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Best of Chuck & Buck 6-30 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Come to Chaos, Let the games begin, and now broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: You we got a long guy where the action never stopped?
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  Speaker 1: Are you writing this down something?
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  Speaker 3: This is Chuck and Buck in the Morning.
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  Speaker 1: Why you people are beyond Let's go, Let's get the
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  Speaker 1: game off. Hey, great morning to you. Welcome into the
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  Speaker 1: radio show. It is a Tuesday. My name is Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan is here as well as we get things
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  Speaker 1: started here on this Tuesday morning. Great to have you
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  Speaker 1: with us. I think I had too much salt last night.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty sure about that. Fell a little off.
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  Speaker 4: Are your ankles feeling swollen?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think that my ankles are swollen. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I could show them on YouTube get a reaction.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I thought about for YouTube this morning?
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  Speaker 1: The land?
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  Speaker 4: Oh I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have a pencil that I can do Chuck's
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  Speaker 5: eyebrows with. Oh, that's right, But I thought I was Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I was like, should I stop at the store for
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  Speaker 5: an eyebrow pencil or would that be ridiculous?
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  Speaker 1: It would be funny if we just like now that
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  Speaker 1: we have these cameras, and everybody, once you get cameras,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they try to look their absolute best because
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  Speaker 1: now you're seeing me every day, and uh, I don't
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  Speaker 1: get to dress as lazily as I once did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we just went the opposite way, and I just looked
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  Speaker 1: as bad as possible, just like just goofball.
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  Speaker 5: I came in one time with just like smeared makeup
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  Speaker 5: all over my face, just care like a rat's nest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna put you in that corner,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm done trying to impress the ladies.
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  Speaker 4: I'm also done to impress the ladies.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, once upon a time, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: would have been like, oh no, I have to look
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  Speaker 1: my absolute past. I don't care anymore, so we might
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  Speaker 1: as well get a laugh, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: I agree.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's certain situations where I feel like, oh, I
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  Speaker 5: better try to look my absolute best.
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  Speaker 4: Coming to work isn't one of them?
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  Speaker 1: Not anymore? No, used to be. Yeah, I've used to
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  Speaker 1: be the guy that never wore shorts to work, And
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  Speaker 1: now you see me wear shorts to work all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're a rebel now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sure, even though I did wear a button
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  Speaker 1: up shirt underneath my hoodie today, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I like the collar. It looks very nice.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I've really flown in the face of my previous statement.
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  Speaker 4: I think you have. Probably were quite dapper today.
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  Speaker 1: I probably look pretty stellar today. And the ladies probably
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  Speaker 1: can't handle it.
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  Speaker 4: No, they're all flocked. They're flying off YouTube.
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  Speaker 5: They're like, oh, it's just making me too hot and bothered.
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  Speaker 1: They're probably google searching. Is there any any pictures of
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  Speaker 1: him with less clothing on?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: I need shirtless Chuck Powell photos because that collared shirt's
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  Speaker 5: got my mind wandering.
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  Speaker 4: I am all at Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: So sorry about that, ladies, And I do mean that sincerely.
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  Speaker 4: Do you mean that?
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  Speaker 6: Not?
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  Speaker 7: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Really? I hope to have gotten Let's put it this way.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've gotten you hot and bothered,
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  Speaker 1: but I hope I've gotten you hot or bothered one
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  Speaker 1: or the other.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: So either way, I feel like I'm winning here on
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  Speaker 1: this Tuesday. Well, welcome into the show. We got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things planned for you. During the course of
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  Speaker 1: the radio program, and I will fight through the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I got takeout pizza last night and had too
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  Speaker 1: much salt. You know you, So we're gonna get things
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  Speaker 1: going with the Mariners. There's a couple of other big,
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  Speaker 1: major topics, certainly that are beginning of the show worthy,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you, the six o'clock audience to know
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  Speaker 1: that usually we do come out of the gates with
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  Speaker 1: what I feel is the biggest juicy, this topic that
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  Speaker 1: we can't wait to talk about today. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: want it to always be baseball. And yet when you
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  Speaker 1: go so hard in on the team coming off such
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  Speaker 1: a bad loss, then it doesn't seem fair to me
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  Speaker 1: Ashley to come in after one of the more complete
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  Speaker 1: wins of the year and sort of wait till Mariner's
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  Speaker 1: morning after. I would agree, Yeah, so let's celebrate our
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  Speaker 1: local baseball team a little bit, because that was a
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  Speaker 1: nice victory last night, complete victory. That's the best George
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  Speaker 1: has looked I think all season long, to go eight
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  Speaker 1: strong innings, for him to make the job of the
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  Speaker 1: bullpen easier on Dan, even though I think he still
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  Speaker 1: screwed it up.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so glad you said that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you were just gonna sit
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  Speaker 1: there and wait for Farreir to see if he had
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  Speaker 1: it or not. When you've got your closer, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: even think about getting him in case there was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of traffic.
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  Speaker 5: Is it funny that I thought, did he go with
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  Speaker 5: Farrer so that if he put in Mooney and then
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  Speaker 5: he felt like he had no choice, Like he was like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: You're committee once you put in Mooney?
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  Speaker 5: Right, So I was like, so, did you go with
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  Speaker 5: Farrer so if that was the wrong choice, he could
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  Speaker 5: still bring Mooney out.
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  Speaker 1: I think he went with Ferrer because he thought the
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  Speaker 1: game was over and let's save Munjos for tomorrow. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's the that's usually the game plan, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll save Munjos and save him and save him and
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  Speaker 1: save him until there's a save on the line. He's
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  Speaker 1: got to have a stat otherwise he can't focus.
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  Speaker 4: Why is he here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? So all right, I said I was gonna start positively,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I didn't think there was still something wrong
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  Speaker 1: with that. Frankly, but offensively. You put six runs on
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  Speaker 1: the board last night, not a mere three. We doubled that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, threes in the rear view mirrors suck at three runs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's as if they put on a collared
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  Speaker 1: shirt this morning under their hoodie. Yeah. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: are done with that chapter in their lives of looking
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  Speaker 1: scummy on a Monday after Monday evening at the ball yard.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then the hitting of Cole Young, which
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  Speaker 1: showed up last night. He was the hitting stars. So
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  Speaker 1: between Cole Young and George Kirby, I mean, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of this game of baseball. You get a
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  Speaker 1: great starting pitching performance and you get one guy that
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  Speaker 1: shows up at the yard and is ready to hit.
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  Speaker 1: You win a lot of games that way. You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's why those aircraft carrier Aaron Judge types show a
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  Speaker 1: Tani types are so damn valuable. That's why Cal was
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  Speaker 1: so damn valuable last year. Is you know that you
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  Speaker 1: get that kind of guy in your lineup and he
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  Speaker 1: can carry you a few games. And it's not yet
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  Speaker 1: Cal for us, but Cole Young certainly showed up and
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  Speaker 1: provided all the offense that we needed. Three for three
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  Speaker 1: last night, two home runs. He looked locked in. He
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  Speaker 1: just went to the plate, looking sure of him himself
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  Speaker 1: and crushed Brian Johnson and Mitch Ferris, the left hander
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  Speaker 1: that they threw so good formula last night. We haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen a lot of games like that this year, but
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  Speaker 1: last night we were the better team on the field.
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  Speaker 1: We played like the better team on the field, and
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  Speaker 1: George and Cole led the way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I definitely did get nervous when they got
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  Speaker 5: that run in the first inning, and I thought, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: George is gonna be annoyed. He's gonna be fine, or
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  Speaker 5: is he gonna be fine? Is he going to be annoyed?
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  Speaker 5: What's gonna happen? Then when he gave up the home
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  Speaker 5: run later, I thought, oh, no, he's going to be
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  Speaker 5: really annoyed. But luckily, offensively we had our plan, as
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  Speaker 5: you said, and and Cole Young came through and Cal
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  Speaker 5: came through with that hit after the year that they
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  Speaker 5: took advantage of, and it was great.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think George gets bothered when they get hits
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  Speaker 1: off of him. He knows that's part of the game,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows that they're good too and their quality.
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  Speaker 1: What George gets annoyed by is when they get something
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  Speaker 1: that they shouldn't have gotten.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: When they get a bloop or when he feels like
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  Speaker 1: this guy should have made the play. That's when you
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  Speaker 1: got to worry about George. But to get a clean
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  Speaker 1: double to start the game and then score and then uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know that to me doesn't rattle George. I'm only
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  Speaker 1: worried about George when he gives up stuff he feels
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  Speaker 1: he that that should not have happened that sense, And
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  Speaker 1: that's why I've always preached that you got to get
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  Speaker 1: out there with him immediately. I think he got to
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  Speaker 1: do the same thing with Brian wou now, especially on
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  Speaker 1: the road, because it gets in his head. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be one of those kind of nights. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can just see it on George's face all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean even even the lack of run support. I
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  Speaker 1: mean when he looks up there and sees, oh, I've
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  Speaker 1: only given up two and we've only got one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's typical for me. Woe is me? Yeah, that's the
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  Speaker 1: that's the George like where he gets. I don't mind
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  Speaker 1: the furious George. I don't like the whiney George. Irritated George,
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  Speaker 1: So to me, that's when he gets in a little trouble.
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  Speaker 1: But it was great seeing him last night, all smiles.
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  Speaker 1: You don't see that a lot from him, even though
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  Speaker 1: he's a great young man. But he was, Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: was joy. That was pure.
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  Speaker 4: Relaxed in the dugout too standing there.
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  Speaker 1: That was the best his stuff had looked. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: his sweeper was fantastic last night. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I've ever looked seen it look better, but he was
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  Speaker 1: fantastic last night. And then little brother Cole Young stole
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  Speaker 1: the show offensively. But I went really hard, and I've
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  Speaker 1: been going really hard on Dan Wilson. And it's very
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  Speaker 1: funny because we got down with the show yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: I did four full segments just ripping Dan Wilson for
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  Speaker 1: his bullpen decisions. And you know, you try to deliver
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  Speaker 1: in sports talk radio like what people probably have on
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  Speaker 1: their mind that morning. And I won't always go four
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  Speaker 1: full segments on any topic on any given morning, with
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  Speaker 1: the exception of the day after a Seahawks game, we
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  Speaker 1: go full show on that. But I don't normally go
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  Speaker 1: four full segments blasting away at something. And I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of exhausted by the end of the day. I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of tired at the end of today's show
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  Speaker 1: because of that, and I get done and I'm like, Man,
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  Speaker 1: did I go too hard? Was I too hard on
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  Speaker 1: the Beaver last night? Was I too hard on Dan? Today?
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  Speaker 1: At the show? And I get out the air and
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  Speaker 1: I open up the door and I literally look in
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  Speaker 1: and see my boss and he's on the phone and
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  Speaker 1: he gives me this look. And I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the look was for, but at the time I thought
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  Speaker 1: the look was what did you do to me? Like
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was on the phone with somebody complaining
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  Speaker 1: that I went too hard on a local legend, Dan
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  Speaker 1: Wilson on yesterday's show. And then we get to our
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  Speaker 1: meeting and pretty much the conversation was I didn't go
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  Speaker 1: hard enough.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah it was.
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  Speaker 5: So are we starting tomorrow's show with he shouldn't have
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  Speaker 5: a job, right?
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  Speaker 1: And so I know a lot of people have arrived
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  Speaker 1: at that conclusion. I really do try to keep that
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  Speaker 1: as the last resort.
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  Speaker 4: I mean should be I'll go there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean sports talk show OS. We got to be
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  Speaker 1: willing to go there at some point, but I try
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  Speaker 1: not try not to use that. I'm not quick trigger
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  Speaker 1: with that. I did get there with Romar, I never
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  Speaker 1: got there with Pete. I was surprised we let go
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  Speaker 1: of Pete, and that ended up being the best decision
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  Speaker 1: in franchise history, best decision since they hired Pete, was
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  Speaker 1: the decision to let go of Pete and go to
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, as it turns out. And so I try
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  Speaker 1: not to I try not to try to like save
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  Speaker 1: that for last resort kind of thing. But I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of close just from the standpoint. I mean, I said
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  Speaker 1: a month ago, like if it happened, I'd understand, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be bothered by it. And so I certainly after
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's ranting, in the last month's ranting, and it's been
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  Speaker 1: ramping up for me here as of late. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he's getting better at his bullpen decisions. I
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  Speaker 1: certainly still am in the of if they'd pulled the trigger,
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  Speaker 1: i'd understand, and I would probably not complain one bit.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not ready to call for his job. And
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  Speaker 1: I do believe he brings a lot of good things
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  Speaker 1: to the table, and I think that he had similar
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  Speaker 1: struggles a year ago that we were discussing at this time.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm dismayed at all by Dan Wilson, it's that
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  Speaker 1: a year and a half, almost two years into his
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  Speaker 1: being a manager, he doesn't seem to be getting better. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: at some of these things, like bullpen decisions, he seems
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  Speaker 1: to be getting worse. It seems to be a bigger
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  Speaker 1: problem for him now than the day that he took
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  Speaker 1: over as manager for Scott's service. So that probably is
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  Speaker 1: the source of my frustration and why I've been ramping
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  Speaker 1: things up as of late. But he took a team
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  Speaker 1: that was similarly as irritating a year ago, and then
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  Speaker 1: we ended up in the American League Championship Series under
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  Speaker 1: the same guide. And I've said it numerous times in
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  Speaker 1: the second half of the season, his decisions started to
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  Speaker 1: smooth out because I think he was just managing for wins.
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  Speaker 1: Once he got to the point where he was just
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  Speaker 1: managing for wins and he didn't have to manage workload
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  Speaker 1: and innings and thousand different rules all applying to every
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  Speaker 1: individual pitcher that have been handed down from on high,
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  Speaker 1: then I think that his manager managerial work got better
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  Speaker 1: as the season went on. But I am I think
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of at a point where he doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: know whether to scratch his watch or wind his ass.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, with pitching decisions, and I think that
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  Speaker 1: it popped up again last night. I know I tried
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  Speaker 1: to avoid levying any criticism against him today, but I
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  Speaker 1: even think he screwed that up last night in the
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  Speaker 1: ninth inning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I do agree.
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  Speaker 5: I think the way that you approach it by not
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  Speaker 5: not just getting angry and coming in and be like
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  Speaker 5: he should lose his job, because we have a lot of.
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  Speaker 4: Listeners at Will that want that this after a loss.
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  Speaker 1: There's a they're so tough all they were if they
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  Speaker 1: were in my shoes. They do it every single day.
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  Speaker 5: Andy, why don't you say the things that need to
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  Speaker 5: be said. But I mean, nobody should be just willy
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  Speaker 5: nilly asking for someone's job. It's it's not one. It's
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  Speaker 5: just not a decent thing to do. It's not a
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  Speaker 5: respectful thing to do. And you're not going to have
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  Speaker 5: any credibility if anytime someone has a tough time you
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  Speaker 5: want them fired. I mean, I think you've got to
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  Speaker 5: wait till the appropriate time to ask or to say
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  Speaker 5: those things.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, And I'll be honest, I'm close. I've been
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  Speaker 1: close here.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: I've been close. But we've also seen from Dan's past
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  Speaker 1: him iron things out and get better as the season
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  Speaker 1: went along, and maybe he'll do that again. The different
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  Speaker 1: another difference this year between last year is he's got
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  Speaker 1: a better roster. This year. He did not have that
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  Speaker 1: good of a roster when we started the season a
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  Speaker 1: year ago. Our offseason moves were Donovan Solano.
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  Speaker 4: And oh I forgot about Solana?
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  Speaker 1: And who am I forgetting?
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  Speaker 4: We have? Yeah, that's how good they were.
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  Speaker 1: Pathetic, Like the offseason moves were pathetic last offseason. This
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  Speaker 1: year he started with a team that a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: the more people than not, thought was gonna win the
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  Speaker 1: American League this year. And Dan's job is not just
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  Speaker 1: X's and O's. As a matter of fact, that's the
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  Speaker 1: secondary job. Dan's job is to manage personalities. That's why
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  Speaker 1: they call it a manager and not a head coach.
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  Speaker 1: He's got personalities to manage, twenty six of them. And then,
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  Speaker 1: of course with the roster changes that's always flying around.
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  Speaker 1: So you got up to forty five guys during the
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  Speaker 1: course of the year that you've got to figure out
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  Speaker 1: which buttons to push on those guys. You have a
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff to manage, you've got a media to manage,
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  Speaker 1: you got all sorts of things to manage, and he's
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  Speaker 1: on the surface. He's terrible with the media, not that
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  Speaker 1: he's bad to us, but he just doesn't give us
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  Speaker 1: anything right. He's great with his coaches. Coaches will do
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  Speaker 1: anything for him, and he's great with his players. Scott
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  Speaker 1: Servis wasn't great with all of this player. Scott Servis
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  Speaker 1: had a bit of a divided locker room. He had
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  Speaker 1: his guys and then there were guys that just weren't
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  Speaker 1: on board with what Scott was doing. But Dan seems
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  Speaker 1: to have and it's because of those boring press conferences.
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  Speaker 1: It's because he won't ever throw somebody under the bus publicly,
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  Speaker 1: and they do like him, and Cal likes him, and
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  Speaker 1: there will be a ripple. If, in fact, they showed
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  Speaker 1: up at the ballpark yesterday with a brand new manager,
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  Speaker 1: there would be an impact felt, and sometimes that can
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  Speaker 1: be incredibly positive. Sometimes it can provide the jolt you
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: want it to provide to your players where even if
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: they especially if they like the guy or love the guy,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: then it really does set in like, oh gosh, we
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: just got him fired. And for reasons like Cal detailed
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Sunday night, because they weren't playing for three hours at
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: a time. But that also falls back on Dan. Why
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: aren't your guys playing for three hours.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Should be able to get that out of them?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Click strip everything away, everything away from a manager's responsibilities.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Here's the one thing that you are judged on. Are
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: you maximizing the talent that you have on your roster?
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: And I think the answer to that is no, Dan
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Wilson is not getting the most out of this roster.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: And then you tack on x's and o's, which I
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: think he struggled, and really all a manager has left
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: to do is pinch hitting decisions and bolpen decisions. That's
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: pretty much it anymore, because they don't hit and run,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: they don't bunt anymore, they don't do any of those things.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Stealing is usually just a green light. I mean, every
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: once in a while you might call for a steal
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: or tell somebody not to steal, but for the most part,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: they all have green lights and you trust them to
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: go or not go in the right situation. And Randy
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: never does, so there's really not much else to it.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: So I think he's kind of I think he's really
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: struggling with his x's and o's decisions, and I know
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: that he excels in the relationship department with his coaches
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: and his players. But at the end of the day,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: your job is to maximize the talent given to you,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: and clearly he has not done that this Yay, right.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: So that's why I've been hard on Dan. That's why
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I will continue to be hard on Dan. But also
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not ready to You know, the seat is hot,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: but I'm just not ready to go there on the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: air this morning or yesterday morning and say get this
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: guy out of here, because I do know that there
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: are some merits to what he brings to the table,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and you don't see them. We don't really see them
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: on a day to day basis, but they are there,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and it could I don't know. I don't know what
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: kind of effect it would have on the clubhouse if
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: you popped him at this stage in the process.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that's a fair concern.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: That should always be a concern, because we don't know
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: what's going on in there and how they relate to him,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: and how they like him, and how they respecting.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: You mentioned the press conferences.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: That he doesn't Yeah, but that he doesn't call anyone out.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I think that's the thing that drives me just insane.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: I don't want him to call anyone out, but I
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: want some irritation when you come off a series like
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: you just did in Cleveland, or a series like you
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: did in Pittsburgh, or a series like you did in Boston.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: You had three series losses in a row. On the
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: road just never changes, and I want you to be
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: a little pissed off about it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: I don't need you to be like this guy did this,
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: and this guy didn't do this, and this is the
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: reason we lost.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: No, I want you.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: We need to be better. I mean, Cal was irritated.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: You could tell Cal is saying we aren't playing the
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: full game. We are only playing an hour and a half.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: We got to play all nine innings two or three hours.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: That is what is asked of us.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Why can't that be Dan, That's.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: All I'm asking. You're right, Yeah, you're right, Yeah.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. I also, just on a minor note,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: You know this. I've mentioned it a couple of times,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: but maybe those listening right now have not heard me
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: say it. I want my manager to look more composed
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: during games. He looks like a nervous wreck. He sits
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: there with his hands in his back pocket, standing up, shaking,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and I don't like that. Aaron Boone sits there with
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: his foot up and his arm resting and looks to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: see him to be in control. And I don't see
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: that from our manager. All that said, I get why
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: he's on the hot I get why people want to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: have put him on the hot seat. I don't know
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: if Jerry has I get why people have put him
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: on the hot seat. I get why some people want
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: him gone. But you know what, I'm not there just yet,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty close. I'm pretty dark.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: I think that's fair.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: All right, Let's find out what's on tap for the
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• 21:13
  Speaker 1: talk about your headlines. Seattle wins over the Angels six
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: to two is your final score last night, so they're
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: back to the five hundred mark. They'll take on the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: same team. Tonight at six forty, Brian Woo versus Jose Soriano,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: which is a very interesting matchup. We'll talk more about
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: that in Mariners morning after. At six thirty, World Cup
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Brazil advanced with a two to one win over Japan.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: That was supposed to happen. Germany and Netherlands were eliminated
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: on penalty kicks last night yesterday. That was not supposed
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to happen. So two teams that are considered powers have
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: been ousted from the World Cup this year.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: What those were?
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: I didn't watch the Germany game, but I watched the
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Netherlands Morocco game from start to finish.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: That was great, It was exciting soccer.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: US Bosnia will play Wednesday at five o'clock. NBA free
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: agency begins today at three pm. Yesterday, John Morant was
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: traded from Memphis to Portland, so he's now a Portland
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: trail Blazers. And basically the analysis was he is not
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: a fit in any way in Portland, and yet Portland
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: is going to roll the dice on John Morant because
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: why not. He's really an exceptional talent that has kind
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of lost his way a little bit, and his value
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: has just plummeted. And yet the Blazers did not want
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Jeremy Grant on their team anymore. So both teams are
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: looking for addition by subtraction. And I do think the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Blazers are the only team in the group that has
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a chance to really catch fire with this move. But
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: we'll talk more about that a little bit later on.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: In the show Wimbledon, Serena Place today, she makes her
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: return to Wimbledon and singles. She will play at nine
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: o'clock against And this is really bad parenting right here,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: against someone whose name is m Joint. I'll come on,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: if your last name's Joint, you can't name your daughter M.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: No, probably not come on, but I mean, yeah, creativity.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I guess, or Mary Jane Joints or they were just
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: stoned Mary j Joint versus the Serena today and we
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: will do our grill giveaway. We're only gonna do one
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: round of it today, but we'll do that today. I'll
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: tell you it's seven forty five coming up next. Marin
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: This Morning After Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Kirby Let's it rip.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: Hey, god T Mobile Park rising to its feet to
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: celebrate a magnificent performance from George Kirby.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Hey, brilliant indids I gets.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: The angel tonight, complete domination from furious George.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Good Daron's ondly got a good mood. George isn't a
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: good mood. Maybe seeing George in such a good mood
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: put Aaron in such a good probably, or vice versa.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Put me in a good news.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Mariners win six to two. The final score overcame
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a two to nothing deficit, rattled off six runs unanswered.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: George Kirby went eight full innings. He gets the victory.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Cole Young homer twice. Dom Canzone also hit a bomb
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: last night. Complete went for the team last night, and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: so a little bit of that heat cooled down at
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: T Mobile last night. Team gets back to five hundred
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: on the season. Forty three and forty three. Same two
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: teams will square off tonight. Brian wu who's been excellent
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: at home and bad on the road, will pitch for
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: us at home, and Jose Soriano, who was excellent early
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: in the season and has been terrible as of late,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: we'll pitch for them. That is your pitching matchup this evening.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: First pitch at six forty Thanks to Aarner's TV for
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the highlight there to bring us into our seven o'clock hour.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Ashley, Ryan, Chuck Powell with you
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: as we roll into our number two. We will have
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: a grill giveaway today. I'm gonna just tell you right
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: off the bat, it's gonna be seven forty five today,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: so we're only gonna have one crack at that to qualify.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: So when you qualify at seven forty five, we'll pick
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the name out of the hat right then and there
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: and that will be our second qualifier out of four
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: for the week, we'll be given away that green Mountain
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: pellet grill from.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Riches for the home.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: For the home.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at your headlines first, there are
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of them here on this Tuesday morning. World Cup.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Yesterday Brazil won over Japan. That's the only thing that
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: went as scripted. Germany has been eliminated from the World Cup.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: The Netherlands eliminated from the World Cup. Penalty kicks decided
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: their fate as they are going home. While the World
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Cup does continue. Three more matches today of interest, of
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: considerable interest. As a matter of fact, you're gonna have
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: France in action today against Sweden. That's the two o'clock match.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: You've got Mexico versus Ecuador at six o'clock this evening,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and then the first match today is Ivory Coast versus
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Norway at ten a m. The US won't play until
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Wednesday evening against Bosnia Herzegovina. Five o'clock is the start
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: of that match, and of course we will hype that
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: up here on your home for World Cup coverage here
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: in Seattle Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Wimbledon
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: continues today. Serena will play today at nine am, so
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: she just a couple of hours away. She's gonna take
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: on m Joint. That's right, insert your own joke here.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: May Richard Strain is gonna smoke M Joint today, no
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: doubt about it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I love that I heard this little age this morning
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: on television Serena's taking on Joint and then they do
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a little bit of breakdown and then they're like, Serena's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the underdog, Like.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Of course she Yeah, she's been out of tennis for
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: four years.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: How could she not be the underdog in the in
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the in the matchup.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be weird.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: I mean do I think she could still win, Yeah,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: of course absolutely, but she's got to earn her spot
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: to be the favorite again.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: She had a singles match in what four years? Yeah, Yeah,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: she's taking only a professional who's been on the circuit.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, who's playing every week, like playing matches and stuff.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I give her a chance to pull off
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the upset. Yes, but it would definitely be an upset
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: if she comes out of retirement in her first match
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: at Wimbledon and beat somebody who's ranked, because she's also
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: very lowly ranked. Yeah, obviously having not played, So she's
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: not going to be taking on some chump today, right,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock, All right, we'll be tuning in, all right,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: And of course, said today three o'clock is the debt
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: as the start, not the deadline, the start of NBA
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: free agency, and man, it could be a wild ride.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Free agency itself is probably not going to be that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: big of a deal. I mean, it's just the way
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: that the league is set up right now. They don't
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: even allow some of the better players to even get
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: to free agency, and so the free agency list it's
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: not like the NFL, it's not like Major League Baseball.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: It's usually a little wanting. If you think you're going
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: to try to build your team through free agency, that's
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: going to be difficult to do. You might be able
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to sign in trades, like somebody's rights are held by
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: somebody else and yet they are a restricted free agency.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: You can pull off a trade that way, But in
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: terms of just adding some free agent, that list isn't
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: nearly as impressive as the list of trade candidates right
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: now in the National Basketball Association. But this is I
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: don't know, Maybe they're all I know there are. I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: know there are a lot of sports fans out there.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: They don't like the turnover, You don't like the change
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: of teams, that like the loyalty, that still want the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: cal Ripken. I played in one uniform my entire career,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and I enjoy that too. Don't get me wrong, but
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I do love a good trade. Maybe, though, for us
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that love movement, that love trades, that kind of live
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: for hot stove baseball and live for the offseason, maybe
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: there is a limit to how much of it we
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: want to see. I mean, think about this, and I
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: just pulled up some random ranking. I think it's oh gosh,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: or the ringer, The ringer. They just ranked the top
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: one hundred basketball players today. Well, I just took their
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: top twenty and so, and I could have found any
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: list out there was the first one popped up. So
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to go with that. It doesn't matter
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: how they rank them. I'm just using that for context.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: But think about this. Luka Doncic is four on their list,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: traded just last season. Number seven is Yannis, traded just
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: last week. Number eight is Kawhi. He's going to be
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: traded today. He's going to be traded before the NBA
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: free agency period begins, because everybody's got to get their
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: chickens and their mental set for salary cap reasons for
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the free agency. So he's going to be traded today
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: to Toronto, looks like, and they're just going to iron
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: out the details. Number fourteen on the list is Jalen Brown,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: and that's a pretty well known story at this point.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Boston tried to trade him for Yannis, didn't get it done.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: It's the second time they've tried to trade him for
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a superstar player and couldn't get it done. And there
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: was already a rift between Brown and Boston and the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Celtics organization and so Brad Stevens has not stopped shopping him. Well,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: once you've done that, once you've gone that far, once
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: you've declared publicly he's a big part of our future,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: after having notably tried to trade.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Him away, I don't know.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the story comes out that you've not
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: stopped trying to trade him. They have to trade him
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: at this point. So Jalen Brown's probably going to get
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: traded at some point this offseason. And he's the fourteenth
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: three ink player. Katie at sixteen was just traded last
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: year to Houston. And number twenty on the list is
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Lebron who's a free agent, and it doesn't look like
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: he's heading to the Lakers. The story is that he's
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: going to the Golden State Warriors to unite with Steph.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: That one's weird to me, which would be quite interesting.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: But the point of it is, in the last year
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and a half, think about this, seven of the top
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: twenty players in basketball are going to change uniforms. I
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: mean that is significant. Yeah, right there. I did a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: little compare and contrast with the National Football League, And again,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: don't blame me for the list I grabbed. I grabbed
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the first list I could find. It doesn't matter who
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: ranked them or how they ranked them. I grabbed Pete
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Prisco's list. Okay, but he's the one that's done the most.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: He sent one like it's better than the NFL network's
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: list because the players ranked those and they're terrible. So
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I grabbed Pete Prisco's list because he is actively releasing
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: this as we speak, and so it's the latest thing
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: that I could find from CBS Sports. And Pete's fine,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: he's just got an abrasive person.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: He's just grumpy.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but his list, the number one guy has on
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: his list, the best player in the National Football League
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: according to him, is Miles Garrett and he did get traded.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Number twelve on his list is Micah Parsons and of
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: course in the last year he's gotten traded. Matthew Stafford
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: is number two on his list, and Matthew Stafford's been
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: traded before, not in the same calendar year. Well, actually
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Garrett and Parsons weren't even traded in the same calendar year,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: but within the last year they were both traded. But
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: that's it, you know, that's it. Sixteen of the top
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: twenty football players according to Pete have never been traded.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: So think about that in these and other sports, and
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: even in the NBA. The idea that they set up
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: all of these rules was the idea was so that
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: you could control a player. That's why the NBA had
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: so many rules, so that if you have a superstar
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: player that your fan base is attached to, you've attached
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to he's attached to you, you want to build a
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: fence around him if you can, to keep him in
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: that uniform. Because everybody likes the notion of that's our guy,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, that's our guy. I mean, I know I
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: eventually played for the Wizards, but that he was a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bowl right.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: No one wants to remember the Wizards thing, right exactly.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: We kind of fade that out of our memory. So
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: here are two leagues that are kind of set up.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, the NFL, we have franchise tags because we
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: don't want we want you to stay in the same
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: uniform if you're special, if you're a special player, we
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: prefer you to stay in the same uniform. You're We're
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: not gonna be able to stop every but if we
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: can set up a few rules to keep you in
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: that uniform, that keep that loyal fan base attached to you,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and you to them. That's what we prefer, that's our
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: preference for all of it, and so on. A list
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: of twenty top NFL players in the game right now,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: sixteen of them have never changed clothes. Meanwhile, in the NBA,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in the last year and a half, six of the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: best players are going to be moved to other teams,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and there's still talk that Donovan Mitchell at eleven could
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: also be moved. So this is going to be a
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: crazy offseason in the National Basketball Associations. And then throw
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: out you know, Julius Randall and John Morant and Miles
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Bridges was traded last week from Charlotte to Phoenix. I mean,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: this is crazy how many moves are being made in
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the National Basketball Association. So if you like moves and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: you like off seasons like I do, not only should
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: you be satisfied, you might be oversatiated. You might you
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: might get too much. You've overstimulated me. Now that might
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: be too much. Hell as ace Ventra once said, three
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: darts is too much, So maybe it's maybe that's too
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: many players of substance changing hands. I like it, but
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I could see why some people might be even turned
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: off by that many players of significance being moved to
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: another uniform and that short period of time.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because it's chaos, and so you either have to
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: embrace it and you enjoy kind of watching that part,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: or you are that person that pictures a person in
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: a uniform and doesn't want to picture them in another uniform.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: I mean, Lebron's been in several uniforms, so picturing him
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: ad as well, Yeah, Kad as well, So picturing them
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: in another one.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Isn't that surprising?
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: At having to go to Golden State would be something
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: that'd be interesting. But I mean, it still stands out
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: to me that last week with the draft, you told
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: me that twenty nine of the thirty second round.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Picks were traded. Clearly the NBA is trade happy. They
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: love it. Yeah, they're all in.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Hasn't always been the case, but this.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Year they are all in.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: NFL has not always I mean NFL, it was hard
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: to even make a trade. You rarely see if use
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: one trade a year. In the National Football League, it
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: was yeah, you know, one significant trade a year. But
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: now teams are embracing the trade. Teams are embracing the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: trading deadline, and I love that. I love that, But
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I do wonder if seven of the best twenty players,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: thirty three percent of the best players in basketball, could
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: change hands in the span of a little over a year.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I wonder if that's too much for some people. It's
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: not for me. Yeah, it's not for me. It's not
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: quite it doesn't quite cross over yet. I can't wait
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to see where Jalen Brown lands. I can't wait to
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: see what Lebron decides to do here. And so I
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: dig it, I dig it. But if you're into this
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: sort of thing, man, you're getting an overload of it
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I could see how some people will be like, no,
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: it is too much. It's I mean, one of the
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: things that we talk about too with college sports, right,
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: players changing teams all the time, and that's too much.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: And I don't want to get how am I going
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: to get used to this?
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: Well, these are superstars, so the oddity of all of
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: a sudden having that superstar on your team or having
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: your superstar go to another team. I mean that is
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: for an emotionally invested basketball fan can be a lot
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: to deal with, especially at that like seven, you know,
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: thirty three percent of them doing it, that would.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Be a lot.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: But I think again, as a person watching the NBA
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: who doesn't have a team, I'm embracing the chaos.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Embrace the chaos. And here's the other fascinating thing about
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: this offseason, because Lebron is like the free agent, I
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: mean hasn't even he hasn't even announced anyone that he's
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: not retiring. Yeah, the Lakers apparently have been left in
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the dark. Not to mention, you've got the Bronni situation,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Like what happens to Bronni? Are you just leaving the
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: house and just leaving your just like my son, good
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: luck leaving your infant behind to play with his toys.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, what are you gonna do with Bronnie? So
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: that's interesting. But all of the arrows are pointing toward
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Lebron going to the Warriors and teaming up with Steph.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: And then we've also included Anthony Davis now in this
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: conversation as well, going to the Warriors and teaming with
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Steph and with Draymond, who apparently they're not going to
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: chase out of town after all. And Steve Kerr is
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: coming back to coach the team, even though he looked
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: like he looked like a wrungout dish rag at the
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: end of the season last year. It looked on Steve
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Kerr's face when he was hugging everybody goodbye, like I
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: don't not only am I leaving basketball, I don't ever
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: want to coach again. He looked that spent and yet
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: little time away. And it looks like he's signed back
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: up for more of this, more of Draymond, it sounds
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: like as well. So there is a chance that as
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: you're looking at Oklahoma City and San Antonio and I
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: guess the Knicks, I mean, they're the champs, we got
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: to put them in the conversation as well. So, but
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: sort of the new faces of the NBA, And are
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: some of these teams that were out ahead of this,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: especially with san Antonio and ok Case, Have they created
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: two teams that cannot be beaten in the next ten years?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Is it going to be one or the other? The
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: way that they've been perfectly constructed, how much luck they
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: had in the lottery, how much what the decision to
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: rebuild entirely did to benefit them, The draft capital that
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: they accumulated that has set them up that even if
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: they do hit a snag, they just trade a couple
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: of their leftover draft picks and they get out of
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: that hole. They seem to be in great cap situation.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Are they going to dominate the next ten years? Seems
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: to be the narrative right now in the National Basketball Association. Well,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the Spurs and Knicks, excuse me, Spurs and Thunder win
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: all of the next ten NBA titles because how well
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: they're set up for the future. And here are the
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors and all their wrung out, tired legends
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: and Lebron Durant received not Durant, Lebron, Anthony Davis, Steph
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: and Draymond might all end up on the same roster
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: before this comes to a close. It kind of reminds
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: me of remember the two thousand and three Lakers super
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: team that they put together that included the glove I do,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: where they had Shaq and Kobe and for whatever reason,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the Lakers are like, what is wrong with us? We're
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: falling apart. Yep, let's go assembol the greatest team that
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: the rules will allow. And they went out and they
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: got Karl Malone and they got Gary Payton and they
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: were sure that I mean, there were people I remember
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: doing sports talk radio. There were people that thought they
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: weren't going to lose a game.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: I lived in LA at the time. You are correct.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: They were all like, it was like, oh my god,
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: we've assembled the greatest team to ever be.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: It was unfair. People were like, what, they're gonna win
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: seventy seventy and two or excuse me, eighty. They're gonna
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: go eighty and two this year. I mean they thought
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: that they were unbeatable and they ended up not even
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: being very good. And that team was younger than what
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: the Warriors are contemplating right now. But it would be interesting.
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, I mean, it's certainly makes them more interesting. Get
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: your popcorn out, That's what I think. Yeah, it'd be
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: super fun to watch. But I also am like, ooh,
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: it would also be really funny if they're terrible.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Warriors aren't all that interesting right now with an aged
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Steff and an aged Draymond and a tired dish Rag,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: They're not that interesting right now. Put Lebron and Anthony Davis.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: If the old men got together to show these young
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: whipper snappers how it's done, and you assembled an old
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: dream team like Michael Keaton would be in this movie
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: and then they went ahead to head against the Thunder
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: and the Spurs. I don't think it'll work, but it
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: makes it a lot more. It makes Lebron's life a
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: lot more interesting. Everybody's tired of him being a Laker anyway.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, even a sun probably certainly.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Makes Anthony Davis's life more interesting. I mean, he's in
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: the Wizards right now, for goodness sake, that poor guy.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: So we'll see. But man, fascinating times right now in
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: the NBA, and the free agency period begins today at
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: three o'clock, so there's probably gonna be a couple of
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: trades as teams, like I said, get their chickens and
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: their mentals in order. They got to get under the cap,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: put their self in a good cap position. So if
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: they do want to try to grab a free agent,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: that they've got the money to do so, but they
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: need to know stuff first, So we could see several
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: trades before three o'clock. So leading up to three o'clock,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: much like the NFL, is going to be a lot
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: more interesting than anything that happens after three o'clock, or
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: at least that's the way it feels right now. All right,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: coming up next, abcs of the ms come your way
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: on Sports Radio ninety three point three KHARFM, and people
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: do like that. We have the alphabet as our guide
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: to a daily Mariner's segments. We never know where it's
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: going to take us, so we're going to start with
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: the letter D. D is for disabled, which is where
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: reb Refschneider is at this point in his Mariner career.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: He was put on the injury list yesterday and he's
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: been dealing apparently with some issues for a little while.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I know this doesn't break the hearts of Mariner fans
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: to not have rob Refschneider in the lineup. And I
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: do wonder aloud, as a mass communicator, as a living
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: will Rob Refschneider ever play for the Mariners again?
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: I think that's a fair question to ask.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Isn't that a fair question to ask at this point?
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Because if anybody takes hold or I mean, depending on
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: how long he's out, I mean, we are entering July tomorrow,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: and apparently the Mariners are already, according to Adam Jude,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: sniffing around about add a bat sooner than later. They
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: don't really they realize where the weakness is. They're frustrated,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: as anybody else with the five hundred record at this point,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: so they're shopping for a relief pitcher and a bat
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: and not necessarily waiting till after the draft in order
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: to really focus on that, which is something that they've
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: done in the past, and a lot of teams do that.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: They're not the only one. So please don't jump all
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: over Jerry justin like you tend to do some of you. So,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: so it looks like they are already on the search
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: for this. So if they find that perfect match, they
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: find that bat. I mean, obviously Rob Reschneider can't be
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: brought back to this team. He just isn't performing. So
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: I think that there is a chance. I think there's
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: a chance he's back, but I think that there is
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: a chance that he's not back. At this point, we
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: might have seen him play his last game as a Mariner.
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: Well yeah, And it's interesting because when he got his
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: first hit and then did as postgame press conference and
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: talked about like the emotional things and how he'd been
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: dealing with an injury and so he had to adjust
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: some stuff because of something that was bothering him. I
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: feel like if there was really a significant injury at
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: the time, they would have put him on the ilup
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: right away instead of letting him go two and a
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: half more months with something kind of nagging at him.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: So now it's like, okay, well it's nagging.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: At you and you're not getting any better, not even
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: not like physically, but you're at bats and nothing's getting better.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: So I don't know.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: It seems like it was kind of like they gave
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: them as much time as they could and now they're like, okay,
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: we're done.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Well, he might be out of time, and especially if
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: he's going to go on the shelf for a minimum
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: of ten days, because a lot can happen in ten days,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: so he may have run out of time. I mean,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Brenda Donovan, I'm assuming he's coming back at some point.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: We don't hear anything nothing, so but he's taking somebody spot,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: whether it's JP or the DH or goes into a
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: super utility role. He's going to find playing time somewhere
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: out there, and then he is for every day Dom
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: because at this stage you're foolish if you're not playing
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Dom Canzone every day. Yep.
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, you're hitting him third.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Now you are acknowledging Dom Canzone's our best hitter, right
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: now he has a nine hundred OPS nine hundred.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: He's got the highest batting average too.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: And he also against lefties. And this is still a
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: short sample size with just twenty one at bats against lefties,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: but he has a nine to fifty two OPS against lefties.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: So when he's been given the chance, which has been infrequently,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: to play against lefties, he's not embarrassing himself. He's certainly
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: out hitting Rob Reschneider against left handers. So I think
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: dom Canzone And this is a bit of an upset
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: for me because I thought maybe he'd be used at
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: the trading deadline to trade for a Byron Buxton type
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: if you could get him. But right now he seems
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: too valuable to move. I mean, he's in the heart
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: of your order. Right now Cal Rawley is hitting six,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: then dom Canzone's hitting third for the Seattle Mariners. In
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: Six, Yeah, that's when he moved up to third. I
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: was like, whoa and hearned it. Yeah, absolutely, and he
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: proved it again last night.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hit another home run last night. So nine
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: hundred zero ps. I mean, that's that's special. He looks
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: like he's turned a corner. He bided his time. He
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: swallowed the insult that he can't play against left handers.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: He fought his way through it. Even though he hit
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: I think two seventy three against lefties a year ago.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: He didn't hit for power, but he was putting the
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: ball in play against left He wasn't striking out every
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: single time. But right now, dom Canzone looks like an
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: everyday player. He is your everyday DH until we are
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: further notified. So again that crowds things for Rob Refsnyder. Well,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: we might still have a platoon, but the platoon is
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: right field ralely and who Roeblazer ref Snider, Well, there's
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: no question that Roeblaze is out playing ref Snyder right now,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: both offensively and defensively. So again that crowds the situation.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Plus Donovan again is on his way back to this roster,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: and we got to find a spot for him. And
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: there's still the potential to make a move like if
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: you still don't feel comfortable against lefties, seems like we
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: still need a right handed back, which could put Roeblaze
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: in jeopardy as well. So f today is for framework.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: And this is another idea that I got from somebody else.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: This is happening way too frequently, and I'm going to
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: start punching you people for being so clever. I'm gonna
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: do it. This is supposed to be me coming up
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: with these ideas, and.
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: You're supposed to listen and be an all right, that's
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: how radio works.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: This is what I do. Gosh, stay in your lane, Akita.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: He is pretty smart.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Adam Jude came up with this one too. He's also
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: pretty He's on the inside though. Plus he's liked this
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: guy for a long time. But I kind of forgot
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: about him in this process. But he mentioned this name
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: and a list of four. By the way, I came
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: up with Buxton first, buddy.
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've been on the Buxton train, thank you.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: And then he started saying maybe Byron Buxton. But he's
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: got to give the credit for that, even though he
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: won't give me credit in his article. You know you
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: got it from me. Spencer Steer from the Cincinnati Reds
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: is a name that he has brought up, and I
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: realized that that doesn't make anyone listening right now that's
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: rooting for the Mariners and can't wait to the trading deadline.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Do any backflips. You might not even know who that is.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like acquiring Ellie de la Cruz.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: I can tell you no, definitely not twenty eight year
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: old kind of a utility player. He'd definitely be brought
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: in for a platoon, There's no question about that. Somebody
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: that Cincinnati values. He's a baller, he's a grinder. He
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: mainly plays now the corner outfield positions, but he can
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: play first base. He can play third and second, even
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: in a pinch, so he has fulfilled those roles in
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the past. But the reason why he would be attractive
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: is Number one, he doesn't make much money. Four million dollars.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: You've got control over him for the next two seasons,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: and the Mariners do like those type of trade deadline
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: trades more than the rentals. And you have a problem
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: against left handed pitching. Spencer Steer actively this year right now.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: So if he comes here and he hits a wall,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: you cannot blame Jerry and Justin for this one, because
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: right now against left hander, Spencer, Steer is hitting three
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: twenty eight and he plays against all of them with
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: a four to twenty one on base and a six
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: forty one slug. He has an ops over one thousand actively.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: Okay, this is a last year.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Right and this is a twenty eight year old, So
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: there's no way that he's going to hit that thirty
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: eight year old wall that Pollock hit, Yeah, and ref
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Schneider apparently hit Unknowingly, we didn't realize. We didn't realize
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: when we acquired them that they'd hit the wall in
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: their career. The Colton Wong hit.
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: This is somebody that is actively this year right now
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: punishing left handed pitching. And he can play various positions
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: for you. He can certainly settle into a platoon for
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: a World Championship contender in right field with Luke Rayley
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: rather snugly. And now all of a sudden, you do
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: have a dynamic pair. For all of you that can't
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: stand a platoon, you're out of your mind. They've been
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: around for one hundred years, and the Dodgers and the
• 51:44
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• 51:48
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not scared of that at all. And now
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: this almost gives you like a super platoon and right
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: field brought in Spencer Steer, dom becomes your everyday DH.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: At that point, Donovan becomes either your starting third baseman
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• 52:12
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• 52:21
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• 52:33
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  Speaker 1: We've got our second basement in our short stop for
• 52:39
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• 52:43
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• 52:46
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• 52:49
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• 52:54
  Speaker 1: prospects that the Reds like that aren't in our top ten,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: and that should do it again. Thirty two year old
• 53:01
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• 53:04
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• 53:20
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• 53:25
  Speaker 1: the big splash guys might not be available. Doesn't sound
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: like Buxton's available. We could add Spencer, Steer and TJ
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Antone right now to our woes. I think we got
• 53:34
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• 53:37
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I mean, just hearing what you're saying about
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: how he's currently succeeding against lefties, that does give me
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: more promise than somebody that did it last year then
• 53:46
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell to talk some big cat Leonard Williams. Good morning, Greg,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Good morning. Can he believe that no one took Leonard Williams?
• 56:16
  Speaker 7: Can you believe that Forrest from the Trees type of deal? Yeah? Yeah,
• 56:23
  Speaker 7: he's a pretty big deal to them, especially at McDonald's defense.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Well, let's start right there, then, how big of a deal?
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Put it in perspective what he's meant to this football
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: team since he put on that Seahawk uniform.
• 56:36
  Speaker 7: Well, he predates, of course McDonald. He got here in
• 56:40
  Speaker 7: the middle of Pete Carroll's last season, and then he's
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: had his two full seasons, the last two with the Seahawks,
• 56:46
  Speaker 7: and they've been as productive as any two back to
• 56:48
  Speaker 7: back seasons he's had in his entire twelve year career.
• 56:51
  Speaker 7: But he represents what McDonald wants to do across the defense, Chuck,
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: and that's multiplicity and a guy that can do multiple
• 56:59
  Speaker 7: roles at an offense doesn't know where he's going to
• 57:01
  Speaker 7: line up from snap to snap. He's a three technique
• 57:04
  Speaker 7: defensive tackle outside the guard, he's a five technique defensive
• 57:08
  Speaker 7: end outside the shoulder of the offensive tackle. He lines
• 57:12
  Speaker 7: up with the nose he dropped in the coverage and
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: fooled a Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers in the
• 57:19
  Speaker 7: Meadowlands a couple of seasons ago, as a nose tackle,
• 57:22
  Speaker 7: dropping in the coverage, faking the blitz, intercepting and returning
• 57:24
  Speaker 7: it ninety two yards for his first career touchdown. So
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: McDonald moves him as a chess piece. He's like the
• 57:31
  Speaker 7: defensive line version of Nicky Manworry and Devin Witherspoon. Moves
• 57:34
  Speaker 7: him around so the offense doesn't know where he's coming from.
• 57:38
  Speaker 7: And the other thing he does is command double teams.
• 57:41
  Speaker 7: Two thirds of the time last year on pass rush
• 57:44
  Speaker 7: snaps he was double team. That was the fourth most
• 57:47
  Speaker 7: of any interior defensive lineman. So if you're moving him
• 57:51
  Speaker 7: around and the offense is devoting two blockers to that guy,
• 57:55
  Speaker 7: and then when you move him around your defense and
• 57:56
  Speaker 7: the offense has to chase him around the formation, you're
• 58:00
  Speaker 7: dictating to the offense. Leonard Williams allowed on the defensive
• 58:03
  Speaker 7: line allows Mike McDonald to dictate to the offense, which
• 58:07
  Speaker 7: is exactly what he was trying to do. When he
• 58:09
  Speaker 7: got here from the Ravens.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us talking about Leonard Williams in
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: our Seahawks one series, and when he was coming out
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: of college out of USC, I mean, there was talk
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: all football season long that he might be the number
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: one overall pick and then he gets taken by the
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: New York Jets at sixth overall. So I mean, huge expectations.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: And he had a really good career before becoming a Seahawk.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: But since he's become a Seahawk, as you said, the
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: best football of his entire career. And I don't know
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: what he was like in New York with the Giants
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: or the Jets who he played with previously, but you
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: can't wipe the smile off of his face right now
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: as a Seahawk, as far as you can tell in
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: your reporting, What do you think being a Seahawk being
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: a part of this defense with Mike McDonald has meant
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: to Leonard Williams.
• 59:00
  Speaker 7: Well, I Carol talking about him from his USC connections
• 59:04
  Speaker 7: and how much when they played, especially the Giants and
• 59:07
  Speaker 7: a couple of times they played the Jets, how much
• 59:10
  Speaker 7: Leonard Williams just infects his personality in the locker room,
• 59:13
  Speaker 7: and I remember Carol talking about that when he was
• 59:15
  Speaker 7: with the Giants before the Seahawks played them a few times.
• 59:18
  Speaker 7: They'd had their eye on him, and Carol had his
• 59:20
  Speaker 7: eye and John Schneider had their eye on him for
• 59:22
  Speaker 7: a long time. And of course, as you mentioned, he
• 59:24
  Speaker 7: was drafted way too high for the Seahawks to get
• 59:26
  Speaker 7: him a top six pick. He's had, you could say,
• 59:31
  Speaker 7: a Hall of Fame type career. I know he doesn't
• 59:33
  Speaker 7: have a first team All Pro selection, which usually is
• 59:36
  Speaker 7: the way into Canton, or at least the quickest front
• 59:39
  Speaker 7: doorway in, but he's now playing twelve years on a
• 59:42
  Speaker 7: defensive line. Two of his last I know Pro Bowls
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: come as dime a dozen selections these days, but these
• 59:48
  Speaker 7: two of his three career Pro Bowl selections have come
• 59:50
  Speaker 7: in the last two years. He's the father of the
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: He's like the dad of the locker room and the defense.
• 59:58
  Speaker 7: I know that Marcus Lawrence is older, but he's got
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 7: six kids, so he's too busy being a dead at home.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 7: Lawrence is something of a father to everybody else, and
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 7: he embraces that role. He's a culture center. He's a
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: guy that McDonald leans on heavily on his Veterans Leadership
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 7: Committee on deciding team issues and what teams do and
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 7: for when they should travel, how much they should practice,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: should they take a day off, should it be not
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 7: in pads today? Leonnar Williams is the sounding board guy
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 7: for that. He's a commanding presence because of his longevity
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 7: in the league and is an excellent and pedigree in
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 7: the league. Guys listen to him. He has that personality.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 7: He's a very integral piece to what McDonald does. McDonald's system,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 7: the locker room culture we talk about all the time
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 7: that the Seahawks say they won the Super Bowl because
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: of it doesn't work unless the players are empowered to
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 7: be the voice and to lead. Lena Williams is probably
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 7: the chief, one of the chief leaders of those voice
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 7: is in the locker room. I often don't know what
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 7: Mike McDonald's defense would look like without him. I'm not
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 7: sure what the culture would look like without him. And
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 7: having said that, he turns just turned thirty two, going
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 7: on thirty three, and he's into his dozen years in
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 7: the league. His contract ends after this year. He's got
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 7: a void year after the new deal they gave him
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 7: a couple of years ago, so they have a decision
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 7: something of a reckoning with him as he gets older.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 7: Do you keep them for another go around beyond this year.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 7: I think they're going to see how he holds up
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: playing seventy three plus percent of the snaps like you
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 7: did last year. He was the most played defensive lineman,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 7: even more than Lawrence and Reed and anybody and Murphy
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 7: at his age, I'm not sure he can play seventy
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 7: three percent of the snaps again this year and still
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 7: get the same production. That's what they're going to try
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 7: to do. But I know McDonald as it stands right now,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 7: would love to have him as long as he can coach,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 7: as long as Williams is willing to play as that important.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Do they feel like they have the best tackle combo
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: defensively in the NFL with Williams and Murphy?
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I think so, because Williams can play inside
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 7: and out and allows Murphy to move as well. It's
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 7: not like they're just pigeonholed in to here are two
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 7: interior defensive tackles right now. Murphy gets snaps outside of
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: defensive end as well, and it's not like you're just
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 7: moving Williams around, and he's not productive. He's actually no
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 7: matter where you put him, he's producing. His last two seasons,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 7: he's played thirty three regular season games. He missed one
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: in the last two seasons. He has twenty five tackles
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 7: for losses. That's his most in back to back seasons.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 7: He has fifty hits on the quarterback in those thirty
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: three games, that's his most of his career in back
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 7: to back seasons. And he's got eighteen sacks in those
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: two seasons, eleven and then seven. You'll take that more
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 7: from a thirty two year old in his twelfth NFL season.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 7: And so again allowing not only is can they move
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 7: him around? He's a force they move him around that
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 7: they have to. The team has the double team. Offense
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 7: has the double team him, and that frees up Byron
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 7: Murphy for one on one reps. That frees up Riley Mills,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 7: who will have a much bigger role this year. Riley
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 7: Mills is a real key to Leonard Williams playing less,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 7: fewer snaps less than seventy three percent at the time
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 7: this year and being more productive. Mills is something like
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 7: Williams and that he can play inside, he can play out.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 7: He was largely a defensive end at Notre Dame, and
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 7: the Seahawks have moved him up and down the line
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 7: like Leonard Williams. How much can Riley Mills in his
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 7: first full season after that acl tair robbed him of
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 7: most of his rookie season, how much can he capitalize
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 7: on that Super Bowl sack? And how he was late
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 7: in the season to help Leonard Williams not have to
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 7: play seventy three percent of the snaps this year.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: Our Seahawks inside of Greg Bell is with us from
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: the News Tribune. Of course, you can follow us coverage
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: of the Seahawks Ofthewstribune dot com. You can listen to
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: him every day right here on kJ at ten o'clock,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: and we need him during the football season almost every
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: day at seven oh five right here on the Chuck
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: and Buck radio program. If you want to follow at
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Gee Bell Seattle there on X. I also love the
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: stories Greg about how well Leonard Williams gets along with
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: the offensive lineman, how much he helps Gray's Abel make
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: his transition into the National Football League. I mean, I
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: do realize that they're all part of the same tribe,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: but sometimes you will see in sports that pitchers will
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: gravitate toward pitchers or defensive lineman will gravitate toward defensive lineman.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: I love that he's an all encompassing leader on this
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: football team. I love the stories about he and trying
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: to make the offensive line better.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 7: I've covered defensive lineman that fight with offensive line. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 7: so yes, it's not a given. Lennon Williams does that.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 7: He and de Marcus Lawrence both pool guys aside, especially
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 7: the younger player is on the offensive line. Says here's
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 7: why I'm doing this, and you can see him panami
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 7: of his past rush moves to Gray Zabel and training
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 7: camp last year to try to get 'sa able to
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 7: develop a counter to a twelve year Pro Bowl veterans' moves. Yes,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 7: and there's a selflessness to that as well. He Loan
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 7: of Wims is a full Northwest guy. Now, I mean
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 7: he went to school and high school in Daytona Beach, Florida,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 7: went to USC as you mentioned, of course, but he's
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 7: bought a house in Newport Hills above the Seahawks training facility.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 7: He and his wife new baby they just had this offseason.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 7: He just went to Spokane this weekend. For the first
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 7: time Leonard Williams did. He was a judge in the
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 7: hoop Fest, the Dunk Contest, the three on three festival
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 7: in the streets of Spokane, and he said he was
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 7: blown away by Spokane and the fervor for s hoop
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 7: Fest and the people there. And he was leading Chance
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 7: and Seahawks chants, and he'd never been to eastern Washington,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 7: he said. So the point is he is really ingrained
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 7: in the community and the team and the culture. I
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 7: can go on and on about the impact he has
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 7: more than just x's and o's to what Mike McDonald's
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 7: trying to set culture wise, and as we've said many times,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 7: that culture is why they think they won the Super
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 7: Bowlenta Williams gigantic piece of that.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've got a secondary here in Seattle that
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: gets a lot of attention. Nick emn Warri might just
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: be getting started. Witherspoon might become the highest paid cornerback
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: in the National Football League here in the next month
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: or so. We have arguably the best wide receiver in
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: the game right now. But is there a better room
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: on campus over there and renting than the defensive line group?
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Is that the strength of the team those guys up front.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 7: I think so, because if you don't have what they
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 7: have and you have to be four deep instead of
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 7: eight deep, and they're getting to eight, they're not quite
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 7: there yet. Riley Mills will be a big piece of that.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 7: But if you don't have the depth and you don't
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 7: have the quality up front, teams will just run on you,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 7: and then you're perceived strength. The secondary is not as
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 7: big a factor second and two and third and one.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 7: Your defensive secondary is in a little more trouble than
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: they are in third and eleven. And that's third and
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 7: elevens are what the defensive line brings them. And I
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 7: mentioned Williams. The reason he's played more snaps than anybody
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 7: on the defensive line is he's a run stopper and
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 7: a pass rusher and they don't want to take him
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 7: off the field, even at thirty two years old. Yes,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 7: to answer your question, DeMarcus Lawrence was a huge piece
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 7: for them now getting Dexter Fowler, Dante Fowler. Excuse me
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 7: that they they're getting older in the defensive line, but
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 7: they're good. How much can they stay good? Fowler's plus thirty.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 7: Lawrence just turned thirty four, Williams is going on his
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 7: age thirty three season. Like I said, Jared Reid's going
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 7: to turn thirty three during this season, Chennon wils who
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 7: suddenly is going to be thirty years old during this season.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 7: Can they still get super Bowl level production out of
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 7: that defensive line into their thirties? You're pushing it. The
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 7: NFL will tell that when you start getting in your
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 7: early thirties, the production goes way down, the price that
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 7: goes way up, and that's when team's releases so that
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  Speaker 7: they don't have diminishing returns. The Seahawks are pushing that
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  Speaker 7: diminishing returns. But those signs yet of Leonard Williams on
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  Speaker 7: diminishing returns, but they ain't last forever. So can they
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  Speaker 7: get another season of productivity out of these guys now
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  Speaker 7: that they're pushing mid early thirties like they got last year.
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  Speaker 7: That's a huge key to whether the Seahawks defense is
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  Speaker 7: number one against it again this year.
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  Speaker 1: Is John at all disappointed that the league has become
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  Speaker 1: more trade aggressive at the trading deadline because it kind
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  Speaker 1: of feels like he's been ahead of the curve on
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  Speaker 1: the entire league about making that big, bold move. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's been megan it for a while. He's definitely hitting
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  Speaker 1: the last three years with Williams and with Jones and
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  Speaker 1: then this year with Shaheed. But I mean this goes
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  Speaker 1: back to Sheldon Richardson, Jadevian Clowney. I mean, he's been
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  Speaker 1: doing this for a long time, and finally the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL seems to have woken up, like, hey, wait, wait, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 1: you can get pretty good deals for quality veteran players
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  Speaker 1: at the trading deadline. Why aren't we making more moves
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  Speaker 1: at the trading deadline. John's probably pissed off that they
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  Speaker 1: finally figured out what he's doing to help his team
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  Speaker 1: mid season.
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  Speaker 7: It's a good point. He has more competition now. You're right.
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  Speaker 7: What teams have done around the league is doing what
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  Speaker 7: Snyder has been doing for sixteen years, and that's holding
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  Speaker 7: in reserve space on the salary cap. To do that,
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  Speaker 7: when you trade for someone, it's a pro rated rest
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  Speaker 7: of his contract for that year. If it's right around
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  Speaker 7: the trade deadline the end of October, you're about half
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  Speaker 7: a season. You owe half of his salary. Well, you
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  Speaker 7: have to have salary cap space to do that, and
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  Speaker 7: a lot of teams aren't willing to keep a reserve
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  Speaker 7: space because they want to buy up players and have
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  Speaker 7: max buying value before the season starts. Snyder's strategy is
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  Speaker 7: to been to wait to see what they look like
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  Speaker 7: during the season, where their holes are, and then go
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  Speaker 7: fill it and Okay, we think we're good here. Oh
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 7: we didn't expect to be deficient here, or we might
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  Speaker 7: need this piece here. They save money to do that
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  Speaker 7: because it costs money to add that on. Teams did
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 7: never used to do that. Team used to be right
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 7: up against the cap at the end of training camp
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  Speaker 7: when the rosters of fifty three were set. Snyder always
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 7: has extra ruins. Fans are saying, why do we have
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  Speaker 7: all this cap space? They aren't use it. They use
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  Speaker 7: it to try to negotiate for the deal for a
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  Speaker 7: guy that other teams can't afford. It's a good point
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  Speaker 7: that other teams are catching on to that and the markets.
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  Speaker 7: We've got a little more competition for Snyder.
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  Speaker 1: And they're going to do it again this year. Yeah,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: the exact same thing. Well, yeah, it turns out injuries
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: are a big part of football too, so you never
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: know where you might pop up during the course of
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: the season. But my goodness, is he on a roll
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: right now at the trading deadline. That is just and
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: it kind of restarted with Leonard Williams. He kind of
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: in a strange way, Greg, I mean to the acquisition
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  Speaker 1: of Leonard Williams seemed to be maybe the first step
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  Speaker 1: in building this championship team that we've got right now.
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  Speaker 1: Is that crazy crazy to say?
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  Speaker 8: Not?
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  Speaker 7: Certainly on the defensive line, which is most coaches will
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  Speaker 7: tell you is the start of your defense. If your
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 7: defensive line is getting run over, you're done. You're not
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  Speaker 7: going to do pass rush, You're not going to get
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  Speaker 7: coverage and turnovers and interceptions. Leonard Williams has absolutely he's,
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  Speaker 7: as I said, the most played defensive lineman they have
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  Speaker 7: at age thirty two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, what do you got playing for ten
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  Speaker 1: o'clock today?
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  Speaker 7: Well, we have Jim Bowden, the former general manager major
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  Speaker 7: League general manager, has been an MLB and other national analysts.
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  Speaker 7: He's going to talk to us about the dynamic of
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  Speaker 7: a first time manager and how a GM deals with that,
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  Speaker 7: and the analytics piece of course, Visa VI the Mariners
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  Speaker 7: and how they've hired Scott's service and Dan Wilson from
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  Speaker 7: never having managed before, and what that dynamic is for
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  Speaker 7: a general manager, what that relationships like. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 7: him at eleven o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Ask him about trade deadline stuff too. He's really good
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  Speaker 1: on that. Ask him about Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: He he nails a lot of those trades and predictions,
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  Speaker 7: doesn't he.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's pretty good at it. He's pretty good. All right, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, sir. We'll be listening at ten.
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  Speaker 7: All right, thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: a little extended with our Seahawks one series this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I feel no. I mean after tomorrow, I think I
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  Speaker 1: here as of late, and Sunday was anything but entertaining,
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  Speaker 1: There's no question about it. But it was nice to
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  Speaker 1: see a complete game last night. I mean, if I
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  Speaker 1: know that baseball players have to have that ability to
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  Speaker 1: turn the page and the next day is a new day,
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  Speaker 1: and they seem to do that last night. Between George
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: and the six runs of output and Cole Young's fantastic performance,
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  Speaker 1: that was one of the more complete games of the year.
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  Speaker 1: So I will tip my cap to you baseball players,
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  Speaker 1: because you do have an ability to just turn the
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  Speaker 9: It serves you really well when you get to life
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 9: after baseball. Just because, as a parent like you, if
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 9: you ever get in like an argument with your child,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 9: or something, especially if you have a four year ol
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  Speaker 9: daughters very strongly Will does a Gemini.
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  Speaker 8: You got to be really patient and also.
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  Speaker 9: Have the ability because you can like be in this
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  Speaker 9: screaming match and then all of a sudden, thirty minutes
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  Speaker 9: later she comes back, She's like, hey, daddy, how are
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  Speaker 9: you today? You're like what, Like, how did that happen?
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  Speaker 9: So like the time actually gets condensed down even further.
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  Speaker 9: I don't have a night to sleep it off. I
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  Speaker 9: gotta flip the switch within a thirty minute window.
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  Speaker 1: You're not surprised that I'm a Gemini, then, are you?
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  Speaker 8: I really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I could see that.
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  Speaker 9: I feel like you're in a really quality line of
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 9: work for the Gemini to flourish.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You mean two persons having two personalities that war
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: with one another at all times.
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  Speaker 8: You mean that I didn't say, I didn't say that
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  Speaker 8: you did.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. Fits me to a t.
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  Speaker 9: It's the same guy that jogs to the bar for
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 9: exercise and then drinks it off.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's true. That's me, the sweat personality. Well,
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  Speaker 1: at least one of me does that, the other one
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  Speaker 1: the other one judges him. All right, let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: like George because kind of almost quietly through all this
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: piggyback thing, where we are starting to wonder, should George
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: be piggyback?
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  Speaker 7: Now?
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: He's putting together quality performance after quality performance, and then
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: last night, after coughing up two runs early, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he just seemed to hit a new gear. Does George
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: look locked into you?
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 9: He looks settled. He looks like there was some experimentation
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 9: that was happening. In the first inning or so. He
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 9: was throwing a lot more breaking balls yesterday, between the
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 9: sweet bird and the knuckle curve. Then knuckle curveball can
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 9: be nasty at times when he throws it too many
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 9: times in the same at bat, or if he can
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 9: hang it too many times in oo count. I believe
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 9: that Netto actually took in deep on that pitch. He
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 9: jumped on it early, I think a one to one
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 9: count or so. But he looked really good, and the
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 9: stuff has looked good overall, even when I watched him
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 9: towards the end of May. I believe he was against
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  Speaker 9: the Mets. He lost that last game after the winning
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 9: streak was going on. The stuff was still there, but
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 9: the location, execution and missing barrels was the biggest problem.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 9: He's also inducing a ton of ground balls, way more
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 9: than he has in his entire career, and didn't really
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 9: understand why. And then the defense wasn't supporting him the
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 9: way that they can behind him, so some of those
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 9: inting spiraled, But he just looked confident. I think the
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 9: quote that I heard last night with he just got
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 9: really mad towards the end of the game, like he
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 9: had to find a way to channel that inner anger
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 9: at the Angels and make sure they felt it every
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 9: single pitch. Because for him to grind out through the
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 9: eighth inning there, which could have went sideways quickly, I
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 9: think that was a big boat of confidence for him
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 9: to end that game on well.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got Logan, who's obviously pitching better Saturday.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: It wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as he
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: has been pitching. Bryce, I think has graduated from whatever
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: piggyback purgatory he was stuck in Castillo. Except for that one,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: outing has been much better since the piggy back. Brian's
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: been excellent at home and terrible on the road, which
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: we can't figure out, and Emerson just continues to I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Emerson's gonna be the one guy that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the All Star Game if any of our starting
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: pitchers make it to the All Star Game. So what
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: do you do?
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  Speaker 7: Then?
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: It feels like they're scrapping the piggyback. The six man
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: rotation is painting Dan into difficulties managing the bullpen. What
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: do you do then? When you've got all these different variables,
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  Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, you've got six
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  Speaker 1: and maybe seven eight good starting pitchers if you count
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  Speaker 1: Anderson and Sloan and the miners, what should the Mariners do?
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  Speaker 1: As far as you can tell.
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  Speaker 9: This luxury that the Mariners have is turning into an
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 9: achilles heels. Unfortunately, over the last few weeks there's been
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 9: a specific game where there are multiple leverage arms that
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 9: are down that could be used in those situations, And
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  Speaker 9: it's just so tough for fans to swallow, and myself included,
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  Speaker 9: when you watch a game like Sunday unfold that just
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 9: shouldn't happen. You know, the lead that they had, the
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  Speaker 9: way that the offense and the starting pitching staff, the
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  Speaker 9: way Emerson Hancock grinded through his start. It wasn't clean
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 9: by any stretch, but he was really efficient and consistent
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  Speaker 9: as he's been all season long. It's hard for me
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  Speaker 9: to sit here and labeled a problem outside of those
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  Speaker 9: outlier games. And I guess where my brain goes, Chuck,
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  Speaker 9: is if the team would take care of business in
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  Speaker 9: between those games, meaning all of those games leading up
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  Speaker 9: to that, you know where the bullpen is gonna be down.
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  Speaker 9: And let's just say they lost the series because they
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 9: lost a game like that, but they took care of
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  Speaker 9: the other two because the offense really good and the
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 9: starting pitching does what the starting pitching does.
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  Speaker 8: Are we even questioning it at this point?
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  Speaker 9: Probably to sum regard because we are just greedy and
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 9: we know what this team is capable of on paper,
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  Speaker 9: and we've seen at least one stretch where they were
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 9: lights out and every face of the game hitting home runs,
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  Speaker 9: throwing the ball.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I don't know what the solution is.
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  Speaker 9: Unfortunately, and quite frankly, I say that with confidence, because
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  Speaker 9: I don't think the Mariners do either. They've been so
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 9: quiet about this pivot out back out of the picky
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 9: back because I was looking forward to see what this,
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  Speaker 9: you know, pickI pack two point zero looked like this
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 9: new goal around and then all of a sudden they
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 9: pivot off of Gilbert on Saturday, and then they haven't
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 9: made an announcement, and the next couple of starters gonna
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 9: make their own starts here. I don't know what direction
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 9: they're going if they go back to the six man.
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  Speaker 9: We saw what that look like. Now we saw what
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 9: happened there. And the reason Dan's making really hard decisions
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 9: is because they only have a couple leverage arms, and
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  Speaker 9: they have a couple arms that are on the eel
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  Speaker 9: that could be slotting into those situations. Instead, they got
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 9: to go pull these guys or they're grabbing off waivers
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  Speaker 9: and throw them into the eighth inning and the game
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 9: unfolds and Dan Wilson looks like, you know what, and
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 9: it's not fun for him, and it's not fun for
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 9: Mariners fans. And I don't know at what point the
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  Speaker 9: breaking point is going to be of we can't keep
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  Speaker 9: doing this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I would argue if I push back on that,
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  Speaker 1: and it's only one part of it. I think we
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: have four leverage arms, and I think that very few
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: teams do have four leverage arms out of their bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: And Dan should not be struggling this much to try
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  Speaker 1: to make this work. So I've been very critical of
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  Speaker 1: Dan some people, a lot of fans in town won
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  Speaker 1: them out completely. I know that you disagree with that,
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  Speaker 1: or at least I'm pretty sure that you would disagree
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  Speaker 1: with that. I'd be surprised if you agreed with it.
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  Speaker 1: Would it be a bad idea to move on from
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  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson as a former player that knows how a
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  Speaker 1: locker room at a clubhouse works.
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  Speaker 9: There's so much season left, and I think the teams
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  Speaker 9: that we've seen throughout the Major League Baseball this year
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 9: that have parted ways with their manager, some have benefited,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 9: some had not. And I don't think it's the guaranteed solution.
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  Speaker 9: I understand why organizations do, and it's easier to replace
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  Speaker 9: one guy than it is an entire roster. But I
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  Speaker 9: also believe there's so much trust within this organization of
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  Speaker 9: the roster that was constructed throughout the offseason, and they
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  Speaker 9: also haven't seen every single body on that roster healthy
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  Speaker 9: to play together up to this point. Like there's still
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  Speaker 9: some really big names that are on this IL that
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  Speaker 9: haven't come back yet. And we just saw Refsnyder go
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  Speaker 9: on the IL as well, So what does that mean
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  Speaker 9: for the future. There are things that are happening right
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  Speaker 9: now in the middle of the season where the injuries
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 9: are taking over, and unfortunately, like in football, the quarterback
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  Speaker 9: is going to take all the blame that Stan Wilson.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not gonna sit here and say fire him a
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  Speaker 9: because I think he's a good communicator with his players,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 9: mostly in the clubhouse outside of the piggyback situation. There's
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 9: a lot of trust, a lot of respect, and there's
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 9: a lot of belief that's transferred in those players and
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 9: that's hard to find. And I also think it's nice
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 9: to have someone in leading your group that understands the
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 9: challenges and is emotionally tied to this city because he
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 9: knows the fans want him gone, but he still loves
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 9: the fans and still loves the city more than anything.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: Ryan heally is with us every Tuesday we talk Mariners baseball.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: He's not part of Mariners TV and part of our
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: show every Tuesday here at nine o'clock. This probably didn't
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: help Dan's case that cal Raley probably is favorite player,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: you know, to be honest, said on Sunday. He kind
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: of questioned the effort, like we're not bringing it three
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: hours every game. What did you read into that? How
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: will the clubhouse react to that? To have Cal? I mean,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: they don't give out captains, but if he if you did,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: he'd get it. And he kind of called out the
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: team Sunday night for that. He didn't question the effort.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 9: He set a point blank And what I respected about
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 9: Cal in that statement is he pointed the finger a
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 9: little bit at every one of like, this is a
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 9: group effort where a team we win and we lose together.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 9: But then he pointed the thumb and himself, he's like,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 9: and I got to be better, Like listen, this season,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 9: this series, this game is has not been good enough
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 9: for anything that I know that I can be in
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 9: this game.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 8: And I think that was a statement.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 9: Of like, hey boys, I'm holding you accountable because I'm
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 9: holding myself accountable. If I'm not willing to hold myself accountable,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 9: I can't hold you accountable for me.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 8: That's what a leader does.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 9: And then obviously he has an opportunity last night where
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 9: you know, the Angels, you know, give the Mariners a
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 9: couple extra outs, a couple free bases, and Cal comes
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 9: up and you know, second and third, two out spot
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 9: and he hits a jam shot flare and it's a
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 9: short left center field to score two runs in a
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 9: really big spot. That was That was one of the
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 9: biggest struggles from the road trip was runner hitting, was
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 9: runners in score position, the situational hitting, and then not
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 9: hitting home runs. If your offense can't do one of
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 9: those three things really well, you're not gonna win baseball game.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 9: So for him to answer his own call the very
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 9: next game speaks volumes of the rest of that team,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 9: and that I think how Kirby came out of that game.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 9: But the tunnel in the dugout like they are trying
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 9: to find fun within this game field of suck. They
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 9: are trying to make this fun and celebrate the moments.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 9: But this game has so much suck within it that
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 9: it's really hard to manufacture it when you're losing.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about something that doesn't suck, and that
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: is dom can Zone. Right now they are hitting him third.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: Cal Rowley's hitting six. Then dom Canzone's hitting third on
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six Seattle Mariners. But I don't want
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: to focus on Cal. I want to focus on the
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: positive part, just how good he looks. I mean, you
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: brought up Rob reth Schneider's name. I brought this up
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: earlier in the show. I don't know if he's gonna
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: get his job back. We might have seen Rob reth
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: Schneider play his last game, and part of that is
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: because I think dom can zones screaming from the mountaintops.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: I'm an everyday player right now. I have learned my lessons.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: I can hit lefties. Put me in the damn lineup,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: put me in the middle of the damn order. I'm
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: gonna produce for you. I think we've got an everyday
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: player in dom Canzone right now. Your thoughts?
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 8: How often do I throw numbers at you on this show, Chuck.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say a lot, but every once in a
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: while you do.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 9: So I have some numbers for you. And I don't
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 9: know why this one jumped out of me. And I
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 9: was looking on Baseball Reference this morning. In wins this season,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 9: Dom's hitting about three fifty and loss is hitting about
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 9: two hundred. I don't think that's out of the ordinary,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 9: but it tells you how important that player is. The
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 9: splits against righties and lefties. His batting average against left
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 9: handed pitching is better than the team batting average jeez.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 9: So for me like he, he is proving himself worthy.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 9: And I think the right handed batters that have, you know,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 9: been profile to face just left handed pitching, have had
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 9: a long enough runway at least for one player to
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 9: step in and take these consistent bats. And I think
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 9: a lot of us have been raising our hands saying
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 9: that Luke Railey deserved this as well. And I know
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 9: he's battling some stuff. Is so is dom Dom's hamstring.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 9: I think he heard it in Game one.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 8: At Pittsburgh if I remember correctly, and Nope, he don't
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 8: want to go into il. He was like, I'm gonna
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 8: grad it out.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 9: And you can see him every time he hits a single,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 9: he's almost mad because he's like, God, I wish it
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 9: could be on second base, or I wish it had
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 9: hit a home run, and said, because now I gotta
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 9: run these bases if my hamstring hurts. But the numbers
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 9: are speaking volumes and the quality of the bats are
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 9: are really improving.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 8: And I think something that's taken him to the next
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 8: level right now is.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 9: His ability to use the opposite field against left handed pitching.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 9: He looked like to me to be a pretty dead
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 9: pole hitter, but he has the power to go to
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 9: all fields. And he hit a ball early in the
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 9: series against the Guardians where he drove a ball at
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 9: the left center or the left field wall, and I
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 9: was like, wow, Like that's a really impressive adjustment that
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 9: he's been making, and if he's going to continue to
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 9: do that, there's no reason to take him out of
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 9: the line.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, he actually hit pretty well against lefties, he
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: just didn't hit for power. Like two years ago, he
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: had I think one hit against lefties the whole season long.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: Last year he hit I think two seventy three against lefties,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: but were almost all singles. And then now this year,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: I mean he turned on one last night. So he's
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: he's just demanding more playing time, and I don't think
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: Dan has a choice right now. He's got to put
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: him in the lineup every day. So then that limits
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: you to Rayley Roblaze right field platoon for now unless
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: you make a trade at the trading deadline, and you
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: still have Brendan Donovan coming back. So all of a sudden,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna have to start piggybacking players too
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: before the season comes to a close.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 9: Ryan the trade deadline is going to be really interesting
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 9: because I feel like the front office here and Jerry
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 9: Depoto has such a tremendous history of trades not afraid
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 9: to make him in the direction he goes here will
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 9: be interesting to observe. And how much shuffling does he
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 9: do with the active major league roster? Is it addition
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 9: by subtraction or is it just simply addition and then
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 9: maybe moving on from some players? He has options, and
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 9: he also has a really strong farm system if he
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 9: wants to get aggressive with it.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: Cole Young, every day I think, Man, I slept on
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: this guy's ceiling, like I always heard, what a high
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: floor he has. That power is ridiculous. And he fills
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: out a jersey one year later, he fills out that
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: jersey now and he's still just twenty two years old.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: What kind of player are we going to be looking
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: at five years from now in Cole Young? Do you think?
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 9: Well, per uh Baseball Reference, he's almost a three war
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 9: player already this season.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 8: My goodness, I didn't know that.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 9: If we're if we're continuing to look at the improvement
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 9: that he made in such a small window. And I
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 9: think the coolest part about Cole's journey is that April
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 9: was great, May stunk.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 8: Jun has been really good.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 9: He's showing the ability to bounce back from those dips
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 9: that are just inevitably and inevitably going to happen. But
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 9: the defense, I think stands out to me a ton
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 9: as well, the professional it bats that he puts together,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 9: his ability to make adjustments on how opposing pitchers are
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 9: attacking him in the zone. I honestly think that I
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 9: hope that him and Colt emer Center have some conversations
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 9: because the league is making adjustments to Colt right now
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 9: that Cole's gone through a couple of times, and I
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 9: think they can really learn from one another and you know,
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 9: and build a.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 8: Strong bond through this journey.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 9: But I think we're looking at a multi time All
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 9: Star over the next five years. He'll have some years
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 9: that are better than others, but if this is the
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 9: type of player that the Mariners can pencil in.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 8: And I was looking at his numbers last.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 9: Night, I was like, if I would have told you
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 9: on Opening Day that Cole Young was going to hit
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 9: two fifty with twenty home runs and twenty five doubles
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 9: this year and drive in sixty.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 8: Plus RBIs would you take that guy? Would you put
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 8: in the line of.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: Tam I take them man man for sure.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 8: Every day of the week.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 9: And that's the trend that he's on right now, and
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 9: I think that there's still more in there. So this
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 9: is someone that deserves a lot of recognition and credit
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 9: because he is.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 8: Doing his job and some more than a lot of
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 8: people expected.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: We found out over the weekend that Austin Hedges and
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor hate each other. Did you ever have like
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: a player that you had like a rivalry that you
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: are not scared to let him know that I don't
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: like you. Did you ever have that in your.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 8: Career, not in the major leagues, but in like high
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 8: school and college?
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, Yeah, for sure.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 8: That's when I was angrier. I think in like that.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 9: When you get like into just professional baseball and the
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 9: major leagues, like the funnel just gets so small where
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 9: you just you know everyone because you've seen him in
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 9: summer ball or in the minor league somewhere. Like it's
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 9: it's interesting, but it seems like there's some there's some
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 9: unfinished business from former teammates there that came out and
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 9: Hedges personal words if nobody likes you like on it,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 9: Like honestly, nobody likes you like that felt really personal
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 9: on that in like you didn't like that?
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: All right? All right, well, why don't you take both
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: your daughters, both personalities out to ice cream or something
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: like that today?
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 9: If you give those if you give those personalities ice cream,
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 9: you make a third.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, he's like shaking his head. No, no, don't throw
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: that out there the universe.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 8: Don't say that.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: Please. Maybe when she's ten she can have ice cream again.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 8: She had it last night, so it's not like she's deprived.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 8: She's living there.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: All right, man, great stuff, Thank you sir. We appreciate it,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: and we'll bug you again next week. Can't wait.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 8: We'll see you then.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: Ryan Eley, former Mariner, joining us right here on the program.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: Soon to be on the Mariner's TV again. Oh, I
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: meant to get the schedule from him. See and when
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: we are going to hear from Ryan Heay again during
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: Mariner's broadcast. In the meantime, you can catch him every
• 1:31:57
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• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: o'clock today. So there still should be some trades made
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: as people try to get everything in order, get their
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: stores in order for whatever money they'll have left over
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: for purchase. But one free agent that is going to
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: be on the market, Lebron James. He has informed the
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers. We can stop this nonsense about resigning me.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going to enter free agency. You can move on
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: without me. So the Lebron James run in Los Angeles
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: has come to a close. And he also did say
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: I'm going to play elsewhere. There was still this he
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: hadn't confirmed that he was going to play at all,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: which I think we all believed he was going to play.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: So that means that he is going to enter free agency.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: He has also said, Here's another thing he said in
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: the past is that I'm not taking no discount. So
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: he's not going to be one of those veterans that
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: just jumps on a team. He's going to be paid
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: his market value, which is still a top twenty player
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: in the game and still a top two or three,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: maybe still number one marketable player in the entire sport.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: So Lebron James gonna wear another uniform at least one
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: more time in his illustrious career he has done as
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: a Los Angeles Laker. Probably doesn't break the hearts of
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: Laker fans. They never really did like him.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 4: Justin Turner or remember him played for the Mariners.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 5: Ently he already went out and was like, let's go
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 5: Lakers with the hands up emoji.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: Liick I think he's excited.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Petro's Papadakis can't stand it. Yeah, So he never
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: really was embraced as a Laker. So he's going to
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: move on and finish his career elsewhere. The rumors suggest
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: that it's going to be with the Golden State Warriors.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: That's the heavy favorite right now, But I've also heard
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: maybe Miami. If he did want to check himself in
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: terms of how much money he needs to make. Considering
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: that he's a billionaire, the first billionaire basketball player of
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: all time, he really hadn't need the money. But if
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: he wanted to return to Miami and re and join
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: up with Jannis, I mean, they need help in Miami.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: Wasn't enough to get Yannis. But if they had Giannis,
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: Lebron and Bam in Miami, oh boy, suddenly you're talking
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: about something cooking down there in Miami. And then there's
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: always the possibility of going back to Cleveland Hill, the
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: third Tour of Cleveland and finishing his career where it started.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: And that is a good team that can't become a
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: great team. What a nice piece that he would be
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: to add to the Cleveland Cavaliers, so maybe he would
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: consider a third tour there. But yes, with free agency
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: starting at three o'clock and a few more trades expected
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: to happen in the National Basketball Association between now and
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: three o'clock, one item that will be in the open
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: market will be Lebron James or so, it does appear
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: more than likely he's been tampered with and he already
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: knows who he's going to.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 4: Say, Oh, yes, I'm sure.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So there's that.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's that, the integrity of us.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then before we get into what I was
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: going to talk about, I do want to mention John
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: Morant as well, because while we're talking basketball, because we
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: didn't get a lot of time talking about this earlier,
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's a worthwhile gamble to bring in John Moran.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: If you're Portland. Yeah, I get all the analysts because
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: I saw in CBS Sports, for example, they gave him
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: a D minus for that trade, Portland a D minus
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: for that trade, and gave Memphis a B minus, even
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: though they admitted Memphis got nothing out of this trade.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: Just getting rid of John Morant they thought was worth
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: was was it worth?
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 7: A B?
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: Mice? And this is a guy that three years ago
• 1:36:53
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  Speaker 1: he's had the off court stuff, which he still has
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously got to clean up what's going on off court.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like he's had enough that should have been
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's him thinking, oh, what do you mean I
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and on my Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: But now somebody's telling me you're not wanted, telling him
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  Speaker 1: that might be the wake up call now that he's like,
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  Speaker 1: that's all you got for me, and really nobody wanted me, seriously,
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess you could think that that would probably
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  Speaker 4: I think you've talked more about it than I thought
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  Speaker 1: Right, So I do want, though, I am going to
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  Speaker 4: I can imagine.
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  Speaker 1: I just want if you're hurt that badly, you're out
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  Speaker 4: I think that's great.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a great plan.
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  Speaker 5: When five Iron and I were watching the game last night,
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  Speaker 4: And then they just keep playing.
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  Speaker 5: Finally he waits all the way till a ref finally
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  Speaker 5: the Moroccan player on the play, not the Netherlands.
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  Speaker 4: This guy needed nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he just kept going. He just kept playing
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  Speaker 1: in the match, didn't even come out for a play.
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  Speaker 1: you out of the match. So you're just done and
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  Speaker 1: back at halftime. If you are in that much pain
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a great plan.
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  Speaker 1: And then they'll stop doing it, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Because them riding around isn't what's giving getting the ref
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  Speaker 5: to give them yellow card, not like oh you guys,
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  Speaker 5: I actually didn't think that that was a foul.
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  Speaker 4: But do you see how hurt he looks to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do that in football. Yeah, well yeah, usw's
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  Speaker 1: gotta go. I mean, I've learned to livel a lot
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  Speaker 1: but usw's can't deal with him, and I say we
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  Speaker 1: just pull a merv cruthis. If you're really hurt that badly,
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