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Ian Furness 9/28 H2: Lucky Seahawks... Joe Sheehan and the Daily Power Play! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 2: Baseball playoffs underway. Our team's not playing. They're done.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for the reminder.
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  Speaker 2: Phillies and Braves right now 2-1 Atlanta. They're in the
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  Speaker 2: top of the 7th, but the Phillies are threatening before
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  Speaker 2: a crowd that's probably at least a third empty in
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  Speaker 2: that stadium, I would say. At least a third. White
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  Speaker 2: Sox Astros coming up at 2. Come on, Chicago. Sweet home, Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox Yankees at 5. Cubs Padres at 7. Yankees
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  Speaker 2: without Aaron Judge for their series with Boston. Jerry DiPoto
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  Speaker 2: spoke yesterday. We've talked about it a lot. They're looking
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  Speaker 2: outside the organization for the next manager. They turfed most
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  Speaker 2: of their coaching staff except for the pitching side of things.
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  Speaker 2: Those guys are still around. Week 3 of the NFL
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  Speaker 2: is in the books. Case Keenum led Bears. Yes, I
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  Speaker 2: said that right. Case Keenum led Bears to feed the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles 27-7 on Monday Night Football. Game you heard right here.
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  Speaker 2: last night when the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted 77-22 to
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  Speaker 2: although probably won't get voted on until after the midterm
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  Speaker 2: elections are done. And it is a cracking ticket Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: We just gave away our first pair. Two more for
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  Speaker 2: at 235. Fact or fiction, it'll be Ashley's pick today.
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  Speaker 2: She's working feverishly in there on it right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all I've been doing.
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  Speaker 2: This is the time of the year that's always interesting
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  Speaker 2: because in this business, it's an interesting time of the
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  Speaker 2: year because usually we're just so uber focused in on football.
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  Speaker 2: And yet I'm looking through yesterday, today, and we're putting
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  Speaker 2: a bow on it. This is it for baseball, right?
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have Sheehan on here in a little while,
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  Speaker 2: Eno on Thursday, and that's it for us with baseball.
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  Speaker 3: We'll give you updates on the playoffs, and.
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  Speaker 2: That's about it. That's about it. When they hire the manager,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get back into it. But I think everybody needs
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  Speaker 2: a break. But I bring that up because normally you
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  Speaker 2: would just see like two-thirds of the texts and feedback
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  Speaker 2: we get would be Seahawk-related. and maybe some Huskies in
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  Speaker 2: there or whatever, and that's not the case. This fan
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  Speaker 2: base is pissed, and I think you can be really
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  Speaker 2: fooled if you're down at T-Mobile by a near sellout
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  Speaker 2: crowd or sellout crowds on the final weekend, maybe some
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  Speaker 2: good television numbers up until the last couple weeks. I
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  Speaker 2: think they dipped quite a bit when they were more
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  Speaker 2: or less out of it, but good subscribers, all the things.
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  Speaker 2: I think you can be somewhat tricked by that. The
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  Speaker 2: baseball fan is not happy. the baseball fan is pissed.
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  Speaker 2: The baseball fan is Nathan Bishop, Chris Crawford, and the
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  Speaker 2: rest of you that feel the same way that you're
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  Speaker 2: upset and you're on, it's just, it's not acceptable. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and I see that on the text line. Our text
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  Speaker 2: line is just absolutely blowing up.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Blowing up. So it's, I, I thank you guys for
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  Speaker 2: all the texts, all the feedback. Uh, we'll try to
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  Speaker 2: get to some of those coming up at two 30.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just read a couple of those. Uh, 206, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for a great segment. 425, Ian, one of the most real, honest,
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  Speaker 2: and raw molly whops ever.
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  Speaker 3: Would agree.
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  Speaker 2: I really felt Nathan Bishop.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Chris, well done, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well done. Uh, people asking about slamming soft. It wasn't,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, the Divish stuff we were joking about,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't Divish slamming softy. It was.
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  Speaker 3: I know, and now there's all these people that are like,
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  Speaker 3: Divish is.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: Screw it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you who it was. Lookout Landing. Oh, there
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  Speaker 2: you go. I'll just tell you. It's Lookout Landing. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know what Lookout Landing is, except for Nathan
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  Speaker 2: used to work for him. Or he used to actually
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  Speaker 2: write for him.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 5: And if Divish is giving softy looks about questions, it's
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  Speaker 5: probably because Divish wants to ask more questions, and softy's
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  Speaker 5: in his territory.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they joke. That's not Ryan. Ryan wasn't the one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but all these people are like... That was more sarcastic.
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  Speaker 2: There was the woman from Lookout Landing that was all
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  Speaker 2: sideways yesterday, and that's... That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: We saw what she had to say last week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she is what she is. I said this again.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know her name, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: I don't either. I don't care. Because here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody matters in this market. His name is Softie.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, correct.
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  Speaker 2: He matters. You've had people in this market that have
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  Speaker 2: come through over the years. When Mike Gastineau spoke, it
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  Speaker 2: carried weight.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: When the Gras spoke, it carried weight.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And Softie has taken that torch and I think.
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  Speaker 3: Run with it.
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  Speaker 2: And run with it. And, you know, like, no one's
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  Speaker 2: more passionate about things than him.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, for him, it's probably healthy. It probably was
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  Speaker 2: a good distraction. So he didn't have to talk about
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  Speaker 2: DeMond Williams.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then there's that.
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  Speaker 5: It was.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we joked... Well, I didn't joke yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: I said, like, the sports depression from the weekend was real,
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  Speaker 5: but nobody felt that more than Softie.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you that much.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The... I would agree. I think, you know, as.
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  Speaker 2: The funny thing with the Seahawks, I was just saying
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  Speaker 2: like the lack of feedback since Sunday. I think the
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  Speaker 2: reason there's lack of feedback, somebody asked me about that
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  Speaker 2: the other day. It's like, God, no one really seems
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  Speaker 2: to be bothered by the Seahawks loss in Washington. I said, no,
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  Speaker 2: you know why? Because there's equity there. And I think
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  Speaker 2: everyone knows what Mike McDonald and John Schneider are capable
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  Speaker 2: of and what they're up to. And all these teams,
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  Speaker 2: all through the NFL, teams have had a stinker or two. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they really have.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No one's panicked. I said, listen, you can't totally sugarcoat it.
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  Speaker 2: That was a bad loss.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That was a bad loss. Like, you should not lose
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  Speaker 2: to that football team.
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  Speaker 5: No, and you shouldn't be thinking, like, you shouldn't brush
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  Speaker 5: it off either because there were some concerning things.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll get to that tomorrow. Greg's going to be
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  Speaker 2: out there at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: out at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. We'll both be
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  Speaker 2: doing our shows out there. We'll talk to a player tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I would assume that just if you watched any of
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  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks, you'll see how Mike McDonald handles things. The
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  Speaker 2: message will be very clear to them. Very clear to them.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I would expect a big bounce back at home
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  Speaker 2: against the Chargers on Sunday. But we don't worry about
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  Speaker 2: them because of what they've accomplished the last few years.
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  Speaker 2: You don't worry about what the Mariners or the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: are doing. I think that there are concerning things. I
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  Speaker 2: had a long conversation. I was talking with Hugh last
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  Speaker 2: night on the phone. And, you know, we'll talk. He's
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  Speaker 2: on again later this week. I know with Chuck and
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  Speaker 2: probably with Softy, we'll get Cosell on this week as well.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Jadarian Price thing is a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a concern.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not so much his talent, it's ball security.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, two times in two games?
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  Speaker 2: And this is one of those rare things where Pete
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  Speaker 2: and Mike McDonald are on the same page, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it's every football coach. You turn the ball over,
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  Speaker 2: then it's hard for you to get your coach's trust back.
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  Speaker 2: And he did it last week. He did it last week, Price.
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  Speaker 2: They went right back to him the next drive. But
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  Speaker 2: then the second week, no, you're going to sit. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to sit for a bit. The talent's there. You
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  Speaker 2: can see the explosiveness. You can see what he's able
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  Speaker 2: to do. But Hugh brought it up yesterday in Hardcore Football.
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  Speaker 2: Ken Walker never fumbles.
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  Speaker 3: It's true.
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  Speaker 2: He does not fumble.
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  Speaker 5: They've had durability questions, but we don't actually know because
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  Speaker 5: they didn't. You know, they didn't play him as much
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  Speaker 5: as they could have, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I did laugh. I got to be, I
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  Speaker 2: want to like, what's going through his mind when he's
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  Speaker 2: getting like carries on four straight plays and in the
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  Speaker 2: red zone and on goal to goal? Like, is he
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  Speaker 2: looking over going to Charbonnet? Oh, that's right. He's not
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  Speaker 2: here anymore. I don't play with Charbonnet anymore. No, but I,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the problem. You can be compared. I always
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  Speaker 2: warn people though, they made that choice and it was
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  Speaker 2: not so much Walker for price. It was Walker. So
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  Speaker 2: you could keep JSN, Devin Witherspoon, Re-sign Sam Darnold at
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  Speaker 2: some point. Leonard Williams. Let's go through the list.
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  Speaker 5: You have to pay a lot of people and you
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  Speaker 5: have to pay a lot of people moving forward. You
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  Speaker 5: have to plan how this payroll looks, not just this year,
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  Speaker 5: but next year and the year after.
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  Speaker 2: And the year after and the year after and the
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  Speaker 2: year after. And it's in the hard salary cap league.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's funny. There's like zero, not zero, but
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  Speaker 2: there's very, very little concern for the local NFL team.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball team's got everyone's passion going as well. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned we're kind of putting a bow on our
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  Speaker 2: baseball stuff. Joe Sheehan, let's get his national perspective on
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  Speaker 2: what they should do, what his thoughts are. We wrap
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  Speaker 2: Ashley picks, you'll probably be in pretty good shape.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Because she's leading the charge right now. All right?
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  Speaker 3: Getting mad about my losses, though.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: at 425-255-0500. Now here's Ian with our weekly baseball fix
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  Speaker 1: from Joe Sheehan. Joe Sheehan Newsletter, JoeSheehan.com. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: a baseball fan, even if you're upset about the baseball
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  Speaker 1: team locally here, his postseason coverage is second to none, including,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, thoughts on today, what's going on in Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: before an empty upper deck of fans. Phillies leading 3-2
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  Speaker 1: there in the eighth inning.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Joe. How are you?
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  Speaker 4: Good, man. Watching the game like you are, it's tough.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the Braves have got this. so many of
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  Speaker 4: these 1 o'clock starts, 2 o'clock starts in the postseason
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  Speaker 4: over the years. And plus, that ballpark is huge. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not mistaken, north of the city in basically an office park. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So getting in and out on a workday is actually
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  Speaker 4: a huge pain in the butt. So I'm not terribly
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  Speaker 4: surprised this isn't a sellout or even close to it.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking earlier, if the Mariners were in, they
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  Speaker 2: would be playing at 2 o'clock today. It does appear.
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  Speaker 2: And that was the case last year. They played all
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  Speaker 2: their weekday games during the daytime hours, which is just awful.
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  Speaker 2: It's just awful for baseball fans, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: And I.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned this earlier, and I know they don't want
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  Speaker 2: to have games overlapping, but if it's good enough for
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  Speaker 2: the NBA and the NHL, which it is, and you
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  Speaker 2: pick and choose and it's a cumulative audience, kind of
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  Speaker 2: like college football, I'm not sure why baseball has this
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  Speaker 2: insistence to play. The wide shot they're showing right now,
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  Speaker 2: it may be a 60% full. I just don't understand
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  Speaker 2: the reluctance to have games on multiple networks like the
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  Speaker 2: NBA and the NHL do in the playoffs. at night,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever, where people can watch it or go
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  Speaker 2: to it. Just bad for business, but I'm sure the
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  Speaker 2: TV networks determine what happens too.
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  Speaker 4: No, I disagree. And I like the fact that you
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  Speaker 4: can basically watch all of the games in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: whereas NBA, you've got so much more overlap. And let's
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  Speaker 4: not forget too, the NBA and NHL don't play on
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  Speaker 4: consecutive days. So it's easier to plot out games at night.
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  Speaker 4: when not everybody is playing every single day. So I
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  Speaker 4: actually love the way MLB does it. I get that
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  Speaker 4: it ends up coming down on certain fan bases. They're
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  Speaker 4: always going to put the big market team in the
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  Speaker 4: 8 o'clock slot this year. It's the Yankees and the
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  Speaker 4: Red Sox. And you look at the numbers, and it's
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  Speaker 4: hard to argue with that. But I do understand that
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  Speaker 4: it can be frustrating, especially in the first round where
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  Speaker 4: Because you're playing three straight days, the time slots are locked.
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  Speaker 4: You can't play at 2 o'clock one day.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right.
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  Speaker 4: If you play at 2 o'clock on Monday, Tuesday, you're
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  Speaker 4: going to play 2 o'clock on Wednesday. And then based
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  Speaker 4: on what's still going Thursday, maybe you get a later game. No,
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  Speaker 4: I completely get the local arguments, but as more of
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  Speaker 4: a national guy, I would– I much prefer this to– Ian,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember in 95. So 94,
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  Speaker 4: they set this up, but of course we didn't have
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  Speaker 4: a postseason that year. But in 95, MLB couldn't find
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  Speaker 4: demand for its TV contract. It basically self-produced its playoff coverage,
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  Speaker 4: and it was all regionalized at 7 p.m. Eastern. So
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  Speaker 4: you couldn't watch any but one game. You couldn't even
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  Speaker 4: see the other ones. I mean, this was obviously 30
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  Speaker 4: years ago, and cable was different, and streaming was different.
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  Speaker 4: But I remember on a phone with a friend who
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  Speaker 4: had the then Indians Red Sox series going and getting
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  Speaker 4: play by play for him. Cause they were playing like
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  Speaker 4: this awesome 15 inning game that I was in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: I had no access to. So I, I'd say this
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  Speaker 4: is much, much better than it was for a while.
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  Speaker 1: By the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do remember 95. That was a magical year
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  Speaker 2: of Edgar's double down the left foot.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And every Mariner fan right now is going, I'm sick
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  Speaker 2: of hearing about 95. I'm done with 95. I want
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  Speaker 2: something besides 95.
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  Speaker 4: Me too. I'm still waiting for Joey Cora to get
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  Speaker 4: back from his route to first base.
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  Speaker 2: Cheating cheater. It is funny how you're right, though. Some teams,
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  Speaker 2: like Atlanta, get stuck in this. The NFL playoffs have
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  Speaker 2: that too. I think Houston and or Jacksonville will always
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  Speaker 2: play the The 1 o'clock Eastern Saturday game on the
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  Speaker 2: first round of the NFL playoffs. It's like written in stone.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever's out of the AFC South is going to play
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  Speaker 2: that game.
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  Speaker 4: Hasn't that actually become the 8 o'clock streaming game? The
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  Speaker 4: Amazon-only game now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Netflix or something. The NFL can.
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  Speaker 4: Do whatever it wants. They can put a whole bunch
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  Speaker 4: of playoff games on streaming and people just wear it. Um,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, so there was also in the NBA and
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  Speaker 4: I know that's a sore, a sore spot up there,
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  Speaker 4: but they'll always put like a Hawks Raptors series on
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  Speaker 4: NBA TV.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: This is a couple of years ago, but yeah, there
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  Speaker 4: would always be the NBA TV series that nobody wanted
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  Speaker 4: to watch. Yeah. That's the thing. When you have, when
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  Speaker 4: you have playoffs of this size, some series is going
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  Speaker 4: to be the one nobody wants to watch.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, we've now we've, we've, we've cracked the code.
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  Speaker 2: It's Atlanta, whether it be the Hawks or the Braves.
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  Speaker 2: This is an Atlanta thing, Jill. That's 100% an Atlanta thing.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Sheehan, Joe Sheehan Newsletter, JoeSheehan.com. We have the end
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  Speaker 2: of the year Mariners press conference, I'll call it, yesterday
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  Speaker 2: with Jerry DiPoto speaking and Dan Wilson stepping down on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: No one has still 100% clarified if it was a
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  Speaker 2: firing or a resignation, although he says there may be
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  Speaker 2: a role for him inside the organization. Still, Dan said
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  Speaker 2: that on Sunday. We'll see. But now the Now the
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  Speaker 2: search is on for a manager. Before I get to that,
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: we've talked about them at Nauseam the last few weeks.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: You had the famous quote, most disappointing team in this century.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Walk us through, help Mariner fans understand what happened and
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: can it be fixed in the short term? Was this
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: just an aberration and a one-off, as DePoto was trying
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: to say? Or are there some deeper issues that Joe
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: Sheehan sees with this organization?
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: The single biggest factor this year was the core of
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: the roster didn't play well. That's Crowley, that's Naylor, that's Rodriguez,
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: that's the starting pitching. It wouldn't have taken much better
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: performance to finish 82-80 and win the division. So that's
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: the single biggest thing. I think Wilson... May was, was
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: exposed as a poor tactical manager and people will argue
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: that it goes back to last, last October. Um, and
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: that did not help them at key spots in the
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: summer where there were games they lost that they should
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: have won. And you can almost directly tied it to Williams, uh, ineffectiveness. And,
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: you know, beyond that, I'm not sure. I mean, I
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: think that that's the, really the big thing. It's the
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: best players on the team didn't play well. The manager
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: didn't manage all that well when they kind of on
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: the margins, uh, And, you know, you point to injuries, too.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: I think we've gone over and over the Matt Brash thing.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: And I've described it as the piece out of the
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: Jenga tower. And it really exposed the rest of the bullpen.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: I think if you give them Brash, not only does
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Wilson end up looking better because he has, you know,
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: he's got a better pitcher back there to go to
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: in big spots. But I think it lines everybody up
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: a little bit better behind him for Aaron. You know,
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: Bizzardo had his big year last year and he regressed
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: as you would expect him to. But because of the
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: absence of Brash, he was pitching in much higher leverage
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: than he might have been otherwise. And they just didn't
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: have a second option. Once you got past him, it
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: was like the Cooper Criswells of the world. And it
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: really was a fall off from Munoz to Bizzardo and
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: what was left. So, yeah, I think that as much
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: as I've talked about Wilson, I do think you've really
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: got to focus on the team stars who just didn't
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: really come up well. And then the starting pitchers down
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: the stretch. I mean, I was even saying as late
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: as mid-September, if they can just get into the tournament.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Give me Gilbert, Wu, Kirby, all those guys in a
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: bit of best of situation. And those guys really spit
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: the bit down the stretch. So, you know, those would be,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: I guess, the three biggest things. And of them, they've
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: addressed one in Wilson. You can't really do anything about,
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, you're not, you know, Naylor's got four years
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: to go on his deal. I mean, all three of
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: these guys are signed to the Rapture. So you're running
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: them back next year. And I think you hope that
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: you're going to bring along Cole Young will be in
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: his third year. And I'm a huge Cole Young guy.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: I think if nothing else, he's going to be plus
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: 15 defender at second base. And if he just is
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: an average hitter, that's a winning player for you. Emerson,
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: hopefully healthy with the wrist thing, comes back healthy. You've
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: seen what Lazaro Montes can do. You've seen what Kate
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Anderson can do. These guys are going to bring into
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: the team next year. So they're actually going to get younger.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: And maybe the biggest thing is try to get the biggest, scariest,
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: hairiest bat you can. And that's probably not going to
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: be in a free agency. That's probably going to involve
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: trading a pitcher. But identify the corner outfielder you want
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: to bring in and see if you can't trade, whether
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: it's Kirby or Wu or Gilbert, for that guy, Riley
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Greed or somebody. We talked a couple weeks ago about
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: trading for one of the Cardinals catchers and kind of
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: moving him into a catcher DH role with Cal Rally.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: So I think that's got to be the big thing.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: I think you've got to go out and transfer some
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: of this great pitching value into an upgrade in somebody
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: who's going to come in and bat third.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Joe Sheehan joining us, Joe Sheehan newsletter, JoeSheehan.com. Big thanks,
• 18:10
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• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Raina thing is one that's interesting to me. And it was,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: didn't really get asked yesterday to Jerry, but the insinuation is,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: and just listening to what he says is that Randy's gone.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: He's walking, he's out of here. 5.7 war player this season,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: far and away the best of the team. Cole Young,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: by the way, was second. Nobody else was above three.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: And so Randy walks as you, I think that's the
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: unfortunate thing. It's like you automatically, if we assume he's gone,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: you've taken a step back. And now you have to
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: work hard to replace him. And as you just mentioned,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Riley Green or whoever, you're also going to have to
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: give something up as opposed to retaining a guy that
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: you traded for a few years ago. And I think that,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: to me, is a little bit frustrating. It's just unfortunate
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: that that's going to happen.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Roserade is 31. And if you look
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: at the game now, 32 tends to be the cliff year.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: We had this huge fight last year on Slack about
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Pete Alonzo and the Mets letting him go. And, of course,
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: he went out and had a big year at 31
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: for Baltimore. But hitters fall out of the league much
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: earlier than they used to. And I know Rosarito was
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: good for them this year. But even though he's fast,
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: he's always been an awkward left fielder. If he loses
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: any skill in left, what are you going to do
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: with him? I don't think the bat's going to be
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: a DH bat down the road. And I have no
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: problem letting go a guy who, you know, when I'm
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: letting go of his 32, 33, 34 seasons, cause those
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: just tend to be all declined. Now there's just no,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: you can come up with exceptions, but I mean, even now, look,
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: you know, Mookie Betts, Mookie Betts was an MVP candidate
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: three years ago. And if you look at his numbers,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: and this is a superstar, this is a hall of
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: famer and guys like that are losing it earlier than
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: they used to. So I actually think not signing a
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Rosalina to a three-year deal and using that lineup spot,
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: through a trade perhaps to go out and add a
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: two to three year solution. Who's all who currently 27
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: or 28 is a much better use of that lineup spot.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I think if you lock in a Rosarena for three
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: years and he starts to decline, now you, now you've
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: got a real problem. And I would project a Rosarena
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: to decline starting next year, just based on everything we
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: know about the aging curve in 2026. Yes.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: One of the things that would scare me a little
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: bit is watching the nailer situation this year, you know,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: wondering if it was a one-off or is he starting right?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Like that's, that is a little bit of a, A
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: test case, and you're like, uh-oh, uh-oh, is that going
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: to happen?
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: The saving grace there is that the AAV is pretty low.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I want to say it was a five-year, $ 90 million deal,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: so $ 18 million a year. If he's a two-win player,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: you're basically breaking even, and I expect some bounce back
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: from him next year. He's a couple years older than Orozco.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I want to say he was 28 when he signed.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: you've actually got– he's two years younger than– two, three
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: years younger than Rosarito. You can still expect him to
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: bounce back and be productive for another year or so,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: whereas it would not– just if you– I don't mean
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: to give you homework, but if you look at everybody
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: who was 31 last year and then look at them
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: this year, you're just going to see a decline as
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: a group. And if you go back a year, 31
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: to 32, you're going to see the decline as a group,
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: whereas a few years back it was 34, and years
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: before that it was 36. So the age of that
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: sharp decline just keeps moving up a couple of years because,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: and we talked about this, the pitchers are witches now.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: The second you lose a little of that natural hand-eye,
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: a little of that natural quick twitch, you get chased
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: out of the league faster than you used to.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I think back, when you bring that up, I think
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: back to John Olerud. Like one year, John Olerud, still
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: John Olerud, you know, slapping balls all over the place and,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: you know, left center, right center and doing his thing.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: And the next year he couldn't catch up to a ball.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Like literally it happened in the course of one off season.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: So there's no doubt. It's a crazy sport in that regard, right?
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Like just that little decline can change everything.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: That's a great example because that happened for him at 37,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: at 34. So you go back 20 years and 34
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: is when that would start to happen for guys. And
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: he's never really the same after that. He was an
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: all-star caliber player at 33, and then he was average
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: at 34, and then he was basically kind of done
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: at 35. And that process now happens from 32 to 34.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Torrey Lovallo is a guy that people are linking to Seattle.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: He was with Arizona this season. They finished two games
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: out of a wild-card spot in probably the toughest division
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: in baseball, well, not in the American League East at least.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: 86-76 record, 14 games behind the Dodgers, but as I mentioned,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: just two games out of a wild-card spot. despite being
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: 10 over 500. Whether or not he returns to Arizona
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: remains to be seen. It sounds like he might be
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: looking around elsewhere in baseball. There might be some competition.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: But Torrey Lovello in Seattle, would that be a fit
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: in your mind?
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, sure. I'm a huge Lovolo fan. I think he's
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: one of the six or seven best managers in the game.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I think it'd be silly for the Diamondbacks to let
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: him go. If you look at what he's done with
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: everything that's gone wrong with this team, they signed Corbin Burns.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: They've gotten almost nothing out of Burns in the last
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: two years. The two best relievers, Justin Martinez and A.J. Puck,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: threw a combined 15 innings this year. Corbin Carroll, I
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: think we're going to learn, was hurt for the last
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: five months of the season. And they got to win
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: in two games of a playoff spot. They had a
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: better record than, what, four AL playoff teams? Three AL
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: playoff teams? So, you know, two years ago, they won
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: 89 games and lost out a three-way tiebreaker. Like, I
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: don't think Lovullo has done a bad job there when
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: you consider the resources they have, the talent they have,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: and the context in which he's performed. I think if
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: you can get Tory Lovullo to manage your team, I
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: want this to be a process. I want them to
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: look around. But if Tory Lovullo is let go by
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: the Diamondbacks, you signed him yesterday, he would easily be,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: for me, the best managerial candidate out there. Wow.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: They'll have competition, though, right, for him? around baseball?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah. Well, I mean, I think everybody wants to, I'm,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: I'm low man on Alex Cora. I think Alex Cora
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: is still living off of 2018 with the Red Sox. Okay.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: And because he wasn't there when it bottomed out in 2020,
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: like that stink isn't really on him. But I personally
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: would have Lobulo well ahead of Cora. So I think
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Cora is going to be first in line for whatever
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: job he might want. I mean, it's been, he's been
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: tied to the Phillies since the day he was fired
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: by the, the Red Sox. And then, You know, everybody
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: else can be fighting for that next guy. The Mets
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: have already locked up Andy Green. You know, we'll see
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: what the Angels do. Kurt Suzuki was on a one
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: year deal. So, you know, they could retain him. But
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: that job is technically open. If I'm Lovullo, I'm looking around.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I think the Mariners are, if not the best. No,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: you know, it might be the best job available out there.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: But again, that's me looking at the talent level. and saying, yeah,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I want this team because I think this team can
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: bounce back to 95 wins next year.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Well, that's my question. By the way, Austin Riley, nice
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: when your No. 8 hitter hits a three-run home run, huh?
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, God.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Atlanta now leads 5-3 and heading to the top of
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the ninth in that first game against the Phillies. I
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: was just going to ask you that to wrap things up.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: How good a job is this? Because I think a
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: lot of people here wonder that. They wonder about ownership.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: They wonder about Jerry DiPoto and Justin Hollander and how
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: hands-on they are. Is ownership really truly committed to winning
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: and all those things? Uh, this is why we love
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: having a guy on from, from back East. It looks
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: at baseball from a national perspective. How good is the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Mariners job?
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I think being frustrated with Mariners ownership is fair, but
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: when you look around at Bob Nutting and Bob Castellini
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: and the Sherman tanks in Kansas city in Miami and
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: the really bad ownership situations, you appreciate that the Mariners
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: are probably average as far as that goes. Um, I
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: personally would like to work with Jerry DePoto. I think
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Jerry DePoto, uh, he's got to get somebody to do
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: the front facing stuff for him where he doesn't talk
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: to the media and he just, other people handle that stuff.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Cause I think that's where he gets himself in trouble. Um,
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: he said some things over the years that have alienated
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: fans and I think he's right, but he's shouldn't say,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: you know, the job is a PR component and I
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: would have no problem if I were looking for a
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: managerial job, working under matters ownership and working on Stan,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I guess, and, and working under, uh, Jerry DePoto. I
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: think that's a really, really good landing spot for anybody
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: who wants a job. And you know me. I mean,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: as a guy on staff, I don't believe he was
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: one of the ones. Did they cut Manny loose yesterday?
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I know they cut a bunch of guys loose yesterday.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Cut who?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Manny Acta? Yeah.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Yes. He was one of the guys cut loose?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: He was one of the guys cut loose.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: It's funny. You've got a really good managerial candidate already
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: in house and you fire him as a guy. Don't
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: get me started on Manny Acta. But I think that
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Lovullo to the Mariners would be good for both sides.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the only guys, they retain the pitching side of things.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Pete Woodworth and his staff on the pitching side. Everybody
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: else got let go yesterday, so.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: That's weird given the collapse of the rotation down the stretch.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Isn't it? I thought that was strange. I think we
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: all thought that was strange. And then he says, well,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: you know, the new manager is going to have complete autonomy. No,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: he's not. He's stuck with the pitching staff.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: If it's autonomy to fire the guys that you retain, sure.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Define autonomy. Listen, for folks that are jacked
• 27:03
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• 27:06
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• 27:08
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• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Uh, Joe Sheehan.com. I've, you know, did a piece, I
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: did a piece yesterday about, uh, overall trends. I think
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: we'll see in the playoffs. I thought there wouldn't be
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: a lot of runs scored. So eight runs in eight
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: innings in Atlanta makes already makes me look dumb. Uh,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: you've got a stat blast today. I did a whole
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: bunch of stat notes on teams. We'll do full previews
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: for the remaining series, the four division series, and then
• 27:29
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• 27:31
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• 27:33
  Speaker 2: So check it out.
• 27:34
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• 27:37
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• 27:46
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• 27:47
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• 27:49
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• 27:50
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• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Good news is, I heard him say this, Ashley, a
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: couple weeks ago. Joe said, hey, just check in any
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: time in the offseason if need be. I did hear
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: him say that. I believe you said that. Is that true?
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we end when the Mariners season ends.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: That's your call. I'll come on any time.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: And we will, and trust me, we'll lean on you
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: probably as the playoffs get deeper. We'll lean on you
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: when the managerial search heats up or they hire somebody
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: and we'll lean on you when we have to deal
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: with the nonsense that will be the collective bargaining agreement
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: and labor strife, which will happen. We will talk again
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: very soon. In the meantime, Jill, first of all, big
• 28:25
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• 28:29
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• 28:31
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• 28:33
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• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I know our listeners do as well. So, Jill, thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much. Joe Sheehan Newsletter, joesheehan.com. Go check it out.
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  Speaker 2: But thank you, my friend. Always appreciate you coming on.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks. I had a lot of fun talking to you
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: and Anders and Jess and Ashley and everybody. And like
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  Speaker 4: I said, I hope we can continue to keep doing it.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate all your support of the newsletter.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Joe Sheehan.com folks. Go check it out.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take a break. Come back. We've got a daily
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  Speaker 2: power play next. This is a cracking ticket Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 3: I had not heard. Oh, fresh off the printer. Tell
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: me what it says.
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  Speaker 2: Kraken Ticket Tuesday, Sports Radio 93.3 KJFM. We have your
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: chance to win tickets. All you do is listen throughout
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: the day. It started this morning, 6 o'clock hour. You'll
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: hear a sounder play, which we did one earlier as
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: a test. We're not doing that again.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: But when you hear it, it's very simple because it
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: actually says, hey, call. It does. At 206-286-9595. We'll take
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: the 10th caller every hour, win a pair of tickets,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: see the Kraken play on October 4th against the Calgary Flames. That,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, is the home opener for your Seattle
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Kraken in Season 6. of the National Hockey League. Hey,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: here we go. They're playing Calgary. The Flames are in town. Hey,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: let's go. Who actually they play on Thursday in the opener,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: which is up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We'll have that
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  Speaker 2: for you right here on 93.3 KDRFM. Fitz, Al, and
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: the captain, Bento, they'll have that for you coming up
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday night, 5.30 pregame, 6 o'clock, drop of the puck.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll give away tickets for the home opener. Do
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: we have one or two more opportunities on this show?
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: We've got one more on this show.
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  Speaker 2: So we've given away two.
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  Speaker 3: We've given away two.
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  Speaker 2: We have? Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did the 1 o'clock hour early in the hour.
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  Speaker 2: Was I not paying attention then? Probably not.
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  Speaker 3: We did it right before Joshian, in that break.
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  Speaker 2: Probably not.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I'm going to just go ahead and tell you right
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: now that's just going to be the norm for this
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  Speaker 2: show with you and I.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I didn't pay attention last week, and then
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: I even woke up in the middle of the night
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  Speaker 5: after you and Softie had talked about $ 889 million or
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: billion million, $ 889 million that were made at the World Cup.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: And then I chimed in and was like, hey, did
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: you know? And you guys were like, yeah, we actually
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: were just talking about it. I woke up at 2.30
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: in the morning and then started thinking about that and
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: couldn't fall asleep for an hour.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to make you feel better before I
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: get back to hockey. Uh, that was, God, do you
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  Speaker 2: think Jess is listening right now? Uh, no.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Daily occurrence with her.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, all right. I don't feel so bad.
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  Speaker 2: You've done it once.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: I was like, Oh man, I was so excited when
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: I read that. And then I was like, going to
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: chime in. And then I was like, Oh man.
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  Speaker 2: And, and by the way, Jess, if you are listening,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I love you. Love you to death. Just poking fun. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: she did.
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  Speaker 3: She knows she did it.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: You're not telling her something. She doesn't know.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Not at all. Not at all. And luckily I always
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: am listening. Did we really? When did we give away the...
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: We gave it away at.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: 1-22? NHL season actually starts... I'm going to say it
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: starts tonight. It actually starts in 10 minutes. 8 minutes time.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: The Panthers are facing off against the defending champion Carolina
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Hurricanes here in just a few minutes on ESPN. So
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: 84 games... By the way, 84-game regular season starts today
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: and tonight with a handful of games. Two more games
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: than previous.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Remember.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: NHL, NBA were always 82. Now 84. They did something
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: very NFL-like. They took away some preseason games and added
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: games that, wait for it, matter.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: What a novel idea.
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  Speaker 2: Last four Stanley Cup champions, all part of the opening
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: night triple header tonight. Hurricanes at home taking on the Panthers.
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  Speaker 2: Hurricanes won last year. Panthers won the two previous years.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: And our favorites, the Golden Knights. Winners in 2023, finalists
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  Speaker 2: last year. They'll play the Nightcap tonight, 7.30 on ESPN.
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  Speaker 2: They're here, by the way, a week from today are
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: the Vegas Golden Knights. Team you love to hate, huh?
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. I don't love to hate them. I
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: just hate them.
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  Speaker 2: They cheat.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They cheat.
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  Speaker 4: Do they?
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but I just hate them.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to say that.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's start it.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not on a Kraken broadcast right now, am I?
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: No.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they cheat.
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  Speaker 3: Start it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Cheaters.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Cheaters. Cheaters. Cheaters.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Cheaters. Yeah, so we'll get more into hockey as we
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: get closer to Thursday and the season, long season begins
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: coming up on Thursday right here in your home for
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: the Kraken 93.3 KJR FM. If you missed it, we
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: re-signed a contract with the Kraken here at KJR in
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: our heart. So back on with you guys for the
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: foreseeable future for the next few years with our great crew,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Al and And Fitz and Bento do a great job.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Ashley does a great job behind the scenes organizing stuff.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: And we're grateful to be the home for the Kraken
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  Speaker 2: since day one of the organization. And now if people
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: are going to ask me, how do you think they're
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: going to do this year? Do they do enough in
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the offseason? Don't know. Not sure. Those are my two answers.
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  Speaker 2: Time will tell. I think they'll be competitive. We'll see
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: how they end up going. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: When we come back, We'll get back to the NFL.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Our friend John Lund. Using that term loosely. He's fun. Well,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: he thinks he is. We'll talk all things NFC West
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: and NFL with John Lund. Brought to you by Chambers
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Bay Distillery. Coming up next.