Latest / Chuck in the Morning / Chuck & Buck 4-27 Hour 1: M's Sweep! Mariners Morning After and draft grades.

Transcript

Chuck & Buck 4-27 Hour 1: M's Sweep! Mariners Morning After and draft grades. · Chuck in the Morning

0:02
Speaker 1: Good morning, get the money.
0:03
Speaker 2: Is anybody out there?
0:04
Speaker 1: We're live, man and gentlemen, Welcome to Chaos. Let the
0:10
Speaker 1: games begin, and now broadcasting live from the City of
0:17
Speaker 1: Champions now the World champions for Crystal Clear FM, Stereo,
0:21
Speaker 1: new stereomotic sound spectacular. All right, that the one stuff.
0:25
Speaker 1: The next four hours are powered by the Juliana Freezort Casino,
0:28
Speaker 1: Draft Kings sports book. You got off? Now we've got
0:31
Speaker 1: the wrong guy. Where the action never stopped? Are you
0:34
Speaker 1: writing this down something? This is Chuck and Buck in
0:38
Speaker 1: the morning.
0:38
Speaker 2: What's why you people are beyond?
0:42
Speaker 1: Let's go? Let's get the game off. Good morning. I
0:58
Speaker 1: think we're good to go.
1:00
Speaker 2: Now.
1:01
Speaker 1: Welcome everyone, it is Monday morning. Thanks for sticking with us. Yes,
1:06
Speaker 1: some more technical difficulties. I am a pullback the curtain
1:09
Speaker 1: guy in radio. We're not supposed to be bosses get
1:12
Speaker 1: angry when hosts do this. But apparently were still don't
1:16
Speaker 1: have all of the ghosts out of the machinery from
1:19
Speaker 1: the changeover to YouTube, from the power outage, the fire
1:22
Speaker 1: that we had a few weeks ago, and so from
1:25
Speaker 1: day to day we're not exactly sure what it is
1:28
Speaker 1: we're operating with. We seem to be okay once the
1:31
Speaker 1: week starts, but apparently this whole weekend thing throws us
1:36
Speaker 1: for a loop here at Sports Radio ninety three point
1:38
Speaker 1: three KJRFM with all of the changes that were made
1:42
Speaker 1: to our system, and then we're still operating off of
1:46
Speaker 1: the generator outside and so who even knows if we
1:50
Speaker 1: had another power outage or some sort of breakdown overnight.
1:53
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but when we got ready to
1:57
Speaker 1: start the show, there was no The equipment wasn't working
2:02
Speaker 1: to get the show started. So now it seems like
2:04
Speaker 1: we're okay. I'm not going to sit here and harp
2:06
Speaker 1: on this all morning long because we have a lot
2:08
Speaker 1: to do. We have a lot to discuss today. But
2:11
Speaker 1: that is what's going on. So hopefully this is the
2:14
Speaker 1: last time that we put you through this, that we
2:16
Speaker 1: have to go through this. But yes, more technical difficulties
2:20
Speaker 1: they I mean, I think we went like ten years
2:22
Speaker 1: without having hardly any technical difficulties in terms of getting
2:25
Speaker 1: on the show, and now we've had to deal with
2:27
Speaker 1: it twice in a week.
2:28
Speaker 2: It's fun.
2:30
Speaker 1: No, oh no, fun is not the thing. I know.
2:33
Speaker 3: I was trying to be positive. It's definitely not panic inducing.
2:38
Speaker 3: When I look at you and you look at me
2:39
Speaker 3: and say I can't hear anything.
2:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I'm like oh.
2:42
Speaker 2: And then you say I'll just start talking.
2:44
Speaker 3: I say, yeah, try that, and then I can't hear
2:46
Speaker 3: you talking, and I think, well that's not good.
2:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then the mics wouldn't go on, and then
2:50
Speaker 1: they would go on. So I didn't know what was happening.
2:53
Speaker 1: But we seem to be okay. Now hopefully that is
2:56
Speaker 1: the case. And so we will dive in here on
2:58
Speaker 1: this Monday not worry about the little stumble we've had
3:02
Speaker 1: coming out of the blocks. So we've got a big
3:05
Speaker 1: draft show coming your way today, of course, so we're
3:07
Speaker 1: going to recap the draft weekend. But we also had
3:10
Speaker 1: a Mariners team that pulled off a sweep on the
3:13
Speaker 1: road against the Saint Louis Cardinals. Three close games, but
3:17
Speaker 1: they pulled them all off three wins, which gives them
3:20
Speaker 1: a four game winning streak, now just a game under
3:24
Speaker 1: five hundred, so all but erased that month long, you know,
3:30
Speaker 1: sort of rough start that they got off to. I
3:32
Speaker 1: think they were also like, I can't hear anything, Yeah,
3:37
Speaker 1: this is the season started yet No, not.
3:39
Speaker 2: Till April twenty third o.
3:41
Speaker 1: Red light's not on. They're telling me the season started
3:44
Speaker 1: with my red.
3:45
Speaker 2: Lights supposedly something I'm supposed to be hearing.
3:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe they were hooked up to a generator themselves.
3:50
Speaker 1: That's the beginning of the year. But yeah, and it smelled.
3:54
Speaker 1: It smelled. There was a gaseous fume that was coming
3:57
Speaker 1: out of America today. Yeah.
3:59
Speaker 2: True, we at least they don't have that today, but
4:01
Speaker 2: they're nearly.
4:02
Speaker 1: Out of that hole. If they win tonight, they get
4:04
Speaker 1: back to the five hundred mark, and it's as if
4:06
Speaker 1: we can kind of start anew with one hundred and
4:09
Speaker 1: thirty two games to go, which I suppose is fine
4:13
Speaker 1: by me. But a lot of the things that we've
4:17
Speaker 1: been waiting on are now starting to come together. And
4:22
Speaker 1: yesterday it was another narrow victory over the Cardinals three
4:25
Speaker 1: to two, and Rob Reschneider ends up being our hero.
4:30
Speaker 1: So he's obviously starting to hit now. It's a completely
4:33
Speaker 1: different feeling now when ref Schneider comes to the plate
4:36
Speaker 1: compared to what it used to be. He hits the
4:39
Speaker 1: solo home run in pinch hitting fashion and it ends
4:42
Speaker 1: up being enough for a three to two victory yesterday,
4:46
Speaker 1: and so the ref Nider. That alone is a big story.
4:50
Speaker 1: He comes through in the big moment, gets the team
4:53
Speaker 1: the sweep, bullpen comes through all weekend long, and so
4:56
Speaker 1: here we are nearly healed from all that ailed us
4:59
Speaker 1: for the first part of the season. But how ref
5:03
Speaker 1: Schneider got to the home run is the fascinating part.
5:07
Speaker 1: And you know, thank Goodness for this challenge. It doesn't sound,
5:12
Speaker 1: I suppose, like all that big of a deal. If
5:15
Speaker 1: you were to tell somebody who wasn't a baseball fan
5:18
Speaker 1: that you get two challenges per game, that they were like, oh,
5:24
Speaker 1: you only get two, and as long as you keep
5:27
Speaker 1: getting him right, you know, you don't lose them. But
5:30
Speaker 1: if you lose two challenges, then you don't have them
5:33
Speaker 1: for the rest of the game. Oh well, why don't
5:35
Speaker 1: you get ten? You know, why couldn't.
5:38
Speaker 2: You If they're wrong, shouldn't you be able to challenge it?
5:41
Speaker 3: Yeah?
5:41
Speaker 1: Why can't you keep challenging? So I don't know if
5:44
Speaker 1: if anybody that doesn't really follow baseball would think that
5:48
Speaker 1: that was that significant of a rule change, but man,
5:51
Speaker 1: this thing obviously changes the outcome of games. And it's
5:56
Speaker 1: also showing you the impact that bad umpiring has on
6:00
Speaker 1: games as well. They're saying that the ref Schneider call
6:05
Speaker 1: that he challenged. Now keep in mind, earlier in the
6:07
Speaker 1: at bat, the umpire already blew one and Ref Schneider
6:10
Speaker 1: didn't challenge it, and so he blows another one. He
6:16
Speaker 1: couldn't wait to punch out Rob Reschneider for whatever reason.
6:21
Speaker 1: John bacon Is, the umpire's name, had a terrible day,
6:25
Speaker 1: apparently had seven calls overturned by the catchers alone in
6:30
Speaker 1: the contests, and we were operating with just one challenge
6:33
Speaker 1: remaining because JP blew one early in the game, and
6:36
Speaker 1: the worst possible scenario to challenge, he decided to do that,
6:41
Speaker 1: and so you're down to one challenge. But it's also,
6:45
Speaker 1: you know, we're late in the game. So Ref Sneider
6:47
Speaker 1: lets the first one go, and then the second one
6:51
Speaker 1: was six inches outside. Apparently it was the worst blown
6:56
Speaker 1: called strike that was overturned by a challenge. It's the
7:00
Speaker 1: history of the challenge, okay, perfect, and so Ref Schneiders like,
7:04
Speaker 1: all right, well, I'm not going to strike out because
7:06
Speaker 1: of you. You do fis, So he does challenge the
7:08
Speaker 1: second one. The call gets overturned because the ball was
7:13
Speaker 1: a county over from the strike zone and then ref
7:17
Speaker 1: Schneider launches a home run wins the game. So thanks
7:20
Speaker 1: to the ABS challenge system, you know, Otherwise Rev Snyder
7:23
Speaker 1: just going back to the bench and we just complained
7:25
Speaker 1: about the official and who knows how the game ends,
7:29
Speaker 1: but now we at least have the challenge system. We
7:32
Speaker 1: had one challenge remaining, even though JP almost blew it
7:35
Speaker 1: twice for us, and Reth Schneider ends up getting that
7:39
Speaker 1: Golden's second opportunity and hits a home run. I mean,
7:42
Speaker 1: this rule is just it's just game changing, just period,
7:45
Speaker 1: just game changing. And they still don't have their arms
7:48
Speaker 1: wrapped around how we're going to do this going forward,
7:51
Speaker 1: but Rob Refsneider may have given us an indication of
7:54
Speaker 1: how it should be done.
7:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was interesting too because the I in
8:00
Speaker 3: several games when we end up with two challenges, not
8:02
Speaker 3: that oh gosh, here we are at the end, and
8:04
Speaker 3: why are we going you know, why are we finishing
8:06
Speaker 3: a game with two challenges left? Because we've used him
8:09
Speaker 3: throughout the game and we've gotten right and that's okay,
8:11
Speaker 3: But in that sense, to have the one and to
8:15
Speaker 3: be able to have it to be Hughes, I just
8:17
Speaker 3: thought to myself, how is it that we played this
8:20
Speaker 3: game just last year where this outcome would have this,
8:24
Speaker 3: where this outcome would have.
8:25
Speaker 2: Been totally different.
8:27
Speaker 3: Isn't that crazy though, because I mean to think that
8:29
Speaker 3: would have been a completely different outcome.
8:31
Speaker 1: Could have been yeah, one thing, Yeah, could have been yeah.
8:35
Speaker 1: And there were other opportunities and even the strategy of
8:37
Speaker 1: when do I challenge and when do I don't check on?
8:40
Speaker 1: I mean, major league getters are having a really difficult
8:42
Speaker 1: time with it. I think JP's got the best I
8:44
Speaker 1: on our team, but even he's having a difficult time
8:47
Speaker 1: with it and on when to do it. And I'll
8:50
Speaker 1: tell you when not to do it. When JP did it, no,
8:54
Speaker 1: like nobody on base early in the count, and like
8:58
Speaker 1: you're not that important, dude. We want you on base.
9:02
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but just because you over challenge,
9:04
Speaker 1: you challenge something early in the count doesn't mean you're
9:06
Speaker 1: getting on base. And you just blew a challenge for us.
9:09
Speaker 1: And now we've got to be careful with that thing.
9:11
Speaker 1: We can't be as aggressive as we wanted to be
9:14
Speaker 1: because you picked the absolute wrong time to do it.
9:17
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I think it's going to take
9:19
Speaker 1: a while before teams figure out how to use this.
9:21
Speaker 1: We talked about it with Cal in spring training, and
9:25
Speaker 1: Cal said, I think we're going to have to use
9:27
Speaker 1: it situationally. We're gonna have to save them for when
9:30
Speaker 1: there are run scoring opportunities, or I would think at
9:34
Speaker 1: bare minimum, like Refsnighter proved, all right, I'm gonna let
9:37
Speaker 1: that one go because it's so early in the count.
9:40
Speaker 1: I want to challenge that, and I know we're late
9:42
Speaker 1: in the game and I probably should challenge that, but
9:44
Speaker 1: we only have one left, and so I'm not going
9:47
Speaker 1: to challenge that one, but I'm not going to strike
9:49
Speaker 1: out on it. And so I think that gave us.
9:52
Speaker 1: I think we got a little bit of a lesson
9:54
Speaker 1: learned there. Yeah that even late in the contest, do
9:58
Speaker 1: we really want to challenge something early in account No,
10:02
Speaker 1: with nobody on base, and then maybe take it away
10:07
Speaker 1: from a situation where you could have a robust ending,
10:10
Speaker 1: you could have bases juiced, and now you don't have
10:12
Speaker 1: a challenge to use. So the way that a few
10:15
Speaker 1: people have been using it, I think even maybe Dom
10:18
Speaker 1: had one too early in the contest and he ended
10:20
Speaker 1: up winning it. But it's like, dude, there's it's zero zero,
10:24
Speaker 1: what are you challenging for early in the count I
10:27
Speaker 1: think we learned a lesson from Rob Rethschneider on one
10:31
Speaker 1: way to use it and a lesson from JP on
10:34
Speaker 1: when not to use it. And hopefully the Mariners will
10:38
Speaker 1: have a conversation and show, you know, have a slide presentation.
10:41
Speaker 1: This is when you use it, this is when you
10:44
Speaker 1: don't use it. And so I think we learned a
10:46
Speaker 1: lesson from ref Schneider yesterday, not just one of baseball.
10:49
Speaker 3: No, I completely agree, because yeah, it should be in
10:51
Speaker 3: a situation where that's going to put you on base
10:54
Speaker 3: for a walk, or that's going to help you avoid
10:57
Speaker 3: striking out, not in a situation where oh, okay, now
11:01
Speaker 3: I'm one oh instead of oh one like that, that's
11:05
Speaker 3: just you know, you could.
11:06
Speaker 2: Get another back. I just yeah, yeah, unless.
11:10
Speaker 3: It's egregious, unless it's just like that, like the call
11:14
Speaker 3: that actually got that he challenged that god overturned, where
11:16
Speaker 3: it's so far that it's like, okay, that was so
11:19
Speaker 3: obviously a ball. And then in that case, okay, yeah,
11:22
Speaker 3: if you want to help your count and you and
11:24
Speaker 3: there's zero zeroed out to anyone that that is an
11:27
Speaker 3: actual ball.
11:28
Speaker 1: Then that's different if it bounces to the place. Yeah exactly, Yeah,
11:31
Speaker 1: go ahead and use it challenge, Yes, but but you
11:35
Speaker 1: know just when, just JP screwing that up led to
11:39
Speaker 1: everybody having to be more careful going forward, and and so,
11:44
Speaker 1: like I said, it ended up helping win the game.
11:47
Speaker 1: But it also may have illustrated to the Mariners and
11:50
Speaker 1: everybody else in baseball how when to use the challenge
11:53
Speaker 1: and when not to use the challenge since you only
11:56
Speaker 1: do have a precious too. But it also showed us.
11:58
Speaker 1: The third thing is just what an impactful rule change
12:02
Speaker 1: this is, because it completely changed the outcome of that
12:05
Speaker 1: at bat, which ended up being the game winning run
12:07
Speaker 1: scored in the contest. I had planned to have eleven
12:12
Speaker 1: to twelve more minutes to talk about this, but now
12:17
Speaker 1: we are out of time in the first segment. But
12:19
Speaker 1: it sounds like we're good. We're underway. I'll get to
12:22
Speaker 1: the headlines at seven o five. We also have an
12:26
Speaker 1: NFL draft to recap to do today, so we're going
12:29
Speaker 1: Monday Morning quarterback style today. Hugh Millen from eight to
12:32
Speaker 1: ten will analyze all the picks from over the weekend
12:34
Speaker 1: for the Seahawks. Also, Greg Bell will be with us
12:37
Speaker 1: at seven oh five. We have ABC's of the m
12:39
Speaker 1: so I'll be able to get into a little more
12:41
Speaker 1: of this Mariner stuff, other things beyond Rob Refsnyder's home
12:46
Speaker 1: run yesterday, But it'll obviously be a pivotal part of
12:49
Speaker 1: our conversation in our next segment, because it'll be Mariners
12:52
Speaker 1: Morning After coming your way here on Chuckin' Buck Monday
12:55
Speaker 1: Morning Blues Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. I'm
12:59
Speaker 1: sure Cardinal fans Cardinal players feel like we should have
13:02
Speaker 1: had at least one of those three games. Well, sorry
13:05
Speaker 1: about it.
13:06
Speaker 3: I'm not Yeah, sorry, not sorry, Yeah, suck it sitting.
13:11
Speaker 2: You're all really nice.
13:12
Speaker 1: But yeah, if my aunt had a Wiener, she'd be
13:17
Speaker 1: my uncle. Isn't that the pretty sure? That's the line.
13:22
Speaker 2: I think you're right.
13:25
Speaker 1: Well, the Mariner's taking on the Cardinals on Sunday, coming
13:29
Speaker 1: off that crazy wacky thing that we saw Saturday, that
13:33
Speaker 1: back and forth contest, And I was gonna put this
13:37
Speaker 1: in ABC's of the MS, but I'll just go ahead
13:39
Speaker 1: and put it here in Mariners Morning After. We don't
13:41
Speaker 1: ever win that game. Yeah, I didn't not feel that
13:44
Speaker 1: way Saturday, like we were doing draft coverage, so I
13:48
Speaker 1: didn't get to watch it. I was pretty much just
13:51
Speaker 1: kind of getting updates, and you know, during commercial breaks,
13:54
Speaker 1: I'd go see and the score just kept changing and
13:56
Speaker 1: fluctuating back and forth. Am I when is the last
13:59
Speaker 1: time that we won a game like this where there
14:03
Speaker 1: were two different occasions where the Mariners rallied from a
14:07
Speaker 1: multiple run deficit, they had four stolen bases on the day,
14:11
Speaker 1: they gave up five home runs in the contest and
14:15
Speaker 1: ended up on the road somehow winning eleven to nine
14:19
Speaker 1: on Saturday on a day that Brian Wu couldn't get
14:22
Speaker 1: anybody out. I mean, it was the strangest damn events
14:26
Speaker 1: that maybe have taken place in a game so far
14:28
Speaker 1: this year. And I just thought to myself, we don't
14:32
Speaker 1: Mariners don't win games like this. This is not the
14:34
Speaker 1: type of game we win.
14:35
Speaker 3: No, And you kind of thought too, Yeah, like, okay,
14:38
Speaker 3: We'll just going to chalk it up to Wu having
14:39
Speaker 3: a bad day and we move on and let's go
14:42
Speaker 3: to Sunday and we're going to get the series win
14:43
Speaker 3: hopefully on Sunday. Because we were watching There's there was
14:47
Speaker 3: five iron me and another dad watching it in the
14:49
Speaker 3: stands in Jehelus during the softball game and I had
14:52
Speaker 3: it streaming on my phone, and then after they went
14:55
Speaker 3: up nine to seven, I was like, okay, I got
14:57
Speaker 3: to focus on this, Matt. You keep it going on
14:59
Speaker 3: your phone and then let us know what's going on.
15:01
Speaker 3: And then he's updating us and we're like huh, huh yeah,
15:04
Speaker 3: and then huh. So I came home yesterday and immediately
15:06
Speaker 3: put the last two innings on.
15:08
Speaker 2: I was like, I got to see this in person
15:09
Speaker 2: of what I missed.
15:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy, but nice, nice win there and then a
15:15
Speaker 1: chance for the sweep yesterday, and this was more like
15:18
Speaker 1: a Mariner game that we're used to. The Cardinals again,
15:22
Speaker 1: their runs scoring primarily from the solo home run, exclusively
15:27
Speaker 1: yesterday from the solo home run. So Emerson Hancock I
15:30
Speaker 1: thought was terrific yesterday. I know, he gave up seven
15:33
Speaker 1: hits and six innings, but other than the two home runs,
15:36
Speaker 1: I think five bloops. And then he pitched out of
15:40
Speaker 1: the bad luck that he'd had as the Cardinals just
15:43
Speaker 1: kept finding infield singles and mis hits down the third
15:47
Speaker 1: base line that went for double went for a double,
15:50
Speaker 1: and so he pitched his way around that kept the
15:53
Speaker 1: team in the ball game. And then the Mariners tied
15:57
Speaker 1: in the ninth inning, they go to that lefty righty
16:00
Speaker 1: pinch hit situation, uh, and they decided to pinch hit
16:04
Speaker 1: with Luke Rayley. And to me, yes, this is this
16:07
Speaker 1: is fine. Ref Sneyder's starting to click a little bit,
16:10
Speaker 1: and Rayley's not on fire anymore. And so to me,
16:14
Speaker 1: that was the right move yesterday. Let rob reth Schneider
16:18
Speaker 1: lead off that inning. There was a challenge as ref
16:22
Speaker 1: Snyder decided to let one bad call go from the
16:25
Speaker 1: home plate umpire, but not the second, the one that
16:27
Speaker 1: would have punched him out. And that umpire really seemed
16:30
Speaker 1: like he wanted to pump punch him out of that
16:33
Speaker 1: at bat. And so he got a second chance to
16:36
Speaker 1: try to make good. In my goodness, did he get
16:39
Speaker 1: a hold of one. There comes with three two h
16:44
Speaker 1: lefty out to left field and gone, Rob Refsneider a
16:51
Speaker 1: pinch hit, go ahead home run to take the lead
16:56
Speaker 1: in the ninth in Ain't arnaults on the call. Mariner's
17:01
Speaker 1: TV ref Snyder's a second home run as a Mariner.
17:04
Speaker 1: That one is a game winner. As the Ems close
17:09
Speaker 1: it out, Jose Ferrer gets the call and the ninth
17:12
Speaker 1: inning and gets the save. Munos had pitched the previous
17:15
Speaker 1: two nights, so they decide to implement Jose Ferrer. I
17:20
Speaker 1: think you did notice by the way, that maybe a
17:23
Speaker 1: little more emphasis on, you know what, let's try to
17:27
Speaker 1: win these games, yeah, rather than just worry about preserving
17:32
Speaker 1: bulpen arms that shouldn't be tired at this time of
17:36
Speaker 1: the year. And based off of the usage now, they're
17:40
Speaker 1: still they weren't gonna go with Munos on three days,
17:43
Speaker 1: and I'm fine with it. We weren't gonna go with
17:44
Speaker 1: Brash on three days. But certainly it was a weekend
17:48
Speaker 1: where you were hovering around the lead or had the
17:52
Speaker 1: lead throughout the entire weekend and you saw multiple usages.
17:58
Speaker 1: Bizarre to win an inning in a third, yes, yesterday,
18:00
Speaker 1: far Air came back from a what twenty nine pitch
18:03
Speaker 1: outing the day before to pitch that, and everybody look fine,
18:08
Speaker 1: I don't want to overdo it, but I think obviously
18:11
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a change of mindset
18:13
Speaker 1: from Dan Wilson.
18:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
18:14
Speaker 3: It is okay to have a pitcher play a third
18:19
Speaker 3: or go in for a third of an inning and
18:20
Speaker 3: then come.
18:20
Speaker 2: Back for the next inning.
18:22
Speaker 1: That's okay, Yeah, I mean you got to loosen up
18:24
Speaker 1: one of these rules, and that seemed to be one
18:26
Speaker 1: of the rules that they loosened up over the weekend
18:29
Speaker 1: and it results in three straight wins. And I realized
18:31
Speaker 1: for air Camp pitch today and Bizardo's not going to
18:33
Speaker 1: pitch today, and I would imagine Spire's not going to
18:35
Speaker 1: pitch today. But Munjos and Brash, yeah, should both be
18:38
Speaker 1: available today. And hopefully we'll get a Luis Castillo long outing.
18:43
Speaker 1: More on that in a moment, but three to two
18:45
Speaker 1: ends up being your final score. The Mariners win. They're
18:49
Speaker 1: now just a game under five hundred with their four
18:51
Speaker 1: game winning streak. Here's Dan Wilson after this sterling sweep
18:56
Speaker 1: of a weekend. Well, what can you say, A great,
18:59
Speaker 1: great way to cap off this series, what a you know,
19:02
Speaker 1: outstanding series for us today. You know, Emerson just uh
19:08
Speaker 1: he just continues to pitch and you know he went
19:10
Speaker 1: after it and gave us six strong, turned it over
19:13
Speaker 1: to look to the bullpen. Bullpen again continues to to
19:16
Speaker 1: throw the ball extremely well and uh, you know, we
19:19
Speaker 1: was able to slam the door on the Cardinals today.
19:23
Speaker 1: I think offensively, you know, as we talked about before,
19:26
Speaker 1: you know, it's a momentum game. And when they score
19:28
Speaker 1: and then we come right back and score, that makes it, uh,
19:31
Speaker 1: you know, a lot tougher on them, and and we
19:33
Speaker 1: were able to do that twice. And then you know,
19:35
Speaker 1: getting ref in there and you know, putting up a
19:38
Speaker 1: really good at bat with the abs challenge, just an
19:41
Speaker 1: incredible av there sequencing and uh giving us the huge
19:46
Speaker 1: lift right there to to get us ahead and then
19:48
Speaker 1: turn the ball over to Twokey there. Just all around
19:52
Speaker 1: good win and you know, we played a couple of
19:54
Speaker 1: close ones here. Actually all three were close. You know,
19:57
Speaker 1: the first in the last were a little bit more
19:59
Speaker 1: low scoring, a lot more pitching, but some good baseball
20:03
Speaker 1: and keep Keith Moleman and rollins with Minnesota Dan Wilson
20:07
Speaker 1: after the three to two winn and after the sweep
20:09
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis. Yeah, they were all close and the
20:13
Speaker 1: big hero good to see Rob Refsnyder with the home
20:16
Speaker 1: run ends up being the game winner. Cal also homered yesterday.
20:20
Speaker 1: That's six on the season for him. He's got his
20:22
Speaker 1: batting average up over two hundred. As we discussed on Friday,
20:26
Speaker 1: Josh Naylor, who did not play yesterday because of a
20:29
Speaker 1: quad entry. Hopefully that's going to be all right. But
20:31
Speaker 1: he got his batting average up over two hundred. And again,
20:35
Speaker 1: no one satisfied with two hundred batting averages from cal
20:39
Speaker 1: Raleigh and from Josh Naylor. But you had to get
20:42
Speaker 1: over two hundred before you can get up near two
20:44
Speaker 1: fifty and beyond.
20:45
Speaker 2: That's the way it works.
20:46
Speaker 1: And Julio is up to two fifty. So they are
20:51
Speaker 1: certainly out of their ice cold starts that they had
20:55
Speaker 1: to this season. And lo and behold, we're starting to
20:58
Speaker 1: win more consistently because of that production in the middle
21:02
Speaker 1: of the order. So it's a sweep in Saint Louis
21:06
Speaker 1: over the Cardinals and not much rest here for a
21:09
Speaker 1: team that's played a lot of baseball so far this year.
21:11
Speaker 1: They'll play their thirtieth game of the year tonight. They'll
21:14
Speaker 1: be in Minnesota against the Twins. First pitches at four forty.
21:18
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo starts for the Mariners. I believe it's pre Lip.
21:22
Speaker 1: It might be pre Lip Connor Prelip from the Minnesota Twins.
21:27
Speaker 1: I don't know much about him. He's had one start
21:30
Speaker 1: in his major league career. He only lasted four innings.
21:33
Speaker 1: The one thing I do know about him is that
21:35
Speaker 1: he has left handed Oh but suddenly that doesn't seem
21:39
Speaker 1: as much of a death sentence as it did a
21:42
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago with ref Snyder starting to come
21:44
Speaker 1: out of it. Even Garver's had some good at bats
21:46
Speaker 1: here as of late, and Connor Joe had I really
21:49
Speaker 1: big at bat yesterday in the contest. And so you're
21:53
Speaker 1: gonna see the righty's implemented in this game, I'm sure
21:57
Speaker 1: as we get ready to take on the Minnesota Twins.
22:00
Speaker 1: And kind of similar to Saint Louis, this was not
22:02
Speaker 1: a team that was supposed to get off to a
22:04
Speaker 1: good start Minnesota, but they did, and now they've kind
22:07
Speaker 1: of settled back down to earth. They have lost five
22:11
Speaker 1: straight games, so they're a scuffling team as they start
22:14
Speaker 1: this series with the Mariners, and hopefully we're just ready
22:17
Speaker 1: to blow past all of these pretenders.
22:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would like to see what we saw
22:21
Speaker 3: over the weekend where different people are contributing throughout the
22:25
Speaker 3: different games. I mean, that was one of the most
22:26
Speaker 3: fun parts, is I mean seeing Leo Revas, you know,
22:29
Speaker 3: get the hit that puts us up ahead.
22:31
Speaker 2: On Saturday and seeing Ref Schneider do it yesterday. I mean,
22:33
Speaker 2: that's the best.
22:34
Speaker 1: And I want to say this, I'm glad because it
22:37
Speaker 1: triggered something. And this has to be said. Cole Young
22:40
Speaker 1: was fantastic this weekend. I mean defensively for more than
22:45
Speaker 1: anything else. But he had some big hits. He had
22:48
Speaker 1: a big home run. You know, he had the great
22:51
Speaker 1: spring training and then he got off to a really
22:53
Speaker 1: good start and then he kind of went into a
22:55
Speaker 1: cold spell there for a little while, and you were,
22:58
Speaker 1: you know, man, okay, young man. We can't have the
23:01
Speaker 1: same patience as we did a year ago. So hopefully,
23:05
Speaker 1: you know, you're gonna come out of this soon. And
23:07
Speaker 1: he's come out of it in a big way. And
23:09
Speaker 1: he is playing gold Glove caliber defense right now at
23:12
Speaker 1: second base, so I think he's gonna end up being
23:14
Speaker 1: a really, really good player.
23:16
Speaker 2: Excellent, all right.
23:17
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we've yet to talk about the NFL Draft.
23:20
Speaker 1: Greg Bell is going to be with us at seven
23:21
Speaker 1: oh five, but we'll beat him to the punch and
23:24
Speaker 1: talk about what the Seahawks did over the weekend. Sports
23:27
Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, Wow Greig Ballot seven
23:39
Speaker 1: oh five Today, Hugh Milling at eight o'clock till ten o'clock.
23:42
Speaker 1: That's right, Monday morning, quarterback Draft style today right here
23:46
Speaker 1: on Chuck Them Back in the Morning Sports Radio ninety
23:48
Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. Great to have you with us.
23:51
Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan is here. My name is Chuck Powell. Coming
23:54
Speaker 1: off another fantastic weather weekend. Hope you got to enjoy that.
23:58
Speaker 1: Hopefully you cast some of our FL draft coverage. Maybe
24:01
Speaker 1: you combined the two. I just kept picturing a bunch
24:04
Speaker 1: of Seahawks fans having just mowed the grass, popping their
24:08
Speaker 1: first beer, and then you know, just sitting out there
24:10
Speaker 1: in the lawn chair listening to draft coverage on their
24:13
Speaker 1: favorite radio station. That was the image that I came
24:16
Speaker 1: up with. I don't know image, Maybe maybe it doesn't
24:19
Speaker 1: fit one person out there.
24:20
Speaker 2: It was a good that's a good image for this weekend.
24:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's that's what I was thinking.
24:25
Speaker 1: That's what was getting me through the hard times. Yeah.
24:28
Speaker 1: But yes, we do have NFL Draft to break down
24:31
Speaker 1: with our experts today, and the Seahawks ended up having
24:36
Speaker 1: one of those drafts where I said it Saturday when
24:40
Speaker 1: you open up your favorite websites or you know, if
24:44
Speaker 1: you still do the newspapers, get ready because you're going
24:47
Speaker 1: to see a lot of b's and B pluses. People
24:50
Speaker 1: are gonna say as a solid draft, nothing spectacular. It's
24:55
Speaker 1: hard to be spectacular when you only have four picks
24:58
Speaker 1: going into a draft and you are also a team
25:02
Speaker 1: without needs, and you're the Super Bowl champion. Yeah, and
25:06
Speaker 1: you're selecting last in every single round. So to come
25:09
Speaker 1: away with b's and B pluses, I figured that most
25:13
Speaker 1: of the experts were going to view it as you
25:17
Speaker 1: know what, they did what they needed to do. What
25:20
Speaker 1: few holes they had, they ended up filling him. Now,
25:23
Speaker 1: Mike McDonald said, we weren't looking for specific body types
25:27
Speaker 1: to replace the guys we left, and yet you drafted
25:30
Speaker 1: specific body types to replace the guys you left. So
25:34
Speaker 1: I don't know why they get so bothered by this.
25:37
Speaker 1: This is just I mean, it's pretty cut and dry.
25:41
Speaker 1: The best, the highest paid free agent they lost was
25:44
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP Ken Walker, and so with the first pick,
25:47
Speaker 1: they took a running back to theoretically replace him, to
25:52
Speaker 1: be the RB one and probably be used similarly. You know,
25:57
Speaker 1: he's not going to be a twenty five to thirty
26:00
Speaker 1: touches a game kind of running back. He's gonna be
26:02
Speaker 1: probably a twelve to fifteen touches per game type of
26:06
Speaker 1: running back, but I think he'll get more touches than
26:08
Speaker 1: anybody else. So they replaced Ken Walker with their first
26:13
Speaker 1: round pick and Jadarian Price. Then on Friday, you know,
26:17
Speaker 1: the second biggest free agent that you lost this offseason
26:20
Speaker 1: money wise was Kobe Bryant. And what was he He
26:24
Speaker 1: was a cornerback turned safety with hybrid skills in the secondary,
26:29
Speaker 1: who was an experienced guy who received a lot of
26:32
Speaker 1: accolades in college and can probably play either position and
26:36
Speaker 1: very intelligent football player. And so what did you replace
26:40
Speaker 1: him with? TCU safety Bud Clark who had six years
26:44
Speaker 1: of experience in college and started a lot of games
26:48
Speaker 1: for them and had accolades in college. And even though
26:52
Speaker 1: he starts as a safety, he has cornerback hybrid skills
26:56
Speaker 1: that he can introduce to the table and kind of
26:58
Speaker 1: feels like he is the new Kobe Bryant.
27:01
Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah.
27:02
Speaker 1: And then the third biggest free agent you lost probably
27:05
Speaker 1: boy A Mafe was probably third, but then Reeke Wolan
27:08
Speaker 1: And what did you do with your second pick on Friday?
27:12
Speaker 1: With a ninety ninth pick. After trading down and picking
27:14
Speaker 1: up an extra pick, you got a long cornerback. And yeah,
27:17
Speaker 1: he's not a replica of Reek Wollan. He's not near
27:21
Speaker 1: the athlete, but he might be a little feistier based
27:24
Speaker 1: off of what we've heard about his game and his
27:28
Speaker 1: interview which is now famous on Friday Night. But Julian
27:32
Speaker 1: Neil six 's two and change long rangey cornerback, and yeah,
27:37
Speaker 1: maybe you're not trying to replace Reek Woolan, but you
27:41
Speaker 1: do sort of have to accept the fact that in
27:44
Speaker 1: the NFL a lot of teams have long rangey wide
27:47
Speaker 1: receivers and it wouldn't kill us to have a long
27:51
Speaker 1: rangey corner back to match up with him. So they
27:54
Speaker 1: did that. Plus John Schneider made a bunch of moves
27:57
Speaker 1: on Saturday, so he didn't end up with just four picks.
28:00
Speaker 1: He ended up with eight for goodness sake. And so
28:02
Speaker 1: that's the type of weekend it was. It was just
28:04
Speaker 1: a weekend of I dotting and T crossing and whole filling.
28:09
Speaker 1: And even though they weren't crater like holes, certainly we
28:13
Speaker 1: were concerned about a few areas. They didn't satisfy the
28:17
Speaker 1: edge rusher. But they have the entire offseason, they've got
28:20
Speaker 1: the waiver wire, they're gonna have cuts during training camp.
28:23
Speaker 1: They got all sorts of ways to try to find
28:26
Speaker 1: some edge rushing help before the start of the season.
28:29
Speaker 1: So to me, it was just check a bunch of boxes.
28:31
Speaker 1: That's all the weekend was. And I don't know if
28:33
Speaker 1: they got great value, but they got solid value on
28:36
Speaker 1: everything they did. Yeah.
28:37
Speaker 3: I walked away thinking, Okay, we did our job. We
28:40
Speaker 3: got we filled some holes that we really did need to.
28:42
Speaker 3: I would have been disappointed had we not gotten a
28:44
Speaker 3: running back.
28:45
Speaker 2: We did that.
28:45
Speaker 3: We We've got some great new additions to our backfield.
28:49
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'm good.
28:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so and then and then what did they
28:54
Speaker 1: get these and B pluses? Yeah? Pretty much. I saw one.
28:57
Speaker 1: Did you see it? Who? Today?
29:02
Speaker 2: I think it was USA?
29:03
Speaker 1: Oh was that right?
29:04
Speaker 2: Okay?
29:04
Speaker 1: I didn't know. If it was like John Schneider.
29:07
Speaker 2: That would have been really funny.
29:08
Speaker 1: I gave us an a.
29:10
Speaker 2: I gave us an a A plus.
29:12
Speaker 1: Actually, all right, well we'll ask Greg Bell about it
29:15
Speaker 1: at seven oh five plus your headlines, which we really
29:17
Speaker 1: didn't get to in our last hour. Sports Radio ninety
29:20
Speaker 1: three point three kJ r f m