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Chuck & Buck 6-25 Hour 1: Woo's woes, Mariners Morning After and Breaking NBA news. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: three KG. It is terrific to have you with us
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  Speaker 1: here on this Thursday as we get you set for
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  Speaker 3: I like that combination.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's a great combination. We get that hot and cold.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like a cold night in the middle
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  Speaker 1: kind of like that combination. Yeah, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 4: Smooth, like turning on your ac in the summer and
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  Speaker 1: M Goose Bumpy. Yeah, welcome to Goose Bump Central. It
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  Speaker 1: is Chuck and Ashley here with you today. I will say,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're close to getting information on Buddy, so
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  Speaker 1: I'll pass that along. We have a station meeting today,
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  Speaker 1: so we should find out a little bit of information
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  Speaker 1: on that front for you that we can pass along.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Ashley and I are in the dark, so
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  Speaker 1: we welcome you into this Thursday show, just Ashley and
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  Speaker 1: I again, and we'll take it through the next four
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  Speaker 1: hours here of our radio show. And we do have
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  Speaker 1: a lot planned for you during the course of today's program,
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  Speaker 1: including a little soccer talk a little later with Brad Evans.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go through that with What's on Tap. But I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really going to start with the Mariners, but because
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  Speaker 1: of this Brian Wu situation, I think that's exactly where
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  Speaker 1: we have to begin today's program. Once again. Brian Wu
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  Speaker 1: has a bad outing. Once again, He's answering questions in
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  Speaker 1: such a frustrating manner. This is such a confident, cool
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  Speaker 1: customer of a young man, and for him to be
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  Speaker 1: this wound up about his failings on the mound. Is
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  Speaker 1: this becoming rapidly a bigger and bigger story with each
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  Speaker 1: outing that he has that is unsuccessful. And here's the
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  Speaker 1: thing about it, He's not that far off. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's averaging a two twenty six batting average against this
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  Speaker 1: year to sixty seven on Bay six nineteen. Ohps. Those
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  Speaker 1: are terrific numbers across the board. So why is Brian
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  Speaker 1: wu pulling out his hair every other start and almost
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  Speaker 1: every start on the road. Well, Ashley, it really comes
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  Speaker 1: down to just one thing. He's having one bad inning
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  Speaker 1: and he had that bad inning again last night. He
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  Speaker 1: was throwing a no hitter through three.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it went to a lot of hitter yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then all of a sudden in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: he can't get anybody out and it kind of abandoned
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  Speaker 1: all of the things that he does well. And bottom line,
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  Speaker 1: let me bottom line it for you. Sports are hard
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  Speaker 1: at this level and psychology of sports goes underestimated every
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  Speaker 1: single second of every single day in the sports talk world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we just always he sucks or he's great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just automatically. You just you have to
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  Speaker 1: attach something to it. And the truth of the matter
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  Speaker 1: is he's got some sort of issue where he now
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  Speaker 1: is expecting to blow up when he's on the road
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  Speaker 1: at some point. It's a hurdle that he can't overcome.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we are seeing somebody who's normally cool,
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  Speaker 1: calm and collected, maybe the slickest dude in the starting rotation.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I take that back, no doubt, the slickest dude
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  Speaker 1: in the starting rotation, who has had some of the
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  Speaker 1: most almost disturbing press conferences we've seen in a number
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  Speaker 1: of years, where again last night he doubles down on
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  Speaker 1: I can't sleep at night after these things. I can't
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. I wish I had answers for you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, beating himself up publicly to a degree that
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  Speaker 1: you rarely see a professional athlete do that. So if
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  Speaker 1: he's I mean, that's stuff that sometimes you keep close
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  Speaker 1: to the vest. You might share that with a teammate
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  Speaker 1: or a pitching coach, or a manager or all your teammates.
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  Speaker 1: You might share that stuff on the plane ride home,
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  Speaker 1: but very few of them let us know how much
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  Speaker 1: it's driving them crazy. And yet Brian Wu, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: as if he can't wait to tell us how much
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  Speaker 1: it's driving him crazy. And that's, in some way is
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  Speaker 1: therapeutic for him. I guess so that Mariner fans know
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  Speaker 1: that he doesn't find this acceptable. But actually, when somebody
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  Speaker 1: is having that much, when they're beating themselves up that
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  Speaker 1: much after a poor outing, then there is no and
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  Speaker 1: his issue continues to be one bad inning that haunts him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now when he goes on the
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  Speaker 1: road and he's saying, there's nothing to do with Homer Road. Nope, nope, nope,
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  Speaker 1: you're wrong. When you go on the road and you
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  Speaker 1: start every game with confidence, but in the back of
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  Speaker 1: your head you are worried if one thing goes the
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  Speaker 1: wrong way. Oh, here we go again. That's what's happening
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  Speaker 1: to Brian Wu. It's what happens to George Kirby. I've
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  Speaker 1: been saying that about George Kirby for years, where if
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  Speaker 1: something goes the way that it shouldn't go, George Kirby
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  Speaker 1: tends to fall apart to a degree. I mean, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we're not seeing this, but Brian wu is clearly I
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  Speaker 1: start the game off well, as long as things are
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  Speaker 1: going great, I'm great. But the moment that something a
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  Speaker 1: little bloop double down the left field line occurs like
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  Speaker 1: it did last night, then Brian wu is expecting the
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  Speaker 1: worst to happen, and then it happens. That's what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with Brian.
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  Speaker 4: Wu and I like that he is kind of venting
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  Speaker 4: his own anger and frustration in his press conference postgame.
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  Speaker 3: I do think it's probably a little bit fair, and
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  Speaker 3: it's letting. It's letting Mariners fans know like, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not good with this.
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  Speaker 4: I'm pissed. I'm more pissed about it than you are.
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  Speaker 4: So don't try it, you know, because a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people will be like, oh, these guys.
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  Speaker 3: Don't even care.
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  Speaker 4: They're paid in millions, it doesn't matter. Well, no, this
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  Speaker 4: guy clearly cares. He cares a lot, Yes, and he
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  Speaker 4: cares a lot when he has a great outing, and
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, he's gonna put a lot of emotion into
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  Speaker 4: something where he doesn't think he's giving his best. He's
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  Speaker 4: clearly a perfectionist, and and when it's not going as
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  Speaker 4: perfect as he's he knows he's capable of that's that's
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  Speaker 4: not acceptable to him, and I completely understand that. I
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  Speaker 4: get worried though, because of how emotional and mental. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: the baseball world is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I appreciate I'll meet you there because
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that he does let the fans know. This
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  Speaker 1: is bothering me. But I'm definitely pulling him aside if
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  Speaker 1: I haven't already, if I'm Dan Wilson, like, dude, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be fine. Yeah, Hey, your probably right now.
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  Speaker 1: Is not your stuff, not your makeup, it's not your
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  Speaker 1: work ethic, it's it's not that you don't care. Your
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  Speaker 1: problem is that you're you're in your own head. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and this game will chew you up and spit you out.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why they really need to get to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of this. They need to really wrestle it to
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  Speaker 1: the ground because Ashley, I'm telling you, he just he
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  Speaker 1: kind of changed. And I don't know if he shook him,
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  Speaker 1: shook off Cal, or if cal made the wrong decisions.
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  Speaker 1: But in that Indie Rodriguez at bat last night, which
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  Speaker 1: was really the big at bat, right, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: o'hearne double. You know, I want to see Brian who
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  Speaker 1: say he didn't beat me, I beat him. That's flucish.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get out of this. But the Rodriguez
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  Speaker 1: at bat which followed that, knocked in the runs is
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  Speaker 1: really what did him in. And he didn't throw one fastball,
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  Speaker 1: not one fastball. And I know Indy Rodriguez has a
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  Speaker 1: quick bat. I like Indie Rodriguez talent a lot. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a quick bat. And so I'm sure the scouting
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  Speaker 1: report is don't throw fastballs. But I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: scared to use what I do best just because of
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  Speaker 1: somebody else's scouting report. And he's gonna be And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting there at the bar and I don't have the
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  Speaker 1: sound on, just yelling fastball up. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: yelling it, but I'm yelling it in my head. I
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  Speaker 1: do say it fastball. So I'm sitting there like trying
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  Speaker 1: to get he and Cal on the same page and no,
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  Speaker 1: we're just gonna keep going off speed stuff. And then
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  Speaker 1: he ends up getting beat on that, and then the
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  Speaker 1: roof caved in, so I got to get through to him.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm Dan Wilson, you know I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: see somebody I'd love the idea that somebody can go
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  Speaker 1: in front of the cameras and say I hate it.
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  Speaker 1: I hate it more than any of you fans that
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the pitcher that I was a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get there. I like debt, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't like it like he's like, you know, he's like
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  Speaker 1: beating himself up. It's like self mutilation, you know. Don't
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  Speaker 1: give him a syllous I don't want to see him
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  Speaker 1: slapping his back so that he can cause scars. I
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's healthy either. I think that's crossing
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  Speaker 1: a line the other way. Like, dude, you should not
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  Speaker 1: be beating yourself up as much as you are, and
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  Speaker 1: it is contributing to the next time that you're on
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  Speaker 1: the mound on the road and somebody gets a blue
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  Speaker 1: pit you are immediately going back to that place. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we've got to fix more than anything else.
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  Speaker 1: You're throwing ninety eight. You weren't throwing that hard last year.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with your stuff. It's all between the ears.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to fix you going to that place, you
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  Speaker 1: thinking the roof's going to cave in the moment you
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  Speaker 1: feel a tremor.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that is the issues, is whatever's happening in
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  Speaker 4: game that's reminding him of the issues prior, right, Because
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  Speaker 4: I do think there are certain people and I kind
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  Speaker 4: of like this, like if some thing goes wrong, I
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  Speaker 4: want to talk about it right away, figure it out,
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  Speaker 4: and then move on, right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want.
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  Speaker 4: To go stew about it, think about it all on
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  Speaker 4: my own, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then figure, Okay, now I'm just kind of over it.
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  Speaker 4: No, talk about it, get it out, word, vomit, and
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  Speaker 4: then you can move on, right, You've gotten it all
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  Speaker 4: out there. And so it's possible that that's what he's doing,
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  Speaker 4: like if I just talk about it right now in
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  Speaker 4: the moment, No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not that that part.
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  Speaker 4: It's that whatever's happening in like when he's coming back,
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  Speaker 4: he's not getting it all out. So whatever he's doing,
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  Speaker 4: he's angry, he's irritated, he's talking about it, but he's
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  Speaker 4: clearly not getting it all.
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  Speaker 3: Out in order to move on.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what I'm saying, you, like, I'll do it,
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  Speaker 4: and then that's the way I move on. Right, It's
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  Speaker 4: out there, it's done, And for him, I think he's
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  Speaker 4: doing that in a sense. But not getting it all
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  Speaker 4: out there and letting it be done.
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  Speaker 1: Well, whatever he's doing, if that's your mechanism for flushing
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  Speaker 1: something and getting it out of your system and getting
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  Speaker 1: it out of your head, all right, fine, but clearly
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  Speaker 1: that's not working for him. Like that word vomit press
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  Speaker 1: conference now just looks like you're adding to the pressure
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  Speaker 1: you've already placed on yourself.
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  Speaker 3: I think he is.
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  Speaker 1: And so the next time that you're in Detroit or
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  Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, and Zach McKinstry bloops won
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  Speaker 1: over JP's head at third when you know, on an
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  Speaker 1: O two count you had him in the palm of
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  Speaker 1: your hand. I can't have you then give up seven
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  Speaker 1: straight hits and Brian's way too good for that. And
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  Speaker 1: yes there was a bloop that got it started, but
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  Speaker 1: everything else was just rocketed. And that's you don't go
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  Speaker 1: from three innings. I'm practical, I'm unhittable for three innings too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Oh hearns. Randy should have had that
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  Speaker 1: down the left field line. And the next thing you know,
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  Speaker 1: you suddenly are just getting tagged by everyone in the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh pirate lineup, most of which we've never heard of, right,
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  Speaker 1: I have. But yeah, but I'm a baseball nerd. But
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  Speaker 1: you see what I mean. So it's an issue. They
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  Speaker 1: got to get their arms around it. I mean, here's
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  Speaker 1: an idea. I'm not saying it's a good one, but
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  Speaker 1: it's an idea, like, do we have a new piggyback?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about Wu with somebody else in
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  Speaker 1: one given night, but do we go Wu at home
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  Speaker 1: and Castillo on the road. Yeah, I mean, it's not
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  Speaker 1: any crazier than what we've been doing. It's not any
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  Speaker 1: crazier some of these other theories. But I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to say no to it right off the bat
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  Speaker 1: because I want Wu fixed, and I don't think he's
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  Speaker 1: that far away, so I'm I'm going to nix it.
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  Speaker 1: But we're we're entertaining these crazy ideas, right, how do
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  Speaker 1: we do this well? Brian Wu's clearly good at home
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  Speaker 1: one fifty four opponent's batting average at home two ERA
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  Speaker 1: five and zero and seven starts on the road, he
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  Speaker 1: has a six point three adra.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a road issue for sure.
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  Speaker 1: That's all part of the psychology. It's not that Brian
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  Speaker 1: Wu is intimidated by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania it's not that Brian
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  Speaker 1: Wu can't get the job done in Anaheim ruling Anaheim.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it is Brian Wu in his head's like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: I can't pitch on the road anymore. Why, Oh here
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  Speaker 1: I go. Now I'm back on track. Oh we got
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  Speaker 1: a bloop and now I'm over. So whatever the psychology is,
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  Speaker 1: it's only happening on the road. It enters his mind
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  Speaker 1: on the road. Meanwhile, Luis Castillo, since we went to
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  Speaker 1: the Piggyback three games on the road, fifteen and a
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  Speaker 1: third innings, three runs allowed, earned runs, one point seven
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  Speaker 1: six ERA, and he also has a five point six
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  Speaker 1: eight ERA for the season at home, nearly a run
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  Speaker 1: better on the road. But since we went to the Piggyback,
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  Speaker 1: since he's been a different pitcher, he actually has a
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  Speaker 1: one point seven to six ERA on the road. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe on the road that's time to
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  Speaker 1: the rotation. I mean, you know, these days, Luis Castillo's
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  Speaker 1: the starter and Brian Woo's a reliever, and then when
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  Speaker 1: they're at home, Brian Woo's the starter and Luis Castillo's
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  Speaker 1: a reliever. They would never do it. I'm not even
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  Speaker 1: recommending that they they should do it. But it's clearly
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  Speaker 1: a psychological issue with our guy, Brian Wo and it
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  Speaker 1: is entering his head whenever he gives up a flukish
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  Speaker 1: hit or somebody makes an error on the road, and
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  Speaker 1: it is doing him in. It is caving in his skull.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously we don't we don't want that to repeat.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you can point it out statistically, but it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to be solved by him and his own mental
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  Speaker 1: fortitude to get where he needs to be. Because Brian
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  Speaker 1: wu is still pitching like an All star two twenty
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  Speaker 1: six batting average against for the season. That's what that's
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  Speaker 1: with all that crappy stuff on the road to twenty
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  Speaker 1: six batting average against. There's nothing wrong with Brian Wu's stuff.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with his heart, there's nothing wrong with
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  Speaker 1: his makeup. It is there is something wrong between the
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  Speaker 1: ears that he is not handling. He now, but he
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  Speaker 1: is now expecting to have a bad inning on the road,
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  Speaker 1: and he is putting.
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  Speaker 4: That out in the universe, and it is happening to
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  Speaker 4: him well, and I wish that, Yeah, if he wants,
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  Speaker 4: if he's that powerful, if he can expect something to
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  Speaker 4: put it out in the universe and it happens.
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  Speaker 3: We just need to train him to expect great things.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, how do we do that?
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  Speaker 3: That's hypnosis. Let's try hypnosis.
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  Speaker 1: I don't We've got a mental coach. We got it,
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  Speaker 1: we got a we got chickens. We've got a chicken
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  Speaker 1: coach and a mental coach. I think chicken. I believe
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  Speaker 1: we do. I'm not sure about the chicken coach.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure that. Yeah, there's a coach for everything
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  Speaker 3: these days.
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  Speaker 1: There really is. All right, let's find out what's on
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  Speaker 1: tap for the rest of the show. What's on TEP?
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: What's untech Mariner's fall to the Pirates eleven to one?
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  Speaker 1: If I didn't mention it, we'll go through the scary
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  Speaker 1: details coming up at six thirty with Mariners morning after
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  Speaker 1: this morning, the team is forty one and forty on
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  Speaker 1: the year, So just hovering around this five hundred mark.
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  Speaker 1: There goes the bulky two game winning streak. Well, they
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  Speaker 1: can still win the series. They will play at Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Nine to thirty five start in this game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a rough one.
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  Speaker 1: It has a really early start for a West Coast team.
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  Speaker 1: Nine thirty five. What are we in the Big ten?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Come on, what's happening?
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: So it's Bryce Miller versus Bubba Chandler. A lot of
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: smoke on the water, right there, A lot of smoke.
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  Speaker 1: That dude throws hard.
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  Speaker 3: Does he?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? So nine to thirty five Today they'll settle this
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  Speaker 1: thing once and for all in the Steel City World
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Cup for the USA. It continues today. They'll be back
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  Speaker 1: on the pitch at seven o'clock this evening and they
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: will be taking on Turkey A. And Mark brad Evans
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: almost said Rob Evans our sales guy.
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  Speaker 4: He's really energetic though, Yeah, but I don't think you
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: want to hear from him, not about World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: H brad Evans will be with us today at eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, there is a conversation Ashley and I will
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: attempt it before we put Brad on the airwaves about
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: who you should play and how they should play and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: how hard they should play. The match means nothing. Turkey
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: A has no chance to move on past the group stage,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and the US has won the group stage. So I mean,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I know it's a World Cup match, but it pretty
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: much means nothing. And so how do you approach that
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: when you are also wanting to keep in mind, hey,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: we've got a pretty good thing going here. Momentum does
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: mean something in sports, does it not. So we'll talk
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: about that a little bit later on on Us is
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: probably playing Bosnia next. It sounds like after Bosnia, Herzegovina
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  Speaker 1: defeated Katar yesterday three to one. Right down the street
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: here Brazil. Mexico also won yesterday. Mexico, man, they just
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: breezed through their group. They went three to zero. Meanwhile
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Canada lost.
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  Speaker 3: We don't say, yeah.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I do, I do say. NHL Draft Tomorrow at four o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: the Krack can have the seventh pick in the first
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: round of the draft. The Toronto Maple Leafs are on
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the clock at the number one overall selection. We'll talk
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: more about that tomorrow. Probably won't get into it in
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: great detail. Today, Saturday, is the conclusion of the NHL Draft.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: They split it over two days and that starts at
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: eight am on Saturday. The NBA Draft just concluded last night,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: so they also split their two round draft into two
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: different evenings. First round was of course on Tuesday, and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: then the second round last night. This is crazy, and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: this is where the NBA draft has gotten. Get out
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: of thirty picks, guess how many of the picks had
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: not been traded? So thirty picks. They either were traded
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: on draft night or traded in previous drafts, or whatever
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the case may be. Out of thirty picks, guess how
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: many had not been traded?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Six one oh.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Twenty nine picks? Wow, and only one of the twenty
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: or one of the thirty picks was not moved at
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: some point. The fiftieth overall selection to Toronto, Jade and Bradley.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: There's a trivia question for you, hope that never comes up.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: That's a tricky one, that's a hard one. But Jade
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Bradley's pick was the only one that actually went to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the original owner of the pick.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: They make a lot of trades on day two.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Sounds like that, you can't even keep up.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: And then they don't even put the logo by the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: player because Adam Silver doesn't allow it. So you're just confused.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I don't even watch it anymore. Brown sham Sharana reporting
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: this morning that despite what Brad Stephens said Tuesday night
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that he's still a big part of our future. That
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: since they didn't trade Brown for Giannis. All they've done
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: is tried to figure out a trade partner for Jalen Brown.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: So Brad Stevens pretty much Syam Sharanya reporting Brad Stevens
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: is a big frickin' liar.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Free agency for the NBA starts on July sixth. Liberty
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Storm tonight at seven. The Storm of lost a franchise
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: record eleven consecutive games. Caitlin Clark beat up again on
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the court last night in the WNBA. We're gonna find
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: some time to talk about that, and once again, the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: refs just overlooked it all. So there's a there's a
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: really really awful thing going on in that league right
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: now and the Seahawks. We will continue with our one
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: series today at eight thirty on the radio program. But
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Mariner Morning After comes your way next, just getting started
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: on a Thursday Sports Radio ninety three point three k JRFM.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: There's no question about it. He's the story that emerges
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: from this. He continues to struggle on the road, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: really in just one inning on the road, it feels
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: like every time out. And then then he meets with
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the press like you should do after a tough outing,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and then he beats himself up like nobody else is
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: gonna beat himself up. I mean, Dad, mom aren't gonna
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: treat him that way. Dan Wilson's not gonna treat him
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that way. We're not even really gonna, well, some of
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: you on Mariner's Twitter will treat him that way. He
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: is your kind, Yeah, but I don't think he can
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: beat up Brian Wu anymore than he's beating himself up
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: over his road performances here. As of late, Mariner's got
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: off to a good start against Braxton Ashcraft. Man looked
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: like everybody was going to get a base hit in
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the first inning. First three batters get on base, you're
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: up one to nothing. Ashcraft settled in, and it looked
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: like Brian Wu was perfectly settled. He had thrown a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: no hitter through three innings. They weren't touching him. And
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, here comes that inning, that
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: inning we want Brian Wou to avoid, and he gives
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: up a single to Brian Reynolds, which was a solid single,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: but it just does drop in front of Julio, then
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: gets an out on a fielder's choice, and then Ryan O'Hearn,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: who apparently changed his shoes and is giving all the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: credit in the world to his changing of shoes. Hits
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a double down the left field line that Randy a
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Rose Arena because Randy's coming off a hamstring issue, didn't
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and because it was near the line, didn't exactly go
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: full tilt after it, and to be fair to Randy,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: was probably instructed not to go after balls like that.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: It ends up landing down the left field line, bounces
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: into the stands. So now you got second and third
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and one out, and at that point you're like, Okay, Brian,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: we can overcome this. We can overcome this.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Be strong, be tough, buddy, got this, got this.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And he faces Indyguez and I'll take back what
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I said in the first segment. Apparently he did throw
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: three fastballs in the count. I thought, because I wasn't
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: watching it at home last night, and I wasn't watching
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: with sound on last night, I thought they'd flashed a
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: graphic where he had not thrown a fastball yet, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why are we abandoning our fastball. I know
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: this guy can hit fastballs. Let's not abandon our fastball.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: That's our best pitch. And he did throw three of
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: them early in the count, but he was beaten when
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: he threw a sweeper to Indie Rodriguez. And this happened
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: this one too line right field base, Si Gonzales scores,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: O'Hearn is on his way home. It's bobbled at right
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: field off the wall by Rarely. Doesn't matter. The Pirates
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: have taken the lead on a scorched double by Indy Rodriguez.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: It's two to one Pittsburgh, two on Pittsburgh at that point,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and then once again the roof caves in on Brian.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: He then gives up a triple to Tyler Callahan. You know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Big Tom Callahan's kid.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Now he can sell brake pads, I'll tell you that.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Then a single the left from to Jake mangem and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: then eventually gave up a single off of the bat
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: of Valdez. But man, that was probably the hardest hit
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: ball of the entire inning, as he crushed it off
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the center field wall. So it just it went from
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Brian Woo's got this thing under control to once again,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, how are we trailing five to one?
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: But that's what happened last night, and the Pirates go
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: on to win eleven to one because we don't ever
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: come back from deficits anymore. It's just something that the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: team has agreed that we're not gonna do as a team.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, although we did do it the day before, but
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: this one was a four run deficit.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: That's forgetting too much to.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Overp forget about that. I mean, we can overcome stuff
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: like in the first couple of innings.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, there's that song like, ain't no mountain
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: high enough? We're like, no, that mountain's too high.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, but but we're doing it as a group
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: too low. It's a good team exercise that we agree
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: not to come back from.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Deafis that rivers too wide.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Brian Wu spoke after the game, and he was just
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: so hard on himself, right, I can.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: See the frustration that they're trying to game. He can't
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: just walk us through the book there at I don't know.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: I wish I had answers for I'd had answers for myself,
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: and I just don't. Now I'm taking I try and
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I'm looking everywhere.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I just I just don't know. I wish i'd better
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: answers for you, but I just don't. I mean, he's
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: clearly You've done a lot and everything, and.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: It seems the one and it just gets spread up
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and the camera and take the pitch to get out
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, does it feel like that or what.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Do you feel about after?
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: It feels like I'm making good pitches. It feels like
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna trying to stay pitch to pitch, you know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: but I'm I'm not my guess, that's that's what I
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: feel like. I'm done. Feels like I did that today. Yeah,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: and then it's like free through hit, I'm lying good
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: pitch for I really, I'm sorry, I'm trying to do
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: you let this will go over? Said one will keep
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: you a pick tonight.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Well I'll keep it up bleach I removed. Yeah, it's
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: not a good feeling putting your team in a whole.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Came after again. So yeah, I mean I wish I
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: could say I'm just gonna, you know, wipe off and
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: get to the next one, but I'm not. You know, it's.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Brian wu after the game.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: I just want to hug him.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I think somebody needs to do something different. And Pete
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Woodworth's a master. I mean, it's not like Pete Woodworth
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't know what to do in this situation. I mean,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: he's he's the whisperer, He's the pitcher whisperer. But I'll
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: say this, I've said this about George Kirby, and I
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: think they've started doing this with George. Whenever something goes wrong,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: it's an immediate trip out to the mound. I'm not
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: gonna let it go two three batters because I want
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to hold on to visits to the mound. I think
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Wu and Kirby are guys that are susceptible. Kirby historic
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Brian Wu now actively that. Look, his RA at home
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: is two point zero, his R on the road is
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: six point three eight. Wait, it is very obvious that
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with Brian Wu's stuff. There is some
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: psychological problem that he is expecting, at some point during
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the game for the roof to cave in on him,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and the moment that he feels a tremor. As I
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: said earlier, like Rohearn's double down the line, Oh boy,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: here we go again. Kirby has that same mentality, and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: they started I said, the moment something like that happens,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: go out immediately and talk to George Kirby and remind
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: him like dude, you've got this blah blah, whatever you
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: need to say, whatever George responds to, even if you
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: got to light him up, do not cave into this
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: whatever whatever it is is. You guys know what makes
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Brian woutick. You know what words to use with him
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: more than so than I do. But whatever it is,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: intervene earlier because it's all psychological and I don't want
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to see him beating himself up like this because it's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: just unnecessary. He's got a block, a mental block. When
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: things start to go a little bit wrong on the road,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: he is expecting it to go horribly wrong. And it's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: happening nearly every start. It's happening every start. It's happening
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: every road start. Yeah, and it doesn't happen at home.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: And that's the crazy thing, is the stark difference between
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: the road and the home. And he said, I do
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: the same thing on the road, and at home I'm
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: doing the same thing. So it is clearly that end game,
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: that something that he's probably not even like necessarily aware
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: of that it's coming, you know what I mean.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: It's it's once it happens, and then it's too late
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: to bring it back to reel it in.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Oh it happens fast. Yeah, like, and I see his
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: deep breaths that he takes and all of that stuff.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that the messaging has to change
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: something to break this habit of his. Today they will
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: play a nine to thirty five, still a chance to
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: win the series. And that was the goal when it
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: all started. It'll be Bryce Miller and he's going without
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: a piggyback, Thank goodness. Bryce Miller gets the start here today.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: The Pirates are going to counter with Bubba Chandler, who
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: is actually a very talented pitcher, but he's not had
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the smoothest of seasons this year for the Pirates. But
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: he's gonna throw Hundi plus here today. So there's gonna
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: be some smoke on the water there at the Three
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Rivers and it will start at nine thirty five today.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: We've got ABC's of the Ms coming up at seven thirty.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, breaking news on a big NBA trade
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: that's gone down this morning on Sports Radio ninety three
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. This happened in a blink. Maybe it
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: was behind the scenes for years. I have no idea,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: but I didn't even know LaMelo Ball was on the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: trading block until late last night they started talking about it,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and now he's gone. He's already been traded. You know
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: what his dad said, he put it out in the universe. Right,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I've already used that expression. So I think I put
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: out in the universe something to happen to the Ball family,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: because they put things out.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: In the universe.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: That's right there, you go.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: You did No, He's right, it does work.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: You did this.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: LeVar is so wise. LaMelo Ball was traded by the
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets, along with teammate Josh Green, to the Minnesota
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Timberwolves for Nas Reed and a series of draft picks,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: a unprotected first round pick and three second round picks
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: going forward. But that draft pick, that unprotected pick, doesn't
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: even happen until twenty thirty three. So interesting. And it'll
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: also be interesting to see how Aunt Edwards and LaMelo
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Ball play together as teammates because they're both kind of
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: used to dominating the ball. No pun intended, they really wasn't,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: but it happened anyway. But yeah, LaMelo Balls now a
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolf. So that's a big, big trade. And I
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: would also say, in our a little bit of time
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: here that Sham Sharanya reported this morning, if you're just
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: waking up, that whatever Brad Stevens said about Jalen Brown
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Tuesday before the draft was a flat out lie. He said.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: They have not stopped. As a matter of fact, they
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: have been relentless about moving Jalen Brown somewhere else out
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: of Boston, and so Jalen Brown's going to be moved.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: It looks like this offseason we could have an off season.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, look at this list of NBA players that
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: could change hands in one off season. Giannis has already
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: been traded, Julius Randall's already been traded, LaMelo Ball's now
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: already been traded. Jalen Brown's going to be traded. Whoever
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: gets traded for Jalen Brown is going to be traded
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: whoever that guy is, because there's going to be a
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: star player somewhere in that trade. It's not going to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: be just for a bunch of draft picks.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: They're gonna be a star player somewhere in that trade.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: John Morant's going to be traded, Zion Williamson's going to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: be traded, Kawhi Leonard it looks like going to be traded,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and Lebron's going to possibly change teams via free agency.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: We're not even talking about free agents yet. I mean,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: that is like a who's who of NBA basketball players
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, and that's quite the list. I mean,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: how many times have you seen in any sport in
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: one off season? You know, forty percent of the league's
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: stars get traded in one off season. And we might
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: be traded or just move to another team in one
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: off season, and that might be what we're in store
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: for here in the summer of twenty twenty six.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: The NBA be crazy.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: It is right now, There's no doubt about it. But yes,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Lamello ball traded this morning from Charlotte to Minnesota for
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Nas Reed and a bunch of future draft picks. All right,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: coming up next on the program, we're gonna get to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: your headlines here this morning. Also, the US getting ready
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: for its third World Cup game. We're gonna have Brad
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Evans on at eight o'clock. But yeah, as we try
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to figure out some of us who are not big
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: soccer fans, we're kind of trying to apply rules that
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: we use for football games and basketball games and baseball
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: games to how the US should approach this match tonight,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and maybe the same rules don't apply. We'll find out
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: from Brad Evans at eight o'clock, but there's no reason
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that Ashley and I can't just senselessly discuss it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: People are gonna get so happy about it.
• 35:44
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