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Chuck in the Morning 7-31 Hour 3: The Ocho and Danielle Lawrie · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 3: one story here on this Friday. As we get you
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Speaker 3: set for the weekend. Yesterday was the first day of
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Speaker 3: practice in pads for the team, which has not quite
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Speaker 3: the way that it used to look. I mean, these
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Speaker 3: shorts are so shorts, they're practically are their pants are
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Speaker 3: so short, they're practically shorts. And then the pads are
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Speaker 3: so thin now that it't you have to kind of
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Speaker 3: do a double take just to see that they are
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Speaker 3: in pads. It feels like. But Mike McDonald spoke with
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Speaker 3: our own Ian Ferness yesterday along with Hugh Millen, who
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Speaker 3: sat in on the interview here on k JR. And
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Speaker 3: Ian asked him about whether or not he enjoyed the
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Speaker 3: first day of practice in pads. Let me ask you
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Speaker 3: this first single house pads, first day of pads.
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Speaker 4: That was a great day today. I'm really really happy
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Speaker 4: with today's practice. Yeah, guys came out with great intent
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Speaker 4: off coming off the off day morning practice.
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Speaker 5: Uh, it was physical.
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Speaker 4: They took care of another, We sharpened each other, we
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Speaker 4: got after it, competed, talked a little smack.
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Speaker 3: It was it was. It was great.
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Speaker 4: It's a really good execution going on. So I can't
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Speaker 4: wait to watch the tape. What's the fine line between
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Speaker 4: the physical nature you want to see there was one
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Speaker 4: small scuffle where do you Because it's changed football, there'll.
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Speaker 3: Be some scuffles as we go.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we want to take obviously when we talk
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Speaker 4: about twelve is one like that. That's kind of our
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Speaker 4: guiding principles. That's kind of a non negotiable. But you
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Speaker 4: kind of know when you see it, like when there's
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Speaker 4: fair physicality and and ones where you're not taking care
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Speaker 4: of your teammate, and so we obviously want to minimize
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Speaker 4: the ladder and the guys did a great job of that,
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Speaker 4: and so I think I think that's when the scuffles
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Speaker 4: start to happen.
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Speaker 3: It's when they feel like there's unnecessary.
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Speaker 4: Shots, which at some point in camp that's you know,
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Speaker 4: it's inevitable to a certain degree. But our guys on
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Speaker 4: the whole they've been they've been great with it.
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Speaker 3: Mike McDonald, head coach of your world champion Seattle Sea
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Speaker 3: yesterday with Ian and Hugh. Were actually gonna hear a
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Speaker 3: lot more from that interview coming up at nine o'clock today.
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Speaker 3: But yes first day of practice in pad some things
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Speaker 3: stood out to me. There was a back to back
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Speaker 3: moment in the drills where Byron Murphy just absolutely destroyed
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Speaker 3: Graysabel once with a move that got Gray leaning and
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Speaker 3: he just came out of his shoes practically on the juke.
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Speaker 3: And then the next time he comes with full power
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Speaker 3: up the middle and pretty much got him on his
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Speaker 3: heels and tossed him to the side like a sack
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Speaker 3: of trash. That's Grey's Abel. Now, that's not a shot
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Speaker 3: at Greysabel. Grays Abel's gonna be fine. But Byron Murphy
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Speaker 3: on back to back plays against what might be our
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Speaker 3: best offensive lineman just used and abused him, and so
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Speaker 3: it was quite the moment yesterday in training camp. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: Riley Mills continues to generate buzz around here. You just
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Speaker 3: heard Mike Morris with us and our last segment talk
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Speaker 3: about Ailey Mills. Already, Hugh Millen and Greg Bell have
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Speaker 3: called him the talk of camp, and then Mike Morris
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Speaker 3: brings him up as well as the guy that has
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Speaker 3: made has opened the most amount of eyes so far
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Speaker 3: here in training camp. So pretty much a foregone conclusion
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Speaker 3: there that Riley Mills is making an impact. Also, Bud
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Speaker 3: Clark and the secondary look very deep, which is something
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Speaker 3: we'll talk more about a little bit later. On in
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Speaker 3: the show. But that's how Mike McDonald wants it. He
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Speaker 3: wants a deep secondary, he wants interchangeable parts, and Bud
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Speaker 3: Clark fits into that quite nicely. So things going well.
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Speaker 3: Obviously your World champs and you're feeling on top of
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Speaker 3: the world. But Mike McDonald, as you heard yesterday with
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Speaker 3: Ian and Hugh, not gonna take anything for granted, not gonna,
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Speaker 3: not gonna rest on his laurels. And so they're right
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Speaker 3: back at it again this year, and it's starting to
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Speaker 3: feel like this team thinks they're gonna be even better
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Speaker 3: than they were a year ago when they were World champs.
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Speaker 3: Now there is a camp battle going on here that
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Speaker 3: outshines all the others. I mean, there's some minor things
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Speaker 3: here and there for playing time, roster spots, things of
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Speaker 3: that nature, but we don't know at this point what
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Speaker 3: the depth chart's gonna look like on opening day at
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Speaker 3: the running back position. And yet yesterday when they started
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Speaker 3: in pads for the first time and started running actual plays,
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Speaker 3: it was Jadarian Price, the rookie out of Notre Dame,
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Speaker 3: who was with the first team on the very first snap.
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Speaker 3: I asked Greg Bell or Seahawks Insider one hour ago.
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Speaker 3: What he reads into that? So there's really one big
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Speaker 3: camp battle here and that's who's who's gonna end up
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Speaker 3: atop the depth chart at running back? How is it
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Speaker 3: going to unfold? And Jadarian Price at least got a
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Speaker 3: message yesterday that's it's his job to lose. Is that
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Speaker 3: how I'm supposed to read into this?
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Speaker 6: Well, it's symbolic some ways, it's not. It's not conclusive,
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Speaker 6: but it's that who's the lead running back on the
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Speaker 6: first snap, first eleven on eleven scrimmage snap in full pad,
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Speaker 6: the first full pads practice, it was Jennari and Price
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Speaker 6: and that hadn't He had not He had not often
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Speaker 6: started a series with the first team offense as the back,
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Speaker 6: or we say start a scrimmage. He did yesterday in
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Speaker 6: the first day in bad Maybe I read too much
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Speaker 6: into it, but that's fact. He was the first game
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Speaker 6: back in the first scrimmage play in full pads. I
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Speaker 6: think it's he's on his way. The crash course in
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Speaker 6: past protecting and past catching continues. For Price. It's what
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Speaker 6: he needs to work on the most, and I think
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Speaker 6: that would be the only thing holding him back from
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Speaker 6: seizing the jobs sooner than later. But again, I would
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Speaker 6: be really surprised if he's not the lead back with
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Speaker 6: the preponderance of Carry's Week one against New England. They
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Speaker 6: would not have drafted him in the first round if
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Speaker 6: they didn't think that was going to happen. Something would
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Speaker 6: have to have gone wrong between now and then for
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Speaker 6: not to be the case.
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Speaker 3: Greg Bell with us yet today, as a matter of fact,
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Speaker 3: seven oh five. He'll be with you today from ten
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Speaker 3: to twelve with the more information. But yeah, Jadarian Price,
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know if he'll end up
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Speaker 3: being RB one on opening Day. They might give George
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Speaker 3: Hallani that honor just because he's been around a little while.
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Speaker 3: But I'm gonna go ahead and predict the Jadarian Price
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Speaker 3: from game one of the regular season. As long as
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Speaker 3: everybody's healthy, you know, all things being equal, we'll end
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Speaker 3: up with the most touches out of the backfield of
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Speaker 3: any running back, even from day number one. I will
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Speaker 3: say this though, Hugh Mellen is right. The photos that
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Speaker 3: you see of Jadarian Price, which are everywhere online, and
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Speaker 3: he looks just sculpted out, you know, like he's like
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Speaker 3: a statue, well huge, right, Those are all shot from
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Speaker 3: the waist up, because from the waist down he's got
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Speaker 3: some skinny legs for a running back, he does, he
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Speaker 3: has some skinny legs. A huge worry that the Seahawks
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Speaker 3: are clearly not worried about that. Otherwise they wouldn't have
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Speaker 3: taken him with their first round selection, that they would
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Speaker 3: have that that they you know, they had the choice
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Speaker 3: pretty much of any running back in the draft class,
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Speaker 3: and they wanted skinny legs Price to join the team.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it does look almost odd how skinny his
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Speaker 3: legs are. I mean, I think he's skipped leg day
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Speaker 3: a few times, Travis. I think that he has skipped
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Speaker 3: leg day because the upper body has just chiseled and
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Speaker 3: the legs kind of look like my dad's.
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Speaker 5: H You don't you don't want to skip leg day.
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Speaker 3: No, you can't skip, not as a running back. No,
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Speaker 3: that's the one day. That's the one day you got
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Speaker 3: to show up for work for his leg day. From
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Speaker 3: the rest of the National Football League, Baker Mayfield and
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Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers seem to be at an m
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Speaker 3: pass man. I don't know how things could be worse
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Speaker 3: in camp right now for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the
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Speaker 3: punky Tampa quarterback has broken off negotiations with the team
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Speaker 3: who earlier in the week found out that their best
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Speaker 3: defensive player, Vitavea, wants to be traded. So things not
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Speaker 3: going well with the Buccaneers and their best players. They
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Speaker 3: are not seeing eye to eye on payments due here's
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Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield talking openly about contract negotiations.
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Speaker 7: I told you guys, it's all ball, and that's I
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Speaker 7: don't want to talk about it. And if you've waited
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Speaker 7: this long to take care of your franchise quarterback, that's
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Speaker 7: too bad because it's only gonna get worse from here.
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna have a really good year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Baker Mayfield yesterday, So he didn't want to talk
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Speaker 3: about it, right, but he said an awful lot in
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Speaker 3: that statement. That was That was Baker Mayfield showing you
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Speaker 3: how angry he is. And according to reports that Mayfield
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Speaker 3: is asking to be paid like every other elite quarterback
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Speaker 3: in the national football game. I mean, he's putting himself
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Speaker 3: in that fifty five million dollar range of quarterbacks. I
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Speaker 3: think I kind of get why Tampa might balk at that.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to give him the Sam Donald deal
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Speaker 3: that the Seahawks got from a year ago. I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: give him more than that. He's proven a little bit more,
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Speaker 3: especially within that organization. But I don't know if I
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Speaker 3: want to commit to Baker Mayfield five six years at
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Speaker 3: fifty five million dollars a year. I'd kind of like
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Speaker 3: for him to see it our way go forty five million.
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Speaker 3: Let's go between what the top guys make and what
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Speaker 3: Sam Donald is playing for right now, Let's middle ground
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Speaker 3: it so that we can build some other stuff around you.
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Speaker 3: But Baker's not having it, and so we'll see how
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Speaker 3: this thing goes. But this is not a great sign
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Speaker 3: for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers season. All right, let's move
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Speaker 3: on to baseball. We have a lot to discuss with
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Speaker 3: the Mariners, who were in Los Angeles yesterday trying to
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Speaker 3: win two out of three against the mighty mighty Los
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Speaker 3: Angeles Dodgers. I don't know what happened, but Bryce Miller
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Speaker 3: said he wasn't able to go. He needed another day's
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Speaker 3: rest and that he wanted to bump his start back
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Speaker 3: to Friday. And since they're on a six man rotation,
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Speaker 3: next guy up was gonna be Brian wu But we
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Speaker 3: know about Brian Wu's road woes. I mean, man, I
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Speaker 3: don't know if Bryce Miller just had like some bad
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Speaker 3: tacos or something like that, and that's the reason that
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Speaker 3: he couldn't pitch last night. But man, that's bad strategy.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not strategy, but because they weren't going
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Speaker 3: to go with this. But man, from Bryce's perspective, you
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Speaker 3: picked a really bad time to eat bad tacos. If
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Speaker 3: that's what happened Brian Wu, we could have had start
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Speaker 3: tonight at home, where he dominates. Instead, he has to
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Speaker 3: face the best offense on the planet on the road,
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Speaker 3: where he has struggled this year. And even though I
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Speaker 3: thought that his stuff looked great, he had eight strikeouts
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Speaker 3: over five innings. He was making Max Munsey look like
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Speaker 3: a fool. Yeah, when he did give up hard contact,
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Speaker 3: and it wasn't that often, but it always came with
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Speaker 3: runners on base via walks or a bloop hit or
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Speaker 3: bad defense at third base. And sure enough, already trailing
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Speaker 3: two to nothing, two guys get on base in the
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Speaker 3: fourth and Mariners, excuse me, Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing came
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Speaker 3: to the plate.
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Speaker 8: This is hammered, and god, well he's having himse up
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Speaker 8: a series, he blows it open five to nothing in
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Speaker 8: the bur.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Aaron's been a little under the weather, but he
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Speaker 3: sounds kind of sad and depressed, and I think that
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Speaker 3: it sort of encapsulates the way the fan base feels
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Speaker 3: right now, and based on the looks on their faces
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Speaker 3: last night, the way the team feels right now. They
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Speaker 3: just cannot get well. They just can't get healthy as
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Speaker 3: a baseball team. And I'm not talking about injuries. I'm
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Speaker 3: just talking about getting fat off the land. As a
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Speaker 3: baseball team. They just can't get into groove. And we
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Speaker 3: are now one hundred and ten games into this thing,
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Speaker 3: and they are They're in trouble. The Mariners put multiple
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Speaker 3: runners on base themselves in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings,
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Speaker 3: but unlike the Dodgers, who got a basis clearing double
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Speaker 3: from Mookie Betts and a three run homer from Dalton Rushing,
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Speaker 3: Thems couldn't produce anything with runners on base other than
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Speaker 3: a Cal Raley walk and ultimately scored just two runs
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Speaker 3: worth of offense. They lose to the Dodgers last night,
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Speaker 3: six to two. So the Mariners are sitting here at
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Speaker 3: fifty three and fifty seven on the year, they have
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Speaker 3: fallen four games below five hundred for the first time
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Speaker 3: since May seventeen. They're two and a half games back
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Speaker 3: at the first place Rangers in the American League West,
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Speaker 3: and now at two full games back of Houston for
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Speaker 3: second place in the division. A nine game homestand begins
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Speaker 3: tonight at Team Mobile, where Seattle hosts Minnesota for three
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Speaker 3: games than Detroit and Tampa Bay. I realize there are
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Speaker 3: fifty two games remaining that there is no more messing around.
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Speaker 3: It has to start now, and I think it has
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Speaker 3: to start with Caled was meant to be.
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Speaker 5: No next year, not tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it has to happen now. I think it's now
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Speaker 3: or ever if the Mariners won any chance of living
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Speaker 3: up to the lofty expectations they set for themselves in
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Speaker 3: spring training. A World Series team that was the goal,
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Speaker 3: not a contender, a World Series team, champions of the world,
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Speaker 3: A fat one ten games into the season and they've
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Speaker 3: not played anywhere close to that quality, that caliber of
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Speaker 3: a team, and so a lot of soul searching being
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Speaker 3: done again in the dugout at the end of the game.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure a lot of soul searching on the flight
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Speaker 3: home from Los Angeles. But it has to begin tonight
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Speaker 3: against the Minnesota Twins. They have to get it going.
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Speaker 3: Bryce Miller is going to start seven to ten against
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Speaker 3: the young right hander Zebbi Matthews of the Minnesota Twins.
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Speaker 3: That's your pitching matchup. Matthews a talented young pitcher, but
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Speaker 3: he struggled this year a five point two to one
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Speaker 3: ero and so let's get it going. I mean there
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Speaker 3: there's no more messing around with us. It has to
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Speaker 3: get going starting tonight, and certainly we'd like them to
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Speaker 3: be in a position to add at the Major League
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Speaker 3: Baseball trading deadline, which happens in three days.
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Speaker 9: Yankee swap is like Machiavelli meets.
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Speaker 5: Christmas.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of yeah, it's kind of yeah. That's
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Speaker 3: what trade deadline's like. Machiavelli meets Christmas. That's the MLB
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Speaker 3: trading deadline. Thank you Dwight Schrute for summing it up
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Speaker 3: for me. The MLB trade deadline is set in stone
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Speaker 3: for three o'clock on Monday. There have been three trades
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Speaker 3: made leading up to the final weekend before the deadline.
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Speaker 3: Three amasely three. If you don't speak deadline like I do.
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Speaker 3: Then you may not realize that three is terrible. That
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Speaker 3: is an insignificant amount of movement poultry, even for any
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Speaker 3: deadline junkie. We need to see more moves. I do
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Speaker 3: believe that we will. I think we're gonna see a
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Speaker 3: flurry of activity starting on Sunday going into Monday. I
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Speaker 3: think Monday's gonna be mad capped. The Mariners have yet
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Speaker 3: to purchase anything at this ice cold trading market. They
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Speaker 3: do have pitching to deal, we know that in exchange
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Speaker 3: for a hitter. But hitters are being sold right now
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Speaker 3: at a premium, and, as luck would have it, for
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Speaker 3: perhaps the first time in trade deadline history, starting pitching
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Speaker 3: is not the biggest need out there, so that stinks
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Speaker 3: for the Mariners who have pitching to trade and a
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Speaker 3: hitting need. Perhaps the fifty three and fifty seven Mariners
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Speaker 3: aren't going to be in a big aggressive mindset since
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Speaker 3: they fumbled their way through the first four months of
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Speaker 3: the year, but I do believe they are going to
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Speaker 3: make a trade, maybe one as early as today. Some
17:22
Speaker 3: Elliott Ramos rumors have been heating up, at least on
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Speaker 3: social media. Right handed hitting outfielder not very good defensively,
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Speaker 3: but he can hit. He can HiT's not great, but
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Speaker 3: he's good. He's a good hitter and has been historically good,
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Speaker 3: very good against left handers. One juicy thing about this
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Speaker 3: year's deadline that does seem obvious now is that two
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Speaker 3: times Cy Young Award winner Trek schoobl seems like a
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Speaker 3: sure thing to be dealt by Detroit before Monday's expiration date.
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Speaker 3: And yes, I'm sorry to report the Dodgers have emerged
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Speaker 3: as the front runner. Really big surprise. Seventh item on
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Speaker 3: The Oh Show's Timbers are going to play tomorrow? Bryan
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Speaker 3: Schmetzer on the rematch.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's just to do the opposite.
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Speaker 9: You don't want to panic. You want to just redouble
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Speaker 9: your efforts again to get all the details right. Look,
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Speaker 9: I didn't turn out I'm not a terrible coach just
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Speaker 9: four weeks ago. The players aren't terrible. From four weeks ago.
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Speaker 9: We've run into a slump. And what I'm trying to
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Speaker 9: do is remind them about what made them good. What
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Speaker 9: I'm trying to do is hold them accountable for some
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Speaker 9: of the decisions they make. And I'm also holding myself,
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Speaker 9: most importantly, myself and the coaching staff accountable for the
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Speaker 9: way we run our training session and look again, Softie,
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Speaker 9: we've done a pretty good job of it so far
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Speaker 9: this year, but obviously right now we've got to tweak
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Speaker 9: some things to make sure the players feel that confidence
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Speaker 9: from us so they can play confident on the field.
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Speaker 3: I love Brian Schmetzer. Brian Schmetzer was softy earlier this week. Yes,
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Speaker 3: the Sounders took a month off for World Cup and
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Speaker 3: have not looked like anywhere close to the same team
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Speaker 3: they were before the World Cup. They have been blown
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Speaker 3: out in both their matches. They lost to Portland five
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Speaker 3: to one in their first match coming off their break,
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Speaker 3: and they've been beaten like a drum again since that
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Speaker 3: time by Austin FC. And somehow they are very injured,
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Speaker 3: which doesn't make sense to me at all. You had
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Speaker 3: a month to recover from injuries and yet one of
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Speaker 3: the big problems is that they are very injured. Game
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Speaker 3: time tomorrow in Portland seven forty five, right here on
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Speaker 3: Khaar and of course a lot of things going on here,
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Speaker 3: Boweing Classic coming up, Seafair coming up, and then we've
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Speaker 3: also got the Little League Softball World Series which gets
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Speaker 3: started on Sunday, and Washington will be represented by Snoholmish,
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Speaker 3: who's star player happens to have the last name Laurie.
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Speaker 3: That's right. Daniel's daughter will be playing against the Lake Mary,
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Speaker 3: headed the Greensville, North Carolina. Ah, yes, no Homish back
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Speaker 3: in action this Sunday morning at seven am. So cetral
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Speaker 3: clocks for that seven am. They'll be in Greenville, North
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Speaker 3: Carolina'll be ten am for them, so they don't have
20:52
Speaker 3: to get up and play at seven o'clock. We just
20:54
Speaker 3: have to watch it at seven o'clock. And joining us
20:57
Speaker 3: now on the program is of course the Atle Sports
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Speaker 3: Legend National Champion Women's College World Series, and she's been
21:06
Speaker 3: doing the color for the Little League World Series as well,
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Speaker 3: including for her own daughter who plays on the Snowhomeless
21:15
Speaker 3: team that will be in action starting on Sunday morning
21:20
Speaker 3: and joining us now on the program, the legendary Danielle
21:24
Speaker 3: Laurie is with us. Good morning, Good morning.
21:28
Speaker 10: Last time we talked, it was in what Oklahoma City.
21:31
Speaker 10: Didn't think we'd be talking about the Little League World Series.
21:34
Speaker 3: I didn't at the time. Maybe you thought maybe that
21:38
Speaker 3: was going to be in your future, but I hadn't
21:40
Speaker 3: considered it. But yeah, very exciting. And I noticed when
21:46
Speaker 3: you were on the call, or at least it sounded
21:49
Speaker 3: to me like you got a little emotional. You were
21:51
Speaker 3: fighting off the emotions. I mean, what's it like, Okay,
21:55
Speaker 3: the pressure of winning women's college World Series versus the
22:00
Speaker 3: anxiety of watching your daughter try to pull something off athletically.
22:05
Speaker 10: I mean, just me not having any control. I think
22:09
Speaker 10: this gave me such a like a fresh perspective of
22:13
Speaker 10: like when I would go back and watch my dad
22:16
Speaker 10: in the stands in the World Series and O nine,
22:18
Speaker 10: and it like the stress and the look on his
22:21
Speaker 10: face in those moments of hard throughout the game. It's
22:25
Speaker 10: like I fully understand why he felt that way, like
22:28
Speaker 10: not being able to help in the moment, not having
22:32
Speaker 10: any control over it. It's so different when you're in the
22:34
Speaker 10: moment as an athlete, like especially in the circle, like
22:37
Speaker 10: the ball is in my hand so to a degree,
22:40
Speaker 10: I can control the situation, so it's definitely different. I
22:45
Speaker 10: don't feel like I got as maybe nervous up in
22:48
Speaker 10: the booth as I do just sitting there. Like when
22:50
Speaker 10: they played Organ, I didn't call that game. I just
22:53
Speaker 10: got to call the next two.
22:55
Speaker 6: Man.
22:55
Speaker 10: That was the first game we had to buy, and
22:57
Speaker 10: then we had to play Organ, And I just remember
23:00
Speaker 10: like needing to sit alone in that big stadium by myself,
23:04
Speaker 10: and like my kid would, my littlest would keep coming over,
23:07
Speaker 10: and I'm like, I just like felt sick because it
23:10
Speaker 10: was such a close game. We scored two in the
23:12
Speaker 10: first and MEA Christiansen, the pitcher for Oregon, is such
23:15
Speaker 10: a good little pitcher. Like it was such a pitcher's duel.
23:18
Speaker 10: I think Maddie had fourteen strikeouts and I think Mia
23:21
Speaker 10: might have had eleven against our team. And it's just
23:24
Speaker 10: one of those things where you're like, oh man, you
23:26
Speaker 10: can come out on any end of this type of
23:28
Speaker 10: a game as a pitcher, right, you can pitch your
23:30
Speaker 10: heart out and sometimes come out on the losing end
23:32
Speaker 10: and vice versa. So sitting in the stand sometimes is
23:35
Speaker 10: significantly harder than being up with the mic, knowing that
23:40
Speaker 10: I just get to talk about softball and talk about
23:42
Speaker 10: both teams.
23:43
Speaker 3: Right, Daniel, Laurie is whether it's her son Maddie or
23:47
Speaker 3: son her daughter Maddie is playing this Sunday in the
23:51
Speaker 3: Little League World Series. It starts against Lake Mary, Florida,
23:55
Speaker 3: at seven o'clock Sunday morning. You know, Maddie I think's
23:58
Speaker 3: going to get a lot of attention going forward, and
24:00
Speaker 3: then she's getting a lot of attention now, and I
24:02
Speaker 3: do want to talk about her in a moment. I
24:05
Speaker 3: think you'll appreciate this. Talk about some of the other
24:08
Speaker 3: girls on the team. Talk about some of the others
24:10
Speaker 3: that you know might not someday be playing Division one
24:15
Speaker 3: college softball like your your daughter might, but this might
24:18
Speaker 3: be their golden moment. So give us some of the
24:21
Speaker 3: names on this team that make it special.
24:24
Speaker 10: Oh for sure, I mean you've got to. You have
24:26
Speaker 10: to talk about her battery mate Harlow nicely. I mean,
24:29
Speaker 10: an incredible kid. She's been catching Maddie for the last
24:32
Speaker 10: three years. And I remember when they played in twenty
24:35
Speaker 10: twenty four in state, Like Maddy from thirty five feet
24:39
Speaker 10: was throwing cheddar like she was throwing hard, and I
24:42
Speaker 10: was kind of like, dang, is someone going to be
24:44
Speaker 10: able to like catch her back there and do? And
24:47
Speaker 10: Harlow has just been incredible. And I always make it
24:51
Speaker 10: so known to you know, both of them, like they
24:53
Speaker 10: are only as strong as each other out there, that
24:55
Speaker 10: two against one mentality, all of those things are so important.
24:59
Speaker 10: So her behind the day has been She's been rock
25:02
Speaker 10: solid in every way possible. Julia Wright in the lead
25:05
Speaker 10: off spot has been such a spark plug for the team.
25:10
Speaker 10: I mean, it's so hard. Each of those kids bring
25:14
Speaker 10: something so different, Like you even look at you know,
25:16
Speaker 10: Hannah Shaneer, who's batting twelve for our team, has had
25:19
Speaker 10: some really clutch at bats over the last month, you know,
25:22
Speaker 10: and I would almost put her up as one of
25:24
Speaker 10: our most improved players. Like you know, the rules with
25:27
Speaker 10: literally you have to bat everyone in your lineup, and
25:30
Speaker 10: when you have twelve hitters, like you need to try
25:32
Speaker 10: to make it somewhat scrappy. The bottom half or your
25:35
Speaker 10: top will only necessarily bat in the first or the
25:37
Speaker 10: fourth when you think about it, right, and six innings.
25:40
Speaker 10: So just to kind of see the production from the
25:42
Speaker 10: lower half of our lineup has been really cool. Holulu
25:47
Speaker 10: has been a lot of fun to watch. Jenessa like
25:50
Speaker 10: this team. I think losing Game one in State, even
25:54
Speaker 10: though it was heartbreaking, was one of the best things
25:57
Speaker 10: that they could have went through as a team because
25:59
Speaker 10: it forced them have to play seven games in a row,
26:02
Speaker 10: hang out together a lot, play different when your back's
26:05
Speaker 10: up against the wall, and really come together as a team.
26:09
Speaker 10: And I just think that that is really kind of
26:12
Speaker 10: been the difference maker for these ladies to continue to
26:16
Speaker 10: keep competing at times. Yeah, there may be more pressure
26:19
Speaker 10: on a pitcher, but that is in every single team, right, Like,
26:23
Speaker 10: if you don't have pitching, it's really tough to go
26:25
Speaker 10: far in a tournament like this. But and then you
26:28
Speaker 10: have your battery mate behind the dish, and just like
26:30
Speaker 10: your quality at bats, like which Allie and the leadoff
26:34
Speaker 10: bought Maddy bats to Jojo Day and then Matty Tawny
26:37
Speaker 10: like you know Avery at first, like we just have
26:40
Speaker 10: such a good core group, like our infield is you know,
26:43
Speaker 10: I would put it up there as potentially one of
26:45
Speaker 10: the best in fields in the Little League world. Series, like,
26:48
Speaker 10: they are fierce, they are great and at this point,
26:50
Speaker 10: you know with little League, like you have to be
26:52
Speaker 10: able to play defense, right and especially when you get
26:55
Speaker 10: to this point. So it'll be exciting to see how,
26:59
Speaker 10: you know, they come out, and I will be nervous
27:03
Speaker 10: in the stands.
27:06
Speaker 3: You have such a sports family. You have such a
27:08
Speaker 3: sports family, a baseball softball family. I mean, do your
27:13
Speaker 3: family members compare Maddie to you. Are there conversations about,
27:19
Speaker 3: you know, where she's at in her development compared to
27:22
Speaker 3: when you were her age.
27:25
Speaker 10: You know, my dad will like bring it up and
27:27
Speaker 10: have conversations about it. Listen, this is such a it's
27:30
Speaker 10: such a fine line, right because, yeah, I am so
27:35
Speaker 10: grateful to what sports has given me and the path
27:38
Speaker 10: that I chose to choose the University of Washington and
27:40
Speaker 10: be around that like that changed my life. But I
27:45
Speaker 10: don't ever want my kid to think that they need
27:47
Speaker 10: to walk in my footsteps because everyone is uniquely different
27:51
Speaker 10: with what they bring to the table in sports. And
27:54
Speaker 10: she is going to earn the right to do whatever
27:56
Speaker 10: she wants in this game. Whether she is great enough
27:59
Speaker 10: to play call it, whether she is great enough, you know,
28:02
Speaker 10: to potentially play with Team Canada, which she wanted to
28:05
Speaker 10: do Team USA. Like these are all things that like,
28:07
Speaker 10: I definitely think about, but I know sometimes it can
28:11
Speaker 10: become overbearing with like, oh, your mom is Danielle and
28:14
Speaker 10: you know your dad was a you know, played Triple
28:16
Speaker 10: A baseball, Like it's a lot man, And I really
28:20
Speaker 10: just want her to know that, like the work is
28:23
Speaker 10: the work. What will come will come right. But how
28:26
Speaker 10: hard you choose to bust your butt at this sport,
28:29
Speaker 10: that's life lessons that your dad and I were so
28:33
Speaker 10: fortunate to be great at our sport, but we learned
28:35
Speaker 10: through the grind, and that is what I want to
28:37
Speaker 10: teach my kids. And you know, we definitely talk about pressure.
28:40
Speaker 10: I think I talk more about what you will experience
28:44
Speaker 10: in moments of hard than I had had conversations with
28:48
Speaker 10: my dad about at twelve years old. So I'm grateful
28:52
Speaker 10: that I've experienced that her dad has gone through those
28:55
Speaker 10: different times. You know, my brother he sent a really
28:57
Speaker 10: sweet text as we were on the flight headed here,
29:01
Speaker 10: like she has everyone in her corner and I think
29:03
Speaker 10: she just you know, this team and all of these
29:07
Speaker 10: athletes here. I'm going to get a chance to talk
29:09
Speaker 10: at opening ceremonies, and I like really want to make
29:11
Speaker 10: it known to them. It's like the game doesn't change
29:14
Speaker 10: because it feels bigger, and that's all it's so hard
29:17
Speaker 10: to understand at twelve or thirteen, Right, It's like we
29:21
Speaker 10: may feel the heart pound a little more, like a
29:23
Speaker 10: little bit more anxiousness, but like the only thing as
29:26
Speaker 10: athletes that we always can fall back on is like
29:28
Speaker 10: what's allowed for me to get to this point, And
29:31
Speaker 10: in those moments, if I can reflect on that and
29:34
Speaker 10: take a breath and slow it down and calm my heart,
29:36
Speaker 10: my heart right down, it's like then I can go
29:38
Speaker 10: and attack the moment. It's sometimes just when I don't
29:41
Speaker 10: know how to do that. So I feel lucky that
29:43
Speaker 10: I can have those types of conversations with my kid
29:46
Speaker 10: and other kids that I get the chance to be
29:47
Speaker 10: around through sport, because those are the parts that kind
29:51
Speaker 10: of turn you off from sports sooner than later. The pressure,
29:54
Speaker 10: the moment, like not wanting to fail, all of that,
29:56
Speaker 10: but you know, win or lose, what are you getting
30:00
Speaker 10: out of it? Because you are twelve years old. This
30:02
Speaker 10: is not a national championship, it's not an Olympic games,
30:05
Speaker 10: Like are we winners? And do we want that, Hell,
30:09
Speaker 10: yeah we do, but like perspective over everything, and I
30:12
Speaker 10: really hope that her team and that like Maddie understands
30:17
Speaker 10: how proud you know the Northwest is of this group.
30:21
Speaker 10: They're less than a one percent chance of like making it.
30:24
Speaker 10: There's eighteens in the US to get to go and
30:26
Speaker 10: do this, like you need to enjoy the ride that's
30:29
Speaker 10: got you there and be where your feet are at
30:31
Speaker 10: throughout this process.
30:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of our listeners don't know this because
30:35
Speaker 3: we usually make fun of my athletic career here on
30:38
Speaker 3: this show. But when I was thirteen, I pitched in
30:41
Speaker 3: a World championship game at age thirteen, and I don't
30:49
Speaker 3: really remember feeling any pressure at all. And maybe that
30:52
Speaker 3: is being thirteen years old. I think you're gonna feel
30:56
Speaker 3: nervous in the stands. Your husband's gonna feel nervous in
30:58
Speaker 3: the stands, And but I can tell you that at thirteen,
31:03
Speaker 3: that was just one of my favorite memories of my
31:05
Speaker 3: life to be able to be on that stage, and
31:08
Speaker 3: I don't remember feeling pressure. I just remember having such
31:11
Speaker 3: a good time. That was such a great experience. Are
31:14
Speaker 3: the girls just having a great time with this? Would
31:17
Speaker 3: be my final question. Are they loving this? Are they
31:19
Speaker 3: loving Greenville South Carolina? I don't know what there is
31:21
Speaker 3: to do in Greenville, North Carolina, I think it is,
31:25
Speaker 3: but are they loving this entire ride?
31:29
Speaker 10: I mean, yes, we really don't get to be around
31:32
Speaker 10: them as much. You know, they're very much like with
31:35
Speaker 10: the coaches and with the team mom, and they're in
31:37
Speaker 10: the dorms and it was the same thing in San
31:40
Speaker 10: Bernardino and like, so yes, I'm hopeful and anytime I've
31:45
Speaker 10: gotten a chance to talk to my kid and like
31:47
Speaker 10: it's definitely like, oh, you know, we got to talk
31:50
Speaker 10: with Japan today and Team Canada or like Team Canada.
31:53
Speaker 10: Team Canada can't speak any English. They're all from Quebec,
31:56
Speaker 10: and I'm like, dang it, we can't even talk with
31:57
Speaker 10: the Canadians. But it's like, you know, when you think
32:01
Speaker 10: about the times that like we played in when we
32:04
Speaker 10: were twelve and thirteen, like it is this sport right
32:08
Speaker 10: now and the opportunity that these ladies have is so
32:11
Speaker 10: magnified because of ESPN, every game is onlinear this year
32:17
Speaker 10: for the twenty twenty sixth Litle League World Series, like
32:19
Speaker 10: every single game will be on ESPN or ESPN two
32:22
Speaker 10: with the Championship on ABC. So that's number one, that's insane.
32:25
Speaker 10: And then you think about, like you know, at times,
32:28
Speaker 10: the social media piece that these kids go through, that
32:31
Speaker 10: can be the scary part that adds the element of
32:33
Speaker 10: pressure for them because everybody can reach out like back
32:37
Speaker 10: in our time. Shoot, no one was talking to me
32:39
Speaker 10: at thirteen, like my dad and my mom and my teammates,
32:41
Speaker 10: but they didn't have to worry about that. And that's why,
32:44
Speaker 10: like for me, it's been an important thing for my
32:47
Speaker 10: kid to not have access to that stuff because I
32:50
Speaker 10: just don't think in this environment that there's a time
32:54
Speaker 10: for it to be where they need to be thinking
32:56
Speaker 10: about what anyone else thinks other than their teammates left
32:58
Speaker 10: and right and their family and their support system. So
33:02
Speaker 10: anytime I'm around them, they seem to love it. They
33:04
Speaker 10: enjoy it. Hearing them go through what they call a
33:06
Speaker 10: car wash with ESPN. You get all your gear, all
33:09
Speaker 10: the media, all the photos like yesterday was like kind
33:13
Speaker 10: of out of a dream for them, you know, getting
33:15
Speaker 10: to experience that. And I said to Maddie, I was like,
33:18
Speaker 10: you make sure you let it be known to your teammates,
33:20
Speaker 10: like you guys earned this like you. This is sometimes
33:24
Speaker 10: the best part and the things that you'll remember when
33:25
Speaker 10: you look back. So it's been pretty cool. And I
33:28
Speaker 10: hope that they can look back on this experience and
33:30
Speaker 10: be so grateful for this whole run and the time
33:34
Speaker 10: that they had and the support from the community and
33:36
Speaker 10: the Homish Little League, because these girls definitely feel it
33:40
Speaker 10: and us parents are trying to do everything we can
33:42
Speaker 10: to support them with whatever way that looks well.
33:47
Speaker 3: Maddie's mom, h thank you very much for joining us,
33:51
Speaker 3: so we appreciate it. Have a great time with it.
33:54
Speaker 3: And Ghost no homish ghost, no.
33:57
Speaker 10: Homemish ghost, no homish. Let's go nor that's region. Thank you, Danielle,
34:03
Speaker 10: Thanks guys.
34:04
Speaker 3: All right, daniel Lourie joining us right here on the
34:07
Speaker 3: radio program. All right, coming up next. Who doesn't want
34:11
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Speaker 3: Hey h Chuck Powell with you. It is U Chuck
34:36
Speaker 3: in the morning. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
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Speaker 3: r FM. Good to have you with us. We are
34:41
Speaker 3: here at training camp along with Hard Knocks. I'm pretty sure,
34:45
Speaker 3: pretty sure, this is my opportunity. Travis uh to somehow
34:50
Speaker 3: get on House of the Dragon. You know, I think
34:52
Speaker 3: they're gonna notice, you know, my talent. Big break, Yeah time, Yeah,
34:57
Speaker 3: my big break. I don't know what kind of role
34:59
Speaker 3: I'll play A and ryder that's fine. Uh that's that's
35:02
Speaker 3: okay with me. Uh so, yeah, pretty sure that's gonna happen.
35:06
Speaker 3: I mean they haven't exactly looked my direction yet, but
35:11
Speaker 3: you know, the cream rises to the top.
35:15
Speaker 5: I was envisioning you as like Dirty Peasant three. Come on,
35:22
Speaker 5: I think you'd you'd fit that role perfectly.
35:26
Speaker 3: That's not gonna be my big break. No, I can't
35:29
Speaker 3: go to somebody saying, yeah, the career has really taken off.
35:32
Speaker 3: I was Dirty Peasant number three.
35:34
Speaker 5: You gotta start somewhere.
35:35
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well it's a little a little late in the
35:38
Speaker 3: game to be starting that low on the wrong, but
35:41
Speaker 3: we'll see. I was thinking about my own special, That's
35:44
Speaker 3: what I was thinking. I had a little bigger plans
35:47
Speaker 3: for myself than what Travis did.
35:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, i'd watch your special.
35:52
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was thinking about and don't you say at
35:55
Speaker 3: Zombie number six. I was thinking about Last of Us
35:58
Speaker 3: the New Star you know that show. So apparently apparently
36:03
Speaker 3: need some rescuing. Heard of that a pretty bad year.
36:06
Speaker 3: It's the last year, all right. So HBO is here
36:09
Speaker 3: the Hard Knocks. The first episode is gonna premiere on
36:12
Speaker 3: August fourth, and so I don't know why this connection
36:16
Speaker 3: is being made. It really doesn't make any sense to me.
36:19
Speaker 3: Someone might have to explain it to me. But in
36:22
Speaker 3: order to get that gig I won on HBO, I'm
36:24
Speaker 3: gonna tell you it's awesome, So good job. Yeah, they
36:28
Speaker 3: want us to give away a corn hole set to
36:31
Speaker 3: help promote the premiere. I mean, as corn hole somehow
36:35
Speaker 3: interwoven into the Seahawks camp that I'm not aware of.
36:38
Speaker 3: Are they plan? I mean that should be a story
36:40
Speaker 3: that I should have heard about by now. If like,
36:42
Speaker 3: there's a big corn hole tournament taking place inside the
36:46
Speaker 3: facility and and the HBO people can't get enough of it.
36:51
Speaker 3: But they have a corn hole set for us to
36:53
Speaker 3: give away, and you know, I just found out about
36:57
Speaker 3: it this morning. So I put the together a little
37:00
Speaker 3: bit of a trivia challenge that is corn hole relatable
37:05
Speaker 3: and it should be easy. I think we're going to
37:08
Speaker 3: get a lot of people on the tech sign at
37:11
Speaker 3: four nine four five one that are going to get
37:13
Speaker 3: all three answers on this question answered correctly. And yet
37:19
Speaker 3: once we do get all the correct answers, Travis is
37:22
Speaker 3: going to pick one at random to win the corn
37:25
Speaker 3: Hole set. So here we go. Here are your three questions.
37:30
Speaker 3: This is for Cornhole people. Corn Hole will be on
37:34
Speaker 3: the line. Three questions. Question number one, he needs TPE
37:40
Speaker 3: for his bunghole, Question number two he sang fantastic voyage
37:51
Speaker 3: and question number three. On September eleventh, twenty twenty three,
37:56
Speaker 3: he became the fastest Mariner to post to thirty thirty season.
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Speaker 3: All right, there you go. Those are your three questions.
38:05
Speaker 5: Those are some brain teasers right there.
38:07
Speaker 3: You like those?
38:07
Speaker 5: I love them.
38:08
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna recognize the theme if you've got
38:10
Speaker 3: all three of the answers correct. He needs TPE for
38:15
Speaker 3: his bunghole. Is question number one. He's saying, fantastic voyage
38:20
Speaker 3: is question number two, and then for answer number three,
38:24
Speaker 3: your question is. On September eleventh, twenty twenty three, he
38:27
Speaker 3: became the fastest Mariner to post a thirty thirty season.
38:31
Speaker 3: So need your three answers at four nine, four, five
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Speaker 3: to one. I suspect we're gonna get thousands of correct answers.
38:39
Speaker 3: So just because you get all three of them right
38:41
Speaker 3: doesn't mean you're gonna win some cornhole. So we'll take
38:45
Speaker 3: one at random winner from those who answer the three
38:49
Speaker 3: questions correctly. I will announce our winner a little bit
38:53
Speaker 3: later on in the show. One more hour to go
38:55
Speaker 3: on the program today, one more hour for the week.
38:58
Speaker 3: We do have abcs of the we're still going to
39:00
Speaker 3: get to. We've got one last thing we're gonna get to.
39:03
Speaker 3: But coming up next. If you didn't hear Mike McDonald
39:06
Speaker 3: was on with Ian and with Hugh Millin yesterday, really
39:09
Speaker 3: terrific interview. If you want to hear it all, you
39:11
Speaker 3: can go to our website and grab it. I'm going
39:14
Speaker 3: to replay just three different portions of it and react
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