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10-29 H1: What's On Tap, Trick or Treat & Kraken Win · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh, great morning to you. Welcome into the radio show
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  Speaker 1: that is Chuck.
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  Speaker 2: In the Morning Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Thursday to you all.
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  Speaker 2: We do have the brand new week of the National
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  Speaker 2: Football League starting later on this evening. The countdown to
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  Speaker 2: Monday Night Football continues to see if the Seahawks can
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  Speaker 2: match what they did on Sunday night against the Kansas
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  Speaker 2: City Chiefs. And, of course, Huskies-Huskers coming up this Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: from lincoln nebraska historic lincoln nebraska we welcome you into
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  Speaker 2: the show uh here on this thursday four hours coming
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  Speaker 2: your way with chris kidd anders hearst and myself uh
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  Speaker 2: chuck powell as we are now just two days shy
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  Speaker 2: of halloween i just saw on the uh as i
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  Speaker 2: was doing my prep here in the studio um there's
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  Speaker 2: a hotel i've never even heard of this hotel before
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  Speaker 2: this just shows you i'm not from seattle camlin hotel
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  Speaker 2: have you heard of this i've not 100 years old
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  Speaker 2: wow today opened on halloween how creepy is that 100
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  Speaker 2: years ago today don't tell me there aren't ghosts in
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  Speaker 2: that place there are ghosts in every building they probably
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  Speaker 2: just greet you there at brunch yeah downtown right there
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  Speaker 2: yeah you know i know that building i didn't know
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  Speaker 2: that was the name of it probably staffers you know
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  Speaker 2: they're probably ghosts if i just walk amongst them i
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  Speaker 2: i mean how have i not uh been made aware
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  Speaker 2: of this place i That sounds like a wonderful place
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  Speaker 2: to spend Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: It's perfect.
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  Speaker 2: A place that's celebrating its birthday, a hundred years of history.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's history dripping from the walls and probably
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  Speaker 2: phantoms passing through them.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe some blood in the walls as well.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and then they just wallpaper over it.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: No one will know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just another bloody massacre at the old Camelon. No
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  Speaker 4: big deal. Nothing to see here.
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  Speaker 3: Open on Halloween. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, and this will be my final show before Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take a few days off, go home
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  Speaker 2: to Illinois, and spend some time with the family. I
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  Speaker 2: know it's not convenient, but the reason that I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: it with so much going on in the Seattle sports
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  Speaker 2: scene is because my mother's birthday is next week, and
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  Speaker 2: as an adult... I mean, it just never worked out.
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  Speaker 2: I have never been home to see my mother on
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  Speaker 2: her birthday.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, really?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I want to make sure that I do that this year.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And so, yeah, it's just hard. I mean, to
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  Speaker 2: go in the middle of football season, I've been a
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  Speaker 2: sports talk show host pretty much my entire career. The
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  Speaker 2: boss always frowns on that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 4: So I warned our boss, P.S., a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do this this year, so I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to hear that I'm missing Monday Night Football. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to hear that I'm missing Huskers Huskies on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night. So yeah, I'll be doing that starting tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll be gone for a perfect week. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: back the following Friday so that I don't miss any
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  Speaker 2: part of the next week of preparation for the Hawks,
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  Speaker 2: for the Huskies, and everything else.
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  Speaker 3: Anders will take over.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to have Hugh fill in a couple days
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  Speaker 2: next week with him, and that'll be fun. I talked
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  Speaker 2: to Hugh last night, so I think he's excited about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll hold the fort down for you. Yeah, hold
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  Speaker 3: it down.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get things started.
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  Speaker 2: And any time that there is a championship from one
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  Speaker 2: of the major sports out there, we tend to lead
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  Speaker 2: with it the next day.
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  Speaker 4: I was really torn.
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  Speaker 2: If the Brewers would have swept the Tampa Bay Rays,
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  Speaker 2: We had to start with Quentin Nelson. That would have
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  Speaker 2: stripped me of our streak. We always start with a
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  Speaker 2: major champion whenever a major champion is crowned, local topic
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  Speaker 2: or not.
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  Speaker 3: But of course, the.
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  Speaker 2: Brewers beating the Rays and winning the world championship, and
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  Speaker 2: I can see the headline right now on our television screen,
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  Speaker 2: Brewers win first World Series title in franchise history. It
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  Speaker 2: does make it local. when you are the only franchise
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  Speaker 2: that has never been to the World Series in Major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball and one of the few that has still
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  Speaker 2: yet to taste that sweet nectar of winning a championship.
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  Speaker 2: The Brewers waited a long time. Mariners fans have waited
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  Speaker 2: even longer and still have not tasted it.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it makes people long. Maybe it makes people angry.
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  Speaker 2: I do like seeing.
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  Speaker 4: It, whether, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, I want it for Seattle more than anybody, but
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't take away from me enjoying that for the
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  Speaker 2: great fans of the Brewers. They've really turned into great
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  Speaker 2: fans in Milwaukee, and that team is just so easy
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  Speaker 2: to root for. Not only are they great, and they
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  Speaker 2: are great. Make no mistake about it. They were the
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  Speaker 2: best team in baseball this year. They've been the most
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  Speaker 2: consistent organization, I think. in baseball the last five years.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know the Dodgers have won multiple titles
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  Speaker 2: here in the last five.
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  Speaker 3: Years, but we know how and we know why.
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  Speaker 5: The Brewers do it.
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  Speaker 2: A different way, and it finally got done to the
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  Speaker 2: distance last night. They won over the race 4-1. They
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  Speaker 2: win the series 4-1, and they are champions, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy for them. That was a lot of fun last night.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked about a lot of people aren't going
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  Speaker 6: to look at the two teams that played and, you know,
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  Speaker 6: that it only went five games and really not think
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  Speaker 6: it was a great World Series. That just wasn't the
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  Speaker 6: case at all. There were a ton of fun games.
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  Speaker 6: Almost every single game was. And the Brewers have been awesome. Well,
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  Speaker 6: William Contreras wins the MVP. I mean, there's just, big
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  Speaker 6: moments to Aaron Ashby's just, uh, Herculean effort out of
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  Speaker 6: the bullpen. Uh, Cooper Pratt was fantastic down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of names.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of names that I think are going to
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  Speaker 6: be bigger names as we move forward. Now they may
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  Speaker 6: not be huge names now, but, This team is really good.
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  Speaker 6: Don't get it any other way. They're not just the
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  Speaker 6: scrappy team that fell into some luck in the postseason.
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  Speaker 6: That's absolutely not the case. They are a really, really,
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  Speaker 6: really good baseball team. The best baseball team in Major
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  Speaker 6: League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're great. We'll use the word great. That's
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  Speaker 2: a great baseball team. They won over 100 games. I
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  Speaker 2: think their run differential was number one in the sport,
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  Speaker 2: and they breezed through every single series that they played,
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  Speaker 2: including the hottest team in baseball and the Padres entering
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. The two-time defending champion Dodgers, who people thought
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  Speaker 2: were invincible all season long, and they crushed them beneath
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  Speaker 2: the boot heel.
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  Speaker 3: And then the.
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Rays, who were the best team in the
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  Speaker 2: American League all season long. And yeah, there were some
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  Speaker 2: tight games, but they still ended up winning it in five.
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  Speaker 2: They did it with a great bullpen. It highlighted this
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  Speaker 2: World Series, just how important having a great bullpen at
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  Speaker 2: this time of the year is. It might have been
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  Speaker 2: the reason that they won. They do play a different style,
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  Speaker 2: which is a little bit of a throwback to yesteryear.
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  Speaker 2: They do put the ball in play, which makes every
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  Speaker 2: team different. That's fan base is frustrated with their team,
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  Speaker 2: not putting the ball in play long for a team
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  Speaker 2: like this. Once upon a time, everybody just wanted home
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  Speaker 2: run hitters. And it's, it's amazing that when teams started
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  Speaker 2: building themselves to just have home run hitters, and then
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden you start longing for small ball
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  Speaker 2: and scrappiness and grit, uh, and the Brewers deliver that,
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  Speaker 2: but make no mistake. They have star players on this
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  Speaker 2: team as well. Bryce Terang is a legit all-star. William
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  Speaker 2: Contreras is a legit all-star. Jackson Churio is on the
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  Speaker 2: precipice of being a superstar. Jacob Mizorowski might be the
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  Speaker 2: best pitcher in the world right now, and that bullpen
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  Speaker 2: is just unmatched at this stage in the season. So
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  Speaker 2: that's a great baseball team. There's no question about it.
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  Speaker 2: A fun baseball team and a baseball team that does
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  Speaker 2: and has sent the message to every fan base, no
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  Speaker 2: matter how big or small, It's not really about how
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  Speaker 2: much or how little you spend. It certainly is an advantage,
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  Speaker 2: but it really is about a team coming together. And
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  Speaker 2: I think more so in Major League Baseball than anything
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  Speaker 2: else because it's 162 days.
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  Speaker 3: That team spends its life together.
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  Speaker 1: You go on the road.
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  Speaker 2: You leave your family behind, but you spend six months
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  Speaker 2: with those same men every day.
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  Speaker 3: Every day.
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  Speaker 2: And the coaches' role that they play in all of this.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a manager who is old school.
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  Speaker 2: This is a manager who came up as a college
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  Speaker 2: baseball coach, and he has not let go of all
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  Speaker 2: of those things. He did take time under Craig Council,
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  Speaker 2: his former player, by the way, when he was at
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Council was his player. And then Craig Council said,
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  Speaker 2: come coach with me. Come be on my staff. I
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  Speaker 2: want you on my staff. And he took time with
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  Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Brewers to learn how to manage the Major
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  Speaker 2: League game. They didn't just go like San Francisco, Tony Vitello,
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  Speaker 2: from college to the majors and be overwhelmed and in
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  Speaker 2: over his head. He came as an older man and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be your underling. I'll be your bench coach. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be your eyes and ears. And you are going to
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  Speaker 2: show me the ropes if my chance comes to become
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  Speaker 2: a Major League Baseball manager. And so he took that path,
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  Speaker 2: and then when he was given the job, it turns
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  Speaker 2: out he's better than Craig Council. He is the best
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  Speaker 2: manager in the game, and he still does some of
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  Speaker 2: that old school stuff. He benched three guys this year
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  Speaker 2: for not hustling. three guys for not hustling, including the
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  Speaker 2: guy last night who won the most valuable player award.
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  Speaker 2: And every single person on the team said that he
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  Speaker 2: is the best teammate that we have. He has our
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  Speaker 2: back on and off the field. And yet Pat Murphy
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  Speaker 2: at one point this season did not like the way
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  Speaker 2: that his affect, appeared after he didn't hustle on a
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  Speaker 2: play and benched his starting catcher and the leader of
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  Speaker 2: his team in the middle of the season.
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  Speaker 3: And it sent waves.
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  Speaker 2: He did it to Cooper Pratt, rookie who came up
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  Speaker 2: and he wasn't even He wasn't even, like, dogging it.
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  Speaker 1: He just wasn't hustling as much as Pat felt he
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  Speaker 1: should hustle.
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  Speaker 2: And he wanted to send a message to the young man.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the way we do things here in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: And something really interesting happened that got caught by a
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  Speaker 2: recorder last night, by a video recorder last night that
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  Speaker 2: has surfaced on social media. Jake Bowers, who used to
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  Speaker 2: be a Mariner, used to be a Ray, This is
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  Speaker 2: somebody that years ago, man, I went pretty heavy into
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  Speaker 2: investing him in fantasy baseball. You know, like Jake Bowers
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  Speaker 2: was a guy I'm like, I love this guy's swing.
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  Speaker 2: I think this guy's.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be really good.
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  Speaker 2: I obviously was made to look like a fool for
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  Speaker 2: most of his career because it didn't pan out.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he was here.
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  Speaker 3: Mariners saw the potential in him.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't do anything for the Mariners, just like he
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  Speaker 2: didn't really do anything for anybody else, but not an
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  Speaker 2: old man. He gets another shot with Milwaukee, and whatever
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  Speaker 2: they tapped into, whatever lessons he'd learned over the years,
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  Speaker 2: it all came together. He had like a 900 OPS
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  Speaker 2: this past season. played first base for them every day,
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  Speaker 2: and was a big part of this playoff success like
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  Speaker 2: so many were. I mean, sometimes there are World Series MVPs,
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  Speaker 2: you're like, oh, I had to reach for that one, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Not really a worthy candidate. They had like seven worthy
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  Speaker 2: candidates for World Series MVP. But there was a moment
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  Speaker 2: amid the scrum that got caught by somebody with a
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  Speaker 2: camera phone, I guess, and Jake Bowers had wrestled away
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  Speaker 2: because he was playing first base, he had the game
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  Speaker 2: ball that wrapped it up.
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  Speaker 4: There was a ground ball to Bryce Terang. Terang throws
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  Speaker 4: it to first.
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  Speaker 2: So Jake Bowers had the game ball, the final out
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  Speaker 2: for the Brewers' first-ever World Series. And after the celebration,
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  Speaker 2: he held tight to that game ball. And then all
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  Speaker 2: the hugging and all of the congratulations and I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe it and it was so worth it and all
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  Speaker 2: of that went with his teammates. And then when it
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  Speaker 2: died down a little bit, he walked over to Pat Murphy.
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  Speaker 2: he handed him the baseball. He said, this is yours.
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  Speaker 2: You deserve this. And Pat Murphy was certainly touched by
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  Speaker 2: the gesture, but do you know what he said to him, Anders?
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  Speaker 2: He said, as he's hugging him, congratulations. You just became
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  Speaker 2: a really rich man because he's a free agent. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, but when you go to the Yankees and
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  Speaker 2: you get around all of that selfishness, from all of
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  Speaker 2: those guys making all the money that you're going to
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  Speaker 2: make now, remember how we did it here.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he said to him.
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  Speaker 2: Remember how we did it here. You're going to go on,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to take the money from the big market
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  Speaker 2: club that's going to try to take advantage of your
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  Speaker 2: last season, and you're not going to ever be on
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  Speaker 2: a team.
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  Speaker 3: Like this again.
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  Speaker 2: And I want you to at least remember, as you're
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  Speaker 2: not succeeding the way you think you're going to, how
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  Speaker 2: we do it in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 3: Is that not something? That's badass, is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: And it kind of pissed off Yankee fans, but Yankee
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  Speaker 2: fans were also like, he's making fun of it. Yankee
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  Speaker 2: fans weren't even hating on him. And what I saw
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  Speaker 2: with the social media, I mean, he put them on blast.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't even hating on them. um jake bowers his
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  Speaker 2: response was i'm not going anywhere he's suggesting that i'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna stay right here we'll see we'll.
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  Speaker 3: See we'll see what happens in the off season my
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  Speaker 3: talks but the point is.
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  Speaker 2: What they had the magic that they had and it
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  Speaker 2: goes beyond analytics and how much they did or didn't
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  Speaker 2: use it and for people that are confused about this
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  Speaker 2: The Brewers go heavy on analytics, just like every successful
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  Speaker 2: team does. But they have a manager who takes the
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  Speaker 2: information and then uses his own baseball savvy to make
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  Speaker 2: the decisions. He's not 100% loyal to the numbers, but
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  Speaker 2: he's not foolish enough to ignore the extra data that
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  Speaker 2: managers now have access to that help them make the
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  Speaker 2: right decision in the moment.
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  Speaker 4: And so.
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  Speaker 1: This is the way that he operates.
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  Speaker 4: This is the way that the Brewers operate.
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  Speaker 2: But most importantly, Anders, what he did is he created
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  Speaker 2: a fist with 26 different guys, and they functioned that way.
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  Speaker 2: And to a man, they all said, the reason that
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  Speaker 2: we won this is because we love each other and
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  Speaker 2: we have each other's backs. We've seen Mariners teams recently
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  Speaker 2: like that. but that certainly wasn't this year's team.
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  Speaker 3: It was definitely not.
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  Speaker 2: That team played without focus. That team played without desire
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  Speaker 2: at times. That team felt like it was giving up
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  Speaker 2: even when you.
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  Speaker 3: Knew that they were efforting.
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  Speaker 2: You can want it badly and still come across like
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  Speaker 2: you've given up. Like, oh man, I really tried to
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  Speaker 2: get a hit there, but we're just doomed. That kind
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  Speaker 2: of mentality, I think, popped up way too much this
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  Speaker 2: season from the Seattle Mariners.
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  Speaker 4: And so for.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody in the sport, and Jerry Houston, Jerry used to
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  Speaker 1: be a really.
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  Speaker 2: Big victim of this. That doesn't appreciate culture, especially in
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  Speaker 2: the baseball world when you're around each other so much
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  Speaker 2: and you play so much baseball during the course of
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  Speaker 2: a year. And there's so much about the off-season program
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  Speaker 2: and so much that goes into the spring training program.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't have a great culture, you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to win. This organization did not have a great
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  Speaker 2: culture and did not have the leader in Dan Wilson
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  Speaker 2: that snapped that culture into place. Pat Murphy is the
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  Speaker 2: kind of manager that we want. Unfortunately, he's not available.
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  Speaker 6: No, yeah, I don't think he would be available coming
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  Speaker 6: into this offseason after winning a World Series with the Brewers.
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  Speaker 3: I completely agree.
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  Speaker 6: I think that is kind of the main difference because,
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  Speaker 6: you know, Yes, they have a lot of star players.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't say talent-wise they are head and shoulders above
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  Speaker 6: the rest of MLB, like their win total would suggest
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  Speaker 6: they are, and their breezing through the playoffs relatively would
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  Speaker 6: suggest they are. It's the way they do things that
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  Speaker 6: makes them as good as they are. And I think
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  Speaker 6: that story about Jake Bowers and Pat Murphy, I'm watching
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  Speaker 6: kind of the video right now, that describes what makes
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  Speaker 6: them different. That describes what makes them the world series champion.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm, I'm curious as to what, you know, what
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  Speaker 6: teams will start to value that a little bit more
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  Speaker 6: moving forward. Now that we've seen this team be so
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  Speaker 6: successful in this way, because you know, the last couple
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  Speaker 6: of years, obviously Dodgers went back to back, uh, A
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: lot of people or a lot of teams aren't going
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: to be able to be like, yeah, let's do it.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Let's do what the Dodgers did. You know what I mean?
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: This is something that they definitely can adapt and take
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: into their own teams.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I think that conversation with Jake Bauer tells you
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: it's not about spending money. So many Mariner fans just
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: think that that's going to be the solution to their
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: problems is if we double our payroll, then, you know, yeah,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: it gives you an advantage. It gives you a serious advantage.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: There's no question about it. But the Brewers, that conversation
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: between Murphy and Bowers is everything you need to hear.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: You're going to want money now. And once you get money,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: you're not going to be the same person. We don't
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: even want you anymore. Thank you for your contribution. I mean,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: he's already in the scrum telling him goodbye. We'll want
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: you back next year. You're going to want money now,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: and I don't blame you for that. But you're going
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: to go take the bigger paycheck, and you're not going
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: to be as motivated.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: You're not going to be.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: The guy that we want.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'd still love to have a couple free
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: agents and round out the town. Don't get me wrong,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: but it doesn't solve everything. Look at the wayward Mets.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: The Dodgers fell apart toward the end of the season,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: and we're doing finger pointing at the end of the year.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Randy Rosarino had a great year, but I understand the
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: hesitance to bring him back to Is he going to
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: be the same motivated player? He's had plenty of occasions
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: in his major league career where he's not hustled.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: He has not given you 100%.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: He's had stretches of games where he's not given you 100%.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Hasn't been locked in on the process. Hasn't been a
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: good teammate. But this year he was fantastic. But was
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: he fantastic? Because he was motivated by the salary he's
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: going to earn. If he puts together his best major
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: league career.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: And if you give it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: To him, is he going to be the same player
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: next year? Milwaukee Brewers are like, we don't want you back.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Go make your money. We want the young kid that's hungry.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: Or the guy like Jake Bowers who's kind of on
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: the last leg of his Major League Baseball career.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We want the guy that's desperate.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: That's what we want in our clubhouse. We want to
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: all be on the same page. We want winning to
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: be the most important thing, not our next contract.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: That's what we want here. And there's a lesson. Yeah,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: you better believe it. There's a lesson to be learned
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: there from everybody. All right, let's find out what's on
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• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Right so milwaukee wins the world series in five games
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: and now the scary offseason begins, and I do mean scary.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know when we're going to play baseball again
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball. I certainly don't expect spring training
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: to start on time. It might be summer training this year,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: and there is, I think, an outside chance. There's not
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: a season at all. This is the most important collective
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: bargaining agreement in the history of the sport. MLB is
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: going to try to get a salary cap, and that
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: is something that the players who are richer than ever
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: before and can probably hold out longer than ever before
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: have said they will never agree to. And so the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: standoff will begin starting on December 2nd. That's when the
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: new collective bargaining agreement needs to be— well, the old current
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: collective bargaining agreement expires— The new one obviously doesn't have
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: to be signed until the start of the season, but
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: you know how these things operate. They won't treat it
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: with any urgency. They'll wait until February to really start
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the negotiations. So I don't know when we're going to
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: play baseball again, and that saddens me. We're going to
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: have a special off-season edition of the ABCs of the M's.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: We're going to try to go A to Z today,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: starting at 9 o'clock.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Whoa, special edition.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: That's right, here on the radio program.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Kraken win over the Maple Leafs 5-4. Nice win.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Brandon Montour breaking the tie with, what, 33 seconds left
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: in regulation. with a slap shot. Beautiful play. They won
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: the face-off. Eberle gets it around the Montour on the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: right side, and then a one-timer that beats the goaltender
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: for the victory. Kraken playing good hockey, much better than
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: we've seen in a long time. They'll be back in
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: action tomorrow night at Calgary against Calgary.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: There it is.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: There we go.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I was confused for a second. Yeah, I don't understand
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: why you would be. My apologies. Sounders shut out by
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the Houston Dynamo, who I guess are pretty good.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: 1-0 the final score, so suddenly the Sounders are slipping
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: up a little bit again. They'll be at Vancouver Sunday
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: at 1.30. WNBA Finals could end today. I almost said
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: tonight because you would think that a series-ending championship would
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: happen at night.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Instead, it's going to happen in the morning.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Game 6 starts today at 9.30. We should talk about
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: this a little bit later on in the show because...
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: It's quite the interesting story. I keep saying that, and
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: we just don't have time to talk about it. College
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: basketball season, believe it or not, starts on Sunday. This Sunday,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the college basketball season begins. College football season, of course,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: has reached week nine. Huskies taking on the Huskers Saturday
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: night at 5 o'clock. Softy will join us at 725 today.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Thursday night football features the Packers and Panthers tonight. Mike
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Sando will join us at 930. And the Seahawks, of course,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: playing the Bears on Monday night football. Our 12th man
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: roundtable with Hugh and Greg from 8 to 9 today,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: as it is every Thursday, or most every Thursday, right
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: here on Chuck in the Mornings. Coming up next, though,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: two days shy of Halloween, let's play a little round
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: of Trick or Treat Seahawks Edition. Sports Radio 93.3, KJRFM.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: All right, so here's your first one, gentlemen. Three different
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: questions involving tricks or treats. Actually, I've got five, but
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I'll explain that.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: In a moment.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Number one, Emmanuel Wilson's 100-yard game happened at a good time,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: but was it a trick and can't be counted on again,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: or might the Seahawks have found an insurance treat in
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: their third-string running back?
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: And the running back room is going to be just fine.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Can I say it's both a trick and a treat? No,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: you can't. It's trick or treat. Why do you always
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: do this? You're hedging.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Because I don't think you can rely on him to
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: be a 100-yard rusher every single week. But I do
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: think him as a third-string running back is.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, wait.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Nobody said that in the question. Okay.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Third string running back. Did they find a valuable insurance
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: piece in their third string running back? No, the question
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: did not suggest Emmanuel Wilson's going to possibly run for
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: 100 yards every game.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: You did say 100 yards as like the... it was
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: like a trick. So I didn't know if that meant
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: like every week or something, but okay. To answer the
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: second part of that question.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: I do think it is a, a treat that they
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: found a viable third string running back to Emmanuel Wilson.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: I would be confident in him if he is your
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: third guy moving forward.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: There we go.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Chris, what do you think?
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: I think it's a trick just because, yeah, just because
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: he's not an outside zone guy. That's not his strength.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: When he gets out there, He gets tackled. When he's
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: running through the tackles, he's fine. But their scheme is
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: not for that. That's why they drafted Jadarian, because they
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: needed a guy that can get outside. So I don't
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: think he is the perfect match. So I would say Trick.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Trick.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: That's interesting.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Because I certainly wonder, do wonder, as we have added
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: a guard, a great one, to try to help the
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: running game, if... Maybe that 100-yard game will then tell
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: John Schneider, I don't need to make an addition at
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: running back. And then you wonder, then it is a trick.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Because you let that one 100-yard game maybe trick you
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: into thinking, we're fine.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: And maybe we're not fine. And that'll have a lot more.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: To do with Price and Charbonnet than it's going to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: with Emmanuel Wilson. But if you were sitting there saying, hey,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: at worst, we have Emmanuel Wilson and we've seen what
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: he can do. In a big game, it could be
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: a trick, could be a treat. I tend to side
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: with Anders on this.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I think maybe it's more trait than trick.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: He had 92 yards against Arizona and 81 against the Chargers, too,
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: so it's not like it's nothing, right?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Number two, John Schneider is great, but are his trade
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: deadline tricks the best treats he serves up.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: As an NFL GM?
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: It's hard to argue against it. His draft record. See,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I think overall, I.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Would say that is the biggest treat that he serves
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: as the Seahawks GM. I was trying to figure out
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: the trick and treat, how that worded into that. Because
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: I think, obviously, you look at his draft record, and
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: that's a big part of his success as well. But
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: there are some misses there, too. I don't think there's
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: a lot of misses with his trade record, to be
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: completely honest. There's really one big one, and it's Jamal Adams.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was Pete.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, exactly. I'll believe that to my grave. Exactly.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: And you look at every other, even during the LOB era,
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: you could say Percy Harvin was kind of a miss long-term,
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: but he helped you win a Super Bowl.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Won a Super Bowl.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: And made a play. I would say, yes, that is
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: probably the strongest part of his game.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Treat.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: 100%, man. You think so? Yeah. Better than his draft record?
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think his draft record, I mean, even though
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: it's his draft record that has... Has built this team.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's been on fire for three years. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: it was his draft record that built the first Seahawks
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: champion because he was on fire for three years. But
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: then in between, there were more misses than people want
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to mention right now because he's great and we don't
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: want to say things that make him move to Miami.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: And then, of course, head coaching hires.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: You know, and he didn't have everything.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, like wiki hired Pete, but hiring had the
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: chance to hire a head coach really for the first time.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: And Mike McDonald is his choice.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Absolutely nailed it. So a lot of great qualities, but I, I'm,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I'm with you guys. I think undisputed what he does
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: best is make these trade deadline trades. and how other
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: teams aren't doing more to follow his lead, and how they,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: every year at the trading deadline, don't treat this as
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: seriously as John does, and then he creates an advantage
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: for his team midway through the season every single year,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: and then, because of the great culture, talks that player
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: into staying beyond the contract? Yep.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I think it is absolutely the thing that he does best,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: quite the treat. All right, next one.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson makes his debut Monday night as a Seahawk.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Will the quick adjustment to a new team and new
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: offense be too tricky for him, or do you think
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: he'll immediately treat the Seahawks to what a Hall of
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Fame left guard looks like?
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I think it's an instant treat.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Instant treat!
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: Instant treat for the Seahawks. I think he's that good.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: We've talked about earlier this week that it's not that
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: big of a scheme difference, right? He's going to be
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: able to kind of fit in seamlessly, and he's a
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Hall of Famer already. So I think someone like that
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: is going to step in right away and be an
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: extra day to prepare, by the way, as well with
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: Monday night.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I think it's an instant tree. What do
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: you think, kid?
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: He knows ball. He's ready to roll. He can't wait
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: to go out there. What jerseys are they wearing? Have
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: they announced that yet?
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: It's the stupid navy and gray. I hate the gray
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: pants when you're doing navy jerseys. He might be excited
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: to wear that, but Anderson will not be.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I will not. So he's going to be ready and
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: locked and loaded.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: He's probably excited to be a part of this team
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: that just won a Super Bowl and he's looking to
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: to get us through it with the Seahawks as well.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: So I think this is going to be a treat indeed.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I think that he will probably play better as the
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: season goes on. I don't know if he'll come out
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: playing his best. I think the more he gets used
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to it. But I also think he's just so accomplished,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: and I don't think that the system's going to throw
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: him for a curve. So I think he's going to
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: hit the ground running. I'm a little more worried about
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: what Graze Abel does in his first game in a
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: new position than I am Quentin Nelson. But, yeah, I
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: think that he's just that good that he's going to
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: be an effective left guard starting immediately. And let's face it,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: it's Halloween time. You've gone trick-or-treating. You want an instant treat,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: do you not? You want to go ahead and get
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: a Reese's so you can unwrap it, eat it on
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: your walk to the next house. You don't want to
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: get somebody giving you cake mix.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: You're trick-or-treating.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Cake mix is so bad. Right. What is that? What
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: is that.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Packet in there? It's cake mix.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: All you got to do is just add some butter
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: and some water there.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Make yourself a treat. Whip it up. 450 degree oven.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Why am I working for this? By three hours from now,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: you're going to have a great Halloween treat.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Trust me. Screw you, Mr.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: Chuck.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Better than a candy bar, one might say. Hey, hey,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: don't scoff at that.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I know it's in just a plastic bag, but that
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: is homemade banana bread right there.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: And if you follow the instructions, I am included in
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: your bag.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: You're going to have one hell of a Halloween treat
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: on your hand. And I put a little thing of
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: butter in there as well. Let that melt down the
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: side once you've got it cooked.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: That's a treat.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: You're going to thank me later.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: All right, I don't have time for the last one.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Good place to end off.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next on the radio program, Kraken
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: win last night. Oh, how good are we feeling about
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: the Kraken? How'd they get it done? What are they
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: doing so, so well? Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Montour,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: right side shot, scores! It's the full Monty here in Seattle.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: 32 seconds to play in regulation.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: And the Seattle Kraken have regained the lead 5-4.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Oh, baby.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Certainly feels different.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Feels different?
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Don't you think? Don't you agree? Or the same as
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: in 2022-23.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: But yes, different from the last few years. Absolutely.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Brandon Montour, the hero last night. His mother, Dorothy Montour,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: could not be more happy. Dorothy Montour is a saint.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: She's a saint.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: As ever fits you on the call there with Al
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Koniski last night. The Hanson Brothers right here on Sports
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Radio 93.3 KJR FM. They were in the Halloween spirit
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: last night, dressed up as the Hanson Brothers.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty cool. That's awesome. Good job, Al. Good job, Everett.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Good job, Michael Benton. So loved it. And the only
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: thing that I was missing, though, from the costumes, where
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: was the foil? Where's the foil?
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: You got to put the foil on. Maybe it messes
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: up the radio equipment. I don't know.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Maybe. Maybe they run some interference. I'm not sure.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: I'm listening to the freaking song.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: So great job by them and great job by the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Kraken who get a nice win on what appeared to
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: be Gavin McKenna, the number one overall picks breakout night.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: The Kraken end up scoring a goal with 30 seconds
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: remaining in regulation on a beautiful, like you won the
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: face off. That's part one. Then Eberle smart enough to
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: whip it around to the open guy on the backside.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: And then Montour, we know about his slap shot. He
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: hammers at home. So, A 5-4 victory, and maybe people
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: are starting to believe. Yeah, I think that's just a
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: trademark Montour bomb, as they say. A Monty bomb. Yeah,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: and I think this is another example of, OK, the
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: teams you've lost to are all really high-end Stanley Cup contenders,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: but the teams you've beaten, a lot of them are
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: on the lower end. But then these types of wins
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: like this in Detroit and Utah are... are like, man,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: this team may be in the upper echelon of that
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: middle tier and may be pushing itself up into that
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: top tier a little bit. So wins like these are
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: really good for the early portion of the season.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no question about it.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: And without Jared McCann, you go out there first full
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: night without him, you score five goals. A guy that
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: you said you want to see step up and get
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: more ice time, Berkeley Catton got the scoring started.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: Five straight games at the point for him. the breakout
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: is happening. And this is something that I think is
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: going to be a huge development for the Kraken this season,
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: whether it is him or Shane Wright, or and Shane Wright,
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: or and, that's going to be the reason why the
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: Kraken do make the playoffs or don't make the playoffs,
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: is if they're young players, take that step up into
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: being who we drafted them to be. And Berkley Catton,
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: I think, has the biggest chance to be a star
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: on this Kraken team, and he's proving his talent so far.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, wait till he gets his pubes. I mean, seriously.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Wait until his balls drop?
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Wait until he actually has a little fuzz. How good
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: is he going to be?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Things change. The body gets bigger and stronger after that. So, yeah,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: for him to still not be there yet, to be
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: prepubescent and this good at professional hockey, I think is
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: pretty impressive. I mean, say what you will. Maybe you
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: disagree with me, but I think it's really– I think
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: it's highly impressive.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty impressive.
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: But the thing about him is we all knew he
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: had the talent and the hands and stuff. But last year,
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: it seemed like the game was moving really fast for him.
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: And that's understandable for a rookie who is as young
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: as he was. And even this year, just a year older,
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: he is dealing with physicality really, really well. He seems
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: like the game has slowed down a bunch for him.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: I've just been so impressed with what I've seen from
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: him recently, and I hope that continues to tick up
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: his time on ice so he continues to be a
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: big force for this Kraken team moving forward.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: All right, nice win, 5-4, teams 8-4-1 on the season.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: They will next play tomorrow night. They will be in Calgary,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: taking on the Calgary Flames. So that's going to be,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: should be another win. They've dominated this team so far
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: this season.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: So should be another win.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Off to a good start, no question. Coming up next,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: headlines for you.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Also, keep in mind, we have Greg coming on for
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: the roundtable today from 8 to 9, so we'll talk
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: about the Seahawks Bears coming up. We'll just do it
• 35:53
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