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- 0:00Speaker 1: It is time to chat with a guy that wants
- 0:02Speaker 1: to make you some money. He is the Las Vegas
- 0:05Speaker 1: Golfer himself. He writes for Sports Grid, Sports Line, CBS Sports.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Just read his column last night about the seven bets
- 0:11Speaker 1: he's making for the US Open at golf dot com.
- 0:15Speaker 1: You can follow him at Las Vegas Golfer on x
- 0:17Speaker 1: and before every major we try to chat with my
- 0:20Speaker 1: friend Brady Cannon. Good morning, sir.
- 0:23Speaker 2: How are you, mister Chuck Powell?
- 0:25Speaker 1: I'm doing all right? You being able to keep up
- 0:27Speaker 1: with all this? How crazy is the World Cup in
- 0:30Speaker 1: Vegas right now?
- 0:33Speaker 2: You know? I mean you come off of the Stanley
- 0:35Speaker 2: Cup final with the Knights, and you know, and now
- 0:39Speaker 2: you've got the World Cup going on? How about New York?
- 0:42Speaker 2: You know, the Knicks, the World Cup and now the
- 0:45Speaker 2: US Open on Long Island. Yeah, I mean sports are
- 0:48Speaker 2: at a fever pitch right now. It seems you know,
- 0:51Speaker 2: this is supposed to be the downtime, right this is
- 0:53Speaker 2: the dog days of summer. Not quite, but no, it's
- 0:56Speaker 2: it's happening, man.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Yeah, it used to be for years, and you used
- 1:00Speaker 1: to be in this sports radio industry with me on
- 1:03Speaker 1: the talk side. Now you're just now, you're just some superstar.
- 1:08Speaker 1: But we would go through the dog days of summer together.
- 1:13Speaker 1: But there are no dog days of summer anymore. I mean,
- 1:15Speaker 1: there's this twelve months of action packed and it's awesome.
- 1:19Speaker 1: It's awesome. I'm not going to play the way.
- 1:20Speaker 2: There's college baseball going on in Omaha as well, which
- 1:24Speaker 2: I love and I'm sure you do.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely well, Brady Cannon with us here this morning
- 1:29Speaker 1: to talk some golf. So let's get into it in
- 1:33Speaker 1: a tweet that's right there at the top of your timeline.
- 1:37Speaker 1: My selections for who survives Shnakock. Why are we using
- 1:41Speaker 1: the descriptor of survives shnnacock? I mean, is this course
- 1:46Speaker 1: just that brutal?
- 1:48Speaker 2: Well, it's a US Open, right, and this will be
- 1:51Speaker 2: the sixth time that Shinnecock has hosted a US Open,
- 1:55Speaker 2: and the last two, especially the second to last one
- 1:59Speaker 2: in two thousand thousand and four, was pretty ugly if
- 2:02Speaker 2: you recall. That's when you know, the USGA tries to
- 2:06Speaker 2: bring the course to the extremes to make it as
- 2:09Speaker 2: difficult as possible, but mother nature stepped in and you know,
- 2:14Speaker 2: they lost a couple of holes where they were just
- 2:16Speaker 2: so baked out the balls couldn't even stay on the green.
- 2:19Speaker 2: And you know it pressed that that precipice in twenty
- 2:25Speaker 2: eighteen when Keepka won here as well, and you know
- 2:28Speaker 2: they're getting into a situation where they've got to water
- 2:31Speaker 2: the greens in between groups and you know, just an
- 2:34Speaker 2: ugly mess of a golf tournament. And that's what's so difficult.
- 2:38Speaker 2: You've got a tremendously demanding golf course. It's very much
- 2:43Speaker 2: like a like an Open Championship, like a British Open.
- 2:46Speaker 2: There's wind off of the Bay, wind off of the
- 2:48Speaker 2: Atlantic Ocean. You know, it's a sandy coastal location. You've
- 2:54Speaker 2: got the heather and the wispy stuff and the thick rough.
- 2:56Speaker 2: It looks very much like a Lynk's golf course. You
- 3:00Speaker 2: know that we would see next month for the British Open.
- 3:03Speaker 2: But then you throw in the wind and off of
- 3:06Speaker 2: the Atlantic Ocean and it's so exposed. And that's where
- 3:10Speaker 2: there's a real balance in trying to cooperate with Mother
- 3:14Speaker 2: nature but yet make the golf course as difficult as
- 3:17Speaker 2: possible at the same time. And the last couple of
- 3:20Speaker 2: times here the USGA certainly in two thousand and four.
- 3:23Speaker 2: I think they failed. They nearly did in twenty eighteen,
- 3:28Speaker 2: and I really hope they get it right this time, Chuck,
- 3:31Speaker 2: because that's what we want to see. We want to
- 3:32Speaker 2: see a great championship. We don't want to see it compromised.
- 3:36Speaker 2: And I think the USJ will be a bit more
- 3:39Speaker 2: conservative this time, just to play it safe. But then
- 3:42Speaker 2: you turn to Thursday and we're expecting wins, possibly gusting
- 3:46Speaker 2: to fifty miles an hour, and you know, I think
- 3:49Speaker 2: it's possible that they might have to stop play because
- 3:53Speaker 2: balls are you know, oscillating on the greens and what
- 3:56Speaker 2: have you. So yeah, I mean it's it's going to
- 3:59Speaker 2: be pretty crazy. Let's see who.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Survives well, who does tend to survive? Is it the
- 4:05Speaker 1: mastered Scotti, Scheffler, Rory McElroy type that under conditions like that,
- 4:11Speaker 1: their skills are just going to be better than the
- 4:14Speaker 1: next guy having to navigate the same environment. Or does
- 4:17Speaker 1: it set up for some crazy results, some upstart, some
- 4:21Speaker 1: underdog to come out of nowhere because the conditions of
- 4:25Speaker 1: even the playing field.
- 4:27Speaker 2: It's a great question, and I'd say the answer is
- 4:29Speaker 2: probably both. You know, typically the best players Tiger Woods
- 4:33Speaker 2: Scotty Scheffler whatever. They wanted the conditions to be as
- 4:36Speaker 2: hard as possible because they knew they were better than
- 4:38Speaker 2: everybody else. And you know, if it's so difficult that
- 4:42Speaker 2: other guys can't handle it, maybe they would rise to
- 4:45Speaker 2: the top. The other thing is you bring randomness into play,
- 4:49Speaker 2: because you start missing fairways around here, chuck, and you're dead.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Rory McElroy and Scotty Scheffler went out there a couple
- 4:57Speaker 2: of weeks ago for a practice round, and the fairways
- 5:00Speaker 2: are very wide. I mentioned that the usg I think
- 5:04Speaker 2: they're going to ease up a little bit. It's not
- 5:07Speaker 2: going to be necessarily difficult to find fairways. But then
- 5:10Speaker 2: you throw the wind in there, and you allow the
- 5:13Speaker 2: USGA to make the golf course firm and fast, and
- 5:16Speaker 2: if you do start to miss fairways, you're literally into
- 5:19Speaker 2: five inch rough, and then half of the rough you're
- 5:22Speaker 2: into the heather and the wispy stuff that's knee high,
- 5:24Speaker 2: and you don't have a chance. So, you know, a
- 5:29Speaker 2: lot of things can happen. If Scottie Scheffler starts missing fairways,
- 5:33Speaker 2: if Rory macle you know that's going to be the
- 5:35Speaker 2: first step negotiating the wind I think will be the
- 5:38Speaker 2: next step, with Thursdays supposed to be the worst of it,
- 5:41Speaker 2: Friday no picnic, and then over the weekend, I think
- 5:44Speaker 2: it's supposed to be kind of a more normal fifteen
- 5:47Speaker 2: to twenty mile an hour coastal breeze. But you know,
- 5:51Speaker 2: I'm basically on let's see, I played seven guys, and
- 5:57Speaker 2: I would say five of them are you know, relatively conservative,
- 6:02Speaker 2: you know, more towards the favorite top of the board,
- 6:05Speaker 2: and then a couple of long shots, you know, to
- 6:07Speaker 2: your point because a JJ Spahn last year, right, I
- 6:10Speaker 2: mean that that was a bit under the radar and
- 6:12Speaker 2: out of nowhere, and you had guys like Adam Scott
- 6:15Speaker 2: and Sam Burns and Russell Henley contending and next thing,
- 6:19Speaker 2: you know, JJ Spond's your champion, and just last month
- 6:22Speaker 2: at the at the PGA, Aaron Rye. So you know,
- 6:26Speaker 2: you do get that dark horse that comes out of
- 6:28Speaker 2: nowhere sometimes on these things.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know, I'll say, I don't know
- 6:33Speaker 1: what all of Vegas is doing in terms of odds.
- 6:36Speaker 1: But as I started my research for this conversation last night,
- 6:40Speaker 1: I couldn't believe whatever grid that I pulled up Scotti
- 6:45Speaker 1: Scheffler was like a runaway favorite in this thing, and
- 6:48Speaker 1: yet as I read through all the different experts pick
- 6:51Speaker 1: I wasn't seeing his name chosen as somebody that people
- 6:56Speaker 1: thought was going to win. So how do we how
- 6:59Speaker 1: do we make make sense of that?
- 7:01Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting because I pull up, you know, a
- 7:05Speaker 2: memo I get from my friends at bet MGM and
- 7:09Speaker 2: Scotty Scheffler. Of course, that's a national sportsbook all over
- 7:12Speaker 2: the country. Scotty Scheffler is number one in ticket count,
- 7:16Speaker 2: number one in handle, and he is their biggest liability.
- 7:20Speaker 2: But you're right, I think, you know, you look in
- 7:21Speaker 2: the golf handicapp or space, and nobody's really landing on Scotty,
- 7:25Speaker 2: which can be scary that that means maybe he's going
- 7:28Speaker 2: to win the whole darn thing and be Scottie again.
- 7:31Speaker 2: But that's kind of I think where we're at. Was
- 7:34Speaker 2: Scotty this year? He won back in January at the
- 7:36Speaker 2: American Express. It's a pretty easy tournament, not not. You
- 7:41Speaker 2: know that that's not necessarily an indicator of great things
- 7:44Speaker 2: to come. And we're so used to the bar that
- 7:47Speaker 2: Scotty set the past couple of seasons, you know, just
- 7:49Speaker 2: absolutely remarkable by any normal human being standard. Scotty Scheffler
- 7:54Speaker 2: is killing it this year, but not by Scotty's standards.
- 7:57Speaker 2: And so to see him price there and then theyghborhood
- 8:00Speaker 2: of five or six to one, which is, let's be honest,
- 8:03Speaker 2: about twice of his price what he's normally at, you know,
- 8:06Speaker 2: three to one or something. I still think the price
- 8:09Speaker 2: is just too low for the way he's been going
- 8:12Speaker 2: this year. I was on a show on CBS Sports
- 8:15Speaker 2: Line yesterday and we all kind of felt that if
- 8:18Speaker 2: he was eight or nine to one, that might be
- 8:21Speaker 2: worth the shot. But he just hasn't shown us the
- 8:24Speaker 2: typical Scotti Scheffler stuff to justify five to one to
- 8:29Speaker 2: win this championship.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Brady Cannon is with US Golf Expert Handicap Expert. You
- 8:34Speaker 1: combine the two, you get yourself a great radio segment.
- 8:37Speaker 1: We have him on before every major. You can follo
- 8:39Speaker 1: him that Las Vegas Golfer. For all of his tips
- 8:41Speaker 1: and information. He does like thirty eight different shows and
- 8:45Speaker 1: writes thirty eight different blogs. He's a very busy man
- 8:47Speaker 1: and very good at what he does. All right, so
- 8:50Speaker 1: let's talk about the guys that you do like I saw,
- 8:53Speaker 1: Russell Henley is big on your board, so talk about why.
- 8:59Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I pretty much went to the standard
- 9:02Speaker 2: USA or excuse me, US Open DNA and hit fairways,
- 9:07Speaker 2: hit greens and make some putts and you know, try
- 9:09Speaker 2: and keep it simple. It's different from the Masters, where
- 9:12Speaker 2: so much creativity is involved. It's different. You know. I
- 9:16Speaker 2: talked about the relationship to the British Open, but typically
- 9:20Speaker 2: the US Open is much more straightforward. Now this one,
- 9:24Speaker 2: I think is going to be sideways in a sense
- 9:27Speaker 2: with weather and but Russell Henley is number one on
- 9:31Speaker 2: tour and driving accuracy and you know, again I mentioned
- 9:35Speaker 2: that these fairways are wide, but I do believe accuracy
- 9:39Speaker 2: is going to play a part. I mentioned earlier. You
- 9:41Speaker 2: can't be too wild off the tee or old. You know,
- 9:45Speaker 2: the last two US Opens he's been top ten, the
- 9:48Speaker 2: last two British Opens he's been top ten. He's been
- 9:51Speaker 2: he was third at the Masters earlier this year. So
- 9:54Speaker 2: all of a sudden, this guy is absolutely I think
- 9:57Speaker 2: the next step for him is a major champion, Chipchuck,
- 10:00Speaker 2: and maybe it'll happen this week.
- 10:02Speaker 1: Who else do you like it? In the tournament.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Well, Henley is in the neighborhood of forty to one.
- 10:09Speaker 2: The shortest shot I took was Xander Schaffle at twenty
- 10:13Speaker 2: to one. I didn't even realize this until I started
- 10:15Speaker 2: doing my research. He's never missed a cut in nine
- 10:18Speaker 2: tries at the US Open. His worst finish is fourteenth,
- 10:22Speaker 2: and he's finished top ten seven times. He's a US
- 10:25Speaker 2: Open machine. He's probably has to be on your card.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Matt Fitzpatrick at twenty five to one and Tommy Fleetwood
- 10:33Speaker 2: at twenty five to one, maybe the best players in
- 10:37Speaker 2: the world right now as far as their current form.
- 10:40Speaker 2: And they you know, Fleetwood finish second here to Keopka
- 10:43Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, Fitzpatrick finished twelfth, So these guys have
- 10:48Speaker 2: proven they can do it on this course before. Patrick Reid,
- 10:54Speaker 2: you know, kind of playing part time golf these days
- 10:56Speaker 2: as he transitions back to the PGA Tour from the Libs,
- 11:00Speaker 2: but it hasn't seemed to bother him. He finished tenth
- 11:03Speaker 2: at the PGA and twelfth at the Masters. And you know,
- 11:07Speaker 2: that's the type of guy that is a little bit
- 11:11Speaker 2: sprays the ball a little bit off the tee. So
- 11:13Speaker 2: the wide fairways will help him, but he's a short
- 11:16Speaker 2: game wizard, one of the best in the world. So
- 11:19Speaker 2: you know, if these greens get crazy, which we expect
- 11:22Speaker 2: him to do, Reid might be the type of guy
- 11:25Speaker 2: that can negotiate that type of challenge. So Reid shofle Fitzpatrick,
- 11:32Speaker 2: Fleetwood and Henley and then a couple of long bombs
- 11:36Speaker 2: Chuck Kurt Kittyama. You know, I don't know if we
- 11:40Speaker 2: believe in this type of stuff, but I ran into
- 11:42Speaker 2: him into a in a store in Las Vegas the
- 11:45Speaker 2: other day, and you know, we're trying to search for
- 11:47Speaker 2: the winner, and maybe I was being you know, sent
- 11:49Speaker 2: a message right there down my throat in front of
- 11:52Speaker 2: my face. I don't know, but this guy, his weakness
- 11:57Speaker 2: is on the greens and around the greens. But boy
- 12:00Speaker 2: is he a ball striker extraordinaire. I mean, he is
- 12:03Speaker 2: one of the very best on tour as far as
- 12:05Speaker 2: finding fairways, hitting the ball long and finding greens in
- 12:09Speaker 2: regulation and as I mentioned, that is certainly a tried
- 12:12Speaker 2: and true US Open formula got him at ninety to
- 12:16Speaker 2: one and then a big long bomb on Daniel Berger
- 12:20Speaker 2: at one hundred and eighty to one. He finished sixth
- 12:23Speaker 2: tier in twenty eighteen, and he is also kind of
- 12:26Speaker 2: that consummate US Open Fairways and Greens ball striker type player.
- 12:32Speaker 2: So that's the seven pack. We'll see if we can
- 12:34Speaker 2: get one of them home.
- 12:35Speaker 1: All right, So, considering the stage, considering the history of
- 12:40Speaker 1: how difficult the tournament can be, and then considering the
- 12:46Speaker 1: weather conditions which might be monstrous, who's somebody to stay
- 12:50Speaker 1: away from? I mean, who's just going to be a
- 12:52Speaker 1: hot mess this weekend because they're not going to be
- 12:55Speaker 1: a handle be able to handle any of those three things,
- 12:58Speaker 1: much less all three of those things.
- 13:00Speaker 2: You know, it's very interesting. A couple of popular guys
- 13:04Speaker 2: this week are Chris got her Up, the young kid
- 13:07Speaker 2: from the New Jersey area, who's just a world of talent,
- 13:11Speaker 2: And the same can be said about Cameron Young. Cam Young,
- 13:14Speaker 2: who won the Players Championship this year, was in the
- 13:17Speaker 2: final pairing with Rory at the Masters. Both of these
- 13:20Speaker 2: guys are immense talents that have been having exceptional seasons.
- 13:24Speaker 2: But I wonder if it's going to be a home
- 13:28Speaker 2: game in the sense for both of them in the
- 13:30Speaker 2: New York, New Jersey area. Cam Young has kind of
- 13:34Speaker 2: fallen off the boil a little bit, and I wonder
- 13:37Speaker 2: if we're asking too much of him at this point
- 13:39Speaker 2: and if his odds have become a little too short.
- 13:42Speaker 2: And got Her Up, you know, he hits the ball
- 13:44Speaker 2: a ton and does everything very well, but he also
- 13:47Speaker 2: lacks a lot of accuracy. And I mentioned if you
- 13:50Speaker 2: start missing fairways too often, you're done. And so I
- 13:54Speaker 2: think possibly both of those guys could disappoint. And I
- 13:58Speaker 2: bet him both to miss the cut. It's almost three
- 14:01Speaker 2: to one on Cam Young to miss the cut. About
- 14:05Speaker 2: plus one eighty was what I got on got Her Up.
- 14:08Speaker 2: But you never know, Chuck. I mean last year we
- 14:12Speaker 2: were at Oakmont and Bryson Deshamba missed the cut and
- 14:15Speaker 2: Justin Thomas missed the cut. I mean, it happens to
- 14:18Speaker 2: the best of them, and you know, you try and
- 14:21Speaker 2: do your best to prognosticate. I think maybe it in
- 14:24Speaker 2: got her Up and Young. If one of them misses
- 14:26Speaker 2: the cut, I make a profit. And if both of
- 14:29Speaker 2: them do, then then you know we really nailed it.
- 14:31Speaker 2: But I think there's a chance that you're absolutely going
- 14:34Speaker 2: to see some big names not be around for the weekend.
- 14:37Speaker 1: Well, if there are some things I remember about Brady
- 14:39Speaker 1: Cannon at the old MGM Grand sitting there in that
- 14:43Speaker 1: climate controlled the cold temperatures, the stage Deli wafting. It's
- 14:48Speaker 1: Aroma's tortoise, Dave Cochin sitting there, serenading us with his
- 14:52Speaker 1: you know, dulcet pipes. I remember how much you loved
- 14:57Speaker 1: the Iron Bowl, and it seems to me how much
- 14:59Speaker 1: you loved shin, So I know you're excited about this.
- 15:05Speaker 2: Shenna cock and Dave Cokin seem to be related, but
- 15:08Speaker 2: that's another of cocin.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. All right, man, you're the best. Thank you, Sara.
- 15:15Speaker 1: We appreciate it, enjoy it all all right.
- 15:17Speaker 2: I always enjoy coming on with you, and we'll talk
- 15:20Speaker 2: to you next month when we hit Royal Birkdale.
- 15:22Speaker 1: Let's do it, all right, Brady Canon joining us all
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- 17:31Speaker 1: So we have decided that recapping the previous Mariners game
- 17:35Speaker 1: just once at six thirty in the morning was missing
- 17:38Speaker 1: it with a lot of people that considered themselves early
- 17:41Speaker 1: risers to be up and at it at eight thirty
- 17:44Speaker 1: and yet never even gave thought to getting up at
- 17:46Speaker 1: six thirty. They're even considered it.
- 17:47Speaker 5: I mean they could have at least we're considering this.
- 17:49Speaker 5: They could have considered that.
- 17:51Speaker 1: I thought you would have at least considered it. So
- 17:54Speaker 1: we are providing this service for you because we feel
- 17:57Speaker 1: you also are owed a base recap on most days.
- 18:01Speaker 3: Yep, we'll do that on most days.
- 18:03Speaker 1: It doesn't work out every day, but most days, most days,
- 18:05Speaker 1: we're gonna get that done for you. So let's go
- 18:08Speaker 1: through it. Today's Baseball Brunch is no doubt starring cal Raleigh.
- 18:14Speaker 6: Cal's back in town and he comes to the play
- 18:18Speaker 6: in the biggest spot tonight, a one to one game
- 18:22Speaker 6: where the Bags loaded saw flying drive centerfield and at
- 18:27Speaker 6: fast drive head Proble scores right behind him his epercent
- 18:32Speaker 6: and he is in there. Wow, and a standing ovation
- 18:39Speaker 6: for cal Raley. He's back in town and the Mariners
- 18:43Speaker 6: are up three to one.
- 18:45Speaker 1: That's Rich Waltz on the call last night, filling in
- 18:48Speaker 1: for Aaron for I guess just one game. I guess
- 18:50Speaker 1: Aaron's back tonight on Mariners TV, but gets to call
- 18:55Speaker 1: the game winner turned out to be the game winner
- 18:57Speaker 1: two runs single from Cal Raleigh's first game back, and
- 19:01Speaker 1: the Mariners win three to one. Is the final score.
- 19:04Speaker 1: Worth noting Colt Emerson's great base running on that play,
- 19:07Speaker 1: as well his tremendous slide at home, not to mention
- 19:11Speaker 1: his single earlier in the inning, which was the cleanest
- 19:14Speaker 1: hit of that inning. He didn't need a lot of
- 19:17Speaker 1: offense last night, but you certainly got it in that inning.
- 19:21Speaker 1: And I thought, Cal, I mean, maybe I'm just trying
- 19:24Speaker 1: to convince myself of it, but he looked lost to
- 19:26Speaker 1: me as a hitter at the beginning of this season,
- 19:29Speaker 1: before his injury put him on the shelf. And I
- 19:33Speaker 1: saw the highlights, the home run highlights that a lot
- 19:36Speaker 1: of you saw down in Tacoma, and it just looked
- 19:38Speaker 1: like a more confident like back on time Cal Rawley.
- 19:42Speaker 1: He didn't have a huge night at the plate last night,
- 19:45Speaker 1: but put the ball in play three out of four times,
- 19:49Speaker 1: drew a walk, and then when he had his one
- 19:52Speaker 1: big opportunity, We've come to expect Cal to come through
- 19:55Speaker 1: in that moment. He wasn't earlier this year. He did
- 19:58Speaker 1: last night. It looked like a better hitter to me
- 20:01Speaker 1: than what we've seen at any time this year.
- 20:03Speaker 5: Yeah, I would definitely agree that he didn't have the
- 20:05Speaker 5: confidence when he was stepping up to the plate before
- 20:07Speaker 5: his injury. But I could also understand why he wasn't
- 20:10Speaker 5: doing well, and that's going to mess with you. I mean,
- 20:11Speaker 5: we talk about all the time how mental baseball is,
- 20:14Speaker 5: and so even if you try, man, he went on
- 20:19Speaker 5: the eye all and took care of his mentals and
- 20:20Speaker 5: his chickens and now he's back.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Yeah, maam. And then of course you do expect to
- 20:25Speaker 1: get out of him, not just good catching behind the plate,
- 20:29Speaker 1: but his relationship with the starting pitchers, With all the
- 20:33Speaker 1: pitchers on this staff, well, I don't know, I don't know.
- 20:38Speaker 1: I mean, I'm biased, but I think it's probably second
- 20:41Speaker 1: to none in baseball. They all adore him. He feels
- 20:44Speaker 1: the same way about them. They give each other crap constantly.
- 20:48Speaker 1: And the two best buds of the entire group are
- 20:50Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert and Cal Rawley. So would we be surprised
- 20:55Speaker 1: that Logan ends up having after missing his buddy for
- 20:58Speaker 1: weeks for a month, he ends up pitching maybe his
- 21:02Speaker 1: best game of the entire year. Now he's been ramping
- 21:04Speaker 1: up to this and didn't go from you know Logan
- 21:06Speaker 1: pouting in the corner. I don't want to pitch to Johnny.
- 21:10Speaker 1: It didn't go from him just poorly to suddenly magically,
- 21:14Speaker 1: Kyle Rawley's here and Logan looks great. No, he's been
- 21:17Speaker 1: pitching a lot better here in the last couple of starts,
- 21:20Speaker 1: but there's no doubt that was his best performance last night.
- 21:23Speaker 1: Gave up a run in the first inning and then
- 21:25Speaker 1: settled in and was dominant from that point forward. Didn't
- 21:29Speaker 1: allow another run. Struck out ten when a full seven
- 21:33Speaker 1: innings last night, and looked as strong an inning number
- 21:35Speaker 1: seven as he did an inning number two. And Logan
- 21:39Speaker 1: talked about how excited he was to have his buddy back.
- 21:42Speaker 4: Yeah, it was fun, just really familiar. You feel comfortable
- 21:46Speaker 4: when he's back there. I mean, shout out to Garb
- 21:48Speaker 4: and Johnny two doing what they did when he was gone.
- 21:50Speaker 4: That's huge for us. But having him just we'll go
- 21:55Speaker 4: back for a while. So he knows me really well
- 21:57Speaker 4: and knows when I'm online. Even just targaining was I
- 22:00Speaker 4: don't know how to explain it, but I'm just used
- 22:03Speaker 4: to it. I just like the way he sets up,
- 22:06Speaker 4: what the plan is, all that kind of stuff.
- 22:08Speaker 6: So you know you so well, but he almost did.
- 22:12Speaker 1: Yeah, did you know what happened?
- 22:14Speaker 4: It was like I saw I mean I saw it
- 22:17Speaker 4: when the ball was like right there, got to hit me.
- 22:19Speaker 4: I told him afterwards, a good thing. He's not accurate
- 22:22Speaker 4: because he barely missing. And then he goes and gets
- 22:25Speaker 4: a hit and steals the show. But wouldn't draw it
- 22:29Speaker 4: up in the other way.
- 22:30Speaker 1: I mean, like going in, we kind of knew that
- 22:32Speaker 1: he was gonna be back today and you need to
- 22:34Speaker 1: start lining up.
- 22:36Speaker 2: Did you have any content?
- 22:37Speaker 1: I mean, but did you have any contact with him before.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Today at all? When he catches going on, I got
- 22:42Speaker 2: you and this and that.
- 22:43Speaker 4: Yeah, a couple of days ago, I just asked him
- 22:45Speaker 4: how everything's going, and then he said he's catching Tuesday.
- 22:47Speaker 4: I said, he, you know, couldn't wait to catch me.
- 22:49Speaker 4: I had to come back just for me. But then
- 22:50Speaker 4: I show up today and he's like complaining that he
- 22:53Speaker 4: wanted WU first time so it's easier or something. So
- 22:56Speaker 4: that's that's a good confidence. Build a rick before I
- 22:58Speaker 4: go out there.
- 23:00Speaker 1: He wasn't gonna make it easy.
- 23:01Speaker 4: Yeah, So that's bold to say it before because I
- 23:04Speaker 4: can spike one at any point.
- 23:08Speaker 1: He just doesn't want to face that split finger that
- 23:12Speaker 1: gets spiked up into your stuff.
- 23:14Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 23:14Speaker 3: I don't blame him on that one.
- 23:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't either. I mean, I think he really
- 23:18Speaker 1: likes catching Logan, but Brian Wu seems a little easier
- 23:22Speaker 1: than Logan Gilbert. But yeah, I love their relationship. It's
- 23:25Speaker 1: just I don't know, I don't know if there's one
- 23:27Speaker 1: like it in sports and former roommates and they've just
- 23:32Speaker 1: they give each other crap constantly.
- 23:35Speaker 3: Well it's yeah, their personalities too.
- 23:37Speaker 5: They're both sarcastic with that dry delivery, which just makes
- 23:40Speaker 5: it more entertaining.
- 23:41Speaker 1: Oh, they're just they're dynamite together on the field off
- 23:44Speaker 1: the field. There's no question about it. And you're right
- 23:46Speaker 1: what you said earlier. We didn't have time to explore it.
- 23:48Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want Logan Gilbert to go anywhere.
- 23:51Speaker 1: It's pretty much gonna come down to Logan and how
- 23:53Speaker 1: much they'll commit to him long term. And they're going
- 23:57Speaker 1: to give him a lot of money. I don't think
- 23:59Speaker 1: they would give him top of the market money. So
- 24:01Speaker 1: if he needs that, or he needs to be closer
- 24:04Speaker 1: to home to be near his family, you spend enough
- 24:06Speaker 1: time in the Pacific Northwest, and he's earned free agency,
- 24:09Speaker 1: and he will use that to try to figure out
- 24:12Speaker 1: what's best for his family and not just his wife
- 24:15Speaker 1: and his child, but for his entire family. Then maybe
- 24:18Speaker 1: he leaves us. I don't know, but that'd be a
- 24:21Speaker 1: sad thing. That'd be a sad thing to split these
- 24:23Speaker 1: two ups. So I hope I trust that either he
- 24:27Speaker 1: or George will be extended this offseason. I'm not trying
- 24:32Speaker 1: to pick favorites. It just feels to me like Logan
- 24:36Speaker 1: staying here with Cal I think makes more sense for
- 24:39Speaker 1: Logan going forward. And yeah, it's nice to have two
- 24:42Speaker 1: different homes, Bud. Yeah, Okay, when it's too chilly here,
- 24:45Speaker 1: you go visit Florida.
- 24:46Speaker 3: That's what's there for.
- 24:47Speaker 1: But make your home here. Uncle Cal needs to be
- 24:50Speaker 1: around your children.
- 24:51Speaker 3: Are you too good for your home?
- 24:54Speaker 1: Yeah? Florida stinks anyway.
- 24:56Speaker 5: I do feel like too if they got If Logan
- 24:58Speaker 5: didn't stay, it would be like Cal standing out in
- 25:01Speaker 5: the driveway while his best friend drives away in a
- 25:03Speaker 5: station wagon, looking out the back window down a dirt road.
- 25:06Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would cry in Woodville.
- 25:10Speaker 3: Yeah, I think live on a dirt road, dusty dirt road.
- 25:13Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, hey, buddy, could I get those that jacket
- 25:18Speaker 1: you borrowed? Then I'm going to hit the road.
- 25:20Speaker 3: Here's my favorite baseball card man.
- 25:24Speaker 1: All right, well, what did we learn today? Kids? On
- 25:26Speaker 1: the Today's Baseball Brunch? We learned Number one, it's great
- 25:30Speaker 1: to have col back. Number two Logan liked having cow
- 25:36Speaker 1: back more than any of us. Yes, And number three,
- 25:41Speaker 1: Baseball truly is a nutty game, There's no question about it.
- 25:45Speaker 1: They that you could have an afternoon like the Mariners
- 25:49Speaker 1: had trying to figure out who can play and who
- 25:52Speaker 1: can't play? And wait, I didn't know that many guys
- 25:55Speaker 1: weren't available. How are we going to fill out a roster?
- 25:59Speaker 1: Who's going to come off the bench? What if we
- 26:01Speaker 1: have an injury during the game. I mean that afternoon
- 26:05Speaker 1: of chaos for the Mariners. I'm not gonna sit here
- 26:08Speaker 1: and tell you they handled it well, because I can't
- 26:11Speaker 1: believe you put yourself in that position. I can't believe
- 26:13Speaker 1: you didn't have a better handle on who was available
- 26:16Speaker 1: to you prior to yesterday afternoon. And then the fire
- 26:20Speaker 1: drill to try to figure out how we're gonna fill
- 26:23Speaker 1: these roster spots was fascinating to behold, But let's not
- 26:26Speaker 1: do that again. Let's kind of figure out exactly what
- 26:29Speaker 1: we have. Connor Joe apparently will show up in time
- 26:32Speaker 1: for the game. Give a little bit of depth, and
- 26:34Speaker 1: it sounds like the nailor Rayley injuries aren't gonna be
- 26:38Speaker 1: anything serious. But they might both be unavailable tonight. We
- 26:41Speaker 1: shall see. But it also shows you baseball's a nutty
- 26:44Speaker 1: game that you can win with all that chaos going on.
- 26:47Speaker 1: One guy available off the bench. He can't play any
- 26:50Speaker 1: position other than catcher, so who knows what you're gonna
- 26:52Speaker 1: Brian wou might have played shortstop last night had we
- 26:55Speaker 1: an injury, so who knows. But you can still this
- 26:59Speaker 1: is base You get one dominant pitching performance and you
- 27:03Speaker 1: rally together for one inning, just notch out a couple
- 27:07Speaker 1: of runs, and you can win the baseball game that night,
- 27:10Speaker 1: even against the decent baseball team.
- 27:11Speaker 5: Yeah, and we did get a Texter asking, well, what
- 27:13Speaker 5: about this great farm system we're always hearing about, why
- 27:15Speaker 5: was it so hard to pull together a team? Well,
- 27:17Speaker 5: it happened last minute. Arkansas is real far away geographically.
- 27:22Speaker 1: Yeah, that was impossible.
- 27:23Speaker 3: Yeah, and as you mentioned, Tacoma was out of town.
- 27:26Speaker 5: You had like less, you had an hour or two hours,
- 27:28Speaker 5: probably by because Curtis Washington Junior got there in the
- 27:31Speaker 5: fifth inning from Everett.
- 27:33Speaker 3: So clearly there wasn't a lot of time.
- 27:34Speaker 1: And then most importantly, it doesn't work that way, right,
- 27:38Speaker 1: And so is that I don't know if you're being
- 27:40Speaker 1: sarcastic or nasty or what you are, and I don't
- 27:43Speaker 1: want to pick on you, I really don't. But you're
- 27:47Speaker 1: not going to activate one of your top prospects to
- 27:50Speaker 1: fill a day, right. You're not going to start their
- 27:52Speaker 1: clock just so that you can get through a day, right.
- 27:56Speaker 1: You're going to try to figure out how we can
- 27:59Speaker 1: piece this thing together. But then logistically there were a
- 28:03Speaker 1: lot of hurdles. But we have a great farm system
- 28:06Speaker 1: because we have a lot of guys that are look
- 28:09Speaker 1: well good for the future. But you're not going to
- 28:11Speaker 1: activate Johnny for Melo to come up for one game
- 28:15Speaker 1: and then send him back and start his clock. That's
- 28:18Speaker 1: that's asinine.
- 28:19Speaker 5: You'd be doing it when you think they're going to
- 28:21Speaker 5: be contributing for a long time.
- 28:23Speaker 1: Yes, and we're not going to activate Las Montesa's clock
- 28:29Speaker 1: for one afternoon.
- 28:30Speaker 5: Right, and especially not last minute because the last thing
- 28:33Speaker 5: you want is to activate them to sit on the bench.
- 28:35Speaker 1: And that's all you're trying to get through. You're trying
- 28:37Speaker 1: to like get through that game. If there's some criticism here,
- 28:40Speaker 1: if you want to levy some criticism for unpreparedness or
- 28:43Speaker 1: having an off day and not knowing how serious all
- 28:46Speaker 1: the injuries were and that all of these guys weren't
- 28:49Speaker 1: going to be available, then have your have at it,
- 28:52Speaker 1: go after them because some some ball or two got
- 28:55Speaker 1: dropped in this process. But no, it has nothing to
- 28:58Speaker 1: do with what happened to all this depth and the
- 29:01Speaker 1: farm system. Yeah, number one, they were unreachable, logistically not available,
- 29:06Speaker 1: and number two, that's bad business to start the clock
- 29:10Speaker 1: of two guys that you're just going to try to
- 29:12Speaker 1: get through one game with. All right, coming up next,
- 29:15Speaker 1: we've got a ceremony to conduct Sports Radio ninety three
- 29:18Speaker 1: point three kJ R f M. All right, coming up
- 29:28Speaker 1: at the top of the hour, it is our US
- 29:30Speaker 1: Open preview. That's right, it's the US Open week, our
- 29:33Speaker 1: major golf challenge ongoing in ninety three to three KJR
- 29:36Speaker 1: dot com. We have a special guest picker today. We
- 29:39Speaker 1: look forward to getting to know him and to see
- 29:41Speaker 1: if he's any good at picking. We know he's good
- 29:42Speaker 1: at golf. Can you pick golfers? Though?
- 29:45Speaker 2: Ye?
- 29:46Speaker 7: Two very different things, right, Being good at golf, yeah,
- 29:52Speaker 7: anyone can do it. Yeah, But picking the right golfers
- 29:56Speaker 7: that's skill. So we'll do that today at at nine o'clock.
- 30:01Speaker 7: But in the meantime we do have some hardware to
- 30:04Speaker 7: hand out. We got to give our guest pick ors
- 30:07Speaker 7: something to steal and apparently right off of Ashley's bones
- 30:11Speaker 7: and flash people on YouTube.
- 30:13Speaker 1: They can see that that you really are doing that.
- 30:16Speaker 3: I'll wear the jacket for the next draft. I'll go
- 30:19Speaker 3: get it in the break and I'll wear it.
- 30:20Speaker 1: For the There you go, There you go. I could
- 30:23Speaker 1: even put it on your shoulders.
- 30:27Speaker 3: Yeah, the feed up so people can see you jacket me. Okay,
- 30:32Speaker 3: so that sounds okay, Probably not.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Yes, Ashley has has won her first I mean and
- 30:41Speaker 1: by the way, there's no shot because everybody's just one one.
- 30:44Speaker 1: But well not everybody. We'll get to that in a moment.
- 30:47Speaker 1: But we're very early in the brand new season of
- 30:51Speaker 1: our Green Jacket Drafts and Predictions, and Ashley has put
- 30:55Speaker 1: the jacket on her shoulders for the first time in
- 30:57Speaker 1: this brand new year. She on our NHL Playoff preview
- 31:02Speaker 1: her hockey team, and we just kept goals for our
- 31:06Speaker 1: hockey fantasy teams of Nathan McKennon, Leyon Dry Sidle, Taj Thompson,
- 31:12Speaker 1: and Seth Jarvis. They scored nineteen goals in the playoffs,
- 31:17Speaker 1: six more than second place. You blow the competition away.
- 31:21Speaker 1: So Ashley won our NHL Playoff Green.
- 31:25Speaker 5: Jacket Draft, and five Iron kept asking me, well, aren't
- 31:28Speaker 5: you already in the league, Like if I'd be mad
- 31:30Speaker 5: in the finals if Seth Jarvis didn't score a goal.
- 31:33Speaker 3: I said, yeah, but I wouldn't want to win by more.
- 31:35Speaker 1: Oh, you wanted to getgreed. You want to rub it
- 31:37Speaker 1: in our face.
- 31:38Speaker 5: Yeah, I wanted to win by the most, wanted to
- 31:41Speaker 5: double up.
- 31:42Speaker 1: I think that's called bad sportsmanship.
- 31:43Speaker 3: Yeah it was. I was in.
- 31:47Speaker 1: And also we should say that we also have Spencer Halls,
- 31:53Speaker 1: who's won his first Green Jacket.
- 31:54Speaker 3: Draft as his walk up song, though.
- 31:57Speaker 1: I don't and he's not here, so I'm not gonna
- 32:00Speaker 1: say anything positive about him.
- 32:02Speaker 5: I'll ask him next time he comes on when we
- 32:04Speaker 5: decided to have him on another time, I'll ask him
- 32:06Speaker 5: his walk up song.
- 32:07Speaker 3: Then we'll play it for him then.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Plus we had to send out the jacket to get fitted.
- 32:11Speaker 1: He's got some long arms.
- 32:12Speaker 3: He does gangly that one seven feet of arms.
- 32:15Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got bull whips for arms. Just walks around
- 32:19Speaker 1: like this. I know, he's like one of those Cocapelli
- 32:22Speaker 1: outside of the outside of used car dealerships.
- 32:26Speaker 3: Yep, you always know what they're called. I just call
- 32:29Speaker 3: him the wavy arm.
- 32:30Speaker 1: Yeah, the blow around. He finished with thirteen and ninety
- 32:34Speaker 1: one points in our NBA playoff preview, so he won
- 32:37Speaker 1: that green jacket. I finished second in both of these,
- 32:40Speaker 1: by the way.
- 32:40Speaker 3: Well that's sad. You're just a bridesmaid.
- 32:43Speaker 1: Apparently like Catherine Hegel, so Spencer's team of Wimby Donovan,
- 32:49Speaker 1: Mitchell dearon Fox and Jalen Williams. He even had a
- 32:53Speaker 1: hurt guy through the whole playoffs as well, and he
- 32:55Speaker 1: still beat me by sixty three points, So he took
- 32:59Speaker 1: that green jack So we've given out four green jackets
- 33:02Speaker 1: so far in the brand new season, and two of
- 33:06Speaker 1: our guests have won. Andrews won or twenty six Masters,
- 33:09Speaker 1: Spencer won our twenty six NBA Playoffs, and now you
- 33:12Speaker 1: and I have won a piece as well.
- 33:15Speaker 3: Kid.
- 33:16Speaker 1: Yeah, a kid hasn't won anything yet, and neither is
- 33:18Speaker 1: Buckyser idiot. Yeah. Also I should point out, just give
- 33:27Speaker 1: you an update our World Cup preview. Andrews is three
- 33:30Speaker 1: and oh so far and his soccer teams that he chose,
- 33:34Speaker 1: Jackson and I each have a well. Actually Jackson has
- 33:39Speaker 1: three draws and a win, so he's at two and
- 33:41Speaker 1: a half. I have one win and two draws with
- 33:44Speaker 1: one team yet to play, and Ashley has one win
- 33:48Speaker 1: and one draw. But you have England going today for
- 33:51Speaker 1: the first time. Yeah.
- 33:52Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I have a loss to you do.
- 33:55Speaker 1: Have a loss. You have the only loss, oh man, Yeah,
- 33:57Speaker 1: you have the only loss. And then Bucky is leading
- 34:00Speaker 1: our home run derby. He did squeeze that in before
- 34:03Speaker 1: his medical leave, so he has twenty eight home runs.
- 34:06Speaker 1: But I have been playing without Cal Rawley and Brendan
- 34:09Speaker 1: Donovan for some time now.
- 34:10Speaker 3: Yeah, that's tricky.
- 34:11Speaker 1: Is that crazy that Cal has seven home runs and
- 34:13Speaker 1: cold Emerson has six? That you've ever guessed that at
- 34:15Speaker 1: the beginning of the year. Sure not, But yes, Bucky
- 34:20Speaker 1: with twenty eight. He's got Julio Cole Young and JP
- 34:24Speaker 1: with his ten, which is a bit of a surprising
- 34:26Speaker 1: number at this stage, So there you go. That's we
- 34:28Speaker 1: are up to date. But congratulations to Ashley. She's back
- 34:32Speaker 1: on the winning ball here. Oh thank you.
- 34:35Speaker 3: It feels good.
- 34:36Speaker 1: I bet it does. Yeah, really I'm a little jealous. Well,
- 34:40Speaker 1: we're going to draft next. We've got our US Open
- 34:42Speaker 1: preview with Alex Dunlop from PNW a Golf Academy, so
- 34:47Speaker 1: that's coming your way next. On Sports Radio ninety three
- 34:50Speaker 1: point three KJRFM.