You're being a coach. You're being somebody who's trying to
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  Speaker 3: help them win. Who's trying to help them continue to
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  Speaker 3: grow in the sport that they play.
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  Speaker 2: That's your job.
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  Speaker 1: How was the message about challenges not gotten through? I mean, seriously.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great question because it actually seems like we've
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  Speaker 2: gotten worse again.
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  Speaker 1: This is just an example. It's a small example. But truly,
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  Speaker 1: if you are going to guys and like, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't about you're at bat. This is about what's best
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  Speaker 1: for the team. These challenges, we get two precious ones.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be selfish with it. How many times has Josh
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  Speaker 1: Naylor had a challenge with an 0-1 count and then
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  Speaker 1: been wrong about it? Mm-hmm. JP, another stupid challenge. We
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: burned two, not only were you dead wrong because it
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: wasn't even close, you weren't even close to being right.
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  Speaker 1: They were used in preposterously stupid, non-beneficial situations. How is
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  Speaker 1: that continuing 140 games into the ABS Challenge System's history?
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  Speaker 1: Because I do watch a lot of baseball beyond the Mariners,
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  Speaker 1: and other teams don't do it. Why do we continue
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  Speaker 1: to fail at the ABS Challenge System? I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: clearly never been one coach that sat down and said,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to do that in that situation.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
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  Speaker 1: And then we don't even call them when we should
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  Speaker 1: use them. Late in the game with ninth inning and
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  Speaker 1: nobody on base and why not use it?
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  Speaker 2: It's because then we're scared.
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  Speaker 1: If that doesn't resonate right there. Like, we still have
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  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor in the middle of a high-scoring, tight game
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  Speaker 1: with our starting pitchers struggling, knowing that our bullpen has
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  Speaker 1: not been getting the job done as of late, and
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: runs are going to become important, and challenges are going
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  Speaker 1: to become important, and that every game and every pitch
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  Speaker 1: is valuable right now. And he's just sitting up there like,
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  Speaker 1: I want that to be a ball. Tap my head.
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  Speaker 1: I want that, yeah. But I really want it. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even that beneficial to his at-bat. Right. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was 0-1. So what? You get to 1-1.
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  Speaker 3: Or 1-0.
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  Speaker 1: Who cares? And obviously there's no coaching on it or
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  Speaker 1: there's no respect for the person who is coaching it
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  Speaker 1: because it doesn't change.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and that might be the problem right there.
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  Speaker 3: If they are saying it and these players, yeah, Dan
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  Speaker 3: is a nice guy, but do you have respect for him?
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  Speaker 3: Like the Seahawks players clearly have respect for Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right.
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald is a nice guy, but he's not afraid
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  Speaker 3: to let somebody know when they're screwing up.
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  Speaker 1: I think I might've concussed myself. I was doing that
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  Speaker 1: for dramatic effect so that the radio audience would hear
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  Speaker 1: me smack my own head.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have a helmet on.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a helmet on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan would have went on the IL if he
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  Speaker 1: did that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he would have.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a cheap shot.
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  Speaker 2: You want another text?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: This is from the 405.
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  Speaker 3: This losing, disorganized, underachieving energy that surrounds this team starts
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  Speaker 3: with ownership and upper management, and it all rolls downhill.
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  Speaker 3: The Mariners might stumble into a playoff race once in
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  Speaker 3: a while. But it just goes well beyond game plans
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  Speaker 3: and Dan Wilson. This is a losing organization because there
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  Speaker 3: is not a winner's mentality at the top.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, and I'll push back on that. I know
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  Speaker 1: we're all railing, but we've had five straight winning seasons.
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  Speaker 1: We might not have a championship. We don't have a
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  Speaker 1: championship mentality. I'll give you that. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: that's tried to have been corrected the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've been pretty aggressive at the trading deadline
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  Speaker 1: now three years in a row. We've stopped trading. being
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  Speaker 1: scared of one-year rentals. We've now done that two years
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  Speaker 1: in a row. Jerry let go of offensive philosophy and
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  Speaker 1: handed it over to a proven hitting instructor in Kevin Seitzer,
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  Speaker 1: but also a really nice guy. And so is Edgar,
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  Speaker 1: a really nice guy. There's not a ball buster in
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  Speaker 1: the group. And I don't think that necessarily today's athletes
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  Speaker 1: respond to that, but they do respond to it. Firmness, directness,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe they're not getting that. So I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that they've had a loser's mentality. I think that they've
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  Speaker 1: had a winner's mentality, stopped short of having a championship
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  Speaker 1: mentality for sure. Maybe they don't know how to win
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  Speaker 1: a championship. But this season, I mean, I just can't
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: chalk it up to ownership and management didn't do its
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  Speaker 1: job in the offseason. I just can't. Not when Vegas
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  Speaker 1: is saying we're going to win 93 games and run
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  Speaker 1: away with the American League West. Every national pundit out
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: there says the Mariners should win this easily when the
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Astros and the Rangers themselves don't even make positive moves
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  Speaker 1: at the trading deadline even though they're ahead of us
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: because they don't feel like they have the team to
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: beat the Mariners. This team organizationally spent money on Josh Naylor.
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  Speaker 1: We all wanted them to do that. What we saw
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  Speaker 1: from Josh Naylor, man, that's got to be kept. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: was on board with that, by the way. Josh Naylor
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: has not been a good player this year. And I
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: think he's been actually problematic at times. Kind of lackadaisical.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, he didn't run out a chopper on a
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: ground ball that might have been the difference in the game. So,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know how we blame Jerry and John for that.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Re-signing Josh Naylor when we all wanted that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Cal Raleigh's had an atrocious season. Should we
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: have traded him in the offseason for a better catcher?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: One that wasn't going to have a bad year this year?
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  Speaker 2: Because we can predict that.
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  Speaker 1: One that wasn't going to pull his oblique and affect
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: his entire game? Is that what we should have done? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think you had the people, and
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: you're not getting the most out of the people. You're
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: not even getting near the most out. You're not even
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: getting them to play average baseball for their abilities and
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  Speaker 1: the standards that they've set for themselves. I don't go
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: back to ownership and management on that. I say that
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: they're vulnerable management this offseason. Ten games under. 500, you
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  Speaker 1: better believe everybody's head is at risk.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think so.
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  Speaker 1: Every single person. But if I'm handing out blame pie,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I'm blaming the people, the coaches, and the manager for
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: the talent that they've assembled. Talent so good that every
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: single person at spring training did not shy away from
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the goal as a championship. And then you perform 10
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: games under. 500. I mean... We had a lineup not
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: long ago where Taylor Ward, league leader in walks, who's
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: walked like three times since he's been here, was hitting eighth.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: And Brendan Donovan, our big offseason acquisition, was hitting ninth.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: How does a lineup with those two guys hitting eighth
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and ninth finish last in baseball and run scored? That,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: to me, is a lineup that should do some things.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: But we're last in baseball and offense. Yes. I don't
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: think not being able to see that Cal Raleigh was
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: going to hit 160 for most of the season this
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: year is on ownership and management. I just don't. If anything,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: it's on, we'll start with the player, but the guys
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: whose jobs are to get the most out of the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: players that they're given. Anybody got the impression that we've
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: gotten the most out of the talent that we have
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: this year?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Not at all.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Not even close. Yeah.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I will say one thing, too.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: We're getting some texts, people concerned about the background noise
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: they heard in Dan's press conference. No, they do not
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: do those press conferences on the road in the locker room.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: That was not Mariners players laughing and celebrating in the background.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: It was in the hallway at Fenway Park at the
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: bottom of the arena. It's most likely fans that are
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: going by leaving the arena. That is not Mariners players making,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: you know, not caring about a loss.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: No, as a matter of fact, there's a Brian Wu
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: press conference where At his locker, not a press conference,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: but at his locker. And he's being interviewed about the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: state of the team. And you hear some screaming going
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: on in the background.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, I haven't heard that.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, some angered screaming from the, not like at another person,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: just expressions of anguish. Oh, okay. Like we heard at
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the end of the Blue Jays, remember? Yeah. And they
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: said it was Julio in the background. It might have
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: been him again. Might have been JP. I don't know.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: But somebody took the loss really hard last night. I
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: think they are taking the losses really hard right now.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: But it just goes from game to game. Just a
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: lot of the same mistakes and a lot of the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: absent-mindedness and a lot of the lack of focus for
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: what the job requires in the moment. Dom's been terrific
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: this year. I'll point it out again. But that was
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: just a... atrocious at bat. You want to take one
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: swing at the fences? I guess. I guess. Three? That's
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: just not winning baseball when everybody else is getting on base.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Tack on. Keep it going. Sometimes homers are rally killers. Now,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: that wouldn't have been.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: No, that would have been great.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: A four-run homer. I mean, we would have taken that.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't necessarily– the moment did not necessarily call
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: for that. Get the run home. That's winning baseball. Too
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: much hero ball. Too much lack of focus. Some guys
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: are 100% all in. And some guys look like they
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: don't even care what the result is. And sometimes it's
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: different guys from night to night. They are not on
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the same page. And that comes back to, you're right, leadership.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And I don't think Jerry DePoto is a leader of men.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think that he is. And I think that
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: he's relinquished a lot of those responsibilities. I think he
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: was too involved with the clubhouse. He was too dismissive
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: of how valuable Kendall Graveman's and Paul Seawald's were to
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the clubhouse. And he got rid of them. And he
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: admitted that that might have been a mistake. Even though
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: we got Dom Canzone to show for that. Right. I
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe he didn't admit those specifically were mistakes,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: but he has kind of backed off of not thinking
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: that Clubhouse mattered. Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I think that's been pretty evident.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, I don't know. I don't know if we
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: got to the bottom of it all, but... I don't know.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: We're all frustrated.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we are.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: And to me, I mean, I want you to keep
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: your chin up, Ashley. I want you, I mean, because
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: it's not technically over, but yeah, it feels over. Last
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: night it feels over.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I understand absolutely why people would feel that way and
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: why you would feel that way.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: And I should probably feel that way. I'm just really,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: really stubborn.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Keep with it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: We need it. We need somebody to feel.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I'm going to figure something out. If I have to
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: go back to Hawaii, I'll go back to Hawaii.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next, let's talk about Aaron Donald's return.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Let's take a break from this. Has he made the Rams? Invincible.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. I want to read this
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: real quick. I know I said I was moving on
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: from the Mariners, but this does sort of.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: It's hard to move on.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. This does sort of support what I've been saying
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: all along about this team, and it comes from a
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: really reputable source, Bob Dutton. Everybody knows Bob Dutton. Doesn't
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: cover the team anymore for his own health. But he
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: tweeted out, yesterday, I guess it was yesterday, August 31st. Yep. Yesterday, uh,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: was talking to a friend who was a pro scout
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: from NMLB club who said the word on the Mariners
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: is a lot of talent there, but just stay close
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: because they'll find a way to beat themselves.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that's what we've seen.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: That's what we've, is that not what we've seen?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: How many times have we said, Oh, they found a
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: new way to lose.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Yes. And that to me is not about the lack
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: of talent on this team. It's all about the way
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: they play together and, And I think that that is
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a statement on managing and coaching. Yeah. He also added
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that was before the game last night.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, perfect.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some football. Let's talk some NFL.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: We're eight days away. We're not going to play the
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Rams for a long time. It is crazy that we
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: will not play the Rams until what? After Christmas, right?
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: It's Christmas Day.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Christmas Day. And then the last game of the year
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: as well. So we don't play the Rams until Christmas.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: christmas can you imagine the build-up yeah can you imagine
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: if both these teams are as good as.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: What it's gonna be epic you know.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: What everybody outside of seattle thinks the rams are going
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: to be we think they're going to be great too
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: um but they're just sleeping a little bit on the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: champs i think well.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah the conversation has been as you mentioned yesterday could
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: they go undefeated yeah what everybody's talking about the rams yeah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: That was the drive that was the conversation i listened
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to on my drive-in yesterday So, yeah, that's where the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Rams are right now, where people are wondering, are they
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: going to go undefeated this year? And certainly the addition
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of Aaron Donald makes them all that much more dangerous.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen was on with us yesterday, and Hugh Millen
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: had effusive praise for Aaron Donald.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Here's my Mount Rushmore defensive players, Lawrence Taylor, Reggie White.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: We got to throw Dion in. We'll put in a
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: secondary guy, Dion and Aaron Donald. He's in the top
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: four defensive players I've ever seen. And the best defensive tackle,
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: the most disruptive. It's just insanity what the kind of
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: career that he had, you know, to say he's a
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: first ballot Hall of Famer would be the all-time understatement. So, yeah,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: that's who they've added. And, you know, he turned 35
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: in May. You just kind of hope that, Maybe Father
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Time took a few chunks out of him that pull
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: him down to mortal status, but the idea of Miles
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Garrett on one side and him, yeah, it's going to
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: be a load.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a problem. It's going to be
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a problem.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I can't imagine not, unless indeed the time off and
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: the age really has caught.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Up to him.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen yesterday with us talking about Aaron Donald. I mean,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I put him on my Rushmore as well. I think
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: he's that great. I mean, talking about one of the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: four best defensive players, I also, you know, I'm going
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: to brag, I'm going to, A little pat on the back.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I've had to mention how long I've been wrong. I've
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: been about the Mariners all show long. So I'm going
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to do this. He was, and you can go back
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: to the tape, Jackson Feltz might remember when we used
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: to do the show together, my favorite player coming out
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: of the draft when he came out of the draft.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: So I didn't think he was going to be this,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: but here he is now, I think maybe top four
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: player defensively of all time. And that is the question.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Two years removed. What can that do? Some people are
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: saying there's no chance he's going to be the same player.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: And then others obviously are scared because the same player
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: is returning to already the Super Bowl favorite. Yep. I
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: will say this about him, and I am not a
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: fan of him, but a great admirer of Aaron Donald.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: The crap wrecker. The original crap wrecker.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: That's what I've been thinking this whole time. He's back
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: to wreck more crap.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Curtis Crabtree's crap wrecker line.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: And I just keep hearing Hugh going, how am I
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: crap intact?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: If anybody could do it at age 35, two years removed,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: it is him.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Okay. So that's my compliment. I certainly am... not going
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to dismiss the possibility that Aaron Donald's going to be similar,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: if not the same. My guess is probably similar. He
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: probably will not be as great as the last time
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that we saw him, but circle in the neighborhood. Yeah.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: That's my expectation.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think he'd come back if he didn't think
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: he still had it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Bingo. As a matter of fact, I think that's why
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: he took so long. I don't think Aaron Donald worries
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: about missing training camp. That's just my opinion. He's a workaholic.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, he works out harder when he wasn't playing
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: football than most football players do. And I think it
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: was him testing himself like, it's one thing to go
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to the gym and it's one thing to eat right.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: It's another thing to come back as a defensive lineman
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: in the National Football League and be ready to be
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that again. And I think he spent Every single second
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that he could, proving to himself, I'm not coming back
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: if I'm not the same player. I think the only
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: reason he's coming back is because he wants to experience
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: life in the National Football League without being double and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: triple teamed every single play. For once.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what a joy that will be for him.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: For once since his rookie year, he's going to actually
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: not have offenses key everything around stopping him because you've
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: got Myles Garrett to deal with. Mm-hmm. and so he's
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: got to get some of that attention. So I think
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: that's why he's back. If he wanted to just be
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: a part of a championship team, he would have come
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: back in either of the last two years. He's coming
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: back now because he finally has the guy that is
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: going to demand enough attention that you can't give all
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: your attention to Donald, and he wants to see what
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: he can do. So I'm expecting him to be great.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe not at his all-time best, but I am expecting
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: him to be great. Here's what I'm also expecting. And
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: this is what people are sleeping on. Like, what was
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Byron Murphy described as coming out of college? Aaron Donald.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's right.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe Aaron Donald light because you can't say, what, 13th
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: pick in the draft or whatever Byron was. You can't
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: just say, that's the next Aaron Donald. He's got to
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: earn it. That's reckless. Yeah. Because at that point, Donald
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: was the best football player defensively in the game. But
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: what we've seen is two years of drastic improvement from Murphy.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Good as a rookie. Great in his second year. Under
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the radar great in his second year. Should have been
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: all pro. First team all pro. Or at least second
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: team all pro. And now he gets that third year
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: where you really, I think, might see that jump this year.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: And he happens to be with Leonard Williams. So is
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: it Garrett and Donald? If Donald's as great as he
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: used to be, no. But those might be the two
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: best defensive players in the world right now. We have
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the two best defensive tackle combo in the National Football League.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And I think one of those guys is going to
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: get even better. And Byron Murphy, where if Leonard Williams
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: can stay the same, we've got our own quarterback. wreckers
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: yeah we do on the seahawks and we'll go ahead
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and let everybody else sleep on that and talk about
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: garrett and donald till they're blue in the face um
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: but it's not like the cupboard's empty in.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Seattle no but if you listen to any national media
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: it's true it's not like the.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Seahawks are even here For sure.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: And I'm fine with it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Yep. Yeah, I'm great
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: with it. I mean, I don't love that the Rams
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: added Garrett and got Donald back. No, not that part.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I don't love that part. But if that's the world
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: that we're going to live in, then I love just
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: what you said. Then let them all talk. I would
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: rather that happen. That's how I best want to cope
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: with this.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Let everybody think they can't possibly lose. And then you've
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: got four months of football. to see exactly how good
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they are, and then I think the Seahawks are going
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to be in prime position two games out of three
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: to face the Rams, and then let's decide it.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when have the Seahawks been at their best? When
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: people have underestimated them. I mean, last year, they were
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: not even remotely expected to win the Super Bowl. They
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: were expected to win eight games, wasn't it?
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Eight games? I think it was. Ridiculous. Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: And they won the Super Bowl. And back in when
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: they won the Super Bowl with the Legion of Boom.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Nobody thought they were going to win the Super Bowl
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: that year.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: It is hard to be world champs and be slept on.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: And yet that's what you have. And I think Mike
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: McDonald loves it.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, and he should.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. He should. Formidable force. I know Aaron Donald's
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: going to make them better than they were. Yes. And
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: let them go on a magical run. And then we'll
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: see you on Christmas Day. And we'll decide this thing.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Them getting better doesn't make the Seahawks worse. And it
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: seems like a lot of people kind of think, oh,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: now look. Well, we're still the same.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: We're good. Actually, we'll be better. Right. Because we won
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: with a lot of young players last year. All right,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: coming up next. What's in store for the fall? It's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: not just pumpkin lattes around here. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Well,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you don't want your crap wrecked, do you? I mean,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I want my crap intact. All right, here we go.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: As we embark on the fall, we have a 2026
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: fall lineup to announce to you here this morning on
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Chuck in the Mornings. Not everything is set, but certainly
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: we have a lot of returnees from last year's award-winning
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: coverage of the football season, and we're excited to have
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: most of them. our crew back for this year to
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: give you the very best in football coverage here in Seattle.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: So I wanted to go over it with a couple
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: of wrinkles, a couple little twists that we'll be doing differently.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Number one, Factor Fiction returns. We'll start that as an
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: entire station on Monday, Labor Day. So that's coming up
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: this Monday. And we are going to start on the holiday.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: So keep that in mind. You may not be working,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: but if you're going to play Factor Fiction, get to work.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: That's right. I like the way you put that.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: All right, so that's coming back for this upcoming year. Also,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: this lineup is returning for this upcoming year. We will
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: have Mondays with Greg Bell and Hugh Millen this year.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: It will be Greg 705 every Monday. Now, of course,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: they don't always play on Sunday, but you know what
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I mean. And Hugh's going to be back for Monday
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Morning Quarterback this year from 8 to 10. So we
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: certainly look forward to that. Tuesdays, and he will make
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: his debut for 2026. And about 12 minutes from now,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Rick Neuheisel will be back this year.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: All right, Nicky.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Looking good, coach. Yeah, coach.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Let's go for the game.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he slimmed down since last we saw him.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Look at that guy, strutting across the stage like that.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: The catwalk. Do your little turn on the catwalk, Neuheisel.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: He's strutting.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: So he'll be on 9 o'clock Tuesdays this year. Also
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: back this year is the official, the official, official, Jane
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Sterator is back.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Get in here, Jean.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Come on. Get over here, you scamp. 8 o'clock on Tuesdays,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: mean Jane Sterator will be joining us, the nicest man
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: in America. So we are very excited to have him
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: back again. This season. But we won't start with him
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: until next week. I'll start with you next week. That's right.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: You pay attention.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: On Wednesdays. Now, we've got something that's cooking on the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: back burner. Wednesdays at 8 o'clock that we're really excited about.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned. Very, very excited about. Can't say it now.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I think primarily because I don't want to jinx it. Right.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: But it looks like we're really close to something new
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: and exciting 8 o'clock on Wednesdays.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Almost done.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: We're almost there. That doesn't mean that Cam Cleland 8
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: o'clock on Wednesdays wasn't exciting. It just wasn't new.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: And now he has a new and exciting place that
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: he's going to.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Be on our program.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: That's going to be Wednesdays at 9. Everybody was worried
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: about Cam's sleep. He's back, rested.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going to be well-rested, ready to go.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Stronger, more bright-eyed than ever. So the color analyst of
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: your Washington Huskies, unless you're a Coug fan or a
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Duck fan or a Gonzaga fan, Cam Cleland will be
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: back with us this year, every week at 9 o'clock.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: So excited about that. On Thursday, Softee is back. New
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: time for Softee. He wants to come on at 7.30
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: this year instead of 7.05. So we're going to accommodate
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: him on that. So Softie will be back Thursdays with
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Softie at 7.30. And we will also have Mike Sando
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: coming back to the radio program. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Our NFL Insider 9.30 on Thursdays as we look forward
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: to that. Roundtable every Thursday at 8 to 9 with
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Greg and Hugh this year. And Ryan Healy will be
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: at 9 o'clock. through the end of the baseball season, which,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: of course, is going to last through October. Obviously. I
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: said the baseball season will, of course, last through the month.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Well, that's true.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Ryan Healy, 9 o'clock for as long as supplies last.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: And then we will have Football Friday this year with
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell, with Hugh Millen. with the Ocho, with our
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: fantasy college football league, and so much more. So that's
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: coming your way as well. And we're also working on
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: one other surprise at this point, which we can't tell
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: you about today, but we are working on it. We
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: have two surprises. We think we're going to get them
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to the finish line, but we'll tell you about it
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: when the time comes. The other thing, and one of
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the reasons I wanted to go through this dog and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: pony show here today, because the green jacket has been retired.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: So we're not going to do green jacket drafts anymore.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: It's the end of an era.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: But we are going to continue to draft.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, phew.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Because it's the best thing in life. Right.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I say that to myself every night.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: So the green jacket is officially retired over there in
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the corner. And so we're going to basically combine an
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: old bit I used to do at Jackson Feltz called
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the showdown with the green jacket drafts that we've done.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: So we're going to continue to draft, but... There's going
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: to be a new wrinkle to it this year. And
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: this is why I'm telling you this here today. Because
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: tomorrow will be our first showdown draft. And this year,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: we are going to have callers be the fourth challenger.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: So your opportunity to compete with us. Now, we're going
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: to have drafts that are like a one-time thing, like
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Home Run Derby. And it's just going to be that
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: one person, and they're going to represent the listener's And
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: they're going to be on that particular draft. I know
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of people play along in their cars with
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the drafts and have wanted to do this, so we're
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: going to make that come true this year. So our
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: fourth drafter this year will be a caller drafter, and
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: they will represent all callers in those particular drafts and
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: competitions that we do. Now, there's also going to be
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: things like our Big Ten Fantasy League that we do,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: where you have to make pickups every week. So that's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: just a year-long thing. We're not going to use the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: same person. Same person might draft the team, but the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: pickups will be a different caller going forward. And you'll
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: have no opportunity to pick which caller gets to make
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: those choices for you. But it's high time now that
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: we've kind of changed over a little bit here in
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the mornings that we get callers involved. Because I know
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I hear from a lot of them that they want
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: to draft. They love drafting. They love our drafts that
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: we do. And so we're going to create that for
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: you this year. So there will be a fourth spot
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: for callers this year to be part of our showdown.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: You match your drafting skills against ours. And so that's
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: going to start tomorrow. So if anybody wants to do this,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: we're going to do our college football preview tomorrow. And
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get your number or anything right now.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, you may want to do a
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: little homework in case you want to do this tomorrow.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: So we will need your national champion, your Big Ten champion,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: your Heisman favorite. And then you will also have to
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: tell us UW's record this year. And if somebody else
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: takes your Heisman pick, then you don't get to take
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: that Heisman pick. Correct.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can't have the same team win the
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Big Ten championship and the national championship.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: So those are our rules for tomorrow. So go ahead
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: and do some homework if you'd like. Tomorrow we'll call
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: for someone to draft with us. It'll be our college
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: football preview draft. And then we will do our Big
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Ten preview draft on Tuesday. Thursday. So that takes a
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: little more homework. So if somebody wants to do that,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: put some work into it. We'll be calling for a
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: caller to be part of our Big Ten Fantasy League
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: this year as well. So you'll have to draft four
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: guys for that. We'll give you the rules as we
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: get closer to Thursday. But that's going to be a
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: new wrinkle to our fall coverage this year. The showdown
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: is back, even though the showdown looks very much like
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: the Green Jacket draft.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I'm excited. I want to win a trophy.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to have a trophy instead of a jacket.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, Rick Neweisel will join us.
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• 40:30
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• 40:36
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• 40:40
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