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Chuck in the Morning 7-22 Hour 3: Matt "Stretch" Johnson, Sup with You and we won't give up George for THAT! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Eight o'clock hour here on this Wednesday. Great to have
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  Speaker 1: you with us. So when I say us, Ashley, Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: tire process, we ended up welcoming into our morning show.
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  Speaker 1: He co hosted early in the process the day that
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  Speaker 1: we faced Australia at home, and man, it just felt
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  Speaker 1: like became part of the family here in the mornings,
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  Speaker 1: having him on every once in a while just to
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  Speaker 1: gauge his enthusiasm level. And then I suddenly get done
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  Speaker 1: with a World Cup and it's like I returned to
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  Speaker 1: the house and he'd packed and left and left a
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  Speaker 1: really sweet note like thanks for having me, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure we follow up call him to
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  Speaker 1: see if he just had the time of his life.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us now is a man you know in love.
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  Speaker 1: It is Matt Matt Johnson, known by Stretch, and he
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  Speaker 1: is with us right here on the radio program once again.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good Jack. I just assumed I would talk to
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  Speaker 2: you in four years. Oh no, just take a little.
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  Speaker 1: Oh we are bonded now, we bonded over soccer.
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  Speaker 2: I'll move back in four years from now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning to you. Yeah, all right. Did you
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  Speaker 1: have the time of your life the last month?
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was an outstanding tournament. Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you do the personal route. I went
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  Speaker 2: to nine matches, three up in Vancouver, five in Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: and one in LA and everything. Travel was easy, the
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  Speaker 2: stadiums were unbelievable, the atmosphere. I just thought. I just
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  Speaker 2: thought the US nailed it. I mean, yes, there were
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  Speaker 2: some downsides, but I just thought. And I was just
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  Speaker 2: on the West coast, granted, But yes, I had a
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  Speaker 2: time in my life. And hey, you know, from June
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  Speaker 2: twelfth to July nineteenth, I didn't get too much done.
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  Speaker 2: The US's first game, I guess I should say June eleventh,
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I thought it was an outstanding tournament. I
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  Speaker 2: had a blast. I had an absolute blast.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's good to remind people that might
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  Speaker 1: be familiarizing themselves with your story for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: This is how many World Cups have you gone to?
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  Speaker 2: This is my ninth tournament. By ninth, my brother and
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  Speaker 2: I in ninety four were lucky enough to go to
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  Speaker 2: the semi final and final down in la We had
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  Speaker 2: cousins living right outside of Pasadena and and I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember who won lottery tickets, but we got to the final. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it was pretty boring Italy versus Brazil, but still it
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  Speaker 2: was at the final at the Rose Bowl and on
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  Speaker 2: my way home. On our way home, Alan just kind
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  Speaker 2: of elbowed me and said, why don't we just do
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  Speaker 2: this every four years? And that's literally how it started.
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  Speaker 2: So it went, you know, France, Germany, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Katar,
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  Speaker 2: Korea and and we just said we're going to do
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  Speaker 2: this until one guy can't push the other guy in
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  Speaker 2: the wheelchair. So this is what we do. And then
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  Speaker 2: it's been a blast. And not only am I traveling
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  Speaker 2: with my very good friend, my brother, but you're discovering
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  Speaker 2: the world. You know, it's just not a party. So
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  Speaker 2: we're you know, doing museums and and and whatever the
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  Speaker 2: countries offer. So we are planning on going to Spain
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  Speaker 2: and Portugal and four years, but we thought we would
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  Speaker 2: just you know, we just stayed on the west coast
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  Speaker 2: on this side. And then when you're in the host country,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you just get to see everything in your
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  Speaker 2: own time zones as the world bitches about when the
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  Speaker 2: games were being played. So that's what the fortunate part
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  Speaker 2: here was. But yeah, this was my ninth I think
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  Speaker 2: I think I got over seventy five matches in my
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  Speaker 2: belt now for World Cup matches and yeah, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: just a cool tradition that we picked up years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, I'm putting my money on you being
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  Speaker 1: in the chair by the way, I've seen the way
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  Speaker 1: you've lived, so your brother will do the pushing. I
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  Speaker 1: just want you to know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not even taking action on that.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The Calvieva it got to three to five and then
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  Speaker 2: one to nine and they pulled it off the board.
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  Speaker 1: You can't even bet it on Calshie anymore. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: They pulled it across if you knew my brother, that's
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  Speaker 2: even tenfold.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, kJ r Alum former voice of the Sounders
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  Speaker 1: Stretch Matt Johnson with us here this morning on Chuck
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  Speaker 1: and Buck. So just to kind of tie a bow
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  Speaker 1: on that. Okay, So you've been to nine and you
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  Speaker 1: obviously had a great time. So can I assume this
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  Speaker 1: is the best experience that you have had? Is this
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  Speaker 1: number one ranked out of the nine?
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  Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't go that far because traveling, just because
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  Speaker 2: traveling got it. The accessibility obviously going up to Vancouver
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  Speaker 2: and then coming home and being in my own house
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  Speaker 2: and not spending money on airfare and hotel was outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: But for some reason I've always spoke about not for
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  Speaker 2: some reason, but Korea was just so easy and so amazing,
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  Speaker 2: and and they loved Americans at the time. And we
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  Speaker 2: got into ten matches in ten straight days, taking speed
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  Speaker 2: trains around this around the country, and our money system
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  Speaker 2: was killing theirs five to one, so we came back
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  Speaker 2: with money. But regardless, I mean, you know, not to
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  Speaker 2: sound dramatic, it's tough to compare them. Because France in
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  Speaker 2: ninety eight and with the French team winning and having
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  Speaker 2: a great squad and We saw that team play a
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  Speaker 2: couple times and tickets were everywhere, and you're in Paris,
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  Speaker 2: Paris is your home base, and so they're just all unique,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so it's tough to compare. This was unique
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  Speaker 2: because we barely left the West Coast and barely left Shoreline,
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  Speaker 2: yet I got to nine matches and I'd much rather,
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  Speaker 2: you know, no offense to anybody. I'd much rather be
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  Speaker 2: in Rio de Janeiro than than Shoreline Washington. So they're
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  Speaker 2: all just so cool in different ways. Saint Petersburg, Russia
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  Speaker 2: is just one of the most beautiful cities, and then
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  Speaker 2: war breaks out a couple of years later, and we
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  Speaker 2: don't think we'll ever go back or be allowed back
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  Speaker 2: into Russia. So they're all pretty unique. This one's way
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  Speaker 2: up there because the games, the games were so good,
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  Speaker 2: and like I said, it was that you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: in your time zone, so you saw, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't get much done for a month. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: watching three games a day, if not more DVR help
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  Speaker 2: or no. So it was amazing. They're they're just all
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  Speaker 2: amazing for different reasons.
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  Speaker 1: Get your go, get your mail, mat, make sure you
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  Speaker 1: do your dish, make sure you clean your dish, make
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  Speaker 1: your bed for the first time in a month.
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  Speaker 2: But that's all good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll say this the soccer itself, which I enjoyed,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll get to that at a moment, but let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about Spain. I don't want to go any further
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  Speaker 1: without talking about the champion. The older I get, the
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  Speaker 1: less I root for the underdog, the more I want
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  Speaker 1: the team that looks to me like that's the best team.
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  Speaker 1: They played the best from beginning to end. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's any doubt that's the best team that I
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  Speaker 1: watched play. And I don't know a lot about soccer,
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  Speaker 1: So I leave it to you. Are you satisfied with
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  Speaker 1: the champion? Did the right team win this thing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a fair result. The best team
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  Speaker 2: did win the tournament. They were the best from the
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  Speaker 2: very beginning. I just heard a stat yesterday that you know,
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  Speaker 2: they gave up one goal during the tournament, more than
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  Speaker 2: three hundred goals were scored. I mean they had the
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  Speaker 2: best defense, they were the most balanced. Yeah, the best
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  Speaker 2: team won the tournament, which is pretty cool. The final
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  Speaker 2: I think after the build up, especially the final four
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  Speaker 2: and then the consolation match, was spended I think fourteen
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  Speaker 2: to thirteen. I think people were expecting more goals, but
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  Speaker 2: that was kind of a final. That's how finals are played,
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  Speaker 2: the back and forth, the tacticians at work. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: fair result, fair tournament, the best team won, and outside
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  Speaker 2: of individual country's disappointments, I think it played out as
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  Speaker 2: well as FIFA would want it to play out. Also,
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  Speaker 2: there were great, great matches within group play. There were
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  Speaker 2: you know up until the quarters, but then the semi
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  Speaker 2: finals were the four superpowers and the best team won
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  Speaker 2: the tournament. I think it was very fair.
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  Speaker 1: What was the high moment? What was the low moment
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  Speaker 1: for you of the tournament? And it could be anything,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's play a game, a situation, What would rank
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  Speaker 1: as your favorite part of the last month and your
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  Speaker 1: least favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Even though the disappointment, the how the Argentines acted at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the final was pretty predictable. There's some
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  Speaker 2: countries that do that sort of stuff. But the high
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  Speaker 2: moment might have been Argentina versus Cape Verde. I mean
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  Speaker 2: that that match. I was I was around non soccer
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  Speaker 2: people out and about and it was I mean, everybody
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  Speaker 2: was glued to the TV as that went into extra time.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's individual matches that took this World Cup
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  Speaker 2: and especially in the US, to a new level of interest.
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  Speaker 2: But the low, the low is easy because it was
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  Speaker 2: USA Belgium being there, having the egg laid, and I
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  Speaker 2: left early for the first time I've ever never left
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  Speaker 2: early a game, and then the eighty eighth they just said,
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  Speaker 2: my buddies are like, you're leaving. I said, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm done watching. I'm done, you know. And I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even know the fourth goal was scored until the next
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  Speaker 2: day that that was obviously a low moment. If it
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  Speaker 2: was two to one, it might have had a different
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  Speaker 2: tenor going the rest of going the rest of the week,
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  Speaker 2: but and the rest of the tournament. But those things
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  Speaker 2: happen also because Belgium then played Spain. Do a decent
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  Speaker 2: met you know, do a decent match. But I would
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  Speaker 2: say I would say some individual matches, you know, Argentina
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  Speaker 2: versus Cape Verdy is number one. And then for me,
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  Speaker 2: the disappointment was being there USA Belgium was just an
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  Speaker 2: absolute low point.
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  Speaker 1: What level of satisfaction did you glean from seeing friends
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  Speaker 1: of yours media, fellow sports media members of yours? I
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  Speaker 1: enjoy this so much. Who have done nothing in your
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  Speaker 1: life but bash soccer, and yet they couldn't deny that
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  Speaker 1: they enjoyed it. How much satisfaction did you get from that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think we've talked about this. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: we talked about this when I was with you all
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  Speaker 2: morning a couple of weeks ago. Was I'm not a
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  Speaker 2: soccer defender and or argumentative person when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: people who don't enjoy what I love, and especially soccer,
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  Speaker 2: maybe other subjects. When I was younger, I'll argue tooth
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  Speaker 2: and nail and go on it. But you know there's
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  Speaker 2: parts of it that if you don't get it, you
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  Speaker 2: don't get it. And if you I don't sit and
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  Speaker 2: defend nil nil dra just because both teams have shot,
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  Speaker 2: you know, twenty times, have both have twenty shots or
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  Speaker 2: ten on goal. I've never been that person, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it's it's again I'm going to use the wrong
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  Speaker 2: phrase of I told you so. But it can be entertained.
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  Speaker 2: It can be ballet on the pitch. It can be
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  Speaker 2: these guys doing amazing Now with so many cameras and
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  Speaker 2: everyone watching, they're watching these unbelievable athletes do crazy stuff,
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  Speaker 2: flying down the pitch and they're only one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty five pounds and yet they're doing things and the
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  Speaker 2: power on the ball, and so that was part I
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  Speaker 2: do like, and I do like the appreciation of the
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  Speaker 2: sport I love. I have to admit that, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: do dig that. But I've never been a guy that
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  Speaker 2: defends the sport because there it is nil nil, there
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  Speaker 2: is flopping. Now it's micro managing of a technical offsides.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's so many things that still, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I can't defend. But I've loved this sport since I
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  Speaker 2: was five years old. I have two fake hips to
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  Speaker 2: prove it. And so it's just kind of like I
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  Speaker 2: like it that the national media or the there is
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  Speaker 2: maybe interest moving forward into the USA of hey will
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  Speaker 2: the coach stay, how will they do in the Gold Cup?
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  Speaker 2: But really everybody goes back to you know, college football
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  Speaker 2: starting soon, training camps are starting soon, and we go
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  Speaker 2: on our way. My favorite team, west Ham United, got
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  Speaker 2: relegated from the Premier League is playing in the Championship
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  Speaker 2: and that's rocked my world. And I only maybe one
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  Speaker 2: percent of the country would know what the hell I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about, right, So there's that slight there's that movement
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  Speaker 2: in there. I'm glad there was, and the US did well.
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  Speaker 2: Seattle did unbelievable, showing off and showing out for the country.
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  Speaker 2: So it only goes so far from me because I
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  Speaker 2: get it. I mean, it's great, it was appreciated. Then
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  Speaker 2: we move on.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the MLS benefits No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I just it never takes that bump. I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's got to. I mean a few weeks, it's got to.
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  Speaker 2: Action has started. I believe games are tonight. Yeah, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they'll be interested in players that their names that people
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  Speaker 2: are familiar with now and oh that guy scored or
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: that guy scored. A lot of the US plays in Europe,
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  Speaker 2: some guys play here. But I think it just goes
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  Speaker 2: back to, you know, kind of where we were. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the interest goes up a few percents a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I think those soccer fans are already
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  Speaker 2: soccer fans. And are there going to be more people
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  Speaker 2: out of Sounders game? Are there more people out of Timbers?
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  Speaker 2: I mean down in Miami they already sell them out,
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  Speaker 2: and Messi's going to take a few games off. I
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  Speaker 2: mean just it's still ratcheted in right, it's in this
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  Speaker 2: little category of fifth or whatever it is where people follow.
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  Speaker 2: Will people buy more Apple TV subscriptions? I doubt it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe maybe they still one hundred more
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  Speaker 2: thousand more. Maybe I'm totally wrong. I just think MLS
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  Speaker 2: is where it's at. You know, the European Club, the
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  Speaker 2: European leagues will be followed, and I think maybe stat
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  Speaker 2: sheets and or scores, you know, the people who weren't
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  Speaker 2: soccer fans, they'll look at the scores. Oh yeah, that guy,
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  Speaker 2: that guy did that. Will they sit and watch forty
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  Speaker 2: five to ninety minutes of MLS? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that they will fix some of those
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  Speaker 1: frustrating things about the sport or are they just here
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  Speaker 1: to stay? The flopping and the you know and the
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  Speaker 1: constant trying to trick the officials into a penalty kick
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  Speaker 1: and all of that sort of thing. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: those things that frustrate you and a lot of non
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  Speaker 1: soccer fans, do you think that they're here to stay
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  Speaker 1: or will they try to get their arms around that
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  Speaker 1: going forward?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's on its way out. I mean, if good
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  Speaker 2: they started with this, they called it mistaken identity. If
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: a guy flops down, the defender got a yellow card
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  Speaker 2: and they go back and look at it. Guy flopped down,
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  Speaker 2: he got a yellow card and they move on. And no,
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  Speaker 2: the flopping will keep keep, continue to move out of
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  Speaker 2: the game because there is a penalty. I mean, no,
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  Speaker 2: the guy isn't fined a thousand or ten thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Some of these guys that wouldn't even affect the amount
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  Speaker 2: of money they're making. But you know, because they get
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  Speaker 2: a yellow card and because it's caught, that is a
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  Speaker 2: way to phase it out some of the other stuff,
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  Speaker 2: like Vaar's got to they've got to tweak that. In
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  Speaker 2: some of the leagues around the world. They're making it
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  Speaker 2: much too difficult. They can't get out of their own way.
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  Speaker 2: In England, especially that it just takes forever for a
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  Speaker 2: decision to be made, and it just really is changing
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  Speaker 2: the way the game is not only looked at but celebrated.
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  Speaker 2: But the number of things are being phased out there
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  Speaker 2: there and it's good first steps. And now on the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, some other stuff is going to stay because
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  Speaker 2: you're dealing with human beings. But they're just adding so
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  Speaker 2: many cameras to the to the pits. There used to
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: be three cameras. Now there's what twenty three, there's there's
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  Speaker 2: there's massive amount of eyes on everybody's actions. So the
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  Speaker 2: bad will the bad will continue to be phased out.
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  Speaker 1: Good good, good good. All right, So now what do
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  Speaker 1: you do with your your life? You're now empty existence.
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  Speaker 2: Without a show of a human beings.
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  Speaker 1: You're just gonna stare at a candle and you know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: go in your kitchen and just stare at a candle
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  Speaker 1: for a week and just kind of clear your thoughts
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: are you're gonna buy a cat? I mean, what are
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: you gonna do with your life now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yesterday was a yard work in the backyard, you know,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: starting on projects, you know, doing things that I haven't
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: been doing.
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  Speaker 1: But I honestly go full scissor hands. Turn that shrubbery
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  Speaker 1: into a dinosaur. I'm telling you you'll get to kick
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  Speaker 1: out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah. The neighbors will love it. There are already.
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  Speaker 2: I'm way up on the list for the neighbors already.
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  Speaker 2: H But no, this was planned, you know, this is
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  Speaker 2: this was I was going to you know you for
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  Speaker 2: a number of us. We worked our schedules around this
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  Speaker 2: schedule and so now it's back to reality, which which
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: really stinks. I I did go to the Mariner game Saturday.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I went on Monday. I still think t Mobiles top
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: five park in the in the in the US. And
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: not to sound too cheesy, with light rail, you know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: you get down and back. It reminds me of taking
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: a bus three oh five to the Kingdom when I
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: was a kid. So you know, it's back to back
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: to cheering on looking at the regular sports. But yeah,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: it's it's a special time. I'm already I'm a weird
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: write everything out on uh on some card stock guy.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: So I'm already looking at Spain and Morocco. I'm already
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: you know, what do we do, how long we want
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: to stay? How much money that'll be expensive? I mean so,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: but yeah, it's back to reality and I get to
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: throw away my bracket here one of.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: These days and the words have sold a soul back
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: to life, back to reality, back to the here and now.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, stick stick to your original gig. But yep, that's
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: exactly right, that's exactly right.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to start to sold the soul cover
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: band and you're not invited.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Hey, I'll be missed. I'll be missed.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: All right, Man, great to catch up with you. It's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: been fun having you a part of the morning show
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: here in the last month, and I'm glad you had
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a great time. It's a really cool thing that you
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and your brother do, and I'm a little jealous. Think
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: we all are a little bit jealous. So keep it
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: up and we will talk to you very soon.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: All right, right, appreciate it, Chuck, Thanks so much for
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: having me on the last month or so.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: All right, there is Stretch joining us. Matt Johnson right
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: here on the radio program. Coming up next. Back to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: your your talkbacks, your feedback. Ashley and I started a
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: conversation at seven o five this morning. We're getting ready
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to get very busy, not that we haven't been very
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: busy in the sports world, but with football getting ready
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: to start, I mean, I mean, we're not gonna be
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: able to focus on anything else. Our children, forget about it,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: they can raise themselves. We've got sports to discuss. So
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: we just took this Wednesday to have a fun, little
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: transitional topic. We asked for your feedback on who is
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: that guy that sports fan that drives you the most nuts?
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: And get as specific as you'd like, because the more
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: specific you get, the more fun it is. We're gonna
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: get to your talkbacks, your feedback next Sports Radio ninety
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. Never dull anymore. There was a
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: time where it was dull, there's never maybe for like
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: two and a half minutes last Tuesday it might have
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: been dull, but it's never dull anymore. And starting Saturday
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: it gets even crazier. Realize the World Cup has come
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to an end, so we don't have to talk to it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: We just kind of closed the chapter on that with
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: stretch in the last segment. But football is getting ready
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: to start. American football is getting ready to start, and
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: let's face it, it's our lifeblood. And so we were
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: just sitting there having a conversation earlier about in this
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: transition period. We heard Petros talking this morning, Papa Doucky's
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: about he's had enough of soccer fan, and even though
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: he's got a face training camp guy, he's ready to
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: make the transition. He knows he'll get sick of training
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: camp guy soon enough, but not nearly as sick as
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: he'll get a trade deadline guy between now and August third,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and so he's had a fun conversation about it, and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: we've asked you for your sports That guy that drives
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: you up a wall. We've been taking texts all morning long,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: also talkbacks, and let's get back to those talkbacks.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: All right, here we go.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: What's up show? Sports guy I don't like is the
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: guy who could play. It's about contracts. It's like, hey, Carl,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: you're just a lion cook at Denny's. Don't worry about
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: the ten year, four hundred and fifty million dollar contract
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: that they just signed this guy for. It's not your money.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: But just relax, relax, just enjoy the sports, be a fan.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Don't stress about the money.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you think about the money, it can drive
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you crazy. I think that's why my dad stopped being
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: a sports fan. I don't think he could take it anymore.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Like my dad still watch Cardinals baseball, but I have
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a feeling he doesn't know how much they make today.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Otherwise I don't think he could handle.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: He still thinks they have their same salaries.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: My dad is one of those type guys, and I
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: don't like this about him. But you'll have to stick
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: after the meal because he'll whenever he has his kids together.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: He wants to pay for the whole meal because he
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: doesn't get to do much for us, so he'll pay
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: for the whole meal. But then you've got to stick
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: around afterwards, because he'll just leave a two dollar tip.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Oh finish.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: He could have a three hundred dollars meal or a
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: cup of coffee, and he'll leave a two dollars tip
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: every single So, like the finance thing does, he's a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: little off.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fair. That's fair at least you guys know.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we know, we know, we take care of it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: What else you got?
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: How about eighteen year old recency bias guy? You know,
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: the guy who starts every sentence with bruh and then
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: follows it up with you know, pick any generally good
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: player at their position in any league, in any professional sport,
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: and then go on and try to tell you that
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: they're the top five person all time at that position. Yeah, hey, bra,
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: why don't you live some life?
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Live some life?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Bru oh man, Yeah, that is a great one. I
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: cannot stand. I don't like that person when it comes
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to music or anything else. The person, well, it wasn't
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: born withore, I wasn't.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: Born before you can still understand things happened right exactly.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, I reckon guys that I love. Lucy's the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: greatest comedic actress. I wasn't born before Lucy was on
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the air. Like, go do some research, right, go brush
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: up on some.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Things if you want to say, like in my lifetime, yeah.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Sure, in my three and a half years on Earth
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: watching sports. Yeah, that's a great one. That one drives
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: me up a wall too.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: The sports guy I hate the most is the didn't
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: play any competitive sports past t ball guy who has
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: to correct you on every fact that you know even
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: though he's wrong. Shut up and enjoy your adult pickleball
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: league and leave us all alone.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: I liked about one a lot.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of good ones here.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we got more.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I think. I think this is a little cathartic, like
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: people are finally getting this stuff off their chest. I agree.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: I agree.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: How about I get all my hot takes from TikTok guy?
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: You know, the guy who will sit down in a
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: conversation with you and be able to go into detail
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: about cal Rawlyly's swing speed, launch angle, and wife's having
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: an impact on his home run stats, but you know,
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: really has something better to do every night from six
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: forty to nine o'clock than to sit his ass down
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: and watch a Mariners game. How about that guy.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Bruh, Yeah, the guy that doesn't watch baseball but thinks
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: he knows because he watches short little that's all. That's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: quite a bit that goes with like a lot of
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: things in life right now. Yeah, yeah, you know what
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, hot take guy.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah that they they they've become an expert by studying
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: something in short spurts on Instagram.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: Yes, all right, we got two more of them.
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: No offense. I know you guys have to do it,
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: and I'm not the only listener, but I hate the
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: guy that tries to tell me how great things are
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: going in mini camp or preseason. I had a friend
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: who thought Omara Darbo was going to be the next
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: Randy Moss and like, wait till the season starts to
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: make any sort of prediction.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I hate that guy. I think it's that's fair and
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that's unfair because certainly in sports talk radio we do
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: sort of overreact to things that we see, like in
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: training camp. But also there's an element of it of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: just updating you on who looks good at training camp
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: who might be better than what we thought. And you're right,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: you can't know until you know, so part of it
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: is really just sort of highlighting people that you might
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: not have thought of that are having good camps. And
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: it might not mean they're going to be good players,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: but I can see how it comes off as oh, wow,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: this guy, oh special, and certainly a lot of us,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: me included, probably get a little carried away. Yeah, at
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: those times of the year. So I think that's a
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I think that's a very fair, fair assessment, but there's slightly.
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: Unfair too, And I would say, yeah, you I think
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: when you're covering a camp and you're out there, you
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: become a prisoner of the moment because you're seeing what
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: you're seeing, and that's all you know. You're somebody looks
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: impressive that day and they surprised you. Okay, well you're
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: going to talk about it, and it's going to be
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: more exciting than it would be if it was like they,
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: you know, went on a extra a ten yard run
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: in the fourth quarter up forty, and.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I would argue that Darbo came pretty close.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah for sure. S all right, last one here.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: What's up?
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: I can't stand me at games. Oh, I feel sorry
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: that people sit in front of me because all I
• 27:32
  Speaker 10: do is bitch about the coaching our pitching staff. Let
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: him go if they're having a good game. Do you
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: pitch hit for a batter that's three for three on
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: that day?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: No, you don't do that.
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: When you strike out, choke up the next time.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Put the ball in play.
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: Somehow what happened to bunching hit and running with our
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: pitching staff? Just find a way to manufacture two runs
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: like that?
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: He can't stand himself.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Uh, and yet he's not going to change. No. No,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna do because I know I'm right.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: So even though I'm probably insufferable to my friend that
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I took to the game, or to my wife that
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: are to my kid, I know I'm right to drive
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: me up a wall.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we do have some texts as well.
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: Totally unrealistic trade guy, let's trade four of our scrubs
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: for three all for a three time all Star.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I was just texting with Luke Arkins last night and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: we were going back and forth on this, like how
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: bad are people making trades? And some of them like
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: consider themselves like professional baseball analysts who have like podcasts
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and blogs. They're the worst. Yeah, and by way, the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Seattle sports fans no better than the Saint Louis sports
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: fan or somebody else on average. I know some of
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you know what you're talking about, but they are terrible.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: The large majority of them are so bad.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, like, oh, would we all want to trade three
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: of our top six step prospects to get Aaron Judge?
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, but it's not going to happen.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: And sometimes it goes the other way. Sometimes we're giving
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: up way too much to get a guy. I mean, yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: there a lot of them are not good. That's a
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: good one.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that is a good one.
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: We've got from the two five to three. How about
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: soccer is boring? Guy, but he watches a lot of baseball?
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: Oh stopping, Yeah, I know that was a dig of
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: his hurts.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I think, Okay, that's not funny. Yeah, that's not funny
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: because I'm trying to be the shepherd here on soccer.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: You're working on it. Yeah, and uh, I've yet to
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: break through that crust to see exactly what is so
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: incredibly special about soccer. But baseball is not boring. You
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: don't appreciate the details.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: It's really not. It's great.
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: Two more texts from the two O six that the
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: it takes two minutes for a sports convo to lead
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: to his high school injury and excuse as to why
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: he didn't make it. Guy could have could have been
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: a big Big leaguer, been a Pro Bowl.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: The famous one that Bucky always tells is the guy
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: who told him he was standing outside and he, oh,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: he played professional ball, and I think he was like
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: worked at a restaurant or something like that. And Buck,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: he's just outside getting a smoke or something like that,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and the guy comes up to him and says, yeah,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I was going to play majors, but I couldn't slide.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I just couldn't get it down.
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: Couldn't get it done all the way that far without sliding.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Just the sliding game kept me from getting there to
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the very end.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: There was also the guy that you had stretch talk
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: to that like the outside the hotel guy during the
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: World Cup, that like had some story for you guys
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: as to why he didn't make it a successful I
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: can't remember.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Oh that's right. Yeah, he was still going to try
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to be on the Sonics when they came back to town.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: Last text here.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: From the two six, there was something wrong with that guy.
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: Last text from the two six the roots for two
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: different competing college basketball programs. Oh wait, that's just stick
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: fame So never mind just Dick famee guy.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Then that's a great one to end on. Yeah, Dick's Faine,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: You're on all of our last nerves. Dick Fane, choose
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: a side. Oh all right. Coming up next, it is
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: trade season. So even though this morning Petro's Papa Ducky's
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: called me out trade deadline guy, I'm gonna own it. Next,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM Training Camp,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: breave you another form of it. Coming up at nine o'clock,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk from fantasy football. I don't think that
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: there's ever a bad time to talk about it. Frankly,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: we're getting ready for camp. I want to know what
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Dave Richard has on his mind his camp's getting started.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I promise you he's already doodling on his pad while
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: he's sitting there trying to raise his children, but at
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: all times just updating his running back list. That's the
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: way Dave operates. So we're gonna get inside that muddled
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: head coming up at nine o'clock here this morning. And
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: even though he's fantasy football guy, I'm trade deadline guy,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and I'm celebrating it here today with another trade deadline segment.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: It is trade season, after all, and yesterday. If you
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: think I'm a sick oh when it comes to MLB trades,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: think about what Jim Boden does. Every time you call
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Jim Boden, no matter where you do sports talk radio
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: in the country, he will always say yes to come
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: on your show at least once before trade deadline hits.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: That's how much he likes talking about trades. The former
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Red's GM was on with us yesterday talking about the deadline,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: and he put together an article for The Athletic the
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: five trades that he'd like to see happen before the deadline,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and one of them, in course, of course, involved the Mariners.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: He sent George Kirby to the San Francisco Giants. Better
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: sit down for this for Casey Schmid, who's having a
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: really good year, an all Star year this year, but
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: has never played like this ever before, and also a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: lefty reliever with a one and a half whip named
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Eric Miller. And I just told him, I said, we're
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: not getting enough. If you're going to move George Kirby
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: off of our team, Jim, what gives?
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: I mean the reason I kind of looked that did
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: that deal is because in talking to Jerry Depoto the
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: last time, the president of the Mariners, he said his
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: biggest needs is a right hand hitter because you guys
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: struggle so much against left hand of pitching, and another
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: high leverage reliever. So I tried to find a way
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: to get those two pieces to satisfy him. And there's
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: just such a scarcity of right hand hitters that are
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: available in both leagues. You know, Philadelphia has been trying
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: to get one since April. It's just not there. So
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I was trying to find a way. And then, you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: I looked at Casey Schmidt, who's having his breakout year
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: at age twenty seven, young guy in his prime. He's
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: got nineteen home runs on his way to thirty. So
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: I was thinking, okay, thirty home run bad. How would
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: he fit with Seattle. Well, the fact that he can
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: play first, second, third, right, left, can play all over
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: the diamond means that Seattle could plug him in wherever
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: they felt where Dan Wilson thought the biggest need was
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: and then Miller's a guy that your last eight appearances
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: he hasn't given up a run and he doesn't walk anybody.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: He punches everybody out. I mean, he's just been so
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: frigging dominant. So I was just trying to think, Okay,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: if I put Miller in the back end with for
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: getting the Mounez and then you put Schmid's thirty home
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: run bat in the middle on a team that's twenty
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: seventh in run scored, fifteenth in home runs, that you know,
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: maybe those two pieces help you win. Yeah, lose the trade,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: but win, you know. And so that was the thinking
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: behind it. Also that you know what Kirby's control is
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: two and a half years left. You have Katie Anderson
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: in the minor leagues. If quite frankly, it's major league
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: ready now. If you put him in your rotation, you
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: have another dominant top of the rotation starter right now.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: And you already have five starters, so you're six d
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: plus you got slow in coming. And so yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: just tried to, Okay, if the Giants were going to
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: give up you know, Schmidt and Miller, you know what
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: would they what would it take for them to do that,
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, I certainly I think it's an overpay
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  Speaker 3: in terms of quality in the trade, but the two
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: pieces make the difference anyway.
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  Speaker 1: That was a thinking behind them. And there you go.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Jim Bowden yesterday, great conversation with me. You want to
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: check out the entire thing. It's on yesterday's podcast ninety
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: three to three kjar dot com. Couple of things about it.
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  Speaker 1: Number One, I understand if we end up trading from
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: our depth starting pitching, even if it is somebody that
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: it hurts to lose, I understand that that's a possibility
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and probably should be at least investigated and see what
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: you could get in return. I also don't hate the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: idea of getting Casey Schmidt and Eric Miller. Certainly i'd
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: add them to this roster. And I think those two guys,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: if you just added them without knowing anything else, would
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: make you a better baseball team. I just think George
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Kirby's worth a lot more than somebody who's played good
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: professional baseball for no more than three months, Like Casey Schmitt,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: looked like he was a lost figure before this year,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: and this year he's had a very good first half.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: We've invested in an awful lot of guys who who
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: don't have great track records, but most recently have looked
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: like they can hit, and then they get here and
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the ballpark, I don't know
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: if it's the instruction. I don't know if it's the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: marine layer or the pressure, or whatever the case may be,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: they just don't hit. I want a surer thing than
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Casey Schmidt, especially if I'm going to give up a
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: talent like George Kirby. So I just think it's too
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: much to give. If we can work out a deal
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: for Schmidt and Miller that is a little more creative,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: a little more prospect driven, Okay, I could sign off
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: on that they have another player in Elliott Ramos, who's
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: a heck of a hitter, two has a little more
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: proven track record. He's not having as good a season
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: as what Schmid's having this year, but he's had a
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: better young career than what Schmid's had to this point.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be interested in him as well, even though he
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: does not bring the position versatility and probably would end
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: up being our DH and he wouldn't have to platoon,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: but he certainly is much better against lefties than he
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: is against righty's. So I don't mind shopping in the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants marketplace and trying to find a piece
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: or two in a really slow market to try to
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: help this team. They're certainly a seller. There's no doubt
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: they're selling right now. You could get a move right now.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: But man, if I'm giving up George Kirby, I am
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: getting something spectacer.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah back, and I think most Mariners fans would be
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: pissed if we didn't.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think right now he might look as
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: good as he's ever looked. So I mean, I'm not
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: selling that hot of a stock unless I'm blown the
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: f away by the offer. And Casey Schmidt, Eric Miller,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Elliott Ramos, whatever giant compilation they can put together, is
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: probably not going to be enough to get Kirby from me,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: all right. Coming up next, Dave Richard joins us part
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: of our training camp Preview Sports Radio ninety three point
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