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Chuck & Buck 4-2 Hour 2: Mocking with Eric Edholm, Sup? and ABCs of the Mariners. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Backpack two one to cow. Why drive right field base?
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  Speaker 2: He can't soon his head right on his heels, call
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  Speaker 2: young col Rawley, puts the Mariners on the board, and
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  Speaker 2: we got a ball game at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 2: eighth in age.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't capitalize on that, Julio, that would have been nice.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been nice. It would have been nice.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you had to do it. Nobody's angry
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  Speaker 1: with you, just saying it would have been nice. Would
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  Speaker 1: have been great, maybe to have a nice rally if
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees two out.
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  Speaker 3: Of three, I would have really appreciated it.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of put everything in the right direction going forward.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I realize we're just leaving the harbor and the whole
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  Speaker 1: voyage is ahead of us, but it would have been nice.
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  Speaker 1: Has been nice he come through in that situation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: smooth sailing going forward out of the harbor out onto
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  Speaker 1: the sea would have been swell. Yeah, no big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Sure we forgive you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, ain't mad about it, Nope, Nope.
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  Speaker 1: We have moved on, that is for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Was there even the game yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not. Yeah. Good morning to you all. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Chuck Powell. That is Ashley Ryan in there.
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  Speaker 1: It is seven o'clock hour, our second hour of our
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  Speaker 1: four hour extravaganza that we have planned for you here today,
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  Speaker 1: on this second day of Draftmas, the second day of
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  Speaker 1: April twenty twenty six. It is tremendous to have you
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  Speaker 1: all with us and coming up in a moment to
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  Speaker 1: help us celebrate the NFL Draft and the Draftmas holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Is Eric at Hoolme from NFL dot Com. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a mock draft, he's got trades, he's mocked up. You
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about a guy that loves himself some
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  Speaker 1: draftnas Eric at Hoolme does it right? Yeah, probably got
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  Speaker 1: a honey baked ham right now in the.
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  Speaker 3: Oven, probably, Yeah, that just wakes up every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know what I want for lunch today, honey,
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  Speaker 1: a holiday honey baked ham.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, some fruitcake for dessert.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you don't kid yourself at home? Is nutty about fruitcake?
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to your headlines. They are brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Frost Brewed COR's Light for goodness sake,
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  Speaker 1: choose chill. The NFL Draft won't come until April twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: but we had plenty of NFL news here today. Kirk
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  Speaker 1: Cousins has signed with the Raiders, according to Adam Schefter,
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  Speaker 1: and that's going to get a lot of people talking
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  Speaker 1: about what is going on with Fernando Mendoza. Not that
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  Speaker 1: they won't draft Fernando Mendoza, but it might hammer home
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  Speaker 1: some of those discussions that are being held that maybe
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders want to draft Mendoza and then have him
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  Speaker 1: sit for a year behind Cousins. Or maybe they are
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  Speaker 1: entertaining some offers that they cannot resist from teams that
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  Speaker 1: want to get up to number one in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, but let the speculation began also from the
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  Speaker 1: NFL RAMS superstar wide receiver Pooka Nakua. He's been acting
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  Speaker 1: really weird ever since the season came to a close,
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  Speaker 1: and now maybe we understand why. According to his attorney,
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  Speaker 1: Pooka Nakoua has checked into rehab and has been there
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  Speaker 1: for quite some time. So I guess maybe after the
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  Speaker 1: butt biting incident that Pooka Nakua or his family thought, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we've now crossed the line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it's gone too far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so he is in rehab and from what
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  Speaker 1: I've gathered this morning, he's going to be there for
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  Speaker 1: a while. They're really going to try to not shortcut
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  Speaker 1: this thing.
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  Speaker 3: That's probably a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably a good idea, you dub. Springball continues. Demand
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  Speaker 1: Williams has changed from number two to number one college basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Bill self is not retiring at Kansas, so one of
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  Speaker 1: the best in the game will continue, despite his health
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  Speaker 1: concerns and his frustration with the current state of college athletics.
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  Speaker 1: Final Four is going to be ald on Saturday. We
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  Speaker 1: got you covered right here at Sports Radio ninety three
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  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM three o'clock start time. Illinois and Yukon,
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  Speaker 1: Michigan and Arizona will play the night cap. Oh by
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  Speaker 1: the way, I mentioned yesterday that some analytics people were
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  Speaker 1: saying that it's the third greatest matchup in the history
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  Speaker 1: of college basketball, and then I didn't provide who that was.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't just some you know, It wasn't like ed.
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  Speaker 3: Who just went and did some crunch some numbers, right.
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  Speaker 1: And put together a ranking list. It was actually, uh
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  Speaker 1: Ken Palm oh like that. Yeah, the people that everybody
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  Speaker 1: checks in. Yeah yeah, yeah, so like a kind of
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate source. Okay, but it's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: great couple of games on Saturday crack, and we'll take
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  Speaker 1: on the Utah Mammoth tonight at seven o'clock. It's awfully
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  Speaker 1: musty over there at Climate Pledge Arena right now. You
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: know that old dilapidated building.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, I guess we need a new one if we
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  Speaker 4: want to get a basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: What an uninformed statement from a guy that apparently covers
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  Speaker 1: the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: For a living.
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  Speaker 3: I was, I was yelling. I was like, is this
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  Speaker 3: the dumbest thing I've ever heard?
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  Speaker 1: Mariners have a day off after losing yesterday to the
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankees five to three. The Ms off to
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  Speaker 1: a three and four start. Not great, but man, they
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  Speaker 1: have faced some great starting pitching so far, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: it explains why the heart of the order is struggling
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  Speaker 1: so much. They'll try to get well in Anaheim, starting
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow against the Angels. All right, those are your headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Let us celebrate the draft miss holiday with a good friend,
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  Speaker 1: Eric ed Holmes to come on this show regularly. He
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  Speaker 1: writes for NFL dot Com. He does mock drafts. He's
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  Speaker 1: a mockumentarian, that's what he is. He has his mockedorate
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  Speaker 1: in mock drafting. That's what he is.
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  Speaker 3: I would try. He drinks mocktails.
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  Speaker 1: He does while he mock drafts yep, mockedor yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he earned his degree this mocked. Eric at home joins
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  Speaker 1: us right here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Goodness,
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  Speaker 1: talk to you again, Eric.
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  Speaker 2: I'm enjoying a mocktail right now.
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  Speaker 3: Are you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I floated it out there that you were so much
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  Speaker 1: into the Draftmas holiday spirit that maybe you already had
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  Speaker 1: a holiday honey baked ham in the oven for lunch
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  Speaker 1: today because you want to get out ahead of the
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  Speaker 1: holiday traditions.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like like baked ham weather around here. It's
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  Speaker 2: like forty three in raining, so I could certainly use that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish I had one in my oven right now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, it's that time, that time of the year,
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  Speaker 1: and so we just spend the entire month addressing rumors
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  Speaker 1: and speculation until we actually get to April twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll just start with the headline here today. What
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  Speaker 1: do you read into the kirk Cousins signing with the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders here this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think it was. You know, it's been
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  Speaker 2: kind of rumored for a couple of weeks, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: where was Kirk going to land? And I think it
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  Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense. And you know, I mean
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  Speaker 2: Clint Kobiac kind of suggested that, you know, a rookie
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  Speaker 2: quarterback may not be ready to start right away. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: we know who that rookie might be and watched him
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  Speaker 2: yesterday as pro day for Ana Mendoza. But yeah, I mean, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I think just having a veteran option is a nice deal.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, having somewhat of a promising quarterback room
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  Speaker 2: is pretty new for them too, at least in recent years.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, no, obviously it's it's a good support staff there,
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  Speaker 2: I think, and you know, I'll be fascinated to see
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  Speaker 2: how they build up the rest of the offense. And
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  Speaker 2: obviously Kirk would love an opportunity to start somewhere. Probably
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  Speaker 2: not gonna happen, but who knows the way Clint's talking,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, perhaps Cousins gets the few first few games
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  Speaker 2: of the year until they feel Fernando's ready. I don't
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  Speaker 2: really think that's the way it's going to be, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, you never know. I mean years ago, cart
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  Speaker 2: Palmer staff for an entire year as the number one pick.
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  Speaker 2: I know, it's a different generation. But crazy things can happen,
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  Speaker 2: and it is the Raiders. There's always that element of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't hate the idea of a rookie, even
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  Speaker 1: a number one overall pick, sitting a year. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's proved beneficial to a lot of the all time
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  Speaker 1: greats to do that. Do you have any room in
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  Speaker 1: your mock drafting mind for the possibility the Fernando Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: won't be taken number one? Or is this thing set
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  Speaker 1: in stone?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I haven't heard any real buzz or talk. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I've been making a few calls recently to teams picking
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  Speaker 2: a little later in round one to see what they've
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  Speaker 2: heard about what's going on at the at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the draft, and you know, there hasn't really been
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  Speaker 2: any discussion of that. I know there was some speculation
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  Speaker 2: around the combine that, you know, the Jets could make
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  Speaker 2: a grandfather offer, the Cardinals could sweep in and try
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  Speaker 2: to blow them away or something, But I just I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what it would take to get them to
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  Speaker 2: move off that spot. You know, they had ten people
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  Speaker 2: there yesterday. They sent the GM, the head coach, and
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  Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator, you know, I mean they were there
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  Speaker 2: and watched a good performance. I thought Fernando drove the
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  Speaker 2: ball down the field. Well, he didn't have a ton
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  Speaker 2: of deep throws, but when he did, there was one
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  Speaker 2: that went sixty plus in the air and through it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, seemed to have poison command out there only
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  Speaker 2: one off target pass that I saw, though, Again it
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  Speaker 2: was a very crisp showing, and I just think it
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  Speaker 2: would take such a big offer for them to get
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  Speaker 2: off this pick. And given the way that the Crosby
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  Speaker 2: thing fell apart already, you know, they're probably better off
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  Speaker 2: just staying and picking Mendos if they have conviction in them.
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  Speaker 1: Eric at Holmes with us. He writes for NFL dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: Of course he spends a lot of time talking about
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  Speaker 1: the draft there at NFL dot com and old friend
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  Speaker 1: of the radio show here and he's with us. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to follow him, do so at Eric Underscore
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  Speaker 1: ed Holme ed h O. L M. As we celebrate
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  Speaker 1: with an old friend this draft miss Holiday Day number two,
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  Speaker 1: just three weeks away from the actual NFL Draft Day.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about your thoughts on the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: You got two articles out fresh hot off the presses
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  Speaker 1: here in the last week. I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: your trade article that you wrote, because you mocked something
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  Speaker 1: up for the Seahawks. You seem to be of the
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  Speaker 1: mind of most of us here in Seattle that with
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  Speaker 1: only four picks in the draft, John Schneider just can't
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  Speaker 1: live in that world, and that he'll move out of
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  Speaker 1: that thirty second slot. So tell us what you concocted here,
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  Speaker 1: what you came up with.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, my editor pitched the story that how about
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  Speaker 2: five trades that make sense, like five trades that that
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  Speaker 2: could happen right that that they're within the reasonable range
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  Speaker 2: of exchange picks. And I thought, well, this could be
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  Speaker 2: a stretch only because this is not a draft where
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  Speaker 2: you know you have you don't have a feeling that
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be a ton of trades. I think
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  Speaker 2: something with Ty Simpson a few other guys. But as
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  Speaker 2: it went along, I found an enough spots, including Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: where I felt like, Okay, I can see this right
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  Speaker 2: and so yeah, just what you're thinking, which is four
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  Speaker 2: picks one after the top hundred. You know, limited resources,
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  Speaker 2: Do they have a ton of needs and a ton
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  Speaker 2: of spots they're itching a fill? Probably not, But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think given the way that they've used those Day
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  Speaker 2: three picks in the recent past, and going back even farther,
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  Speaker 2: that's been a very important spot for the Seahawks and
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  Speaker 2: John Schneider. That's it's an area where they do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good work. So I would be surprised that
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  Speaker 2: they didn't end up with more than one Day three selection.
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  Speaker 2: I think trading out of thirty two makes a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sense. You know, you're gonna stay up and watch
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  Speaker 2: the draft, be prepared. You're gonna have to wait a
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  Speaker 2: while a and then be You may be disappointed, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a reasonable possibility, especially if there's a
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  Speaker 2: run on edge rushers. If they're not prepared to draft
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  Speaker 2: a running back, it's thirty two if they if their
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  Speaker 2: guy isn't there. I know they do the draft a
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  Speaker 2: little differently than other people. It's obviously had success. I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be shocked by anything, but I think a trade.
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  Speaker 1: Down as possible. Yeah, I think it's very possible. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering where you are with Ty Simpson because now
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to see everybody say that he's falling, may
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  Speaker 1: even fall out of the first round. I mean, to me, Eric,
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  Speaker 1: that's the ideal scenario for the Seahawks if they're wanting
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  Speaker 1: to get out of pick number thirty two, is to
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  Speaker 1: have Simpson still on the board. And I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: a team or two that would like to have that
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  Speaker 1: fifth year option on a quarterback if they're going to
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  Speaker 1: draft one. Do you think that there is a scenario
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  Speaker 1: where those worlds come together that Simpson's still on the
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  Speaker 1: board for the Seahawks at thirty two to trade out
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  Speaker 1: of that spot to a quarterback needy franchise.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if it is, it would be a team that's
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it could be the Jets, but
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  Speaker 2: it would be a team wanting to leap frog the
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  Speaker 2: Jets at thirty three too, you know, Arizona, thirty four,
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh maybe. You know, there's other possibilities. Cleveland certainly has
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  Speaker 2: the ammunition, but yeah, you kind of look at how
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  Speaker 2: that second round lines up, and look, dropping down one
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  Speaker 2: spot wouldn't be the you know, I mean having an
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  Speaker 2: entire night to reset your draft board, Like if you
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  Speaker 2: move down to thirty three or thirty four, you basically
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  Speaker 2: get to decide over a period at twelve hours you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna draft. You know, more than that twenty four hours almost,
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  Speaker 2: so it's a good position to be in. Even moving
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  Speaker 2: down those two slots can give you a you know,
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  Speaker 2: a shocking level of security and sense of you know,
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  Speaker 2: we get to really plan this thing out instead of
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  Speaker 2: making a pick in ten minutes here, So that's a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny with Simpson, you know, I feel like there's
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  Speaker 2: a campaign out there to either boost this draft stock
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  Speaker 2: artificially or to completely tank it. You know, it's been
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  Speaker 2: kind of funny to hear the last reports in the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of weeks or so. So hard to say
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  Speaker 2: exactly what's going to happen. But in a draft where
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  Speaker 2: mendoz Is won, Simpson is probably two in most people's boards,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of unknowns at that spot quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: I think he'll still do pretty well for himself.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the Orlatsky effect, is what that's called. That? Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Eric at Holme is with us from the NFL
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  Speaker 1: dot Com. He's got another fresh article out talking about
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  Speaker 1: he's supplied the top two picks that every NFL team
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  Speaker 1: has and who the ideal pit picks should be. And
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  Speaker 1: I love that Eric makes this very clear. He's not
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  Speaker 1: trying to read the room. He is trying to in
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  Speaker 1: his own assessment, these are the two guys that they
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  Speaker 1: should take that I like for the team, and not
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  Speaker 1: trying to, you know, try to lean on rumors that
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  Speaker 1: he's hearing from out of the Seahawks facility more of
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  Speaker 1: who he thinks are good fits for the Seahawks. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised. I mean, I'm not surprised that
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  Speaker 1: you have Avian Terrell, the cornerback out of Clemson. That
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  Speaker 1: seems that's a name I've heard a lot. But I've
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  Speaker 1: also heard Jendarian Price, who you have going to the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks at sixty four, But I've heard him mention a
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  Speaker 1: lot to the Seahawks at thirty two. So do you
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  Speaker 1: think Price could I mean, obviously you do. Why would
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  Speaker 1: Price fall that far? What is it that you see
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  Speaker 1: that might make him available at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: second round?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very much like quarterback, running back is one of
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  Speaker 2: those positions that's viewed as a clear number one guy.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, Jeremiah Love from Notre Dame his teammate. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: Janerim Price could have gone anywhere else in the country
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  Speaker 2: and may have helped himself who knows had he been
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  Speaker 2: more of a feature back, but he did enough there
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  Speaker 2: to show people that he can play. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: got a chance to be a top fifty pick, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that it's guaranteed. There's still kind of
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  Speaker 2: a stigma against the running back position. I know the
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: run game has obviously cycled back into the league, and
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I think we're back on an up swing with the
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  Speaker 2: run game in the league. But backs themselves aren't always
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  Speaker 2: directly the beneficiaries of that, so he could slide again.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the question of does another team like Mike
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  Speaker 2: Washington Junior from Arkansas, you know, Jonah Coleman from Washington,
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  Speaker 2: I think will go a little lower. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: there are a couple backs that could possibly slip ahead
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  Speaker 2: of him, not many, but one or two. And again,
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  Speaker 2: it's a position that I think people are going to
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  Speaker 2: slow play a little bit this year, so that it
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  Speaker 2: surprised me when I went through my simulation and he
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  Speaker 2: was still there at sixty four. I thought there might
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  Speaker 2: be a spot along the way that another team would
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  Speaker 2: scoop him up. If he's there or within a short
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  Speaker 2: pitch of there, I think they could easily move up
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  Speaker 2: and get him. So yeah, I mean part of this
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  Speaker 2: was definitely me saying here's what I think are good fits.
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  Speaker 2: But you also have to keep the team what they
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  Speaker 2: look for in mind. You're not going to be drafting
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  Speaker 2: guys that don't fit their system obviously, so you do
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  Speaker 2: have to incorporate a little bit of just a sort
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  Speaker 2: of knowledge of what they want to do.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Eric had almar guest here on the chucking back in
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the morning. Well, let's talk big picture, then, who is
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: your favorite guy in this draft? I mean that doesn't
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: mean necessarily the best one, but who's the guy that
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Eric ed Holm is just like, I really like this player,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: and I know they're talking about him going fifteenth, but
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: this is the one that's going to really click in
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Put your put it on the line here
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: for us at home, all right.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I was gonna say Sunny South from Ohio State.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's probably gonna be a top five pick,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: but that's failed down may go a little lower just
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: because safety. You know, people aren't dying to take safeties
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: in the top ten. But a pretty special player nonetheless,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And boy, if Jordan Tyson from Arizona State could ever
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: stay healthy he could be a phenomenal receiver in this league.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's got the full package. It's just a
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: matter of eight consistency B helps you know, those are
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: the two big questions, and I'll be fascinated to see
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: where he goes because he could be the first receiver
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: taking off the board. He could be the fourth. I
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: mean that that's the reality, is that he's such a
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: wild car or because of the injury factor and just
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: a little bit of consistency here and there. But yeah,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's a really good tight end class.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I like a lot of guys if you want to
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: go really deep. The one who's fascinated me has been
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Oscar delt at Georgia. I mean, for a guy who
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: had forty four catches in thirty three games, I think
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: he can play in this league and be he could
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: catch fifty passes in an NFL season as things go right.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I just think he was sorely under used there and
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: a much better athlete than that they were able to
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: display with him.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: What do you make of this Makai Lemon situation. I mean,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: just a year ago, Shador Sanders was the talk of
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the draft because he failed the interview if you will,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: and tumbled all the way down into the fifth round.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy seems to be taking that even
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: further this year. And I realize that he is a
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: first round talent, but he seems to be bombing every
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: opportunity to try to impress people with his character. He
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: seems actually indifferent to trying to impress people with his character.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: How do you think that affects him on Draft night?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't heard anything quite that strong. I mean,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: unless there's something specific. I mean, I know that there
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: was some talk about what happened at the combine and stuff,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: but was there another incident or something I'm not aware of.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Or well, just like the acting like he didn't want
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to answer any questions. And then he apparently held a
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: press conference at USC this past week to tell everybody, no,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that's who I am. That's me. Yeah, No, I'm a
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: guy that is trying to sabotage anyone's the belief that
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I have a personality. Yes, that's me.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, I think some of that stuff can be,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: you know, used against the players sometimes, and I think
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: the interview process obviously sometimes with those combine interviews, you know,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: they're fifteen minutes of shotgun dating, whatever you want to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: call it. Some of these guys, after they've been through
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: a lot of them, they just kind of mentally check
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: out a little bit, and that can't affect their draft status.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: If you're going into a job interview, you look like
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: you want to be there, you're not giving them much.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: They're going to say, why would I hire this guy?
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: So it's possible. You know, those things do matter. I
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: don't know how much emphasis is put on it, but
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I do know it's part of the equation. And obviously
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I think he does have somewhat of a different personality,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: can come off as appathy maybe, or but I haven't
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: spent enough time around him to really kind of know. Okay,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you know this is what we're dealing with, or you
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: don't have to worry. And I haven't heard those specific
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: complaints come from NFL teams, but I also haven't asked
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: about him in the last couple of weeks, So you
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: know it's possible. It's bigger than I'm aware of.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well, I hate to end on that. One.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Kind of caught you off guard with that, but we
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: are out of time. Great to have you on Interesting Reads.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Both of those articles. And where's only three weeks away.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: It's almost here, man, Yeah, I can't wait.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: And it should be fun even if you guys have
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: to wait a little bit. That's a good thing. You
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: want to ring and it's well deserved.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll just sit over here on our championship thrown
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and waited out, No big deal, Eric.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: That's the way to do it, right.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll eat some champ Well, it just gives us
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to eat some more championship chips, you know, and.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Championships.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, some championships some call them you know, you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and then on Friday we can you know, zip some
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: championship beer. It's fine, fine for some champ chip chimps.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Shampain him ship.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Harder to work in. Well, enjoy it all, man, Thank
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you very much for joining us. We appreciate you Eric
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and joining us right here on Chucking Buck in the morning.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And of course you can follow Eric and get all.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, he writes a lot. He writes a lot
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of stuff, and it's not just mock drafts. He always
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: takes a couple of different angles with it. Uh So,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: if you want to check out the entire articles of
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the entirety of both articles then do so he can
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: follow I'm at Eric underscore at home eed h O
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: l M all right, coming up next. Oh, I needed
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to prep people because we've only done this in the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: eighth o'clock hour in the past. We have a segment
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that we launched a couple of weeks ago and we
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: like it. It's called SUPU and it's pretty much just
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you asking the show a question, and it can be anything.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Be draft related, since it is draft miss it could
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: be baseball related, it could be personal. You can dive
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: into our dark pass if you would like, but the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: text that we're asking for has to begin with sup
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: blank yep, tell me about this. So you say, Sup, Ashley,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: tell me about this in your life or sup Chuck,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: tell me about this? So four nine four five one.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: You can also use the YouTube chat as well. Oh,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: listening on YouTube, you can text in there.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Look at that forgot all about I just keep forgetting
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: that I'm on camera.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah you are looking good.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I don't. Well, that's nice of you too. Live. Yeah,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: all right. Sup is next on Sports Radio ninety three
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM, Ashley and I allowing you to pry
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: into our professional and personal lives, maybe even into our
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: thoughts on the sports world at large, or this the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: intimate stuff that we cover here in Seattle. It's entirely
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: up to you. Four nine four five one. Ask us
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: your question, Begin it with Sup, direct it at someone specifically, Sup, Ashley, Sup, Chuck,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and then ask your question. I think I heard Talala
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Brasort casino which has drafting sports book. It's got all
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: sorts of table games and slots and restaurants and dining
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and all. I mean, it's just a carnival of this
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Morgasboard Smorgasboard of Adventure. But I hear they're considering putting
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: a SUP table right there in the middle of the casino.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: You can just walk by and ask them what so right?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I believe it's called the concierge desk. Is that what
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: that is? Yeahaha?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Sup?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Sup with the blackjack dealer over there on table forty two?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Why am I not winning?
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Hey?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Sup?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: With this ticket?
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Why didn't you con cover? Hey? Yeah? Sup?
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: With really good food, some great drinks.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: SUP with supper. All right, let's get to the SUPs,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: if you will.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Let's get to the subs. Sup, Chuck.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, at what point do we have to start worrying
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: about the top of the Mariners lineup not producing?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It's a long way away. Yeah, you know what, I
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: have this for ABC's.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Okay, we can talk about it then try to save
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: it for them, or should I bet?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like I need to answer the sup question.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I'll just put it this way, that it's way too early.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I keep pointing this out. I mean, it's the equivalent
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of being in the third quarter of the first game
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of the NFL season. So if Sam Darnold was sitting
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: there in game number one on a Wednesday, and Sam
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: has thrown no touchdowns in one interception and we're trailing,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, would we freak out at that point? I
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: realized some of you probably would. But are we going
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: to open Monday up? We're gonna start tweeting out there,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Like I guess all the critics were right. You know,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it's just so early, and baseball's just one of those
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: games I would have preferred had Julio not gotten off
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to a slow start and Josh and Cal but they
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: are and there's just a long way to go. But
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: what I'll save for ABC's is also factor in the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: pitching that we faced so far this year. I'm not
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: making excuses for them. But if you're not in your
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: zone and it's cold, yeah, and the regular season has
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: begun and you're facing, you know, some of the best
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: starting pitching that the sport has to offer, maybe there's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: some reasons why they're off to slow start. So I'm
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: not worried at all.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: All Right, I like it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: If the question is when, Okay, if we're still sitting
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: here twenty five games in and our three best hitters
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: can't get out of their own way, yeah, then I'm
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: gonna get concerned.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: We've got this one from the three six Oh sup
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: ash I was visiting my in laws in eastern Ohio
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: and driving in the Youngstown, Ohio area, and I swear
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I heard you as the DJ on the station playing music.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Am I going crazy? No, you are not going crazy.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: That was me in eastern Ohio. And I'm also in
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: southern Illinois and lots of small small towns.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I know I wasn't asked this question, but people
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: should finally find out Ashley has several families. I do, yes, yep.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: And I spend time working in radio in each city
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: where my family's right right.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Your husbands are all great, they.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Are, and they go buy the names five iron, six iron,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: four iron and wedge and.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Eric. I love that you will only date guys who
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: will accept golf club nicknames. Uh, why don't you tell
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: them the real reason while you're on there.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just have other another several jobs. Yeah, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: one of them is that. Yeah, I am a music DJ.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: I work on KZ okay here in Seattle, I am
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: in Oregon, in Portland, I'm in San Diego. I am Sacramento,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Vegas until Friday. Yeah yeah, so and then i'm and
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: then I work for another coming that has all little markets,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: so that's like thirty five or forty markets.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I do love that somebody that listens to you here
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: just happens being Youngstown, Ohio, and then you just.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Pop on there.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I am that's pretty cool.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been to Youngstown once, went into a roadhouse, oh,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a Texas roadhouse, okay, and kind of thought I was
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: gonna get murdered. Yeah, well yeah, but I think I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: was just exaggerating that in my head. All right, what
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: else do we have?
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Sup?
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Chuck and Ash?
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: If you had an entire weekend with no sports to
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: watch or talk about on Monday?
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: What would you do?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's and I'm just staying at home right, not traveling,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: not traveling, no sports at all. But that's a rarity.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I love to write, so I'd probably use that to write.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: And I certainly love going outside, so I would probably
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: what I would do is I would get in my RV.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I would probably go to a wonderful like scenic Seattle town,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: you know, and then I'd probably spend the weekend writing
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and enjoying nature.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: That's probably what I would do. What about you?
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: I would definitely be binge watching some reality television. Oh,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: I'd be doing house projects, probably working on softball with
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Palmer in the backyard. And then i'd have a happy
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: hour or two.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think you're
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: doing enough for yourself. Yeah, it sounds like you're like,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Fringe watching reality TV. It's not hard work that much.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: All Right? What else we got we've got?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Where did I just lose that one?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Slup, chuck, give me your Martini, specs, brands and ratios.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I go, Well, Unicorn has taken that over. She's the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: bartender on martini night, and well we just kept I
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: pretty much just drink vodka in a cold glass, Okay,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I mean it's practically what it's come to. But she's Celiac,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: so we had to find a gluten free vodka, which
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: most vodka is. Yeah, so we do Chowpan and I
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: wouldn't go with anything else. And people always think that's
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: like fancy and expensive. It's not. It's like one of
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the cheaper ones. But we go showpan and and then
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: three blue cheese olives and you eat one per martini.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I like that, okay. And so you start off your
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: taste buds with the blue cheese olive and then you drink,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and then you let the other two sit, and then
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: you just go through the three olives and your three
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: drinks by the end of the night.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: So that's the plan. And there's just a little bit
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: of dirt in there, like a little bit of olive juice,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: but really about as tiny amount as you can imagine.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And that's it. No vermooth nothing, all right.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So vodka and a cold glass.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah, shaking with ice, always shaking, shaking, not starred,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: always shaking, but cold glass filled with vodka and olives
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and blue cheese. That's that's my drink.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: We got another one for you here, step Chuck, new
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: baseball fan here. I'm sure this is a dumb question,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: but what the hell does it mean to pull the
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: ball or hit it the other way?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Stupid? I'm glad you're asking that. I you know sometimes
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, we want to talk up here, but we
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: all obviously don't. I mean, we want to welcome new
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: sports fans, though I want to learn. I'd like to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: get on board. I don't know what they're talking about.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Pulling just means okay, so you're if you're a left
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: handed batter, okay, and you hit it to the right
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: side of second base, okay, So that means that you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: are The term is as opposed to pushing it the
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: other way. You are pulling your hands through the ball
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and you are hitting it to the right side of
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: second base, So you could pull it to the first basement,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: second baseman, right field, or right center field gap. That's
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: pulling the baseball, okay, And so they don't call it pushing. Yeah,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: when you hit it the opposite way, I don't think
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: that it's as common a term as pulling, but that's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: what they mean. And if you're a right handed hitter,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that means you're pulling between on the left side of
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: second base, so you're hitting the ball of the shortstop,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: third baseman, vicinity, left field, and left center field. So
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: that's what pulling me seem.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: That's a good description, and now someone's learned something.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: I like that and there are no dumb questions when
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: you're trying to learn about sports.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Completely different term in football. Pulling in football is that
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you are an offensive lineman who loops around to the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: side where you're sending the play ready to smash somebody.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Oh right, fair, here's our last one, sup weirdos. Going
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: to the Mariners game for humpy Plush night? What should
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: I get inside the ferry boat?
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I think you gotta go fish and chips.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I love that entire Yes, me too.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: It made me laugh really hard.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: But first of all, congrats on getting the humpy plush
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: and I would go fish and chips.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: In the ferry boat.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can go nachos, but that just seems like
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: a lot of nachos and I can't eat cheese.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: So okay, what is the faerry boat Oh, it's that
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you mean the actual faerry No, that they serve.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: And then you can take it home and it floats.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: They can play with it in the bathtub.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, and they serve how much on them?
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: You think you can get nachos, you can get fish,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: and chips, you can get I think there's like three
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: or four options that you can get inside the ferry boat.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Wow, Martini's probably.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, who doesn't want a ferry boat full of
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Martinis with blue cheese alaves?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: How do you enjoy Humpy the plushy without Martini in you?
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Or several or several h I love that every part
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: of that question. Right, let's go to the ABC's of
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the MS. Thanks for your questions. We appreciate it, and
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I will dive a little deeper into exactly what our
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: hitters have been up against in the first seven games
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: of the year. Now making excuses for them, but might
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: stand out as a reason or two. Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three kJ r FM, No Bucky Jacobson today.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's sorely missing the abcs of the MS.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty much the best thing in his life.
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  Speaker 3: Well except for trivia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we could even do trivia today.
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  Speaker 3: I know, yeah, yeah, really sad.
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  Speaker 1: Because somebody isn't at work today.
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  Speaker 3: Who's that who?
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  Speaker 1: Who? The game is built around on his insistence? So
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  Speaker 1: we'll we'll get through it. We got to wait. Basically
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  Speaker 1: do a daily Mariner segment. I use the alphabet as
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  Speaker 1: my guide, and who knows where the alphabet takes us,
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  Speaker 1: but hopefully it'll take us to some interesting subjects. And
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  Speaker 1: we left off yesterday had the letter J and Jay
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  Speaker 1: is for judgment. Judgment is made. Let's not be so
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  Speaker 1: quick to rush to judgment on the offense so far
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  Speaker 1: this season. I mean, yeah, we got to get better production,
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  Speaker 1: especially out of our big three in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the order. They're just off the bad starts. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't start worrying about that for another fifteen to
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  Speaker 1: twenty games before I start worrying about it or wondering,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what's happened. But I will say this, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say this as an excuse. It's
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  Speaker 1: just baseball is baseball, and you go in and hitters
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  Speaker 1: go into slumps, and then they get hot, and you
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  Speaker 1: just hope that your three best hitters aren't all slumping
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  Speaker 1: at the exact same time because It's hard to win
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  Speaker 1: baseball games that way, and that's where we're at right now.
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  Speaker 1: We've got seven games into this season and Cal and
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  Speaker 1: Julio and Josh just aren't hitting bottom line. But maybe
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  Speaker 1: we do give a little bit of credit to who
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  Speaker 1: we are facing. The Cleveland Guardians and the New York
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  Speaker 1: Yankees have some of the best starting pitching that the
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  Speaker 1: world has to offer. And if you think that we
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  Speaker 1: struggled against Tanner, Biby, Gavin Williams, Max Freed, and Cam Schlittler,
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  Speaker 1: well you should see what the other teams that they
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  Speaker 1: faced did against them. Gavin Williams just baffled the Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers, you know that team that's supposed to win
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  Speaker 1: a thousand games this year. Seven shutout innings for Gavin Williams,
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  Speaker 1: Tanner byby four innings, one run allowed. The night before
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  Speaker 1: Parker Messick, who he did not face, six innings, no
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  Speaker 1: runs allowed against the Dodgers. So Cleveland's starting pitchers against
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers, the healthy Los Angeles Dodgers allowed
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  Speaker 1: one run over seventeen innings.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say too. And it's not like
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  Speaker 4: they were benching people. This was Otani and Tucker and
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  Speaker 4: Betts and Freeman and Smith and Hernandez.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it was their starters.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Yankee starters gave up one run on
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  Speaker 1: the entire series to the San Francisco Giants, same thing,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen innings, Freed Schlittler, who we faced both of those guys,
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  Speaker 1: so combined Biby, Williams, Schlittler and Freed against other opponents
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  Speaker 1: the Giants and the Dodgers allowed one run over eleven
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  Speaker 1: twenty two and a two thirds innings. That's pretty good, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we scored six times off of Bibey and Williams combined.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, we've got we got three important hitters off
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  Speaker 1: the very slow starts. But you never know what can
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  Speaker 1: keep a hitter from getting hot. And I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: the number one thing face really great starting pitching, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And so we haven't gotten off the mat. Those three
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  Speaker 1: guys specifically have not gotten off the mat this point.
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  Speaker 1: But they're going up against very good rest and they
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  Speaker 1: pin their shoulders to the mat. And I do believe
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  Speaker 1: a day off. I can't believe I'm saying this. The
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  Speaker 1: team looked like it needed a day off. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're the only team in baseball that's played all seven
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  Speaker 1: games to start the season. So they have a day
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  Speaker 1: off and they're going to go to Los Angeles, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not here to tell you the Angels have terrible
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  Speaker 1: starting pitching. This reed Detmers kid seems to be having
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  Speaker 1: a great spring, but certainly this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: walking apart compared to what the Mariners have gone up
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  Speaker 1: against thus far. And those same pitchers that seem to
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  Speaker 1: dominate the Mariners more so dominated the Dodgers and the
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  Speaker 1: Giants lineup, so they're on their game. Hitting is hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's particularly hard at the beginning of the year. It's
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  Speaker 1: particularly hard at the beginning of the year when it's cold.
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  Speaker 1: And so right now, pitching that we've faced has looked
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  Speaker 1: awfully dominant, and I suspect that on Friday we'll see
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  Speaker 1: a couple of those guys, maybe not all three of them,
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  Speaker 1: but I think a couple of those guys are getting
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  Speaker 1: on track. And Cal kind of already feels like he's
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  Speaker 1: getting on track. He's had a couple of big hits
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  Speaker 1: in the span of three games against the Yankees. So
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  Speaker 1: I think we're fine, don't worry about it, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: give a little bit of a credit to the opponent.
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  Speaker 1: And then kay is for Kirby, they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to let him challenge some pitches. I mean, I don't want.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what it is about teammates
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  Speaker 1: right now being comfortable with calling out other teammates. But
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  Speaker 1: we've already seen Paul Skeens stare down O'Neil Cruz in
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  Speaker 1: center field in Game one. We've already seen Matt Chapman
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  Speaker 1: tell his first baseman to catch the effing ball yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and the Giants game, and last night, Kirby threw a
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  Speaker 1: little bit out there, like we got to challenge that pitch.
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  Speaker 1: I know it was a strike, it was on the corner.
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  Speaker 1: And the Mariners have the rule that Cowl's going to
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  Speaker 1: make those decisions, and I think that's going to suit
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  Speaker 1: everybody and the starting rotation and probably the bullpen just fine,
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  Speaker 1: except for one guy. And that's going to be George.
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  Speaker 1: And when George gets rattled or George thinks he's been wronged,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when George thinks he's been wrong by an umpire,
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  Speaker 1: it gets bad. If George starts thinking he's going to
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  Speaker 1: get wrong by his own catcher, his you know, his
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  Speaker 1: battery mate, his pal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if we want George living. I think
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  Speaker 1: that at first we're gonna have to give George. I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody would understand that in the starting rotation. Just
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  Speaker 1: let George be able to challenge. And if he builds
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  Speaker 1: up a statistical resume that says I'm not good at it,
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  Speaker 1: at least you have evidence to show him. But George
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  Speaker 1: really wants to be in command when he is on
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  Speaker 1: the mound, and he does not like others taking away
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  Speaker 1: from his causing him to not have success umpires, fielders
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  Speaker 1: and certainly catchers. I mean, he did not want Sebby's
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  Speaker 1: Avala catching him a couple of years ago. You could
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  Speaker 1: see it in his face. Okay, and so I think
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  Speaker 1: that you might have to make an exception, and I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody else will understand. George, I think is going
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  Speaker 1: to have to be allowed to challenge until he proves
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  Speaker 1: he shouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then if he proves he is great at it,
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  Speaker 4: you keep letting him do it. If he proves he's
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  Speaker 4: he's really bad at it, then all right, he had
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  Speaker 4: his chance.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and cal think about what Kyle told us a
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  Speaker 1: spring training like Cal really wants to save them. He
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  Speaker 1: thinks that totally, and I agree with him. Needs to
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  Speaker 1: be situational, and I can't have George challenging things when
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  Speaker 1: you're down three to zero in the count to try
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  Speaker 1: to get back into the count with the base is
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  Speaker 1: empty and two outs. Can't have that. And so, but
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  Speaker 1: I also think George is gonna have to learn that
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  Speaker 1: lesson because if you tell him he can't do it,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows that the option out there is out
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  Speaker 1: there to do it, and that he thinks that Cal's
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  Speaker 1: not getting the job done for him, then you might
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  Speaker 1: not have as an effective George. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of speculation about this, but I think
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to have to be made an exception
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  Speaker 1: over there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's early, so this is the time to
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  Speaker 4: do it. It's in the season. Let's figure it out,
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  Speaker 4: right with some trial and error, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And if he struggles with it or he takes
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  Speaker 1: you both your challenges away, now you've got ammunition to say, see,
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  Speaker 1: we can't do it this way. Yeah, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to play ball with us here on this. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't until he fails at it. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 1: going to accept that he's not allowed to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Just my two cents, Yeah, all right, Speaking of two cents,
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  Speaker 1: I got three or four cents on Colt Emerson. When
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  Speaker 1: is he going to be activated? We'll discuss it next.
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