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- 0:50Speaker 1: Oh good Wednesday morning to you all, and I mean
- 0:52Speaker 1: all of you, even some of you jerks out there.
- 0:55Speaker 1: I just don't say good morning to all the wonderful
- 0:57Speaker 1: people that listen. Ninety seven points six percent of our audience,
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- 1:05Speaker 1: three I can't read it all.
- 1:06Speaker 6: Okay, good morning to any of those turns.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Well, I want to include them. I do want to
- 1:11Speaker 1: win them over to But anyway, you know who you are,
- 1:14Speaker 1: you know what label we've put on you.
- 1:16Speaker 6: You're a lot nicer than I am. Chuck.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Well, well, actually one of us has got to be
- 1:21Speaker 1: just you know, get me. You're tired your week you're home.
- 1:23Speaker 1: That is you, that is me. I'm practically the statue
- 1:26Speaker 1: of liberty. It is Chuck, Buck and Ashley here. Good morning, everybody,
- 1:31Speaker 1: and welcome into this hump day edition of Chuck and
- 1:34Speaker 1: Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
- 1:37Speaker 1: We got you for four hours today, and my goodness.
- 1:41Speaker 1: I mean there are busy shows, which usually they are
- 1:45Speaker 1: these days. I don't just make that up. That's just
- 1:47Speaker 1: not a crutch that the old talk show hosts yous.
- 1:50Speaker 1: I don't even remember the last time we didn't have
- 1:52Speaker 1: a busy show. But today I mean juicy as sports
- 1:58Speaker 1: radio topics. I mean, if you are wanting a juicy
- 2:01Speaker 1: sports radio topic, the sports world has cooperated because we've
- 2:06Speaker 1: got seventeen of them today and I don't even know
- 2:09Speaker 1: we can even get to all of them before ten
- 2:11Speaker 1: o'clock hits. So settled in, welcome in, and I think
- 2:15Speaker 1: we just dive right in because I could have gone
- 2:18Speaker 1: with a lot of different things to lead the show today,
- 2:21Speaker 1: but I think we got to start with the WBC
- 2:25Speaker 1: last night, and not just because America lost to Italy,
- 2:30Speaker 1: which I've got plenty of thoughts on that, but not
- 2:33Speaker 1: just because they lost in the WBC. But maybe the
- 2:37Speaker 1: bigger story is that the manager Mark DeRosa, who Bucky
- 2:43Speaker 1: is a good friend with and was teammates with, and
- 2:46Speaker 1: who I think from a analyst standpoint, might be one
- 2:50Speaker 1: of my favorite in any sport in all of the world.
- 2:54Speaker 1: And we both like that he's the manager of Team America.
- 2:58Speaker 1: But he might not have understood the rules of the
- 3:03Speaker 1: pool play for how you advance. He had said yesterday
- 3:08Speaker 1: with his friends at MLB Network yesterday morning that they
- 3:13Speaker 1: had already punched their ticket to the next round. Then
- 3:17Speaker 1: last night, in a game where he didn't have a
- 3:20Speaker 1: couple of normal starters in the game, and his pitching
- 3:23Speaker 1: decisions were a bit head scratching at times, even to
- 3:27Speaker 1: the point where Clayton Kershaw, who looks like he weighs
- 3:30Speaker 1: like three to ten right now, is warming up in
- 3:33Speaker 1: the bullpen when it looks like you're going to lose
- 3:37Speaker 1: and it might come down to run prevention in terms
- 3:41Speaker 1: of whether or not you even get to go beyond
- 3:44Speaker 1: pool play. You might get edged out by Italy and Mexico.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, there was an alarm that
- 3:51Speaker 1: went off. He brings Mason Miller into the bullpen and
- 3:54Speaker 1: then Clayton Kershaw was not put into the baseball gameh
- 4:00Speaker 1: eight to six, and if you've given yourself a chance
- 4:04Speaker 1: to get into the you know, the championship tournament here.
- 4:09Speaker 1: But afterwards, Mark Durosa had to answer for it. He
- 4:13Speaker 1: claimed he misspoke, But people aren't really buying it, Bucky.
- 4:17Speaker 1: People think that this entire coaching staff that had sat
- 4:21Speaker 1: up the night before with players drinking beer and telling
- 4:25Speaker 1: stories in the locker room to the degree that a
- 4:28Speaker 1: couple of them weren't good to go last night, did
- 4:32Speaker 1: not understand that you that not You are not in
- 4:36Speaker 1: the next round. You have not clenched your spot in
- 4:40Speaker 1: the next round. And now all of a sudden, they're
- 4:43Speaker 1: hanging in the balance. If Mexico wins today four to two,
- 4:48Speaker 1: the US is out of the entire WBC. So he's
- 4:54Speaker 1: got some splaining to do. And I'm not sure anybody's
- 4:58Speaker 1: gonna buy his his answers or his explanation at this point.
- 5:02Speaker 1: So bad night last night for Team America, but a
- 5:06Speaker 1: lot worse than what it even looked like on the surface.
- 5:10Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I mean the the I mean, first and foremost,
- 5:13Speaker 7: you know, to lose to Italy is not good. That said,
- 5:17Speaker 7: there's I read something I think it was from Pat
- 5:22Speaker 7: McAfee yesterday, who was just hell, in the heck do
- 5:25Speaker 7: you lose to Italy? Right like, I mean, yeah, if
- 5:27Speaker 7: we lose to in soccer, that's one thing. Or a
- 5:29Speaker 7: cooking contest that's another. It wasn't that's baseball. But first
- 5:33Speaker 7: of all, it wasn't Italy. That was Team America JV.
- 5:36Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Well yeah, not one player was from Italy. Actually one
- 5:39Speaker 1: player was from Italy, right, yeah.
- 5:41Speaker 7: I mean typically most of these guys are American born
- 5:44Speaker 7: and they just have some something in their heritage that
- 5:48Speaker 7: leads them down the path where they can play for Italy.
- 5:50Speaker 7: I mean, I to be honest, back when it was
- 5:53Speaker 7: the Olympics, there was an opportunity at one point in time,
- 5:56Speaker 7: kind of it never really panned out to anything. My
- 5:59Speaker 7: ex was Italian half Italian dad, born and raised in Italy,
- 6:03Speaker 7: and there was a chance that I could have been
- 6:05Speaker 7: married to her played for Team Italy. I don't have
- 6:08Speaker 7: an Italian cell in my body, So it's along those lines.
- 6:12Speaker 7: Just it's kind of different where there's a lot of
- 6:14Speaker 7: people playing on these teams who don't necessarily have any
- 6:17Speaker 7: heritage there, but.
- 6:18Speaker 6: Gods would not have approved.
- 6:19Speaker 1: No, they would not have. And by the way, just
- 6:21Speaker 1: before we I hate that and it's my reckless at breakfast,
- 6:25Speaker 1: just to look ahead. I think it's ridiculous. I think
- 6:29Speaker 1: there was a reason why they weren't really celebrating last night.
- 6:33Speaker 1: They're not Italian. The team is not even being embraced
- 6:38Speaker 1: in Italy, like they don't care. None of those guys
- 6:42Speaker 1: are Italian. Those guys have are of Italian heritage that
- 6:46Speaker 1: are American born, raised, trained. Some of them have never
- 6:50Speaker 1: even been to Italy, and yet they're beating the USA
- 6:53Speaker 1: in a tournament. I wouldn't feel good about it. I
- 6:56Speaker 1: don't think Michael Lorenzen did feel good about it last
- 6:58Speaker 1: night when it was over. Good in theory, seemed like
- 7:01Speaker 1: a good idea in theory, but he was they weren't celebrating.
- 7:04Speaker 1: They're like, oh wait, we weren't expecting to win. Yeah,
- 7:08Speaker 1: But anyway, that gets us off topic.
- 7:10Speaker 7: Well, I mean I just was going to say, I mean,
- 7:12Speaker 7: it's the game of baseball is different. It's not like
- 7:15Speaker 7: the Dream Team, you know. I mean you could put
- 7:17Speaker 7: you could put the second starting five out there of
- 7:20Speaker 7: the Dream Team and they were going to walk over
- 7:23Speaker 7: most of the people back when when that happened what
- 7:25Speaker 7: ninety two or whatever it was.
- 7:27Speaker 1: Baseball's different.
- 7:28Speaker 7: You you end up, you know, putting somebody out there
- 7:30Speaker 7: and gives up a couple of long balls, and you
- 7:33Speaker 7: throw a couple of balls around and give some unearned
- 7:36Speaker 7: runs up, and you could find yourself, you know, a
- 7:38Speaker 7: couple of balls short of you know, a couple of
- 7:42Speaker 7: balls falling on the warning track. You could find yourself
- 7:44Speaker 7: on the losing end when you are a better team,
- 7:46Speaker 7: whether you had all of your starters out there or not.
- 7:48Speaker 7: But I mean the idea of.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Well, it's basically I mean Team America is basically the Dodgers.
- 7:53Speaker 1: I mean it's star after star after star, but not
- 7:56Speaker 1: every single player is a star. Otherwise, Ryan Yarbro's not
- 7:59Speaker 1: on our team. You know a guy that I don't
- 8:01Speaker 1: even think is on a major league roster right now
- 8:04Speaker 1: when we've got we have hundreds to pick from, and
- 8:07Speaker 1: yet he gave up a huge home run last night.
- 8:10Speaker 1: So you know, that Italian team was all major leaguers,
- 8:17Speaker 1: with the exception of one, all major leaguers. So the
- 8:20Speaker 1: A's can beat the Dodgers. The A's swept the Dodgers.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Swept the Dodgers in a series a couple of years
- 8:25Speaker 1: ago when they were at their lowest. The Colorado Rockies
- 8:29Speaker 1: can beat any major League team on any given day,
- 8:31Speaker 1: even though they're probably going to lose one hundred and
- 8:33Speaker 1: twenty games this year. That was the equivalent of it.
- 8:36Speaker 1: It's not that big of an upset. It's like the
- 8:38Speaker 1: Rockies beating the Dodgers in a regular season game. Happens
- 8:43Speaker 1: all the time. As it turns out, that was not
- 8:45Speaker 1: an Italian team, that was an American team. Yeah, that
- 8:48Speaker 1: we lost to you last night.
- 8:49Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I talked to Miles master Bony the
- 8:52Speaker 7: week that I stayed down there and took the family in,
- 8:55Speaker 7: and I asked if he was excited. He goes, yeah,
- 8:57Speaker 7: I mean it's an opportunity to go out there and
- 8:59Speaker 7: kind of do something right. I mean, they weren't expecting
- 9:03Speaker 7: necessarily to go out there and win. And yet that's
- 9:05Speaker 7: the beauty of baseball is that if you can go
- 9:08Speaker 7: out there against a team that's far better than you
- 9:10Speaker 7: are on paper, and yet if they don't play better
- 9:12Speaker 7: than you, I mean, if they don't maximize their opportunities
- 9:16Speaker 7: and you do you find yourself winning. Now the bigger
- 9:19Speaker 7: part of it is the idea of whatever happened the
- 9:22Speaker 7: night before, which at first I read into it as
- 9:25Speaker 7: it was like old school baseball where guys used to
- 9:27Speaker 7: sit in the clubhouse after games and talk about the game,
- 9:30Speaker 7: talk about baseball like they nowadays they can't wait to
- 9:33Speaker 7: put their versace person and walk out and whatever whatever
- 9:37Speaker 7: garb they showed up in that was, you know, really
- 9:40Speaker 7: high fashion. It's the game has changed, And so I
- 9:43Speaker 7: read it first, read it like this team is just
- 9:46Speaker 7: embracing this moment that they get to be on this
- 9:49Speaker 7: superstar team, right, I mean, this is an all star team,
- 9:51Speaker 7: but you get to have USA across your chest. Well,
- 9:54Speaker 7: if that celebration or that camaraderie went so far as
- 9:59Speaker 7: to where not everybody is ready to rock and roll
- 10:01Speaker 7: the next day, or you were you thought your ticket
- 10:03Speaker 7: was already punched, like dro said when he went on
- 10:06Speaker 7: MLB and and and said that, yeah, well it doesn't
- 10:09Speaker 7: really matter what happens. Not knowing the tiebreaker is no,
- 10:11Speaker 7: you lose, And now you know, Italy finds themselves in
- 10:15Speaker 7: the driver's seat and it's the tiebreakers run scored and
- 10:18Speaker 7: you're in third place as of right now, when and
- 10:21Speaker 7: they only to the top two teams end up advancing.
- 10:24Speaker 7: Now you've played that one extra game, so now you're
- 10:26Speaker 7: at the mercy of your destiny is in the hands
- 10:29Speaker 7: of Italy, either winning outright or Mexico. You know, if
- 10:33Speaker 7: they win, then they got to they have to basically
- 10:35Speaker 7: score more than what eight runs or something against against Italy.
- 10:39Speaker 1: So it's there's a couple of different scenarios how that works.
- 10:42Speaker 7: But it's the fact that they thought they were in,
- 10:44Speaker 7: because I don't think it was that dro just misspoke.
- 10:47Speaker 1: I think he thought they were in. I think he
- 10:49Speaker 1: thought they were in while they were playing last night.
- 10:53Speaker 1: I think somebody alerted him to the rules and that's
- 10:56Speaker 1: why he put Kershaw down and got Miller going.
- 11:00Speaker 8: Which that's the part that's baffling. How would you have
- 11:02Speaker 8: not known already know me in the morning. You didn't
- 11:05Speaker 8: know when you were on MLB network, right, and so
- 11:07Speaker 8: then you spoke on It's not a misspeak, right, you
- 11:10Speaker 8: spoke on the information you had or that you believed
- 11:13Speaker 8: at the time. And then but I don't know how somebody,
- 11:16Speaker 8: even with somebody at MLB network, I mean, he's on
- 11:18Speaker 8: the on there with his friends. How does someone after
- 11:21Speaker 8: the interview not say, hey, man, you know you guys.
- 11:23Speaker 6: Haven't punched the ticket, right right? I mean that's all
- 11:27Speaker 6: it takes.
- 11:27Speaker 8: Like, hey, actually, if you don't win tonight, there is
- 11:29Speaker 8: a chance you still you could not make it. I
- 11:32Speaker 8: don't know how he goes all day long and not
- 11:34Speaker 8: one person thinks to say, we should probably tell him
- 11:40Speaker 8: that the US has not punched their ticket. Somebody should
- 11:42Speaker 8: tell him.
- 11:43Speaker 1: I mean, there's got tony somebody on the staff that
- 11:44Speaker 1: that's their job. I would, and I would think that
- 11:47Speaker 1: the manager would make sure that above anything else that
- 11:51Speaker 1: he knew. And I I know, I know Bucky knows
- 11:54Speaker 1: him personally, very fond of d Row and what I
- 11:57Speaker 1: know of him and the see of him. I mean,
- 12:00Speaker 1: I think he'd probably be a rat pack member of mine.
- 12:03Speaker 1: I think I think that I just really like his analysis.
- 12:06Speaker 1: I like his approach to life. He was beloved in
- 12:09Speaker 1: every locker room he's ever been in. But it kind
- 12:12Speaker 1: of feels like he was just celebrating that I'm one
- 12:15Speaker 1: of the guys and I'm gonna create this awesome environment
- 12:18Speaker 1: and we're gonna drink beer and tell stories. And yet
- 12:21Speaker 1: we're gonna be serious about winning it. And yet part
- 12:23Speaker 1: of your responsibility, the main part of your responsibility, is
- 12:28Speaker 1: understanding the tournament you're in, and for him to not
- 12:32Speaker 1: know that as of yesterday morning was bad enough for
- 12:35Speaker 1: him to manage then manage the game as if he
- 12:39Speaker 1: didn't understand the rules. And I say this a lot
- 12:44Speaker 1: there there's unforgivable and then there's inexplainable. There are a
- 12:49Speaker 1: lot of things in life that are forgivable, but in
- 12:52Speaker 1: the moment that's not explainable. How did you not know that?
- 12:55Speaker 1: This is both like and I'm not saying as a
- 12:58Speaker 1: human being, we can forgive Mark Duros as a human
- 13:00Speaker 1: being for not understanding those roles. But as manager of
- 13:05Speaker 1: Team America, you're fired, even if you come back and
- 13:09Speaker 1: win this thing. How you don't know that you hadn't
- 13:13Speaker 1: punched your ticket and it didn't feel like you did
- 13:17Speaker 1: know until the eighth inning of a game last night.
- 13:21Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how You're right. I don't
- 13:23Speaker 1: know how somebody else doesn't know on the entire coaching staff.
- 13:27Speaker 1: But that is his main responsibility. He's got to know
- 13:32Speaker 1: what it takes to manage a game, even if you
- 13:35Speaker 1: have to lose the game, what it's going to take
- 13:38Speaker 1: to get into the next round. There's no excuse for it,
- 13:41Speaker 1: just no excuse for it.
- 13:43Speaker 7: Well, I'm not one hundred percent I didn't necessarily watching
- 13:45Speaker 7: the game feel like he didn't know it then even
- 13:48Speaker 7: going into it, like, oh boy, wait a second, you
- 13:51Speaker 7: didn't recognize what the rules were. And I'm with you
- 13:55Speaker 7: to me, it's one of those come on, dude, like
- 13:57Speaker 7: if he was sitting here in on a you you
- 14:01Speaker 7: need to know that that is your if there's one
- 14:03Speaker 7: main responsibility, because writing the lineup, you could do it
- 14:06Speaker 7: blindfolded and you're not going to write a bad one.
- 14:08Speaker 7: Not with this team. Now that the pitching staff is different, Yeah,
- 14:13Speaker 7: you have the two best pitchers, but you're going to
- 14:17Speaker 7: be limited as to how much you can use any
- 14:19Speaker 7: of these arms, and so that part of it kind
- 14:20Speaker 7: of weighs in. I think I wouldn't be surprised if
- 14:24Speaker 7: if after that interview somebody did tell him, whether it's
- 14:27Speaker 7: a somebody on the coaching staff or somebody at MLB
- 14:30Speaker 7: Network or just something. Somebody probably told him. He's like,
- 14:33Speaker 7: oh wow, But he wasn't going to change up the
- 14:36Speaker 7: blueprint that he had for the game initially, like I
- 14:40Speaker 7: don't think he wasn't going to come in. They're like,
- 14:41Speaker 7: well we got to start somebody different, or the first
- 14:43Speaker 7: guy that I have up is going to be different.
- 14:46Speaker 7: Now I think maybe you should have had you known
- 14:49Speaker 7: going into it, like wow, I can't believe Italy is
- 14:52Speaker 7: three and oh at this point. And that puts them
- 14:54Speaker 7: in the driver's seat if we lose this ballgame. So
- 14:56Speaker 7: if we fall behind by three, because our starter is
- 15:01Speaker 7: not necessarily part, I wouldn't put him as part of
- 15:03Speaker 7: a dream team or Yarboro, the guy that they brought
- 15:06Speaker 7: in who gave up the runs, the big runs after that,
- 15:10Speaker 7: even Keller for that matter. I mean, if he can
- 15:13Speaker 7: just throw the ball to second base like an athlete,
- 15:16Speaker 7: that doesn't cost you a couple of runs. And yet,
- 15:19Speaker 7: to me, the idea of you have to adjust on
- 15:22Speaker 7: the fly when it comes to at least your relievers,
- 15:25Speaker 7: how you're going to do that once you fall behind,
- 15:27Speaker 7: because I mean they went out there and basically gave
- 15:30Speaker 7: up some runs and then base and then at that
- 15:32Speaker 7: point like bled a couple more and those couple runs
- 15:35Speaker 7: what could come back to Hanum in the long run.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Yeah, And I look you're a little bit beholden to. Again,
- 15:41Speaker 1: these are major league players getting ready for a major
- 15:43Speaker 1: league season. I don't have a problem with Paul Goldschmidt's
- 15:45Speaker 1: starting last night or Ernie Clement getting a start here
- 15:48Speaker 1: and there. I mean, they have to get there at bats.
- 15:50Speaker 1: You are responsible to those teams from whom you've plucked
- 15:54Speaker 1: one of their players. They still have to get ready
- 15:57Speaker 1: for the season. You need to get them at bats.
- 15:59Speaker 1: So you know, that's fine with me. But on the
- 16:04Speaker 1: on the flip side of that, when I've got broadcasters
- 16:08Speaker 1: telling a story on the air about how special it
- 16:12Speaker 1: was that they sat around all night telling stories and
- 16:14Speaker 1: drinking beer, and then DeRosa again steps in it in
- 16:19Speaker 1: that same interview and says, hey, we got a couple
- 16:21Speaker 1: guys aren't going to be aren't gonna be feeling too
- 16:23Speaker 1: good today? Yeah, and those are the guys that aren't
- 16:26Speaker 1: in the lineup. I mean, it is just a horrendous
- 16:31Speaker 1: look on him on Team America's approach. And they played
- 16:37Speaker 1: listlessly at times last night.
- 16:39Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, I was gonna say those defensive mistakes
- 16:42Speaker 8: knowing like when you go back and look at those
- 16:43Speaker 8: defensive mistakes, you're like, oh, well, that's kind of like
- 16:46Speaker 8: some guys that aren't feeling very well, that's kind of
- 16:48Speaker 8: how they played.
- 16:49Speaker 6: It is like, oh, this is a little rough.
- 16:51Speaker 1: And maybe didn't have anything to do with it.
- 16:52Speaker 8: Didn't You can't help but think about it because now
- 16:55Speaker 8: you know it, right, Yeah, And.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Look, Major leaguers have played plenty of games the next
- 16:59Speaker 1: day where they had one or two too many the
- 17:02Speaker 1: night before. But if they spent the day not being
- 17:07Speaker 1: not realizing what the rules were and they needed to
- 17:11Speaker 1: be sharpah, because the manager never informed them, Hey, if
- 17:16Speaker 1: we lose this game, we can't lose. We have to
- 17:20Speaker 1: be careful on how many runs that we give up,
- 17:23Speaker 1: because it's not run differential, it is how many runs
- 17:27Speaker 1: that you allow. And then there's some weird formula from that.
- 17:30Speaker 1: And I'm not exactly sure what the number is because
- 17:33Speaker 1: I saw two different ones myself. I read this morning
- 17:36Speaker 1: that it's five if even if Mexico wins, if they
- 17:39Speaker 1: score more than five runs in winning, then US gets in.
- 17:44Speaker 1: But I also saw last night a graphic that said
- 17:47Speaker 1: it was like eight or nine. But I can just
- 17:50Speaker 1: go based on what I saw off of ESPN, I
- 17:53Speaker 1: would think that they know here this morning, so there
- 17:57Speaker 1: still is a good chance that the US gets in,
- 18:00Speaker 1: and if Italy beats Mexico, US is in. Even if
- 18:03Speaker 1: Mexico wins, they can't score x amount of runs. I
- 18:07Speaker 1: read this morning that that's five okay, all right, but
- 18:11Speaker 1: doesn't change the conversation about whether or not Team America's
- 18:16Speaker 1: manager was too busy trying to be funny one of
- 18:21Speaker 1: the guys, guy versus the responsibility of knowing what it
- 18:26Speaker 1: takes for Team USA to win the WBC.
- 18:30Speaker 8: Yeah, like after that bad look, after we beat Mexico,
- 18:33Speaker 8: I said, two five iron, Okay, we're not in, right,
- 18:37Speaker 8: We're not in yet, right like literally after the game,
- 18:39Speaker 8: I said, He said, right, because we play Italy tomorrow.
- 18:42Speaker 8: And then I say, and win to Italy and Mexico play,
- 18:44Speaker 8: he said wednesday.
- 18:45Speaker 6: I said, okay, so we got to win tomorrow. I
- 18:48Speaker 6: mean I need that, and I'm not managing a team.
- 18:50Speaker 6: That was the first thing I thought.
- 18:51Speaker 1: Of, The first thing that you should think of. As
- 18:53Speaker 1: soon as the game is over, do your celebration, as
- 18:55Speaker 1: soon as do your little speech. Nice job, fellas, sit
- 18:58Speaker 1: at your desk, get with your coaches. All right, what
- 19:01Speaker 1: do we have to do tomorrow? What? What? What? What
- 19:05Speaker 1: are the things we have to be aware of? Should
- 19:07Speaker 1: be the first thing, and it was not done.
- 19:10Speaker 6: No, it's disappointing.
- 19:12Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, is what it is. All Right, let's find
- 19:15Speaker 1: out what's on tap for the rest of the show.
- 19:19Speaker 1: What's on t what's on tech? All right, So Italy
- 19:23Speaker 1: and Mexico at four o'clock, I just kind of explained
- 19:25Speaker 1: what's at stake Italy again. We'll play a pitcher that
- 19:29Speaker 1: we can kind of trust to get the job done
- 19:32Speaker 1: because he's an American train in America.
- 19:35Speaker 6: Perfect.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Yeah, born raised, probably never been to Italy. But Aaron
- 19:40Speaker 1: Nola gets the start for Italy. I don't think Mexico
- 19:42Speaker 1: has announced its starter yet. Randy and cal I thought
- 19:46Speaker 1: there was a chance we'd lead with handshake Gate, and
- 19:49Speaker 1: there is some information to pass along. Apparently cal did
- 19:52Speaker 1: reach out to Randy after the game, but via text,
- 19:56Speaker 1: and it sounds like Randy did not text back. So
- 20:00Speaker 1: we've got a situation. We've got a situation on our
- 20:03Speaker 1: hands that we're going to have to discuss later on
- 20:06Speaker 1: in the show. Meanwhile, Mariner's spring training back in Peoria.
- 20:10Speaker 1: The MS won over Kansas City four to three yesterday,
- 20:13Speaker 1: They'll play again today against Colorado at one o'clock, and
- 20:16Speaker 1: it'd be nice to see Luis Castillo pitch well because
- 20:18Speaker 1: he did not pitch well in his last outing. College basketball.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Zags win another conference tournament championship. Yeah, yeah, the incredible
- 20:31Speaker 1: story of Gonzaga basketball does continue. But obviously that's not
- 20:36Speaker 1: enough to satisfy the masses these days. So the Zags
- 20:41Speaker 1: have punched their ticket to the They have punched their ticket.
- 20:44Speaker 1: They will be in the nc Celebrate right. There will
- 20:48Speaker 1: be no tiebreaker. They are in the NCAA tournament again.
- 20:52Speaker 1: Big Ten Tournament started yesterday. U Doub will play today. It's,
- 20:56Speaker 1: of course, an elimination game. It's at eleven thirty taking
- 20:59Speaker 1: on the us USC Trojans. Right here at Sports Radio
- 21:02Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM. Bam Ada Bio scored eighty
- 21:06Speaker 1: three points for the Miami Heat last night. You heard
- 21:09Speaker 1: me correctly. Yes, that's crazy. You're not dreaming this. Bam
- 21:13Speaker 1: at A Baio, a defensive specialist, scored eighty three points
- 21:17Speaker 1: last night in a single NBA game. But that too
- 21:21Speaker 1: is wrapped in controversy. We'll talk about that at six
- 21:24Speaker 1: forty five. Today, Predators beat the Kraken Cracking are losers again.
- 21:30Speaker 1: Three straight losses for the Kraken. They still don't have
- 21:33Speaker 1: Bobby McMahon activated on their roster. We'll talk to Al
- 21:36Speaker 1: Koniski about that at nine thirty today. And of course,
- 21:39Speaker 1: there is the National Football League, which we all assumed
- 21:42Speaker 1: would be the top story every single day this week.
- 21:45Speaker 1: First day a free agency is actually today. The NFL
- 21:49Speaker 1: year gets started today. Greg Bell will be with us
- 21:51Speaker 1: at seven oh five. Of course, the tampering period came
- 21:54Speaker 1: to an end yesterday and so much activity, including Reek
- 21:58Speaker 1: Woolen finally finding his new address. He's going to the
- 22:01Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles on a one year, fifteen million dollar deal.
- 22:04Speaker 1: Hugh Millen will also join us today at eight o'clock.
- 22:07Speaker 1: And again, if you have not been following the sports
- 22:11Speaker 1: news and you were relying on us this morning, Max
- 22:15Speaker 1: Crosby is available again in trade. The Ravens mixed the
- 22:20Speaker 1: trade with the Ravens yesterday, right before the first official
- 22:24Speaker 1: day of the year. They did not like what they
- 22:27Speaker 1: saw in the physical and so they have nixed the trade.
- 22:30Speaker 1: So Max Crosby is again a Raider and the trade
- 22:34Speaker 1: talk has started anew and the Seahawks are once again
- 22:37Speaker 1: apparently involved and so.
- 22:39Speaker 6: And now Trey Hendrickson is a raven?
- 22:42Speaker 1: Did that happen this morning? Huh Yeah. A lot of
- 22:44Speaker 1: people were speculating for.
- 22:45Speaker 6: Year one hundred and twelve million dollar.
- 22:46Speaker 1: Content, which adds another layer, a suspicious layer to all
- 22:50Speaker 1: of this, which we will discuss next. Sports Radio ninety
- 22:52Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM points.
- 23:01Speaker 5: Mama, we feel your joy. The second highest scoring game
- 23:06Speaker 5: in NBA history. Second moved lead to Wilt Chamberlain's one
- 23:10Speaker 5: hundred point game in Hershey, Pennsylvania against the New York Next.
- 23:14Speaker 1: When he was playing for Philadelphia, Hey, Kenny v.
- 23:27Speaker 5: Eighty three, eighty three points for Bam out of BYO.
- 23:35Speaker 1: All right, done this? It is an hour long sports
- 23:38Speaker 1: talk radio conversation. I got four minutes. Bam out of
- 23:42Speaker 1: BYO last night scored eighty three points for the Miami Heat.
- 23:45Speaker 1: That's right, that Bam out of Bio, the defensive specialist
- 23:48Speaker 1: who has developed an offensive game midway through his career.
- 23:53Speaker 1: He did enter the game averaging eighteen points, but his
- 23:57Speaker 1: season high point total this year was thirty two until
- 24:00Speaker 1: last night when he scored eighty three points in a
- 24:04Speaker 1: single game. And that should be celebrated, you would think,
- 24:07Speaker 1: but it's receiving a lot more criticism than it is
- 24:10Speaker 1: praise because of how he got to his eighty three points.
- 24:13Speaker 1: Number One, he shot forty three times from the floor.
- 24:16Speaker 1: Didn't even shoot fifty percent from the floor, so we're
- 24:18Speaker 1: not even talking about like a hotted shooter here. He
- 24:21Speaker 1: shot forty three free throws thirty six attempts forty three
- 24:25Speaker 1: free throws in the game, which I do believe is
- 24:27Speaker 1: an NBA record. The Washington Wizards in the fourth quarter,
- 24:32Speaker 1: Eric Spolstro was fouling the Wizards to stop the clock
- 24:37Speaker 1: so that at Abaiyo could get more time to get
- 24:41Speaker 1: more field goal and free throw attempts. They were designing
- 24:45Speaker 1: every single play for him in the second half. Nobody
- 24:48Speaker 1: else was even part of the offense, so there was
- 24:51Speaker 1: nothing natural about it. There was nothing in the flow
- 24:54Speaker 1: of the game about it. Basically, this is somebody that
- 24:57Speaker 1: had a red hot first quarter, had scored thirty one points.
- 25:01Speaker 1: He had a pretty decent second quarter where he had
- 25:04Speaker 1: forty three at halftime, and the Miami Heat decided we're
- 25:07Speaker 1: taking on the terrible Wizards. Let's just make this all
- 25:10Speaker 1: about how many points we can get bam out of Bayo,
- 25:13Speaker 1: And so that's how the second half was spent. And
- 25:16Speaker 1: even though Kobe's wasn't exactly as eighty one in the
- 25:20Speaker 1: flow of things, and I'm sure Wilt's, even though we
- 25:23Speaker 1: don't have video proof of it, was probably not in
- 25:25Speaker 1: the flow of the game. Wilt Chamberlain averaged fifty fifty
- 25:30Speaker 1: point four points per game that year, versus a defensive
- 25:34Speaker 1: stopper who usually just gets dunks, scoring eighty three points
- 25:39Speaker 1: on a night where his team, the officials, and the
- 25:44Speaker 1: rules of the NBA allowed him to have this historic evening.
- 25:49Speaker 1: As we wake up this morning, more people are criticizing
- 25:51Speaker 1: this achievement than praising it.
- 25:53Speaker 7: Well, it's hard for me to think that you can
- 25:54Speaker 7: get to one hundred points or eighty points, or being
- 25:58Speaker 7: seventy sixty points without out there being some sort of
- 26:01Speaker 7: drastic attempt at the number. Right, they're going after it, right,
- 26:07Speaker 7: I mean, it just it isn't typically the way that
- 26:09Speaker 7: it's going to happen. I mean, you're you usually have
- 26:12Speaker 7: to if it's a tight game, then you're using all
- 26:15Speaker 7: your entire team, and you're slowing it down at times,
- 26:18Speaker 7: and if you have the lead, you're like well, we can't.
- 26:20Speaker 7: We're not rushing down there and trying to get as
- 26:22Speaker 7: many shots up as possible. I think there's probably room
- 26:26Speaker 7: for criticism on every single time that somebody has some
- 26:29Speaker 7: crazy game like this. But that said, I mean it's
- 26:33Speaker 7: like I kind of when I saw it last night,
- 26:35Speaker 7: I was like, wow, eighty three points.
- 26:36Speaker 1: That's impressive.
- 26:36Speaker 7: Well, I mean impressive, And then when you start diving
- 26:39Speaker 7: into it, there's obviously some help from if you are
- 26:42Speaker 7: fouling to stop the clock so that you're getting more possessions.
- 26:45Speaker 7: That's the thing I have the most problem with that
- 26:47Speaker 7: I don't like, because that's you're trying to manipulate the
- 26:50Speaker 7: actual game itself to the slow the clock down to
- 26:53Speaker 7: where you're going to get more of them. Then once
- 26:56Speaker 7: it's like, oh, wow, you got forty three points at halftime, Okay,
- 26:59Speaker 7: I get why you're gonna say, you're gonna start feeding
- 27:01Speaker 7: him the rock and hoping that he can just keep
- 27:04Speaker 7: making it. But then if there's a whistle happy referee
- 27:07Speaker 7: part of it on top of it, to whur now,
- 27:09Speaker 7: I sudden you're getting forty three free throw attempts.
- 27:11Speaker 1: I would just stop calling fouls.
- 27:13Speaker 6: If we'd be like I lost my whistle.
- 27:15Speaker 1: Yeah, like this, if I was watching, I'd be like,
- 27:18Speaker 1: this is ridiculous, right, it's gonna stop calling fouls.
- 27:20Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, there's part of it just kind of ends
- 27:22Speaker 7: up being like, e okay, which is crazy. You go
- 27:25Speaker 7: out and do some crazy accomplishment like that, and then
- 27:28Speaker 7: there's part of it that gets kind of doodooed on
- 27:30Speaker 7: a little bit. That's unfortunate, but it is what it is.
- 27:32Speaker 7: You kind of you make the bed, you sleep it.
- 27:35Speaker 7: He gets to know that you're no. The second highest
- 27:37Speaker 7: game ever, and yet it's just part of it. It's
- 27:39Speaker 7: kind of like, eh, he's in the record books. Yeah,
- 27:41Speaker 7: eighty three points in a single game. All right, If
- 27:44Speaker 7: we have time later, we'll talk more, dive further into it.
- 27:47Speaker 7: But coming up next Headlines plus Greg Bell at seven
- 27:50Speaker 7: oh five on Sports Radio ninety three point three kh
- 27:52Speaker 7: A r F.
- 27:53Speaker 1: M Oh my gosh, what a day. I hate keep up.
- 28:09Speaker 1: I mean we talked this a lot. Yeah, it is
- 28:11Speaker 1: a lot, and I still haven't got to another huge
- 28:13Speaker 1: story yet on the show today. And I don't even
- 28:15Speaker 1: feel like I did service to the three topics that
- 28:18Speaker 1: we've discussed because I felt like we had to rush.
- 28:20Speaker 6: Through them, I need a drink.
- 28:24Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna get one tonight. It is Chuck Buck
- 28:28Speaker 1: and Ashley. It is a hump day. We roll into
- 28:30Speaker 1: our number two. We are a minute and a half
- 28:32Speaker 1: away from Greg Bell joining us and seeing if he's
- 28:35Speaker 1: hearing anything about Max Crosby perhaps the Seahawks diving into
- 28:39Speaker 1: trade discussions with the Las Vegas Raiders. You heard me correctly,
- 28:43Speaker 1: Max Crosby is back with the Las Vegas Raiders after
- 28:46Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens nixed their trade yesterday, and many people
- 28:51Speaker 1: in the National Football League are saying they smell a rat.
- 28:56Speaker 1: So far, people haven't attached their names to it, but
- 28:59Speaker 1: executives around the league are saying that the Ravens are
- 29:03Speaker 1: not playing fairly right now this week, and that's to
- 29:06Speaker 1: put it mildly. So we'll talk to Greg about that
- 29:09Speaker 1: here in a matter of seconds. The Ravens also signed
- 29:12Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson, which is only adding to the suspicion over
- 29:16Speaker 1: why they nixed the trade. They claim it was over medicals,
- 29:19Speaker 1: but a lot of people in the NFL are not
- 29:22Speaker 1: buying it. Some other news from your headlines brought to
- 29:25Speaker 1: you by Frostbrewed Corps Light shoes chill. The US lost
- 29:29Speaker 1: and the WBC last night to Team Italy comprised entirely Americans,
- 29:34Speaker 1: but eight to six was the final score, and maybe
- 29:38Speaker 1: maybe the manager Mark Durosa did not understand the pool
- 29:42Speaker 1: play rules for advancement until late in the game last night,
- 29:47Speaker 1: because right now the US is looking at elimination based
- 29:51Speaker 1: on what happens tonight between Italy and Mexico in pool play.
- 29:56Speaker 1: Randy and Cal have a issue a handshakegate on our hands,
- 30:01Speaker 1: which we'll talk about at seven thirty. We'll give you
- 30:05Speaker 1: the latest on that front. The Big Ten Tournament got
- 30:07Speaker 1: started yesterday in college hoops. U double play USC today
- 30:11Speaker 1: at eleven thirty. Of course, that is an elimination game,
- 30:15Speaker 1: and in more ways than one, neither of those teams
- 30:17Speaker 1: have a chance to get into the NCAA Tournament unless
- 30:20Speaker 1: they win the entire Big Ten. However unlikely that seems
- 30:25Speaker 1: to be. Bam Adebio scored eighty three points in a
- 30:28Speaker 1: game last night, and he only needed to shoot seventy
- 30:31Speaker 1: nine times to do it, and I am not exaggerating.
- 30:35Speaker 1: In the NHL, the Predators four to two over the Kraken,
- 30:39Speaker 1: who have now lost three straight games. And have played
- 30:42Speaker 1: two games since the NHL trading deadline without their trade
- 30:46Speaker 1: deadline acquisition mister McMahon, and so we sit here and
- 30:51Speaker 1: wait for him, and we get nervous over the fact
- 30:55Speaker 1: that the Kraken are seemingly once again in a slump.
- 30:58Speaker 1: NFL first day of free agency is today, believe it
- 31:02Speaker 1: or not, after forty eight hours of some hardcore tampering
- 31:06Speaker 1: that took place in the National Football League, Let's discuss
- 31:09Speaker 1: it all with Greg Bell.
- 31:10Speaker 3: With the bell tolls, it must be seven o'clock and
- 31:14Speaker 3: time for twelfth Man News with Greg Bell, brought to
- 31:17Speaker 3: you by Copola Diamond Collection Prosecco Chris Sparkling with bright
- 31:22Speaker 3: fruit flavors to make every toast shine Game Day bubbles
- 31:25Speaker 3: only with Coppola Diamond Prosecco. Now with twelfth Man News,
- 31:30Speaker 3: here's Greg Bell with Chuck and Bunt.
- 31:32Speaker 4: Come in Grego waiting.
- 31:35Speaker 1: I'm already exhausted, Greg.
- 31:38Speaker 4: A lot of ground to cover shows today.
- 31:42Speaker 1: I'd do it. I'd do it, Greg. I won't volunteer
- 31:45Speaker 1: Bucky and Ashley for it.
- 31:46Speaker 4: But I do it.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Do you think I would? I'm leaving. I'll listen to
- 31:49Speaker 1: you on.
- 31:50Speaker 4: The way home.
- 31:54Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's start with Max Crosby, because I mean,
- 31:58Speaker 1: it is crazy, fast, fascinating, this entire story. And I
- 32:02Speaker 1: don't know if the Seahawks are involved in anyway. I
- 32:05Speaker 1: don't know if they've ever been involved in any way
- 32:07Speaker 1: in trying to see what making Max Crosby would cost them.
- 32:12Speaker 1: But what are you hearing? Is this going to open
- 32:16Speaker 1: up a door for John Schneider to swoop in and
- 32:19Speaker 1: maybe get a coveted defensive end on the cheap potentially?
- 32:23Speaker 1: What's your outlook on all of this?
- 32:27Speaker 4: I don't think so.
- 32:28Speaker 9: I mean, the reason that all of this blew up
- 32:31Speaker 9: is that he's still in the early stages of a
- 32:35Speaker 9: niscus repair on his knee in January, and the price
- 32:40Speaker 9: that the Ravens paid for that exceeded the risk for
- 32:45Speaker 9: the risk exceeded to cost. I guess say so, I
- 32:48Speaker 9: don't think the Seahorks would want to take on any
- 32:51Speaker 9: risk that involves giving up anything, and we've talked about
- 32:54Speaker 9: they don't have a lot to give up anyway. And
- 33:00Speaker 9: it's this whole thing would not even happen if there
- 33:03Speaker 9: wasn't this quote legal tampering period actually began at the
- 33:06Speaker 9: combat in Indianapolis two weeks ago. If the league just
- 33:10Speaker 9: said free agency starts on March first or whatever, then
- 33:17Speaker 9: they would do a physical and sign a contract, or
- 33:22Speaker 9: do the trade and.
- 33:23Speaker 4: A league woul approve it or whatever.
- 33:25Speaker 9: But when you have this legal tampering period and you're
- 33:28Speaker 9: allowed to strike deals and agreements that aren't official to
- 33:32Speaker 9: they're signed on today one pm, then you have this
- 33:36Speaker 9: gray area of time where you can back out of.
- 33:38Speaker 4: Deals that you've agreed to.
- 33:40Speaker 9: And if, for instance, free agency started on Monday, the
- 33:44Speaker 9: Ravens wouldn't have had a deal.
- 33:45Speaker 4: To back out of.
- 33:49Speaker 10: It.
- 33:49Speaker 9: Just I don't it looks terrible. Obviously, the optics are
- 33:54Speaker 9: really bad. The Ravens apparently just did not want to
- 33:58Speaker 9: give up two first round picks for a guy who
- 34:01Speaker 9: was not near healthy full healthy. But they knew that
- 34:05Speaker 9: when they struck the deal to begin with, they knew
- 34:07Speaker 9: that he had surgery in January. This just would seem
- 34:11Speaker 9: like something that if I was John Schneider, I'd stay
- 34:13Speaker 9: completely away from until they knew more, which means until
- 34:17Speaker 9: his knee gets recovered and he's at a rehab program
- 34:20Speaker 9: and gets in closer to the season, his price will
- 34:23Speaker 9: go down.
- 34:24Speaker 4: I would suspect.
- 34:26Speaker 9: The longer he stays there, of course, his camp's going
- 34:29Speaker 9: to say he wants to play for the Raiders and
- 34:30Speaker 9: he's all in, and that's the way it goes. But
- 34:34Speaker 9: if I was John Schneider, I would just sit back
- 34:36Speaker 9: and watch how this develops and whether the Raiders would
- 34:39Speaker 9: be still willing to move him as the season as
- 34:42Speaker 9: it gets to August September.
- 34:45Speaker 7: I mean, with all the things that happened around the
- 34:48Speaker 7: league after this that they had initially agreed to this,
- 34:52Speaker 7: the Ravens and Raiders, you would think that it pushes
- 34:55Speaker 7: some people out because they're, well, we already spend our money,
- 34:58Speaker 7: or we already.
- 34:58Speaker 1: Went and got our guy.
- 35:00Speaker 7: And yet because the Raiders still somehow, even though they
- 35:03Speaker 7: spent like a billion dollars in free agency already, they
- 35:07Speaker 7: still have room for him. Does that make it to
- 35:09Speaker 7: where his price isn't going to have to come down?
- 35:12Speaker 7: I mean you would think that it would if they
- 35:14Speaker 7: still want to get rid of them, or if they
- 35:15Speaker 7: still want to get that. But I mean I would
- 35:17Speaker 7: have to think teams, including the Seahawks, if the price
- 35:21Speaker 7: was right, if it was one first rounder versus two,
- 35:24Speaker 7: maybe and there was room in the cap that there's
- 35:28Speaker 7: a lot of teams that would still be interested or
- 35:29Speaker 7: their ears would perk back up knowing that he's back
- 35:32Speaker 7: out there on the trading block.
- 35:34Speaker 4: Well, unless they.
- 35:35Speaker 9: Can get the Raiders to pay money. The contract is
- 35:39Speaker 9: what it is, and if you trade for him, then
- 35:41Speaker 9: you're absorbing that money. Now, the Raiders trading Geno Smith's
- 35:46Speaker 9: back to the Jets, which in itself is his own
- 35:48Speaker 9: weird story, is an example of the only way the
- 35:52Speaker 9: Raiders could get that done was to pay almost all
- 35:55Speaker 9: all but three million of eighteen million to do it.
- 35:58Speaker 9: So unless the Raiders do that for Max Crosby, it
- 36:01Speaker 9: doesn't I mean, you either have the cap space that
- 36:04Speaker 9: you don't to absorb Max Crosby's contract. The Cowboys, for instance,
- 36:10Speaker 9: is a perfect example of what you just said, Okay,
- 36:13Speaker 9: we're not in on Crosby. All reports where the Cowboys
- 36:16Speaker 9: offered a first and a second round pick and Raiders
- 36:19Speaker 9: said no, and so they went and got Gary from
- 36:23Speaker 9: the Packers and now there's their pass rusher. Well, now
- 36:26Speaker 9: the Cowboys aren't in the market for Max Crosby because
- 36:28Speaker 9: they've got their pass rusher. They weren't seeking from another team. Yes,
- 36:34Speaker 9: there's other examples of other teams. Certainly, I'm sure that
- 36:39Speaker 9: we're were interested in Crosby and where the Seahawks. John
- 36:42Speaker 9: Schneider calls. We always had about this. He kicks the
- 36:44Speaker 9: tires and calls, and once he takes pride actually in
- 36:47Speaker 9: wanting to be involved in everything, and so would I'm
- 36:53Speaker 9: pretty certain that he called the Raiders and has called
- 36:56Speaker 9: the Raiders since this all blew up in Baltimore last night.
- 37:01Speaker 9: I think the smart play here, not for just John Snyder,
- 37:04Speaker 9: but everybody in the league is to wait. Wait to
- 37:07Speaker 9: see if he truly wants to play for the Raiders,
- 37:09Speaker 9: whether the Raiders truly want him to play, wait to
- 37:11Speaker 9: see if he does recover as they're saying he's going to,
- 37:16Speaker 9: and waiting to see if the Raiders would still want
- 37:18Speaker 9: to trade him, and if they want to trade him
- 37:20Speaker 9: in the summer or during or close to the season,
- 37:24Speaker 9: the price would absolutely be coming down from two first
- 37:27Speaker 9: round picks, So I don't know why there'd be any
- 37:30Speaker 9: urgency on anybody's part to try to trade for him
- 37:32Speaker 9: right now after.
- 37:33Speaker 4: What just happened.
- 37:33Speaker 1: I would imagine Max Crosby's tired of people telling him
- 37:36Speaker 1: he's hurt when he doesn't feel like he is. I mean,
- 37:39Speaker 1: this seems to be a situation with a max. At
- 37:43Speaker 1: this point, Greg Bell is with us OUR.
- 37:44Speaker 9: He's had a surgery, right yeah, I know, January.
- 37:48Speaker 1: But the point is got to recover. From the point
- 37:50Speaker 1: is that he's made headlines by playing basketball on game
- 37:54Speaker 1: day because he was told he was too injured to play,
- 37:57Speaker 1: and now he's been traded to Baltimore. He's celebrated it
- 38:00Speaker 1: like mad and has been told note, you're too hurt
- 38:03Speaker 1: to be traded for. So Max Crosby's not buying the story.
- 38:06Speaker 1: I'll say that. I don't know if anybody else is
- 38:08Speaker 1: buying it, but I know Max Crosby isn't. Greg Bell
- 38:11Speaker 1: is with us OUR Seahawks insider right here on Chucking
- 38:13Speaker 1: Buck in the morning. So let's talk about Rerek Woolan.
- 38:16Speaker 1: He signs yesterday with the Philadelphia Eagles. Feels like a
- 38:21Speaker 1: pretty good fit. Unfortunately, I you know, Philadelphia is pretty
- 38:24Speaker 1: good at this whole coaching thing and developing and taking
- 38:29Speaker 1: raw talent and turning it into special players. So unfortunately
- 38:33Speaker 1: that seems like a really good fit for Reek wooland
- 38:37Speaker 1: right now.
- 38:39Speaker 4: It is, but it is also very interesting.
- 38:41Speaker 9: You only got one year, and it tells you that
- 38:44Speaker 9: the Eagles are not even convinced him as the long
- 38:47Speaker 9: term option obviously, and that they want to see what
- 38:50Speaker 9: he's like. Okay, after you played for us for a season,
- 38:54Speaker 9: we'll decide what your.
- 38:55Speaker 4: True value is worth over time.
- 38:57Speaker 9: Now, twelve million's not anything to sneeze at. It's what
- 39:02Speaker 9: is it two and a half times what he made
- 39:04Speaker 9: up to this. It's more than he made in four years,
- 39:07Speaker 9: and it's two and a half times what he made
- 39:08Speaker 9: last year.
- 39:09Speaker 4: The Seahawks decided on Josh Job.
- 39:11Speaker 9: That was obvious when Joe decided to come back at
- 39:14Speaker 9: eight million dollars a year the day before, and they
- 39:17Speaker 9: made their choice. They weren't going to pay Woolen and
- 39:22Speaker 9: Job free agent money to do that. Three starting quarterbacks
- 39:26Speaker 9: in two spots again with Witherspoon. That doesn't make any
- 39:28Speaker 9: financial sense. You win the Super Bowl doing that three
- 39:32Speaker 9: with two, and then you make your choice. You can't
- 39:35Speaker 9: pay everyone, and not everyone comes back, and they chose Job,
- 39:39Speaker 9: and they chose them because they love his man demand
- 39:42Speaker 9: cover skills. Julian Love then locker clean out day two
- 39:46Speaker 9: days after the Super Bowl, was talking to us about
- 39:48Speaker 9: that and said that.
- 39:50Speaker 4: Look.
- 39:50Speaker 9: You can't Mike McDonald your way out of playing cornerback
- 39:53Speaker 9: for us. When we put you on an island, advice
- 39:55Speaker 9: yourself with receivers, you got a man up and defend
- 39:58Speaker 9: the ball and defend the receiver and knock bases down.
- 40:01Speaker 9: We can't scheme through that. We can scheme through safeties
- 40:04Speaker 9: over the top and blitz disguises, but when we put
- 40:08Speaker 9: you one on one outside as the corner, you got
- 40:10Speaker 9: to perform in job.
- 40:11Speaker 4: Does that? Does that better than woman does? Consistent? More consistently.
- 40:15Speaker 9: I should say Woolan has some splashier plays, faster, taller,
- 40:20Speaker 9: but the steady and more consistent cover guy was job.
- 40:23Speaker 9: And that's what McDonald wanted and loved about him, and
- 40:27Speaker 9: that's why they chose Joe. And once they decided to
- 40:29Speaker 9: pay him, then it was up to Woolan to be
- 40:32Speaker 9: a free agent se up to the teams. It is
- 40:34Speaker 9: interesting that with all of his upside physical skills and
- 40:38Speaker 9: how he's still somewhat raw in a position he didn't
- 40:41Speaker 9: move to until halfway through his college.
- 40:42Speaker 4: Career, that he only commanded a one year deal.
- 40:45Speaker 9: Ultimately, and he'll bet on himself and see if he
- 40:48Speaker 9: can get the bigger pay day next year, and the
- 40:50Speaker 9: Eagles will have the front review of that.
- 40:55Speaker 7: Gino Smith ends up going back to New York. I
- 40:58Speaker 7: think there was like twenty any quarterbacks between his first
- 41:01Speaker 7: tenure and.
- 41:02Speaker 1: Now his second ten year team total.
- 41:04Speaker 7: I mean it was an eighteen in between, something like that,
- 41:07Speaker 7: even in nine years. Yeah, pretty impressive. And yet is
- 41:11Speaker 7: it gonna work second time around in New York?
- 41:15Speaker 9: Man not until they get an offensive line. They got
- 41:17Speaker 9: skill players.
- 41:18Speaker 4: Breist Hall is going to come back down, and they've
- 41:21Speaker 4: got skill.
- 41:22Speaker 9: Players Garrett Wilson, but they their offensive line has been
- 41:26Speaker 9: a wreck for a long time. We complained about offensive
- 41:28Speaker 9: line player in Seattle the Jets. The Jets and the
- 41:33Speaker 9: Raiders have two of the worst offensive lines ever assembled.
- 41:36Speaker 9: And until they fix those, they're gonna be bad teams.
- 41:40Speaker 9: You can't win in the league with the offensive lines
- 41:42Speaker 9: they have. And Smith in his career when he has
- 41:45Speaker 9: poor offensive line play makes mistakes. Led the NFL with
- 41:48Speaker 9: interceptions at seventeen this past season. We saw in Seattle
- 41:52Speaker 9: when he was pressured into mistakes, crushing game and losing mistakes.
- 41:58Speaker 4: I wish the best for him. I hope he gets
- 42:01Speaker 4: offensive lineman. I keep him from getting killed.
- 42:04Speaker 1: I think as long as he doesn't get punched by
- 42:06Speaker 1: a teammate, it's a success.
- 42:08Speaker 4: Yeah. I wasn't even going to bring that up, but
- 42:10Speaker 4: I was there is that. I'm sure he'll be reminded
- 42:13Speaker 4: at one hundred thousand times.
- 42:14Speaker 1: I know that's yeah, But I mean that is going
- 42:17Speaker 1: to be the worst case scenario if he goes back
- 42:19Speaker 1: there and a teammate doesn't like something he says and
- 42:21Speaker 1: pops him. I mean, you want to talk about full circle.
- 42:24Speaker 9: What's interesting about that whole deal is, again, he wouldn't
- 42:28Speaker 9: be a jet if the Raiders didn't agree to pay
- 42:30Speaker 9: all but three million of eighteen million dollars this year.
- 42:33Speaker 4: So that'll tell you that there.
- 42:35Speaker 9: Wasn't exactly a robust market for him, all right in
- 42:39Speaker 9: wild right, three teams in twelve months now. He was
- 42:41Speaker 9: a two time Pro Bowl quarter quarterback this time last
- 42:45Speaker 9: year before the Raiders traded for him. And yeah, it's
- 42:49Speaker 9: it's just wild how he got at his peak in
- 42:52Speaker 9: Seattle and has just fallen off a cliff in the
- 42:55Speaker 9: last twelve months.
- 42:56Speaker 1: All right, in our last minute or so, any even
- 42:59Speaker 1: cooking anything that the Seahawks might be I mean, free
- 43:02Speaker 1: agency does start today. Do you get the sense that
- 43:05Speaker 1: they're on the lip of anything.
- 43:08Speaker 9: Well, they've got a decision to make on their restricted
- 43:10Speaker 9: free agents. They would have tendered Jake Bobo, Cody White,
- 43:14Speaker 9: Brady Russell, chaserat by now if they were going to
- 43:19Speaker 9: so they won't. Then they hoped to bring most of
- 43:22Speaker 9: those guys back on new deals that would be more
- 43:25Speaker 9: cap friendly than the tender number would be. As of
- 43:27Speaker 9: one o'clock today, the start of a new league gear,
- 43:29Speaker 9: those guys will become unrestricted free agents, able to sign
- 43:32Speaker 9: with anyone, including the Seahawks. I would expect the next
- 43:36Speaker 9: moves to be Jake Bobo, Brady Russell coming back on
- 43:42Speaker 9: new deals that were outside of the restricted free agent
- 43:46Speaker 9: tender offers. They still, i think need depth on the
- 43:50Speaker 9: defensive line for sure, and the running back market. Set White,
- 43:55Speaker 9: the former Tampa Bay buccaneer who ran wild against the
- 43:59Speaker 9: Seahawks Munich A couple falls ago when the Bucks are
- 44:03Speaker 9: the last in the league in rushing and Rashad White
- 44:05Speaker 9: hat one hundred yard first half. He's available, he's young,
- 44:09Speaker 9: he's cheap. We're now already in the second wave of
- 44:12Speaker 9: free agency. I think the second wave started at four
- 44:14Speaker 9: o'clock on Monday. But that that is the type of
- 44:17Speaker 9: deals the Seahawks will be looking at, potentially doing.
- 44:20Speaker 4: It running back. They can't. I can't imagine that they're.
- 44:24Speaker 9: Not going to add it running back and free agency
- 44:26Speaker 9: at some point, whether it's now or into the summer.
- 44:29Speaker 9: And the longer they wait, the cheaper it'll be.
- 44:31Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And Rashad White's an interesting name, there's no
- 44:34Speaker 1: doubt about that. All Right, Thank you, Greg, We appreciate it, man,
- 44:37Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you again tomorrow.
- 44:39Speaker 4: All right.
- 44:40Speaker 9: Enjoyed talking about the USA manager not knowing the USA.
- 44:43Speaker 4: It is not in the That was crazy. Ill.
- 44:45Speaker 9: Last in afternoon I heard him say, on and I'll
- 44:48Speaker 9: be network.
- 44:48Speaker 4: We're already in the quarterfile. Yeah.
- 44:51Speaker 1: Not good. Not a good look. Wednesday, Greg Bell our
- 44:55Speaker 1: Seahawks insider joining us nearly every day right here on
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- 45:13Speaker 1: would I just want to say, like from Greg's standpoint,
- 45:16Speaker 1: if Greg is buying the medical and if anybody's buying
- 45:20Speaker 1: the medical, then yes, I think that all of that
- 45:24Speaker 1: what he's saying about Max Crosby and the buyer beware
- 45:28Speaker 1: and we're going to have to wait and let's see,
- 45:31Speaker 1: give him a couple of months to heal and then
- 45:34Speaker 1: maybe we revisit the trade and all of that stuff.
- 45:36Speaker 1: That's if you're buying the Ravens story. But if you're
- 45:40Speaker 1: buying the story that everybody else is sharing right now
- 45:43Speaker 1: about why this trade was mixed, then I would think
- 45:45Speaker 1: everybody that was in on Max Crosby, and I don't
- 45:49Speaker 1: know if the Seahawks ever were are right back in
- 45:52Speaker 1: offering the same package that they were offering before. So yeah,
- 45:57Speaker 1: I mean there's two different worlds that we're living in
- 45:59Speaker 1: with this mac Crosby story. But if people if there
- 46:02Speaker 1: are organizations that think the Ravens are lying, and apparently
- 46:06Speaker 1: there are, then if those organizations were interested in Max
- 46:09Speaker 1: Crosby before, I would think they would just relight the
- 46:11Speaker 1: fire on the offer that they made previous to Baltimore
- 46:15Speaker 1: outbidding them. So it just depends on which story that
- 46:18Speaker 1: you believe Baltimore's or everybody else's right now? All right,
- 46:21Speaker 1: coming up next. We haven't talked about this yet today.
- 46:24Speaker 1: There are some developments, but we've got a handshake gate
- 46:28Speaker 1: going on here in Seattle. Have Callen Ryandy smoothed it
- 46:32Speaker 1: over or not? Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. Well,
- 46:50Speaker 1: I guess don't leave me. Hanging gate is something we're
- 46:54Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with.
- 46:55Speaker 4: Huh.
- 46:56Speaker 1: I finished yesterday's show thinking that Randy was just joking
- 47:01Speaker 1: and it didn't translate well. But apparently there's something to it.
- 47:06Speaker 1: Apparently we've got a situation on our hands. As Cal
- 47:11Speaker 1: Raleigh and Randy ROSEI Arena have not spoken since the
- 47:17Speaker 1: snubbing of the handshake gesture during the WBC game two
- 47:22Speaker 1: nights ago that we discussed quite a bit yesterday and
- 47:25Speaker 1: we're still discussing it today. Kyle did feel compelled to
- 47:29Speaker 1: have a FaceTime conversation with some of the Seattle media
- 47:33Speaker 1: members that he knows and trusts and had this to
- 47:37Speaker 1: say about the situation.
- 47:38Speaker 10: I mean, obviously regarding the thing yesterday with Randy, I mean,
- 47:42Speaker 10: I love Randy. I do you know I hate that
- 47:45Speaker 10: this is a thing. There's no beef when we get
- 47:48Speaker 10: back to Seattle. He's my brother or family. You know,
- 47:54Speaker 10: I already reached out to him, so you know, it's
- 47:58Speaker 10: just a competitive environment. And you know, I know he
- 48:00Speaker 10: would want the same for me when we're on the
- 48:02Speaker 10: team in playoff baseball, and you know, I just have
- 48:05Speaker 10: a responsibility for my teammates here right now in my country,
- 48:09Speaker 10: and emotions are running high.
- 48:11Speaker 1: So but like I said, I love Randy.
- 48:13Speaker 10: He's he's awesome. He's been great for our team. And uh,
- 48:18Speaker 10: like I said, we talked and this isn't this isn't
- 48:20Speaker 10: a big deal at all. So we're uh, we're good
- 48:23Speaker 10: friends and we'll continue to be good friends.
- 48:25Speaker 1: And I think we're just.
- 48:26Speaker 10: Enjoying competing against each other right now. And uh yeah,
- 48:29Speaker 10: I mean that's really all I have.
- 48:30Speaker 1: To say about it. So you laugh about it, you're
- 48:33Speaker 1: talking what's up? When did you guys call it? I'm
- 48:36Speaker 1: probably not gonna take questions. I'll just answer that.
- 48:38Speaker 10: I mean, I shot him a message this morning and
- 48:42Speaker 10: reached out, And like I said, I don't I don't
- 48:45Speaker 10: anticipate this being being a thing going forward.
- 48:47Speaker 11: So for those of us who don't understand what responsibility
- 48:50Speaker 11: stops talking to you.
- 48:52Speaker 1: I'm just I'm gonna just be leaving to that.
- 48:53Speaker 10: I love Randy, I'm excited about him this year, and
- 48:57Speaker 10: like I said, we're having a fun time here at
- 48:59Speaker 10: the w so I'm looking forward to I'm trying to
- 49:01Speaker 10: bring home the championship for our team.
- 49:04Speaker 1: So thanks guys. All right, cal Raley, I guess that
- 49:07Speaker 1: was actually with some media at the WBC.
- 49:10Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, just a video of it.
- 49:12Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, So that's Cayl's response. I mean,
- 49:17Speaker 1: sounds to me like this is going to be fine
- 49:20Speaker 1: once we get back together in Seattle. But it doesn't
- 49:23Speaker 1: sound like it's fine right now. I don't know. Just
- 49:26Speaker 1: my read to it.
- 49:28Speaker 7: It doesn't sound like they actually talked. It sounds like
- 49:32Speaker 7: he reached out and said, hey, dude, sorry, this is
- 49:34Speaker 7: an issue. I was just being competitive, right. We are
- 49:38Speaker 7: not on the same team right now. Hopefully it's really
- 49:41Speaker 7: not a big deal, even though social media and the
- 49:44Speaker 7: media is blowing it up. But it doesn't sound like
- 49:47Speaker 7: I think you would have said Randy got back to
- 49:49Speaker 7: me and said, it's all good, brother. You made me
- 49:51Speaker 7: look like it, you know, you left me hanging jerk.
- 49:55Speaker 7: What It doesn't sound like Randy got back to him again.
- 49:59Speaker 7: Don't know, but I think he would have said that
- 50:02Speaker 7: in his little explanation there. He obviously doesn't like that it's.
- 50:07Speaker 1: Laughed at off, like, yeah, we talked last night. I mean,
- 50:11Speaker 1: I get how it looked, but trust me, we laughed
- 50:14Speaker 1: about it. We're good, but sort of I'm going to
- 50:18Speaker 1: make a statement. Don't ask me any questions, and my
- 50:21Speaker 1: answers I'm giving don't really add up.
- 50:24Speaker 6: There's something, there's something to it, there's something.
- 50:27Speaker 8: I mean, it was interesting again that Randy chose to
- 50:31Speaker 8: make his statement in multiple languages to like prove his
- 50:34Speaker 8: point to cal and then from there you thought, okay, well,
- 50:38Speaker 8: maybe he was joking, maybe he was laying it on
- 50:40Speaker 8: extra thick, but it struck me as odd when Dan
- 50:42Speaker 8: Wilson had to release something same.
- 50:44Speaker 6: I'm going to reach out to both of.
- 50:46Speaker 8: Them, like, if it's nothing, why does Dan Wilson, who's
- 50:49Speaker 8: in Peoria at spring training, have to reach out to
- 50:52Speaker 8: both guys to be like, hey, we all good. So
- 50:55Speaker 8: clearly the Mariners thought we should probably check on this
- 50:58Speaker 8: because it seems like there might be something there.
- 51:00Speaker 7: Well, I think anytime something gets kind of blown up, right,
- 51:03Speaker 7: and I don't think Cal was doing this in hopes
- 51:06Speaker 7: that it blows. No, it is just he's competitive and
- 51:09Speaker 7: he's not one that wants to, you know, do the
- 51:12Speaker 7: you know, handshaken. Regardless of whether it's this is an
- 51:16Speaker 7: unusual situation, right, it's a WBC right before you're going
- 51:20Speaker 7: to go to battle for one sixty two with the guy.
- 51:23Speaker 1: It's different.
- 51:23Speaker 7: And yet it's like he says in that little clip
- 51:26Speaker 7: right there, I know Randy would want me to be
- 51:28Speaker 7: that competitor when we're battling together on the Mariners in
- 51:32Speaker 7: playoff baseball. So he's just saying, this is mean something.
- 51:35Speaker 7: My competitive juices are flowing. That's all I meant. I
- 51:38Speaker 7: didn't mean screw you.
- 51:40Speaker 1: I don't like you.
- 51:40Speaker 7: There's beef. And yet that's where it goes. Right, because
- 51:44Speaker 7: of its being caught on video, the media takes it
- 51:47Speaker 7: ooh is there something about this? No, you're trying to
- 51:50Speaker 7: make it something. Randy might have been irritated by it,
- 51:53Speaker 7: but I don't. I still don't think it's going to
- 51:55Speaker 7: turn into oh, clubhouse is shattered. You're not going to
- 51:58Speaker 7: be able to correct this.
- 52:00Speaker 6: I think that would be extreme.
- 52:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it will be an issue going forward,
- 52:04Speaker 1: but I am a little surprised that it's still an
- 52:06Speaker 1: issue today, Like it is not resolved. No, that's for sure.
- 52:09Speaker 1: And so I kind of ended the show yesterday just
- 52:12Speaker 1: I was convinced, like he's kidding, it didn't translate well.
- 52:16Speaker 1: And yet after twenty four hours of kind of flushing
- 52:20Speaker 1: this out, Cal's statement didn't really sound like there was
- 52:24Speaker 1: any resolution reached. And then Randy didn't react in return.
- 52:29Speaker 1: So there's something. There's something here that's pretty evident, and
- 52:34Speaker 1: I do believe it'll get smoothed over once they're together,
- 52:36Speaker 1: but I don't think that's gonna happen before the WBC
- 52:39Speaker 1: comes to a close. And then Will Smith, who's never
- 52:42Speaker 1: shy when he's asked to share his thoughts, he said
- 52:46Speaker 1: yesterday Cal told Randy, I'm not going to shake your hands,
- 52:50Speaker 1: so don't even try, and then he did it, and
- 52:53Speaker 1: then got angry that Kyle didn't respond, So Will did.
- 52:57Speaker 1: Will Smith? At least I think that was legit quote.
- 53:01Speaker 1: So I guess Will Smith the other catcher on the team.
- 53:03Speaker 1: I won't say, backup he's had.
- 53:05Speaker 6: An issue with Randy or who didn't shake Randy's hand?
- 53:08Speaker 1: I won't say backup because he's playing just as much
- 53:10Speaker 1: as Cal. But he said he commented on it and
- 53:14Speaker 1: said that Cal had made it clear to Randy that
- 53:16Speaker 1: I wasn't going to shake hands, and he did it anyway, right,
- 53:20Speaker 1: So I don't know. There you go, it's something I
- 53:23Speaker 1: wish it was nothing, but it's something I wish. There's
- 53:25Speaker 1: something we were laughing about today, that both of them
- 53:28Speaker 1: were laughing about today. But obviously they're not to the
- 53:30Speaker 1: point where they're laughing about it yet. Yeah, I don't.
- 53:33Speaker 7: I mean, if Randy's upset about it, then I don't
- 53:36Speaker 7: understand how you can be if that's true. If what
- 53:38Speaker 7: Will Smith said is true. If you tell me I'm
- 53:40Speaker 7: not giving a high five in between breaks and then
- 53:43Speaker 7: I go look for a high five and you don't
- 53:45Speaker 7: give it to me, I have no right to be irritated.
- 53:49Speaker 7: Like zero, you told me what was up. So if
- 53:51Speaker 7: that's true, then it's just absolutely silly. Now it's obviously
- 53:55Speaker 7: something that he likes to do. This is there's a
- 53:58Speaker 7: lot of things that are different about the way people
- 54:00Speaker 7: play the game or where where their competitiveness starts and stops,
- 54:04Speaker 7: and if they're not on the same page, I don't
- 54:05Speaker 7: think those two are on the same page.
- 54:07Speaker 1: But that's fine.
- 54:08Speaker 7: You don't have to be clones of one another when
- 54:10Speaker 7: you're playing together. This is just something that on a
- 54:13Speaker 7: big stage, it's been blown out of proportion. Cal doesn't
- 54:16Speaker 7: like it being blown out of proportion. But I don't
- 54:18Speaker 7: think he's sitting here saying I should have just shook hands.
- 54:21Speaker 7: I should have just done it. He's sticking to I
- 54:24Speaker 7: didn't mean anything disrespectfully you as a teammate. I will say,
- 54:27Speaker 7: I meant it as I'm competing. We're going against each
- 54:29Speaker 7: other right now, I will say too.
- 54:30Speaker 8: As far as it getting blown out of proportion, I mean,
- 54:32Speaker 8: when Randy made a same it's postgame, it wasn't because
- 54:34Speaker 8: he'd seen social media and video and people overreacting to
- 54:39Speaker 8: Cal not shaking his hand. I mean that was Randy's
- 54:41Speaker 8: reaction when asked about the situation, and then from there people.
- 54:45Speaker 6: Ran with it, and that's kind of where it got
- 54:48Speaker 6: blown out of proportion.
- 54:49Speaker 8: And obviously now Cal, yeah, definitely not happy about it,
- 54:51Speaker 8: but I don't but I just want to, I guess
- 54:54Speaker 8: kind of say, like, I don't think that Randy got
- 54:57Speaker 8: mad because everything got blown out of proportion. Randy got
- 54:59Speaker 8: mad and had his reaction because that was his reaction
- 55:02Speaker 8: to the thing, and then that has gotten, you know,
- 55:05Speaker 8: caught on like wildfire.
- 55:06Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe he's still joking. Do we know
- 55:09Speaker 1: Randy rose Arena's sense of humor. Maybe it's like Calo,
- 55:12Speaker 1: But that's just it. You left me hanging in the
- 55:14Speaker 1: batter's box, so I'm going to leave you hanging on
- 55:16Speaker 1: the text world. In the text world, and he did
- 55:18Speaker 1: just text him. It's not like he made a phone call,
- 55:21Speaker 1: which I think is a mistake on Col's part. And
- 55:23Speaker 1: I think Cal not acknowledging him is actually a mistake.
- 55:27Speaker 6: I mean, let's give him a little glove tap.
- 55:29Speaker 1: I like seeing that in competitions like this. I like
- 55:32Speaker 1: seeing like you're my guy. And you know, Yadier Molina
- 55:36Speaker 1: weighed in on it yesterday, and Yadier Molina is pretty
- 55:39Speaker 1: much the king of this setting. Like he is a
- 55:43Speaker 1: god in Puerto Rico, he is a god in Saint Louis,
- 55:47Speaker 1: and he is a god for everybody that's ever played
- 55:50Speaker 1: Major League Baseball with him. And Yadier Molina, uh, he
- 55:54Speaker 1: weighed in on it yesterday and said, I always if
- 55:58Speaker 1: you acknowledged me, I acknowledge no matter the setting, no
- 56:01Speaker 1: matter the situation, and it doesn't have to be anything grand,
- 56:04Speaker 1: but just an acknowledgment. That's the way I handled it.
- 56:07Speaker 1: And so from an international standpoint, I would just I
- 56:11Speaker 1: would wish Cal would have done it, But I don't
- 56:14Speaker 1: think his reasons were for doing it were because of
- 56:17Speaker 1: any beef, or because he wanted to start anything with
- 56:19Speaker 1: Randy rose Arena, or because they have an issue. I
- 56:23Speaker 1: just like seeing it. I like being able to acknowledge
- 56:26Speaker 1: your teammate, and I wish he would have done it.
- 56:28Speaker 1: But for those that are labeling him an a hole
- 56:30Speaker 1: and a jerk, you clearly don't follow the Mariners. You
- 56:34Speaker 1: clearly don't follow Cal Raley because he is the purest
- 56:37Speaker 1: superstar that has ever existed in the history of sports. Yeah. Period.
- 56:42Speaker 8: And he did acknowledge Randy. He did say nice to
- 56:45Speaker 8: see you. He just didn't physically acknowledge him.
- 56:48Speaker 1: Yeah, ma'am.
- 56:49Speaker 7: Yeah, he just was standing on it where he wants
- 56:52Speaker 7: to stand on it. He can draw his line. If
- 56:54Speaker 7: you want to come up and shake people's hands before
- 56:55Speaker 7: you go to bat, you can do that. The other
- 56:59Speaker 7: person doesn't have to do it. Teammates are not You
- 57:02Speaker 7: don't have to play the same game or play the
- 57:04Speaker 7: game the same way wherever it is. I mean, I
- 57:07Speaker 7: I'm way more old school. I wouldn't have been doing
- 57:09Speaker 7: any of that stuff. I wouldn't have just and especially
- 57:12Speaker 7: when I'm doing it when it's for my country type
- 57:14Speaker 7: of a thing I would have we're standing on this.
- 57:17Speaker 7: I just that's how I would have been. I don't
- 57:20Speaker 7: I wouldn't have meant it as anything against my teammates.
- 57:23Speaker 1: Interesting, because that's going to lead right into reckless at breakfast.
- 57:27Speaker 1: That very statement right there is going to lead into
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- 58:33Speaker 1: lot of other ground to cover, So our QB one
- 58:37Speaker 1: joining us here today on Chuck and Buck as we
- 58:40Speaker 1: kind of put the last forty eight hours into perspective
- 58:43Speaker 1: free agency wise, so Hugh the team says goodbye to
- 58:47Speaker 1: Rek Wooling. He goes to the Philadelphia Eagles one year,
- 58:49Speaker 1: fifteen mil, and they keep Josh job on a three year,
- 58:53Speaker 1: twenty four million dollar deal. Is that a Is that
- 58:57Speaker 1: an exchange that you are happy to make?
- 59:01Speaker 12: That's a complicated answer for me, because you know, just
- 59:06Speaker 12: I'll give you my take on on Greek Wolling, and
- 59:08Speaker 12: most of my takes I like to be grounded and
- 59:10Speaker 12: rooted in facts because I think that they're they're more compelling,
- 59:15Speaker 12: more convincing. I'm gonna veer off of that a little
- 59:18Speaker 12: bit and and kind of do my own just personal speculation.
- 59:23Speaker 12: I've done some creeping on Tarik Wollen and is his history.
- 59:28Speaker 12: He came out out Arleeds and Heights in Fort Worth,
- 59:31Speaker 12: Texas and and and the reason I went down this
- 59:34Speaker 12: this road is because when I saw him for the
- 59:38Speaker 12: first time in person, you know, standing five feet away
- 59:41Speaker 12: from me, he looks so unusually freakishly tall. He's in
- 59:47Speaker 12: the hundredth percentile for corners backs four height, one hundred
- 59:51Speaker 12: percentile for arm length, one hundred percentile for forty and
- 59:55Speaker 12: ninety nine percentile vertical. And you look at him, he
- 59:58Speaker 12: just doesn't look like an NFL. So I said, I
- 1:00:02Speaker 12: gotta dive in on this guy. In part also because
- 1:00:07Speaker 12: of how he played corneries me. He was bench for
- 1:00:09Speaker 12: not being physical enough.
- 1:00:11Speaker 4: You know.
- 1:00:11Speaker 12: The maddest I've ever been at him was in the
- 1:00:15Speaker 12: forty nine er game in Week one when he just
- 1:00:17Speaker 12: was a non competitor on the play that Tunguus caught
- 1:00:21Speaker 12: for the touchdown, right, And so I kind of had
- 1:00:24Speaker 12: a theory, and it was that this guy wanted to
- 1:00:28Speaker 12: be a basketball player. Then took a security throughout to
- 1:00:33Speaker 12: being a corner in the NFL, which was really all
- 1:00:35Speaker 12: he could do to make money. And as a junior
- 1:00:39Speaker 12: in high school he was described as a high flying dunker.
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: He was the newcomer of the year and junior.
- 1:00:46Speaker 12: Remember now this is Fort Worth, you know, Dallas area
- 1:00:49Speaker 12: that you know, this is pretty competitive hoop and and
- 1:00:52Speaker 12: so that that kind of flails out on him. He
- 1:00:56Speaker 12: goes Now, having coached high school football, I can tell
- 1:01:02Speaker 12: you that, and every coach who's driving and listening, they'll
- 1:01:05Speaker 12: nod their head. First day of practice, the wide receiver
- 1:01:09Speaker 12: line has got thirty thirty five guys, and the the
- 1:01:12Speaker 12: dB line has got four. Like everybody who thinks that,
- 1:01:17Speaker 12: you know, they want to be on the football team,
- 1:01:18Speaker 12: but really don't want to mix it up, they start
- 1:01:21Speaker 12: off at wide receiver, and so he is wide receiver.
- 1:01:24Speaker 12: In fact, he was a wide receiver Texas San Antonio
- 1:01:27Speaker 12: his first three years and they finally moved him to
- 1:01:31Speaker 12: dB because you know, he just didn't have the wide
- 1:01:33Speaker 12: receiver skills. So I think that this is entirely unfair.
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: I'm not in his head.
- 1:01:39Speaker 12: What I'm saying could be flat, But my hunts is
- 1:01:43Speaker 12: that the guy that like playing corners his third favorite position,
- 1:01:48Speaker 12: you know, as to be a professional athlete. So so
- 1:01:52Speaker 12: there's some issues there, but that athleticism is freaky. And
- 1:01:56Speaker 12: the play made against Juan uh from Jennings John Jennings, Yeah,
- 1:02:04Speaker 12: the play he made where Jennings went behind the line
- 1:02:08Speaker 12: of scrimmage and it was a man and man and
- 1:02:10Speaker 12: he he put the turbo button on, grabbed him on
- 1:02:12Speaker 12: their shoulders, threw him down. Uh, just like he was,
- 1:02:16Speaker 12: you know, a straw man, a pumpkin patch like he
- 1:02:20Speaker 12: his his high side is really enticing. And right even
- 1:02:25Speaker 12: up to the last impactful play he made, uh, which
- 1:02:30Speaker 12: which I would describe as the one in the third
- 1:02:32Speaker 12: and four uh in the in the NFC Championship game
- 1:02:35Speaker 12: with the the Rams down on the goal line, see
- 1:02:38Speaker 12: how played man and man. Now fourth down they played
- 1:02:41Speaker 12: zone but on third down they played man and a
- 1:02:43Speaker 12: man and and uh they they had Rik wollen on
- 1:02:49Speaker 12: on uh uh on Puka Nikoua and and so uh,
- 1:02:57Speaker 12: you know that just tells you. And that's after he
- 1:02:58Speaker 12: had already been burned. So that Mike McDonald's telling you
- 1:03:01Speaker 12: what he thinks of him, that that he has that
- 1:03:04Speaker 12: ability and so Yeah, it's tough to watch an athlete
- 1:03:07Speaker 12: like that get out of the building. But I am
- 1:03:10Speaker 12: not surprised whatsoever. You know, the three losses he had
- 1:03:14Speaker 12: key breakdowns, and all three losses he had a breakdown.
- 1:03:17Speaker 12: And you know, they're they're run at history in the
- 1:03:20Speaker 12: Super Bowl to be the first team to pitch a
- 1:03:22Speaker 12: shut out. He gives up the touchdown. I just feel
- 1:03:25Speaker 12: like they they think that the the the inconsistencies are
- 1:03:31Speaker 12: just you know, the Jews ain't worth the squeeze there,
- 1:03:33Speaker 12: even at that price.
- 1:03:34Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean they but then compare that to
- 1:03:37Speaker 7: what you know of seeing through your studying with Josh
- 1:03:41Speaker 7: job then I mean because undrafted not the same measurables obviously,
- 1:03:45Speaker 7: and yet maybe just more of a football player, good athlete.
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: Though, played it at Alabama. You know, Carl Scott was
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: the h his coach there.
- 1:03:53Speaker 12: He's now the defensive passing coordinator, and so you know,
- 1:03:58Speaker 12: he's taught by the best at Alabama. You know, good size,
- 1:04:03Speaker 12: not elite, good speed, you know, good traits, not elite,
- 1:04:06Speaker 12: but you know Alabama level traits, right, so not Riek
- 1:04:09Speaker 12: Wollan trades.
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: But pretty good. I would just say that you know,
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: they you know his the price is right there. That's
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: that's the value.
- 1:04:19Speaker 12: You know, He's not a three million dollar corner. He's
- 1:04:21Speaker 12: not a an eighteen million dollar corner. He's you know,
- 1:04:25Speaker 12: the price is right. And and but I would say,
- 1:04:28Speaker 12: yes me, Uh, who's the number eleven player on the offense,
- 1:04:34Speaker 12: I'd say, Anthony Bradford. Who's the number eleven player on
- 1:04:38Speaker 12: the defense? I'd say, Josh job Well, I mean, tell me,
- 1:04:44Speaker 12: tell me who. I mean, that's that's and that's a
- 1:04:46Speaker 12: really good defense, right, that's a historic defense. So it's
- 1:04:50Speaker 12: not it sounds like a slam, you know it is.
- 1:04:53Speaker 12: I'm not I'm not. I'm not trying to back off
- 1:04:55Speaker 12: of that. But I think he's the least capable start
- 1:05:00Speaker 12: or for his relative to other players on that field,
- 1:05:04Speaker 12: I think he's the least capable. So on some level
- 1:05:08Speaker 12: is I'm not saying he's a pigeon, you know, but
- 1:05:10Speaker 12: but I think that if you're trying to find on
- 1:05:13Speaker 12: a on a on an array of great, great talent,
- 1:05:16Speaker 12: if you're trying to find a guy a weakness to
- 1:05:19Speaker 12: try and expose, I think teams look would look at him.
- 1:05:23Speaker 12: I know some teams absolutely have done that. And uh,
- 1:05:28Speaker 12: and and that, and that's what I would do if
- 1:05:30Speaker 12: I was trying to attack Seattle. He'd be the one
- 1:05:33Speaker 12: guy that that you say, well there might be a
- 1:05:36Speaker 12: chance with him.
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: Well, you are the man. Uh you've made it clear
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: again today. Uh So we do appreciate your extra time
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: here this morning. Certainly a lot more to discuss, but
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: uh we uh we will talk to you again real soon.
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: How's that sound, hammered down? Always good to be with you,
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: all right? R QB one Hugh Mellen, former NFL quarterback,
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: former you dubbed quarterback, and our chief analyst of the
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: game of football around these here parts, breaking it down
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: for you here on the first day of the first
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: NFL season, and all the things the Seahawks have and
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: haven't done in the tampering period process. All right, coming
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: up next, we might as well stay on football for
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: one more segment. We didn't get to Max Crosby with Hugh,
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: so we'll discuss that next. Sports Radio ninety three point
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: three kJ RFM.
- 1:06:22Speaker 7: Crack hitting three or three through center everily tour the
- 1:06:25Speaker 7: net steered off of the corner by sorrows.
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: Mccad got a big hit in the far corner by Barret. Now, Batty,
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: but here's gonna chalk the logs with Justin Barren.
- 1:06:35Speaker 11: But here's against the bars. But here's every Whites against Barren,
- 1:06:39Speaker 11: and they'll rustle each other down on the ground. Oh
- 1:06:44Speaker 11: my goodness, Matty, but hears that's some vinegar in those sweeties.
- 1:06:52Speaker 4: This morning.
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- 1:07:09Speaker 1: for free food. See app for details. Crack and lose
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: to the Nashville Predators last night four to two. There
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: was an empty net goal at the very end, so
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: they had a chance to tie things up there toward
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: the end of regulation, but it is a loss four
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: to two. That's three straight for the Kraken, who still
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: have not gotten a contribution from newcomer Bobby McMahon. Me
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: and Bobby McMahon can't get on the ice here since
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: he was acquired, and they've lost both games since the
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: NHL trading deadline, so we got a lot to get
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: to the bottom of and joining us now is color
- 1:07:44Speaker 1: Analysts for your crack and Al Konisky, Good morning out,
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: Good morning Chuck.
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: Hey, just a side question before we get started. Do
- 1:07:52Speaker 2: you happen to know anybody in the government that deals
- 1:07:55Speaker 2: with immigration paperwork too? Ask you for a friend?
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: Wish I could help you, Al, I think I probably
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: would have already been there. Why is it such a
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: convoluted process? I mean, I said all last week. If
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: they don't make a trade and we missed the playoffs
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: by a point or two, man, that's not gonna look
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: real good. Well, if they make a trade and you
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: still miss the playoffs by a point or two, and
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: Bobby McMahon might have been able to contribute to one
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: of those losses, and the time that they were holding
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: them off on the sideline, that's gonna stink out loud.
- 1:08:28Speaker 9: Al.
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: Why is it so difficult to get him on the ice.
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: Well, if you've ever renewed a passport, before you've renewed
- 1:08:35Speaker 2: a driver's license, you're at the mercy of the government.
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: And unfortunately NHL teams are also at the mercy. Not
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: many teams have a way to expedite this process. Because
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: the trade deadline happened Friday, and government doesn't tend to work.
- 1:08:52Speaker 4: On the weekends. It pushes to Monday, and now here.
- 1:08:54Speaker 2: We are Wednesday, and we don't have an update yet.
- 1:08:58Speaker 2: We're hoping to have him in the line up tomorrow night,
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: but it is frustrating to see other teams who have
- 1:09:04Speaker 2: traded for guys coming out of Canada already playing in
- 1:09:08Speaker 2: their lineups last night.
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: Can't I just like, if I proposed to him, we
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: get married, would that work?
- 1:09:16Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: I mean, if you're willing to fall on that sort.
- 1:09:21Speaker 4: I do.
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: I support you.
- 1:09:24Speaker 7: Just text him right now, text him right now, say
- 1:09:26Speaker 7: I need you to text back.
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: I do, And then right now I'm saying it, I do.
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: Boom done.
- 1:09:31Speaker 7: Yeah, he's gonna have to go by Bobby Jacobson for
- 1:09:34Speaker 7: the first rest of the season, but it'll be fine.
- 1:09:37Speaker 4: I like that. I like ring that one.
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, goodbye, Mick Jacobson. Okay, Bobby mc jacobson. Yeah,
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: I kind of like this.
- 1:09:44Speaker 6: Out of it, he might be Bucky mc jacobson from
- 1:09:47Speaker 6: Helen All.
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: Right, So what kind of player did they get when
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: he does finally get to suit up? Is the is
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: he a difference maker, is the He the kind of
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: guy that could be the difference in making the playoffs
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: and not making the playoffs the.
- 1:10:01Speaker 2: Second he's outed to the roster. He's the second leading
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: goal scorer on the team nineteen goals started neverly with
- 1:10:07Speaker 2: twenty two come into the game last night, so he's
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: the second leading goal scorer. He's a guy that is
- 1:10:13Speaker 2: a fast skater.
- 1:10:15Speaker 4: When you look at some of the statistics.
- 1:10:17Speaker 2: Around the league, not just the cracking around the league,
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: he's the fourth fastest skater, after Connor McDavid, after Logan Cooley,
- 1:10:24Speaker 2: after a couple of other guys. He's the fourth fastest skater.
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: So he's gonna add a speed element to the crack
- 1:10:30Speaker 2: in which is exciting because they've got other guys that
- 1:10:33Speaker 2: are fast as well, and when you start to put
- 1:10:35Speaker 2: them on the same line together and makes it tough
- 1:10:38Speaker 2: for opposing teams to compete with that speed. So speed
- 1:10:42Speaker 2: scoring tanasty, you know. I think about him like maybe
- 1:10:46Speaker 2: a combination between Ellie Tolvenan and Jayden Schwartz going to
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: the net playing physical. You're gonna get three to five
- 1:10:53Speaker 2: hits out of them a game. Maybe not Jacob Bonson level.
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: But three to five hits every game, that's exactly what
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to.
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: Al, What does I mean?
- 1:11:02Speaker 7: He's a big dude, So I mean you're talking about
- 1:11:03Speaker 7: how fast he is, and obviously it makes sense why
- 1:11:08Speaker 7: that would be important, especially if you're pairing them with
- 1:11:10Speaker 7: some other fast guys and you have an exceptionally fast line.
- 1:11:14Speaker 7: But I mean, he when you're talking about the hits
- 1:11:15Speaker 7: that he brings to the table, so he's big, fast, strong,
- 1:11:18Speaker 7: seems like exactly what we want, especially if he likes
- 1:11:21Speaker 7: to shoot the puck.
- 1:11:23Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly it.
- 1:11:24Speaker 2: You know, you create space out there when you play physical,
- 1:11:27Speaker 2: so lots of times those three to five hits come
- 1:11:30Speaker 2: in the first two periods.
- 1:11:31Speaker 4: Of the game.
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: About the third period, you've created some space for yourself,
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: guys looking over their shoulders, so you get the pucks quicker.
- 1:11:38Speaker 2: That's part of his game. But I think you couple
- 1:11:40Speaker 2: that with speed, which you're right. For a big guy,
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: you don't have to hear about speed. You couple that
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: with speed, and he can either create a lot of things.
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: Oh, I'll go in a tunnel. I think Al went
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: in a tunnel. Oh, boy, I knew he's driving down
- 1:11:58Speaker 1: the road that al Kanisky he should just walk on Wednesdays.
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: He should walk. Yeah, I don't know what he's He's back, Gal,
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: you're there. Yeah, sorry, Lucy, Guys, he lost us. It's
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: all right. It happens, no big game.
- 1:12:14Speaker 4: You know what. It's a Seattle rain.
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: I believe it on the rain. Thank you, Vanilly. I've
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: seen your skin tone. You're not Milly, You're more Vanilly.
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: Al Kaniski is with us here on Chucket Buck in
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: the morning's sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: F m Uh, what did you like about Maddie's game
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: last night? I mean, he scores a goal, he gets
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: in a fight. I was hoping he had assists last night,
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: so he had the Gordie aw Hat trick, but it
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: didn't quite happen for him. But that was a different
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: side of Maddie b last night.
- 1:12:46Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:12:47Speaker 2: I mean, you see him scoring, like you said, the
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: deflection goal. He set that snipe goal from last night.
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: He saw a little anger in his game last night
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: when they went after his linemate. But I think it
- 1:12:57Speaker 2: helps a lot because what he did last night is
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: a stepping stone for this team. It's the it's the
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: message that we stand up for each other. We you know,
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: when one of your guys gets hit in a dirty way,
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: we stand up from it. And it doesn't matter if
- 1:13:12Speaker 2: you're madd Evanier's or if you're Bobby McMahon.
- 1:13:14Speaker 4: We stand up for each other.
- 1:13:15Speaker 2: And when you see your what you know, one of
- 1:13:17Speaker 2: your top top guys in your team, react that way
- 1:13:20Speaker 2: to that situation that makes you want to react that way.
- 1:13:23Speaker 2: I guarantee you the next time that Matt Eveneers gets hit,
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: you know, in a in a bad way, in a
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: dirty way, somebody starting with Jared McCann, it's going to
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: stand up for him in the same way.
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: Is that a trickle down from Lambert?
- 1:13:35Speaker 7: I mean the toughness because I mean, typically you're gonna
- 1:13:37Speaker 7: always have some tough hockey guys. I mean, you guys
- 1:13:39Speaker 7: are all tough, but def all of a sudden, you
- 1:13:42Speaker 7: have your forwards and your centers starts sticking up for
- 1:13:44Speaker 7: each other. It's a specialist type guys. That's got to
- 1:13:46Speaker 7: be a little bit of a different thing when it
- 1:13:47Speaker 7: comes to toughness.
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: Yeah, Not only is it a trickle down, it's a
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: trickle out message. Right, you know, these these highlights of
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: madd e veneers fighting or floating around the league right now,
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: and other teams are looking going, Oh, just the kind
- 1:14:01Speaker 2: of team we're gonna play where they stand up for
- 1:14:04Speaker 2: each other if we do, if we step out of line,
- 1:14:06Speaker 2: and it does affect how other teams play you.
- 1:14:09Speaker 9: So I love it.
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: I love the message that it sends the rest of
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: the team. Yes, it does trickle down to everybody else,
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: but it also trickles out to the rest of the league.
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: Al Kaniski, our guest here on Chuck and Buck, I mean,
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: we got nineteen games to go, and part of that
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: is going to be a pretty tough six game road trip.
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: You know, you didn't exactly take advantage of being at
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: home during this stretch of time. So all, I mean,
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: where should our level of concern be for a team
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: we've been waiting to play more consistently, and yet at
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: this crucial time of the year, they've dropped three games
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: in a row at home, not necessarily to great teams,
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: and one of those games, Lane Lambert said was the
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: worst game they've played all season long. Should we be
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: worried right now?
- 1:14:55Speaker 2: Well, it depends on you know what pair of glasses
- 1:14:58Speaker 2: you're looking through right now. So let me put my
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: rose colored glasses.
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: Okay, good, there we go.
- 1:15:02Speaker 4: All right.
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: So you've got a couple of teams under you. You've
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: got Los Angeles, You've got San Jose, you've got Nashville
- 1:15:09Speaker 2: nipping at your heels. But they all didn't win hockey
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: games last night.
- 1:15:13Speaker 4: Lost point because they went.
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: To overtime, but they didn't win, so they didn't jump
- 1:15:18Speaker 2: ahead of you.
- 1:15:18Speaker 4: So the teams that you.
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: Were trying to get some distance from, they weren't able
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: to leap frogy.
- 1:15:23Speaker 4: That's good.
- 1:15:24Speaker 2: Bad that you didn't get it get any points either,
- 1:15:26Speaker 2: But basically it's status quo as far as the standings go.
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: The Cracking are still in that second wild card spot.
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: But you can't count on that. You can count on
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: your play and winning games. So the crack Can are
- 1:15:39Speaker 2: gonna have a tough road here. They got Colorado tomorrow night.
- 1:15:42Speaker 2: They are a wagon. The Cracking have played well against
- 1:15:45Speaker 2: some of the best teams in the league. You know,
- 1:15:47Speaker 2: see the Carolina Hurricanes game a few good games.
- 1:15:49Speaker 4: Back where they won two to one.
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: So I'm expecting a good game out of the Cracking,
- 1:15:54Speaker 2: but it is not going to be an easy game.
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: Then they've got one on the road with Vancouver. Then
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: they're back home for two against the Florida teams. Both
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: those teams are playing really well right now. So even
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: when you look at the next four, yes, you have
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: to win up to the Vancouver. Vancouver's at the bottom
- 1:16:09Speaker 2: of the league right now. There's no reason why you
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: shouldn't win that game. But those other three, they're gonna
- 1:16:15Speaker 2: be fistfights. It's gonna be a tough game, all right.
- 1:16:18Speaker 1: All we'll be careful out there in the rain. We'll
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: let you go at a great call tomorrow against the Avalanche,
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: and we'll do this again next week, all right, all right,
- 1:16:29Speaker 1: boys to be good, all right. Al Konski joining us
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: right here on Chuck and Buck in the morning every
- 1:16:33Speaker 1: Wednesday at nine thirty color Analysts for your Seattle kracking.
- 1:16:36Speaker 1: Now you can check out tomorrow right here on kJ
- 1:16:38Speaker 1: are seven o'clock start against the Colorado Avalanche. It is
- 1:16:43Speaker 1: at Climate Pledge Arena before they go on the road
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: for one game and then come right back home. But
- 1:16:49Speaker 1: a lot of road games coming up for the Crack.
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: And it would be nice if we could have Bobby
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: McMahon in the lineup for goodness sake. Very soon, as
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: early as tomorrow. I mean, think about the different rules there.
- 1:17:02Speaker 1: I mean, we've watched in baseball a guy get traded
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: from one team to the next that they happen to
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: be playing that night, and he'll just go put on
- 1:17:10Speaker 1: another uniform. Some dude will press his name atop the
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: top the new UNI and he's in uniform for that
- 1:17:17Speaker 1: team that night, that day within Joe Youngblood once had
- 1:17:22Speaker 1: two hits and two different uniforms in the same day.
- 1:17:25Speaker 1: And yet here in hockey, we can't get Bobby McMahon
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: on the ice. We could really use Bobby McMahon if
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: he's as good as score as they're saying he is.
- 1:17:33Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm with you. I mean it's not like he's
- 1:17:36Speaker 7: not here. It's not like you didn't get him. It's
- 1:17:38Speaker 7: like just the work visa part. I mean, that's that's
- 1:17:41Speaker 7: a technicality. I mean, this isn't You're not trying to
- 1:17:44Speaker 7: pull some sneaky one, like hide some something. I mean,
- 1:17:47Speaker 7: he's gonna be on TV.
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: Why Wiki's got juice? Yeah, like Wiki.
- 1:17:51Speaker 8: Well, and also just the NHL trade deadlines on a Friday.
- 1:17:54Speaker 8: It's not like you didn't know when it was gonna
- 1:17:57Speaker 8: be so like you would think there would be some
- 1:17:59Speaker 8: sort of system for like, Okay, we know it's going
- 1:18:01Speaker 8: to be on a Friday, so anyone who is traded
- 1:18:03Speaker 8: before the noon deadline, we've got to have a streamline
- 1:18:08Speaker 8: system to get their info in right away. I don't
- 1:18:11Speaker 8: know you think the NHL would work out something like that.
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: Lywiki's figured out the red tape on like seventeen different
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: franchises in town. Yeah, and he can't get Bobby McMahon
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: in a cracking uniform.
- 1:18:22Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:18:22Speaker 7: I wasn't thinking about throwing the blame at his feet,
- 1:18:25Speaker 7: but now you mention it. Let's go, Todd, good place
- 1:18:28Speaker 7: to go to.
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: What have you ever done for us? Jeez? Slacking al
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- 1:18:48Speaker 1: And we can't get Bobby McMahon in a cracking uniform.
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