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Chuck in the Morning 8-10 Hour 4: Playing the M's blame game, ABC's of the Mariners and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:12
  Speaker 1: I do really love Dick and Julia's relationship. It's really
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: come together, it's really blossom.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like they've gotten so close.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's such good friends. They got each other's backs.
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  Speaker 3: They do and at and T apparently has both of
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: theirs as well, which is nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, she has a great story to tell and
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Dick's just always been there.
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  Speaker 2: For Yes, it's the impression I get as well.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning to you, and happy Monday to you all. Yes,
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: coming off a terrific weekend, nice chilly morning, It's it's
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: like ideal conditions out here right now, as far as
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: I'm concerned. Of course, I am the founder and president
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: of Breeze Club, so I love a good breeze. I
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: like a good overcast morning. And so I'm sitting out
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  Speaker 1: here in my jacket and my cracking hat here at
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Seahawks training camp and just loving live right now, Ashley
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: really am.
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  Speaker 3: I am in the studio with my parka over my legs,
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  Speaker 3: and it's actually a little warm, which is unusual because
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: usually my fingers are like almost purple because it's so
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  Speaker 3: cold in here. So I almost kind of want to
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: turn the ac up so that I can feel what
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  Speaker 3: you're feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it feels like that'd be more magical.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but not everybody goes for a good, chill,
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: chilly morning with a breeze in the summer. Maybe you
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: wouldn't like it. I don't know. If you're already all
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: bundled up, maybe you wouldn't like it out here. I
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't like being hot all the time,
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  Speaker 3: so I really do embrace those mornings where I come
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  Speaker 3: outside and I'm like, oh, it's cool down.
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  Speaker 2: I hate when you come out in the morning and
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: it's still warm.
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  Speaker 1: Well, i'll be back in studio tomorrow, so it's a
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: bad time to make this suggestion, But do you everything it?
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  Speaker 1: Just like, you know, put my face like drawing it
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: on a volleyball, and have it in there in the
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: seat at the studio, so it kind of feels like
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: you're out here with me.
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  Speaker 3: I can say I have never thought of that, but
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: I would not be opposed to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, next year, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Something to look forward to, something to plan ahead for.
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  Speaker 1: Next year when we're completely blinded and caught off guard
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  Speaker 1: by training.
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  Speaker 2: Camp comes right exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you couldn't put that plan together, all right, abcs
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  Speaker 1: of the M's coming your way a little later on
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  Speaker 1: this hour. Of course, the Mariner's coming off a very
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  Speaker 1: interesting weekend, very nostalgic, very warm, you know, great history,
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  Speaker 1: great ceremonies, certainly, but we've already talked about that a
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: couple of times. Let's talk about the other side, the
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  Speaker 1: ugliness of how this team has played this season and
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: how they find themselves right now in a big battle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they don't have a hole that's too big
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  Speaker 1: to overcome. They can, they can overcome it, but they
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: also seem to be in this shallow hole holding a shovel.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: They are digging the hole deeper for themselves at a
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: time we were hoping they would have dug themselves out
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  Speaker 1: of this, and they're getting ready to go on the
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: road for what you might argue is the roughest road
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: trip they've had so far this season. At the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: at the Astros, at the Brewers over the course of
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: the next nine games, and they had been playing horrible
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: baseball on the road this year. It was at home
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  Speaker 1: where they found their sanctuary, and yet you played like
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  Speaker 1: garbage at home here as of late as well. So
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: it just hasn't turned around it just hasn't. We've isolated
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: certain moments in certain games that they pulled out and
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: we circled them and thought to ourselves, that's the turning point,
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: and it didn't end up being a turning point. They've
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: played well for two or three days at a time,
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  Speaker 1: but we have not seen them play well for a
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: week or more at a time this entire season. Everybody
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: in baseball does that at least once during the course
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  Speaker 1: of the year. The Colorado Rockies went on a two
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  Speaker 1: weeks tear not long ago, but this team just has
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: not found its groove this entire season. Even Stella got
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: her groove back.
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  Speaker 2: God, come on, guys.
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  Speaker 1: You would think that the Mariners could as well. It
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  Speaker 1: just hasn't happened. And we're running out of time, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: for that to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And on Friday, when we talked about it before
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  Speaker 3: going into a series where we were swept by the Rays,
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  Speaker 3: I even remember saying, I haven't given up on this
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  Speaker 3: team being able to do it, but I've given up
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  Speaker 3: on thinking these special moments are going to translate into
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  Speaker 3: something bigger. Yeah, Because I mean, we have no proof
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  Speaker 3: that they are able to turn that into anything, which
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  Speaker 3: is I think the most disappointing part for me, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I think it you know, the amount of times we've said,
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  Speaker 3: as you were pointing out earlier, the Dom home run,
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: the Cole Young home run, there was There's been three
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  Speaker 3: or four times in the last month and a half
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  Speaker 3: where we've been like, that's it, that was the moment,
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  Speaker 3: and nothing happens, and I just cannot figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: And I watch this team and I still keep turning
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  Speaker 3: on every game thinking to myself, Okay, well I know
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  Speaker 3: they can do it.
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  Speaker 2: Like I know they have the skill to be able
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  Speaker 2: to do this.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you're looking at their stats after the game
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  Speaker 3: and how many people were zero for four or oh
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  Speaker 3: for three, and you know, just disappointing that way. You're thinking,
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  Speaker 3: I know these guys could do it if they could
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  Speaker 3: put it together. But I just don't know that I
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  Speaker 3: have the faith that they can put it together because
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  Speaker 3: they're just not showing up day in and day out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the other side of that fence now as
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  Speaker 1: of this weekend, I'm on the side of the fence
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  Speaker 1: of I know you have time to come back from this,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you're capable of coming back from this.
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  Speaker 1: But I now am on the other side. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you're going to do it. And that's the first
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  Speaker 1: time I've been here all season one, and it's very frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: And I saw a very frustrated Jerry Depoto get interviewed
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  Speaker 1: Friday by MLB Network, and that was before three straight
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  Speaker 1: losses to the Tampa Bay Rays where you could not
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  Speaker 1: create any offense. And the Tampa bay Rays can pitch,
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  Speaker 1: there's no que les about it, but they're not. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't. You weren't going up against you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan, Michael, Mike Scott, you know, and Joe Sambido
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  Speaker 1: to pull out a name from the past. You weren't
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  Speaker 1: going up against one of the greatest rotations of all
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  Speaker 1: time this past weekend and you still could not summon
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  Speaker 1: any kind of offense whatsoever. So I am I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the side of thinking they're you know, they're probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to come back. They're probably not going to get
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  Speaker 1: this done this year. And frankly, they lead the league
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: in players sad faces lingering in the dugout long after
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: another disappointing loss. It was Brian Wu who the cameras
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  Speaker 1: captured on Sunday. We've seen it numerous times. I think
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: they're at a loss. I don't think they can figure
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: it out. I think I think that they are as
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  Speaker 1: mystified as I am as to why this team is
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: not in much better position than what they are right
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  Speaker 1: now and not getting better, actually getting worse. For them
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: to have performed this poorly offensively this year, I just
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: never saw it coming. I thought this was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a year where they were going to win the division
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  Speaker 1: quite easily and that we wouldn't have all of this consternation,
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  Speaker 1: hand ringing, wondering when they were going to break out.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think we were going to have that type
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  Speaker 1: of a year. I never said they were going to
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  Speaker 1: guarantee you win the World Series. I don't even think
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: I picked them to win the World Series. But I
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: did pick them to get to the World Series, that's
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  Speaker 1: for sure. But I did, and I was very firm
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  Speaker 1: on this. I did think that this was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a year where Mariner fans could have just enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: a year and not spend the entire season wondering when
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: they're going to snap out of some long funk. Well,
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: we're in a four and a half month funk, and
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  Speaker 1: a four and a half month funk probably means that
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  Speaker 1: is who you are, and that is grossly disappointing at
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: this stage.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you and Bucky have always said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's you're gonna win forty games, You're gonna lose forty games,
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  Speaker 3: and then the other ones are kind of showing you
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  Speaker 3: who you are. Right, There's gonna be some you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: win by luck, and some you're gonna win by bad luck,
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  Speaker 3: and then it's the others that you're gonna really get
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  Speaker 3: a sense of who this team is. And I have
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  Speaker 3: no sense of who this team is at all, not
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  Speaker 3: from the from the losses, none of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't not short sample size anymore. This is a
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  Speaker 1: large sample size of playing this way. Yeah, so the
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  Speaker 1: outliers have been the good moments, frankly, Yeah, and so well,
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  Speaker 1: so we start the blame game. I mean, I know
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  Speaker 1: that that's going on. It'll go into the offseason, and
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  Speaker 1: I know that a lot of people are gonna ask
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  Speaker 1: for heads and call for heads and firings. And I
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: have already stated that I would have fired Dan Wilson
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the All Star break, and I still
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: think I well I know I would do that today.
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  Speaker 1: I would do that today to try to create some
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  Speaker 1: sort of fire, some sort of inspiration. Logan Gilbert told
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  Speaker 1: you offty and faint. If somebody did that, I'd be
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: really angry. Well, good, get angry. Let's let's get some
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: people angry. Then let's shake things up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Hard to defend Kevin Sitzer, you know, yeah, I thought
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  Speaker 1: he did a terrific job a year ago. But it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to defend him right now when this offense has
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  Speaker 1: been bad for four and a half months. Even Edgar,
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  Speaker 1: even the great figure that Edgar is in this organization,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't the first time that they decided you're not
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  Speaker 1: the right guy for the job. So the I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's really no defense if you decided to overturn your
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: offensive game plan for the rest of the season to
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: try to create some sort of spark or fire. I
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: don't know if I would sit there and stroke Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Seitzer's hair and tell him they did you wrong, Like,
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  Speaker 1: You've had plenty of time to get this offense going
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  Speaker 1: this year and it just hasn't happened. And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think about that as people start doing the blame
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  Speaker 1: game and I said, I'm gonna be bullish about this,
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: and I will remain this way into the offseason. Look,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: I don't defend Jerry to Podo, as I've been accused
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: of because there's some sort of personal relationship between Jerry
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: and I. I just happened to think he's a really
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: good executive who's done some dumb things. But I think
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: this team should have won more than what it has
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: in the last five years. And I certainly think they
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: should have won more. I think that yeah, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't ace every test, but we should be in
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: a championship window. We should have been competing in a
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: championship this year. And I think he and Justin and
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: their ability to draft and developed and the farm system
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: that they've created once into the best farm system in
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  Speaker 1: the sport, and then again those guys are being used
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: now and now we've got him again. I think those
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: are the things that an executive does. Now. I came
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: down on hard on him. I think he's had some
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  Speaker 1: bad moments and press conferences that I've come down hard
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: on him. I came down hard on him for a
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: number of years for not making that move at the
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: trading deadline and protecting your prospects too much. You can't
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: fall in love with all of them. I don't know
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: how many times that I've told Ashley and Bucky that
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: you can't fall in love with all of your prospects
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: all the time. Well, they've loosened up on that a
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: little bit. They even traded for two rentals at the
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: end of last trading deadline and another one this year
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: in Taylor Ward, which is something they wouldn't do in
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: the past. So they loosened up on that. In the offseason,
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: they traded away two of their top what fifteen prospects
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: to get Brendan Donovan. So they have changed some of
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: the things that I hated about them and criticize harshly,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: oh by the way, over the course of the years.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: And then maybe the thing that I criticized the most,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: I wanted Jerry out of the offensive room. I didn't
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: want him to determine how this team should approach its offense.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: And I beat that drum for a number of years
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  Speaker 1: until the point where Jerry he absolutely took himself out
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: of that. You don't hire someone as accomplished as Kevin
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: Sitzer and then bring Edgar Martinez back out of retirement again,
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  Speaker 1: if you're gonna sit there and fiddle with everything that
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: they do and still try to be a big voice
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  Speaker 1: about how the offense is gonna operate in your organization.
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  Speaker 1: He handed that thing over to those two guys, absolutely
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: handed it over to them, and you're not getting the
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: results you got him last year, but you're not getting
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  Speaker 1: the results from that one year later. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna I mean, Jerry's got some blame in all of this,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna lay the blame at the feet
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  Speaker 1: of a guy that you know, cleared his hands of
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: the offense and handed it off to two accomplished offensive
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: minds and offensive coaches. I'm also not gonna blame Jerry
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: to Poto because Cal Rowley hit won sixty this year.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: That's the biggest factor as to why this team's seven
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: games under five hundred. We all col nobody more so
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: than this show in the entire town. And yet his
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: won sixty batting average and thirteen home runs and twenty
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: six runs scored. Do you realize how paltry a number
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: that is twenty six runs scored? A part time player
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  Speaker 1: scores twenty six runs in a season at this type
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  Speaker 1: of this and our aircraft carrier sixty Homer col No,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: face of the franchise, Superstar contract extension. That guy has
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: scored twenty six runs this year. That is impossible to believe.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna blame Jerry to predict.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: Impossible to predict. You're absolutely right, Ashley, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna blame Jerry for that. Should Jerry have traded cal
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Raley this offseason, could you imagine burn the city down
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: had cal Raley been traded. But he's supposed to foresee
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: that happening. Josh Naylor got extended. We all wanted Josh
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Naylor to be extended, right yep, Hey, the organizations. The
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: organization identified Luis Castillo, Julio Rodriguez, cal Raleigh, Josh Naylor
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  Speaker 1: and paid them, paid them market value for their services
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: to keep them as the nucleus of this team. And so,
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: of course the organization doesn't wildly spend and should spend more.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: We all want them to do that, But the guys
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: that they chose to spend money on are probably the
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: biggest problem right now with the team in twenty twenty six.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor was great the other night. He's the only
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: one that was great, but he was great the other night.
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  Speaker 1: But for the most part this season, he's been a
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: major disappointment. Col's been a colossal disappointment, and Luis Castillo
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  Speaker 1: had to spend most of the season trying to justify
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: his spot and the rotation. No, that's that's that's spending money,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: and yet those guys that you spent that money on,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: none of them stepped up. Julio has been better than
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: I hate to even lump Julio in with these other guys,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: he's been better than the other three and for most
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: of the season, but he's still not been the player
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: that we thought that he was going to be. And
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: so he's still not become the player that we all
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: think that he can become. Let's put it that way.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: So look, look, I don't know, I mean to me.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: The front office certainly take some blame in this, but
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: the players take the most blame. Where did you go?
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Why did you play this way? And then who do
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: you blame? Or I'm not firing Cal Raley, I'm not
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: firing Josh Naylor. I'm not firing Julio Rodriguez. That be insanity.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not you know, I may have fired Luis Castillo,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: meaning I would have traded him, which I tried to
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: do the last couple of off seasons in my Crystal
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Ball fore casts. But I'm I'm certainly not going to
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: blame Jerry Depoto and Justin Hollander because Cal Rawley, Josh Naylor,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: and Julio Rodriguez weren't the players that they should have
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: been this year. Those should have been three things that
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: you could have counted on this entire season. So if
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I want to shake things up without disrupting all the
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: good slash great that this organization has going for it
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: right now, to me, that needle landed on Dan Wilson
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: because his job, Jerry and Justin's job is to give
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: us a roster that can win a World Series. That's
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: their job. And by all accounts, and I mean almost
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: all accounts, not all, almost all accounts national pundits, Las
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Vegas me it looked like it looked like we had
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the roster to contend for a World Series this year. Yes,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Jerry and Justin take on some blame for that. The
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: most blame goes to the players, not Dan Wilson, but
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the middle ground and all of that is I'm gonna
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: blame the coaches and the manager. If I personally believe
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: that the roster should have gotten the job done this
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: year and it fell this far short, I'm not gonna
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: blame the front office. I'm gonna blame the coaches because
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: their job is to get the most out of the
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: talent that was provided. And my goodness, when you have
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: this many guys. We even had a Dom can Zone
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: breakout and a Cole Young breakout and an Emerson Hancock
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: breakout this year, and still because of the offensive woes
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: this year, because most of the guys you were counting
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: on were either unhealthy and unavailable or just bad this season. Man,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I'm blaming the players, but I'm gonna blame the coaches
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: more than I'm gonna blame the roster construction because I
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: believed in the roster construction at the time, and I
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: believe that the goal between in between who we got
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and can we get the most out of them? That
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: rests more on the coaching staff than it does on
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the front office. That's just where I sit, That's the
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: way I believe about it. And so no, I'm not
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: gonna call for Jerry's head this offseason or Justin's had
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: this offseason. But I have already gone on record as
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to calling for Dan's job on this show, and I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: would add if Kevin Seitzer doesn't make the flight to
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: New York, I understand why Ashley, because his job is
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: to get this team to hit. He's got proven, veteran
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: players that can hit, and none of them have hit right.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: And that's the thing is, there's so many people that
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: are mad at Jerry Well. He put this roster together.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: He did put this roster together, and this roster should
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: be performing better than they're performing. So if you're not
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: gonna get rid of all the players, which you're not
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: gonna do, and the only other option is to get it,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: is to get rid of the people who are in
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: everyday contact trying to help this team perform. And if
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: his team is underperforming, then you have to look at
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: the people responsible for trying to get them to perform,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: and that would be Dan and that would be his
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: coaching staff. And I don't like to say that anyone
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: should lose their job, but I'm still in the same
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: position of saying, I just don't know how you defend
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: him keeping it. I understand the you know what Logan said,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: the players love him. I think that's great.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I love him.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I grew up as a Mariners fan. The last thing
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I would I want Dan to be a rousing success.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: But it's hard to look at this and think that
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: that's anything close to it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, even ownership, which we all know, they've got a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: history of being cheap, we all know that. But even
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: what they did spend on, those guys are not coming through,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: you know. I actually read an email or a tweet
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: going after Ryan Divish about how we should have never
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: got rid of Hora Polonko Horiy Plonko's in one forty
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: this year and being paid twenty five million dollars a year.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you couldn't have had that on your payroll.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: That's worse than ref Schneyder So money spending money. Jobs
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: of money might make you feel better, but it doesn't
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: solve anything. Juan Soto is making seventy million dollars a
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: year to play on the worst team in the National League. Yeah,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: he made a huge difference, didn't he. I mean, I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: want them to spend more, but I also don't think
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: this comes down on ownership, because the guys that they
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: did spend on have been our most disappointing players this season.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So to me, if we're going to play some blame game,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: you know where mine goes, it would be the players first.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: But then the coaches have the responsibility to take the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: players that they're given and make them better. Can anyone
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: argue that the guys we had on this roster were
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: made made better by their experience here as a collective?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Some of them. Nope, Cole Young got better, dom Canzone
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: got better. But I don't think anybody can argue that
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: col that our our players were better than they should
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: have been. You know, yeah, And I don't think anybody
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: can argue that those players that we kept were bad players.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: If you want to argue for res Nighter, fine, even
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: though his history suggests otherwise. But cal Raley, Josh Naylor,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you all wanted them back. There would have been anarchy
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: if we got rid of cal Rawley, because Jerry should
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: have seen that coming. In total anarchy. So that's where
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I'm at, and I'm gonna be bullish about it for
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season and end of the offseason
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: as well. Just to warn you, ABC's coming your way next.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three k RFM. That's our
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: daily segment obviously we're not going to blow it off,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: not with all this stuff to talk about. Yeah, we
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: left off of the letter p PUS for Panela. What
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: was your reaction when you saw Sweet Lou come out
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: onto the field?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, I just loved it. I love him
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: so much.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I wanted him to kick some dirt or run over
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: and grab a base and throw it.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: But I just loved seeing him. It was great.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And it's so great, like like Junior even wanted to
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: get over there and like hug him like that. I mean,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: he was a task master. He was, you know, he
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: was terrifying for goodness sake, And those hardest teachers that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: you had are always your favorites when you grow up.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And maybe you didn't want, you know, mister Baker in
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the sixth grade, but he ended up he looked back
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: on it like he was the best for me. You know.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: That's kind of the way it works. And Sweet Lou
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: was an interesting nickname for a guy that could be
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: terrifying at times. But there's no denying how much all
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: those players loved him, including Dan. I mean, it's it's
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: very obvious. It's as obvious as the nose on your face.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just great.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Man. Q is for quality. You know, if I will
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: come down since you want me to, Jerry Depoto and
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Justin Hollander, Man, am I tired of waiting around for
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the three run homer Like this time has no ability
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to create offense in any other way than to hit
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: home runs, and Aaron brings it up every single game.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And maybe you're right, maybe you're right to bring it
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: up during the course of the broadcast. But I'll tell
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: you what. We've misfaced the team that hit more home
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: runs than us this weekend, and that's not even part
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: of their game plan. You know. They struck out nineteen
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: times to our twenty six. They had fourteen hits yesterday
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: without a single home run to our four yesterday. They
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: put the ball in play, they put pressure on the defense.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that you have to build your
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: team that way. I think you should try to build
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: it around power if you can. I realize the shortcut,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the cheat code that a power hitting team has in
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: this sport, and it probably does win in the playoffs.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: But I want to get to the playoffs, and this
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: team without the home run doesn't seem to have an answer.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson doesn't seem to have another plan at all
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: for scoring runs. And is it due to roster construction
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: or is it due to you just only know how
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: to wait around for the three run homer and hope
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the pitching holds the team to two runs or more
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: that particular day. But the Milwaukee Brewers have been winning
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of baseball games lately, and they do it
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: in old school ways. They put the ball in play,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: they run the bass hard, and that results in more
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: offense than what we the waiting around for the three
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: run homer team can create, and not just on not
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: just for the aggregate of the entire season either. I'm
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: just talking from a day to day basis. I just
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: think it gives you a better chance to be able
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to have more than one way to score runs. Does
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: that not seem like it would behoove the organization to
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: either stack a few more players like that or do
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: a little more coaching that lends itself to that sort
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: of manufacture of runs. Because that's what the Rays did
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: to us this weekend. That's what the Brewers do for
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two games every year. And the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Brewers seem to get into the playoffs without any difficulty
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: every single year. Now, once they get to the playoffs,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: they're vulnerable because they can't hit the home run and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: they usually get knocked out in one round. But man,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: get into the playoffs every damn year, and then we'll
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: take our chances with whether or not or pitching in
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: our small ball on occasion, I'm not talking about that's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: all I want to be as a small ball team,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: but on occasion we might be able to scratch out
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a playoff win with small ball. That just all that
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: says to me is at least we're trying to scratch
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: out a playoff win.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I would love that.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't. We have one way of winning. We
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: have one way of scoring runs on this team and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: a manager that doesn't even try to do it any
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: other way. I mean, we had a situation, what was
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a Friday night cold Emerson. We had two guys on
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and you could have bunted, and Emerson's shown that he
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: can bunt and he's hitting under two hundred, but nope,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: let's swing away.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I mean same yesterday with Taylor Ward on the last
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: at bat. I mean we had two on and he's
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: you know, gets out of the warning track I I
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: and it's I do think that I'm probably partly not
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: me personally, but fans and people like me who are
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: watching till the end, just like, well, all we need
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: is a three run home run here and we can win.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, because that's what happens in so many games.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: And I still continue to think that they can do it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: And I don't know why.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's one thing if you're the Cleveland Indians,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the Albert Bell Cleveland Indians, and you you've got all
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: stars up and down your lineup, that one picks up
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: another guy on a nightly basis. That's not what this
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: team has been this season. And yet there's no adjustment
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: made and there never is. We just strike out a lot,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: hope to get a walk in a single and then
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: if a guy hits a three run omer, we got
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: a chance to win, and if he doesn't, then we
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: don't win. I mean, I'd like to see them become
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: a little more versatile in the offseason. Maybe bring in
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: just a couple of scrappers that just put the ball
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: in play. That's what I want over waiting for our
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: nine guys in our lineup to maybe come through in
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: that one moment that you got two guys on base,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: we had a three run om earon the seventh, or
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: we don't score runs tonight. That's kind of the way
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: it feels. Finally, R is for Rucker. I brought it
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: up over the weekend, so I'm bringing it up now.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I just I think the most astonishing thing that I've
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: watched this entire baseball season is Dan Wilson's faith in
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Michael Rucker. Just astonishing.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I put him in in a one run game the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: other day. Yeah, and somebody threw some stats. I guess
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: he's had you know, I mean, I guess. I know
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: he's had better stats than what fer Air and Bizardo
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: have had. Place right, but go one layer deeper, please,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: on all of these sports topics, go back and look
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: at it. Trust me, go back and look at it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Look at what his era is in games where you're
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: blowing people out, which is what he should be is
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a mop up guy. And then games where he's brought
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: into the game when it's close. The era is about
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: seven in close games, and then it's about perfect in
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: mop up games. You know, he should not be pitching
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: in high leverage situations. You know, he's not. He doesn't
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: have the stuff, he's not accustomed to it. And obviously
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: when the when the pressure gets ramped up, he doesn't
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: perform as well.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Sure doesn't seem like it.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: And I even was it yesterday when you went and
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I go, oh good, it's Recker time.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he you know, he gave up two unearned runs.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I get that. I get that. Had Brendan Donovan made
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the play, then maybe he breezes through the inning. But
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: he also gave up three hits in the inning.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: It just it's just mind mind boggling to me that
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: he continues to be used. And and that's not a
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: fifth inning or sixth inning is not yet a high
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: leverage situation technically, But for a team struggling to score runs, man,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you need a zero posted at that point. And maybe
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Farrer and Bizardo can't get it done, but they at
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: least have a more of a track record of being
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: able to get it done than what he does. Yeah,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: and you ended up not even using Farrer in the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: course of that day. And I would also point out,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: let's go put it in here, s is for spire,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Do we really feel good about that? Now that he decided,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I mean we could have used him this weekend. Do
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: we all agree with that? Yeah? Yeah, And we decided
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: that now we had to exact revenge they and it
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: cost the cost our second best relief pitcher of the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: weekend series, Time and Place. Time and Place fellas. The
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: thing important right now is to get this team on
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the right track, not to try to have teammates back
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: in a bean ball war. It's just not. It wasn't
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the appropriate time for it, and it did not unlock
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: some sort of special chemistry either. We haven't won since
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: it happened.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: No, I was hopeful, but it sure did not.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we love the game.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: It wasn't that moment. It was the whole game. I
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: thought was gonna mean more and it didn't.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Right right, right right? Yeah, but that I mean we
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: won that game. Well, we have not won since.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Because they cannot continue anything over.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, one last thing to close us out
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. All right,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: final segment here on this Monday morning. It's Chuck Powell,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan with you, and we do have one last
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: thing to close this out here from a nice, chilly,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: lovely morning here in the Pacific northwest of the Virginia
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Mason Athletics Center. Ashley, what do you got?
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I do think you would have been pretty proud of
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: our breeze club we had going on last night. We
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: were all watching TV after dinner on the couches with blankets,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: the breeze just blowing. We watched it all the way
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: till it got dark, and that's usually we'll go in
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: and then finish watching TV on the couch before we
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: go to bed. Nope, we stayed out there in the
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: dark watching the TV with the blankets on.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: It was just a.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Little bit of perfect I had a heat heat lamp
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: kind of behind me just to give me a little
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: bit of warmth as well.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they if you got the nut right breeze,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: you can also counter it with like a fire or
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: you know, even like a heater or even a heated
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: blanket or something like that. It's the combination that makes that.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: And then if you have a nice beverage, whether I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: would imagine you went wine, which you know you could go,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: you could go tea or coffee or something like that,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: but wine does the trick too because of that alcohol
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: stuff in there.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, warms here, warms up the cockles of your heart.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Sure does, sure does.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: And also, yeah, you were right to have the instincts.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: But I would be proud of you because I've never
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: been more problem Oh.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Gosh, mission accomplished that. Warm hearts the entire family too, excellent.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell everyone when I get home. Chuck's proud
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: of us.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Let's do it again.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Let's do it again. It's our new nightly ritual and
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: my other short little thing. Happy birthday to Softy.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Oh that's right, it's Offti's birthday today.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna wish them no, you should. We gave
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: time on our airwaves. That's all he needs.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I hope it's just an average, maybe even mundane birthday.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: It's not a bad birthday, just average. I mean, I
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: like the guy, but yeah, everybody's gonna wish him a
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: happy birthday. Yeah, average birthday, buddy, love you.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, have an average birthday, Have a not terrible birthday.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I hope your birthday doesn't suck.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Right, All right, I'm gonna close with our Boeing Classic Information.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: We're gonna grab those five names for you. We're not
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: gonna announce them on the air. But you got that
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: covered right back there. Oh yeaheah, you're doing. Thanks also
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: to the Boeing Classic for of course sponsoring our training
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: camp coverage. Uh. And we do want to let you
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: know Boeing Classic is this weekend at the club at
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: snow Qualmie Ridge. You're gonna have all sorts of legends
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: coming out there for a big payday, so bring old family.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Make sure to check out the Seahawks Village packed with
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: fun for all ages. It says here tickets start at
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: twenty dollars. Kids get in free. We gave away five
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: pair of tickets, so hopefully you're one of the individuals
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: that expressed interest and grab those tickets for yourself. Visit
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Boeingclassic dot com to get yours today. Boeing Classic. You
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: know I went there, I think the first time, the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: first year that I moved here, I went to the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Boeing Classic, But I haven't been back at about a decade. Ashley,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: probably need to get back out there and let ps
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: show me around the town.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's glorious out there. Check it out, and I
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: think we'll have a not too hot weekend.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Why not, you know, he never invites us, you know, I'm.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Pretty sure he hates us.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Any of us. Like you think, maybe he doesn't want
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: us to see like his luxury life that he has
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: going on up there.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I think he doesn't want us to see a lot
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: of things.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: I don't remember back the day though, him and Heather
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: had a party at their house and we all need
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: to go one time I've seen this house and then
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: probably a.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Major upgrade though now yeah, then probably why we haven't
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: been out invited.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I think he basically just doubled the size on the
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: same plottle in and was like, yeah, you know what,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm better now.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: He doesn't want to see that. You know that happened
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to me one time, like I, I once upon a
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: time made money in this business. M h uh. And
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  Speaker 1: I bought my dream home and I was really proud
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  Speaker 1: of it. And you know, you want to have parties
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  Speaker 1: and you want people to come up and see your
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  Speaker 1: cool house and everything else. It wasn't entirely self serving.
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  Speaker 1: I threw cool parties even when I wasn't in my
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  Speaker 1: dream house. Uh. But you know, I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: throw my first like cool party and my cool new pad,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: my dream home. And I invited of course, coworkers, and
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: as soon as they came in, I saw the looks
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  Speaker 1: on their faces understanding the discrepancy and maybe salaries that
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: we had at that point, and I realized that that moment,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: maybe the wasn't a great idea.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe you should have been like, psych, this isn't mine.
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  Speaker 2: I have a rich uncle.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. They took it well, but there certainly was this
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  Speaker 1: moment of oh, I didn't know you were making this
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  Speaker 1: kind of salary.
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  Speaker 2: Oh this is how you roll right.
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  Speaker 1: So, yes, maybe that's what happened here. Maybe that's why
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  Speaker 1: we haven't been invited up. Maybe he lives in a mansion.
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  Speaker 1: I think he does, on a mountain.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, at the very tippy top.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, because he's got a very nice family and
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  Speaker 1: we'd like to spend time with him. Yeah. All right,
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  Speaker 1: that'll do it for us. Thanks for joining us. Greg
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