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- 0:08Speaker 1: Julio swing it away and it's underneath Triolo's glove with
- 0:12Speaker 1: Dad Crawford, who waltzes down the line, has scores three
- 0:16Speaker 1: batters into the ball game, three base hits, and the
- 0:19Speaker 1: Mariners lead instantly.
- 0:20Speaker 2: One did not think, Harrygyo Smith on the call last
- 0:31Speaker 2: night Mariners.
- 0:32Speaker 3: Television, as the Mariners did get off to a good
- 0:34Speaker 3: start last night, but I didn't tell the story. That
- 0:37Speaker 3: little highlight didn't tell the story.
- 0:39Speaker 4: Now, that's when the world was full of promise.
- 0:42Speaker 3: When we all thought that the end of the night,
- 0:44Speaker 3: everybody got ice cream or yeah, everybody got free T
- 0:51Speaker 3: shirts shot to them by a mascot in an air gun.
- 0:56Speaker 4: Careful those things come out quick.
- 0:57Speaker 3: Ah in the eye. Just ask my friend one Epete.
- 1:02Speaker 4: Ah, poor Pete.
- 1:03Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning to you. It is the seven o'clock
- 1:06Speaker 3: hour here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Ashley
- 1:08Speaker 3: Ryan is here. My name is Chuck Powell. We got
- 1:10Speaker 3: abcs of the m's coming up a little bit later
- 1:12Speaker 3: on in the radio program, plus another round of OPQ
- 1:16Speaker 3: coming your way at seven forty five. Oh, I know you,
- 1:19Speaker 3: you love you down? Yeah, Oh you're down. You're down.
- 1:24Speaker 3: Stop acting like you're not down. But we'll start our
- 1:27Speaker 3: seven o'clock hour with headlines. They are brought to you
- 1:29Speaker 3: by Frost Brewed Corps like choose Chill whenever you get
- 1:33Speaker 3: the opportunity. The Mariners do fall to the Pittsburgh Pirates
- 1:36Speaker 3: last night eleven to one. Brian Wu once again falls
- 1:40Speaker 3: apart in an inning which says one inning it was
- 1:44Speaker 3: cruising along, hadn't allowed to hit through three. Then in
- 1:47Speaker 3: the fourth inning he gives up his first hit and
- 1:51Speaker 3: then the roof caves in on him once again. Before
- 1:54Speaker 3: the end of the inning, he was already up to
- 1:56Speaker 3: eighty six pitches. I mean, how many of you throwing
- 1:58Speaker 3: that inning fifty and was trailing five to one. And
- 2:03Speaker 3: that was the last we saw Brian Wu last night.
- 2:06Speaker 3: The bullpen didn't do any favors. Eleven to one was
- 2:09Speaker 3: your final score. So the Ms now forty one and
- 2:11Speaker 3: forty still in first place, but they can't create separation
- 2:16Speaker 3: from that five hundred mark. They'll be at Pittsburgh again
- 2:21Speaker 3: today nine thirty five. First pitch. Rice Miller is not
- 2:24Speaker 3: going to piggyback today, yay, And he'll go up against
- 2:28Speaker 3: Bubba Chandler, the very very talented young right hand They
- 2:31Speaker 3: have a lot of very very talented young right handers
- 2:34Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Pirates. So we're going to see the youngest
- 2:38Speaker 3: one I believe he's the youngest one today in Bubba Chandler.
- 2:42Speaker 3: Let's see what else we got. World Cup US back
- 2:45Speaker 3: on the pitch tonight against Turkey A. They will have
- 2:50Speaker 3: Christian Polisic. It sounds like, I don't know, we're going
- 2:53Speaker 3: to get into that discussion here in a moment. Brad
- 2:55Speaker 3: Evans is going to join us today at eight o'clock.
- 2:58Speaker 3: US is expected to face Osnia next. And that's kind
- 3:01Speaker 3: of the weird thing that you wait four years for
- 3:04Speaker 3: a World Cup experience, and yet there's a match going
- 3:07Speaker 3: to be played today that really has no meaning. The
- 3:10Speaker 3: US can't improve their standing and Turkey has no chance
- 3:14Speaker 3: of getting in or getting past the group stage, and
- 3:17Speaker 3: so we have kind of a meaningless match tonight. So
- 3:21Speaker 3: we're already some of us looking ahead of the next
- 3:24Speaker 3: meaningful match, and it looks like it's going to be
- 3:27Speaker 3: against Bosnia, who just won on Seattle soil yesterday at
- 3:31Speaker 3: noon in their game against Katar So that's not in stone,
- 3:38Speaker 3: but it kind of looks like that's going to be
- 3:40Speaker 3: the next matchup. Yeah, that will be July first, next Wednesday,
- 3:44Speaker 3: and they already know that. Yeah.
- 3:46Speaker 5: It's interesting though, because I feel like you went through
- 3:48Speaker 5: all the hype of having the US game here and
- 3:51Speaker 5: then I'm sure that it was really fun and exciting
- 3:53Speaker 5: down there yesterday, but without us, like it just wasn't.
- 3:56Speaker 5: It didn't feel the same. And then now going in today,
- 3:58Speaker 5: so we're my US stuff. I'm gonna put it on,
- 4:01Speaker 5: but I'm not like watching We're I'm not going to
- 4:03Speaker 5: a watch party like I did last week.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Well, it's a must win, boy, you really do the
- 4:08Speaker 3: you're all in? Yeah. The flag that you wear on
- 4:10Speaker 3: your hat, it just means more.
- 4:12Speaker 4: It does today, it just means like, well, it's a
- 4:14Speaker 4: cute hat.
- 4:16Speaker 3: The NHL Draft will be tomorrow. That's right. The draft
- 4:19Speaker 3: athlon continues. The NBA Draft concluded the last night, round
- 4:23Speaker 3: number two. The NHL Draft will start tomorrow at four o'clock.
- 4:27Speaker 3: The Crack and have the seventh overall pick in the draft,
- 4:29Speaker 3: the number one pick, the Toronto Maple Leafs. They've been
- 4:32Speaker 3: on the clock for quite some time and then that
- 4:35Speaker 3: draft will conclude Saturday at eight a m. We're gonna
- 4:38Speaker 3: see if the Crack and make a significant trade. Jason
- 4:42Speaker 3: Botrel just told us on this very show earlier this week,
- 4:44Speaker 3: general manager of the Crack and that yes, the seventh
- 4:47Speaker 3: overall pick is in play. We will move it for
- 4:50Speaker 3: the right trade as the team does, try to get
- 4:55Speaker 3: out of their current state of affairs and move this
- 4:58Speaker 3: operation forward and dramatically. The NBA Draft, I said concluded
- 5:03Speaker 3: last night. But we're gonna see a lot of trades.
- 5:06Speaker 3: We got free agency starting on July sixth, and teams
- 5:09Speaker 3: are going to put themselves in a position the best
- 5:11Speaker 3: position possible for free agency or tap themselves out by
- 5:16Speaker 3: making trades and filling up their cap. But we got
- 5:20Speaker 3: a lot of big names on the block right now,
- 5:23Speaker 3: and we've had a big trade today. LaMelo Ball is
- 5:25Speaker 3: now a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves, traded this morning
- 5:28Speaker 3: for nas Reed and a bunch of draft picks in
- 5:31Speaker 3: the future, so he's leaving Charlotte. Shan Sharanya also reported
- 5:36Speaker 3: this morning that Jalen Brown is still going to be traded.
- 5:39Speaker 3: And Brad Stevens was lying Tuesday night when he said
- 5:42Speaker 3: he's a big part of our future plans, Well, that
- 5:44Speaker 3: must have meant because we're going to trade him for something,
- 5:48Speaker 3: because they're still trading him. They have NonStop tried to
- 5:51Speaker 3: trade Jalen Brown since the Yannis attempt fell through. So
- 5:55Speaker 3: that's going on. The National Basketball Association WNBA, Liberty and
- 5:59Speaker 3: the store tonight in Seattle at seven o'clock is the
- 6:03Speaker 3: Storm looked to snap an eleven game losing skid. All right,
- 6:07Speaker 3: so there are your headlines, brought to you by Frost
- 6:10Speaker 3: Brewed Corse Light. All right, well, let's let's attempt this.
- 6:14Speaker 3: Let's at least discuss this. And I'm going to again
- 6:17Speaker 3: remind everyone I don't really like soccer, and I don't
- 6:22Speaker 3: really follow soccer. I don't I don't follow soccer. So
- 6:26Speaker 3: from my perspective, I'm gonna warn you at advance if
- 6:30Speaker 3: you are tuning in for cutting edge soccer analysis, I
- 6:34Speaker 3: ain't your guy.
- 6:36Speaker 4: All right, ain't your gal?
- 6:37Speaker 3: Yeah, but bot, I hope you can at least appreciate
- 6:42Speaker 3: that we are embracing this World Cup. I mean, we
- 6:45Speaker 3: are in charge of World Cup coverage here at Kjrior locally,
- 6:49Speaker 3: we are embracing it. We're obviously excited about the US
- 6:52Speaker 3: and how well they've started, and I certainly experienced last
- 6:56Speaker 3: Friday and what an incredible experience. It was, and I
- 6:59Speaker 3: am thoroughly happy that soccer fans are having such a
- 7:02Speaker 3: great time with this, because you are seemingly having an
- 7:06Speaker 3: awesome time everybody globally. It's been a really uniting experience
- 7:11Speaker 3: and that's kind of touched me. Believe it or not,
- 7:14Speaker 3: I'm kind of touched by that. And so it's been great,
- 7:17Speaker 3: it really has been. And yet, if I'm going to
- 7:21Speaker 3: now analyze this, or attempt to analyze this, it's going
- 7:25Speaker 3: to be from the perspective of how I've followed other
- 7:27Speaker 3: sports and trying to figure out what the US should
- 7:30Speaker 3: do tonight as they get ready to face Turkey A.
- 7:33Speaker 3: Because as I mentioned, this match really doesn't mean anything.
- 7:36Speaker 3: It's very strange that you could wait four years for
- 7:39Speaker 3: a World Cup and have one match not mean anything.
- 7:42Speaker 3: This one doesn't mean anything.
- 7:43Speaker 4: Right because US has already clinched to their group.
- 7:46Speaker 3: Yeah, they can't improve their group's status, and Turkey A
- 7:52Speaker 3: cannot get in to the next round. So this thing
- 7:57Speaker 3: is just sort of kind of an exhibition, but on
- 8:00Speaker 3: a World Cup scale. And yet anders Hurst said something
- 8:05Speaker 3: rather interesting because my thought would be, well, there's no
- 8:08Speaker 3: way Polisic's gonna play, right, And there's no way you're
- 8:11Speaker 3: going to play any of those guys with those yellow cards, right,
- 8:14Speaker 3: you know, because they get another one then it affects
- 8:17Speaker 3: their eligibility for later on in the tournament. So you're
- 8:19Speaker 3: not gonna risk that. So who is going to play tonight? Well,
- 8:24Speaker 3: the US coach has come out and said we will
- 8:26Speaker 3: not risk the yellow card guys. They won't be playing.
- 8:31Speaker 3: I think they're like five of them. So how deep
- 8:33Speaker 3: are you put a pin in that? And then it's
- 8:39Speaker 3: sounding like Polisic's going to play now to me, that
- 8:43Speaker 3: flies in the face of common sense. Do you have
- 8:47Speaker 3: your best player coming off injury and he did not
- 8:51Speaker 3: play against Australia and you won two to nothing, why
- 8:54Speaker 3: would you then risk him in a match that really
- 8:58Speaker 3: has no meaning, especially when you're going to play again
- 9:00Speaker 3: next Wednesday, right, I mean, it makes a whole lot
- 9:03Speaker 3: of sense to me that Polisic is held out of
- 9:06Speaker 3: this and is that much healthier when next Wednesday rolls
- 9:10Speaker 3: around and when not only does meaning come back into
- 9:14Speaker 3: a US match, but even more meaning than what we've
- 9:18Speaker 3: added to this stage in the tournament. So that's what
- 9:21Speaker 3: makes common sense to me. But I will give Andrews
- 9:24Speaker 3: Hurst that when he described yesterday why Polisic should play,
- 9:29Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, I get that, And his reasonings were
- 9:33Speaker 3: pretty much this, they don't play a lot together this
- 9:38Speaker 3: team USA, and momentum does really matter in a tournament,
- 9:44Speaker 3: and so he believes that he doesn't want them to
- 9:48Speaker 3: go two full matches without Polisic because him being involved
- 9:53Speaker 3: in tonight's match gets them back into the rhythm with
- 9:57Speaker 3: him on the pitch, and that will bode well for
- 10:01Speaker 3: them when they go take the pitch again next Wednesday. Yeah,
- 10:05Speaker 3: so I suppose that makes sense. Now in football, there's
- 10:09Speaker 3: no way you would do that. In American football, you
- 10:11Speaker 3: still like, there's no way my best, my quarterback, he's
- 10:16Speaker 3: got a hamstring and we're playing Week eighteen and it
- 10:20Speaker 3: doesn't matter that team. That team's just playing out the
- 10:24Speaker 3: string and we're just waiting for our next round matchup.
- 10:27Speaker 3: We can't change our status whatsoever. There's no way Sam
- 10:30Speaker 3: Darnold's playing in week eighteen in that situation.
- 10:32Speaker 4: And I'd be pissed if he was.
- 10:34Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, no chance that you're going to expose
- 10:37Speaker 3: him if he's coming off an injury like that one
- 10:40Speaker 3: where he just missed the last game with an injury,
- 10:44Speaker 3: and yet the feeling is that he's going to play
- 10:47Speaker 3: in this game. And I suppose that the logic makes sense.
- 10:51Speaker 3: I mean, it is an all star team. It's not
- 10:53Speaker 3: like Team USA plays all season long, so it is
- 10:55Speaker 3: an all star team, and there still still are kind
- 10:58Speaker 3: of adjusting to playing one and another. And I guess
- 11:01Speaker 3: because a star player on a soccer team, which I'm
- 11:05Speaker 3: learning more and more about, is the Sun and all
- 11:07Speaker 3: the planets revolve around the Sun, that getting the Sun
- 11:12Speaker 3: backed out there on the pitch is going to help
- 11:15Speaker 3: the planets understand how the universe works going forward. So
- 11:20Speaker 3: I suppose it makes sense, but it does kind of
- 11:22Speaker 3: fly in the face of the logic that we who
- 11:25Speaker 3: do follow other sports religiously have applied to situations like
- 11:30Speaker 3: this in the past. Yeah.
- 11:31Speaker 5: That was the shocking thing is when they were like, oh, yeah,
- 11:34Speaker 5: he's I saw yesterday when they said he was going
- 11:36Speaker 5: to play, I thought, well, that's dumb.
- 11:38Speaker 4: Why why would you play somebody who's just what if he.
- 11:41Speaker 5: Gets injured again and then you don't have him for
- 11:42Speaker 5: the next game that matters. But I suppose they're not
- 11:45Speaker 5: going to worry that what if when they need to
- 11:48Speaker 5: have that chemistry that soup.
- 11:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
- 11:53Speaker 5: Yeah, I as you said, though, it does fly in
- 11:56Speaker 5: the face of everything that we would normally do, because yeah,
- 11:58Speaker 5: you would rest your best player for the game that matters, right,
- 12:03Speaker 5: especially coming off injury.
- 12:05Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't know. I don't think that they've
- 12:07Speaker 3: one hundred percent committed to him being on the field tonight,
- 12:11Speaker 3: But it sounds like he's going to go. And I
- 12:14Speaker 3: suppose that. I get that, I get the logic behind it.
- 12:17Speaker 3: Brad Evans is going to join us today at eight o'clock,
- 12:21Speaker 3: so we'll get him to kind of further expand on
- 12:24Speaker 3: what Anders was suggesting yesterday. And so US versus TURKEYA,
- 12:31Speaker 3: and I heard this conversation this morning on the drive
- 12:35Speaker 3: in about the disrespect of the Turkey A. I suppose
- 12:41Speaker 3: that having a little bit of fun with the name
- 12:44Speaker 3: change could be seen as a little bit disrespectful. But
- 12:51Speaker 3: they did just change it on us.
- 12:53Speaker 4: Well, I did look this up.
- 12:55Speaker 5: I did look this up because I thought that's so
- 12:57Speaker 5: strange that all of a sudden they just made this
- 12:59Speaker 5: big change. So that is since they were formed in
- 13:02Speaker 5: nineteen twenty three, that is how all the locals say it. Okay,
- 13:07Speaker 5: that's how it's spelled there, but it got anglicized when
- 13:11Speaker 5: maps were made and things like that, and it turned
- 13:15Speaker 5: into turkey, right, And so they have asked. They wouldn't
- 13:20Speaker 5: ask the United Nations, can you please have people pronounce
- 13:23Speaker 5: it like we pronounce it.
- 13:25Speaker 4: Because we don't want it. They did say, we don't want.
- 13:28Speaker 5: It to be associated with the bird, right, yeah, which
- 13:30Speaker 5: that's so that part is comical. But I understand why
- 13:35Speaker 5: they would want people to pronounce it like they pronounce it.
- 13:37Speaker 3: I do too, But I think I would have understood
- 13:39Speaker 3: it a lot more if they would have gotten on
- 13:40Speaker 3: this in nineteen twenty three.
- 13:42Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean they put up with it for
- 13:44Speaker 4: a long time, that's for sure.
- 13:46Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean one hundred years of you know, in
- 13:48Speaker 3: textbooks everywhere that it was turkey, and now all of
- 13:52Speaker 3: a sudden it changes, you know, in recent times. So
- 13:58Speaker 3: to me, that's kind of funny. Yeah. That what I
- 14:03Speaker 3: think we should do is now change our textbooks and
- 14:07Speaker 3: all of our dictionaries to now pronounce the American bird turkey. A.
- 14:12Speaker 3: I mean, that would be hilarious. It would can't wait
- 14:14Speaker 3: to see them.
- 14:15Speaker 4: It would be pretty funny on their faces.
- 14:20Speaker 3: I can't wait to see the looks on their faces.
- 14:22Speaker 3: Wait a minute, what did you do? Yeah, we went
- 14:24Speaker 3: to the United Nations and we got something changed. We
- 14:27Speaker 3: now want to call our birds turkey as. Wait a minute,
- 14:36Speaker 3: wait a minute, bub we just went we just finished
- 14:40Speaker 3: that paper.
- 14:41Speaker 4: Like, I see what you're doing.
- 14:44Speaker 3: I think it would be hilarious. Uh, turkey A and gravy.
- 14:49Speaker 3: This this Thanksgiving just to be jerks, just to be
- 14:54Speaker 3: just to be jerks. Grandma, will you do us the
- 14:56Speaker 3: honor of carving the turkey A? Oh, I can't wait
- 15:01Speaker 3: to have tur da leftovers this year. Yeah, so we
- 15:05Speaker 3: just change it. We just changed it back.
- 15:07Speaker 4: I think, I mean, I think it would be funny.
- 15:11Speaker 5: I also, as I said, I would understand why they
- 15:13Speaker 5: would be offended by it if we did it. Well,
- 15:15Speaker 5: of course, but we all need to probably pranks on
- 15:18Speaker 5: each other more often as countries.
- 15:20Speaker 3: Yeah, it's then, you know, but it's like, okay, so
- 15:24Speaker 3: there are there are Major League Baseball players right now,
- 15:28Speaker 3: major League Baseball players Latino Latinos who are playing in
- 15:34Speaker 3: the MLB, and they are not being they're not having
- 15:39Speaker 3: their names pronounced the right way. Right. Well, there was
- 15:44Speaker 3: a guy named jose Eurebay, and we went what your rebate,
- 15:48Speaker 3: That's what it was, That's how it spelled. So that's
- 15:50Speaker 3: what we went with, and he did it. He played
- 15:52Speaker 3: for like twelve years, and then in his twelveth year,
- 15:56Speaker 3: is like, I would like you to finally pronounce my
- 15:58Speaker 3: name the right way. Yeah, I never or a bee,
- 16:02Speaker 3: And everybody's like, why didn't you just tell us?
- 16:06Speaker 4: Yeah, we could have.
- 16:08Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not out here to mispronounce anyone's name.
- 16:11Speaker 3: I don't think anybody really is, no, Like, so why
- 16:14Speaker 3: don't you just tell us how to pronounce it and
- 16:17Speaker 3: then we can get it right right out of them?
- 16:19Speaker 5: Shoot, I mean the amount of times that we've had
- 16:21Speaker 5: a conversation just about Jason Botteril's name.
- 16:24Speaker 4: Is it Botterrel or is it Botre That's.
- 16:26Speaker 3: His own fault because he tells you either way's fine. Well, yeah,
- 16:29Speaker 3: come on, you got to know how to pronounce your
- 16:32Speaker 3: last name. Just tell us how to pronounce your last name,
- 16:35Speaker 3: because I'd like to get that right. I mean, I
- 16:38Speaker 3: don't know if you guys know the story of the
- 16:40Speaker 3: Avila's or Avi laws depends on who you ask. So
- 16:44Speaker 3: Alex Avila, we had him on the show not long ago.
- 16:47Speaker 3: He's on MLB network. Is a very good catcher at
- 16:49Speaker 3: a twelve thirteen year career and his entire career Alexavilla,
- 16:56Speaker 3: That's that's what he went by, that's what we called him. Well,
- 17:00Speaker 3: his dad had been in baseball his for for even
- 17:04Speaker 3: longer than Alex, which I didn't know until Papa Avila
- 17:10Speaker 3: gets the job as the Detroit Tigers general manager, and
- 17:14Speaker 3: then in his press conference he's introduced as Alex ava
- 17:17Speaker 3: La or al Ava La, and then people are like,
- 17:21Speaker 3: wait a minute, your son's Avila, Like, no, it's Avi La,
- 17:26Speaker 3: It's Avi La. But how did you not you're a
- 17:31Speaker 3: baseball family. How did you not get this straight with
- 17:35Speaker 3: us at the beginning? Why did you let us call
- 17:37Speaker 3: you a Vila if it's always been Avi La? You
- 17:40Speaker 3: know what I mean? Yeah, So, I don't think anybody's
- 17:43Speaker 3: out to disrespect Turkey, But for one hundred years you
- 17:46Speaker 3: let us call you turkey. So why didn't you just
- 17:50Speaker 3: tell us you wanted to be called turkey A We
- 17:52Speaker 3: would have done it, And now all of a sudden,
- 17:55Speaker 3: we can't have fun with the name. I know, I
- 17:59Speaker 3: think it's hilarious. I think it's actually hilarious that you
- 18:03Speaker 3: let us mispronounce your name for one hundred years then
- 18:06Speaker 3: you changed it. And I think it would be hilarious
- 18:09Speaker 3: if we changed our turkey bird to be called a
- 18:11Speaker 3: turkey a bird.
- 18:12Speaker 4: I again would find it very humorous.
- 18:15Speaker 3: Now, just tell us how you want to pronounce it
- 18:17Speaker 3: from the outset, so we don't disrespect you for a century. Right,
- 18:21Speaker 3: And the Avilas, I still don't know what to call them.
- 18:23Speaker 3: And we brought Alex on the show and I brought
- 18:27Speaker 3: this up to him and he said, I don't care. Yeah,
- 18:29Speaker 3: and do it everywhere you want. Well, and I think
- 18:32Speaker 3: I want to do it how you want to do it.
- 18:35Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think too.
- 18:37Speaker 5: When it comes to like the pronunciation, I think because
- 18:40Speaker 5: when you get to like it getting americanized at times,
- 18:43Speaker 5: that's when sometimes players don't care because they're like, well,
- 18:46Speaker 5: I know how we pronounce it in my country, but
- 18:48Speaker 5: I also understand that when an American tries to pronounce it,
- 18:51Speaker 5: they're still going to probably mangle it in some way.
- 18:53Speaker 4: So just say it how you're going to say it,
- 18:54Speaker 4: and we'll move on.
- 18:55Speaker 3: I grew up and it was Louisville. That's how we
- 18:58Speaker 3: did it in southern Illinois, Louisville, Kentucky. Then I went
- 19:02Speaker 3: to Lieu of Louisville and they said, no, it's pronounced Louisville. Yeah, okay,
- 19:10Speaker 3: So I pronounced it Louisville ever since, because they told
- 19:14Speaker 3: me how to pronounce it. I went to New Orleans
- 19:17Speaker 3: because that's what they said. That's what I was taught
- 19:20Speaker 3: New Orleans, and I got to New Orleans for the
- 19:23Speaker 3: first time in my life to cover a Super Bowl.
- 19:26Speaker 3: That's the only one. We won't accept. New Orleans is
- 19:29Speaker 3: the way to pronounce it. We will even go with Noleans.
- 19:33Speaker 3: You can go now Leans, but New Orleans you gotta go.
- 19:37Speaker 2: Easy on the lean.
- 19:39Speaker 3: That's the that's the expression. And so I just want
- 19:43Speaker 3: to know what you want to be. You're from New Orleans.
- 19:46Speaker 3: How do I pronounce your town? You're from Turkey? How
- 19:49Speaker 3: do I pronounce your country?
- 19:50Speaker 4: You tell me, Yeah, sometimes we need a little assistance.
- 19:54Speaker 3: That's okay, we don't know if we don't know, that's right. Yeah.
- 19:58Speaker 3: So you let us all you Turkey for one hundred
- 20:01Speaker 3: years and now you're now it's turkey A.
- 20:03Speaker 4: It's on you, So get out the turkey A Thanksgiving.
- 20:06Speaker 3: So I do feel entitled to say you do a
- 20:09Speaker 3: really bad poultry joke in light of all of this,
- 20:13Speaker 3: all right, coming on next ABC's of the M's on
- 20:15Speaker 3: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M,
- 20:18Speaker 3: and there really is one big giant topic that is
- 20:22Speaker 3: dominating last night's conversation. We'll see if the alphabet is
- 20:25Speaker 3: going to pick up on it. So we allow the
- 20:27Speaker 3: alphabet to be our guide through a daily Mariner's segment,
- 20:30Speaker 3: and we left off at V starts to get tricky done.
- 20:32Speaker 5: Yeah, the the alphabet can rely tough.
- 20:36Speaker 3: Yeah, real prison, real vocabulary prison.
- 20:41Speaker 4: V is for vocabulary.
- 20:42Speaker 3: It could be v could be for vocabulary prison, but
- 20:45Speaker 3: it's not okay today it is for voodoo. Because you
- 20:50Speaker 3: know Brian Wu and he does that voodoo that he
- 20:53Speaker 3: do so well. He obviously ran into trouble again in
- 20:59Speaker 3: the fourth and we discussed at great length at the
- 21:02Speaker 3: beginning of the show if you missed it podcast ninety
- 21:05Speaker 3: three to three KJR dot com. To me, I mean,
- 21:07Speaker 3: it's so clearly psychological at this point, and he's got
- 21:10Speaker 3: a little bit of George Kirby iis right now, He's
- 21:13Speaker 3: expecting something to go wrong, and he's expecting it to
- 21:17Speaker 3: be someone else's fault. Uh, and then he is expecting
- 21:21Speaker 3: then to not be able to overcome it, like the
- 21:24Speaker 3: world's against me, the baseball gods are against me, and
- 21:27Speaker 3: I can't figure it out. And we saw it again
- 21:30Speaker 3: last night. And it's kind of hard because and I've
- 21:34Speaker 3: said this before, and I'm not trying to compare my
- 21:37Speaker 3: playing I don't even want to call it a career
- 21:40Speaker 3: my playing history to a major leaguer's, but I've said
- 21:43Speaker 3: this before, like I kind of was George Kirby. You know,
- 21:47Speaker 3: it was really good when I pitched in high school,
- 21:51Speaker 3: but when I beat a guy, I wanted to beat
- 21:54Speaker 3: the guy, and if he got a little bloop off
- 21:56Speaker 3: of me, it pissed me off, and sometimes it took
- 21:59Speaker 3: me out of my game. Now, I would have liked
- 22:02Speaker 3: to have thought that by twenty five at the major
- 22:04Speaker 3: league level, that I would have matured out of that.
- 22:07Speaker 3: But George has not entirely. He's trying to get better.
- 22:11Speaker 3: He's working on it, and I think Brian Wu's caught
- 22:14Speaker 3: a little bit of it here as of late. But
- 22:16Speaker 3: you do understand the frustration, like when you already got
- 22:19Speaker 3: that in the back of your head and then all
- 22:21Speaker 3: of a sudden, I mean, this is voodoo. This is
- 22:24Speaker 3: wu voodoo is what this is.
- 22:26Speaker 4: It's Woodoo.
- 22:27Speaker 3: Yeah, you give up a base hit. Ah, maybe Julio
- 22:32Speaker 3: didn't get the best jump, barely does drop in front
- 22:35Speaker 3: of him. You get the next guy out, and then
- 22:37Speaker 3: here comes O'Hearn who bloops one down. Not only a
- 22:42Speaker 3: bloop down the left field line, but a bloop down
- 22:45Speaker 3: the left field line where your left fielder has just
- 22:48Speaker 3: come back from a hamstring injury, like the one guy
- 22:51Speaker 3: you didn't want a play in the.
- 22:55Speaker 4: Middle right that he has to try to run really far, that.
- 22:58Speaker 3: He has to either run far or has to make
- 23:00Speaker 3: decision on how hard I'm gonna go after this ball?
- 23:02Speaker 3: Am I going to slide? Am I going to hit
- 23:04Speaker 3: the wall? I promise you. Randy was told beforehand, Hey,
- 23:09Speaker 3: let's just not take unnecessary risks out.
- 23:13Speaker 4: There, and that's fair. Yeah.
- 23:14Speaker 3: Yeah, And so here's Randy like, Okay, normally I'd probably
- 23:18Speaker 3: try to get that I'm not going and then so
- 23:21Speaker 3: all of those things. Not only did he hit the bloop,
- 23:24Speaker 3: but he had a bloop to left field to the
- 23:26Speaker 3: one guy. And the only reason he's out there is
- 23:28Speaker 3: because Dom Canzone also hurt his hamstring yep, and also
- 23:33Speaker 3: has to be careful, so you can't put two of
- 23:35Speaker 3: them out there, so it's Randy who's out there. Otherwise,
- 23:38Speaker 3: con Zone would have been in the right field if
- 23:41Speaker 3: he was healthy, and Rosarito would be dhing and you
- 23:44Speaker 3: would have never even had that moment. So it does
- 23:49Speaker 3: feel like when you're on the mountain, like I can't
- 23:52Speaker 3: catch a break and then you can't let that then
- 23:55Speaker 3: soak into your brain and affect your next pitches. But
- 23:59Speaker 3: that's where he's right now. That's what George fights all
- 24:02Speaker 3: the time. So yes, I do acknowledge I've been there before,
- 24:06Speaker 3: not at the major league level obviously, but the frustration
- 24:09Speaker 3: of I made my pitch, he got a hit, and
- 24:13Speaker 3: now I know what's gonna happen now somebody Now, now
- 24:17Speaker 3: they're gonna get a bunch of bloops and I'm gonna
- 24:19Speaker 3: be trailing. And that's where his mindset is right now,
- 24:22Speaker 3: and the baseball voodoo is not helping him at all,
- 24:25Speaker 3: because that was a really, really, as I've described on
- 24:29Speaker 3: several levels, a very unlucky play for him.
- 24:32Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's the thing is, you can do everything right,
- 24:34Speaker 5: but you're relying on other people to do things correctly,
- 24:38Speaker 5: or somebody to not have better luck than you.
- 24:40Speaker 4: I mean, it's that's sports, that's life, right.
- 24:42Speaker 5: You could do everything right, but it's not always going
- 24:44Speaker 5: to go the way you want it to go. And unfortunately,
- 24:46Speaker 5: in his situation, it seems more magnified, right because he
- 24:50Speaker 5: is not able to get over that hill when that happens.
- 24:53Speaker 5: And I do think that George has improved on it,
- 24:55Speaker 5: So maybe maybe he's talking to George about it. Hopefully
- 24:58Speaker 5: he does, or hopefully George goes and talks to him
- 25:00Speaker 5: and says he, man, I've been there, here's what you
- 25:02Speaker 5: got to do.
- 25:03Speaker 3: Well, I think the answer because I think they're doing
- 25:05Speaker 3: it with George. I think that when George has one
- 25:08Speaker 3: of those moments you see Col go out there, I'd
- 25:11Speaker 3: put both of I've got to send Pete and Col
- 25:13Speaker 3: out there. Okay, we're not going to let that affect us.
- 25:16Speaker 3: And now I think they got to do the same
- 25:17Speaker 3: thing to Brian. And he's a really tough mental dude,
- 25:21Speaker 3: but right now he's fighting it and it's proof his
- 25:24Speaker 3: press conferences where he's pulling his hair out right in
- 25:26Speaker 3: front of us. It's psychological. He s two twenty six
- 25:31Speaker 3: batting average against. He's dominating at home. It's all psychological,
- 25:36Speaker 3: and so we got to find that voodoo doll. We
- 25:39Speaker 3: got to get rid of it before somebody sticks another
- 25:41Speaker 3: pin in it. W is for Wu, because that's the
- 25:44Speaker 3: story here today, or the Wu Tang plan as I
- 25:48Speaker 3: like to call, what if we had a new piggyback
- 25:52Speaker 3: plan based off of Luis Castillo's actually been really good
- 25:56Speaker 3: at home or excuse me, on the road lately and
- 25:59Speaker 3: not good at home. It's got a five six eight
- 26:02Speaker 3: ERA this year at home. Meanwhile, Brian Wou's got a
- 26:05Speaker 3: six point three eight ERA on the road and a
- 26:08Speaker 3: one point five ERA at home. Like, I mean, it's
- 26:14Speaker 3: a different version of the piggyback. But is it? Since
- 26:17Speaker 3: we're discussing crazy ideas, is it insane to say, Hey,
- 26:23Speaker 3: you're gonna pitch on the road and you're gonna pitch
- 26:26Speaker 3: at home, and that's the way that we're going to
- 26:28Speaker 3: do it, and then you're gonna relieve for one another
- 26:31Speaker 3: in those scenarios based on how the game's going. He
- 26:35Speaker 3: will be the relief pitcher that night. Is that that crazy?
- 26:38Speaker 4: I don't think so?
- 26:39Speaker 5: I mean, you would I thought the piggyback was a
- 26:42Speaker 5: crazy idea when it happened.
- 26:43Speaker 4: I mean when I first heard about it, I was like, wait,
- 26:45Speaker 4: what they're going to do?
- 26:46Speaker 3: What?
- 26:46Speaker 4: Yeah, and look what it did for Castillo. I mean
- 26:49Speaker 4: it improved.
- 26:50Speaker 5: So maybe that helps if WU can just focus on Okay,
- 26:55Speaker 5: I've just got to get the start at home.
- 26:57Speaker 4: I'm gonna come in in relief and that's gonna be
- 26:58Speaker 4: something new.
- 26:59Speaker 5: So now he's not it might you know, especially if
- 27:03Speaker 5: he's only going three or four innings. Okay, well, now
- 27:05Speaker 5: you might not get to that point where you've got
- 27:07Speaker 5: that hurdle that you've got to get over, and that
- 27:10Speaker 5: helps work itself out.
- 27:11Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, I mean psychologically to pop up
- 27:14Speaker 3: at any time. I don't know. If there's a designated inning, no,
- 27:17Speaker 3: you'd have to get him out.
- 27:19Speaker 4: It's less.
- 27:19Speaker 3: But I would say that, I mean, you would never
- 27:23Speaker 3: do it, and I don't They're not going to do
- 27:25Speaker 3: it because by the end of the season, you're you
- 27:27Speaker 3: don't want somebody to be convinced they can only pitch
- 27:30Speaker 3: at home, and you don't want somebody to be convinced
- 27:32Speaker 3: they can only pitch on the road. But when you
- 27:35Speaker 3: are already experimenting with we have too many pitchers for
- 27:39Speaker 3: too few spots, and you've already tried one thing, actually
- 27:44Speaker 3: a couple of different things. I don't think it's any
- 27:48Speaker 3: worse idea.
- 27:50Speaker 4: No, that's that's what I'm saying. I don't think it's
- 27:52Speaker 4: the worst. I don't think it's the worst thing I've heard.
- 27:54Speaker 3: Finally, and quickly, X is for X ray vision. And
- 27:59Speaker 3: I got to give the umpire some credit on that
- 28:01Speaker 3: play last night, because that might have been the trickiest
- 28:06Speaker 3: ball trick on the eyes that I've ever seen in
- 28:09Speaker 3: a baseball game. Randy's home run down the right field line,
- 28:12Speaker 3: foul ball down the right field line, the way that
- 28:15Speaker 3: that the painted foul line on the wall, and then
- 28:20Speaker 3: the foul pole is actually not aligned with the line
- 28:24Speaker 3: on the wall and Pittsburgh for whatever reason, and then
- 28:27Speaker 3: the way that it kramed off something metal. I mean,
- 28:32Speaker 3: that was one of the most difficult things to be
- 28:34Speaker 3: able to tell. What was that? Was that a home run?
- 28:36Speaker 3: Was it a foul ball? Was it a fair ball
- 28:38Speaker 3: that hit off the top of the wall, that it
- 28:40Speaker 3: hit over the wall and off of the stands, and
- 28:42Speaker 3: then that's what shot it across the and that umpire
- 28:46Speaker 3: saw that accurately. I'm like, I don't know if you
- 28:49Speaker 3: just guessed. I mean, they didn't exactly challenge it, right,
- 28:52Speaker 3: They went straight to a crew review. So that might
- 28:57Speaker 3: have been him saying I have no idea, I just
- 29:00Speaker 3: guessed foul. That might have been what he did. But
- 29:03Speaker 3: for him to have guessed accurately, because that was one
- 29:06Speaker 3: of the most different They showed like three replays and
- 29:09Speaker 3: I still cold to tell and until the cameraman focused
- 29:13Speaker 3: in on that metal piece. Then they showed it again
- 29:17Speaker 3: and then you saw it hit the metal piece, and
- 29:18Speaker 3: I'm like, man, that is an eagle eye. That's an
- 29:22Speaker 3: eagle eye on that umpire. Because I that was tricky.
- 29:26Speaker 3: That was one of the trickiest things. Thank goodness we
- 29:28Speaker 3: have replay and just imagine how much different the game was.
- 29:32Speaker 3: If that's you know, fair, you're up four to nothing
- 29:35Speaker 3: at that point, that it's a completely different game. It
- 29:38Speaker 3: is going forward, all right, coming up next? You down
- 29:41Speaker 3: with OPQ, Yeah, I know you. Sports Radio ninety three
- 29:44Speaker 3: point three kh A r FM. Other people's quarterbacks, all right,
- 29:48Speaker 3: always up in the business of other people's quarterbacks. And
- 29:52Speaker 3: so every once in a while we don't do it
- 29:54Speaker 3: on a daily or weekly basis, but every once in
- 29:57Speaker 3: a while there's enough news and information and out about
- 30:00Speaker 3: other people's quarterbacks that we dedicate a little bit of
- 30:03Speaker 3: a segment to it, and so we do that. Today. CJ.
- 30:07Speaker 3: Stroud and the Texans don't seem to be close. And
- 30:11Speaker 3: here is the part that stands out to me about
- 30:14Speaker 3: this story. This same story has now been repeated like
- 30:19Speaker 3: every week for the last four months, like, Okay, we
- 30:24Speaker 3: get it, they're not close to an extension. Are we
- 30:26Speaker 3: expecting them to get close to an extension? It sounds
- 30:29Speaker 3: like the Texans watch CJ. Stroud wet himself and the
- 30:33Speaker 3: playoffs a year ago and want to make sure before
- 30:37Speaker 3: they commit full term to fifty five sixty million dollars
- 30:41Speaker 3: a year, that they've got the old CJ. Stroud back
- 30:44Speaker 3: this year rather than the guy that wets himself and
- 30:47Speaker 3: the playoffs, and so they're not going to probably give
- 30:51Speaker 3: him an extension. If they do, I think they're fools.
- 30:54Speaker 3: And if CJ. Stroud is really looking at this in
- 30:59Speaker 3: a fair fact, and he will acknowledge I wet myself
- 31:02Speaker 3: in the playoffs, I get that they would be worried
- 31:05Speaker 3: about that I'm going to go out there and prove
- 31:08Speaker 3: that I am one of the best out there. I'm
- 31:10Speaker 3: going to get back on the right track, and then
- 31:12Speaker 3: I know they're going to give me the money that
- 31:15Speaker 3: I want. But this is a game of people being
- 31:18Speaker 3: in your ears telling you how you're getting disrespected. And
- 31:22Speaker 3: I think the Houston Texans are well within their right
- 31:24Speaker 3: said we'll run the risk, We'll run the risk of
- 31:27Speaker 3: him walking away. We are not going to run the
- 31:30Speaker 3: risk of giving six million dollars to whatever that was
- 31:33Speaker 3: in the playoffs this past year.
- 31:35Speaker 4: And I don't think they should.
- 31:36Speaker 5: I think absolutely he needs to prove himself because that
- 31:39Speaker 5: wasn't like he just wasn't up to par.
- 31:42Speaker 3: He was terrible, terrified, he was scared on the football field.
- 31:48Speaker 3: There's one thing to be bad, it's another thing to
- 31:50Speaker 3: be bad because you're scared.
- 31:53Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, Yeah, I'd.
- 31:54Speaker 3: Rather somebody be just bad. And then I'm like, hey,
- 31:57Speaker 3: keep throwing it up and trying there's something we can
- 31:58Speaker 3: fix here. But to get into the playoffs and look
- 32:01Speaker 3: scared like you didn't want to be out.
- 32:03Speaker 4: There at the moment, it's too big for you.
- 32:04Speaker 3: I'm not investing that in the face of the franchise.
- 32:07Speaker 3: But I'll give him a year to prove that he
- 32:08Speaker 3: is that, and then if he gets back on the
- 32:11Speaker 3: right track, I'll extend him the money. And if it
- 32:14Speaker 3: costs me his loyalty, so be it. I am not
- 32:17Speaker 3: signing what I saw last year in the playoffs to
- 32:20Speaker 3: some ridiculous extension before I have to, So I think
- 32:25Speaker 3: they're right to do it now. The problem with this, though,
- 32:27Speaker 3: is that he's going to be asked about it all
- 32:33Speaker 3: season long, right, and so even if he doesn't have
- 32:37Speaker 3: a problem with it, even if he does, by chance
- 32:40Speaker 3: see their point of view and he's okay and wants
- 32:44Speaker 3: to go out there and prove himself to himself, to
- 32:47Speaker 3: the Texans, to the entire football world, he's all right
- 32:50Speaker 3: with that space, He's going to be reminded about this
- 32:53Speaker 3: contract so frequently he probably will be angry about.
- 32:56Speaker 5: It by the end of the year, well, and especially
- 32:57Speaker 5: if he has a good start to the year and
- 33:00Speaker 5: then people ask him about it, and then he's I
- 33:01Speaker 5: would see you could see somebody being a little bit
- 33:04Speaker 5: defiant about it, like, yeah, yeah, I know I screwed
- 33:06Speaker 5: up last year, but they know what I can do.
- 33:08Speaker 5: You know, you could see it causing a bigger rift
- 33:10Speaker 5: or a bigger problem. The better year he has, and
- 33:14Speaker 5: if they don't try to do something in the year.
- 33:17Speaker 3: I'm willing to risk that. Yeah, if he goes out
- 33:20Speaker 3: and he's awesome and he dominates and he decides you
- 33:23Speaker 3: should have shown more faith in me, I'll risk that.
- 33:26Speaker 3: What I'm not going to risk is signing whatever that
- 33:29Speaker 3: was to a sixty million dollar ten year per sixty
- 33:33Speaker 3: per ten year deal going forward and then quickly Jade
- 33:37Speaker 3: and Daniels also needs to be in today's OPQ because
- 33:42Speaker 3: this is now weird. This is like a movie like
- 33:46Speaker 3: has Brandon Ayuk been sabotaging his San Francisco forty nine
- 33:52Speaker 3: ers career for years just so he can reunite with
- 33:56Speaker 3: his buddy Jade and Daniels.
- 33:58Speaker 4: That's really dumb.
- 33:59Speaker 3: Is that really what's been happening? Because that's like, that's
- 34:03Speaker 3: not your buddy. There's something more there. If this sounds
- 34:08Speaker 3: like a movie that you've watched, like The Talented Mister
- 34:11Speaker 3: Ripley or something where you're you are absolutely ruining your reputation,
- 34:18Speaker 3: ruining all your relationships in San Francisco. You got the
- 34:22Speaker 3: money and now you're going to do whatever it takes.
- 34:26Speaker 3: You're going to be as big a jerk as it
- 34:28Speaker 3: takes so that you can get cut rather than traded
- 34:33Speaker 3: to someone else, so that you can choose to sign
- 34:38Speaker 3: with the Commanders and be with your old buddy Jaden
- 34:41Speaker 3: Daniel That sounds disturbing.
- 34:43Speaker 5: And also, why would you assume they would want you
- 34:45Speaker 5: after watching all the things you're doing?
- 34:48Speaker 3: Well, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.
- 34:52Speaker 3: Is there some sort of plot here? Because I've never
- 34:55Speaker 3: seen anyone be this determined to get cut from a team.
- 35:00Speaker 3: He doesn't want to be traded, right, if he diminishes
- 35:02Speaker 3: his trade value because nobody can trust him, then he'll
- 35:05Speaker 3: get waived, right, and he still gets the money that
- 35:08Speaker 3: he signed for in the beginning. But it's but he
- 35:12Speaker 3: is now like making it known that the only team
- 35:15Speaker 3: he wants to play for are the Washington Commanders. And
- 35:18Speaker 3: we knew that when all of this process started.
- 35:21Speaker 4: Right there was the video, the FaceTime or whatever.
- 35:23Speaker 3: We knew that he wanted to play with Jaden Daniels
- 35:27Speaker 3: before he was before even signed with the San Francisco
- 35:30Speaker 3: forty nine ers. Did he just spend three seasons three
- 35:33Speaker 3: entire years of his life trying to make himself untradeable, unkeepable,
- 35:39Speaker 3: so that he could get his money, get cut, and
- 35:42Speaker 3: then sign as a free agent with Washington so he
- 35:45Speaker 3: could be next to his buddy Jaden Daniels. That's like
- 35:48Speaker 3: a diabolical that's like a psychological thriller right there. That's
- 35:53Speaker 3: like single white female. Bridget Fonda will play Jaden Daniels
- 35:58Speaker 3: in the movie all Right. Brad Evans next on k
- 36:01Speaker 3: j RT.