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Chuck and Buck 2-18 Hour 4: It's Pitcher's Day- we have to talk about the bullpen! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Alright, nine o'clock hour, here's our spring training coverage continues
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Speaker 1: are several of them, yep. So yes, we continue our
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Speaker 1: coverage here on Pitchers Day. Thanks again to Logan Gilbert,
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Speaker 1: Bryce Miller, Bryan Wu for joining us. Also the pitching coach,
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Speaker 1: the All Father, if you will, Pete Woodworth joining us
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show as well. As we
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Speaker 1: are celebrating Pitchers Day, and of course we've got two
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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, we haven't put enough of
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Speaker 1: a spotlight on this bullpen coming into this year, because
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Speaker 1: really it's shaping up to be special heading into twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six. And the newcomer jose A Farrer, who was
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Speaker 1: acquired in the off season by Jerry and Justin from
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Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals. I mean, they had two guys circled
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Speaker 1: this offseason that they were going after. They were Brenda
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Speaker 1: Donovan and jose A Ferrara. Those are the two guys
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Speaker 1: that they had circle. They ended up getting them both,
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Speaker 1: and in Ferrara's case, it ended up costing them. Harry Ford.
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Speaker 1: It was a prospect that of course they've drafted in
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Speaker 1: the first round. They've developed. We've all liked Harry Ford.
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Speaker 1: We were looking forward to seeing him in a Mariner uniform.
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Speaker 1: But when you're blocked by someone named cal Raley, suddenly
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Speaker 1: you become valuable to that organization as trade bait. And
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Speaker 1: so Harry Ford for Farrer was the trade in the
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Speaker 1: off season, and Farrer's numbers weren't fantastic last year with
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Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals, but they've had their eye on him
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Speaker 1: for years and there are some certain things about Jose
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Speaker 1: Ferrer that have this organization just in a tizzy. Pete
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Speaker 1: Woodworth was on with us at the beginning of the
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Speaker 1: show the Pitching Coach, and we asked him about the addition.
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Speaker 4: Jerry got a Ferrari for Christmas, and that is exactly
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Speaker 4: what he is. It is one hundred it is it's
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Speaker 4: one hundred miles sinker from the left side. Please find
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Speaker 4: me a lefty that wants to stand in and take
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Speaker 4: a hack off of that. I mean, I haven't really
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Speaker 4: talked to Gabe about it, but I imagine he's gonna enjoy
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Speaker 4: not having to get hot every single night to prepare
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Speaker 4: for those that lefty pocket.
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Speaker 1: Why for are the strikeout numbers are down? Is he
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Speaker 1: a ground ball pitcher at one hundred miles per hour
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Speaker 1: or do you think that we'll see an uptake on that.
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Speaker 2: I hope we will. Yeah, that's why I'm here.
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Speaker 4: It's similar to to Awards, you know, it's it's one
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Speaker 4: hundred dollars sinker. It's not really a swing and miss fastball,
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Speaker 4: so they're gonna put it on the ground. But he
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Speaker 4: doesn't walk anybody, so that's how he suppresses runs.
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Speaker 2: But yet the the.
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Speaker 4: Goal is definitely to keep him improving and and find
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Speaker 4: a little bit more swing and missing his game with
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Speaker 4: the secondaries and and you know, have him take the
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Speaker 4: next steps.
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Speaker 1: P Worth, pitching coach, talking about the newcomer to the bullpen,
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Speaker 1: Jose Ferrer. So no, it wasn't just about re signing
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Speaker 1: Josh Naylor or adding Brendan Donovan on a trade that
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Speaker 1: apparently took thirteen and a half months to secure. Also,
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Speaker 1: this they consider a major piece Bucky to the additions
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Speaker 1: to this roster. Forrere a left handed reliever that's probably
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Speaker 1: gonna work in mostly high leverage situations this year.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean it last year, Gamespier had a great
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Speaker 3: year right yet he was the only lefty.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, when.
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Speaker 3: You know Caleb Ferguson came over, he just didn't perform
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Speaker 3: the way that he had performed majority of his career.
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Speaker 3: And he's not a power guy to begin with. He's
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Speaker 3: a guy that you just kind of hopefully can use
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Speaker 3: in the sixth inning to get out of an inning
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Speaker 3: against a lefty and get a ground ball and hopefully it.
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Speaker 2: Goes to somebody.
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Speaker 3: So for most of the high leverage situations that you
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Speaker 3: were facing a lefty or you're gonna have a couple
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Speaker 3: lefties in that inning, they were going to Gabe. And ultimately,
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Speaker 3: I mean he was used far more than anybody else
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Speaker 3: was used. He was he was kind of your go
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Speaker 3: to guy because he was your only lefty. So now
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Speaker 3: you have two guys that you feel comfortable with that
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Speaker 3: you can bring in against the big dogs that another
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Speaker 3: team's going to throw up there against you late in
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Speaker 3: the game. And I think it's I think it's big.
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Speaker 3: I think that you talk about, you know, running backs
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Speaker 3: and keep them healthy for the end of the season.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you want to awe your bullpen. You don't
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Speaker 3: want to over use it to where at the end
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Speaker 3: of the season anybody is feeling, you know, fatigued and
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Speaker 3: more tired than they need to. This is most certainly
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Speaker 3: going to be able to keep both those guys fresh,
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Speaker 3: hopefully for the full year, because you won't have just
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Speaker 3: one guy that has to get up every single time
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Speaker 3: that there's a left he do up every single night.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: I mean I think Jerry and Justin had a lot
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Speaker 1: of skills, I really do. And they have guys that
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Speaker 1: they've hired beneath them that know how to polish up players.
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Speaker 1: So they they are obviously very good in this organization
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Speaker 1: at identifying pitching talent, draft the right guys, developing them,
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Speaker 1: keeping them healthy. But in the bullpen, I mean it
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Speaker 1: might be.
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Speaker 2: Their best attribute.
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Speaker 1: I mean what they've done since they got here to
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Speaker 1: always seem to have a at least a good bullpen.
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Speaker 1: It hasn't been great every year. I'm not even sure
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Speaker 1: last year's bullpen was great. But when they find stecond
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Speaker 1: riders and seawalls and you know, guys that have been
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Speaker 1: cast off by other organizations, and yet they see some talent,
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Speaker 1: and then they sharpen that talent Topa a few years ago,
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Speaker 1: who they ended up being able to move for a
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Speaker 1: significant peace and Polanco. I mean, they're always doing that,
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Speaker 1: and yet this offseason it doesn't feel like they're just
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Speaker 1: I mean, they've used sifting through those thrift stores and
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Speaker 1: finding gems that the thrift store owner didn't realize was
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Speaker 1: a gym, and now it's kind of all come together
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six, and I'm not sure on paper
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Speaker 1: that they've ever looked stronger heading into a season in
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Speaker 1: their bullpen than what they look this year. Andre's Munjos
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Speaker 1: obviously as your closure and arguably coming off the best
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Speaker 1: year of his entire career, and I think he looks
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Speaker 1: a little fit, more fit heading into this camp. And
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Speaker 1: of course he is just about as nasty as they come.
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Speaker 1: So just start there with the closer and Andre's Munjos,
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Speaker 1: who if he stays healthy, I mean, he's as good
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Speaker 1: as anybody out there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was an All Star last year
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Speaker 3: and understandably, so, I mean it's the game has changed
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Speaker 3: from back in the day when I played, where if
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Speaker 3: you threw a hundred, they expect you to throw that
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Speaker 3: and then sometimes use your breaking ball. Like I don't
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Speaker 3: know why it was such a big deal. You have
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Speaker 3: to pitch off your fastball, you can't rely on your
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Speaker 3: off speed. That's not the case anymore. He throws a
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Speaker 3: hundred and you might go up there and face six
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Speaker 3: straight sliders because they're that dirty, and it was one
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Speaker 3: hundred and two and you might. And so I mean
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Speaker 3: the fact that he can throw that when he wants
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Speaker 3: to throw that. Last year was the year it felt
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Speaker 3: to me like that the game calmed down to him
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Speaker 3: since to some extent where he felt more confident in it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's such a nice dude, Like he's not
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Speaker 3: unbelievably nice, and I think that there's a it might
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Speaker 3: be somewhat difficult for him to switch into you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm attacking you mode.
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Speaker 2: It's like, well, I'm going.
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Speaker 3: To I'm gonna throw this up there, and I hope
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Speaker 3: you don't hit this thing, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 3: Whereas you got to have a little bit more of
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Speaker 3: you're not touching this mother, you know, here here it comes,
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Speaker 3: try to hit that one. And yet I think last
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Speaker 3: year it looked like he had kind of found how
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Speaker 3: that he could flip that switch and evolve into the
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Speaker 3: guy that was gonna go out there and absolutely shove
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Speaker 3: on you. Not that he didn't show signs of it
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Speaker 3: before that, but last year we saw it far more consistently,
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Speaker 3: and that's what led him to have a sub two
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Speaker 3: era and and pretty much be unhittable most of the
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Speaker 3: time when you went out there.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, you if you're gonna win the
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Speaker 2: World Series, you gotta have a closer. We got a
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Speaker 2: closer this, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: He's so nice. He makes Logan Gilbert look like Eric Badard.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's rough but true, very accurate.
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Speaker 1: And Logan is the second nicest person I've ever.
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Speaker 3: Met, right, so that just shows you the gap. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: he's just that much nicer. Sorry about it, Logan.
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Speaker 1: And we have not discussed this because you know, we're
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Speaker 1: not really supposed to mention his name on the air,
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Speaker 1: but we are both very good, very big fans of
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Speaker 1: Adam Jude from the newspaper in town. Yeah, huh. And
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Speaker 1: Adam Jude is going to catch him today. I think
10:33
Speaker 1: it's going down today. So he's going to put on
10:35
Speaker 1: the tools of ignorance and a beat writer for the
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Speaker 1: local newspaper is going to catch a bullpen session or
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Speaker 1: as long as he lasts in a bullpen session of
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Speaker 1: Andre's munios.
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Speaker 2: It's happening.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there better be Madam personnel on hand.
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Speaker 3: Everybody thinks that. For what it's worth, This is not
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Speaker 3: me trying to be different. I think he's gonna be okay,
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Speaker 3: to be honest, because I don't. This is another situation.
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Speaker 3: Do you think Andris Munos is gonna snap off the
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Speaker 3: nastiest slider or is he gonna spend.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it is that's the idea.
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Speaker 1: It's the whole point of it.
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Speaker 2: You can say it's the idea.
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Speaker 3: I don't think Andris Munos has it in him to
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Speaker 3: be like watch this, watch what how I'm going to
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Speaker 3: like because if he snaps off the nastiest one, it
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Speaker 3: might break his thumb, or he might miss it and
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Speaker 3: hit him right in the face mask and he's concussed,
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Speaker 3: and we are literally have.
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Speaker 2: An ambulance coming up here.
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Speaker 3: I just have a feeling he's gonna be okay because
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Speaker 3: I think Munos is gonna bear back. He's just throw
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Speaker 3: him some good, hard, firm fastballs. I just don't think
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Speaker 3: he's gonna like dice him up with the nastiest slider
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Speaker 3: he's got.
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Speaker 1: I think that's the whole point of it. He wants
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Speaker 1: to catch his nasty The only thing Jude told me
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Speaker 1: was he's not throwing two seamers because he's afraid the run.
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Speaker 1: He wouldn't be able to handle the run. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: other than that, the idea is to catch the slider.
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Speaker 1: He wants the perspective of seeing what is one of
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Speaker 1: the most unhittable pies in Major League Baseball. So No,
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Speaker 1: you can't go half ass Mooney as nice as he can.
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Speaker 1: He's got to go.
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Speaker 5: Just wrap him and bubble wrap He'll be fine.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got to he's got to try to snap
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Speaker 1: it on. He's got to try to send Jude to
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Speaker 1: the hospital. I bet the whole fun of it. I'm
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Speaker 1: betting Jude last survives and is okay. He's gonna miss
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Speaker 1: him more than a handful of them. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: he's gonna go off on a stretcher right in front
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Speaker 1: of his son.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's Campid here today.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's move down the list because we got
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Speaker 1: a lot of other guys to discuss. Matt Brash. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he was good last year, but he wasn't the nobody
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Speaker 1: wants to face him. Matt Brash. I mean, he's coming
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Speaker 1: off major injury last year, and I don't think anybody
12:43
Speaker 1: coming off that injury is at it at their best
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Speaker 1: the moment they come off that injury or in the
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Speaker 1: first year. Now he's a year removed from that surgery,
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Speaker 1: a year two and a half years actually removed from
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Speaker 1: that surgery. So I think we're gonna see a better version.
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Speaker 1: And Matt Bash was very good last year, but I
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Speaker 1: think we get back to seeing the great version of
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Speaker 1: Matt Brash here in twenty twenty sex.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was very good, but it wasn't
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Speaker 3: unbelievably dominant, which we saw yeah, the majority of the
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Speaker 3: time prior to the injury. I mean, you have an
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Speaker 3: injury like that, there's multiple things you got to overcome.
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Speaker 3: One just the surgery in it of itself, and then
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Speaker 3: the rehab, and then when you get to where you're throwing,
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Speaker 3: and then you throw, you stretch it out, then you
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Speaker 3: get on a mound, and then all of a sudden
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Speaker 3: you can start pitching some games, some rehab games, and
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Speaker 3: then you get into the big league games. It's still
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Speaker 3: there's something between the years of being able to let
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Speaker 3: it rip and just trusting right, trusting that it's going
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Speaker 3: to be fine, trusting that everything's going to work. I
13:35
Speaker 3: think it typically takes more than a year before everything
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Speaker 3: comes together. Lastly, being the between the years and the
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Speaker 3: belief part of it. I'm with you one hundred percent.
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Speaker 3: I mean, his stuff is still absolutely devastating. They didn't
13:47
Speaker 3: take out the nasty spin rate on that slider that
13:49
Speaker 3: makes that thing look more like a video game slider
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Speaker 3: than something that a real person could throw in real life.
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Speaker 3: I think that he's Yeah, I think he's going to
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Speaker 3: be another guy that is one of the more dominant
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Speaker 3: set up guys in all of baseball.
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Speaker 1: So Munios, Brash, Ferrer, I mean, those are certainly high leverage.
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Speaker 1: Plus the high leverage of Gabe Spire coming off his
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Speaker 1: best season, America's left hander is getting ready to participate
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Speaker 1: in the WBC, and I think could be sharper, as
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Speaker 1: would he pointed out if he's not expected every night
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Speaker 1: to be that guy. And now it's he and Ferrer together.
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Speaker 1: And then you've got Bizardo. The interesting case of Edward Bizardo,
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Speaker 1: who boy, I mean two years ago, I mean I
14:35
Speaker 1: just sort of held my breath when he took the
14:37
Speaker 1: mound last year. He earned that respect, he earned that trust.
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Speaker 2: That faith.
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Speaker 1: He had a hell of a year last year, even
14:46
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I mean there was a playoff game
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Speaker 1: where we spent the post game saying, Edward Bizardo won
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Speaker 1: us this game. He was the MVP of this game.
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Speaker 1: But of course his season ends with the pitch to Springer,
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Speaker 1: and so he had to live with that in the
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Speaker 1: off season. So here you have this breakthrough year and
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five as a reliever, You've won the trust
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Speaker 1: of your coaching staff, of all your teammates, and yet
15:13
Speaker 1: you had to live with you or the guy that
15:16
Speaker 1: served up the dinger to George Springer that in essence
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Speaker 1: kept you from the World Series.
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Speaker 3: How do you think a guy handles that well? I
15:25
Speaker 3: hope he handles it, Okay. I'm sure that you know,
15:28
Speaker 3: we've talked to everybody that we've talked to. They've talked
15:31
Speaker 3: about how that you know that clubhouse afterwards was down,
15:36
Speaker 3: that the flight home was down. I'm sure that it
15:38
Speaker 3: took days, weeks, possibly even months for everybody to fully
15:43
Speaker 3: turn the page on that and just get to all right,
15:46
Speaker 3: let's let's reboot and get back to this thing and
15:49
Speaker 3: do it again next year. I would think if there's
15:51
Speaker 3: one person that it probably stuck with longer, it's probably
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Speaker 3: bizarrero simply because of the whirlwind of the season. I mean,
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Speaker 3: he was like it was his rookie season or that
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Speaker 3: he is just now breaking into the league, but it
16:04
Speaker 3: was definitely the best season that he's ever had, and
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, relievers typically you pitch yourself into
16:10
Speaker 3: higher leverage situations and you pitch yourself out of higher
16:12
Speaker 3: leverage situations. For the majority of last year, he just
16:15
Speaker 3: pitched himself into high level, just more and more and
16:18
Speaker 3: more and more high leverage situations. He wasn't a guy
16:21
Speaker 3: that fumbled and got moved to the back of the
16:23
Speaker 3: pack and had to earn his way back up. He
16:25
Speaker 3: just kind of was a consistent guy in that bullpen
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Speaker 3: the entire season. And unfortunately, yeah, his last outing was
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Speaker 3: was not good, and it wasn't the best that he
16:35
Speaker 3: had done. And yet that's just kind of the way
16:36
Speaker 3: in which it goes sometimes. I mean, it could have
16:38
Speaker 3: been Munnos for crying out, it could have been somebody,
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Speaker 3: And it doesn't mean you need to hang your head
16:42
Speaker 3: longer or you need to lose confidence. I don't think
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Speaker 3: that when he goes out there and throws what seventy
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Speaker 3: three times last season, seventy three games he came into
16:52
Speaker 3: and unfortunately has a big loss at the end of
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Speaker 3: that thing with that George Springer home run, it shouldn't
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Speaker 3: take away the other seventy two outings that he had,
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Speaker 3: or more than that when you count the postseason. So
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Speaker 3: I think that he probably took him a second to
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Speaker 3: get over it. But he should get over it because
17:05
Speaker 3: he had a damn good year and he needs to
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Speaker 3: do it again.
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Speaker 1: Great year, and they're gonna be leaning on him heavily.
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Speaker 1: But you can already see. I mean, that's the guy that,
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Speaker 1: by the at times during the course of the year,
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Speaker 1: after Munjos was you know, you could argue was your
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Speaker 1: most reliable reliever. And now I'm fifth down this depth
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Speaker 1: chart on this in this pecking order of this Mariner's bullpen.
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Speaker 1: A guy coming off that good of a season that
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Speaker 1: looks right now like your fifth best option coming out
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Speaker 1: of the pen. That's pretty exciting. Carlos Vargas was effective
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Speaker 1: at times, and I know that an effective season, and
17:38
Speaker 1: I know that there's a little bit of a frustration
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Speaker 1: with his location, but it speaks to his talent that
17:45
Speaker 1: he has difficulties with location to the point that cal
17:49
Speaker 1: drives him up a wall, from what I understand, and
17:52
Speaker 1: yet he's still got guys out consistently because he throws
17:55
Speaker 1: a hundred and he's got movement and he's not scared
17:57
Speaker 1: when he's out there on the mound. Vargas was a
18:00
Speaker 1: nice contributor to this team despite some of the frustrations
18:03
Speaker 1: that he calls and now he's sixth on the depth chart.
18:07
Speaker 1: I mean, this is think about it. You're really putting
18:10
Speaker 1: together a bullpen.
18:11
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and you need you need a bunch of
18:14
Speaker 2: arms down there.
18:14
Speaker 1: You can't.
18:14
Speaker 3: You're not gonna go through an entire season without guys
18:17
Speaker 3: getting either you know, hit around a couple of times
18:19
Speaker 3: and confidence shaken to some degree, or you know, guy's
18:23
Speaker 3: arms feeling a little dead or possible injuries.
18:26
Speaker 2: You're gonna need more than.
18:27
Speaker 3: Just your Okay, well we got a closer, We got
18:29
Speaker 3: a Nathenny guy and a seventh any guy, And just
18:31
Speaker 3: think that that's going to be enough. You're gonna need
18:33
Speaker 3: to call upon some other guys so the other guys
18:34
Speaker 3: aren't aren't having to get up every single time that
18:37
Speaker 3: you're winning. And this team's gonna win a bunch of
18:39
Speaker 3: ball games, so you're gonna need guys to go out
18:41
Speaker 3: there and close that thing out in the final couple innings.
18:43
Speaker 3: I think that he's a guy that last year was
18:45
Speaker 3: his his welcome to the show type of a year, like, Okay,
18:49
Speaker 3: this isn't just an opportunity, this is we need you
18:52
Speaker 3: to show out and show up and be a dude
18:54
Speaker 3: for us. He was a dude more often than not,
18:57
Speaker 3: but consistency was probably the name of his game. And
19:00
Speaker 3: he's got to get better at that. And if he does, yeah,
19:02
Speaker 3: he's still going to be a guy that's going to
19:03
Speaker 3: be used in some leverage situations when they don't want
19:06
Speaker 3: to have to use Brash on a third day in
19:08
Speaker 3: a row or something along those lines.
19:10
Speaker 1: All right, So then what closes it out at the
19:12
Speaker 1: for the other couple spots. I mean, there's just a
19:15
Speaker 1: lot of interesting names that this team has compiled here
19:19
Speaker 1: in this off season to go along with some of
19:22
Speaker 1: the faces that you do remember you are talking about.
19:28
Speaker 1: Legumina is still with the club. You've got some additions
19:33
Speaker 1: that they made this year. Cooper Criswell over from Boston.
19:37
Speaker 1: Be interesting to see if he possibly fits into this bullpen.
19:41
Speaker 1: Robinson or Tees was a left hander that they got
19:45
Speaker 1: in a minor deal that they believe sky's the limit
19:48
Speaker 1: on his talent. They got yaz Varzuletta from the Cincinnati Reds.
19:53
Speaker 1: This officer, and you know how good this team is
19:55
Speaker 1: at identifying treasure from other people's trash heaps, and so
20:00
Speaker 1: they've kind of done to get Josh Simpson. They just
20:02
Speaker 1: acquired yesterday or two days ago from the Marlins. Troy
20:06
Speaker 1: Taylor is back and healthy in camp. And then the
20:10
Speaker 1: mystery of Emerson Hancock. Is he the number six starter
20:14
Speaker 1: or they've toyed around a little bit with him out
20:16
Speaker 1: of the bullpen. He changed his armslot a little bit
20:19
Speaker 1: and started having some success as a reliever at the
20:21
Speaker 1: end of the season. What's his future? Is he out
20:24
Speaker 1: of the bullpen or is he just going to be
20:27
Speaker 1: your sixth man coming off the bench for the starting rotation.
20:30
Speaker 1: So anyway, the point is that this is I think
20:33
Speaker 1: maybe the longest list of sure things, if there is
20:38
Speaker 1: such a thing that they've had going into a season
20:41
Speaker 1: in a while. And yet they still have a considerable
20:44
Speaker 1: list of guys that man this organization has been really
20:48
Speaker 1: good at identifying at cheap rates talented arms that they
20:53
Speaker 1: develop and they give to Pete Woodworth and they end
20:55
Speaker 1: up contributing right away and sometimes for seasons on end.
21:00
Speaker 1: And so I think they are we haven't talked about
21:02
Speaker 1: it a lot, but I think they are in phenomenal
21:04
Speaker 1: position with their bullpen this year.
21:06
Speaker 3: I do too, And it's great to be able to say,
21:08
Speaker 3: you know, a half dozen or more guys that could
21:11
Speaker 3: possibly be your Carlos Vargas or your Bizardo, if you will,
21:15
Speaker 3: Guys that maybe you don't know about at this point
21:17
Speaker 3: in the year. You don't know how much you can
21:19
Speaker 3: trust them. And that's just typical with relief pitchers in
21:23
Speaker 3: general usually. And yet, yeah, I think I mean Troy
21:27
Speaker 3: Taylor two years ago was a guy I'm like, Wow,
21:29
Speaker 3: this guy's gonna be unbelievable. And last year he could
21:32
Speaker 3: he couldn't miss a barrel. So hopefully he can rebound
21:35
Speaker 3: and be the dude that he was a couple of
21:36
Speaker 3: years ago when he burst on the scene for that
21:38
Speaker 3: short period of time at the end of that twenty
21:40
Speaker 3: what was it, twenty twenty four season, So yeah, you
21:43
Speaker 3: got him along with another half dozen guys like you're
21:45
Speaker 3: talking about that are maybe castaways from somewhere else. But
21:49
Speaker 3: if there's like you said to start this segment, if
21:51
Speaker 3: there's one thing that you almost could feel rest assured of,
21:55
Speaker 3: they're gonna find somebody from somewhere else that's gonna come
21:58
Speaker 3: in and they're gonna be a piece for the Seattle man. O.
21:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do make a big deal out of trying
22:02
Speaker 1: to get all five starting pitchers on our show on
22:05
Speaker 1: Pitchers Day. But happy Pictures Day to the bullpen. I
22:08
Speaker 1: think this is going to be a phenomenal year out
22:12
Speaker 1: of the pen for the Seattle Mariners. All right, we
22:15
Speaker 1: still are up against the clock with Castillo and Kirby,
22:20
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean we won't check in with our guy,
22:23
Speaker 1: Al Kaniski. Next Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it is spring training coverage here on Chucking Bucks
23:00
Speaker 1: Or's Radio ninety three point three k j R f M.
23:03
Speaker 1: But if you think we're not gonna talk to Al Canisky,
23:07
Speaker 1: I can't go two weeks without talking to Al Konisky.
23:09
Speaker 1: He was off last week. I can't just you can't
23:12
Speaker 1: not be three weeks, three weeks since we chatted with Al.
23:16
Speaker 3: There's no way ille illegal in some countries USA be
23:21
Speaker 3: and one of them.
23:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly in North America. There's no question joining us
23:25
Speaker 1: now is the color analyst for your Seattle cracking, I'm sure,
23:28
Speaker 1: and joined a little Olympic hockey as well, and we'll
23:31
Speaker 1: be later on today. Al Kinisky is with us right
23:34
Speaker 1: here on Chuck and Buck.
23:35
Speaker 7: Good morning, Al, Good morning boys, and you're right. Uh's
23:40
Speaker 7: That's the beauty of having multiple screens in this day
23:43
Speaker 7: and age is you can have one off to the
23:45
Speaker 7: side with a little hockey going while you're working on
23:47
Speaker 7: other things.
23:48
Speaker 1: Okay, are you watching some right now? Is there someone
23:51
Speaker 1: right now as we speak?
23:53
Speaker 7: I mean, there might be a pretty big game between
23:57
Speaker 7: Canada and Czechoslovakia going on right now.
24:00
Speaker 1: But you know, today I think, sorry, sorry, all I
24:05
Speaker 1: should have known that. I should have been invested in
24:07
Speaker 1: what you you are invested in, but we're a little
24:11
Speaker 1: busy down here with spring training. I was going to
24:12
Speaker 1: ask you a baseball question. I don't know if I've
24:15
Speaker 1: asked you this before. Did you play a little bit
24:17
Speaker 1: of baseball? I mean, I know hockey was your main sport,
24:19
Speaker 1: but did you play a little baseball when you were
24:21
Speaker 1: a kid?
24:22
Speaker 7: You know, it's funny I didn't play it formally growing
24:25
Speaker 7: up again in the Vancouver area, just wasn't as big
24:27
Speaker 7: as it is in the US. But I do love
24:30
Speaker 7: the game. I love a pickup softball game. I love
24:34
Speaker 7: going to a batting cage and attempting to hit the
24:36
Speaker 7: fastest ball I can. So I appreciate the game from
24:39
Speaker 7: a playing standpoint, but I just never had a chance
24:42
Speaker 7: to do it formally growing up as a kid.
24:45
Speaker 3: I gotta ask, when you followed it, you knew of
24:48
Speaker 3: the game even though you didn't play it formerly formally,
24:52
Speaker 3: And yet what did you call the position that.
24:55
Speaker 2: Cal Rawley plays?
24:58
Speaker 7: Catcher?
24:59
Speaker 2: You didn't call it back catcher.
25:02
Speaker 7: Well, it's funny you say that, because my mind snapped
25:07
Speaker 7: right back to Canada, like, yeah, that's cool.
25:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, because when I played in Kelowna and we
25:14
Speaker 3: did a little camp, all the kids were.
25:16
Speaker 2: I want to play back catcher. I want to play
25:18
Speaker 2: like back catch. What the hell is back catcher?
25:23
Speaker 7: Everybody catches the ball?
25:25
Speaker 2: So that's true.
25:26
Speaker 7: Everybody's a catcher, everybody.
25:30
Speaker 1: Behind the stands. Yeah.
25:32
Speaker 7: Okay, right right there go those Canadians applying logic to
25:37
Speaker 7: positions out there.
25:38
Speaker 1: They did you ever at any moments? And we'll move
25:42
Speaker 1: on to hockey after this. Did you ever pitch, whether
25:45
Speaker 1: softball or baseball. Did you ever get stand on the
25:48
Speaker 1: mound or on a pitcher's rubber and throw a pitch
25:51
Speaker 1: he's an athlete.
25:53
Speaker 7: Absolutely not. I wanted to smack that ball. I wanted
25:57
Speaker 7: to run the bases. I wanted to slide at home.
25:59
Speaker 7: No way, no way.
26:01
Speaker 1: You're the wrong guy to have on thank you very much.
26:03
Speaker 1: Alk wrong guy to have on pictures Day, knisky boy.
26:08
Speaker 1: At least through one, I wouldn't be there.
26:09
Speaker 7: I wouldn't be there. I would not be there.
26:12
Speaker 1: All right, Well let's talk some hockey and what's what's
26:16
Speaker 1: do you have been the most exciting part about the
26:19
Speaker 1: Olympics so far?
26:21
Speaker 2: What stood out to you?
26:23
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, say it was nice just taking
26:26
Speaker 7: a mind break for for you know, a week until
26:29
Speaker 7: the Olympics started. And when they did start, I was
26:31
Speaker 7: I was ready to watch a little hockey again, even
26:34
Speaker 7: if it was from some remote beach location. And you
26:37
Speaker 7: know what's always cool is is you know, as I
26:41
Speaker 7: just mentioned, I get focused on Canada and the US,
26:43
Speaker 7: but you know, you see the other teams and obviously
26:46
Speaker 7: the cracking of a couple of players on Finland and
26:49
Speaker 7: German and Germany and Denmark, but you see the teams
26:51
Speaker 7: as a whole, and you go, wait a second, I
26:53
Speaker 7: didn't know that guy was Italian. I didn't know that
26:55
Speaker 7: guy was was was Swiss and he watched these teams
26:59
Speaker 7: and know they're not stacked top to bottom with NHL players,
27:02
Speaker 7: but a lot of times the majority of the players
27:05
Speaker 7: are NHL players. So it's kind of neat to see
27:08
Speaker 7: the players playing for their home country teams and you
27:11
Speaker 7: put a little different, I guess, look on those players
27:14
Speaker 7: because you understand a little bit more about where they
27:16
Speaker 7: come from.
27:17
Speaker 3: So are we on a collision course of Canada and
27:21
Speaker 3: their back catcher fans versus USA this year?
27:26
Speaker 7: I think. I think comes Sunday morning, there's gonna be
27:28
Speaker 7: a lot of eyes glued to television in North America
27:31
Speaker 7: because I believe it's going to be a Canada US
27:34
Speaker 7: game for the Gold and Silver. For sure.
27:38
Speaker 1: Who do you favor today? Well, obviously you're going to
27:41
Speaker 1: take the US. But so you take the US against
27:44
Speaker 1: Sweden today? But how could who Sweden have on their roster?
27:49
Speaker 1: Where could they provide some issues for the US team today?
27:53
Speaker 7: Well, again, I'm not so much focused on Sweden because
27:58
Speaker 7: the US has more than enough talent to beat that team.
28:01
Speaker 7: But you know, when when you look at these these
28:04
Speaker 7: these teams and what they're able to do, uh, they
28:07
Speaker 7: don't need necessarily twenty players that they can put the
28:11
Speaker 7: puck in the net. Sometimes you can have uh skilled
28:14
Speaker 7: defenseman uh Oe l Oliver Ekman Larkson is one for Sweden.
28:19
Speaker 7: Uh he's an NHL player obviously, But you know, you
28:23
Speaker 7: don't need to have stars necessarily to compete in these games.
28:26
Speaker 7: You just need to have guys that understand the system
28:28
Speaker 7: they're trying to run, Guys that that that that that
28:31
Speaker 7: understand the players they're playing against and how to shut
28:34
Speaker 7: them down. So yeah, there's, uh, there's there's some big
28:37
Speaker 7: stars on that on that Sweden team. Nilanders one, Lucas
28:41
Speaker 7: Raymond's another. But uh, I think the US has more
28:45
Speaker 7: than enough talent to beat that team. What it comes
28:47
Speaker 7: down to lots of times is is heart and and
28:50
Speaker 7: whoever whoever's got the bigger heart that's willing to sacrifice more.
28:54
Speaker 7: Sometimes they'll come up with the loose plock, the rebounded
28:57
Speaker 7: front and it could be the game winning goal. These games,
29:00
Speaker 7: I think from here on out aren't going to be blots.
29:02
Speaker 7: I think that yeah, you might see an empty netter
29:04
Speaker 7: here or there. But they're going to be tight games.
29:07
Speaker 7: And as I say that, Canada's tied to you too
29:09
Speaker 7: in the third period with UH with the Czech Republic, Okay.
29:13
Speaker 2: Well, yea.
29:14
Speaker 3: If Canada finds a way and and you know they
29:16
Speaker 3: are the favorite there, they find a way and they
29:19
Speaker 3: get into it. Slovakia has already beaten Germany today, Finland
29:23
Speaker 3: faces Switzerland later on. Those would be the two or
29:26
Speaker 3: I guess three teams left to go up against Canada
29:29
Speaker 3: and US. When you think about Slovakia, Finland or Switzerland,
29:33
Speaker 3: is there any danger in those beyond the just a
29:35
Speaker 3: simple fact of sport and you can't just expect to win.
29:40
Speaker 7: Yeah. I think that Slovakia has played really well in
29:43
Speaker 7: this tournament. Obviously a big statement win over Germany earlier today.
29:48
Speaker 7: Unfortunately our own PHILP Grubauer was in net for that
29:51
Speaker 7: one and took a lot of the heat in that game.
29:53
Speaker 7: But they are a team that again I mentioned I
29:58
Speaker 7: mentioned the heart of bom. They've got that hands down,
30:01
Speaker 7: but they've also got a lot of talent as well.
30:03
Speaker 7: And some of these guys aren't names that you've heard of.
30:08
Speaker 7: One tomash Tatar, former kracking is on that team. Hegel
30:12
Speaker 7: they got a point in the tournament so far, but
30:15
Speaker 7: when you look up and down their lineup, there's lots
30:18
Speaker 7: of guys with points, and lots of them aren't big
30:20
Speaker 7: NHL stars, So they're finding a way to put the
30:23
Speaker 7: puck in the net. And I think when you combine
30:25
Speaker 7: that find a way mentality along with you know, see
30:28
Speaker 7: above that that heart mentality, you become a dangerous team.
30:32
Speaker 7: So I would say Slovakia is definitely one that would
30:35
Speaker 7: put up a big fight against against any of the
30:38
Speaker 7: big names in this tournament.
30:40
Speaker 1: Well, it's February eighteenth, Pitcher's Day, of course, and so
30:43
Speaker 1: we are a week away from another Kraken game. So
30:48
Speaker 1: where do you sit al Kaniski with whether rust or
30:52
Speaker 1: rest will will be waiting for this team once they
30:57
Speaker 1: start playing hockey games again.
31:00
Speaker 7: Well, the first thing I would say is that I
31:02
Speaker 7: like the fact that they're already practicing. I'll be heading
31:05
Speaker 7: out here momentarily to go see one of those practices.
31:08
Speaker 7: So things have begun for those that aren't in the
31:11
Speaker 7: tournament over in Italy number two, they're going to go
31:15
Speaker 7: on the road for the first two games. Dallas and
31:17
Speaker 7: Saint Louis being those first two. It isn't back to back,
31:20
Speaker 7: so you'd like a day in between. You're not going
31:22
Speaker 7: to get it, but it is. They are two road games,
31:25
Speaker 7: and I think that when you're coming off a break
31:27
Speaker 7: like that, you start out with a couple of days
31:29
Speaker 7: of practice, you get on the plane, you get out
31:31
Speaker 7: on the road, it takes away all those distractions really quickly.
31:35
Speaker 7: And I think that's a better way for me to
31:38
Speaker 7: come out of the break rather than to go into
31:40
Speaker 7: maybe a home stand where you might think, hey, we're
31:43
Speaker 7: at home, it's going to be an easy go here
31:45
Speaker 7: for a few days. It's not. And I think when
31:47
Speaker 7: you get out on the road that mentality kicks in
31:50
Speaker 7: a little faster, which usually results in better hockey. So
31:53
Speaker 7: I'm flying hiding out in the road for two but
31:56
Speaker 7: then they come back for a big homestand in early March,
31:59
Speaker 7: so you know, you get you get to split on
32:02
Speaker 7: the road, maybe you get a couple of wins either
32:04
Speaker 7: way if you if you get a little momentum on
32:06
Speaker 7: the road coming back home to Seattle, you've got a
32:08
Speaker 7: big homestand to go start to gather points that and
32:12
Speaker 7: this is the time of year where you've got to
32:14
Speaker 7: do it. You're sitting in third in the Pacific. You've
32:16
Speaker 7: got to start to put some distance between you and
32:18
Speaker 7: those below you, and can you continue to chase the
32:21
Speaker 7: ones that are above you?
32:22
Speaker 1: Feel like a playoff team, do you?
32:26
Speaker 7: Yes? Yes, it does. Again. They've been streaky up and
32:31
Speaker 7: down throughout the season. But I think that between now
32:34
Speaker 7: and the end of the season, if they can start
32:37
Speaker 7: to limit those downward streaks as much as possible, where
32:42
Speaker 7: you're not going on big losing streaks, maybe you lose one,
32:44
Speaker 7: maybe you lose two, but then you go win three
32:47
Speaker 7: or four. I think that's the kind of momentum you
32:49
Speaker 7: want heading into the end of the season. And I
32:51
Speaker 7: think that's what they do that this team can do,
32:53
Speaker 7: which which is why I think they're a playoff team.
32:55
Speaker 1: Thank you, Al, We appreciate it. And yeah, next week
32:59
Speaker 1: at this time, I guess we'll be talking about a game.
33:01
Speaker 1: So this three week loll will be over and we'll
33:04
Speaker 1: be back to cracking hockey.
33:06
Speaker 7: I'll look forward to it. Make sure you get SEMSPF
33:08
Speaker 7: thirty on. That's your best bet up there.
33:10
Speaker 1: Guys, Yeah, we believe me. I'm lathered. I think Bucky
33:14
Speaker 1: is as well, veg you, I appreciate you, all right?
33:18
Speaker 1: Talk so all right, Al Konisky color analyst for your
33:21
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33:39
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34:46
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34:53
Speaker 1: as well. And so here we are in our lost set.
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Speaker 1: Last segment. The goal was to get all five starting
34:59
Speaker 1: pitchers done. And it sounds like we're too short, or
35:04
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35:19
Speaker 1: we have four We got four four four four Happy
35:22
Speaker 1: Pictures Day in English and English had a boy rock
35:28
Speaker 1: now he just finished his bullpen Sessionaire a little bit ago. Man.
35:32
Speaker 1: Did he sound just full throat, just full of love
35:36
Speaker 1: and joy for Pictures Day, didn't he?
35:38
Speaker 7: Yeah?
35:39
Speaker 1: I was a short clip and it was there. Yeah,
35:43
Speaker 1: thanks Ashley, I agree, Yeah.
35:45
Speaker 3: I mean he I think you're just super excited. He
35:48
Speaker 3: missed a couple of days here at camp for the
35:51
Speaker 3: birth of his third daughter, I guess, and yet came
35:54
Speaker 3: back and it's on pictures Day.
35:57
Speaker 2: Of all days.
35:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Sounded pretty happy about it. It could not
36:00
Speaker 1: miss it. I mean, pictures will.
36:02
Speaker 2: Love when somebody invents a holiday around just them solely.
36:05
Speaker 1: You know.
36:06
Speaker 2: It seems like some pictures look like.
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Speaker 1: Cow loved it too when I told him about it earlier.
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Speaker 1: I love to make fun of it. Uh. And for
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Speaker 1: those that are wondering, the Rock has not cut his
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Speaker 1: hair in case in case you were one, No, he's
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Speaker 1: still got a mane. Some people do make a little
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Speaker 1: makeover in the off season.
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Speaker 2: Not the Rock, Nope, that that is. It's a lot
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Speaker 2: of hair too.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of hair. He is not shy on hair.
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Speaker 1: He's got an eighty great hair. It's like an opposite
36:34
Speaker 1: of you and I. Yes, yes, like yours. Not a
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Speaker 1: lot there, mind none, there his a lot. He might
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Speaker 1: have more than Ashley, Yes, I'm pretty sure, and certainly does.
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Speaker 8: Yeah step it up for his hair.
36:54
Speaker 1: All right, So we checked four out of five. We're
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Speaker 1: not gonna check the George Kirby box. And that certainly
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Speaker 1: deflates me. He said that he got busy today. He
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Speaker 1: is going to come on with us before the end
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Speaker 1: of the week. But I do have uplifting news. According
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Speaker 1: to Ashley, this is exactly what happened last year on
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Speaker 1: pitchers Day, right correct.
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Speaker 8: We we could not get him live and then you
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Speaker 8: guys recorded with him after, so you still talk to
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Speaker 8: him on Pitcher's Day.
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Speaker 5: We just couldn't air it till the next day and.
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Speaker 1: It counted then. Yeah, it counts today. Pitcher's Day will
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Speaker 1: be back next year. Yeah, thank goodness. Close.
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Speaker 2: I luckily like our pictures so fine.
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Speaker 3: I guess Pitcher's Day okay, if we have to do it,
37:46
Speaker 3: but yes, it would be nice if George would finalize
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Speaker 3: this bad Boy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah next sure, it comes all the way, all the
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Speaker 2: way to Fruition.
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Speaker 1: Next year, I'm going to go bigger for the boys. Fireworks,
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Speaker 1: a petting zoo. Oh yeah, I don't know if that's
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Speaker 1: not Ashley baby goats. We're going to have Ashley here
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Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, we're gonna go ye.
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Speaker 2: I don't think any of that's necessary.
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Speaker 1: We're all going to ride in on the you know,
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Speaker 1: piggyback on the shoulders of Mariner pitching legends. I got
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Speaker 1: Randy Johnson.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I will.
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Speaker 5: Come in on the shoulders of Bobby Ayola.
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Speaker 1: Don't trust him, He'll drop you trust him.
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Speaker 5: I'm just saying, because that's how likely it is that
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Speaker 5: I'll be there.
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Speaker 1: Then what's Bobby supposed to do with all this time? Uh?
38:35
Speaker 1: And then I would like to see Edwin Diaz carry Bucky.
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Speaker 5: There you go.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a good chance he goes back on the
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Speaker 3: I l he does that.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, happy pictures to everyone, Ashley. Do you
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Speaker 1: have one last thing? I don't want to just, you know,
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Speaker 1: force you into talking about pictures day as you're one
38:53
Speaker 1: last thing. You get to do your own one.
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Speaker 8: Oh no, I was gonna say, I've never seen somebody
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Speaker 8: that I think dislikes their job as much as Mick Cronin.
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Speaker 5: He is just angry all the time. And UCLA loss.
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Speaker 1: The light Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And they lost to Michigan State.
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Speaker 8: And then after the game a reporter asked him about
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Speaker 8: the zone like the Michigan State fan section.
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Speaker 5: His response was, I could give a rats ass about
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Speaker 5: the other student section. I would like to give you
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Speaker 5: a kudos for the worst question I've ever been asked.
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Speaker 1: Wow, he is really angry, really angry. They play him
39:25
Speaker 1: a lot softy and dick On the fun with audio segment.
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Speaker 1: He's just then he provides a lot of material for
39:31
Speaker 1: those two to make fun of.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, hechecked his own players.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he does not want to be in the Big ten,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure.
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Speaker 5: Yeah he is not. Yeah, he's just angry man.
39:42
Speaker 1: He's an angry dwarf.
39:44
Speaker 5: Yes, And maybe it's the powder.
39:46
Speaker 1: Blue that probably is it. It eventually seeks into your
39:50
Speaker 1: heart seeps. I should say, all right, Bucky, what's your
39:54
Speaker 1: one last thing?
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Speaker 3: We were talking about the Adam Jude thing catching the
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Speaker 3: bullpen and your guys is concern for his health and
40:01
Speaker 3: I have actual concern. Have you watched some of these
40:03
Speaker 3: folks they let go shag balls during BP.
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Speaker 1: I've not seen that. No, I see it at the
40:09
Speaker 1: home run derby. I don't think they should allow it.
40:12
Speaker 1: That's just trouble waiting to happen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's like kids, right, And this is like
40:17
Speaker 3: like a couple guys that.
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Speaker 2: Are like eighty oh that maybe that eighty, But they're
40:21
Speaker 2: older than I am.
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Speaker 3: Okay, and they're out there and I yesterday they sit
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Speaker 3: in center field, which is the toughest place to read flyballs,
40:28
Speaker 3: right in the outfield, and yet they sit out there
40:32
Speaker 3: and are trying to catch either these line drives or
40:35
Speaker 3: high fly balls, half of them going up to the
40:38
Speaker 3: fence or near the fence.
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Speaker 2: That is where the nine to one one call is
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Speaker 2: gonna come from.
40:43
Speaker 3: Watch it, give it a gander today during BP it
40:45
Speaker 3: is actually worrisome, Like every single time, it's like if
40:48
Speaker 3: they do catch it, it's like, ah, you know, and
40:53
Speaker 3: it's just so you're just waiting for one of them
40:55
Speaker 3: to hit them in the head. I hope they don't.
40:56
Speaker 3: I hope nobody gets hurt. Yeah, well, we all hope that.
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Speaker 3: The last thing we want to do is provide medical
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Speaker 3: aid to Jeriatrix.
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Speaker 1: On Pictures Day, Amen.
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Speaker 2: On Pictures Day.
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Speaker 1: Huh. Of all days, no one get hurt on pictures
41:11
Speaker 1: it's a celebratory day. And now we've got to take
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Speaker 1: time to bandage up your face. Yeah, let's not do that. Yeah,
41:19
Speaker 1: use your glove, not your face.
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Speaker 7: Uh huh.
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Speaker 2: It's good call.
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Speaker 3: Good tip here on Pictures Day. Yeah, that's Coach Bucky
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Speaker 3: for you right there.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, that'll do it for us today. Thank
41:28
Speaker 1: you very much for joining us. I hope you enjoyed
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Speaker 1: the show today. We'll be back again Thursday, of course,
41:34
Speaker 1: six am. Here from Peoria to deliver day number four.
41:39
Speaker 1: From what I understand, certainly George Kirby, and from what
41:42
Speaker 1: I understand, tomorrow's the show where the Big Dumper makes
41:47
Speaker 1: his way to Chuck and Buck in the mornings for
41:49
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six spring training. Maybe you've heard of him,
41:52
Speaker 1: Cal Rawley on the program tomorrow, much to the delight
41:58
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