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Chuck & Buck 6-1 Hour 2: Trade season is here! SPurs vs Knicks and here come the NY Mets. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh so excited right now. You know, everything that we
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  Speaker 1: do for win again is a special and I feel
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: special right now.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's really special to sweep a team.
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  Speaker 3: You guys do that against the Athletics and then you
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  Speaker 3: do it again, much more difficult, back.
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  Speaker 2: To back sweeps. You know what's happening right now with.
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  Speaker 3: This team and anything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're spancial, Like I said, we compete
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  Speaker 1: even like we missed two of the best katers on
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  Speaker 1: the line up, we still compete every day and yours.
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  Speaker 1: We we try to do one hundred percent of the field.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the buye like the fans bringing every day.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we play for and we try to do
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  Speaker 1: the best. So thank you guys for.
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  Speaker 2: Bring the mon the energy, the.
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  Speaker 1: Energy every day. So keep it bringing and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Almost said momentum. I think that's so.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I gotta have that part the vibes
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  Speaker 4: bringing in the.
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  Speaker 2: Actually doesn't want me to say that word. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: ignore that word.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, seven o'clock hour, good Monday morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, check that great Monday morning
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 5: Chuck Poal, Ashley Ryan with you as we roll into
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  Speaker 5: our second hour here today, Spencer Hawes joining us later
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  Speaker 5: at nine o'clock. We've got Corbyn Smith starting our one
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  Speaker 5: series today, our Seahawks one series at eight o'clock. Also
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  Speaker 5: ABC's of the EM's Gone Fishing, and so many other
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  Speaker 5: things to tackle on today's radio show. But we first
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  Speaker 5: get to your headlines to start the hour, and they
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  Speaker 5: Victor Roblaze with a game winning RBI infield single Heraldo
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  Speaker 5: Peroma Perdomo. Excuse me, he tried to smother a groundball
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  Speaker 5: up the middle, but even if he would have caught
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  Speaker 5: it cleanly, him leaving his feet probably wasn't going to
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  Speaker 5: have time to get up and throw out a speedy
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  Speaker 5: Randy a Rose Arena scoring from third base. The Mariners
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  Speaker 5: win in ten innings over the the Arizona Diamondbacks Sunday
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  Speaker 5: to complete a sweep. Three to two was the final score.
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  Speaker 5: Roblays with the game winning hit the piggyback. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 5: really hate to break it to all of you that
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  Speaker 5: hate it so much, but it worked really well again
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  Speaker 5: for a second game in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Literally almost better than the last time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: One point six seven era between Bryce Miller and Luis
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  Speaker 5: Castillo over the course of the three piggyback outings, and
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  Speaker 5: you didn't have to use your bullpen in either of
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  Speaker 5: the last two outings that produced victories.
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  Speaker 2: And so they're not going to do it again for
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  Speaker 2: a while.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds like they're going to adjust to a six
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  Speaker 5: man rotation at least for a couple more turns through
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  Speaker 5: the rotation. So you're not gonna have to live with
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  Speaker 5: a piggyback for a while, if in fact you are
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  Speaker 5: just so against it.
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  Speaker 4: Just because we don't know why.
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  Speaker 5: Again, not a permanent solution, yeah, but it certainly did
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  Speaker 5: get used effectively yesterday and the Mariners win at three
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  Speaker 5: to two and ten innings, so they are two games
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  Speaker 5: over five hundred. They are two and a half games
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  Speaker 5: up in the American League West. They won six straight games,
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  Speaker 5: and they put that streak on the line tonight at
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  Speaker 5: home against the New York Mets, who are also playing
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  Speaker 5: their best baseball of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, something's got to din.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be the Mets give all the runs to us.
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  Speaker 5: Austin Warren will be an opener starter for the New
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  Speaker 5: York Mets, and then Emerson Hancock will pitch for Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: First pitch is at six forty. We'll talk about all
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  Speaker 5: of that stuff a little later on in the show.
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  Speaker 5: It was a bad day for UCLA Spring sports yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: my goodness. Both there highly ranked softball team and baseball
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  Speaker 5: teams were eliminated from NCAA tournament play. The softball team
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  Speaker 5: ousted before the final four could be played today it
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  Speaker 5: will feature Texas Tennessee, Alabama and Texas Tech. Meanwhile, the
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  Speaker 5: baseball team doesn't even make it out of the regionals,
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  Speaker 5: even though they were ranked number one in America, So
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  Speaker 5: we won't get to see Rock Chelaski play anymore baseball
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  Speaker 5: at the college level. Next stop for him is the
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  Speaker 5: number one overall pick in the MLB draft.
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  Speaker 2: But Bruins had a rough day yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: No, and you hate to see it.
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  Speaker 2: Right, your heart break it I can see in your face.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was real sad for him, especially for the
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  Speaker 4: men to lose to Saint Mary's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Saint Mary's. Yeah, for them.
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  Speaker 4: To have had I think they had eight losses all
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  Speaker 4: season long and Saint Mary's had twenty six losses.
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  Speaker 2: All season long. Yeah, and then that one important win
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  Speaker 2: right there.
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  Speaker 5: Saint Mary's considered like a big program, like like UCLA caliber.
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  Speaker 4: I would have to say, no, chuck, Oh, it's so
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  Speaker 4: that probably stings. It probably hurts extra, which is a
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  Speaker 4: real bummer for them and the softball uniforms. I just
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  Speaker 4: have to say, I'm glad I don't have to look
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  Speaker 4: at him anymore. There were a lot happening there.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lot going on. Yeah, they had a couple
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  Speaker 5: of great power though they do. I did enjoy watching
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  Speaker 5: me both some baseball and some softball over the week,
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  Speaker 5: maybe more so than ever.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and the softball even had a little controversy with
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  Speaker 4: the Tennessee and the Texas Tech and the handshake and all.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they're just like, hey, we're going to take
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  Speaker 4: the spotlight for a while.
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  Speaker 5: Let's bring it on storm and action tonight at five
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  Speaker 5: o'clock against Page Beckers and the Dallas the Wings. They'll
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  Speaker 5: play that game in Texas. Speaking of Texas, the San
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  Speaker 5: Antonio Spurs knocked off the Oklahoma City Thunder, and so
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  Speaker 5: the Thunder will not repeat as champions of the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: It will be either San.
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  Speaker 5: Antonio or New York and they will tip on Wednesday,
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: Game one of the NBA Finals. Spencer Hawsell join us
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  Speaker 5: today at nine o'clock. We'll also talk about the matchup
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  Speaker 5: a little bit later on in this hour. Stanley Cup
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  Speaker 5: finals are also set. They'll begin tomorrow Carolina Hurricanes versus
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  Speaker 5: the Las Vegas Golden Knights. So that gets underway tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Congratulations to ub rowing U doub rowing one another national
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  Speaker 5: title over the weekend. World Cup is in two weeks,
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  Speaker 5: as it turns out, whole two.
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  Speaker 4: Weeks, actually, Chuck, I have to tell you, yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 2: A little less than two weeks. Is it two less
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  Speaker 2: than two weeks?
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  Speaker 3: A little less than two weeks. We're at ten days,
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  Speaker 3: I believe.
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  Speaker 2: Is it ten days? I believe? So yeah, good solid
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  Speaker 2: two weeks sounds like right. Aj Brown Day today.
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  Speaker 5: He will probably be traded this week from the Philadelphia Eagles,
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  Speaker 5: now that we've reached the June first threshold where it
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  Speaker 5: will be easier financially for the Philadelphia Eagles to move him,
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  Speaker 5: and all signs indicate he's heading to New England to
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  Speaker 5: e unite with Mike Rabel, Diana Russini and the Patriots.
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  Speaker 5: Hawks have lost their assistant general manager, Nolan Teasley. Looks
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  Speaker 5: like we're going to get some draft compensation though for
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  Speaker 5: that and some pretty good draft compensation if what I'm
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  Speaker 5: reading is correctly, Yeah that yeah, please, Nolan gets a
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  Speaker 5: good opportunity to be GM of the Minnesota Vikings. And
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  Speaker 5: you didn't take either of our geniuses.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. We can live with that.
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  Speaker 5: And the one series will continue or begin today for
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty six. Corbyn Smith joins us at eight o'clock
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  Speaker 5: one analyst breaking down one key Seahawk player for one
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  Speaker 5: entire interview. The one Series again back here on Chuck
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  Speaker 5: and Buck starts today at eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: But another thing starts today.
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  Speaker 5: By gum, what's that trade season? I grew up in
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  Speaker 5: a community where a lot of people were hunters, so southwestern.
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  Speaker 2: Illinois, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And so man, did they froth at the mouth for
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  Speaker 5: the start of hunting season. I never got it, never
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  Speaker 5: wanted to do it, never tried to do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: never went. Never once did I go and participate in
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  Speaker 5: the start of hunting season. But man, these men, both
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  Speaker 5: young and old, they would just their eyes would get
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  Speaker 5: glassy like several days before and maybe countdown the days
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  Speaker 5: to go stand in a deer stand and be really
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  Speaker 5: quiet and wait to murder deer.
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  Speaker 2: What a thrill. Yeah, exactly. I'm pretty sure had everything
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  Speaker 2: to do with them wanting to get away from their wives.
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  Speaker 5: That makes more sense, and I think that's what it
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  Speaker 5: had to do with. But nonetheless, they loved themselves some
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  Speaker 5: hunting season. But I was never that kind of kid,
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  Speaker 5: certainly not that kind of an adult.
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  Speaker 2: Don't like to hunt, don't want to hunt.
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  Speaker 4: But.
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  Speaker 5: I did always look forward to the start of trade
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  Speaker 5: season in Major League Baseball. That has been something I've
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  Speaker 5: always been interested in as a kid, how the puzzle
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  Speaker 5: pieces come together, building rosters, what it takes. So it's
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  Speaker 5: a lifelong endeavor of studying this stuff, and I think
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  Speaker 5: I think I got a pretty good grasp on it,
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  Speaker 5: and I want to go over some things today on
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  Speaker 5: day one of trade season, because trade deadline is not
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  Speaker 5: until the end of July.
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  Speaker 2: It's two full months of this.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like I've been very patient. I'm not really
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  Speaker 5: talking about it all that much. Did notice your eyes
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  Speaker 5: get a little glassy last week? We're getting excited, but
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  Speaker 5: there are a lot of people who don't love this
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  Speaker 5: stuff nearly as much as I do. On our radio
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  Speaker 5: station that have already started, they are well down the
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  Speaker 5: track on this and so we actually have a little
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  Speaker 5: bit of catching up to do. And sorry to tell
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  Speaker 5: my colleagues, so I love so much, we've got a
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  Speaker 5: lot of corrections.
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  Speaker 2: To make because you're not really presenting it the right way.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, So welcome to day number one of the
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  Speaker 5: MLB Trade season. Look, Memorial Day weekend is usually that
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  Speaker 5: weekend where unofficially you're supposed to either be a contender
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  Speaker 5: or you're not. That's where that's the first day. It's
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  Speaker 5: like the quarter pole of the season, unofficial quarter poll.
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  Speaker 5: And even though the Mariners had a sub five hundred
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  Speaker 5: record a.
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  Speaker 2: Week ago, they're way over it now hold two games over.
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  Speaker 5: But a week ago they had a sub five hundred
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  Speaker 5: record on the season, and yet they were still right there.
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  Speaker 5: So they were a contender even a week ago, even
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  Speaker 5: with a very disappointing sub five hundred record to start
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  Speaker 5: this season. Now that they're a whole two and a
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  Speaker 5: half games up in the American League West, there's no
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  Speaker 5: doubt that we can and I don't think we had
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  Speaker 5: to ever stop setting our sights on how this team
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  Speaker 5: might improve before July thirty first, And let's give them credit.
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  Speaker 5: They have done that consistently over the last few years.
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  Speaker 5: They've been one of the more aggressive teams each of
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  Speaker 5: the last two years at the trading deadline. Hell, we
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: ended up with Naylor and Gino. Swarrez was on a
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  Speaker 5: fifty omer pace before in Arizona before coming over to Seattle,
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  Speaker 5: and it ended up being just a few outshy of
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  Speaker 5: the World Series for goodness sake. So I expect them
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  Speaker 5: to be active again, But I also don't see a
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  Speaker 5: team with nearly as many holes as what we had
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  Speaker 5: a year ago. We needed a couple of middle of
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  Speaker 5: the order bats a year ago, certainly one a year ago,
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  Speaker 5: and they went out and got two. And so what
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  Speaker 5: will they do at this year's trading deadline. Well, I
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  Speaker 5: think the needs are number one, a basher of left
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  Speaker 5: handed pitchers. And I'm not talking about a Ref Snyder
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  Speaker 5: or an Aj Pollock or somebody like that. I'm talking
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  Speaker 5: about somebody that plays every day, and that's somebody hits righties,
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  Speaker 5: but he's sure as hell hits lefties. Because teams are
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  Speaker 5: continuing to try to throw left handed pitchers at us
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  Speaker 5: whenever they have the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, there's.
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  Speaker 5: Been a little improvement in that area from Seattle, But
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  Speaker 5: nonetheless it still remains, in my opinion, the big concern
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  Speaker 5: on this team, followed closely by defense, and so that's
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  Speaker 5: one area that I think is going to have to
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  Speaker 5: be addressed. I think you do need a basher of
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  Speaker 5: the baseball and somebody that's a bit of a no
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  Speaker 5: brainer that can hit left handers, and that doesn't necessarily
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  Speaker 5: have to come at one specific position. That could be
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  Speaker 5: a third baseman, because right now we seem to be
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: in flux. Who's going to even play third base for
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  Speaker 5: this team. That could be a right fielder if we
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: stop the platoon situation in right field and just decided
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  Speaker 5: we're going to go with this dude and he's going
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  Speaker 5: to play right field for us and play every day
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  Speaker 5: and hit in the middle of the order, and it
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  Speaker 5: could be the designated hitter as well. So that's the
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  Speaker 5: benefit of having like a Brendan Donovan type that you
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  Speaker 5: don't really have to go after a position. You just
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  Speaker 5: can go after the hitter, get the hitter that you like,
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  Speaker 5: and then we'll figure out the defense. It's not like
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  Speaker 5: we're breaking something perfect if we mess up our defensive
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  Speaker 5: structure at this point. So find the hitter that you like,
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  Speaker 5: find the trade that you like for that hitter that
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  Speaker 5: you like, and then we'll figure out the defense around him.
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  Speaker 5: And fortunately, because of guys like Brendan a guy like
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  Speaker 5: Brendan Donovan and also cold Emerson, it does give you
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  Speaker 5: that flexibility defensively that you can you can accommodate just
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  Speaker 5: about any even like a Byron Buxton, who I've thrown
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  Speaker 5: out before from the Minnesota Twins, who I is number
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  Speaker 5: one on my list right now. He's a center fielder.
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  Speaker 5: We know Julio's a center fielder. If you got him
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  Speaker 5: figure out the defense afterwards, you know, maybe that's a
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  Speaker 5: conversation to move Julio to rightfield, because that's where he's
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  Speaker 5: eventually gonna have to go anyway, and he's not having
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  Speaker 5: a great year defensively in centerfield. He's not as good
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  Speaker 5: as Buxton as a defensive center fielder. Or Buxton comes
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  Speaker 5: over to his new team, just like Alex Rodriguez moved
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  Speaker 5: to third when he joined Derek Jeter. Alex Rodriguez is
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  Speaker 5: still a very good defensive short stop, but we already
• 13:58
  Speaker 5: have a very good defensive short stop. So you're the
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  Speaker 5: one that's going to have to adjust as opposed to
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  Speaker 5: the guy that has locked down the position.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe it's Buxton that would move to right field.
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  Speaker 5: But the point is, get a hitter, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: need a hitter, and get one that is just proven,
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  Speaker 5: not somebody that specifically has a niche for hitting lefties.
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  Speaker 5: We've tried that, it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 5: If you go out and you get a proven star
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  Speaker 5: and we don't have to worry about subbing out for
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  Speaker 5: him in the middle of the game any longer, I
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  Speaker 5: think that's the number one priority.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And that is one of the biggest frustrations too,
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  Speaker 4: is watching somebody like Luke Rayley get pulled from the
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  Speaker 4: game because of one relief pitcher and then you don't
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  Speaker 4: have him later in the game and you need him.
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  Speaker 4: So if you could get somebody that can hit lefties
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  Speaker 4: and rightis and it's not a concern of ooh, that
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  Speaker 4: matchup's not gonna work'd be great.
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  Speaker 5: That would be great, Yeah, And if that happens, then
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  Speaker 5: obviously some people become a little bit vulnerable because you
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  Speaker 5: now don't need all of that platoon stuff that you have.
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  Speaker 5: If you have one solid right fielder or one solid
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  Speaker 5: DH or even one solid third baseman. Then all of
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  Speaker 5: a sudden, a Canzone or Rayley becomes expendable. I think
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  Speaker 5: Canzone being younger probably gives you more trade value. He
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  Speaker 5: probably becomes somebody that is used in a trade to
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  Speaker 5: get that type of a player. Victor Roblaze and Res Snider.
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  Speaker 5: Now we don't need two right handed outfielders that platoon
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  Speaker 5: any longer, so you keep one of them because there
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  Speaker 5: probably would be a Donovan platoon at some point. He's
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: not really hit left handers all that consistently in his
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  Speaker 5: career and looks like he's gonna need some days off,
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  Speaker 5: So you keep one of ref Schneider and Roblaze, but
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: probably no need to keep both ref Schneider and Roblaze
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  Speaker 5: if you made that kind of decision. And so that's
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: those are some guys that suddenly become trade candidates for
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  Speaker 5: this team between now and July thirty. First, the other
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  Speaker 5: need before I get into some other possible trade candidates
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  Speaker 5: is bullpen. I think Jerry and Justin are always looking
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  Speaker 5: to make the bullpen deeper, because we've already seen you
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  Speaker 5: can have a deep bullpen. And then all of a sudden, oh,
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  Speaker 5: we've lost Spire and Brash and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 5: you've gone from a deep bullpen to a thin one overnight.
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  Speaker 5: And so I think they'll always add a relief pitcher
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  Speaker 5: every single trade deadline.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's always fun to see which who they
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  Speaker 4: are and what they can actually do, because it does
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  Speaker 4: seem like they have an eye, a real eye for
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  Speaker 4: all that pictures.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and and and maybe it's Luis Castile. Maybe Luis
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  Speaker 5: Castillo becomes the reliever that deepens the pen. We shall
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  Speaker 5: see the piggy pen. Yeah, we shall see. But this
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  Speaker 5: is the other thing that I want to discuss today,
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  Speaker 5: because you know a lot of people are kind of
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: throwing out there that you you know, there's no room
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  Speaker 5: for six pitchers, so you trade one of them. Luis
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  Speaker 5: Castill is not all that tradeable. He's making twenty three
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  Speaker 5: twenty four million dollars a year through next season. So
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  Speaker 5: I'm not saying you couldn't trade Luis Castillo, but if
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: you traded Luis Castillo, you'd probably have to take a
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  Speaker 5: contract back in return. Now, we are looking for an
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  Speaker 5: offensive player, so maybe there is something that can work out,
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  Speaker 5: But it doesn't really sound like.
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  Speaker 2: The type of move that Mariners are gonna.
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  Speaker 5: Make mid season to take back a contract player just
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: to get rid of Luis Castillo. It just doesn't sound
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: like something that they would do. So he's not the
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: most easily traded guy. JP Crawford's the exact same way.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: By the way, a lot of people are just trade him.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: There's no value for JP.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Crew you have to have somebody who wants them.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: He has.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: He makes twelve million dollars and he can't play shortstop
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: right now, and so there's no value for him. The
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: reason why he's valuable to this team is because the
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: players love him, that he has some leadership qualities. It's
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: the reason why the Mariners are keeping him in the
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: starting lineup to begin with. And he's starting to hit
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: a little bit better here. He had a good weekend
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: this past weekend. But there's not really any trade value
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: for JP Crawford. So JP is gonna probably stay on
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: our roster. I'm fine with that. But I don't think
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: he's gonna be our shortstop, and I don't think he's
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: gonna be our third baseman, and I don't think he's
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: gonna be our DH because of what we covered earlier.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: I think that he'll just be a roster player for
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: this team, and and perhaps could be something of a
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: utility sort if he can prove he can play third
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: base and if he can get his arm healthy enough
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: to play shortstop. Still, but JP Crawford I don't think
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: has any trade value. So no, you're not gonna trade
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: JP Crawford and get anything for him, because whoever takes
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: him on, they don't inherit the best thing about him,
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: and that is his leadership, because you don't just become
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: a leader overnight with a brand new team. Then you
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: go to the other start pitchers. You know, Okay, well
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: what about Bryce Miller. He's got to have some trade value. Yes,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: he has tremendous trade value. And shut your mouth.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, don't speak, so don't say bad words.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Well, no, there's no way I can't make this clear.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Hell no, are we trading Bryce Miller? Hell no, are
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: we trading Brian Wu. I think there will come a
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: time in which a decision will be made in the organization,
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: and he'll probably be made purely on health of keeping
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: one of them, trying to extend one of those two,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: and eventually I think one of those two will probably
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: be leaving Seattle because we've got Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: two of the top four pitching prospects in the world
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: right now that are on their way to joining the
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Mariner's rotation. But no, now is not the time to
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: trade Bryce Miller Logan Gilbert. I think Logan Gilbert might
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: very well be traded this offseason. I think that is
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: there is a strong possibility. It sounds like those rumors
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: about him wanting to be closer to Florida and home
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: are true.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: It sounds like.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Their first little voyage into a contract extension hit rocky ground.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Sounds like they're way apart. And think about it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: I mean, a Logan Gilbert type on the free agent
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: market is probably going to make thirty thirty five million.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Dollars a year. That's a lot of money. That's a
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: lot of money.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: And when the Mariners have the kind of starting pitching
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: depth that they have, and you know they're spending history,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: I think what they would absolutely do today is if
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: you give us a deal, will extend you. But it
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: needs to look a lot more like cal Rawley's deal
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: then it does. You know, Trek Schouoble's deal or Garrett
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Cole's deal. You know that's that's if you want to
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: play ball with us on that front, you really want
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: to stay and you want to cut us, then we'll
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: do that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: It'll be a little more team friendly.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: But it doesn't sound like that's where they're heading. But
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: you don't trade a pitcher like that in the middle
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: of the year when you're trying to win a World Series,
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: and teams don't make a lot of star player for
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: star player trades in the middle of the year, even
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: if they do have even if you do have a
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: strength that matches their weakness and vice versa, you just
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: don't see that much anymore. I'm not saying it couldn't happen,
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: it's just nothing that really does happen. I think what
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Logan will be traded for in the offseason is a
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: boatload of prospects. That's what I think, and that's how
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: the Mariners are going to keep this thing churning. Kate
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Anderson replaces him in the starting rotation next year, and
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Logan Gilbert has moved for three or four good young
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: pieces that could eventually fill other roles of players who would.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Be leaving the organization.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: So no, I don't think Logan Gilbert gets traded this season,
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: but I think there's a good chance he gets traded
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: this offseason. And I also don't think Emerson Hancock is
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: a candidate. I know that his history suggests he's the
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: weakest of the six, but this year he's been arguably
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: the strongest of the six. Yes, and there is something
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: about an organization. He's also under control for a little
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: while longer. There's something about an organization than when they
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: finally start reaping the benefits of something that they invested
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: money and time in and they finally breaks through, they
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: kind of want to take advantage of that. They don't
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: want to just ship him off the moment. He's fine.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, we were told in spring training by Pete
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Woodworth himself on air and off air, it's different. The
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: change has happened. He is the real deal right now,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: and he has shown us nothing but being the real deal.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: So I don't think he's a candidate to move either.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: We have some prospects. We have a lot of infielders
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: that we can move from our minor leagues, because it
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: looks like Emerson and Young are our middle endfield for
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: the future, and Felman Celestin is hitting so well at
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: the minor league level. He might be our future third baseman.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: They might not move any of them, but that still
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: leaves my pel Arroyo without a position in the future.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: I think we will make a trade. It won't be
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: involving any of our veterans. It will involve a couple
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: of prospects, maybe as many as three or four, to
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: get a significant bat.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: In the lineup.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: I think that is our Major League Baseball trading deadline
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: this year.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Well, and you even mentioned getting prospects for Logan. If
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: you traded him in the off season, then that's exactly
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: what they want. Like you just said, then you turn
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: those prospects around. If they don't come up to the
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: big leagues, you're trading them for something else that you need.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: So that sounds right up about the Mariner's alley.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: I would think, well, I mean, you've got some other
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: guys whose contracts are coming up. Randy rose Arena is
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: going to create a whole I don't think they're going
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: to be keeping him in the future, so that I
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: mean there are some other needs that you're going to
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: have that if you get a couple of those prospects
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: that are major league ready, I mean, one of them
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: could be playing left field for US next year. Yeah,
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: if you make a Logan Gilbert offseason trade.
• 23:56
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• 25:03
  Speaker 5: morning to you. It is Chuck Powell and Ashley Ryan
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: with you. Of course that's Thursday on Wednesday usually on
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: my birthday. I usually have an NBA Finals game to watch,
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: but I'm gonna miss it this year.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah they're gonna that's all right. I don't really want to.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: But Wednesday the series gets underway and San Antonio between
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: the Spurs and the New York Knicks.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: So how relieved are you?
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Are you among the throngs of the Seattle Lights who
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: celebrated the San Antonio Spurs victory on Saturday night?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I am, yes.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I celebrated with a Bunco party.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: No, but the Bunco party was going on, so I
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: didn't have the game on, so five Iron was up
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: in his office watching it. So every little bit I
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: would just go upstairs and get a check in on
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: what was happening, and then text updates as well, because
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: I didn't want to put it on and make anyone mad.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: At the Bunco party. Well, you know, diamonds and Denim,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: they don't have time for Wimby.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I feel like they go perfectly with Spurs.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: They should, Yeah, but ideal, I get what you're dealing
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: with a bunch of jackals.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: That's but yeah. I was thrilled, so yeah, and I
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: think everybody was.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: And to have a Seattle Head coach kind of leading
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: the way in Mitch Johnson, who we found out just
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: last week is a lot closer friends with the Spencer
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Hawes than I realized. I thought they were friends and
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: like associates. They're like best buddies.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: He was in his wedding.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so we'll have Spencer on at nine o'clock. But
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: to have a Seattle based young head coach lead the
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Spurs past the Thunder, and let's face it, pretty much
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: eliminate the thought that the Thunder we're just gonna own
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: the NBA for the next decade, because there was a
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: chance they could have. And then all of a sudden,
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Wimby comes into our lives, creates a burdensome mismatch for
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: whoever faces them. And we were seeing this during the
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: regular season. The Thunder were mowing through opponents once again,
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: but the Spurs were kicking the crap out of them
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: during the regular season. Do you get to the playoffs,
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: and of course everybody wants to discuss that this is
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: a different game and you got to have some experience
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: and you had to have tasted loss before you can
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: figure out how to win a championship. And Wimby and
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Castle and company have not yet done that. But this
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: guy's different. And I'm not sure the Thunder are, you know,
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: so accomplished. I mean, I don't feel like they're the
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Bird Celtics or the bad Boy Pistons or the Jordan Bulls.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: I don't know if they're in that category. They're really good,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: they're really skilled, they're really deep.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: But I don't.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think what what popped up certainly on
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Saturday is do you have another star player on this team?
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Chet Holmgren played scared because I think it was the
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: first time in his life that he'd ever been dwarfed
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: by another basketball player, which he was.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Jalen Williams was.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Pretty much not available the entire postseason, and Sga did
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: not play like a superstar because no one else around
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: him was playing like a star. And san Antonio, I
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: think took that out of the Thunder, and it exposed
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: a lot about the Thunder, and so I'm not surprised
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: that it's san Antonio that moves on. I had picked
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: the Thunder to win this, but I think a lot
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: of people are celebrating the fact that Okac's just not
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: going to go on this run. They seemed on the
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: verge of being on. You had to wonder they were
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: so well equipped, they were so young, they were so
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: well equipped draft pick wise, financially, cap wise. I mean,
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: how many could they put together.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: In a row. But now the Whimby led Spurs have
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: changed that entire.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Narrative, and thank goodness because yeah, even aside from the personal,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: you know, animosity that I think a lot of Seattle
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: sports fans have towards Oklahoma City, I don't I don't
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: ever love seeing a team just dominate and be unstoppable.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, yes, it gives you the element of Okay,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: who's going to be the one to knock them off?
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: And that's that's a fun thing to watch, a fun
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: thing to root for. But I and it's probably more driven.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: By my personal animasity.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: I definitely didn't want to see them, yeah go on
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: a run, but yeah, it makes it much more exciting
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: to know that that someone else is going to win
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: the championship.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, the league's kind of been driven by that though.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Over the years, it's this team dominates, and then who's
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: going to beat them? And then the legacy continues to
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: grow and then you see the up and comer that
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: got close one year and then got closer the next year,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: and then that next year they took.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Them out and then they went on a run. That's
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: kind of the way.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: It's kind of a handoff as the way that it's
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: been throughout the NBA history. But I kind of felt
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: like Okase was there, and yet they don't match up
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: as nobody matches up with the San Antonio Spurs. And
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: that said, I don't think that we can just put
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: the crown on this head of the Spurs right now either.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, they're coming off a seven game series and
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: they're going to feel accomplished from a psychological standpoint, and
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: they got to get back up again for a seven
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: game series against a team that's playing better than anyone
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: in the world, regardless of sport. And yeah, a month
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: ago you would have asked me Spurs versus Nicks, I
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: would have said Spurs and five. But there's no way,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: having watched the way the Knicks have played as of late,
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: that they can be taken lightly by anyone. And it
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: sounds like the betting community is coming in on the
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Knicks right now. I heard Kendrick Perkins just this morning
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: coming in on the Knicks right now. I don't know
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: if they can sustain that good of basketball for four
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: to seven more games. Something tells me they can can't.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: But if the Knicks keep playing that well, nobody's beating them.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Nobody's beating them. Yeah, nobody can beat a team playing
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: that good of basketball.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: I would agree, And I'm very intrigued to see if
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: they are going to have any rust coming back in
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: that in Game one and how they're going to actually
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: match up against the Spurs, because I think at this
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: point right now, coming since they just played the Spurs
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: would have more momentum. That's not a word I'm afraid
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: to use with basketball going into Game one and just
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: what they were able to accomplish. You'd hope though, that
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: it's not too much that they're not, you know, too
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: over hyped over doing that. And I'm sure they've got
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: they know, they've got more business to accomplish.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: Well, certainly they got to win the championship, but yeah,
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: it's it's kind of hard, like from a psychological standpoint,
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: when you slay a dragon and then all of a
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: sudden you're like, hey, there's an ogre, yeah right around
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: the corner.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Man, what are you talking about? I just slaid a drag,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: which is quite the accomplishment. Yeah, can't we sit and
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: look at this dragon? I'm tired? Can I you know?
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: We just have a little quick, little vacation. Nope, there's
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: an ogre. This is the Odyssey. Get ready for it,
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: Odysseus uh so, yes, San Antonio nixt They'll get started
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: on Wednesday, and coming up today, Spencer Hawes will join
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: us at nine o'clock to preview the finals. All right,
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Coming up next, speaking of previews, the Mariners get ready
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: to host the New York Mets, the worst team money
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's not one thousand dollars either, you could win
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: twenty five hundred dollars.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Gosh, yeah, oh boy, that's more. That's like two and
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: a half times more. Yeah, ma'am, quick math and stuff.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: I got it right.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: The Mariners have won six straight games and are going
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: to try to keep it going tonight against the New
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: York Mets, who, of course have spent the last few
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: years spending, spending, spending, making every baseball fan across the
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: country so jealous with their aggressive spending. Why can't I
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: have an owner like that that can spend that much
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: money and I still have a twenty six and thirty
• 33:47
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• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's they're the prime argument for why
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter how much you spend.
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: Well, certainly, it's a huge advantage to be able to
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: spend that much money, but it does guarantee anything. You
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: still have to make good decisions. You still have to
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: make good roster decisions. They spend a fortune on Juan
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Soto and Francisco Lindor, and apparently the two can't stand
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: the side of one another. That Lindor comes off very
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: selfishly and Sodo comes off very arrogantly to all of
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: his teammates, and so they have not been able to
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: piece together the right chemistry. Certainly, they do have a
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: lot of talent assembled, I would hope, so when you
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: spend that kind of fortune on baseball talent, and so
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: maybe they're going. I mean, the Mariners got off to
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: a rough start too, and they've won six straight.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Maybe they've righted the ship.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: New York Mets have gotten off to an even worse
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: start than the Ms, but they've won four straight games themselves,
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  Speaker 5: and maybe they've got things going on their front. We're
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  Speaker 5: going to find out starting tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 5: The thing that is going for the New York Mets
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  Speaker 5: more so than anything else, is Juan Soda. He might
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  Speaker 5: be the hottest hitter right now the game. Soto is
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  Speaker 5: hit nine home runs in his last fifteen games for
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  Speaker 5: the Mets, so they've been waiting for him to start going,
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  Speaker 5: and he's going right now. He was fifteen games ago
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  Speaker 5: at an eight hundred and one OPS. It's up to
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  Speaker 5: nine to ninety four. Two weeks later, it's up to
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  Speaker 5: nine ninety four. He had a two sixty three batting
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  Speaker 5: average fifteen games ago, it's up to three h five,
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  Speaker 5: So he's gained forty two points in batting average. He's
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  Speaker 5: had eight multiple hit games out of those fifteen. He's
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  Speaker 5: hit safely in fourteen out of the fifteen, and he's
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  Speaker 5: hit nine home runs.
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  Speaker 2: Over that stretch.
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  Speaker 5: We know what a great eye he has, we know
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  Speaker 5: what a great talent that he is, and right now
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  Speaker 5: seems to be kind of carrying this baseball team as
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  Speaker 5: of late. So if nothing else, we're dealing with a
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  Speaker 5: red hot Wan Soto and a much better version of
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  Speaker 5: the Mets than anyone else had to deal with prior to.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, which seems kind of appropriate, right. It seems like
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  Speaker 4: that's usually the way it works for the Mariners. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: even Diamondbacks coming in winning ten of eleven.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it, So that turns out to be fools gold, right,
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  Speaker 5: it did.
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  Speaker 4: But it's better, I suppose, than what happened when we
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  Speaker 4: went to face Kansas City and they weren't they were
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  Speaker 4: playing better than they were supposed to be playing, and
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  Speaker 4: that didn't work out well for us. So I like
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  Speaker 4: to think that the team is on their way up
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  Speaker 4: that we're facing, so we don't run the risk of
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  Speaker 4: over or underestimating them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Mariners, though, would murder the twenty seven Yankees, but
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  Speaker 5: they have no shot against teams like the Royals, that's true,
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  Speaker 5: that's just the way they play. So I guess we
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  Speaker 5: want them to be hot coming into the series for
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  Speaker 5: the challenge of knocking them down a peg. But certainly
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  Speaker 5: they are playing better as of right now. And there's
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  Speaker 5: another interesting thing going on with the Mets. They are
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  Speaker 5: starting an opener tonight, so we know we know the
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  Speaker 5: word is out we can't hit left handers. We have
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  Speaker 5: been doing better as of late. Seems like that's turning
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  Speaker 5: around a little bit for the baseball team.
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  Speaker 2: A bit.
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  Speaker 5: Reason why we swept the A's before we swept the
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  Speaker 5: Diamondbacks was because we hit the two lefties that they
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  Speaker 5: put in our paths and back to back day, So
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  Speaker 5: maybe that's coming around right now. So it's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: interesting to see how the Mets are going to manage
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  Speaker 5: this here tonight because they're starting an opener. His name
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  Speaker 5: is Austin Warren and he's not gonna pitch for more
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  Speaker 5: than an inning or two in this contest. And then
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  Speaker 5: they've got two righties going the following days. Young Jonah
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  Speaker 5: Toong will pitch tomorrow, and then veteran Freddy Peralta will
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  Speaker 5: pitch the recap or assume me the capper on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 5: so that'll be Wednesday afternoon against Freddy Parolta. So this
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  Speaker 5: will be interesting to see how Dan's gonna stack the
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  Speaker 5: lineup here today, because you know they're trying to sucker
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  Speaker 5: you in with an opener. They're saying, Okay, we're gonna
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  Speaker 5: throw a right hander, so are you going to put
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  Speaker 5: your left handed lineup in?
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  Speaker 2: Because before we have to face.
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  Speaker 5: Canzone or Rayley once we can go to Sean Maniah here.
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  Speaker 5: They can't go to David Peterson, he just pitched yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: But they do have Seawan Manya and Sean Mayah is
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  Speaker 5: a five and a half era. We all know Sean
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  Speaker 5: Manyah yep, one point six two whip, so he's having
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  Speaker 5: a terrible year. But he's left handed and that's usually
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  Speaker 5: all somebody needed in the past to beat the Mariners.
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  Speaker 5: In the past weeks, maybe we turned it around a
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  Speaker 5: little bit, but they've got that opportunity. They also have
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  Speaker 5: three left handed relievers beyond Maniah, so they're kind of
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  Speaker 5: prepared to go at us and play this little game
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  Speaker 5: of chess. And you know, if Dan subbs early, then
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  Speaker 5: he could be chasing his tail for the rest of
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  Speaker 5: the night tonight. See it feels like the Mets are
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  Speaker 5: in position to no matter what you do, we've got
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  Speaker 5: a righty or lefty to kind of counteract that. So
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  Speaker 5: I think Dan's just got to go.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't.
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  Speaker 5: You don't base your lineup off of Austin Warren. I
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  Speaker 5: can promise you that you base your lineup tonight. You
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  Speaker 5: base your lineup tonight off of who do we trust
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  Speaker 5: the most, regardless of who is on the mound, what
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  Speaker 5: sided pitcher is on the mound here tonight, who do
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  Speaker 5: we trust the most to get two or three at bats?
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't think you want to start playing.
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  Speaker 5: Checkers early with the New York Mets here tonight, because
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  Speaker 5: you know exactly what they're trying to bait you into doing.
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  Speaker 5: So we'll see what kind of lineup that they come
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  Speaker 5: up with to start the evening. But in my opinion,
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  Speaker 5: it is whoever you believe can succeed, regardless of whether
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  Speaker 5: it's a righty or a lefty on the mound. If
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  Speaker 5: that's ref Schneider and Roeblaze, the fine. If that's Raillian
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  Speaker 5: Can's own fine. If it's a combination of Roeblaze and
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  Speaker 5: maybe maybe you balance it out this time, just hit
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  Speaker 5: a right hander to win the game yesterday. Maybe it's roblazing.
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  Speaker 5: Canzone play together for a night just so you can
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  Speaker 5: balance it out. I don't know, but don't take the
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  Speaker 5: bait because they are just waiting to see what kind
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  Speaker 5: of lineup you put out there, and then they're going
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  Speaker 5: to try to take away your ability to pinch hit
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  Speaker 5: as early as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would. I will be very eager to
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  Speaker 3: see what that lineup looks like when it comes out.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna hope to god it's not something ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: Corbyn Smith's gonna join us next I hope he's not
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  Speaker 5: gonna be ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: Day.
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