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Best of Chuck & Buck 10-29 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Some time.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning class, ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, behold
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  Speaker 2: in producing six one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former
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  Speaker 2: high school basketball stand What in the hell.
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Don't jumped any conclusions. Not a god, You've got to
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  Speaker 1: lower lower your expectations.
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  Speaker 4: Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
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  Speaker 5: I'm getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll just
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  Speaker 5: openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped tex athlete.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
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  Speaker 4: A five seven guard and a former college water polo
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  Speaker 4: national champions.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of useless crap up here.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, this is Chuck and Buck in the Morning with
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  Speaker 4: Ashley Ryan Buck to you by to they look Casino
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  Speaker 4: Resort and quil Sea Creek Draft King sports book where
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  Speaker 4: the action never stopped.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready to get there? You go?
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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning to you. Welcome into this edition of
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  Speaker 1: Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 1: three k j R f M. It is a Humphy
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  Speaker 1: that's right, Wednesday edition of the program, and on Wednesdays
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  Speaker 1: we go till ten o'clock. Yeah, Wednesday, So today we're doing. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: today we're going all the way till ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, yeah, really giving it to the listeners today.
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  Speaker 1: That a little extra special. On Wednesdays, like Wednesday thing,
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  Speaker 1: Thursdays we only go to ten o'clock. On Wednesdays we
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  Speaker 1: always go all the way all the way there, and
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  Speaker 1: then Thursdays, you know, only to ten. Yeah, and then
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  Speaker 1: Fridays we just negotiate till ten right, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Right, people, a great deal. Totally following what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean sometimes we just feel a little
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  Speaker 1: over ambitious sometimes, you know, it's not all we there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we grind it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But today today ten o'clock, it's Ashley Ryan, it's
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  Speaker 1: former Mariner Bucky Jacobson, it's Chuck Powell with you as
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  Speaker 1: we get things started. And man, boy, I tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: once upon a time here in our office, I've often
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  Speaker 1: entertained the theory that if you wanted to, you could
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it wouldn't be a great life, but you
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  Speaker 1: could get all the food that you needed to live
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  Speaker 1: by just living at a radio station. Yeah, that you
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  Speaker 1: could just get the free stuff that comes in. And
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  Speaker 1: then I mean, I don't think it's a great quality
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  Speaker 1: of life. But you could you could survive just by
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  Speaker 1: off the free food that comes into a radio station
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  Speaker 1: during the given week. But it the quality of the
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  Speaker 1: food that comes in is is often interesting. Like once
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  Speaker 1: upon a time, we had a guava candy that somebody
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  Speaker 1: brought in. Remember that, Yeah, and it was here for
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  Speaker 1: nineteen and a half years. I just sat out there
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  Speaker 1: on a tato. I think I tried it and spit
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  Speaker 1: it out. But the guava candy lasted forever. It might
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  Speaker 1: still be in somebody's desk or pocket. I have like
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  Speaker 1: a butterscotch. Yeah, but boy, you bring in some varsity
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  Speaker 1: level Halloween candy prior to Halloween, Like the same bucket
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  Speaker 1: comes in last week and excuse me, next week, it
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  Speaker 1: comes in next week. Maybe it lingers a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it sticks around a lot because everybody had their
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  Speaker 1: fill of Halloween candy over the weekend and they have
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  Speaker 1: too much at home. But you bring it in. You
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  Speaker 1: bring in the A level, the Reese's peanut butter cups,
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  Speaker 1: the Snickers, the twigs, and you put a bucket out.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost gone twenty four hours. I don't know. Probably
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  Speaker 1: Jessaman brought that in.
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  Speaker 5: It was actually Mark, is that Mr Glenn? Yeah, he
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  Speaker 5: has a soul?
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  Speaker 1: To find out the head haun show about in Varsity
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  Speaker 1: level Halloween Candy.
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  Speaker 5: I learned that from his significantly better other Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Probably a trick well, that he has a soul or that.
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  Speaker 5: And actually it was like I was eating a piece.
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  Speaker 5: I said, you get some of this and she goes, no,
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  Speaker 5: Mark brought that in, I think, meaning like she didn't
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  Speaker 5: want it in the house. Probably that enough maybe, and
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  Speaker 5: then she says yeah, I said, really Marked, and know
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  Speaker 5: yeah he does have a soul.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, so both.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I learned both.
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  Speaker 1: And there's milk duds in there.
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  Speaker 5: I know, Man, I typically don't eat while I'm here,
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  Speaker 5: and yet yesterday I indulged.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like four or five myself.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when you got a bucket full of the
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  Speaker 1: good stuff was running, you just walked by it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was like it was the good stuff, like
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  Speaker 5: you said, and the top run is over. I was like,
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  Speaker 5: it's gonna spill if I don't get the top of
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  Speaker 5: this taken care of.
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  Speaker 7: I started trying to dig through to see if there
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  Speaker 7: was anything in there I could eat, and it was
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  Speaker 7: like I felt like someone had stolen my puppy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was like, if you'd like, I could, like,
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  Speaker 5: I could suck the chocolate off of the milk duds
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  Speaker 5: and then give it caramel.
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  Speaker 1: Caramel's got milk in it too. Oh yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: she stiok, headsets you had on your butt? Why would
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  Speaker 1: she stop?
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  Speaker 8: Short?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 5: I mean I could lick all the chocolate off a cat.
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  Speaker 5: You could have the wafers.
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  Speaker 7: You could have the wafers moist, moist wafers.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm trying to help here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I prefer my wafers dry. I'm proud of you,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks for going the extra mile. There's no
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  Speaker 1: pleasing her. I'm in the microwave after. That's a better idea,
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  Speaker 1: crispy wafers. I'm glad we've come up with this play together.
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  Speaker 6: I'll get it.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get started on this, saying it's better than going without. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'd prefer if you would lick the chocolate off
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  Speaker 7: a Reze's peanut butter cup and then I could have
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  Speaker 7: the peanut butter.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle.
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  Speaker 5: Done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, alright, that's really easy. We'll get that done. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you like caramels, Milk dud's become Carmels, real fast.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, sad, sad life I live.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's terrible. Well, welcome into the show here
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  Speaker 1: on this some morning. We are actually I actually am
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  Speaker 1: going to highlight Halloween candy and a couple of the
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  Speaker 1: segments later on in the show, you know, worked them
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  Speaker 1: into the sports world later on in the program. But
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  Speaker 1: we're going to begin. I want to begin with the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, but certainly I want this morning. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: yesterday was about just we. It was of this the game,
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest games we've ever seen. Last night though,
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  Speaker 1: got me thinking though more about how it does sort
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  Speaker 1: of mirror or reflect reflect is the better word the Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: But let's start first, though, Bucky just talking about the
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  Speaker 1: game itself. The Blue Jays won it by final score
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  Speaker 1: of six to two. Shoe a Otani started in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and look, we were two of the people that didn't
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  Speaker 1: think that the fifteen inning affair was going to be
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  Speaker 1: as debilitating to the Mariners in Toronto as so many
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  Speaker 1: were suggesting. And both teams played eighteen innings the night before,
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  Speaker 1: but only one team had a pitcher who got on
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  Speaker 1: base nine times the previous evening, and so I don't
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  Speaker 1: know maybe that did impact that show A wasn't quite
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  Speaker 1: as sharp as I mean, he wasn't bad, but they
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  Speaker 1: decided to extend him into the seventh inning, which might
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  Speaker 1: have been a mistake. The night after he got on
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  Speaker 1: base nine times in an eighteen inning game, and he's
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  Speaker 1: a DH. But you know what, every time you're getting ready,
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  Speaker 1: you correct me if I'm wrong. Every time you get
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  Speaker 1: ready to go to the plate and you're the DH,
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  Speaker 1: you're probably in the tunnel taking a few hacks. So
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  Speaker 1: he did that nine times the previous night, and he
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  Speaker 1: ran the bases nine times the previous night, So I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure it should all be that big of a
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  Speaker 1: surprise that maybe if anybody had an excuse for being
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  Speaker 1: a little bit tired last night that was on the
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  Speaker 1: mound by the seventh inning, it might be sho Heyo
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  Speaker 1: Tani over Shane Bieber.
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  Speaker 5: Uh. Yeah, we definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't impact the game.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know a goot impact of
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  Speaker 5: the game. And we there's really no way to tell
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  Speaker 5: unless he you know, we know that he was after
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  Speaker 5: getting on base nine times, which is absurd. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I maybe there was a time or two that I
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  Speaker 5: got on base five times in a game, and I
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  Speaker 5: can tell you I was significantly more tired. Not drastically,
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  Speaker 5: not like, oh my god, can't go on, He's not
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  Speaker 5: running that far, You're not running a triathle. But there's
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  Speaker 5: certain times where you just were on base more, especially
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  Speaker 5: if you ended up having a you know, maybe a
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  Speaker 5: couple of AB's where there's full count, two outs, you're
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  Speaker 5: running foul ball, running foul ball, stuff like that that
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  Speaker 5: you you noticed like, wow, that was I exerted more today.
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  Speaker 5: And we saw a show Hey kind of stretching his
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  Speaker 5: calf out like he was cramping up because he was
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  Speaker 5: on base every damn time, and and you know he
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  Speaker 5: was actually trying to steal bases. And I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: guess a couple of times he wasn't he was on base,
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  Speaker 5: but he just jogged around them. But other times there's
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  Speaker 5: doubles and he's just you know, sprinting to second base.
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  Speaker 5: It was I think he was probably more fatigue than
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  Speaker 5: typically getting ready for a start.
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  Speaker 1: And also, like our pitchers are slaves to their routines,
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  Speaker 1: our guys our slaves. And we've talked about a lot
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  Speaker 1: during the season, like a rain delay seems to affect
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  Speaker 1: us more than it does the other team because Logan
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  Speaker 1: Gilbert is so precise in his you know, in his
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  Speaker 1: build up. George Kirby, I think is the same way.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe Bryce Miller lesser than Brian Will slightly
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  Speaker 1: lesser than But our guys are affected by that, especially
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  Speaker 1: in today's modern game. I mean, once upon a time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, George Brett rolled in from the bar and
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  Speaker 1: went three for four. You know, I think they are
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  Speaker 1: a little bit differently. And if you think our guys are,
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese approach is completely different. Yeah, So to get
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  Speaker 1: out of there's no way that Shoe a Otani could
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  Speaker 1: have stayed in his routine after eighteen innings the night before,
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  Speaker 1: had to go home and sleep, come back to the ballpark,
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  Speaker 1: and then do it all over the next day while
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  Speaker 1: also incorporating his pitching prep. So I don't know, he
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  Speaker 1: seemed fine for six innings, but maybe Dave Roberts asked
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  Speaker 1: a little bit too much out of a guy that
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  Speaker 1: got on base nine times the night before to have
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  Speaker 1: him go out for the seventh and that was the
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  Speaker 1: difference in the game. That seventh inning is where Toronto
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  Speaker 1: pulled away.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I would think, I mean Ultimately, if
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  Speaker 5: you take the seventh inning where he gave up a
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  Speaker 5: couple of knocks to start that and then was pulled,
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  Speaker 5: I mean he would He went five innings, four hits
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  Speaker 5: and two runs, and it really was a mistake to
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  Speaker 5: Vlad Guerrero, who's on fire this entire postseason, and took
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  Speaker 5: him yard. And so you're still sitting at a two
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  Speaker 5: to one ball game and you've you've taxed your bullpen
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  Speaker 5: because of the eighteen innings before, and they don't really
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  Speaker 5: typically trust their bullpen a whole heck of a lot
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  Speaker 5: as it is, right and for good reason. Outside of
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  Speaker 5: the performance that they had in the in the eighteen
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  Speaker 5: inning affair the night before, it's probably one of those
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  Speaker 5: like I think we'll just go ahead and ride this.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he wasn't. It wasn't like he was getting
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  Speaker 5: rocked and having to wiggle out of trouble.
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  Speaker 3: He was.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he allowed you know, base runners basically up
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  Speaker 5: to up through five innings, so it was like.
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  Speaker 1: Fine, but maybe the seventh was.
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  Speaker 5: Just still ran ran out of gas. I think it's
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  Speaker 5: part that. I think it's more so you know, as
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  Speaker 5: much as you know there's a I got a you
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  Speaker 5: know I'm irritated with the Toronto Blue Jays because they
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  Speaker 5: knocked us out. There's an old school way that they
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  Speaker 5: play the game is that is one that plays when
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  Speaker 5: you're tired and when you you know, the emotional toll
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  Speaker 5: that it takes on you to play eighteen innings and
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  Speaker 5: lose is far different than the emotional toll to play
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  Speaker 5: ateen innings and come out victorious. And so it's one
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  Speaker 5: of those all right, boys, that's time to dig deep,
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  Speaker 5: it's time to we got to go get Shoho Tani.
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  Speaker 5: They get to go against Shane Bieber, who by all
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  Speaker 5: accounts is pitching well in the postseason coming off Tommy
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  Speaker 5: John and he's doing what they're they're asking of him
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  Speaker 5: to do it just keep them in the ballgame. You
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  Speaker 5: just kind of felt like, boy, this is a I
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  Speaker 5: can see how bang bang and this thing's over and
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  Speaker 5: five yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And yet the old school mentality, and I don't know
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  Speaker 5: who it was on Toronto, I think it was after
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  Speaker 5: they beat us, ended up saying it might have been
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  Speaker 5: Beaber old school wins, Old school wins. Like there's something
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  Speaker 5: about the mentality that the Blue Jays are playing with
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  Speaker 5: that is like us against the world or US against
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  Speaker 5: right right now, it's US against this you know Dodgers
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  Speaker 5: team that you know by all accounts, I mean, its
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  Speaker 5: spent the most money out there, and I know the
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  Speaker 5: Mets are up there too, but it's just this team
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  Speaker 5: is like they should win. Everybody thinks they should win,
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  Speaker 5: and the Blue Jays are like, well, I'm gonna raise
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  Speaker 5: my hand here. I think maybe we have something to
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  Speaker 5: say about that, like on a regular basis. So I
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  Speaker 5: think they answered the bell better than than the Dodgers
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  Speaker 5: just did up and down the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that dovetails perfectly into the topic that I did
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  Speaker 1: want to bring up because we're four games into this
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  Speaker 1: series and I thought the Dodgers were gonna take it
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  Speaker 1: in four to five games. I really did. I think they.
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  Speaker 1: I probably would have given the same prognosis had the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners made it. I just thought the Dogs, the way
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  Speaker 1: that they're constructed, how healthy they're starting pitching was. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's the best rotation money can buy, and for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in this modern era, all of their pitchers
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  Speaker 1: were healthy at the exact right time and just muwing
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  Speaker 1: through people like threshers through wheat. That's how they'd performed
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  Speaker 1: throughout the postseason. So I probably would have given the
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  Speaker 1: same prediction had the Mariners made it to the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: But it did sort of with Toronto, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: playing their game last night, bouncing back from an eighteen
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  Speaker 1: inning loss from the previous night. And really, as much
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  Speaker 1: as I brought up showey Otani, John Smoltz pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: it was their ability just to put the ball in
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  Speaker 1: play and see what can happen. Jimenez with his big
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  Speaker 1: two strike hit the other way, and ty France even
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  Speaker 1: hitting a ground ball the second base and not grounding
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  Speaker 1: into a double play and just bringing in a run.
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  Speaker 1: That sort of approach is probably the primary thing that
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  Speaker 1: led to their victy last night. And it just it
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  Speaker 1: just struck me as everybody's in Mariner hangover, in a
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  Speaker 1: state of Mariner depression for a long time. We had
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  Speaker 1: to beat down. And this is the thing that if
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  Speaker 1: I got angry during the last five years, during the
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto era, it was people just saying the moment
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners didn't accomplish what we wanted them to accomplish,
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  Speaker 1: they sucked.
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  Speaker 5: They're terrible.
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  Speaker 1: That was the That's where everybody went, and everybody needs
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  Speaker 1: to be fired. Those are the things that if I
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  Speaker 1: ever got angry and yelled and got worked up, it
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  Speaker 1: was over that mentality that the moment the Mariners don't
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  Speaker 1: achieve what we thought they could achieve or should achieve,
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  Speaker 1: it was automatically same old Mariners. They stink, not the
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  Speaker 1: same old Mariners. Has not been the same old Mariners
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  Speaker 1: for the last five years. This is a completely different
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  Speaker 1: approach that they have taken. And we are so well
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  Speaker 1: set up for the future and should be on a
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  Speaker 1: four game, four season playoff streak and the process. But
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  Speaker 1: I hope that people and I know that there's no
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  Speaker 1: moral victories here, but watching the Blue Jays even things
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  Speaker 1: up with the Dodgers. I mean, we went through this
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  Speaker 1: season hearing they stink same old Mariners. No no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: The Seattle Mariners are as good as any team in
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. They can play with anybody, including the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers and obviously the Blue Jays. We came within eight outs.
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  Speaker 1: We came within one swing because if George Springer doesn't
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  Speaker 1: hit that home run, I think we win. We came
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  Speaker 1: within one swing of being in this World Series and
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  Speaker 1: maybe even with the Dodgers at two games apiece. So
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  Speaker 1: I realize we haven't made the World Series, and that
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  Speaker 1: continues to haunt everybody in this city. And it should
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  Speaker 1: I mean you should. You shouldn't be satisfied. I heard
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  Speaker 1: this promo coming in. You shouldn't be satisfied. It was
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  Speaker 1: a successful season. But nobody's satisfied. The organization's not satisfied. You,
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  Speaker 1: the fans shouldn't be satisfied. Hi, the talk show its
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  Speaker 1: Tom not satisfied. There's more to achieve. They gotta make
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  Speaker 1: the World Series. They got to win a World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise you have floundered an amazing job of creating this
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  Speaker 1: foundation to win consistently over a decade or more. But
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  Speaker 1: we are so close, and I get it. That's very
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  Speaker 1: little solace that you can take right now, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to think about moral victories. But four games
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  Speaker 1: into this series, two games apiece, two teams that seem
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  Speaker 1: pretty evenly fought, and we came within a swing of
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  Speaker 1: beating that one of those teams and being in the
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  Speaker 1: same situation. We are there. We are there. It is
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  Speaker 1: hard to win a World Series, even getting into the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: even with home field advantage, even with a buye in
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the first round. It is hard. I mean, it felt
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: we were only in two rounds. We only participated in
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: two rounds of the playoffs. It felt like three and
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: a half years of our lives we were taken. And so
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: it is hard ass work to win it all. But man,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: we're right there. We can compete with the best in
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the game and are set up to do so for
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  Speaker 1: the next five to ten years.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think that everybody is entitled to You can
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: have your opinion. It's just I mean, I think the cold,
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: hard truth is that people should realize that the two
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: things can be true. You can think that this season
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: was a success and yet not successful enough like it's
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: it was just it was a good year. They obviously
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: made the playoffs. They get they got to the second
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: second you know rank or whatever they finished second to
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: where they get a bye. They you know, they fought
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: hard to get out of the first round against Detroit,
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: which ultimately a lot of people can say Detroit isn't good.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: They you know, they they shouldn't have even went to
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: five games or whatever. You can say whatever you want
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Detroit up until you know, a month and a half
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: towards the end of the season. There, I mean they
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: were one of the better teams in the American League,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: and they have an ace that we had to end
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: up beat twice. It to me, it's the idea of
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: if you can't recognize this team is on par with
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: the best teams out there, like you're right there, like
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: you that's what you know. Like, I'm not sure what
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: I feel about Jerry Depoto, but it wasn't. One of
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: the things that is pretty evident, and he's basically been
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: open about it, is that he's trying to build something
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: that year after year will compete to be in the playoffs.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: So you have a contender because they feel that the
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: way that they're building a team that gets into the
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: playoffs could be dangerous in the postseason, and this team
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: most certainly could have. I mean, I think that two
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: things that can be true are I think that our
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: pitching staff didn't really perform as well as they can
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: or possibly you're in the World Series now. But I
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: also think that part of that is tip your cap
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: to the Blue Jays because they had a game plan
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: against good pitching that makes it difficult for good pitching
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: to be flawless. Yesterday, to me, the Otani mows down
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: the first couple hitters, and then they grind out two
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: AB's that made it to where he still threw twenty
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: pitches in the first inning. That allows Vladimir Guerrero to
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: come up in the third inning to hit the two
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: run homer that basically put them ahead for good at
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: that point in time. It's those little tiny things that
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: the first inning didn't amount to anything. They get a
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: walk and a single, and then Alejandro Kirk gets out,
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: but it was more than that, just letting him mow
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: your guys down one, two, three. So I mean, to me,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: there's an old school thing, and I think the old
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: school thing plays against anybody, and it played against us.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: But to think that we're not on par with the
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: team out there, it's crazy.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: How many times the last few years I've driven around
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: listening to various hosts on various stations just constantly say, well,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: we're not in the same category as the Yankees.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: That's clear.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Of course we are. The
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: only reason absolutely are.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: The only reason we're not is because they they would
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: look at any season and where they're not going to
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: the World Series as a failure because they've been there
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: so many times. I think that would be like the
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: one reason that we wouldn't be in the same category,
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: because I don't think we can look at not going
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: to the World Series as a failure. It could be
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: a disappointment, but I don't think it's a failure.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: All right, let's find out what is on tap for
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: today's radio program people. What's on TEP?
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• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Toronto wins six to two over the Dodgers. The series
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: is even at two games a piece. Now Game five
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: will be tonight. It'll be a savage for the Blue Jays,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Blake Snell for the Dodgers. Mariners offseason, of course is underway.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: A lot of people talking about it. We will to
• 20:42
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  Speaker 1: Frozen Frenzy was held yesterday in the National Hockey League
• 20:56
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• 20:59
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• 21:03
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• 21:06
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• 21:09
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• 21:12
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• 21:16
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• 21:20
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• 21:22
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• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a week where they'll actually play. I don't know why
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: a bye week feels so long, but it just does.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: They'll take on the Commanders this Sunday night. Greg Bell
• 21:33
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• 21:36
  Speaker 1: we are six days away from the NFL trading deadline,
• 21:39
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• 21:42
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• 21:45
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• 21:48
  Speaker 1: And speaking of Huskies, we're five days away from Danny
• 21:51
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• 21:54
  Speaker 1: college basketball season gets started Monday night as well. All right,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: so a lot tocus, clearly, But the big topic right
• 22:02
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• 22:07
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• 22:11
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• 22:14
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• 22:18
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  Speaker 1: bounced back from that eighteen inning loss the night before
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  Speaker 1: to defeat the Dodgers and show Aotani six to two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the frozen frenzy last night as well, cracking. We're
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  Speaker 1: a part of that, but we've already covered that story.
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  Speaker 1: Sounders played game two of their three game series against
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Minnesota United in the MLS postseason coming up on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: They are down one game to Minnesota United, so they
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  Speaker 1: have to win the last two to advance in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks, So we'll be playing the Commanders this Sunday night.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: We're also six days away from the NFL trading dead line,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and so to talk about these topics and others, we
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: welcome our Seahawks insider, the great Greg Bedling. All right,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: good to have you with us here again this morning.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: It is hump gay yep, and I want to start
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: with a former Seahawk at our conversation today, Bobby Wagner
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: kind of looks like feels like this is going to
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: be his last season. So this is the last time
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: he'll be on the field, I think with the Seahawks
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: in a football game, even though he's on the other
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: side of things. How big of the story is Bobby Wagner.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: He usually is when we face him, but this time
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: around to bring him up on a Wednesday, how much
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: of your coverage will be devoted to seeing Bobby Wagner again?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Well, I was going to take an opposite tack and
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: today at Seahawks and talk about how well he's playing
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: at age thirty five and a half. Yeah, he played
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: every snap of sixty nine. There's only three Washington players
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: who played every snap on Monday night at camp sitting,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: and he was one of them. He had ten tackles.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: He had his fourteenth career interception went through Travis Kelsey's
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: hands and into his. He's played ninety nine percent of
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: the snaps this year. He played ninety nine percent of
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: the snaps last year. He second in the league in
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: tackles right now behind Jordan Brooks. By the way, it
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: doesn't seem like he's slowed down at all. Now, he's
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: not as fast as he used to. He saw that
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: both at the end of his first Seahawks tenure and
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: then in the second Seahawks go around when teams targeted him,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: especially in the past game. But he's got a coach
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: and Dan Quinn that'll let him be the middle linebacker
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: for the Washington Commanders as long as Quinn as the
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: coach and as long as Wagner wants to. So I'm
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: not convinced this is the last go around. I haven't
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: talked to him in a while, but since the last offseason.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: But he, of course we know, has a lot of
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: other things besides football going on in philanthropic interest and
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: business interests, and does a lot with each pcus there's
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: more than football to Bobby Wagner. So he didn't have
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: to play. But he's still producing at a level that
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: would suggest that he's not just fading out. And to
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: play ninety nine percent of the snaps at middle linebacker,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: that takes a toll on you for doing it for
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: fourteen years going on thirty six years old. I was
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: gonna talk to Ernest Jones today if I get an
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: opportunity to about just that trying to play that position
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: that Jones plays as physically as that it demands, and
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: to do it for fourteen years. He's a Hall of Famer.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: He's a first Bobot Hall of Famer, privileged to have
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: covered and to know him off the field as well.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: They'll never be another like Bobby Wagner for longevity, uniqueness, perspective, everything.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: He's a joy to be around. He enrichest people that
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: he is with. He just has a lot more than
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: football going on, which might be the strongest thing I
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: can say about him.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen hundred career tackles, I mean, and then add college
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: to that. Imagine just like tackling another human being three
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: thousand times in your life.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: He's had thirteen thousand, six hundred snaps in just regular
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: season in the NFL, thirteen thousand, six hundred car crashes
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: in the middle of defenses. His job is to slam
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: into people on every snap, and he's done it almost
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: fourteen thousand times.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, I mean, you've you've went on at length
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: about when they went out and got Ernest Jones last year,
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: how much that shifted and shaped the way in which
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: the defense can play. And so this weekend they're going
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: to be going up against, you know, Bobby Wagner, and
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: so even if he maybe has lost half a step,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: maybe he's not as capable of going sideline to sideline
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: like he was back in the legion of Boom days.
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  Speaker 5: What he brings to the table between the years has
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: got to be something that maybe that Sam Donald and
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: company are going to be alerted to. You got to
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: worry about how smart he is back there, right.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Buck, there's nothing he hasn't seen pre snap post
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: snap during plays. The communication. The Commanders actually have been
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: trying to do a little bit of what Mike mc
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: donald's doing, layering their play calls, changing at the snap,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: and it hasn't worked. They've had a bunch of injury.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: They had both their defensive ends are an injury reserve.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: They have safety on injured reserve. They are really hurt,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: especially on defense. They aren't tackling very well. So the
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: last week the Commanders and Bobby Wagner talked about simplifying,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: not having layered play calls either ors if a team
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: is in shotgun or a team's under center, if a
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: team's in this formation, to change the call and to
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: be more to just be simpler. Wagner's in the middle
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: of all of that, and he has seen everything. And
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: a big advantage that Wagner has in being able to
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: play fast at age thirty five is he's playing with
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: the coach he grew up with. The Ken Norton Jr.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Was of course the position coach, but dan Quinn was
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: the main thrust of the legion of boom defense and coordinating,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: and he worked the closest besides what Norton he was.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Quinn was closest with Wagner on those early twenty ten Seahawks,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: So the familiarity with each other is off the charts
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: for a guy at this point in his career. He's
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: hand picked by Dan Quinn to be in the middle
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: of the Washington defense because of their experience in Seattle.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: There's nothing Donald and Kobac and formations and motions can
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: do that Bobby Wagner hasn't seen defended and beaten in
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: the past.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Greg bellis with US our Seahawks insider. Yeah, one hundred
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and east second right now in the National Football League
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: in career in tackles this season behind Jordan Brooks, by
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, yeah, they're one and two. But he's
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty nine tackles away from the all
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: time record. I realize that tackles isn't like sacks or
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: touchdowns or things like that. As a matter of fact,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: sometimes the tackle stat could just sort of suggest that
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: you play on a bad team that's on the field
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: a lot. We know that's not the case in Bobby
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Wagner's career. So I guess my point is that being
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the leading tackler does not come with the same sort
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: of spice that other statistics do. But do you think
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: it is important to Bobby Wagner? Do you think that
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: he wants to retire as the all time leading tackler
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: in NFL history?
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Yes? I talked about this with him.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: His position, that's job one is to tackle and to
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: tackle him where you hit him. I talk about that
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: a lot with Hernes Jones and how the defense changed
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: last year because Dotson and Baker were getting dragged like
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: tin cans on the back of an old pickup truck
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: when they would hit people. And absolutely opposite with Ernest Jones,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: the same with Bobby Wagner. When he tackles you, you
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: go down. And that's the difference between punting and getting
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: first downs, which becomes a difference in not scoring and scoring,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: which becomes a difference between wins and losses. Tackling is
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: the prerequisite of a middle linebacker and to be the
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: best at ever doing it and the most that ever
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: had it. You're right statistically, some teams are accused of
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: padding tackle stats and giving tackles to guys who just
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: jump onto a pile at the end, but the all
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: time that speaks of longevity at that position in particular.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, ask Brian Urlacker, as Dan Morgan asked Luke Keaghley,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: It's hard to play at an elite level for as
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: long as Bobby Wagner has without really damaging yourself physically.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Wagner keeps himself in exquisite shape. He jokes with me
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: about hot yoga. He always told me I should go
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: to the hot yoga studio in Bellevue.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: You'd look great in leg warmers.
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: That would be the day that I can't even go
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: with my wife in hot yoga. Why would I go
• 34:17
  Speaker 10: with Bobby Wagner that.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: He was always telling me to do that, and how
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: restorative it was for him. Now he loves it. He
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: has a little place on the East side. He always
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: was near where he lived. I think he still goes
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: there in the off season, and his diet has been
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: impeccable since he was in his early mid twenty. He
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: wasn't eating McDonald's when he came into the league. He
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: just is a pro and to him all that he
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: doesn't talk about the accolades, but the tackling in particular,
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: the tackle mark is a big deal for the position,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: to show that he did it year over year over
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: year for fifteen years.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going to ask you something that Chuck kind
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: of brought up to us yesterday. I mean, is this
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: a game against Washington that if they don't have Jadon Daniels,
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: is it a walkover a game against I mean with
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: Marcus Mariota back there or do I mean they're gonna
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: prepare either way. But is Jayden Daniels the X factor
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: of whether or not this could be a game.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Well, he's the decisive factor.
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: If he doesn't play Buck, even the game shifts heavily
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: towards Seattle and their defense. I wouldn't call anything the
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Seahawks do a walk over. I don't think they're that
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: good of a team, and anybody can beat them, I
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: mean anybody. And the Commanders drove into Kansas City territory
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Monday night five times. Five of their eight drives were
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: in Chiefs territory, yet they only scored a one touchdown
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: there was. Their best drive was the first drive of
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: the game, and they got inside the red zone, just
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: marching down the field, running and passing, and then a
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: pass went through receivers hands inner up to it was
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: a bubble screen. It was a really weird play. I
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: believe it was McLaren that the ball went right through
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: his hands and into the defenders' hands. And that was
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: the end of the drive and they were chasing the
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: rest of the game. They didn't run the ball at all,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: I mean sixty yards. They ran it just six times.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: After halftime. It was a seven to nothing game. Then
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: it was seven to seven and a half, it was
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: fourteen to seven late in the third quarter. Yet Washington
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: ran it just six times in the second half. They
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I've mentioned this a couple of times. The Seahawks number
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: one rank defense against the run, to me, is somewhat
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: artificial because the Jaguars, the Buccaneers, those teams didn't even
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: run at all. Washington needs I know they Austin Eckler
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: is out injured as well on injured reserve out for
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: the year. They need to run the ball. Jayden Daniels
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: has always been a part of that, well always in
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: the year and a half he's been in the league,
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: and he's got a hamstring issue, so even if he plays,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: he may not be the run factor he normally is
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: RPOs and keepers that Mariota would be that healthy. But
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: if Daniels doesn't play, the Seahawks should win. To answer
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: your question, if Daniels does play, this is not easy.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: This is still a team that went to the NFC
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Championship Game last year. Injuries aside. They're ticked off. They're
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: three and five and there's talking Washington as to what's
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: gone wrong, and they're angry and they realize that they
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: have more talent than this. They're playing a tougher schedule
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: this year. They're not winning the games at the end
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: like the Hail Mary against Chicago that they won last year.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: This team last year when they won eleven plus games
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: that went to the mc tedle game, they won five
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: games in the last second, either on the last play
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: or the last five seconds of a game. That's hard
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: to do, and eventually the law of averages catches up
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: to you and you don't always win all those games.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: And that's also some of what's happened this year are the.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Ax inside of Greg Bell with us here on checking
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: back in the morning, of course, follow him at Thenewstribune
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: dot com complete Seahawks coverage and if you want on Twitter,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: they're at g Bell Seattle. So I know Seayawk fans
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: are excited about having the gang back together in the
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: defensive secondary this Sunday night. How pumped is Mike McDonald
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: to have his A team going Sunday.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Witherspoon's the big deal. Julian Love looks like he's back.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: I didn't see Witherspoon in the brief part of practice
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: we could watch on Monday. They didn't have to put
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: out a practice report and injury report on Monday, so
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: there was no word on whether Witherspoon even came out
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: on the field after we weren't allowed to be out there.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: We'll know more a little more today, But he had
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: said last week McDonald had that Witherspoon is coming back
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: to practice fully this week too, or that was the
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: expectation the Witherspoon piece coming back. I mentioned this the
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: other day, but that makes them hole for the first
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: time since the opener, since the first five plays of
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: the opener, And then there's the question of, well, what
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: do you do when they're all back, because to me,
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Witherspoon and even Warrior are gonna play. You're not gonna
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: take even Warry out of Nickel that he's been excelling at.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: They may go a lot more dying with six defensive
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: backs so they can get Woolen and Emon Warry on
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: the field with Witherspoon, and if they go dime, that
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: means have been only one linebacker on the field most times,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: and that would be Ernest Jones, and they take Drake
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Thomas off. They they just haven't had these options, And
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: as McDonald said, this is a good problem to have
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: them excited to have those decisions to make, because I've
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: been just done. If we didn't have the numbers at
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: full strength that we've had since the opener, for them
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: to be five and two, the number one against the run,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: the pressure rates that they've gotten without having to blitz
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: all of that, without having their starting off defense together
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: since the fifth player of the season speaks to how
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: well they've been playing. No matter who's been in there,
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: the defense is where this team will lie. This is
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: where they're If they're winning the division, it's because of
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: the defense. I know, Donald having a great season and
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Smith and Jake was leading the league. They're gonna win
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: based on their defense. And now it's finally hold again.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: All right, man, great stuff. As always, we roundtable.
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: At tomorrow we do.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the table will bend.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: It will be round you and Hugh chopping it up
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: for us here tomorrow.
• 40:19
  Speaker 10: So we look forward to having man now that not
• 40:21
  Speaker 10: going to have a World Series hiatus for the roundtable.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Stick maybe hockey hiatus for it or Huskies, I don't know. Curling, Yeah,
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: that's that's true. Gymnastics is a winter sport in some places.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: I'm excited to do it.
• 40:41
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• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Coming up next here on our radio program, we'll play
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Factor Fiction twice. I'll explain it next on KJAR.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Your own for Husky Football proudly presents our weekly visit
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: with the voice of the Dogs, Cam Cleveland.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, let's go right to you by Warrior injury, long,
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  Speaker 1: battle tested.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: Now here's chucking bug with a former Husky tight end.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: On Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Let's ask Caam Cleveland one of our questions from Halloween
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: candy Factor Fiction. Okay, to get this started, let me
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: ask you something here, Cam. Are the are Reese's Peanut
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: butter cups just three and a half point favorites over
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: all other Halloween candy? Or would you take another candy
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: and the points? What would you do?
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: I think that's fair. Yeah, it's completely fair. It's the
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: leader in the clubhouse for me at all times. It
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: trumps everything. No pun intended there, Okay, pun intended. But yes,
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: I think it holds a little bit higher level. It does.
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: It just does in all forms.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: What would be as close as contender Snickers?
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, twicks, ooh, I'm thinking of twigs. That's that's where
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: I need a little bit of crunch in there. If
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: you're gonna go Twigs or kit Kat, it's right in
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: that realm Snickers you can, but it's the peanuts, you know.
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: It's it's it's too close to Rees's. So you got
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: to flip it to something a little bit different, you know.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: On a neutral field, Starbucks or Starbucks, Starburst or Nerds
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: on a net.
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna flip. I'm gonna flip the script and go
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Mambas on you guys. You guys remember mamas. Oh yeah,
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: but take you to a whole other level with Mambas.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: They're excellent, but they're bigger than Star Wars.
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: Sure, they are bigger than Star Wars. And they came
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: in a whole like different, like it just looked like
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: a rainbow of perfection. It was beautiful.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: The only complaint about Mambas though, is that they come
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: in four little packs, and so you have to open
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: all the packs to be able to alternate flavors.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: That's my only complaint, right, Yeah, you guys have.
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: Made it very tradable.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, sharing guy, you guys have a mama strategy.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: I choose are really good too this right now?
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: Oh wow, I choose the junior varsity star wars now
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: and later.
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, tell you that we go freshman, I go freshman.
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: Freshman on the bench is what that is. Yeah, I.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Can't cleanland this with us right here on Chuck and Buck.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: It must be a bye week. We spent four minutes
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: talking about Halloween candy with our Husky insider. So here
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: at six and two in the bye week, four games
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: to go, a favorable schedule until Oregon. I mean, boy,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: I mean there have been the high points of this season.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: There have been a couple of low points this year,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of different things to discuss, But I got
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: to feel that Husky fans should be feeling pretty good
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: about where this team is right now with a quarter
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: of the season remaining.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm I feel pretty good about sitting. If you
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: told me at the end, or if you sat right
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: here and we said, okay, I'm gonna give you a
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: magic eight ball, and I'm going to say all right,
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: You're gonna have a loss to Michigan and Ohio State
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: and number one team in the country, and the what
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: I think, what is Michigan twenty two somewhere around in
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: there at twenty Yeah, I would feel I would feel like,
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: all right, you needed to win the three big games
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: when you put it on your schedule. Certainly we're Ohio State,
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: Michigan in Oregon. I felt at that point you had
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: to win one of those games to really jump for
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: a shot to be in a Big Ten championship or
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: a shot at the college football playoff, potentially that match
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: up at the end of the season. I don't like
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: to jump ahead of games, but I will say I'm
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: obsessed with the college football rankings at this point. I'm
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: excited to see them come out in November. The ape
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: Pole has turned me into a chaotic goofball of the
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: ups and downs and the inconsistencies and the lax and
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: the biases and the I know, Chuck, you talked about
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: how important it was for preseason rankings because it gets
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: everybody excited, but even you know, I spent just so
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: much time looking at how these rankings have come out
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: and what Washington needs to do you just need to
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: win each game. You got to go on the road
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: to Wisconsin and you have maybe a UCLA team that
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: came back to life a little bit, But then now
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: they're like, all right, that was a murder that happened.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: It was tough, that was a big, tough game. But
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: then he just in these moments of this season, I
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: know the perception of college football and the rankings and
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: how much it matters. Even with twelve now it feels
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: harder to get in than it was with four. Were
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: the way the biases are set up, and I guess
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: there's nothing left to do but just win and win out.
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, how do you explain I mean, the
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: offense at one point was you know, I mean I
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: think statistically they were number one, and then maybe it
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: was before that Ohio State game, but Ohio State and
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: Michigan combined thirteen points against the two best teams they
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: played to date, and so the difference between that and
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: the fact that they put up thirty plus it feels
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: like against everybody else. How do you explain the discrepancy
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: between the offense rolling and then not being able to
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: do anything against a couple of good teams.
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you two big factors returned this week
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: and that makes a difference. Carver Willis and John Mills
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: returned a freshmen and an absolute stal worth at left tackle,
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: which changed the game quite a bit. I mean, you
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: did lose Clinton Moore again in the second half of
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: the Michigan game. He is your edge blocker the Michigan game.
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: As your tight end, he is your best, one of
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: the best blocking tight ends in the country and does
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: an excellent job on edge run. So that changes your
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: run game. So now you're down to Decker to Graff
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: who Decker is more of a move ahe tight end,
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: he's not a true Then you have to bring in
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: lineman last week or and put him in number eighty
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: and dressed him to be able to make a blocking
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: But you had Carver and John Mills back last week
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: against a pretty good a pretty good defense, and that
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: when you look at that defense and go, okay, all right,
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: here we go. We're gonna do the run game. The
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: ability to get Jonah Coleman those types of runs they moved,
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: the pocket, they changed. It's hard to win games on
• 47:45
  Speaker 6: the road, no question in a Big ten that that
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: goes without saying all right, But an Illinois team that
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: comes in as a ranked opponent, they played very very well.
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: They beat usc They had some tough games too. They
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: were a very Their quarterback was excellent. All in those
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: moments is when you were at full strength. This Husky
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: team showed that in that first half versus Ohio State
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: and into the third quarter when they were at full strength. Okay,
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: they could handle those punches. Same thing in the Michigan game.
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: You could handle it into the third court and then
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: all of a sudden it gets out of control when
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: injuries happened and the mistakes happened, the turnovers happened, the
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: discipline of the of a red shirt or of a
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: true sophomore. Now that quarterback, he's getting better. The youth
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: is there. But when you get a veteran lineman, okay,
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: a young powerful lineman that's a freshman on that left side,
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: the continuity there and you get Joeah cooleman going and
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: then the defense gets a turnover. Get the takeaway, guys.
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: That was what the difference was this last week is
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: you had two interceptions, should have had four. One taken
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: away on a drop another one was a pass interference call.
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: But the defense flipped the energy. So I could come
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: up with a lot of excuses, but you didn't win
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: those two big games, and now you got a shot
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: to win out and then you're going to have to
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: play a very very good organ game and did at
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: the end of the season, but at least that game
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: would be at home. But I'm not going to count
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: any chickens yet. You got to go to Wisconsin first
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: and get healthy.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: This week, Cam Cleveland is with US former Husky tied
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: end and of course color analysts for all the Huskies
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: play by play broadcast right here on the flagship Sports
• 49:20
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• 49:22
  Speaker 1: conversation with us, whether it be about the Huskies or
• 49:26
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• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Battle Tested. Let's talk about the defense. We always talk
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: about the skill guys on the offensive side, but on
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: the defensive side, man to have to Carrio O Davis
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: and Ephesians Price Sock together, both healthy at the exact
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: same time. I mean it is. It was previewed as
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: these two could be a real big problem for opponents,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: but we just haven't seen them play enough together and
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: healthy at the exact same time, but now we're starting
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: to see them get into a little bit of a
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: role and how nightmarish can two six foot four inch
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: corners with skill and length, How much of a nightmare
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: can they create for opposing quarterbacks?
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: The rest of the way, I think it does depend
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: on the style of offense that teams are going to play.
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: And you're right, I don't know if I'd look out
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: on the edges and go, oh, that guy looks like
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: somebody we can attack, He's just he arms are everywhere.
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: They can outrun you too, jump, physical and be able
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: ball skills, all of that. But even I mean, Alex
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: McLoughlin is one of the best safeties in the country.
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: Transfers from northern Arizona.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: Mkelsteine is very active. That back half four guys, Okay,
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: they are arguably one of the best in the country
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: because they are so good in open space. You can
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: depend on them. Amac can make tackles across the field
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: as aligned as a safety. You know, mckkelsteine fills the
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: box very good, good speed over the top. But then
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: you have the those two corners that can lock it down.
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: And Takario is the leader on this group. He is.
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: He is as good as advertised. He is an NFL
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: player all day long. He could do whatever he wants.
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: I mean, at this point, if he wants to stay
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: or if he wants to go, that's really not up
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: to me. But when you watch him play, will teams decide.
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: And I've seen it this year as most teams have
• 51:22
  Speaker 6: decided to try to play the tight end game, the
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: shallowcrosse game attacked linebackers, and x Ray has gotten better. Okay,
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: Devin has gotten better. These the linebackers have had to
• 51:33
  Speaker 6: step up and make plays all of those moments that
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: you're watching this defense. The defensive line has gotten better.
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: They've been healthier. The key is availability, right, It's just
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: you have to have your guys available. Coach Walters has
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: settled into what the Big ten and he knew this
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: conference was always about power and run games and low possessions,
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: tight ends and shallow crosses, vertical scenes. And that's what's
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: hurt us in big games is those intermediate routes. The
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: receivers hasn't taken us down really yet. I mean that's
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: I mean, there's big guys against it. Certainly when you
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: played up in Maryland, they had really big wide receivers,
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: very big wide receivers too, and if their run game
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: controlled it all the way into the third quarter and
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: we made a comeback. But yes, the defense is it.
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: It has to get better in the red zone. I
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: will say, it's like some of these red zone decisions.
• 52:24
  Speaker 6: Other than that, it's it's a team that has to
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: get healthy. It is a bye week. Couldn't come at
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: a more perfect time, especially to have to go all
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: the way into Camp Randall, which is not going to
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: be easy. And I don't care what their record is,
• 52:36
  Speaker 6: it's not going to be easy at all.
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: How are you feeling about the run defense? Is it
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: buttoned up to your liking at least for this weekend?
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah? I you know, you have to defend the run.
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: It should be the priority weekend and week out. It's
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: you hear my hesitation in the sense is that you
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: It really depends on the style of the runners. You know,
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: when Michigan brings a backup running back and they go
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: all over the place and they just run it in
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: to fish in and it comes down to you guys.
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: To me, it's can you contain a quarterback that can run?
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: You know, designed runs versus Illinois. Those were those were
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: I mean not only just difficult to watch, but it
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: was third down conversions in those moments. And every quarterback
• 53:22
  Speaker 6: we play in this conference, every quarterback in the country,
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: name a quarterback that doesn't run, it just stands there. Now,
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: there's no such thing anymore that guy is. There might
• 53:31
  Speaker 6: be one or two out there that win more in
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: the pocket, but every quarterback is active. There's too many
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: RPO games now to just throw that out and say, well,
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: he's a stand in the pocket guy and he's gonna
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: deal it down the field.
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: No.
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: I mean Julian's saying, Ohio State is as good as
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: anybody getting a ball out of his hands so quickly.
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: They just make it, make offense really efficient. So I
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: would say that the run game stopping the run game.
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: I don't worry about giving up runs. I worry about
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: points in the red zone. And being watching what Ohio
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: State does so well is they don't give up points
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: in the red zone. They just don't. And they're very,
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: very good at that. And that's more important to me.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Cam Cleveland with us right here on Chuck a Buck
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: in the mornings here on this Wednesday bye week for
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: the dogs four weeks to go in the regular season.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: All right, So the big topic in college football this week,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: and it really has come to a head. It's been
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: building up to this moment, all of the head coaching
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: firings that are taking place, all the money that's being
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: eaten by programs, to try to find somebody that cannot
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: just be good at running a program, but you got
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: to be championship caliber at all moments of all time.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: That seems to be the mentality right now that is
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: sweeping campuses across the country. I don't believe it's sustainable.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: I have our time thinking anybody could think that this
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: is sustainable. But we're not just talking about individual cases here.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: This isn't just Penn State decided we just don't like
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: James Franklin anymore. Seems to be a giant wave, an
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: unexpected rogue wave that's hitting college football. And I wanted
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on it.
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: Man. There's a lot to unpack there, guys, I mean,
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: Choegy you guys. Could we could spend an hour to
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: two hours just going over in detail the catastrophic changes
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: of college football. And I don't like firings. I don't
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: like coaches coming into houses and recruiting and saying be
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: loyal and be loyal to me, and I'll be loyal
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: to you. I don't like outside endeavors or people that
• 55:33
  Speaker 6: don't control. I mean, rumors are and I'm okay, rumors
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: are what rumors? Rumors are that Adidas paid out a
• 55:39
  Speaker 6: lot of James Franklin's contract and that was part of
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: thereby Do you think ESPN controls the narrative that at all,
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: this SEC is the power outside of Really what it
• 55:54
  Speaker 6: is of college football is to teach young men how
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: to play football, and teach them how to be really
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: good lead and teach them how to be teammates and
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: what it is to have time management and discipline and
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: fight together and make lasting memories together. Or is it
• 56:07
  Speaker 6: all about a win? I mean, and that's really what
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: the choice is. And I've seen it. It's now minor
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: league football, it's professional football. It's called it what it
• 56:16
  Speaker 6: is because they're paid and compensated. And the move to
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: get into twelve has made the pressure even more. The
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: recruiting classes are paid at twenty five. Kids transfer portal
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: sometimes take ten. So let's say you take fifteen and
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: now you have to outpay, and now the transfer portal
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: is now before January. Well, I'm sorry, the first week
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: in January. So now you have to get it done.
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: And now you have to fire your coaches because the
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: signing day has been moved up because you can't lose
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: your recruits. So now you've got to fire them in season.
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: You can't wait till the end of the season because
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: you're going to lose your whole recruiting class. Now you
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: have to pay out all these guaranteed money. So with
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: all that being said, what's the answer. Something's got to
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: give and will what will it end up being? I
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: wish I had a bright answer for it, But I
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: still love college football. I just think we're in a
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: massive transition period that has to come to a head,
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: and it'll come to a head with a commissioner, rules
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: and all of that starts to see college football, in
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: my mind, ends up being its own entity away from college.
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: Eventually it'll be under the college umbrella, but I think
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: it moves into its own entity soon and everything else
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: is still college football, but there is a commissioner that
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: controls and rules that take Maybe it's sixty four, maybe
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: it's eighty four. Maybe it's one hundred and thirty that
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: all go off on their own and play real college football.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of silly people with silly money
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: amounts of money are feeling their oats right now and
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: trying to control something that they enjoy doing, which is
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: watching college football. So it's going to go on a
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: two ways. Either those silly people with the silly money
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: are going to wise up and say even bad investments
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: are not on you know, we just can't keep doing this,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: or even sillier people with even sillier money are going
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: to get involved and then it's good. Then it's not
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: gonna look like anything that we want college football to
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: look like, and that will be a sad day. But
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: it's kind of crazy. I mean, every time you think
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: something's fixed and that you've got your arms around one
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: thing in this new era of college football, something unexpected
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: starts occurring that does not feel sustainable. And right now
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: that's the firing, the mass firings of college football coaches
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: with years left on their contracts.
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: Well, what do you tell? And that's I mean, and
• 58:37
  Speaker 6: I agree with that. I mean all this money when
• 58:39
  Speaker 6: I when you pay out this money to coaches and
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: Brian Kelly. I watched the Netflix show and if you
• 58:44
  Speaker 6: guys watched the SEC I never bought into Brian Kelly.
• 58:47
  Speaker 6: I never liked his personality. I knew that fit wouldn't
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: work there. Now, what do you tell these guys on Saturday?
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: Because Saturday never really changes? Right? I mean that that
• 58:55
  Speaker 6: comes down to those young guys getting four years a
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: chance to play on a national showcase. The NFL still
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: needs a free farm system, so something has to give
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: and something has to work. But Saturday, to me, is
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: still a unbelievable feeling. It's it's fans, It's it's it's tribal.
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: Don't ever lose that fans, don't let the money and
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: the tribal mindset ever change. And that's that's what I
• 59:21
  Speaker 6: still love. That will never go away. And college football
• 59:24
  Speaker 6: can the idiots with with the large amount of money, Sure,
• 59:27
  Speaker 6: that's fine. I mean you want to you want to
• 59:29
  Speaker 6: throw your money at the wall, it's not mine. Do
• 59:31
  Speaker 6: whatever you want. But I don't care how much you buy.
• 59:34
  Speaker 6: All right, you're still can't buy wins. You can't, or
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: Oregon would have ten national championships by now, easy.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: All right, last thirty last thirty seconds with you scary
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: movies or slasher movies or The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: what are you gonna say.
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: Oh, scary movies or slasher movie? Are we talking the
• 59:54
  Speaker 6: difference between scream and like psycho?
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Like psych or saw?
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 6: You know, oh saws the thumbs?
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: I see.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: I'm not into the saw thing. I'm more in the psycho. Yeah.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Same here, same here here.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't need the gore. I don't need the gore.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: I would like a good thriller. Thriller.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: This sounds like a good time. Just cam Cleland's watching,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: you know, classic horror movies and having a big giant
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: bucket of peanut buttercups from Rees's. That sounds like a
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: winner to me, right there. All right man, thank you sir.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it and enjoy the bye week.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: Appreciate it, guys.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Thanks all right, cam Cleland, The Voice of the Dogs.
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  Speaker 1: up next the final ABC's of twenty twenty five on
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  Speaker 1: and then say goodbye until twenty twenty six to our
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: daily Mariner segment here today is I know that makes
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: you sad?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: Buck?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: You sorry, It's right, it does make me sad. Yeahright,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: we could have done like one more round. Yeah I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's been great.
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  Speaker 7: That would have meant we were still playing.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 5: Finish it with World Series champions.
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  Speaker 1: Or that the segment is so awesome Ashley, that you
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: guys wouldn't let it in. That's another possibility.
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  Speaker 7: That's not a possibility.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't want to transfer abcs over to football.
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  Speaker 1: I do like the ABC's, but I like them the
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: way they are. Yeah, you like them when there's Mariner
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  Speaker 1: games going on.
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  Speaker 5: Yeh rah, we do the ABC's.
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  Speaker 1: into the seventh inning, considering that he got on Mays
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: nine times the night before in an eighteen inning game,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: and maybe just wasn't quite as perky as he would
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: be to be pitching for the longest period of time
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: he's pitched all season long. But Dave Roberts tried to
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  Speaker 1: ride him into the seventh. The Blue Jays scored a
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: couple of runs and pulled away for a six to
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: two victory. But the Mariners are the subject of the
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: abcs of the MS, and so we close out with
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: a letter why and Z. Why is year in Review?
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: It's the year in review of the Mariners. And I
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: thought it was very grown up of Nathan Bishop in
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: our promo that's running right now, because he's usually very negative,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: like the most negative person ever. But look, I think
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: that that's it. I mean, I don't think that anybody
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: should feel satisfied with the twenty twenty five Mariners. But
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it wasn't a successful season.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 8: It was.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: We won the division, went further than any team has
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: ever gone in Mariner's history. Just wipe away the history
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: for a second. Making it to Game seven of the
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: ALCS and losing by a swing means you had a
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: damn good year. You get to hang a banner next year.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Granted it's just a divisional banner, but you get to
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: hang that you got out from underneath the Houston Astros.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: Finally he got to buy in the first round of
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. We had memories for two straight weeks that
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: are going to last a lifetime. You better believe it
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: was a successful year. But also, no one should feel satisfied,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: certainly John Stanton, Jerry Depoto, Justin Hollander, and no fan
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: should feel satisfied with twenty twenty five. It's about winning
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: a championship and until we do, we're not going to
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: feel satisfied. That. That doesn't mean it wasn't a successful year.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, those two things can be They can both be
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 5: true at the same time. I mean, you know, I
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: think that if you look at the two team that
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: are still in it, Toronto ends up making the world
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: series for the first time of what thirty one years,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 5: and so it's not like it's not some long standing
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: feet Now they've been there before, they've won a couple
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: of them, and so they don't have that same history,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 5: which I think does propel you to a deeper depth
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: of depression when your season comes to a close. I
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: think it does because we haven't and we were so
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: close to getting to somewhere that we had never been before.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: But it doesn't yeah to me. It seems it seems
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: hollow if you just think, well, it's just a failure,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: anything less. I mean, there'll be people that will text
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 5: in and say, well, that's just loser mentality to be satisfied,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: not satisfied, but to be able to deem it a
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 5: successful season even though you're disappointed that you didn't achieve
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 5: the ultimate that's a loser mentality. Okay, whatever you think.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 5: But I'll just go ahead and say I don't have
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 5: a loser mentality. I'm not satisfied with getting one swing
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 5: from it or nine outs away from achieving at least
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: getting to the World Series. And then what we're watching
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 5: right now, the team that we took to the brink
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: is tied with the Dodgers, who spend a bajillion dollars
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: on their roster this season. So I mean, I'm not satisfied,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: but I'm very content with where we are. I definitely
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 5: my mind goes to, boy, you got to follow this up,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean? I hope for damn well
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: that they don't get chintzy with what they're going to
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: spend and yet, I mean, I just hope that they
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 5: don't backslide. I hope that they enjoyed the ride, and
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: it sounds like they did, that they understand where they're at,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: and this is the window is now for sure open.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: It's time to stay on top of your division. It's
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: time to make the playoffs again. It's time to learn
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: from your mistakes and hopefully button up some things that
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: were a little bit suspect.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 7: I think that's what a lot of people when they're saying, well,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 7: it's not a successful season, or having that kind of
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 7: if we didn't win it, it's not a success. I
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 7: think the mentality of that is coming from the fact
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 7: that people so many people are worried about the offseason
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 7: and thinking, well, look at how long it took us
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: to do this, Since the last time like, look at
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 7: how long it's been since we won the division. But
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 7: as you said earlier, it's not the same Mariners team. No,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 7: and it's not run by the same people that were
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 7: running the team back in two thousand and one. Like
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 7: we just got a It's hard, I know, because we
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 7: have a long history of not succeeding at this, But
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 7: you got to have faith that these guys are going
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 7: to get this done in the off season and that
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 7: we're going to have this similar team back out there
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 7: next time.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We we didn't make it there with a star
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: player who's thirty seven years old exactly. I mean, we
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: didn't make it there with a pitching staff that's all
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: going to enter free agency in the offseason. We entered
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: there with a young nucleus that is the envy of
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: most every franchise franchise in Major League Baseball. I mean,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: even the Dodgers were a team that I always gave
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: credit because they ran their organization so well and their
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: farm system was always good. They always built through the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: farm system, and then yeah, then they took their millions
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: and they added to it. This team just is all
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: about buying everything. That's why I just don't even respect
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: this Dodgers team right now, there's a lot different. I
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: think it's a different situation. But in terms of the
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: foundation built, I'm not sure there's a better foundation in
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: all of the sport than what we have right here
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: in Seattle and should be able to profit off of
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: for years to come. But yes, you have to win
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: it all. You got to certainly get to the World
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Series and you got to win it all in order
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: to eventually feel satisfied. But that doesn't mean that you
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: can't have success along the way. Finally, Z is just
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: for az as we get ready to you know, snooze
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: into the off season. It's a long hibernating winter. But
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: there'll be activity. There will be stove turns out. I
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: like the stove a lot, But yeah, we kind of
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: shut things off for a little while, but there will
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: be plenty of activity to sculpt. I just don't think
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: you're going to see many additions. As we talked about
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: in Reckless at Breakfast today, I think the pursuit of
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor to be brought back. I mean it's going
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: to be up to him to play ball with this
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: if he wants to be the highest paid he can
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: possibly be, and take the highest offer. He's not getting
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: it from Seattle. I could see a Josh Naylor because
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: we can't figure him out. He's so serious. I could
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  Speaker 1: see him saying, this is a business decision. This is
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  Speaker 1: the biggest business decision of my life. I've got to
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  Speaker 1: get the best deal, and so that's what I'm going
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: to do. But I could also see Josh Naylor saying,
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  Speaker 1: there are bigger things in life than just making the
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  Speaker 1: most money, and I loved it here. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: stay here. I think there's something special going here, and
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  Speaker 1: I won't take the highest offer. If he takes the
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  Speaker 1: highest offer, he's not coming back next year because they're
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  Speaker 1: not going to give it to him. But if they
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  Speaker 1: give him a fair market offer, I think we'll have
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  Speaker 1: him back. I think we could get Jorge Polanco back,
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  Speaker 1: and other than that, I don't think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: add a lot. So people might look at that as
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  Speaker 1: a snooze off season, but you might want.
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  Speaker 5: To prepare yourself for that. I think the dude wants
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  Speaker 5: to win first and foremost and do so making as
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  Speaker 5: much money as he possibly can. So I think his
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  Speaker 5: decision's going to be made by I'm going to go
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  Speaker 5: where I think they're gonna win. I like the organization
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  Speaker 5: and how they sell themselves to me, and they're willing
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  Speaker 5: to come up there and be at least near the
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  Speaker 5: top offer, right, I don't. I don't see him as
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  Speaker 5: a guy that would just take I.
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  Speaker 6: Don't even know.
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  Speaker 5: The Rockies were like, we just really love the way
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  Speaker 5: you play, and you'll be a great clubhouse guy for us.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 5: And he's like, all right, done, I'll just go be
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 5: a Rocky and suck for the rest of my career.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 5: I don't the team will suck for the rest of
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  Speaker 5: my career. I don't think you do that. At the
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  Speaker 5: same time, I don't for some reason, I don't think
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  Speaker 5: he's just going to be like, I really love the
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  Speaker 5: summer in Seattle, the weather's beautiful, fans were wonderful. That's enough.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'll leave ten million a year on the table.
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  Speaker 5: I just don't take that to be the case. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so it's I'm not feel think about.
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  Speaker 1: I think they'll get a little uncomfortable to bring him back,
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  Speaker 1: but they're not going to get a lot of uncomfortable
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: to bring him. Yeah, yep, so we'll see balls in
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  Speaker 1: your court. Josh. You know you're wanted back. I think
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: you are going to get a fair offer. But if
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  Speaker 1: you have to have the most money, then you probably
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: are going to be playing for somebody else next season.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let it be the Yankees coming up next
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: on the program, Man and the Words of Peaches and
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Herb reunited and it feels so good. The Seahawks secondary
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  Speaker 1: it is going to be back together for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: and Forever Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R
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  Speaker 1: f M who it was about the most exciting come
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  Speaker 1: from behind point I've seen the Crack and Register in
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: their young history. Last night, taking on the Mantra Trio
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Canadians losing three to nothing in the third period, whack, whack, whack,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Montor just went to work on the halbs, ended
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  Speaker 1: up tying the thing up, sending it into overtime, where
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: Montreal eventually won four to three. But the Crack and
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  Speaker 1: now to discuss it is color analyst for your Seattle cracking.
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  Speaker 1: Right here on the flagship kJ R. Al Kaniski is
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  Speaker 1: with us. Good morning out Hey, al, Al's really really
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: quiet today, really.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like so quiet, can harready? But I can't
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 5: even hear him.
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  Speaker 6: I hope everything's all right with.
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  Speaker 10: Al there he is, Al, how are you boys?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, great to chat with you. I mean, I
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: don't know, you tell me. I mean, I don't know
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: if hockey players ever just get on the bus and like, yes,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: great point, fellas. I'm sure it's Hey, that was an
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: awesome win, and they feel good about it. I don't
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: know if they go to the point of recognizing how
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: great a point they got even though they lost the game.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: You tell me, is that something that you're celebrating last
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  Speaker 1: night in the locker room that you somehow pulled out
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  Speaker 1: a point at least in that game against the Canadians.
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  Speaker 8: It's like parking at Costa on Saturday. Sometimes you drive
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 8: up and down the aisles and you never find a
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 8: parking spot, but eventually you get one. And sometimes you're
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 8: just patient. You're helping people with their groceries and look,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 8: there's a parking spot right at the front. I think
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  Speaker 8: that was the game last night. The guys were patient.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 8: They were a little sloppy in the first couple of periods,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 8: but they were patient and they turned it on the
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 8: third period. And you know, if I had written the script,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 8: Brandon montro would have gotten the hat trick for the
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 8: winner and overtime. Unfortunately, he settles for three points to
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 8: get the guys back in the game with a couple
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 8: of goals and a helper and gives them a chance
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 8: at a win and overtime. But it was a big point. Unfortunately,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 8: it probably should have never gotten to that point in
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  Speaker 8: the game. That will slop you over the first half.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, I mean the fact that they've fought and
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 5: got came back from down three to zero. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: that's obviously is commendable, and yet the first couple of periods,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 5: I'm with you, it felt a little bit sloppy. I mean,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 5: just looking at it, they only had two power plays
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 5: and scored on each one. You had four and only
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 5: converted on one of those. What was your biggest contention
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  Speaker 5: of the sloppiness that you saw in the first couple
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 5: of periods.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think in the first couple of periods, first
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 8: of all, you're playing a team that is the youngest
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  Speaker 8: in the NHL, and with youth typically comes speed. They're
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 8: a fast team and they were using that speed not
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 8: only on the attack but also on the pursuit, meaning
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 8: they weren't giving Seattle very much time to make decisions
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 8: when they had the puck, and I think it took
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 8: the crack and a bit to adjust to that where
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 8: they had to start moving the puck quicker, They had
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 8: to start looking for longer passes, they had to start
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 8: finding some sustained offensive zone pressure and how they got
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 8: away from that youth and that speed, and unfortunately it
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 8: just took a while to fit figure out. Montreal did
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 8: a good job of pressuring Seattle in their own D zone,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 8: taking away a breakout exits.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've already had it up to here with cold
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: Caawfield and we're only like ten games into the season
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: and like ten minutes into his career. So I mean,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: this guy has not just done this to the Kraken.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: I mean how special the player are we looking at it?
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: I mean he's so tiny and yet man is he
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: fast and skilled and relentless.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean we talked a little bit about that
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  Speaker 8: in the postgame. You know, as far as Joey Decord goes,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 8: who has played well over the last two well since
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 8: the beginning of the season, and I think that between
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 8: the third goal that Montreal scored and maybe the overtime goal,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 8: which one would he probably want to have back. Well,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 8: he'd say both, obviously. But the third goal was a
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 8: one timer that kind of snuck through his five hole.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 8: He'd probably say I could have gotten more square to
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 8: that shot and maybe had that save. In the case
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 8: of the overtime goal by col Cawfield, like that is
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 8: a goal scorers goal. It comes down that left side.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 8: He fakes like he's cutting to the front, he fakes
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 8: like he's going around the back of the net for
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 8: a wrap around, and then he stuffs it between the
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 8: post and Joey Decord's pad Like that, that's an elite
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 8: goal scorers goal. So if I'm a goaltender, if I
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 8: got to get beat, I guess that's the way you've
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 8: got to beat me. It never feels good though either way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm with you, And yeah, I mean I know
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  Speaker 5: that in today's game, you know you're not going to
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 5: just run one keeper out there every single time. The
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 5: Cord has started just about every single game, and yet
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: they the other two Grooby and the one game that
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 5: Murray played in they lost those. I mean, is there
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 5: a giant difference or is this too early of a
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 5: sample size to be deciding whether or not we have
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 5: a legit one and maybe a number two, or is
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 5: it just too early to decide that.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Bucky, I would say that that Joey Decord is
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  Speaker 8: the number one right now. He's going to play the
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 8: majority of the games this season, you know, barn any
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 8: other health issues or something like that. I think the
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 8: big question mark is who is the number two. Both
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 8: Grubau and Murray have both played games so far. I
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 8: don't think they would say they were their best games,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 8: but I think that you're going to see them get
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 8: another opportunity here where we're going to be into the
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 8: month of November, Saturday Night versus the Rangers and sometimes
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 8: in the probably in the first half of November, You're
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 8: gonna see them both get a game again. And I
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 8: think how they play in those games might answer that question.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 6: Who the backup is to Joey Decord.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: Al Kaniski is with us. He'll be with us every
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: Wednesday this year usually works out that way. Color analysts
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  Speaker 1: for your Seattle Cracking right here on the flagship Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Well, let's use some
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: time on Brandon Montour because that was one of the
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: most complete games that he's played this year, maybe he's
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: played since he put on a crack in uniform, even
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: though he had some great games a year ago. But
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: for him to come off the sadness in his personal life,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: you can understand why he might have been a little
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: bit of a hockey rut. But he came out of
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: it last night and he was sensational.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, just over a week ago, he lost
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 8: his brother to als, and you know, it's got to
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 8: be devastating for him and his family. But I think
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 8: that you know, he's done a good job of trying
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 8: to compartmentalize his time with his family and getting back
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 8: to his team. And I think getting back to his
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 8: team has helped him, you know, probably feel a little
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 8: bit stronger, and you know, everybody in that locker room
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 8: supports him and has given him space. Like he could
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 8: have had a crappy game last night, and I think
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 8: everybody has said, yeah, I mean I'm not surprised, but
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 8: he goes out and puts two goals in the net,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 8: gets a helper his plus two four shots on goal,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 8: like he you know, second start of the game, and
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 8: for a guy that's been dealing with that that. That
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  Speaker 8: is so impressive. It's a leader in the locker room,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 8: and I think the guys really respect the way he
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 8: came and played last night.
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  Speaker 1: Don't play again until Saturday, kind of an extra day off.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: Could the team use that right now?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you got Jared McCann still out,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 8: you got Coppo, although I have a he might be
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 8: back Saturday night. I mean, you know, we're Wednesday, Thursday,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 8: Friday without a game, and then Saturday his former team
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 8: comes to town. I've got to believe he's had that
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 8: circle on the calendar for a while and he's gonna
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 8: want to play in that. It's the return of Will Morgan,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 8: who has traded to the Rangers last year. So a
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 8: couple of good storylines there for Saturday. But yeah, I mean,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 8: I listen, guys. If the playoffs started today, Seattle six
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 8: in the Western Conference, the second and behind second behind
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 8: Vegas in the Pacific Division. It's crazy to think that
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 8: who would make the playoffs today and who wouldn't. I mean,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 8: Tampa Bay would be out of the playoffs right now
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 8: if they start today. So it's always fun to look
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 8: at that. We're only ten games into the season, though,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 8: lots of work to be done, lots of changes will
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 8: happen between now and then. But yeah, Saturday, they're going
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 8: to wear their alternates, their third alternate jersey that's been
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 8: out in the market. They're glowing the dark stuff. So
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 8: that's going to be exciting. It's gonna be fun game Saturday.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: Bucky and I have one. Yeah, should we wear them Friday?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you?
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  Speaker 10: Guys, show the lights out and just kind of oh
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 10: yeah all the time they look like, yeah, yeah, we
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 10: play hide and go seek in the dark.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 5: We always find it hide and go seek. It's terrible sweater,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 5: I've come to find out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, we keep playing over and over and over,
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  Speaker 1: very right.
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  Speaker 7: I keep telling them, but they can't find me because
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 7: I'm in the dark.
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  Speaker 8: I told this to every dinner day. You know where
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 8: they make new sweaters right where New Jersey, New Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Your kids, that's why he's the best color man of
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: the business.
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  Speaker 5: People right there, Jersey. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, enjoy a little extra time off this week at home,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: which is even extra valuable. Uh, and then we'll be
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: listening on Saturday night, sir.
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  Speaker 8: I'm gonna see you guys in person next week. Plan
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 8: on it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I'll coming in. Well, where are going in
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: the dark jerseys?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: Nothing else. Al Niskey joining us right here on the
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck in the morning again Saturdays. The next
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: game against the Rangers at Climate Pledge Arena, they'll drop
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: the puck at seven o'clock. So yeah, a little couple
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: extra days off here, and that's good. He's been playing
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of hockey so far this young season. All right,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, we close out our Wednesday show with
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: one last thing. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
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  Speaker 1: RFM