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Chuck & Buck 5-11 Hour 2: Headlines and the struggling M's offense, the rigging continues and Miller returns. · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Leaning out the mouth. It's getting very interesting.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Now, back's pack for Cole Young.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: And on his hands.
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: He popped it up shadow center, Montgomery calling for it.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: He makes the catch and everybody stays anchored. Two outs
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: and the Mariners out of their final out today and
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: it is up to Brendan Donovan is This crowd rises
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: to its feet and this one coming down to the
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: very final outs one, two to dominant, broken background or
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: off the fist, Marakami at the bag?
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: How the White Sox win it?
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: They take the series two games to one, and for
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: the second straight game, the Mariners are held to one
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: lone run.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: On the call.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday Mariners TV Mariners lose to the Chicago White Sox
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  Speaker 3: two to one. Led for almost the entire game. They
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: scored in the very first inning. Logan Gilbert was dominant yesterday,
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: left the game well below ninety pitches, six shutout innings.
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: Was just absolutely on fire. Dan Wilson saw that he's
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: not going to make it to the end. I got
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: a fresh ready to go, rested bullpen, three guys, Ferrera
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  Speaker 3: in the seventh, Bizar too in the eighth, Munos ninth.
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: We're gonna win a one nothing ball game here today
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: didn't happen. The White Sox scored twice in the eighth
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: inning and they defeat the Mariners by a final score
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: of two to one, and they take the series on
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: the South side of Chicago two games to one as well.
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: And so the Mariners are now nineteen and twenty two
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: on the young season, and we will certainly talk about
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: how we got there coming up here in a little bit.
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: Good morning to you. It is Chuck Alan, Ashley Ryan
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: with you. Bucky Jacobson still out, probably not much longer,
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: but still out this week, and so Chuck and Buck
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: Radio program continues without the Buck portion here on this Monday.
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: We've got headlines for you, but before we get to them,
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• 2:34
  Speaker 3: no chance the Seahawks will play the Bills to start
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: their season.
• 2:39
  Speaker 4: There you go. I was wondering if you were gonna
• 2:41
  Speaker 4: work in Buffalo somehow into that. So good work.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be the Bears or the Chargers. Yes,
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: I could pretty much definitively stay that.
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  Speaker 5: I think a lot of people agree with you on
• 2:51
  Speaker 5: the Bears front. A lot of people thinking it.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Will be Bear Bears. Yep, Bears, Bear.
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: Let's get to your frost brewed cors light choose chill headline.
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: It is NFL schedule release weeks. That's why we're talking
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: about this. So Thursday we're gonna know the entire schedule.
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: But you know how this works. We're gonna get little
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: leaks here and there. Adam Schefter will be leaking all
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: over the place.
• 3:16
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• 3:18
  Speaker 3: You know what I've learned since Emmett Smith and Dion
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: Sanders started talking about their leakage so publicly, that it's
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  Speaker 3: depend and it's not depends.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I always thought it was depends, like you go by
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  Speaker 3: s Hey, do you need some depends?
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  Speaker 5: No, it's depend I know, but SAYL But I was thinking,
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  Speaker 5: but if you're buying more than one, if you're buying
• 3:37
  Speaker 5: a package that is a that's multiple depend right, So
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  Speaker 5: then it would be depends.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe because I don't know. I don't like it that
• 3:44
  Speaker 4: it's depend it bothers me.
• 3:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it depends because you do you need it, Well,
• 3:50
  Speaker 5: it depends, uh huh, and you do depend on it
• 3:53
  Speaker 5: if you're leaking.
• 3:55
  Speaker 3: It is strange that, like Dion's just like, you know what,
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: I'm still gonna be cool.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going to I wanna tell everybody my butt leaks.
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  Speaker 3: I think you right now I'm gonna be the coolest
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  Speaker 3: man in the world talking.
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  Speaker 4: About Tina pants is cool. Consider me, Miles Davis.
• 4:10
  Speaker 5: I thought you were gonna say, you know what I've
• 4:12
  Speaker 5: learned with Emmitt Smith and Deon Sanders that football players
• 4:15
  Speaker 5: clearly have a lot of leaking issues.
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: Well, Adam Schefter is gonna leak all over the place
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: this week.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna leak whenever you give him an opportunity. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll be uh, we'll be monitoring the leakage for you.
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  Speaker 3: But I would imagine the Seahawks are going to, I
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: think face the Bears on Wednesday, September ninth. It's also
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: PGA Championship week, So you know we're gonna ramp up
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: our coverage show with that as the week goes along.
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: You know how we do, so I can't wait to
• 4:45
  Speaker 3: talk some golf this week. In the second major of
• 4:47
  Speaker 3: the year, Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Montreal Canadians are just
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: beating the hell out of people right now. And last
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: night it was the Buffalo Sabres. Six to two was
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: the final score. The Canadians are up to to one.
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: Buffalo got a little frustrated, kind of like we saw
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  Speaker 3: with who was it Philadelphia when Carolina was beating the
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  Speaker 3: crap out of them?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, and just fight, fight, fight, yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: there were a lot of them, yep.
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  Speaker 1: And so Montreal's up two to one in that series.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually not a good sign when in game.
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  Speaker 3: Three you're so frustrated because you can't figure out the
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  Speaker 3: opponent that you just start fighting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what my nephews did.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 1: It just seemed playing Monopoly.
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  Speaker 5: It just seemed like every time, because we had it
• 5:31
  Speaker 5: on TV three and it was like every time I'd look,
• 5:35
  Speaker 5: it was like, oh my gosh, another Montreal goal in,
• 5:37
  Speaker 5: another Montreal goal.
• 5:39
  Speaker 4: Or a fight. Then the game after that it was fight, Fight, Fight.
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: Two. In the Western Conference, Anaheim four to three over
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  Speaker 3: Las Vegas. That series is even a two games apiece
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: Colorado will be at Minnesota tonight NBA Playoffs. The Knicks
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: advanced in four straight games against the Philadelphia seventy six Ers.
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: The oak Aloma City Thunder can do the same thing
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: to the Lakers tonight. Meanwhile, Victor wimben Yama got kicked
• 6:06
  Speaker 3: out of the game yesterday for throwing an elbow. It
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: was deemed a flagrant too foul and I thought justified,
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: but it certainly cost the San Antonio Spurs a better
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: chance at winning last night. That series is now even
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: at two games apiece. Also, this evening, the other game,
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  Speaker 3: what is the other one?
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  Speaker 1: That is this evening? You've got?
• 6:30
  Speaker 3: Cleveland and Detroit are gonna play tonight at five o'clock
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: with the Pistons up two games to one in that series.
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: The Storm grabbed their first win of the year, eighty
• 6:39
  Speaker 3: nine to eighty two over the Connecticut Sun yesterday, and
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: the Mariners are gonna get Bryce Miller back on Wednesday.
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: He will join a six man rotation temporary six man rotation.
• 6:52
  Speaker 3: It sounds like Brendan Donovan returned over the weekend. A
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: lot of good it did us, as the Mariners lost
• 6:59
  Speaker 3: two out of three to the Chicago White Sox as
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: you heard the disappointment in Aaron Goldsmith's voice during that highlight.
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  Speaker 3: They are now nineteen and twenty two on the year.
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: They'll be in Houston to Knight's take on the Astros.
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: George Kirby gets the start for the Mariners. Peyton Lambert
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: will go for the villain's first pitch is at five
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  Speaker 3: ten in Texas. So those are your frost brewed cors
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: like Chew's chill headlines, and it does bleed right into
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: talking about the Mariners, whose early season frustration continues. I mean,
• 7:29
  Speaker 3: it's just sad that this is just the way it
• 7:31
  Speaker 3: is every single year, that this is the way it is.
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: I heard a little bit of you know, obviously there's
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  Speaker 3: panic been panic after every single loss this year, and
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: you know, finger pointing and blaming and everything else. I
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  Speaker 3: just don't want it to be on the front office.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: Just to me, that's you know, you want.
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: To blame somebody, blame the players, you want to blame
• 7:54
  Speaker 3: if it needs to be more than that, I suppose
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: blame the coaches for not having the players prepared. But
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: there were an awful lot of people at the beginning
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: of the year that were a lot more enthusiastic than
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  Speaker 3: even me about the Mariners' chances and forty games into
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  Speaker 3: the season, just because the team's nineteen and twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: It has nothing to do with roster construction. If that's
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  Speaker 3: the case, then you don't know what you're talking about.
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: You know, you the complainer because you weren't saying that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a month and a half ago. And so
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: to me, this team was really well built. This team
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: was really well prepared for a great season, and this
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: team just does not hit in the first half of
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: the season. I mean, we have some defensive issues. Something
• 8:40
  Speaker 3: that I pointed out when other people were ignoring the
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  Speaker 3: weaknesses to the roster. They have defensive issues. There's no
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: question you take two of the five best relievers out
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: of any bullpen and you're going to be thinning the
• 8:52
  Speaker 3: bullpen going forward. And that's where we are in our
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: current state with the bullpen right now. Yep, Luis Castillo
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: is not the same dude, and there might have to
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: be some strong consideration of taking him completely out of
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: the rotation at some point this season. Pete Woodworth told
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  Speaker 3: us on Friday he sees somebody that is the same
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: old rock to him just running into bad luck. I'm
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: not gonna buy that. I buy a lot from Pete,
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna buy that one. Nonetheless, I certainly get
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: why the organization wants to give him as much rope
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: as possible to try to turn this thing around. So
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: I sort of understand that. So, yes, we have some
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: defensive liabilities. We have one of our five and if
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: Miller's added on Wednesday, one of our six starters right
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: now is not pitching well. And we certainly have an
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: injured couple of key bullpen contributors. So there are a
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: lot of issues. It's not just one thing that explains
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: why the Mariners are nineteen and twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: But let's be honest about it.
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  Speaker 3: The major thing is often, once again, the Mariners cannot
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: score during the spring. It's been the exact same thing
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: every single year during the Jerry Depoto era and even
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: before that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a broken record.
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  Speaker 3: And here they sit with a lineup that was supposed
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: to be its deepest, with a heart of the order
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: that was really well invested in. I mean Naylor, cal
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: and Julio, We're all invested long term deals to lock
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: these guys up. Naylor's kind of come out of it.
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: He's sitting two fifty five now. Julio's actually off to
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: one of his better starts of his career. He's hitting
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: at two seventy two. But cal Rawley's over his last
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: thirty two. I mean, he's in the one sixty range
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: right now, and he is a liability. He is absolutely
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: lost at the plate right now. And when you have
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: gone Ashley six and ten in one run games, and
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: you've played three more one run games than any other team,
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: the second place team has played three fewer one run
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: games than you, and you're at six and ten. Sixteen
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  Speaker 3: of your forty one games have been one run games,
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: and you're six and ten in those games, and your
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: superstar player cal Raley is hitting one sixty. That pretty
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: much explains why you're at least not five hundred at
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: this point, why you're at least not ten and six
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: in those one run games. Is when you can't count
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: on the big dumper to come through. And right now
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: we just can't count on him to come through.
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: No we can't.
• 11:31
  Speaker 5: I mean he hasn't had a hit since April twenty seventh,
• 11:35
  Speaker 5: and yeah it is May eleventh.
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: Yep, it's not good. And I I don't know. I
• 11:41
  Speaker 4: wish I could figure out what's going on.
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: I have seen some absurd things from you know, people's
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: reactions to him performing poorly. I'm not trying to go
• 11:53
  Speaker 5: into any extreme extreme thinking of how to fix cal
• 11:57
  Speaker 5: or anything like that. He's got to fix himself. I
• 11:59
  Speaker 5: think he can fix it. L I'm not worried that
• 12:01
  Speaker 5: this is going to be his season. That he went
• 12:03
  Speaker 5: from sixty home runs and runner up in the MVP
• 12:05
  Speaker 5: race last year to what is it, won six six three.
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not worried about that, but I am getting
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: a little impatient.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Well, they've already.
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: If you want to call it, dropping him in the
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: order to fourth. I mean fourth used to be like
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: the marquee position. Now more teams second. Yeah, and so
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: they had him in the that that pivotal second spot
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: in the order position. They moved him down to fourth.
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't think it should be an insult
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: to him. I mean he admitted it after the game yesterday.
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: He's just in a bad way right now, and if
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: he could figure it out, he'd figure you know, it's
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: not through lack of effort, No, no at all. And
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: the same with I mean the same guys that got
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: through to him last year to the degree of him
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: having a legendary one in the unique season. The same
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: guy's whispering and is here right now that can't figure
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: out how to get him to be productive again. But
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: he's just lost. It does happen to even the best
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: baseball players. I do believe that he will come out
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 3: He's not going to go from sixty homers to crashing
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  Speaker 3: and burning the very next year. He just works too hard.
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: But right now they have a blueprint. They're getting him out.
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: I don't see a guy that's going up to the
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: plate with confidence right now.
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: But he's a got to have it. He's got to
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: get it fixed.
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  Speaker 3: Otherwise this nineteen and twenty two record will feel very real,
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: This sub five hundred record will start to feel very real.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: I do believe we should have enough offensive talent around
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: him to still overcome this. But when everything's not clicking,
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: and there's no way that everything's clicking, then when your
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: best player, your superstar player, is struggling as much as
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: he is, it becomes all that more glaring. So, yeah,
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: six and one run games, how much different is that?
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: If Cowl's being col.
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that is the big thing.
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: It's those one run games, because I mean you saw
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: on Friday the offensive performance we had was phenomenal, and
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: Luke Rayley was phenomenal. But you're not gonna get a
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: twelve eight game all the time, especially not with our
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: pitching staff and especially not with our batters.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's just not how this roster is constructed.
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: So you're more likely to get those one run games
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: or those really close games. And if we're not performing
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: well in those, the ones that we're going to see
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: more often, then yeah, we're in some trouble.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: If I had have.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Told you it's May eleventh right now, if I had
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: told you March eleventh that they'll both for the most part,
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: be equal amount of health, but our leading home run
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: hitter will be Luke Rayley on May eleventh, would you
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: have bought that.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: I Mean, here's the thing is, Yeah, I don't know.
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: I'd be like, Okay, well, that's a pleasant surprise. We
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: must be really good.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: That's not that's that's not any I mean kind of
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: a platoon player. Also, somebody that almost everybody had written
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: off in the offseason. Yeah, he's our home run leader, right,
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: now over Cal with eight.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Home runs on the season. And it is not just
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: the one thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just Cal, and it's not just struggling against
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: left handers, and it's not just.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Struggling with runners in scoring position. Those have been.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Hair pulling statistics for us for a decade now when
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: it comes to this baseball team in the first half
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: of the season. But it's not as easy as that.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: It's everything. I mean, yeah, we're struggling with runners in
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: scoring position to twenty one batting average, which is twenty
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: eight out of thirty teams in Major League Baseball, but
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: we're also twenty fifth leading off an inning, you know,
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: with even lower batting average at two fourteen. So we're
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: not doing any better the lead off an inning as
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: we are driving in runners that are in scoring position
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: no OPS is a little higher in both of those
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: categories than the batting average, and that's more important. Twenty
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  Speaker 3: first of th runners in scoring position in OPS and
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: seventeenth leading off an inning in OPS. But nonetheless, we're
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: just not getting hits to lead off an inning, and
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: we're not getting hits with runners in scoring position, So
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: it's not like we're just failing in the run production opportunities.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: We're failing at all times batting average. Yes, we are
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: twenty eighth versus left handed hit left handed pitchers, and
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: it feels a lot worse. There are thirty teams in
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: the league. It feels like we're thirty eighth against left
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: handed pitchers. So we're in the bottom three against lefties
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: so far. But we're twenty seventh overall. So yes, eighteenth
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: versus right anders, but not much better right and so
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: we're just not performing no offensively.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: At this point.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Simple yeah, And yes, I don't know why this team
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: when they face a left he turns every single one
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: of them into Chris Sayle. But that's what they do now,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: That's what they've done forever. And teams are certainly trying
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: to throw left handers at us whenever they possibly can,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: to try to get the Rallies and the can Zones
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: out of the lineup. And Raley's finding success despite the jarring.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: You know, two at bats here, won at bat they're
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: kind of games. But can Zone looks as lost as
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: col does right now. And he was showing tremendous promise.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: I was so optimistic about him at the beginning.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Of the year, so I can't explain it.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know why they get proven right handed hitters
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: who have dominated lefties for almost their entire careers and
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: they get here and they can't perform at all. To
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: be one thing, if they're just average performers, they can't
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: perform at all. I guess Connor Joe's been hitting a
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: little bit as of late.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Well, they're supposed to be doing right.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I don't understand that, and I don't I just don't
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: understand why this team that has been built to be
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: a good offensive team to very good offensive team once
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: again has to be snake bitten by early season woes
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: like every other team that we've seen the last decade.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I mean we've had some bad teams. Yeah, offensively in
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: the last decade. Yes, we have had teams where you're
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: like Dylan Moris didn't wearing the lineup we had. We've
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: had those seasons where like Dylan Moore's like getting fifth
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: in the lineup and you know, Nottingham, who is Nottingham?
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Why is he starting? You know, we've had those seasons.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: This was not supposed to be that season, and yet
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: once again the Mariners can't hit before summer, and it
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: is it's infuriating cairpulling.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: And that's that's what's so frustrating, right is it? Because
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: it is the promise you have coming off the last season.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: And I remember when we broke the drought or end
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: of the drought and made the playoffs, and we had
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: such high promise going into the next season and it
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: was awful. And so then you go all the way
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: to Game seven of the ALCS and you're like, all right,
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: this team's got something. Here we go and we're keeping
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: quite a few of the pieces. Yes, we got rid
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: of Polanco and Suarez, and but you still had a
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: lot of promise coming into this season, and so then
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: you get these extra high expectations and it just feels
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: even more crushing when they're not performing.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Well, that's the bad news. The good news is they
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: always do pull out of it. Yeah, you know, or
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: at least I won't say always. They haven't always done it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: They didn't two years ago. Yeah, but more often than not,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: they do heat up in the summer, and they do
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: go on a run in July and August and they
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: perform more like the team that.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: We expected to see.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Now, what we expected to see this year was not
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: just a team that was going to contend for a
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: playoff spot. Well, we expected to see the year was
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: a team that was going to battle the Yankees for
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: the American League title. That's the team that we are
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: still expecting to see. But once again, we're just seeing
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: the same old Mariners in April and May. And it
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: is I get it. It is just highly irritated.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels a groundhog day.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Yep. All right.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Coming up next, something that I did not discuss on Friday,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: and I think they were trying to avoid me. I
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: really do not trying to give myself too much credit,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: but it's the only explanation I could come up with
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: this weekend.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I'll talk about it next.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Well, hopefully you
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: didn't miss it yesterday, because there'd be you know a
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: lot of disappointed people that if you didn't acknowledge the
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: big event that took place yesterday and no families got together.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thinks of that nature and probably made good foods
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I would assume, probably just spend a lot of time
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: together and celebrating the annual rigging of the NBA lottery.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's what we were getting together for.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Okay, that makes sense.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: My mom was fired.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Now I understand why there was a softball tournament this weekend.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: I thought that was to celebrate moms, and that made
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: no sense to me, Like I don't really want to
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: wake up at five forty five in the morning on
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: a weekend, and you know in Lacey. Yeah, But for
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: the NBA lottery rigging, now I get it. Yeah, because
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: they thought there's got to be other things that we've
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: got for people going on.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Very interesting decision by Mother's Day this year to pair
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: themselves with the NBA.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Lottery for Mother's Day to choose to do that.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: It doesn't normally happen that way, but you know, moms
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: and their love of rigged ping pong ball drawings, Oh gosh.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Man goes back to like the very first moms.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: The days of your Yeah, the moms and the days
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: of your eve.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, she just.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, two person lottery, who's going to pick the fruit
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: off the tree? Let's see, let's put the ping pong
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: balls in here. Uh, it's gonna be me.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: The best part is too, with those two person lotteries,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: it wasn't like there was just one ball with Mary's
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: face on it or Eve's face on it and one
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: ball with someone else's face. It was a whole number
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: combination that you had to fall out right exactly.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it made it look on the up and up. Correct.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Well, yesterday was the NBA Lottery, and I'm really upset.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Ashley doesn't normally hear from me on a text on
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Sunday morning, and I'm like, what do you mean. It's
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: the NBA lotteries always during the week, and even if
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I do, if it sneaks up on me because it's
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: not like one of the first things you put on
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: your calendar, I usually have the day to react to
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: it and get something out on the NBA lottery, and
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: they had it on a Sunday this year, and so
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I didn't get the chance to predict how they were
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: going to rig it this year.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Now, I'll be honest, I whiffed. I didn't come close.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I sent Ashley just so somebody saw who I was
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: going to.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Predict, which I commended you for because that was you saying, okay,
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: here it is now, I'm not cheating.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Somebody has seen it before it happens.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I didn't have Washington getting the second pick. They ended
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: up getting the first pick. And by the way, it's
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: the first time since they.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Revised the fool proof cheat proof system.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: That cheat proof, that the number one overall pick actually
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: went to the worst team. It's first time that's happened
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: since twenty nineteen. And they got that in because this
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: is the last year for this system. Of course, all
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: the anti tanking stuff goes into play next year and
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: so it will be a completely different process starting with
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: the regular season and you know next year for the
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: NBA Draft. But for those who don't know, I have
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: for a long time, and certainly with Reckless at Breakfast spend,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: spend at least one segment every year.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Trying to convince you that the NBA.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Lottery is rigged it has been forever. And then I
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: try to predict who it's going to be. And I
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: don't always hit it, but I've hit it a few
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: times this year. My honestly, and I'm being honest, my
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: initial thought to it was Man Chicago in a in a.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Year in which Adam Silver.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Is so frustrated with the tanking stuff that he has
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: to answer to that he's making rules. I thought, if
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: they were going to rig it, Ashley, that they were
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: going to rig it so that none of the teams
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: that were obvious tankers were going to benefit.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Whatsoever from it, and that would make sense to me.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought he was going to do.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Utah Jazz are the one fly in the ointment,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: the fact that they got the second pick, and they
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: were the most obvious tankers of everybody this year. They
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: were the team that a couple of times took their
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: players off the court in the fourth court.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: One of them have to have like sinus surgery or something.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they kept putting guys on them on the injury list. Yeah,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: with like you know, eyebrow bruises. Yeah, you know, stuff
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: like that. I mean, they were the obvious tanks. So
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: for them, I don't know if Adam Silver already had
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: like a handshake agreement with them from the past that
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: they had to get one of these top four. See,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: I don't put anything past him, but that's the one
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: fly in the ointment. But it does kind of feel like,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Indiana Pacers just got crushed by it. Yeah,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Like the Indiana Pacers pick was protected one to four
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: and ten on and because of the way the ping
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: pong balls landed, they dropped five to nine. So they
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: lost their first round pick, a top five pick in
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: the draft, and something tells me.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe that was cooked up a little bit.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: But nonetheless, my initial thought was Memphis and Chicago, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: my reasoning for it was that Chicago.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Big market.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: You know, Adam Silver is sick of watching them flounder.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: He's planning to punish all the tanking teams, so he
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: doesn't have a lot of guys to choose from here,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: a lot of teams to choose from here if he's
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: going to rig the lottery for somebody. So I thought Chicago.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: They weren't so obvious a tanker. Plus, you know, he
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: wants to get them out of obscurity and have them
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: relevant again. Maybe it is a year for the Bulls.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I also thought the Grizzlies, and not because he's trying
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: to save the Grizzly but because.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: If you remember, and you do went here in.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Seattle, the Sonics did really well towards the tail end
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: and the lottery, even though Adam Silver knew they were
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: going to get moved, and the idea was we'd kind
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: of like when they go to their new city, be
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: nice if they hit the ground running.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, David stern I wouldn't have put anything past him.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I don't put anything past silver either in this not
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: in this area.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: So that's why I was like Chicago, Memphis, I had Washington,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: and then I was sure Dallas. I had Dallas and all.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: In my first mock up, Dallas is going to get
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: top four because they did this with wynm bin Yama. First,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: you have to rig the lottery to get the number
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: one overall generational talent to the organization he's going to
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: be most happy with, which was San Antonio. But then
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: you got to rig it a couple more times. Not
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: for number one overall that'd be too obvious, but for
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: top four, because now we have with talent around right.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: He needs support right otherwise it's gonna be five years
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: before I can even put him on television. And in
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: the way this guy's built, he might not even make
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: it five years. So I got to get talent around
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: him fast. So I thought they were gonna do the
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: same thing with Dallas and Cooper Flag. It's one thing
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: to give them the lottery pick, but now I got
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: a surround flag with talent because I need him to
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: be relevant sooner than later. So that was my thinking,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: and then I scrapped it all. And here's the reason
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: why I scrapped it all.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: They're not even hiding it anymore. They don't.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: They're not hiding it like Cooper flag last year. They're
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: not even hiding it. Please trade Doncic to the Lakers
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: and I'll make it worth your while. Don't tell me
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: to say anymore. Don't ask me any follow up questions.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Just if you're thinking about trading Doncic, do Adam a favor.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Get him to the Lakers, and Adam will take care
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: of you. Daddy will take care of you. And what happened.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: They end up with a number one pick, even though
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: they had a two percent chance. They were just blatant
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: about it last year.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: In my opinion. Yeah, so the.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: List I sent to Ashley was ef Golden State's gonna
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: end up with the number one pick. Yeah, they got
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: a two percent chance of getting the first pick. But
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Adam Silver's got like two three years left of Steph Curry.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: And he needs help right now.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: So I thought I put Golden State one that he
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: was going to be even with a two percent chance.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: He sold it last year.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Two percent chance, We're gonna go ahead and give Golden
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: State the number one pick, so that Steph Curry's got it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: I even thought Steve Kerr signed a two year extension. Yeah,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: everybody said that he was leaving. Why is he signing
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: an extension. I thought he was leaving. Oh I get it. Oh,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: I see what's happening. Wink wink, nod, nod. He's been
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: he's been informed. He's getting the number one pick.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Isn't he signed this to your deal? And oh my gosh,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: look at the luck. No, I wouldn't put it past them.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: That would have made total sense.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: So I had Golden State, and then I had Washington
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: because Washington actually did some things.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: To try to get better this year.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: They added Trey Young, they added Anthony Davis, and they
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: really were just the team that was really bad this year.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: So I don't know.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: If I really put them in the tanking category as
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: I do some of these other teams. So I thought, also,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Adam's gonna be like, well, you know, it can't make
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: it two obvious, Yeah, so why not? So I had
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Washington two. Then I had Atlanta three. Again the whole
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: reason because I'm gonna punish all of the tankers. And
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Atlanta made the playoffs. Yeah, and yet they've got someone
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: else's lottery pick. So I'm gonna give Atlanta the three
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: and I'm gonna give Dallas the four because I got
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: to surround Cooper.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Flag with talent.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: So that's what I ended up sending to Ashley missed
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: wift way off.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I get it. You can use any argument you can.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: If you're clever enough, you can figure out anyway no
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: matter who gets the pick. You can create a narrative
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: that suggests how the NBA wanted that team to have
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: the number one pick. I understand that, and yet I
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: think they rigged it again.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, still not convinced that they
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: didn't rig it.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Utah's the only fly in the ointment because Utah was
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: the tanker of all tankers. So my only way to
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: justify that is that they thought they were getting the
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: number one pick last year, because you remember I took
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Utah and get the number one pick last year, and
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, no, things have changed, Danny. See
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Dallas did us a favor, and no, I got to
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: do them a favor, so I'll take.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Care of you next year. I don't know, Yeah, I
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: just don't.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I don't trust anything about the NBA lottery, which to
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: me is one of the things that could go a
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: long way toward fixing a lot of the suspicion and
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: a lot of the frustration that you have with tanking
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: is just blow it up entirely. Well, I've said this before.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: If you have a tanking problem for a lottery that
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: is rigged, it doesn't even make sense. But this year's teams,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I think there were so there was so much talent
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: that even having fifth, sixth, seventh was worth I just
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: don't want to be on the on the bottom. I
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: don't want to be outside the top ten.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's where you feel bad for Indiana, as
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: you were saying.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well I don't feel bad for them because
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: I think they tanked.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: But but but not so. Yeah, it was. It was a
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: difficult one to predict.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: It was a it was an odd year for all
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: of it with everything that's swirling around the National Basketball Association.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: But officially I whiffed on my ultimate selections for this.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: But I'm still just as convinced today have I always been.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: That is rigged.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they haven't proven that that's.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Not all right.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Coming up now, we did get some Mariner's news this
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: week that finally solves one of the mysteries to this
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: early season. So we'll share with you our thoughts on
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: the return of Bryce Miller next Sports Radio ninety three
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: point three kJ RFM. You know, Bucky Jacobson, man, he's
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: missed a month of analyzing this baseball team.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: We did have someone text in on the Tacoma Dodge
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: text line who said.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's Bucky's fault that the Mariners aren't playing.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Of course it is.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, okay, that went without saying yeah, okay, good,
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: I'm just that we're all on the same page.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've always known. Do we have to say it
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: out loud?
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: I didn't think so, but I thought, well, if this
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: guy's texting it in, then maybe we do.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: If he's saying, like, do you think it's Bucky's fault?
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yes, thousand percent, yes, yeah.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, who else's fault would that be?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly, cowls Yeah, what we love col.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, No, Bucky's a turd.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Uh well, we also want to let you know that,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: uh he he's probably the Turd's probably hanging out at
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: the DraftKings sports book every day.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: That might be one of the smartest things hear medical leave.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: He's probably there at that, probably got a dark mustache
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: on and some horn wren glasses to throw you off.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and everyone's like, oh God, couldn't be Bucky. Yes,
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: he's large like Bucky and that beard, but he doesn't
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: wear glasses.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have a dark mustache.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: No, his mustache is his same color as his.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Beard, right right, Why would what where would he get glasses?
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: It's not him?
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: And what could he put a fake mustache on his mustache? No?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Who would do that?
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: That would be stupid.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: But if you want to go investigate for us, please
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: please do casino it's waiting for you. Also, quil Ceda
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Creek a casino as well. And you know that Colin
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Ray is coming on June fourth to perform at the
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  Speaker 3: Orca Ballroom at the Talala Brasort Casino. So get your
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  Speaker 3: tickets now and keep in mind that is my birthday
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  Speaker 3: so you can celebrate with Colin Ray because God knows
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  Speaker 3: he's going to do an entire set dedicated to me.
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  Speaker 3: Quatro to chuck out. Yes, all right, let's talk about
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  Speaker 3: Bryce Miller. We did get some information and considering how
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  Speaker 3: much we discussed this topic last week and particularly on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: We have an update for you, and that is.
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  Speaker 3: That Bryce Miller is going to return to the starting
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  Speaker 3: rotation and he will make his season debut on Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: against the Houston Astros. And so for the interim, the
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  Speaker 3: team has decided not to take anyone out of the
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  Speaker 3: starting rotation. It is going to be a six man rotation.
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  Speaker 3: But I should stress in the interim sounds like they're
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  Speaker 3: just taking advantage of a stretch of games without a
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  Speaker 3: day off where they're really not disrupting anything. He pretty
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  Speaker 3: much just kind of fills the whole for not because
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  Speaker 3: you have a four game, you either get Mondays off
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  Speaker 3: or you get Thursdays off. We have a four gamer
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  Speaker 3: against the Astros.
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  Speaker 1: So that we don't get either one of those off
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  Speaker 1: this week.
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  Speaker 3: So Bryce Miller just lands into a spot where it
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  Speaker 3: really doesn't take anybody out of their rhythm. You just
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  Speaker 3: throw them in until the schedule starts to lighten up
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  Speaker 3: with some days off down the line, and then you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to make a decision. So it will be
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  Speaker 3: a six man rotation, but not the way you're thinking.
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  Speaker 3: And then it does sound like when they do barring
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  Speaker 3: something else changing, somebody going on the injury list ahead
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  Speaker 3: and knock on your head again, or you know, or
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Luis Castillo gets hit for eleven runs
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  Speaker 3: in an inning and a third and the writing then
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  Speaker 3: suddenly is on the wall with him. It sounds like
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  Speaker 3: what they will do when they go back to a
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  Speaker 3: five man rotation, because it's not a long term solution,
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  Speaker 3: would be to do the piggyback thing, so and it
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  Speaker 3: would be Miller and Castillo and not Hancock.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's what we're.
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  Speaker 3: Hearing right now about how they're going to handle the
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  Speaker 3: starting Road State rotation once Bryce Miller comes back.
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  Speaker 1: So very practical approach.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, at first, no hurt feelings, and then as long
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  Speaker 3: as something else doesn't occur, then it does look like
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  Speaker 3: it's the piggyback five man rotation with Miller and Castillo
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  Speaker 3: piggybacking which guy starts, which guy relieves.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine they'll lean towards.
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  Speaker 3: Seniority in that situation. That said, Luis Castile once again
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  Speaker 3: did not pitch well this turned through the rotation and so,
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  Speaker 3: I mean p Woodworth hasn't changed his mind after one outing.
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  Speaker 3: He told us on Friday, he sees the same old rock.
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  Speaker 3: There are a lot of things that I trust about Pete.
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  Speaker 3: What he tells us, I'm not buying that one. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think he's the same old rock. And to me,
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  Speaker 3: when push comes to shove, this is about winning a
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  Speaker 3: championship this year and.
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  Speaker 4: So getting above five hundred right now, right.
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm not gonna live with in a six
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  Speaker 3: man rotation. I'm not going to live with a guy
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  Speaker 3: that's struggling start and start out when I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Have to throw him. Yeah, I mean, I have other options.
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  Speaker 3: I even have Kate Anderson, who I would prefer being
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  Speaker 3: in the rotation over Castillo right now. I get why
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to make that move just yet, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to just stand on ceremony here, like
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  Speaker 3: Luis Castillo's got to start pitching better or he shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be in.
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  Speaker 1: The rotation period. Yeah, and I don't care how much
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  Speaker 1: you like him.
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  Speaker 4: No, I agree.
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  Speaker 5: And I do like the idea when they go to
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  Speaker 5: the piggyback situation of him getting the start, because if
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  Speaker 5: he's having a good game, he can go longer. But
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  Speaker 5: if he's not having a good game, then Miller swoops in,
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  Speaker 5: whereas the other way around, if they, you know, go
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  Speaker 5: four innings and then try to go three innings and
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  Speaker 5: Castillo's having a bad game, will you're stuck with it?
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  Speaker 4: Well kind of, but you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what I did a group, Here's what I did. Believe.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying I agree with it, but I believe
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  Speaker 3: what Pete told us on Friday was he doesn't really
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  Speaker 3: care if guys are starting or relieving. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: that that does affect preparation, even by your outline of
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  Speaker 3: that scenario. Hey, Bryce Miller's not used to getting up
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of a game, like just starters just
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  Speaker 3: aren't used to doing that, and so I do think
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  Speaker 3: that it affects them. But Pete says, no, that will
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  Speaker 3: not have any effect on our decisions going forward. Worried
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  Speaker 3: about guys routines getting disrupted because one has to come
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  Speaker 3: out of the pen or has to pitch every sixth
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  Speaker 3: day instead of every fifth day. Nothing will get disrupted.
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  Speaker 3: That won't bother our guys.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope he's right. Yeah, all right?
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  Speaker 3: Coming up next, the Astro series starts tonight and it's
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: not your typical.
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  Speaker 1: Mariners Astro Series.
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  Speaker 3: As we've gotten accustomed to, the Astros might be on
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: the verge of pressing the rebuild button. So we're going
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  Speaker 3: to ask Chandler Rome, who's been covering them for years,
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  Speaker 3: about that subject. Next Sports Radio ninety three point three
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