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Chuck & Buck 5-12 Hour 4: Ryon Healy, Cooper Criswell and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: I wore something strapless for you today, so I was
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  Speaker 1: hoping you could see this.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like I'm happy the camera's not working, and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like you're also adding adjectives, every adjectives every
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  Speaker 2: single week that I come on here, Like what am
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  Speaker 2: I getting to here next week?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you never know. I like words, Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: I really like words, but.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get my video going, but I
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  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I'm not really technically savvy.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if the word is out.
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  Speaker 1: I like the look on your face like you've been
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  Speaker 1: warned before me having said.
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  Speaker 3: That, shocking you.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to turn my camera off so I can
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  Speaker 2: feel like I'm part of the group right now.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't see Ashley's photo up there either.
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  Speaker 4: I can turn mine on. I just try not to
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  Speaker 4: distract well Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody right now? Yeah, So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know how to fix it, but
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we can get through our time together.
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  Speaker 4: I turned my camera on and nothing happened either.
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  Speaker 3: So how are you things? Good?
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  Speaker 5: Things are great? God, the Mariners one last night or
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  Speaker 5: anything more?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, what stood out to you?
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  Speaker 1: About it. I don't want to lead you down a path.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, three to one victory yesterday certainly a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different elements, but you give me the big takeaway
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  Speaker 1: from your perspective.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, Bizardo was angry at how the weekend went, so
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  Speaker 2: he decided to come out and strike out the side.
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  Speaker 5: The bullpen overall.
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  Speaker 2: Came in an uncharacteristic early exit, and like we are
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  Speaker 2: so spoiled as Mariners fans for you know, the starting
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  Speaker 2: rotation going deep into games. George through a tremendous five innings,
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  Speaker 2: but the bullpen had a lot of work to do,
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  Speaker 2: and that's exactly what did Villa came in. It's did
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  Speaker 2: a really nice job. Chris well as well. Bizarre do
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  Speaker 2: Munos was getting a little creative. If you guys saw
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  Speaker 2: the two changeups that he threw to Alvarado No Alvarez,
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  Speaker 2: sorry I should know jord On Alvarez's name through to
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  Speaker 2: Alvarez and the nasty ninety three on hour want to
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  Speaker 2: finish the game off. The bullpen did a great job
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  Speaker 2: and it was really nice to see the Mariners win
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  Speaker 2: a tight game like that.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of Mariner fans that were looking at the
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  Speaker 1: results and I think worried about Munos not being the same.
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  Speaker 1: I never saw that. I saw a couple bad outings
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  Speaker 1: from a guy that couldn't find his slider. Were you ever,
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  Speaker 1: at any moment worried that Andres Munos is no longer
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  Speaker 1: Andres Munos.
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  Speaker 5: No never.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's such a far end of the spectrum
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  Speaker 2: thought process for someone who has a long list of
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  Speaker 2: success in the major leagues. And imagine having these two
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  Speaker 2: just incredible weapons and losing one all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: and then the fastball that you do have, people are on,
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  Speaker 2: they're hitting it and it's one hundred, but dudes are
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  Speaker 2: still barreling it. Like the questions that are happening internally
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  Speaker 2: are starting to spiral. And I think the questions that
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  Speaker 2: have happened in Munyo's head this year, we're seeing happen
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  Speaker 2: in cal Rawley's head a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Cal just has a lot.
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  Speaker 2: More opportunities to succeed or fail being a hitter than
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  Speaker 2: Munnos does be in the back end of the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Ryan Healy is with us. I've already warned
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  Speaker 1: our audience what it is that we're gonna break down
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  Speaker 1: with you. I am and I'm charging you with fixing
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  Speaker 1: cal Raley, So no pressure, but Rice just went up, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: get our superstar back for us.
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  Speaker 3: Over his last thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Six what is wrong with cal Raleigh as you can
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  Speaker 1: see it, and what steps should he take toward fixing it?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna start with this though, because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of listeners are youth baseball baseball coaches. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: there's some youth baseball players listening. Either way, I want
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  Speaker 2: this message to get passed along to the youth that
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  Speaker 2: love this game. This is one of the best players
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  Speaker 2: in the world that is struggling beyond belief and it's
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  Speaker 2: still showing up. It's still working hard, it's still finding
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  Speaker 2: that motivation to just show up for the Marriagers because
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  Speaker 2: this is bigger than cal Raley and he knows that.
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  Speaker 2: But this is also a great human example of how
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  Speaker 2: hard this game is. No matter how much success that
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  Speaker 2: each individual has throughout the course of their career, everyone
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  Speaker 2: is going to have this type of moment and cal
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  Speaker 2: has confirmed this multiple times as a quote. It says,
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  Speaker 2: for me, it's more mental. It's the mental side than
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  Speaker 2: it's trying to physically change something. I'm trying to battle
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  Speaker 2: and compete and not worry about the rest of this
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  Speaker 2: stuff and try to get back to being more process oriented.
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  Speaker 2: But let's talk about what that process looks like, Chuck.
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  Speaker 2: From a hitter's perspective. Step one, go through your routines
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  Speaker 2: that you do all day long, from the moment you
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  Speaker 2: wake up to the moment you step in the batter's box.
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  Speaker 2: Cal's doing that and having control over the controller balls
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  Speaker 2: and doing those things well. But baseball is a funny sport, Chuck,
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  Speaker 2: because the minute you step in the batter's box, you
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity to strike out, and you have an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to hit a home run, which one of those
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  Speaker 2: two things happens more often. Just for a baseball player
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  Speaker 2: striking out, you're gonna strike out. Cal hit sixty home
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  Speaker 2: runs last year and still struck out one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty plus time, so that three almost four x of
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  Speaker 2: the time he was punching out more than he was
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  Speaker 2: hitting a home run career year. Now, think about cal
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  Speaker 2: season so far this year. It's been a roller coaster.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The World Baseball Classic, didn't get a lot of the bats,
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  Speaker 2: crammed it in, really struggled the first ten games, then
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  Speaker 2: found himself looked really good.
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  Speaker 5: Then the side injury happens.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no setback step one in Cal's process, and I
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  Speaker 2: would say ninety plus percent of hitters process. When you
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  Speaker 2: step in that game, batter's boxes get on time for
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  Speaker 2: the fastball.
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, If we can get on time with the fastball
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  Speaker 2: as a hitter, then I can go to step two
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  Speaker 2: of the process, which is now compete to what secondary
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  Speaker 2: pitchers in the zone. How many times have you seen
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  Speaker 2: cayl Rawley be on time for a fastball this year
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  Speaker 2: early in account?
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  Speaker 3: Very rarely.
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  Speaker 2: So when step one of your process gets punched in
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  Speaker 2: the mouth, guess what every other step backter? That means chaos, pandemonium.
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  Speaker 2: Your brain is spinning. You have no idea what to do.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to repeat step step one of the process
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  Speaker 2: over and over again. But now the pitcher's not throwing
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  Speaker 2: you fastballs. And then he does throw you fastball, but
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  Speaker 2: it's above the zone.
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  Speaker 5: You chase it. And if you.
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  Speaker 2: Notice, the league is pitching Cal completely different this year
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  Speaker 2: than they did last year. Cal got on top of
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  Speaker 2: the plate last year on both sides of the dish,
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  Speaker 2: righty and left tended hitters to take that middle way
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  Speaker 2: fastball and make it feel more middle end so he
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  Speaker 2: can actually do damage in the air pull side. Okay, great,
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  Speaker 2: that worked for him tremendously, But the league figure that out.
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  Speaker 2: So all these O fastballs, where are you seeing these pictures?
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  Speaker 2: Throw it up and end. Yeah, they're up in end.
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  Speaker 2: They're trying to speed them up. And if they can
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  Speaker 2: visually and physically speed him up in the OO count
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  Speaker 2: the rest of it. They can throw whatever they want
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  Speaker 2: because they know he's off balance at that point. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot of just that that struggle right now
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  Speaker 2: of Caluv. I want to get in the process. I
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  Speaker 2: want to stay focused, I want to compete, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to execute. But these pitchers are not making mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh they are not. And even if they do,
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  Speaker 2: Col's not able to capitalize on it. And unfortunately, that
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  Speaker 2: is what baseball can look like.
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  Speaker 1: Jay Buhner said last night during the broadcast that you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're in one of these slumps, you just have
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  Speaker 1: to look fastball. So what happens Ryan when you've already
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  Speaker 1: know that you've already taken that step that I am
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  Speaker 1: trying to look fastball. That's why I keep found balls
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty feet down the right field line.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not working because now I'm too quick to
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  Speaker 1: with my hands to the ball, and now I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a hole and you're right chaos.
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  Speaker 3: You can see it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's swinging at balls and he's taking strikes.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, he's the he's the it's like he's
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  Speaker 1: facing Greg Maddox every at man right now. So once
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  Speaker 1: you feel like in your head you've made the adjustment
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  Speaker 1: and you're not getting the results, what, then.
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  Speaker 2: You start asking yourself a lot of questions that you
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  Speaker 2: don't have the answers to why, Because when you're on
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  Speaker 2: the offensive side of the game, you have zero control
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  Speaker 2: over anything. You have no control over what pitch is
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  Speaker 2: being called, what pitch is being thrown, where it's being thrown,
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  Speaker 2: when it's being thrown, and this spiral of things out
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  Speaker 2: of your control can take you off of that process
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to execute, which is why kll is battling
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  Speaker 2: on a nightly basis to get back to that process.
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  Speaker 5: And I loved his quote.
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  Speaker 2: Here just to give the fans some perspective, he goes,
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  Speaker 2: you could go around and ask all twenty six guys
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  Speaker 2: in this room and at some point they have been
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  Speaker 2: frustrated with the results, and then they start to look
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  Speaker 2: at the or look at the results more than the
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  Speaker 2: other stuff that actually matters. It's human nature. Nobody on
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  Speaker 2: that team wants to succeed more than Cal Rawley, especially
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  Speaker 2: coming off of the year where he twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: where Cal can probably look himself in the mirror and
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  Speaker 2: say I reached my full potential that year. But when
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  Speaker 2: you look at the macro of a player's career, how
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  Speaker 2: many seasons do you think that those players reach their
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  Speaker 2: full potential what they mentally believe they're capable of.
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  Speaker 3: Very few, very few, Munce twice.
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  Speaker 2: I can count three seasons in my high school, college,
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  Speaker 2: minor league, major league career where I felt like I
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  Speaker 2: reached my full potential. The other twelve of those years,
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  Speaker 2: I was fighting for my life, battling day in and
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  Speaker 2: day out. And one thing that I didn't like the
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  Speaker 2: Cal talked about. He said, well, I'm trying to look
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  Speaker 2: back at last year and find something that clicked, and
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  Speaker 2: hitters are tricked into chasing former versions of themselves when
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  Speaker 2: they are not that anymore. Cal Man I never hit
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  Speaker 2: sixty home runs again. He made his sixty five home runs.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knows, but for me, if you're looking in the
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  Speaker 2: rear view mirror, you're spending a lot of time just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit just sad because you're looking at your
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  Speaker 2: former version of yourself saying, man, why can't I be that?
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  Speaker 2: And if you look too far ahead, then you get
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  Speaker 2: a little anxious of all the things that gaps in
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  Speaker 2: between right here and there where you're trying to get
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  Speaker 2: to instead of how do you just say a little
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  Speaker 2: more present?
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  Speaker 5: And I trust me Cal knows this.
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  Speaker 2: He is working his tail off to become more present
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  Speaker 2: X you in a daily basis. But they are a
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  Speaker 2: thirteen games in thirteen days stretch right now, and that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a whole lot of the bats that
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  Speaker 2: Cal has an opportunity to succeed or fail the way
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  Speaker 2: he's able to control his mindset when he steps in
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  Speaker 2: the batter's box to ultimately break this O for thirty
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  Speaker 2: four thirty five streak that he's in, maybe thirty six.
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  Speaker 5: Now, how didn't want to count?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, once he breaks that, the clock can reset a
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  Speaker 2: little bit for him. But right now he's stepping up
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  Speaker 2: to the batter's box with a backpack on with thirty
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  Speaker 2: four plus bricks in it and trying to catch up
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  Speaker 2: to one hundred one hour fastball in the major leagues,
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  Speaker 2: and that is a tall task.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we know he's aware, we know he's working
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  Speaker 1: at it, and we also know he has the same
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  Speaker 1: people in his ear that he had a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: Sitzer and Martinez that led him to his historic season.
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  Speaker 1: So now it's just about that trigger moment where everything
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  Speaker 1: clicks back again. Anybody that's played baseball at any level,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know when you're gonna come out of a slump.
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  Speaker 1: I can go back to high school and one time
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  Speaker 1: I was in the big slump and I bunted and
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  Speaker 1: the ball landed between four infielders and it was the
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  Speaker 1: flukiest hit ever, and then all of a sudden I
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  Speaker 1: went on a tear. I mean that bunt didn't get
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  Speaker 1: get me going again. So you never know what's going
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  Speaker 1: to trigger it. But I would just ask, as we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Cal, and we're all concerned to a degree
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  Speaker 1: about Cal, I mean, you don't have any lack of
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  Speaker 1: faith he's going to come out of this right.
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  Speaker 3: No, And you want to know why why?
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  Speaker 2: Because I have access to Baseball Reference and I can
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  Speaker 2: look at what his entirety of his career looks like.
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  Speaker 2: And this is someone that has hit, you know, twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven thirty thirty four homers and sixty home runs over
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  Speaker 2: the last four years, and every single season has found
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  Speaker 2: a way to hit around two twenty to two fifty.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to end up and I will go on
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  Speaker 2: record and say this right now, he will end up
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  Speaker 2: hitting a route between two twenty and two thirty. He
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  Speaker 2: will end up with twenty five to thirty home runs,
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  Speaker 2: and he will end up between seventy five to one
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  Speaker 2: hundred rbi eyes not a doubt in my mind it'll
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  Speaker 2: end up being one of those average seasons for Cal
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  Speaker 2: in the six hundred plus at bat spectrum. It might
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  Speaker 2: not be the sixty home runs season, but what's fresh
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  Speaker 2: in all the fans of Mines right now in Baseball
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  Speaker 2: Baseball's mind, the sixty home run season. So everyone's gonna
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  Speaker 2: compare him to that. And if that's what's Cal, what
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  Speaker 2: Cal is doing internally, then he's already playing a losing game.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Heay is Wether's former Mariner and part of our
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  Speaker 1: show every week to talk some Mariner baseball great stuff
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  Speaker 1: on Cal Riley. Let's talk about a success story so
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  Speaker 1: far this year. I mean, I think Luke Rayley was
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  Speaker 1: left for dead by a lot of Mariner fans this offseason, Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, he's your home run.
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  Speaker 3: Leader, he's your RBI leader.
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  Speaker 1: He sets the tone really with the hustle that you
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  Speaker 1: saw last night be a big part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: This is a crazy sport, crazy league, and it is
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  Speaker 1: amazing who the heroes are from year to year. And
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  Speaker 1: Luke Rayley should not have been forgotten about because he's
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  Speaker 1: making a huge impact.
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  Speaker 3: Why.
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  Speaker 2: He's mentally tough, and he's been through adverst his entire career.
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  Speaker 2: He's a D two maybe D three player, come out
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  Speaker 2: of Lake Erie College, didn't sign for much money, was
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  Speaker 2: a seventh rounder, was overlooked his entire career coming up
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  Speaker 2: with the Dodgers, ended up getting shipped over to the
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  Speaker 2: Rave And I spent a little bit of time with
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  Speaker 2: him there in camp for spring training in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: and you can just tell he was just that Midwestern
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  Speaker 2: calm and just really enjoyed the grind of the game
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  Speaker 2: and knew that at some point he was going to
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  Speaker 2: break through. Probably hadn't shown his full potential yet right
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of players feel like they probably retire,
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  Speaker 2: never reached his full potential. But I also know that
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  Speaker 2: Luke has gone through some real life transitions of having
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  Speaker 2: a baby, getting married, having things maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more important than baseball become the forward facing focus for him,
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  Speaker 2: and the opportunity presented itself this spring training for him
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  Speaker 2: to step in. And if you remember watching Luke hit
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  Speaker 2: at the end of camp this year, I was saying
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  Speaker 2: live on the broadcast last week, I said, box him
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  Speaker 2: up and shipping to Seattle, because that man is ready
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  Speaker 2: to go play some baseball.
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  Speaker 5: And that's exactly what he's doing this year.
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  Speaker 2: He's he is a rare bat in the level of
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball that can change the course of a
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  Speaker 2: game with three or four bats, and we saw that
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  Speaker 2: in the White Sox game on Friday when he had
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  Speaker 2: seven RBIs, he had a grand Slam and a three
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  Speaker 2: run homer. There's not many players out there, not just
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  Speaker 2: on the Mariners, but in the major leagues that can
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  Speaker 2: change the course of a game, and Luke Greyley is
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  Speaker 2: doing that. And there's also things that Luke Ridley could
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  Speaker 2: be doing better, but no one's talking about that. They're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the highlights, because there's more of those right
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  Speaker 2: now than we're seeing, you know, the bad stuff, And
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And he's yet still stuck in a platoon, still
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  Speaker 1: gets pinch hit for when the left he comes into
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  Speaker 1: the game more often than not. It drives Mariner fans crazy.
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  Speaker 1: What's a former major leaguer's thoughts on platoons in general
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  Speaker 1: and then specifically our platoons as they stand today.
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  Speaker 2: They're consistent with it, and quite frankly, the players that
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: are being platooned in and out are all pretty consistent
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  Speaker 2: Major leaguers throughout their career in that type of role.
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  Speaker 2: The platoon roles have become way more relevant over the
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  Speaker 2: last five seven years or so. It used to just be,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like a utility guy or so on the
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  Speaker 2: bench and a couple, but nowadays it's way more like, Hey,
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: this is what our righty lineup is, this is where
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  Speaker 2: our lefty lineup is. And we know that the Mariners
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: haven't performed great against left handed pitching this year, and
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  Speaker 2: I think a big reason for that is the opportunities
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  Speaker 2: to do so. You look at bats right now for
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: a guy like Connor Joe, who hasn't put up all year.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: And then you also look at someone Rob Refsneider. He's
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: got like fifty eight at bats so far this year
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: compared to one hundred and seventy five or one hundred
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: and eighty two for Julio leon.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: Or like, it's a lot less opportunity.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I don't think that Luke Rayley is thinking externally or
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: vocalizing the frustrations of this like the fans are, because
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: the organization crafted this roster, Luke Raley did not, So
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: they're gonna trust what the decision is and also trust
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: the players in this roster until it gets to a
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: point of a season where it's been Hey, that's a
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: long enough leash for you.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: We're gonna have to make a change. But early May
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: is not that time.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: All right, last couple, let's at least talk a little bit,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: pitch a little bit about pitching, because that was our
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: primary conversation of topic of conversation last week, and you
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: said you're fine with the six man rotation, and that's
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: what we're going to get initially when Bryce Miller gets
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: activated from the IL tomorrow. So I trust you haven't
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: changed your mind. You're good with this decision to keep
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: all six guys in a rotation, at least for the
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: short term.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I've been reading a lot of articles on this, listening
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: to interviews, and you can hear it in the tone
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: of the answers.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: There's not a whole lot of.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Certainty and conviction and what is going what the future
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: is going to hold. And I think they're as an organization,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: is trying to make the next best decision, and during
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: this thirteen game stretch, the next best decision is.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Let's run the six man out there.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: It's been really nice to see Logan Gilbert get hot,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Brian Woo looks like himself, George Kirby looks like himself,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: and we know what Emerson Hancock is and has been
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: this season. And I was reading something about how they
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: want to increase the opportunities for those four pictures, particular
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: to throw. So after this thirteen game stretch, and after
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: getting Bryce Miller back out there, who hasn't thrown more
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: than sixty one pitches in a rehab assignment, what is
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: he capable of doing at the major league level, They're
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: gonna have a better understanding after this Wednesday Thursday game,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: when Miller goes on Wednesday, and then Castillo is gonna
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: go on Thursday. Of how they move forward, Maybe it's
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: a piggyback. I've heard that thrown around. I don't know
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: what the answer is, and I think, quite frankly, the
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Mariners are telling you that they don't know what the
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: answer is.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Either they're gonna let baseball dude, it's supposed to do.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: But you still think Castillo, you still believe that he's
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: got it because I'm seeing a guy that doesn't have
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the same stuff. They're saying Differently. Pete Woodworth was just
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: on with this Friday. He says he's the same old rock.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: That's why he's nicknamed the Rock. I'm not sure I'm
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: seeing that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: What are you seeing from him?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing flashes of it. I think the results are
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: showcasing something that can't be ignored in regards to how
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: often he's walking people. But this is I would I
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: would pull Luis Castillo and Munos into a and say
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: they both have struggled to find their secondary pitches, and
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: when they feel like they have those weapons, then they
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: can pitch a little bit more aggressively with the fastball
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: because they have the secondary to land first strike. They
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: can locate that slider below the zone. But Munios and
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: also Castillo haven't had those sliders this season. Seen flashes
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: from Castillo, but not consistency. How well Bryce Miller throws
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: when he comes back, is going to give the Mariners
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: that final push to say, yes, this is the direction
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: we're going, or no, we're going to continue to keep
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: these guys healthy for October baseball.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Ryan Healy with us, I got to give you a
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: lot of credit because you know, we've only done zoom
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: calls when we had Ryan on and he was not
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: able to make eye contact, and sometimes that throws people
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: off a little bit, not to be able to have
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the eye contact during a conversation like this. But you
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: were great today, So we'll try to get the cameras fixed.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I know we prefer that, but nice stuff. Way to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: break it down, You didn't get thrown off at all
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: by the weird variable we threw you to day.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: What'd you call me when the show started? A media
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: A media mogul.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I think I did something like that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a professional, it's just what I do.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm there now, I'm a season pro. Now
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: with my seventeen minutes of experience. Look at me, Look
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: at me, everyone, look at me.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Guys on the radio.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: No phenomenal stuff. Nice breakdown, We appreciate it. We'll bug
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: you again next week. All right, I can't wait. All right,
• 19:28
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  Speaker 1: I want you to think of Ryan Healy, and I
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  Speaker 1: through a zoomless through a videoless zoom call, and it
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• 20:00
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• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly to Ryan Ealy here, John Clinkley to Heally.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Nice all right, Coming up next though, first time we've
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: ever had this mariner on our radio show. Cooper Chriswell's
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: going to join us Chucking Buck Sports Radio ninety three
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: point three kha RFM, all right, it is Chuck and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Ashley with you here this morning on a Tuesday, coming
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: off of Mariners win last night, and our next guest
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: played a significant role in that he pitched a scoreless
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: seventh inning, high leverage situation. Cooper Criswell. I mean, how
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: many things have already changed since Cooper Criswell became a
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Mariner and he has never ever this is also going
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: to change in his life right now. He's never been
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: a guest the Chuck and Buck radio program, but he
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: is now, and so we welcome him to the show.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Cooper chris Well of the Mariners.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: How are you, sir?
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Doing good? Chuck? I appreciate you having me on.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much for being with us. We
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. I appreciate what you're doing for the Mariners.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Seem to be off to a really impressive start thus far.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: How have you settled in with this team?
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so like it's been a pretty good start for everyone. Obviously,
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: that was we're going to get the same role in
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: here soon, but yeah, just kind of diving into their
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: pitching philosophy and really attacking that. Obviously. I feel like
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: it's not a secret. Just getting ahead with strike one
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: and attacking his own and obviously not welcome guys. And
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: I feel like that's been a huge success, not only
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: for me, but for everyone in on the staff.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Well, I would hope that the reputation is out amongst
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: major league pitchers of how success asful the organization has
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: been with pitchers here over the course of the last
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: few years. When you got the news that you were
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: going to the Seattle Mariners, what was your response to
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that inside your own head? And was there some excitement
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: of being able to play for an organization that really
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: has kind of got its finger on the pulse of
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: developing pitchers right now?
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, I think my first thoughts for a
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: while that's far from home. And then after that, I,
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: like you said, the you know history and how well
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: they are known for their pitching and ability to develop guys.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: I feel like there's never an age where you can't
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: develop and get better at things. And yeah, once I
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: settled in and you know, seeing like I said the
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: track record, it was excitement and excited to get out
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: there to spring train in and just more so than anything,
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: throw in front of everyone and just allow them to
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: like see what I came in with and then kind
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: of let them pick my brain a little bit from
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: there and see like how I like to pitch guys,
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: and see what they thought that I could add potentially
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: and or change as far as like pitching ability, pitch
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: shapes and stuff. So it was good, had a good
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: string training and honestly didn't really change too too much
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: as far as like pitch shapes and stuff, just more
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: so like really zoning in and attacking the zone with
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: all four pitches, and then recently added a four seam
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: that we thought would be good too as well. So
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: that's been pretty fun just to play around with some
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: and just trying to change hitters eye levels. But mainly
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: the discussion was just you know, attacking, zoning, and trusting
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: all my stuff in. Then I'm not trying to nibble
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: on the edges.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Cooper, Chris, Well, let's let us here on Chuck and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Buck off to a terrific start as a Mariner and
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: now in what looks to be a complete, you know,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: relief role and maybe even some high leverage situations here
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: going forward. I mean you when in Boston and Tampa
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Bay and LA your previous stops, I mean you could
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you've started some games you've long relieved, you've short relieved.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: So when you came here knowing the starting rotation that
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the Mariners had, what was your expectation of what role
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you might fill for the team, And now where are
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you mentally with the role you are filling with the team?
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, coming in to spring, obviously they wanted me to
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: stay built up as a starter, just because obviously, you know,
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: never know with injuries and stuff. But obviously we're doing
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: great as far as that goes right now with the rotation,
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: and if like that, credit to our medical staff and
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: our string staff. You know, they go above and beyond
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: to keep us on the field. And then so going
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: into that, I obviously knew that would be the case
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: going into spring, and then from there, I've felt like,
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: obviously I spring played out and stuff. I was built
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: up for the long relief role, and I felt like
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: that's you would rather be built up as a starter
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: going into that role, and you know, getting some multiple
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: ups and innings in during spring training. And then obviously,
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: you know, we had a few hits with Brash and
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Gabe to the io in the bullpen and felt like
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: that kind of opened up some more spots in the
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: high leverage situations and then you know, just trying to
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: be available for any role. I feel like I made
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: that clear during spring training to Dan and the staff
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: that you know, I'm available in any role that you
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: guys need me for. I feel comfortable doing any role.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: So just want to do anything I can to help
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: the team win. And right now, yeah that's the case.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: I get some more high leverage situations and then obviously
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: it will be good once we get Frash and Gay
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: back to have those guys back.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Are you liking it?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Do you like the juice of coming into a game
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: like last night and the seventh inning with it being close.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Compare it to the juice of being a starter and
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you know, and trying to base your outing on longevity.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, honestly, I feel like it's I try
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: not to even think too much about it as far
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: as the situation. I'm just trying to go out there
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: no matter the situation. Honestly, whether it's a high leverage situation,
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: a start or long relief role. When you're just out
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: there eating innings, I feel like it's the same mentality
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: every time, and it's just go out there and you know,
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: attack the strike zone and let the defense work. Obviously
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: I'm a huge psych out guy or anything, but you know,
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: keep the try to keep the dings quick and keep
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: the defense active. I feel like every defender loves a
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: pretty quick inning, and that's really the goal whenever I
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: got there, in no matter of the situation.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Cooper Criswell as with us, how did you land on
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: number eighty eight? That's like a hockey number? Why did
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: you choose eighty eight?
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: So funny story the first time in pro ball after
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: with the Angels, you know, the draft year whatever, the
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: most guys go a short season, Well they shut us
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: down meet some of the other pitchers shut us down
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: for the rest of that or the short season in
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: twenty eighteen. So twenty nineteen winter screen training, and then
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: went to Inland Empire, who's now obviously a Mariner's affiliate,
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: and the manager was just like, hey, Jerseys will be
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: hanging up. Just pick whatever number you want and make
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: sure you let the club you know, and he'll write
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: it down. So we go in there runs right before
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: the first team meeting and I show up and there
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: was probably about eight eight to ten numbers left, and
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: one of them was I thought in my head it
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: was eighty eight, and it was you know some of
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: the minor league numbers that were like have the funny
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: like lettering and numbers and stuff. So I was like, Okay,
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: this one looks pretty good, Like it looks like my size,
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: and I thought it was number eighty eight. Well, it
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: turns out it was double Bees for bat Boy the
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: figure to the club, and I was like, hey, I
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: want this one, and he informed me it was double
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: Bees for bat Boys. So and then I was always
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: said if I had a chance to get eighty eight,
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: I would get it, and that and then also kind
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: of hand in hand with some of my velo in
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: the past, so I thought it was just kind of
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: fit me.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I did not see that coming. I really didn't.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I'm like, where how's this gonna end up? And I
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: did not see the bat Boy jersey coming. Great story,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: that's funny. So how far is Carrollton, Georgia from Emerson
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Hancock's hometown in Thomasville, Georgia. And is everyone in Georgia
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: just a Georgia Bulldog fan or do you root for
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: somebody else in Carrollton?
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: Oh? So, first I'm gonna get out there. I'm a
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: huge Alabama fan. So roll okay, yeah, and then me
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: and Emerson are about two two and a half hours
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: from each other. And then he obviously huge bulldog got
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: him and I'm will Cox. And then but Carleton is
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: actually closer to Auburn, Alabama and Athens, Georgia. So I
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: would honestly say there's probably more. I would say it's
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: maybe even, but I would say there's I would say
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: there's more Auburn fans in Carlton than Georgia potentially, but
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: if not, pretty close. And then there's a there's a
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: few decent amount of Alabama fans. But my dad said,
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: grown up, he only had three cable channels and one
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: of the shows every Saturday was the Paul Beer Bryant Show,
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: and he woke up and Washington and just fell in
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: love with him and them since then, so ever since
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: we were you know, young and grew up, it was
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: roll tide watching the Obama game, cooking out and hanging out.
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: And then luckily when I met my wife at junior
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: college in Alabama, her and her family are huge Alabama
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: fans too, so it just was a matchmad in heaven.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Oh well, perfect, Yeah, his son stayed with his Alabama
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Crimson Tide and he became the hardest throwing bat boy ever.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: So that's awesome.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Everything worked out well. Cooper, Hey, thanks man for joining us.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Enjoy Seattle, enjoy being a Mariner, and
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: we can't wait to watch you play.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: Some more awesome.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: So all right, Cooper chris Well joining us right here
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: on Chuck and Buck coming up next. One last thing
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: to close us out on a Tuesday Sports Radio ninety
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: three point three kh A r F M. All right,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: final segment of our program here on this Tuesday, and
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: then we're gonna hand things off to Greg Bell and
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Christopher Kid here at the top of the hour.
• 31:42
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  Speaker 1: Oh he loves himself some golf, Yeah he does. Oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: he might wrestle Ashley in public for the belt.
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  Speaker 3: Of Oh what for what?
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 3: The person at KJR that loves golf the.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Most, and that's fair.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: You might get an argument, you might get in a
• 32:51
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• 32:52
  Speaker 7: But did he name his child after a golfer, either
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: one of them?
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: He did not.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: I don't believe he did.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Or his dog after something on a golf.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Course, No, he did not.
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: So he is his husband's middle name after a golfer, doubtful.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: No Or is nicknamed five iron, right, I don't think
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: that we call missus Spain five iron fain.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of five iron, He's winning a lot of points
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• 33:17
  Speaker 7: He's at the PGA Championship Shop, sending me pictures of
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: things to see, which what I want?
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  Speaker 3: Look it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Oh the romance, the romance fire is strong and five iron. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: send him to a major golf tournament and watch him
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  Speaker 1: just fall in love with you all over.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: It, Oh my gosh, or me fall in love with
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: him all over again.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: All right, what's your one last thing here today?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm sure you were listening to the Mariners broadcast
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  Speaker 7: yesterday and I thought of you in the I believe
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: it was third inning, third inning when Naylor got a
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  Speaker 7: strike called against him and was like, I gotta tap
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  Speaker 7: my hat on that one.
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  Speaker 4: That's definitely a ball.
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  Speaker 7: And it was definitely a strike, and the announcers immediately were.
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: But when he just tapped his head, the announcer goes,
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  Speaker 7: that's a bad challenge. And it wasn't because the ball
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: was so clearly a strike. But it was your situational
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: awareness in this moment for the challenge bad ideas. So
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: after the challenge, of course, after it didn't, after Naylor
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  Speaker 7: lost it, the announcer goes, the one guy asks him,
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: so even if he would have won that you still
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: think it's a bad challenge.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: And he's like, absolutely, what are you gaining from it?
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  Speaker 7: In that moment, and I thought, see, these are the
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: conversations you and I have had a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. It was that on the Mariners broadcast
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 4: It was Yeah, they were on f S one.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right, That's what I had it on because
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: when I put on my Fubo, that was the one
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: that popped up first.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I like to hear the national We hear our
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: own guys so often.
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  Speaker 3: I probably should have done that myself.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but so it was nice to hear conversation on DOM.
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  Speaker 4: I agreed. I said, yes, this is not where I
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: would have used it either, man. So anyway, yeah, you validated.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Another thing from last night that we did not bring
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: up today was the Julio batting practice.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the sandals.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Worry bet the guy with the shoes he was wearing.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: The guy said, I bet you can't hit the sign.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Yes over the wall?
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  Speaker 3: You know how hard that that's impossible?
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: And he did it on the very next swing, and
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the guy literally left him his dirty, ratty old flip flops.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: And Julio took them. He didn't keep them, but he
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: did take them.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: I love that. Everyone was like, oh, and then he
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: gave him back.
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: I was like, well, wouldn't you give them back to
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: I mean, first of all, then the guy has to
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: watch the entire game barefoot, and what are you going
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: to do with someone's dirty sandals.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he even said, I'm not going to have him
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: hop around hop around.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: That's what we have to do. If you have no
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: shoes on, you gotta hop.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: So yeah, he gave him his dirty ratty flip flops back.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: But how about that bet you can't hit that sign?
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: And then he hits it on the next Imagine the skill. Unbelievable.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: But that's not gonna be my one last thing.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: My one thing was I gave my top ten list
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: with the reckless at breakfast the greatest NBA players of
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: all time, and I just want to mention one other
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: guy because I would put him eleven.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Joker. Oh yeah, he always gets credit for today.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: He's always in the conversation of today's players, being the
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: best player today. But I don't think that he gets
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: brought up enough as one of the greatest players of
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: all time.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: You never hear him brought up in that conversation.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I put him just outside the top ten. I put
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to put him at number eleven. And so
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: even though he rips on him all the time, I'm
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: putting him ahead of you.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: Shack about that sick burn that there's some shade, Shack,
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: there's some shade.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, I recognize greatness.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: It's not a bad Shack impression.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: I compare greatness. You're great, here's greater.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, you have better impressions. But I won't hate
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: on that one.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: I got Achema lodge on ahead of Shack too. Sorry
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: about a shock.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: We're gonna see you have a Hachem Elijah Wan impression.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I was like, dude, oh no, no, all right, Well,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I think that's all the damage that we can do today.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: So we're going to get out of here. We'll be
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: back tomorrow at six o'clock in the morning. So enjoy
• 37:16
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• 37:18
  Speaker 1: you got Greg Bell coming up next. We got schedule release.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: He's probably got nuggets, he's probably.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Got leaks, leaks everywhere.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: We got Christopher Kidd coming your way next, and we'll
• 37:28
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