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Chuck in the Morning 8-25 H3: Baseball Brunch, Seahawks: you worried bro? · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: We're ready to play.
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  Speaker 2: We're learning the way to do it right.
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  Speaker 3: We're the baseball bunch.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to go far.
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  Speaker 1: We learn from the stars.
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  Speaker 3: We are the baseball bunch.
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  Speaker 2: We're having fun while we're learning to run and hit.
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  Speaker 3: And throw and catch that ball. You can learn too.
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  Speaker 5: We're waiting for you.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a hunch you'll love the baseball bunch.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, kids.
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  Speaker 2: From the people that brought you Reckless at Breakfast, we
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  Speaker 2: introduce the baseball brunch.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Johnny Brinch. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even laugh. See, Anders, you don't even know
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  Speaker 2: the joy of the baseball brunch. I was going to say,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the reference. I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: See, we didn't have cable when I grew up, Anders.
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  Speaker 3: So..
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  Speaker 2: You would get this week in baseball. You'd get a
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  Speaker 2: game of the week. But your access to other players
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  Speaker 2: that weren't St. Louis Cardinals on KPLR TV Channel 11,
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  Speaker 2: and you only got about 60 games back then. You
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  Speaker 2: didn't get all 162, even of that. You didn't have
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  Speaker 2: much access to other players around. So as a young
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  Speaker 2: baseball fan with dreams of being a baseball player and
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  Speaker 2: wearing a mullet in high school... I had to take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of all of these shows that actually showed national baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Bench was the host of the baseball bunch. And
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  Speaker 2: it was a bunch of little kids. And it was
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  Speaker 2: like going to baseball camp. It was a 30-minute show.
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  Speaker 2: And there was always like a featured guest. Davey Lopes
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  Speaker 2: from the Los Angeles Dodgers showed up to teach us
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  Speaker 2: how to slide.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Tommy Lasorda would always wear this like wizard thing on
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  Speaker 2: his head, which Chris Berman stole, by the way. And
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  Speaker 2: he would answer questions. That were sent in via mail.
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  Speaker 3: Literal mail?
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  Speaker 2: Literal mail.
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  Speaker 3: Not email. Not text. Not Twitter.
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: And then there would always be like a, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there would always be like some regulars that would stop
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  Speaker 2: by and special guests. And it was just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everything that a big, a little baseball fan from the
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  Speaker 2: Midwest dreamed about. The Baseball Bunch.
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  Speaker 3: And I've revived it. Well done.
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  Speaker 2: For the purpose of Mariner Baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny Branch. I'm Johnny Branch. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the Baseball Brunch. And so let's get
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  Speaker 2: to it. This is just a recap of the previous
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  Speaker 2: Mariners game. We don't do it every day, but there
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  Speaker 2: are certain games that, man, I know we do Mariners
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  Speaker 2: morning after at 630, but not everybody's up at 630.
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  Speaker 2: So there are certain games that have to be recapped
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times on the morning show. And last
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  Speaker 2: night's game was one of them. The Philadelphia Phillies rolled
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  Speaker 2: into town, not just one of the best teams in
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, the hottest team in Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: They had won nine straight games, including a Randy Orozarena-like
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber walk-off on Sunday to make it nine in
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  Speaker 2: a row, where they were trailing four to nothing going
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  Speaker 2: into the ninth inning against the St.
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  Speaker 3: Louis Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: And came back and won 6-4 in order to stretch
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  Speaker 2: their winning streak to nine games. They're throwing maybe not
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  Speaker 2: their best pitcher. That's Christopher Sanchez now, but certainly the
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  Speaker 2: one that is most Hall of Fame-like.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Zach Wheeler, who gets the ball. They're a veteran squad,
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  Speaker 2: but they're probably the healthiest they've been all season long.
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  Speaker 2: So things were really going great guns for the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 2: Phillies this as they flew to the Pacific Northwest to
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  Speaker 2: take on the Mariners last night. The pitching matchup was
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  Speaker 2: a dream. It was Logan Gilbert for the good guys.
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  Speaker 2: It was Zach Wheeler for the bad guys. The bad
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  Speaker 2: guys scored a run in the very first inning. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's true, kids. It did cross my mind. Can we
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  Speaker 2: score two runs against Zach Wheeler? Is that possible? Is
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  Speaker 2: that in the cards tonight? Well, we had scored three
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  Speaker 2: runs by the third batter of the game. Julio Rodriguez
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  Speaker 2: hitting a three-run homer to set the tone for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the contest.
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  Speaker 3: We would not look back. You rolled to a 9-2
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  Speaker 3: victory behind Logan Gilbert and a few interesting bullpen choices
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  Speaker 3: down the stretch. Not that I disagree with him.
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  Speaker 2: Just the position you put yourself in to have to
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  Speaker 2: throw all of those guys last night. And so, 9-2
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  Speaker 2: is the final score. But let's not kid ourselves. Julio
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  Speaker 2: set the tone. Logan got the job done. Dan didn't
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  Speaker 2: make any terrible decisions last night. But the true star
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  Speaker 2: of the game and the true star of today's baseball brunch,
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  Speaker 2: the Big Dumper.
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  Speaker 3: High fly ball. Does it have the length? Harper is
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  Speaker 3: just staring. It's good! A rainmaker!
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  Speaker 4: Cal Raleigh!
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  Speaker 2: And the Mariners hang up five spot in the first inning.
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  Speaker 2: On a three-two. Smokes. Drilled. Cal Raleigh leaves the yard for.
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  Speaker 3: The second time tonight! Fly ball. Right field. Harper. Can't
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  Speaker 3: make the catch. It's a three-over game. Cal Raleigh.
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  Speaker 2: Three home runs for Cal Raleigh last night, and man,
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  Speaker 2: it looked like he is back. Now, whether or not
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  Speaker 2: he is, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: Looked like it, though.
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  Speaker 2: But certainly for one night, and there were signs leading
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  Speaker 2: up to that one night. He's been hitting a lot
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  Speaker 2: better as of late, more so from the right side
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  Speaker 2: than the left side. But all of a sudden, something
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  Speaker 2: just snapped in, and we're going to talk to Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Healy about it at 9 o'clock today. where he looked
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  Speaker 2: completely balanced at the plate. He did not look slow
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  Speaker 2: to the fastball. He looked in perfect symmetry. Three homers
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  Speaker 2: makes it look like that. But he just looked like
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  Speaker 2: last year's Cal Raleigh for the first time all season long.
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  Speaker 2: And not just because of the results, but because of
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  Speaker 2: his approach to the ball, the way that he was
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  Speaker 2: attacking the ball, how his body looked in line, how
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  Speaker 2: his hands looked fast. Uh, and it results in three
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  Speaker 2: home runs, something he has never accomplished in his life.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have the starring player in Cal Raleigh, but
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  Speaker 2: we usually have a different featured guest appearance on the
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  Speaker 2: baseball brunch, but Reggie Smith was not available. Nor, nor
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  Speaker 2: was Frank Tanana. That's another thing, by the way, baseball bunch,
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  Speaker 2: I figured it out. Like you shot the show in
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  Speaker 2: LA and all of your featured guests were either angels
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  Speaker 2: or Dodgers. I know what you were up to.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But anyway, our featured guest appearance here on the
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  Speaker 2: Baseball Brunch is also by Cal Raleigh, who tried to
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  Speaker 2: explain what kicked in last night.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it all starts with a fastball.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's been the hard part this year is just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously missing some fastballs here and there and
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  Speaker 1: put myself in bad counts. I've said it before. I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel like, you know, I lose fastballs. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I lose at bats, you know, when I pop
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  Speaker 1: up or strike out. I feel like it's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you do get that mistake, and at this level
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  Speaker 1: in the big leagues, when they do make that mistake,
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  Speaker 1: it's about capitalizing on it and making sure that you
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  Speaker 1: are moving it forward and you are taking advantage because
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  Speaker 1: they're so good. We talk about it all the time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from the pitching side, to kind of control
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  Speaker 1: and dominate the zone, but it's kind of the same,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from the hitter's perspective. You know, you want
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  Speaker 1: to be ahead, you want to be and get hitters counseling,
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  Speaker 1: get your A swing off, and, and I think tonight
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  Speaker 1: it was a 1-0, and a 1-0, and a 3-1,
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  Speaker 1: and then there was a 3-2 mixed in there, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that makes a big difference when you're in
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  Speaker 1: the driver's seat, so I just know that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I was getting that pitch, and in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: maybe up a little bit, and I was just missing it,
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  Speaker 1: and even though I was seeing it well, I wasn't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, take advantage of it, and then Today I
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  Speaker 1: was able to obviously take advantage of that, so it
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  Speaker 1: felt good. Yeah, I just think being in a good
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  Speaker 1: position as early as possible is something that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Edgar always talks about and has always been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of a pillar of mine, you know, throughout my career,
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  Speaker 1: even down all the way to, you know, Little League
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So it's a very simple thing,
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  Speaker 1: but it's sometimes harder than, harder to, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and execute that. But that's just how
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  Speaker 1: the game is sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Cal Raleigh after the game last night. Never too high either.
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  Speaker 3: Good perspective.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and he always does. And look, we
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  Speaker 2: got to give him credit. I mean, he is for
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  Speaker 2: the first time not only taking criticism. We haven't had
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  Speaker 2: any choice. Nobody wanted to in this town be critical
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  Speaker 2: of Cal Raleigh. But when you're sitting there threatening Cal,
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  Speaker 2: to have the lowest batting average in the history of
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  Speaker 2: the sport by a good 10 percentage points, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't come with praise.
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  Speaker 3: And I do.
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  Speaker 2: Believe that his struggles for four and a half long
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  Speaker 2: months were affecting his defense. I think it was affecting
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  Speaker 2: his challenging. I think he was questioning everything. And so
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  Speaker 2: what has happened as we are now to the point
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  Speaker 2: in the season, and this is going to be a
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  Speaker 2: breath of fresh air to a lot of people, where
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  Speaker 2: it's no longer a long season ahead. We are now
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  Speaker 2: to a critical point where we damn near have to
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  Speaker 2: start teaching, treating every game like it's a playoff game.
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  Speaker 2: That's the position they put themselves in. We're coming down
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  Speaker 2: to the stretch run. We're coming down to the final
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  Speaker 2: month of the year. And once you start realizing your
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  Speaker 2: reality and what went wrong, it's impossible not to point
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  Speaker 2: out the biggest factor in last season's success versus this
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  Speaker 2: season's failures. And that is that Cal Raleigh was arguably
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  Speaker 2: the best player in the American League a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: And this season, he has arguably been the worst everyday
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  Speaker 2: player in Major League Baseball this year. And to be
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  Speaker 2: able and to have to confront that and kind of
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  Speaker 2: know that and hear it whispered can't be easy to do.
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  Speaker 2: But to his credit, and you could see the love
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  Speaker 2: and the high-five lines on all three home runs, and
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  Speaker 2: he'd come back and he'd get more high-fives. You could
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  Speaker 2: see how happy everybody was, or at least maybe not everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe somebody was sulking. Maybe somebody didn't like it. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see it. But for the most part, that.
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  Speaker 2: Team really was– relieved last night to see Cal Raleigh
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  Speaker 2: back in 2025 form and it might have been just
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  Speaker 2: for one magical night but Anders it didn't look like
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  Speaker 2: that it looks like some things have gotten figured out
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  Speaker 2: and last night he just was locked in and Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Healy was talking about it in the broadcast we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: to him about it more about 9 o'clock today but
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  Speaker 2: It looked like last year's Cal Raleigh. I hope it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't for one night, one night only, and I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to trust that it wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like with this team, there's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of notions about momentum in baseball, and it kind of
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  Speaker 5: gets scoffed out with it being a long season around
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  Speaker 5: the league. This isn't just a Mariners thing. I think
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  Speaker 5: this team, more than almost any other team, rides the
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  Speaker 5: highs and rides the lows, too. When things are going well,
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  Speaker 5: they go really well. And everyone seems to be clicking
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  Speaker 5: at the same time. But when it rains, it pours.
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  Speaker 5: Things aren't going well. It seems like you're making mental mistakes.
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  Speaker 5: It seems like Dan Wilson's going and making weird bullpen decisions.
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  Speaker 5: It feels like Cal can't do anything at the plate.
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  Speaker 5: It's either all or nothing with these guys. So having
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  Speaker 5: your leader who really carried you throughout the entirety of
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  Speaker 5: last season, who has been absolutely bogging you down throughout
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  Speaker 5: the entirety of this season, finally have a breakout game,
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  Speaker 5: I think is a huge weight off of all these players' shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. Now, is it real? Okay, let's be
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  Speaker 2: honest about this. We've had a lot more evidence suggesting
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  Speaker 2: that it's not.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: If this was another sport, I would certainly like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess Cinderella had her nice night at the ball. Right.
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  Speaker 2: She'll be back in rags tomorrow scrubbing the floors of
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  Speaker 2: her ugly stepsisters. Tomorrow, riding a pumpkin to school instead
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  Speaker 2: of a beautiful coach and probably dating... you know, the
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  Speaker 2: shoe dealer, as opposed to a handsome prince.
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  Speaker 3: Let's not slight the shoe dealers here. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So that's, I mean, there's so much evidence that suggests
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  Speaker 2: that that was a one-night, one-night-only affair. But this is baseball.
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  Speaker 2: And it is true. And I'm going to talk to Healy.
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  Speaker 2: He'll confirm this for me at nine. You never know
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  Speaker 2: what's going to lock in and when it's going to
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  Speaker 2: lock in. And we all know Cal's got the talent.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't lose the talent. He didn't lose the ability.
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  Speaker 2: But for some reason, he couldn't find his way back
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  Speaker 2: on track. And that can have an avalanche effect. It
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  Speaker 2: starts as one thing, and then you try to course correct,
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  Speaker 2: and then you course correct too far the other way,
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  Speaker 2: and then that causes another thing. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because you're so determined to fix it, now you're in
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  Speaker 2: the cage too often, and now you've screwed something else up.
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  Speaker 3: And then just one..
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  Speaker 2: Negative thing affects another negative thing and you're constantly adjusting
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  Speaker 2: and changing and maybe what you were doing two weeks
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  Speaker 2: ago was working, but you abandoned it because you weren't
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  Speaker 2: getting the results.
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  Speaker 3: And then the next thing you know, you're.
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  Speaker 2: A complete pretzel.
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  Speaker 3: You are tied in knots.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the cow we've gotten the last two months.
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  Speaker 2: That's the cow that can't challenge, can't tell a ball
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  Speaker 2: versus a strike anymore. That's the cow we've had recently.
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  Speaker 2: And so as cruel as it can be, this sport,
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  Speaker 2: to do that to an established star in Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 2: it also unravels in the most mysterious ways. And you
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  Speaker 2: never know what's going to unlock that. Oh, it could
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: be a suggestion from someone. It could be, you made
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  Speaker 2: a mistake like on in the at bat, right? Like
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  Speaker 2: you did something you weren't even planning to doing, but
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  Speaker 2: it felt so right. You're like, Oh my gosh, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Light bulb. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This is the sport that that can happen in. It
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  Speaker 2: can happen in other sports, but it, it can happen
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  Speaker 2: in this sport. Baseball's weird. Um, unlike anything else you've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen. So even though we should caution ourselves, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot more evidence suggesting that Cal Raleigh's not fixed
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  Speaker 2: than fixed. There is a chance that he's fixed, and
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  Speaker 2: he could be finally ready just in time to go
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  Speaker 2: on a tear.
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  Speaker 3: Cat Baloo it, as I told you earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Ready to go on a tear and carry
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  Speaker 2: this team for the rest of the month. It can happen.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think what Cal was explaining here in
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  Speaker 5: that clip that we just played, this is why hitting
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: is a process more than anything else. We hear the
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: word approach, throw it around a bunch, but I think
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: this is the reason why that's the case, right? So
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: much of it is mental, where you're trying to attack,
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: because the pitchers are too good to try and hit
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  Speaker 5: everything they throw at you, obviously, right? But there's also
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: the chicken and the egg conversation, right? Does it take
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: being a good hitter for pitchers to kind of avoid
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: you and then you can draw some walks? Or does
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  Speaker 5: it take the process to being patient and letting pitches
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  Speaker 5: come into your attack zone, so to speak, and then
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  Speaker 5: that's what helps you not only miss, or sorry, not
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  Speaker 5: miss mistake pitches, but then be patient, and then you
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  Speaker 5: could take some walks in there as well. So I
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  Speaker 5: think that's where everything starts to click. And that's where
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  Speaker 5: Cal Raleigh's at his best. He's never going to be
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  Speaker 5: a contact guy. He's going to be a walk and
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  Speaker 5: home run guy. And maybe a few doubles here and
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  Speaker 5: there as well. So if that's able to click for
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  Speaker 5: him in the next month or so, he can absolutely
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  Speaker 5: carry this offense.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is, I mean, this is the cruel reality
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  Speaker 2: of it. I mean, he knows what it is. He
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  Speaker 2: told you in that clip.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't catch up to the fastball. I wasn't in
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: the fastball. If you can't hit the fastball, This is
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: why Ryan Bliss is in the minors, even though everybody
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: wants him back in the majors. And I love Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: I do too.
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  Speaker 2: But he can't hit a fastball. You're not going to
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  Speaker 2: be a major league if you can't hit a fastball.
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  Speaker 2: Cal Raleigh has not been able to catch up to
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  Speaker 2: the fastball. And we know that he can catch up
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  Speaker 2: to the fastball.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it was just a few months ago. It's not
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  Speaker 3: like we saw it in the 80s. We've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And..
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  Speaker 2: Try as hard as he could to get there. He
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  Speaker 2: couldn't figure it out. If you're not on time, how
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: many times did Bucky say this? How many times Healy
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  Speaker 2: say this? If you're not on time as a hitter
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: with the fastball, then you're lost.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: He couldn't figure it out.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Whatever clicked in in the last week, whatever clicked in
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: last night, He did not look like somebody that was
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: rushing to catch up.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: No.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: He looked like last year's Cal Raleigh. That body was
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: in perfect symmetry last night. And he was not rushing
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: to catch up. He was just on time against a
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: great pitcher, by the way.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Not a good one.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Now, he might not have had his best stuff last night,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: but that is a great pitcher in Zach Wheeler that
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: he was facing last night. So it does give you hope.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean he's at the finish line. It doesn't
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: mean he won't show up tonight and go 0-3 with
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: two punch-outs and a walk. But it does give you
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: hope that, okay, something locked in. And it does happen
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: in this sport. It happens all the time. It shouldn't
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: take taking four and a half months. No. But if
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: it's happened now, it's happened in time, Anders. Yeah.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: I mean, I won't say all will be forgiven because
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: we'll never look back on this season, no matter what
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: he does in September.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, it'll be forgiven.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: If he goes on a run, gets into the playoffs
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: and stays hot all the way through the playoffs.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Forgiven.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, sorry, I meant... Forgotten. Forgotten, yes.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: That's probably the term I was looking for more. We'll
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: never look back on this whole season and see his
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: numbers and be like, dang, that was a good season
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: from Cal Raleigh.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: We won't do that. No matter what he does in September, right?
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: But if..
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: The prevailing feeling of this season is, yeah, he sucked
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: for the first four months and then found a way
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: to carry this offense to the playoffs and hopefully a
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: run in the playoffs. That will be the last thing
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: we remember and probably the biggest thing we remember from
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: this season if he's able to do that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: So what did we learn today, kids? This is how
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: we close out the baseball brunch, Anders. We learned that
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Cal is back?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Question mark? Yeah. We learned that baseball is weird.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: We learned that Julio really is the guy that got
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: it started.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: He did start the fire. It wasn't burning when the
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: world was turning. He had to start the fire last night.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Cal did give him credit for that, by the way,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: in a different clip in his post-game interview last night.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: He said, big home run from Julio to get it started.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: The baseball brunch is going to give him credit, too. Yeah,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: let's do it. Nice work, Julio. And, no, I guess
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't have any problem with the bullpen decisions last
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: night of Dan Wilson, but pass. bullpen decisions affected you.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Affected you because you had to throw Gabe Spire last night.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Dominguez had to go two innings. And I liked what
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I've seen out of Dominguez here as of late.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Totally agree.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: But he's not going to be available tonight. I got
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to believe Carlos Vargas is not going to be available tonight.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: But Gabe Spire better be available tonight. He better not have, well,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: we used him last night, we can't use him. Nope,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: you need him. So you should have Spire, Bazzardo, Ferrer,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: and Munoz. We all know George is only going five. Spire, Bazzardo, Ferrer, Munoz.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: You should have them all.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: And by the way, don't think you use your lefties
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: against Schwarber, Harper, and Arise. They don't care. They crush
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: lefties just like they crush righties. Use your lefties against
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Marsh and Crawford at the bottom.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Of the order. The more platoon-dependent guys. Yeah, not Schwarber.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Use Ferrer and Spire on the guys at.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: The bottom of the order, and then use Bazzardo and Munoz, hopefully,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: against the others.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: And if that's in the eighth inning for Munoz, so
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: be it. It doesn't have to be the ninth.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be. All right, coming up next,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Seahawks fans, you worried, bro? Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 21:12
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• 21:18
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• 21:42
  Speaker 2: on the thing I do with Shub.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: What's the thing you do with Shub? On a regular basis.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Our sales guy, Shub.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Shubacabra.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: The Shubix Cube.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I started not long ago. I would ask him like
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: a question a day. Okay. It could be about just
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: about anything.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Literally anything.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: What?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't ask him this when he just walked into
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: a conversation about hugging in the office place. Oh, yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Whether or not that's like good camaraderie or frowned upon.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: And we had a difference of opinion. Somebody that's ran
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: a radio station before that was like no hugging. And
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: then another person that is a hugger and she thinks
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: it helps her show. So it ended up being that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: That's we ended up being a conversation.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: But I've asked him all sorts of great questions over
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: the years. Like, should new car smell be a cologne?
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: No.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: That's my answer.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Your answer is no? Yeah. I kind of think it
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: should be.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then the question I'm going to ask him today,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: do you think it bothers mosquitoes that they haven't evolved
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: beyond the point that a bite from them only gives
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: us an itchy bump?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Well, in some cases, it's a little more than that.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: There's a thing called malaria, Chuck. But they have.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: To dip themselves in poison waters. Yeah, that's true. I
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: don't know if they're like murderous intent. Murderous intent. I'm
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: not sure. Maybe they have evolved from that. Maybe they know.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: They are blood-sucking parasites, quite literally. If we go suck
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: on that river water, we.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Can murder this fool.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Not just this fool.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: A large portion of specific populations in some places.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I know.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I understand that. But you're suggesting they're doing that intentionally.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. They're like, this is poison.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: This is a lot more effective than just making somebody's
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: arm itchy. Right. Yeah. So let's do this. You're suggesting
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: that mosquitoes can be pure evil. I'm just assuming that
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: they have the ability to just land and bite, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: they just happen to have landed in malaria earlier.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough. Or they see this guy.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to get into that.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Never mind.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: All right, let's get.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Into what we were originally planning to talk about, and
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: that is the Seahawks. For the record, I'm not worried
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: in the slightest about anything at all right now.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Like, nothing. Really?
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I think this is..
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: If your confidence meter was 100 going, like, before everything,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: where is it now?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: 100.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Nothing changed.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a better team
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: than it was a year ago. Doesn't mean you're going
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: to win the Super Bowl. A lot of things got
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to break your way, including health, which we're about to
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: get into.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I've had.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Nothing that shakes my confidence or sores my worry meter
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: whatsoever to this season.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: That said, we're starting to get.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Some things that are starting to build up a little
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: bit before we've even taken a first snap. So I
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: do want to ask, you worried, bro? Let's go one
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: at a time.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Bud Clark, you worried, bro?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Anything about that worry you that Bud Clark is not
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: available to this football team this season? Yeah, I think
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: Not like full-on panic mode or anything like that, but again,
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: it's just one less tool than Mike McDonald has. And
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: we talked about this a little bit earlier on the show.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: This is a team that relies on depth, and he
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: likes to kind of fill pieces in certain spots and
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: not just that, have the competition factor kind of drive
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: people up a little bit. And that's how Ty Okada
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: got his starting spot last year. And, yeah, I was
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: excited to see what he could do, possibly even become
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: a starter in the second half of the year. But
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: the fact that he's probably not going to play this season,
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: especially considering the secondary depth as a whole, now I
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: know he's not playing corner, but just having certain spots
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: to fill, it's one less guy for Mike McDonald.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's a good thing.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Right. But I do think that they'll come up with
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: an answer. He's not somebody that, like, You have an answer.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: On hand. You lose Byron Murphy, you've lost Byron Murphy.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. Or, you know, I mean,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I don't see this as something that can't.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Be worked around. Right. Now, it's if you lose another
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Clark type, and now, you know, I watched the Detroit
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Lions play the last couple of years where they're down
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: to like their fifth nickel and they're playing a kicker
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: at safety and... They're doing all sorts. They're taking anybody
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: off the waiver wire. I mean, they were so desperate
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: last year they considered Jamal Adams, I think, for a while. So,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't want to start taking one off
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: after the other, but by itself, on its face, yeah,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Bud Clark would have been nice. And I know that
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald would have found a role for him on
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: this team, and I would imagine that role would have
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: expanded with every week that passed as long as he
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: stayed healthy. But I also believe, you know, Nehemiah Pritchett
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: right now is sort of like the one being most criticized,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: having the worst camp. I think even Hugh called him
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: out as maybe he's had the most damage done to
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: his status so far in the preseason. I watched Nehemiah
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Pritchett play fairly well at the end of the last season.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I know it's in him. And it's not like age
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: has crept up on him. So, Ty Okada got better
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: every single week.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: He did.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: And I had no hope for Ty Okada at the
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: beginning of last year. And so, yeah, it's a hit.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Especially when you talk about the collective. But I'm not
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: worried about it. I'm not worried that there's not an
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: answer that between John and Mike... that they can't come
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: up with before the season comes to a close. Either
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: strategic or development of a player or finding somebody else
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: on a waiver wire or in a trade before the deadline.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I think that by season's end, they'll have formed a solution.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Not even by season's end. By season's beginning. By season's beginning,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I think they will have formed a solution.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I know he probably wouldn't have played the
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: exact role, but the Nicky Manwari injury also plays a
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: factor in this for me as well. So that's, again,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: it's just bodies at this point.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: True. If Nicky Manwari is out for the season, okay,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: now we got something else. Boy, yeah.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Because not only do you lose him, which is a superstar, potentially.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: But that, again, takes away from your depth. Correct.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: And your secondary. And guys that are versatile. And we
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: don't know if Bud Clark would have been versatile. Sure.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: But the theory was that he could be.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And could be used in different ways. But, yeah,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: at this stage, I'm not. I mean, when you get
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: hit with three season-ending injuries in 72 hours and your
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: depth takes a blow like that collectively, yeah. Yeah. You
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: feel that, but I don't even think anything individually worries
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: me about it. Okay. And I don't even think collectively
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I'm worried about it. All it is, it's just like age.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Like there is nothing wrong. I don't feel one bit
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: old despite my age, but I know that I'm closer
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to being old.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? What's old? Yeah.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I know that I'm closer to feeling old than I've
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: ever been in my entire life. But, and same thing
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: with like a roster. I don't think that you're in danger,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: but you are closer to being in danger of being
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: too thin in some areas.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: And to me, that's the only effect of the last
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: 72 hours. I'm not worried about the way the roster
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: is currently constructed, but when you lose three guys off
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: of your depth, suddenly you are closer to having to
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: worry about depth.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: That's how I feel about it.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: Of the three, Bud Clark is the closest, and it
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: probably pushes me over to, yes, slightly worried.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: The other two, I don't feel that way about.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: I think you can easily fill the roles of one
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Jake Bobo and Mason Richmond, right? They weren't probably going
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: to have giant roles anyway. And for me, it's easier
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: to fill those gaps. Again, you would rather not have
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: it happen, but Bud Clark's the only one where I
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: feel like, I don't love that. And I feel a
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: little bit.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: I don't love it.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I don't like it.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I damn near hate it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I'm just not worried about it. That's fair. Not yet.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Coming up next on the radio program. I'm going to
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: give you this warning right now in advance. Something's about
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: ready to happen in your lives. And maybe for the
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: next 25 years that is going to annoy the crap
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: out of you.
• 30:33
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• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Now back to Chuck in the Morning, brought to you
• 30:41
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• 30:45
  Speaker 3: EverythingTulatip.com on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Ryan Healy's going
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: to join us at 9 o'clock.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I've been promoting this a lot this morning, and I
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: think that's just because I can't wait to hear what
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: he has to say. I mean, he's in town right now.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: He was there for the three-omer game. He's been there
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: for the three out of four against the Cubs and
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: the Phillies. I mean, this is what, four and two against,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: in the last six, against three of the four best
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: teams in the National League, maybe three of the four
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: best teams in all of Major League Baseball. and scoring
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: at about six runs per clip these last six games,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: which is just something we don't do and forget about it.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: When it comes to teams that respond to losing by
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: 17 runs or more, we're the best in the game.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Nobody else averages eight runs a game in the
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: game after you've lost by 17 runs or more.
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a pretty good thing to be the best
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: at the game at.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: We're good at that. Yeah, we are really good at that. 2-0.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Averaging eight runs a game. Yeah.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Would you take a 17-run blowout?
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Guarantee you win the next day.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Guarantee you win the next day. I don't think we'd
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: get there that way.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Probably not.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, no, we'll avoid that. All right, so Ryan
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Healy will join us at 9 o'clock here this morning
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: to talk about all things Mariners baseball. But I said
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: I'm going to warn you about something because it's underway,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: and I have a feeling it's really going to annoy
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: you over the course of the next, I don't know, generation.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Last night, Peyton Manning's son, Marshall Manning, made his debut
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: as a high school football coach. He's a freshman, 15-year-old freshman.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Those Mannings do not want you to play if you're
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: the youngest guy out there. They really want you to
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: be seasoned. So 15-year-old freshman, and he played two snaps.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Two.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Now he plays on a really good team, apparently.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Not two series.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: No, two snaps.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Two snaps.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Two snaps in the game last night. And yet, His
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: game was nationally televised. I want that to soak in.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Just a second.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. High school freshman making his varsity debut as a
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: backup quarterback played two snaps, but his game was nationally televised.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know what big a deal they made
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: out of Arch Manning. And that's Cooper's kid. That's the
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: one that didn't make it. Imagine what they're going to
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: do and how much hype is going to be surrounding
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: young Marshall Manning, Peyton's son, as he starts this quest.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: It is the royal family of football, and I love them.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I love them all.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: I love Cooper. I love Archie. I love Eli.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, they really do come across as not just
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: terrific football players. and a terrific football family, but they
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: really come across as very likable people. I mean, it's
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: hard not to like Peyton Manning.
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  Speaker 3: The Manning cast is awesome.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Manning cast is awesome. Everything they do, they come off well,
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  Speaker 2: you know? And so this is not any shot at
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: all at the Mannings, but I have a feeling they
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: might have to put their foot down on how much
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: attention marshall gets because people got sick of how much
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: attention arch got i mean we called two football seasons
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: ago arch madness that's how the season began the entire
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: season was described as arch matt not two seasons ago
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  Speaker 2: that was last year yeah arch madness that's what college
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: football was called to start the season arch madness that's
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: how they were promoting it right and then he ends
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: up underperforming he wasn't.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Bad no it wasn't awful but um and and he.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Still could end up being the number one pick and
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: maybe he leads the longhorns to a national championship this
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: year but obviously the hype did not equal the performance
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: and now with marshall payton's kid not cooper's kid payton's
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  Speaker 2: kid He's already going to have a nationally televised high
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: school game as a freshman backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Woo!
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  Speaker 3: Mannings, you might want to draw a line in the
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: sand on this.
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  Speaker 2: Like, no, no, no, no. We're not doing that. But
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: they're doing that. And it's just starting. What's it going
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: to be like by the time he's a senior in
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: high school? What's it going to be like in college?
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: You have to wonder how much of that is going
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: to affect a 15-year-old, by the way.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Right!
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  Speaker 2: 15! It usually does not affect them well, I'll tell
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: you that. There have been different... Bryce Harper is an exception.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: LeBron James is an exception. Todd Marinovich is not. It
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: certainly tends to affect them quite negatively. In the soccer world,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Freddie Adu. Freddie Adu? He didn't quite live up to it.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Eric Lindros from hockey did not live up to the hype. Yeah, there's... Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if this is Manning's pushing for it
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  Speaker 5: or if this is a, hey, you guys are with ESPN.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: You have to agree to us televising your kid.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine they're pushing for it, but I also
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: can't imagine they have too much say over whether or
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: not a network wants to.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Maybe they do at ESPN.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Maybe Peyton goes in and says, hey, no, you want
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: me to continue with this Manning cast? You're not going
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: to televise all my kids' games. But then are you
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: costing the other kids? their chance to be on television.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: And you're not going to stop FS1 from doing it
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: or the 30 billion other channels that we now have
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: that can air a high school football game here and there.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: If there's a market for it, whether he's a backup
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: or not, two snaps or not, they're going to put
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: games on television. And yet for most right-thinking people, The
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: reaction is, really?
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: This is the way we're going to start this?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we are sort of braced that Marshall Manning's
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: going to be a top high school prospect, but we're
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: going to really start with televising games he's not even
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: playing in?
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  Speaker 3: Just sitting on the sidelines? And you said it. If
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: there's a market for it, is there? I don't know.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: Are there people that want to watch Marshall Manning as
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: a 15-year-old take two snaps?
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Let's find out. It made headlines. It certainly made headlines.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Did it get ratings? I don't know. I don't know.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's like one thing to say how ESPN televised a
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: 15-year-old's games. It's another thing to have people watch it, right?
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: We'll see. I don't know.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, usually they do if there's hype. I mean,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: they run high school football games. Yeah. Is there a
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: better chance? I mean, every week there's a high school
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: football game on a major network. Yep.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: And if there's a chance that.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: You get a few more people because there's a Manning playing,
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: even if he's sitting on the sidelines with a baseball
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: cap on and a clipboard, then you probably are more
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: apt to air the Manning game versus De La Salle
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: and Bosco. Right, right.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: So I'm just warning you, get ready for it.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Unless the Mannings can figure out a way to say, no,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: we're not doing that.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: But then again..
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Is that costing other kids their chance at some publicity
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: that they would like to have? That I don't know.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Give him an NAL deal now. All right. Ryan Healy's next.
• 38:44
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