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Furness Show 5-4: Chris Crawford in for Ian, Hugh Millen, Mollywhop Monday, May the 4th · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: We've got a jam pack show today. I'm excited that
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  Speaker 1: I get to talk to you. I've been hosting on
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  Speaker 1: KJR since twenty twenty three, I believe, and somehow I've
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  Speaker 1: never talked to Hugh Millin, So I'm really excited to
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  Speaker 1: get to talk to him about rookie camp and ask him.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's a fifteen minute segment. I might get
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  Speaker 1: a question and a half off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, oh, yeah, there's no pressure. Yeah, he just
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  Speaker 2: is the best inn ealysis. Oh, we have so much
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  Speaker 2: to say.
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  Speaker 1: I have learned so much from Hugh milling that it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be I was nervous talking to Homegren. I'll probably
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  Speaker 1: be not nervous talking to you a little bit too,
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  Speaker 1: just because that guy is an absolute encyclopedia. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: mollywop and we're gonna talk about this stupid flipping baseball team.
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  Speaker 1: Another disappointing series. And it's more even more disappointing to
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  Speaker 1: me because you have a five to one road trip.
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  Speaker 1: I think you look pretty darn good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: During that five and one road trip and even those
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  Speaker 1: two losses to Kansas City, I thought the Mariners were
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  Speaker 1: the better team. For the overwhelming majority of those games,
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  Speaker 1: but they're still losses. And then yesterday you'll, yeah, STV,
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  Speaker 1: you laid a giant turd in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: What did those cats have called? Again? Why did I
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  Speaker 1: a litter? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that litter put it right on the fifty one
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  Speaker 4: a center field. Yeah you did, you really did.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what's so disappointing too, is like honoring Felix
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  Speaker 1: ornandez On Randy Johnson day wasn't something that I really
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  Speaker 1: predicted by not scoring any dang runs for a fantastic
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  Speaker 1: pitching performance. Gosh, it's frustrating. And you know, Anders, you
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  Speaker 1: talk about this team every day like I do. Like
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  Speaker 1: how frustrating was this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: The frustrating part about it was that it seemed like,
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  Speaker 4: like you said, they were kind of climbing out of
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  Speaker 4: it a little bit, right, and it like they got
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  Speaker 4: back to five hundred. They had a really good road trip.
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  Speaker 4: The offense was kind of clicking. I think the offense
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  Speaker 4: is still gonna be fine. You had two bad days
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  Speaker 4: on Saturday and Sunday. The Friday was actually a good
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  Speaker 4: offensive day, and then you can't close it out. That's
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  Speaker 4: a whole another situation. But for me, the one part
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  Speaker 4: about this team that does seemed fixable is the defense.
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  Speaker 4: Oh and I don't know how you feel on this
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  Speaker 4: about you know what stat you look at for team defense,
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  Speaker 4: if it's OAA or if it's DRS. But the Mariners
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  Speaker 4: are last in Major League Baseball and OAA, and I
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  Speaker 4: haven't looked at the DRS stats. I know there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of individuals that are low on that one as well,
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  Speaker 4: so I wouldn't be surprised if they're last on that
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  Speaker 4: as well. So, I mean, I still think the offense
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  Speaker 4: is going to turn around. I think the pitching will
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  Speaker 4: eventually be fine, whether that's Castillo, you know, coming back
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  Speaker 4: to what we know him to be, or if that's
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  Speaker 4: you know, someone else coming up and taking that spot,
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  Speaker 4: Bryce Miller, Kate Anderson will see. At the pitching I
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  Speaker 4: think will be fine. It's the defense that I don't
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  Speaker 4: see a way that this gets better, to be completely honest.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what metric I use for that, anders As,
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  Speaker 1: I used the CVC the Christopher Vincent Crawford, and my
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  Speaker 1: eye test just tells me this defense sucks.
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  Speaker 3: Sucks.
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  Speaker 4: It's I've never seen this bad of defense.
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  Speaker 1: It's really bad. It's really really bad. And you know
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  Speaker 1: it's some of this was predictable, like JP Crawford has
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  Speaker 1: been a declining defensive player for a long time. Brandon Donovan,
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  Speaker 1: who's not even there right now learning a new position.
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  Speaker 1: Basically he played some third. Josh Naylor is built like
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  Speaker 1: a defensive tackle, and defensive tackles are usually not good.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive first baseman, the left field and right fielders we
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  Speaker 1: know about their issues, particularly the guy in the left field.
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  Speaker 1: He did make a terrific catchit on Saturday. I want
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  Speaker 1: to give him a shout out there makes up for
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  Speaker 1: one of the worst base running mistakes I've seen in
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  Speaker 1: a long time. Not really, but it is nice to see.
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  Speaker 1: But the eye test is what tells me that this
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  Speaker 1: defense is just not very good. Yeah, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Luis Castille and we'll talk about it
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  Speaker 1: later in the day too. I will say this was
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  Speaker 1: an encouraging start. I agree the fourth inning was a disaster,
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  Speaker 1: but it could have been a little bit avoided. Josh
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  Speaker 1: Naylor throwing not to home in that situation is a
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  Speaker 1: massive mistake to me. I don't know what he was
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  Speaker 1: thinking trying to get the double play there while giving
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  Speaker 1: up the run. There was no shot they were going
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  Speaker 1: to get that double play. Did double play? Do it
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  Speaker 1: at home? Yeah, exactly, And you know, at the very
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  Speaker 1: least you got to get that, knowing how your offense is,
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  Speaker 1: knowing the lineup they put out last night, saying knowing
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  Speaker 1: that a small amount of runs given up was going
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  Speaker 1: to be important because they weren't going to score a time,
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  Speaker 1: not with the Connor Joe's and the Johnny Paridas and
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  Speaker 1: those guys playing. It just wasn't going to happen. So
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  Speaker 1: I will say I was encouraged by Julio's defense yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: He made some nice plays. A ball gets hot over
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  Speaker 1: his head because they have him playing in for Isaac
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  Speaker 1: Collins just kicked our But the entire weekend it was
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  Speaker 1: weird to see if all guys to get beat up
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  Speaker 1: by its Isaac Collins, not Vinnie Pasclentino or Jock keckleonone
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  Speaker 1: or Bobby Witt Junior, but instead Isaac Flipping Collins. But
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  Speaker 1: I think outside of that fourth inning, Luis Castillo pitched
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  Speaker 1: well and certainly well enough that you can take some confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Now ultimately six innings of four run baseball. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to patronize the guy too much, right, like he's
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  Speaker 1: he's better than this. Absolutely, But with the guys you
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  Speaker 1: have coming back, and with Emerson Hancock pitching the way
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  Speaker 1: he has a stud man, it's been so impressive to see.
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  Speaker 1: That's the ultimate positive. The other positive. We were talking
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  Speaker 1: about it with Greg everyone in the American League, but
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees sucks and Tampa Bay is playing well too.
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  Speaker 1: But let's let's hold our horses on Tampa Bay being
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  Speaker 1: a real contender with that team that they have. I
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  Speaker 1: I was frustrated. I will say this. I went to
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  Speaker 1: the game, and man, I could spend another hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half talking about how awesome baseball is and just
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  Speaker 1: seeing all of the parents with their kids and seeing Andrews.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait for you to be able to do that, man,
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  Speaker 1: I can't even I can't wait for you to have
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  Speaker 1: a Uniesky betting court on your little guy going out
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  Speaker 1: there and just but it's just it. It makes me
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  Speaker 1: feel to steal the s and L line for clip
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  Speaker 1: to see that, like people still care allowed bringing kids
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  Speaker 1: to baseball games.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think it's one of the sporting events that
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  Speaker 4: is most geared towards family.
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  Speaker 1: Would you agree with that?
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  Speaker 3: Just?
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  Speaker 5: I got to high five a baby at the game.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I went to the game on Saturday night, stayed for
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  Speaker 2: the extras. Unfortunately didn't go our way, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: high fived a baby. And that is it is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the iconic family sport because you know there's eighty one
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  Speaker 2: of them in your hometown. Sure, and you know football
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  Speaker 2: is rowdy because you only get eight of them in
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  Speaker 2: your hometown, you know, regardless if you travel over nine.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah whatever, Yeah, semantics.
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  Speaker 2: Queen over there, but sorry seman, Yeah but okay, I'll
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  Speaker 2: get you a crimp.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, No, it's just especially how busy it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was Randy Johnson night when I was there, and
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  Speaker 2: I was just seeing so many families experience it together
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  Speaker 2: and it's just more you know, calm vibe sure than
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  Speaker 2: you know, a football game and the rowdier people go
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  Speaker 2: to certain areas, right you know. So it was just
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  Speaker 2: really nice and I loved it. And I have friends
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  Speaker 2: that work on fishing boats and you got to bring
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  Speaker 2: them to the game. Yeah, it was awesome, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we just you know, got to sit down and enjoy
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  Speaker 2: some good baseball, exciting baseball, sure, because it came down
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  Speaker 2: to that, right, But I high five.
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  Speaker 1: Good baby, that's so great. That is so great. You
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  Speaker 1: could put that in the Facebook profile for sure. High
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  Speaker 1: fived a baby. Oh yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Oh if I wasn't married, that would be my Tinder
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  Speaker 2: profile so higby.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, Well I might just steal your story and put
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  Speaker 1: it in mine instead.
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  Speaker 5: There we go, high five the baby.
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  Speaker 1: So text line Tacoma Dodge four nine four five one.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know your level of concern. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: other one I want you guys to give me. So
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  Speaker 1: today is Star Wars Day. May the fourth be with
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  Speaker 1: you and also with you. I want to know, and
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  Speaker 1: you guys can take your time and think about this one.
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  Speaker 1: What Seattle athlete reminds you of a specific Seattle character?
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  Speaker 1: I have one already now. I was doing it while
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  Speaker 1: I was doing my three and a half hour drive
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  Speaker 1: up here. Fair enough, but some time I had some
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  Speaker 1: time to think while I was waiting for one two
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  Speaker 1: to turn into not a parking lot. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to know who you Do you have anyone who immediately
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  Speaker 1: comes to find anderws.
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  Speaker 4: Well, besides the obvious joke being Dan Wilson's jar jar,
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  Speaker 4: I haven't fully come up with a good comp yet.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that gives you what we got time.
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  Speaker 4: The oh god, that did the annalys or the analogy
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  Speaker 4: keeps going because it's the annoying side character that feels
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  Speaker 4: like it really brings down what could be a good movie.
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  Speaker 5: Oh oh, okay, we got opinions.
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  Speaker 4: And Dan Wilson's Yeah, the annoying side character brings down
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  Speaker 4: what could be a good team.
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  Speaker 1: So that was pretty good that. I like that comp
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I like it a lot. So four nine
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  Speaker 1: four five one let us know what you're thinking. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk to Humeillan about some rookie rookie a rookie
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  Speaker 1: mini camp next.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford in for I Furness. Hey, Jess, there's a
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  Speaker 5: One thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Not really?
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  Speaker 2: No, oh I wait, but spend one thousand dollars on
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want if you would.
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  Speaker 1: Him here sounds good to me. And you know what
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  Speaker 1: always sounds good to me is when I'm talking football.
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  Speaker 1: Well I've never talked to him about football before, but
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  Speaker 1: I really like listening to him talk football. Joining us
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  Speaker 1: now is Hugh Millan. Hugh, It's it's really an honor
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you, man. I have learned so much
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  Speaker 1: from you over these many years. I'm trying to do
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  Speaker 1: it without making a sound old, but I have learned
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  Speaker 1: an awful lot from you, and it's a real honor
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you right now. I love it. That's
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  Speaker 1: the goal.
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  Speaker 8: And uh, you know, I think football is a little
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  Speaker 8: harder to describe than baseball, okay, fair you know well,
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  Speaker 8: I mean most people in their mind's eye, if you
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  Speaker 8: talk about something, you know, you know, he brought the fastball,
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  Speaker 8: high end inside and then he set him up with
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  Speaker 8: the slider away.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, people aren't really confused. But you have a
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  Speaker 8: there's a tendency to get confused with football. So I
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  Speaker 8: usually wish I had a napkin to draw, uh for
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  Speaker 8: the audience. But but that's the challenge, and that's the uh.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get that in the works here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, close to that. Yeah, we're going to get something
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  Speaker 1: going on that beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So rookie mini camp, and I just got to ask
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  Speaker 1: you right off the top, what can we take away
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  Speaker 1: from a rookie mini camp.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think it's somewhat like the beginning of training
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  Speaker 8: camp with with no contact, you can't get any feel
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  Speaker 8: for the physicality. The you can get a feel for, obviously,
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  Speaker 8: the athleticism, the frame, how guys move. I think the
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  Speaker 8: farther you are from the football, the more it looks
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  Speaker 8: like real football. You know, corners and receivers playing out
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  Speaker 8: on the perimeter. Now there's limitations on how you can
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  Speaker 8: play the ball, and through collective bargaining, they've they've really
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  Speaker 8: dialed down what you can infer.
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  Speaker 4: But but.
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  Speaker 8: You know, when you're when you're talking about all the
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  Speaker 8: moshpit that's inside, whether it's the running back or whether
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  Speaker 8: it's the interior linement, that's a little harder to discern.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford talking to hum ellin a lot of talk
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  Speaker 1: about Jadarian Price and you know, the Mariners are Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks make him the thirty second overall pick, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talk about how his usage in mini camp,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of pass catching reps, a lot of blocking reps.
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  Speaker 1: How much of that is about timing, Hue, how much
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  Speaker 1: of that is about, you know, teaching new steps for
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  Speaker 1: those type of guys. I also wanted to ask you,
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  Speaker 1: particularly about screen passes and how much of that is
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  Speaker 1: something that is based on timing. How much would a
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  Speaker 1: college system change in that regard, But just the overall
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  Speaker 1: usage from Jadarian Price, what did you find interesting for
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  Speaker 1: the mini camp.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think that first of all, as it pertains
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  Speaker 8: to his steps, there's gonna be some adjustment for him
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  Speaker 8: running the wide zone at Notre Dame. I watched every
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  Speaker 8: single carry that he had, and when they ran the
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  Speaker 8: wide zone, it was almost always from an offset position.
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  Speaker 8: The quarterback was in shotgun. Every single run for Price
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  Speaker 8: other than one which was an inside run, but all
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  Speaker 8: the outside zones were from shotgun. And with Price now
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  Speaker 8: there was a couple early on in the season with
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  Speaker 8: for pistol so price would be behind the quarterback. But
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  Speaker 8: if you're going stretch right, he was almost always aligned
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  Speaker 8: to the left of the quarterback, so we had farther
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  Speaker 8: to go to reach the aiming point, so that that
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  Speaker 8: changes the timing of how that's gonna hit and UH,
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  Speaker 8: and it often leads to more cutback runs where he
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  Speaker 8: doesn't get to the all the way to the edge
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  Speaker 8: on a On a stretch right, he's more likely to
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  Speaker 8: have to cut it back inside. So that's going to
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  Speaker 8: be a part of it. And then as far as
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  Speaker 8: the UH. For as far as him as a receiver,
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  Speaker 8: they threw the ball to him seven times. He caught
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  Speaker 8: sixth the seventh was uncatchable. I believe five were uh
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  Speaker 8: were screen passes. I'll get to that in a second.
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  Speaker 8: Two of them were just checkdowns. At no time did
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  Speaker 8: they ever run an option route for him, which would
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  Speaker 8: be you know, let's say you got Christian McCaffrey, it's
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  Speaker 8: third and five. If you think you've got the matchup,
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  Speaker 8: you'r Kyle Shanahan. Doesn't matter what time it could be.
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  Speaker 8: You know, two minutes to go in the game, and
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  Speaker 8: you say that's our best play. Is McCaffrey on on
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  Speaker 8: that that nickel or even that linebacker, and so I
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  Speaker 8: didn't see any of that at Notre Dame. Again, it
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  Speaker 8: was a checkdown where the quarterbacks instruck. Hey, look down
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  Speaker 8: the field would have if you don't have anything, then
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  Speaker 8: then throw it down to the checkdown near the line
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  Speaker 8: of scrimmage. So we haven't seen him in a capacity
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  Speaker 8: where he's featured the screen passes. Yet you know they
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  Speaker 8: had a swing screen. There's different screens. There's slow screens,
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  Speaker 8: there's slip screens, there's there there. A swing screen is
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  Speaker 8: where the running back looks like he's running a swing route,
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  Speaker 8: so it hits a little wider. The linemen have to
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  Speaker 8: hustle out there to get there a little quicker. Usually
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  Speaker 8: you don't get the whole full allotment of of of
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  Speaker 8: of the alignment of the lineman rather leading. But he
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  Speaker 8: caught a touchdown against Arkansas uh on on a swing
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  Speaker 8: screen where he was out wide, then cut it back.
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  Speaker 8: You know, did some nifty gae sayers type of open
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  Speaker 8: field running for our are long in the two football founds.
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  Speaker 8: They don't know what I'm talking about. But he showed
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  Speaker 8: a lot of creativity and was able to house that one.
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  Speaker 8: So I think there's some potential in there for him
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  Speaker 8: as a receiver. Have not seen him as again featured
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  Speaker 8: in that, so that remains a question unanswered.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford in for Ian talking to Hugh Milling ball
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  Speaker 1: security Jadarian Price a guy who fumbled I believe three times,
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  Speaker 1: and two of those I believe were goal line carries.
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  Speaker 8: Any concerns there, yeah, I mean he's two hundred and
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  Speaker 8: three pounds, so there can be I think a slight
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  Speaker 8: correlation to the strength. Now he's he looks like he's
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  Speaker 8: maxing out on his upper body. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 8: cheating himself on arm day and and the rest, so
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  Speaker 8: I but that's certainly a factor. I mean, you want
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  Speaker 8: to hold the ball high and tight and you know,
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  Speaker 8: if you're in traffic even get that second hand on it.
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  Speaker 8: But but there's five points of pressure. You got your
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  Speaker 8: your your chest that you're holdingto and hires better, your bicep,
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  Speaker 8: your forearm, and then you've got the you know the
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  Speaker 8: inside of your hand and the outside and you want
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  Speaker 8: to kind of push the the the point of the
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  Speaker 8: ball in between your index and middle fingers. And so
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  Speaker 8: that's the technical you know, perfect ball uh security, there's Still,
• 16:20
  Speaker 8: even if you have that h you're gonna have a
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: fumble from time to time. You know, maybe a gal
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: go a whole season he doesn't fumble, well, I guarantee
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: he's had a fumble in his past or he's got
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: to fumble in his future, even with the best of
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: ball security.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: So there's a little bit of a leeway.
• 16:37
  Speaker 8: I'm not overly concerned about it, uh, you know, but
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: sometimes there's just the perfect punch and the ball is
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: gonna come out. Hell, Derek Henry had a couple on
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: him last year. He's as strong as anybody uh in
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: the league, and he was having some ball security issues.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: So you know, sometimes it's it's like baseball and being
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: in a slump. You know, sometimes the odds just kind
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: of catch up to you, and you know, a couple
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: might hit within a couple of weeks, and it's just
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: this statistical vagaries of the position.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: But I don't think it's a big problem. Chris Crawford
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: and free and forness talking to Hugh Mellen, do you
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: believe that those are two players and by that I
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: mean Jadarian Price and Zach Sharboney. Do you believe those
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: are two players who can play in the backfield at
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the same time. Do you think that's something you could see? Now,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: obviously you know something that we're gonna maybe find out
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a little later based on is Charboney's recovery time. But
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: do you see the potential for a little thunder lightning
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: type thing where both players are in the backfield at
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the same time.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: I'll answer it literally, and then i'll answer it in
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: the in the context I think you're asking. Literally, yes,
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: that you can get in. Some people call it King formation,
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: strong eye, green eye. Basically, if you can imagine Prices
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: the tail back and then you've got sharbon Ay as
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: the full back, and then he fakes like a dive
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: and then and then Price were to be immediately released
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: to the flat that's something that we've seen from Kubiak.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: We saw that from Ryan Grubb. Hell that was in
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: a fourth down that particular play I remember against the
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: Giants on a fourth down Gino Smith got sacked and
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: then I remember when Kubiak ran it because I made
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: a reference back to the prior year.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: So I know it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: You know you may see it on occasion, So I
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: don't want to say no, because then as soon as
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: you show me one one snap then you know, now
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: I'm the liar, right, you know, so so I but
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: I don't think you're gonna see anything close to a
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: heavy diet of that whatsoever. I think if if there's
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: gonna be two backs, it's gonna be Robbie Utz or whoever,
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: Brady Russell, whomever is the full back. And but most
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: of the time when you see either of them, you
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: know it's going to be a single back formation, and
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: you know, might be twelve personnel, which is two tight ends,
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: might be eleven personnel, might be thirteen personnel with it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: You know, that's kind of coming in a little bit
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: more in vogue, which is one back and three tight ends.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: But but I don't expect to see a lot of
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: what you're talking about, you know what, Hey, listen, maybe
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: maybe you know, we got a new offense coordinator, you know,
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: maybe there's a creative, creative bone in his body that
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: they'll have a bigger diet of that than I thought.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: But I don't expect much.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford and Free inf Neest talking to Hugh milling
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: So Seahawks addressed the secondary on day two. Bud Clark
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: out of TCU and Jillian Neil out of Arkansas. Which
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: one of those guys do you believe is the more
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: pro ready right now? And just how important are these
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: mini caps for two players who you know have a
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: chance to fill relatively immediate roles. Yeah, I definitely I
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: think Bud Clark.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: I mean, he's got a lot more experiences, three time captain,
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: and you know, he's a higher draft pick, so you know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: as a general rule, you'd you'd say a second rounder
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: is more more capable of coming in playing than a
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: third rounder. So that's almost your default. But but just
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: looking at the bios and watching the tape, and you know,
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: I think there's a interesting development with Bud Clark in
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: my mind. In the following sense, let's let's hone in
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: on Devin Witherspoon the year in Mike McDonald's first year.
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: These are the ratios, he he he, He was a
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: wide corner. That this is twenty twenty four. Devin Witherspoon
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: was a wide corner on three hundred and ninety snaps,
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: but he was slot or in the box slot five
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: hundred and thirty one and box uh one fifty two.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: I never liked radio math, but that sounds like six't
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: eighty three to me, So six hundred and eighty three
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: snaps inside, three ninety outside. Can you remember that racio six'
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: eighty inside three ninety outside?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Got it?
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: So now the second year with Mike McDonald, which was
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: last season, now we go four hundred and sixty one.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: Now he'd got hurt four and sixty one on the
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: outside and four hundred and nineteen on the inside. So
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: there had been a much heavier dose of Devin Witherspoon
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: inside during Mike McDonald's and the ratio during Mike McDonald's
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: first season as the head coach of the Seahawks. Then
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: last year Mike McDonald and Essen said, hey, I want
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: you outside more. And that's something we were talking about
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: in the summer that you know, at his weight, you
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: know you love his his tenacity, his temperament, he flies
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: his body around like everything about his approach to football
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: you you don't like, you love, But there's there's still
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: the question of his frame. And we don't want to
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: get him hurt because because as good as he is,
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: what we really don't want is to have him, you know,
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: wearing levies on the sideline because he's hurt, right, And
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: so the the the impetus to put him more.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: To the outside.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: I think was a very uh uh, you know, sound move,
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: and and obviously they executed it beautifully. But but they
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: they also used him to great effectiveness as an inside player.
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: They just didn't do it as frequently. So why am
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: I talking about Devin Witherspoon in a question about Bud
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: Clark in the secondary? Bud Clark, you know, you know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: at a at one hundred and ninety pounds himself, but
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: a safety running a four to four one. The second
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: thing out of Mike McDonald's mouth when he described Mike
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: uh uh Bud Clark as hey, he can play nickel.
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: So okay, So what does nickel mean? When when when
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: Devin Witherspoon went inside? First of all, your nickel is
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: nick him and worry right, you know, And and Seattle
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: was number one in the NFL in their use of nickel.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: But when when they played dime And they had a
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: much greater propensity as the season progress, including the a
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: season high thirty six snaps in the Super Bowl. Let
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: me see it again, thirty six snaps of dime defense
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: on the Super Bowl. And that's with Witherspoon inside. So
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: follow me on this if you think that there's a
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: concern about your love Witherspoon what he brings, but but
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: you're worried about the injury factor. Now, can Bud Clark
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: be the guy that's in on the dime leave Witherspoon
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: outside Because they leave Witherspoon outside on the nickel, right, Uh?
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: When when?
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: When? When?
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: When they're nickel, they have Josh jo but one corner
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: and they have Witherspoon on the other side. When they
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: go dime, they bring Witherspoon inside. Maybe I'm losing you
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: on that, but the point is is Bud Clark could
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: fill an immediate role, including being the guy that's the
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: that's in the slot in their dime packages. And when
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: Mike McDonald says a nickel the way I'm using him,
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: you know he he nickel diamond's the same thing. Sure,
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: you're you're playing. You're playing as a an outside liner
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: linebacker also called an apex defender, also called an overhang defender.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: You're just lining up of the slot in a too
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: in a too high structure, and so so that that
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: versatility that Clark brings as a safety is very intriguing
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: to me. Uh, based on what we've seen in the
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: development of of how they use their their personnel from
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: year one with McDonald to year two and then even
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: the second half of year two going into the Super
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: Bowl in the manner I describe.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: So, Hugh, what you were just to say describing I
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: was kind of obsessed with di'angelo Ponds in this draft
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: out of Indiana. Is that one of the reasons why
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Ponds may not have been a great fit because of
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: his similar size to a Devin Witherspoon. Why you're more
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: targeting someone like a Julia Neil who has a little
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: bit of that bigger size. Do they become sort of
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: too much similarity between Witherspoon and Ponds. I'm not sure
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: how much you got to study Ponds, but.
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Ponds is really small, you know. I mean, he's
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: a great feisty player, and he actually was more of
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: an outside player, right and and so I I think
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: that you know, had had they Uh there's a point
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: where you go, Okay, how low is too low?
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: You know, it's like quarterback height. Sure, you know you
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: know how low? How low is too low? And I
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: think for Ponds, I I just think he might have
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: been too small. You know, I'm I'm somebody will try
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: and play him in the nickels.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: But but that.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: That that only implies if you're going to put Ponds
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: in his nickel. That's against certain offensive structures, you know,
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: like you can't play if an offense is trying to
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: play hardball and get get into some heavy personnels, you
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: don't want Ponds in there mixing up. I wouldn't think,
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: but but yeah, I think that there would have been
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: some redundancy.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Redundancy was the word I was trying to use. Yes,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and that's that's why you were so much smarter than
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I am. But no, it's uh. I was just a
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: player that I was fat. Yeah, I was a player.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I was fascinated by one more for you, Hugh. I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about Emmanuel Henderson just because, especially
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: with rookie camp, a lot of talk about how this
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: guy was just a special team stalwart at Kansas in Kansas,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I almost said Kansas City for the Jayhawks. How much
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: can you work on special teams in mini rookie camp?
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: How much are you looking at how how he's going
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to help you, like on the outside in those regards,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: potentially as a returner as well, or is it just
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: more about getting those receiver reps during rookie camp.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: Well, I think you can definitely get a look at
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: a guy running down as a gunner, sure, uh, and
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: that's one of his his skill sets him into his
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: release on the line. His strength is is uh, his instincts.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: I think you you can get a good look at that.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: As a returner, you never really know how a guy
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: is going to to respond when he's gonna get hit.
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: I would say that's that's particularly true for kickoff returns.
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: I think you glean a little bit more from a
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: pump returner in non contact situation, right because punt returning,
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: you're you know, you're, you're you're, you're starting from a
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: standing start. You generally got to have that lateral quickness
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: and then and then you find your scene and so
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: that the traits that you need to see in a
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: pump returner are more evident in non contact situations. The
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: traits you want to see from a kickoff returner. You
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: want you want a guy to just grab it and blast,
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: you know, and and and have that willingness to to
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: uh get his ass in the brier patch at speed
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: and be able to make uh, you know, cuts at
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: full speed and and you'll see when when they're actually hitting,
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: you know, a guy might be a little bit more
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: tepid and and you know you can kind of glean
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: that from from non contact drills. But uh yeah, the
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: guy's you know, he's reputed to be one of the
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: the you know, like like he's the Heisman Trophy winner
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: of special team, right, you know, so we're gonna have
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: fun watching him in uh in in preseason and no
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: doubt in the regular season. If he's that acclaimed, then
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: I think there's a spot for him. I mean, you
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: you lose Derek Young, right, and you know Young was
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: you know, a big, you know, rocked up wide receiver
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: that they could run and and had that temperament and
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: had the skill set and and so I think that
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: that you know that that he's your guy to replace
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: Drek Young.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: You you are the absolute best. And I hope I
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: get to do this again with you sometimes.
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: Oh I love it, and I love your your baseball stuff.
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: Keep up the great work and hammered down. Always good
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: to be with you. Thanks for calling.
• 29:07
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• 29:09
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• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford in for Ian forness, let's talk some hockey
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Anders because yesterday was fun. It was fun because we
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: got One of my favorite things about hockey is you
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: can get a mortgage board of different types of games.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: There are just so many different ways that you can play,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: so many different scores. You see a lot of the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: three two, but the three to two sometimes look different
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: than some of the three twos do. Every once in
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: a while you get the one nothing or the two
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: to one, which is what we got in a game seven.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And then sometimes you get games like Game one, and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: that was what happened between the Minnesota Wild and the
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Colorado i Avalanche last night. A nine to six. I'll
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: say six nine, so I can say nice, nice score
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: between those two teams. Hockey's freaking awesome. Yeah, and it
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: was so fun watching both. Now I had to watch
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: them on replay because of the fact that I was
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: driving home for the Mariner game, but I was so
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: glad I did because I got to fast forward through
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: commercials and just watch some really good hockey.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Now, did you know the score?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I knew the score of So here's the nice thing.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I knew that it was going to overtime between Montreal
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay. You just didn't know how it got
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I just didn't know how it got there, and I
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: didn't know what happened after, Okay, so it was kind
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of great, Like I knew that we were getting there. Yeah,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. They were better in both Game
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: sevens in the NBA last night.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Oof.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Goof those stunk. Yeah, but man, that was awesome hockey.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And then a nine to six game between I think
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: probably the two best teams in hockey, I think the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Avalanche and Wilder. You could argue that the Stars are
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: had a better season than the whild Technically they did
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: by a regular season result, but these are teams with
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: star players with goalies who have the tendency to maybe
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: allow a few go through as well, especially in the postseason.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I won't be shocked. I don't I'm not predicting fifteen
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: goals again, but I won't be shocked if we get
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: another high goal game.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: And I think this series going seven too, because Minnesota,
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: even though they lost the game nine to six, they
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: had the lead at one point it was five to four, yeah,
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: and then they tied up as sixty six or something
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: like that, and then Colorado scores three straight goals. One
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: of them wasn't empty net or whatever. I was surprised
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: they didn't pull Yes for Walstat me too. I'm also
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: surprised in general that Yes for Walstat's been their starter
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: because Philip Gustafson's kind of a more you know, experienced
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: goalie is top level goalie at that Uh. They have
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: a similar situation in terms of goal as the Crack
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: and where they have two guys that they feel really
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: confident in. Sure, but they're going with a young guy. Uh,
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: and he was not very good last night. I mean,
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: in Colorado, you're you're bound to give up some goals
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: against Nathan McKinnon, Cale mccarr, Gabriel and skog Archiy Lekinen
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: yea and Martin his that's just that team's just so
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: dangod Nozam Kadri now too.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And you know they got Nicholas Wah for
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: a song as well. It's just been a you love
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: anything that? Oh yeah yeah did who gave them an?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: The Toronto maple leafs? So you gotta get dangle on, dude.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I if I get noticed, and if I can get
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: tangle on to talk. He is the Canadian safty is
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: what he is, and it's Toronto softy, the Toronto safety. Okay,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: different than the Canadian there's a different Canadian saftie. That's interesting.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Would you would you make the goalie switch if you're
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota for Game two?
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: I it's tough because that's a whole You kind of
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: mess with his confidence. Then if Gustafson sucks, then you
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: have to go back to him and you're like, what
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: do we do. I'm surprised he didn't do it in
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: the in the game when when it was like this,
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: he doesn't have it to right, and I realized a
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: still close game. It's not like you were losing six
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: to zero. But I don't know it was it was
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: surprising to me that they kind of stuck with him
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: continuing through of those struggles. But you know, this is
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: what it is. I guess they believe in their guy.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: So we were texting in our group chat, and we
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: were kind of talking about what would be the best
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: result in terms of what's best for hockey for a
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup final. What what final do you want to see?
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Ah? Do I want to see? Yes, let me look
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: at this UH bracket.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Because I'll just tell you mine right now, because I
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: want to see the Wild and I know everyone's gonna
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: yell at me. I want to see Wild Hurricanes. I
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: want to see those two teams play each other. I'm sorry.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I want to see those two two because I think
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: it's such an interesting style clash two between those two
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and I think that's what makes the best hockey is
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: when we have style clashes, Like I don't want to
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: see two defensive teams playing in it. I'll just be honest.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: That's not my favorite style of hockey. That's the Hurricanes, bro.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's true. But like this is this is
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: a little bit more of the uh immovable force versus
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: whatever the object is supposed to be. Yeah, that are
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: unstoppable force versus the immovable object type of thing. I
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: think that would be fun to see. Tom Condon is
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: an absolute garbage human being, and I'm not rooting for him,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: let me make that abundantly clear. I just have always
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: kind of liked watching that. Not always, but I have
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: liked the way the Hurricanes, And there's a little bit
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: of the analytical door in me too, because boy, oh boy,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: they analytical dorks in Carolina.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah they are, and I think, to be honest, they
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: do that in spite of their owner more than because
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: of him.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I would agree.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: They have one of the best coaches in the game.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Ian's talked about this a lot about Britden. Moore's a
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: great coach, but they do kind of chew you up
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: and spit you out, so to speak, in terms of
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: a players, like they don't allow a lot of like
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: flair and like personality come out. It's like you put
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: your head down, you do your job, which I guess
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: a lot of people can appreciate.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: In terms of my.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Desired series, I want to see the Savers in the final.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: That'd be so fun to see them when it before
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: a Canadian team. Sure, I liked I think the wild
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: is the best team. Avalanche is probably up there too,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: but man alive. The Ducks play fun games. They do
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: like it's every game is eight eight, you know what
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: I mean. They score a ton of goals, they allow
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: a ton of goals. I am very intrigued to see
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: what would happen, and I'm interested see how they do
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: againt Vegas. To be honest to game one tonight at
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: six thirty.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I think they're the better team. I think the Ducks
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: are the better team than the Golden Knights are. Yeah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: and you know, I've talked about my hatred of John
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Tortorella in other places and might as weld like this
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: one too. I hate John Tortorella. Yeah, I know you do.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I do not like that goalie who I'm not even
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: gonna say the name of. You know, it would be
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: an interesting style clash to see, like Vegas go up
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: against a Carolina or a Montreal or something like that.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I really you know, an Anaheim series against
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo would also be no.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, and like you get kind of the two
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: teams that haven't been there even close to being there recently,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: which I kind of like, I want some new blood
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: in there, but I the team I want to see
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: win it the most.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I would love to see Buffalo in it, but I'm
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: rooting for the Wild.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Wild's kind of my team right now. Sure, I love
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: watching Quinn Hughes play hockey. I also want to reward
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: that team for going and making a win now move
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: in the middle of this year.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: That's a great point.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: So I want them to feel and then like that's
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: a really good hockey town too.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: You know, I got some push back in our hockey
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: text line about rooting for the Mammoth because you know,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: they they tanked hard, hard, so hard that they hold
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: a a sonics. If we're just being completely honest. They
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: knew they were leaving and they decided that we'll go
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: ahead and good somewhere else. But you know, I do
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: admire what Minnesota did. I do admire and you know,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Capri's off is so fun to watch, and there's some
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: other really good players plus really good Jersey's a really
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: really good jersey, and that matters to Buffalo versus Minnesota
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: are two jerseys that I would like to see matchup
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: with each other. I agree that I'll do the I'll
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: do the guy who doesn't know what he's doing in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament and just pick fix the jerseys and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: it gives me a better chance of having some success.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: But last night was fun because he did the two
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: to one Tampa Bay Montreal game, which was just two
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: goaltenders playing unbelievable hockey, and then you get to just
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: absolute shootout where you see just so much talent. If
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: you're not watching hockey playoffs, you're making a mistake. And
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I love the NBA playoffs. I'm going to play more
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: attention to them, you know, as I'm getting more excited
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: about the Sonics probably being a thing I've been fooled before,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: but probably being a thing. The NHL playoffs destroys him,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: just not abs toletely destroys the If you disagree with
• 38:23
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• 39:23
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  Speaker 1: the baritone and it was very fun to play those
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: low notes. So for those unfamiliar, for those of you
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  Speaker 1: who have had girlfriends or if you have had any
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: type of social life, today is Star Wars Day. And
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I'm saying that to a guy who has a beautiful
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: life and a beautiful child. So it just kind of
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: destroyed my entire thoughts.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Star Wars Day have to do with having a girlfriend
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: or a wife.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, if you like Star Wars, you're a huge nerd,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: like like a huge No, you haven't had one of those.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: That's what I meant. I just didn't say it right.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I think I maybe said it right and you weren't listening.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Al that's fair.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: That's I also think that the trope about the nerds
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: not getting the other, you're not getting, you know, having
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: that part of your life is switching a lot.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: There's no question those movies make billions of dollars, and
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: they're not just it's not just Poindexter going I'm going
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: for in the forty third time. It's not that it's
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: everybody go sees those movies. They make a lot of
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: flipping money. They still do.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: My favorite is Episode five. It's uh, it's a little bit.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I think it's everybody's favorite. It's just a terrific movie.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I love four. I love eight. I know a lot
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: of people don't love eight. I just love eight as
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: a movie. It is not a Star Wars movie.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: To me.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like just a I know it
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: is obviously a Star Wars movie, but I view it
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: as something separate. And I just think Ryan Johnson's such
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: a terrific director too. But rather than yeah, and Andrews
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: is definitely agreeing with me right now. Yeah, you can
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: see on the stream. I was thinking about this as
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I was making my drive up. Star Wars obviously just
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: a litany of quality characters, and I was thinking about
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Seattle sports legends and who compares to some of these
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: legendary Seattle characters. And the first thing that came to
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: my mind was Boba Fett. Because I think about Boba
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Fett a lot. I think it was one of the
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: coolest characters in Star Wars. Boba FET's nick Emon Worry
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: nick Emon, Worry Emon worried assassin. Yeah that also just
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: being so flipping cool. There's like a coolness factory worry
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: question for you. What makes Boba Fet your favorite Star
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Wars character?
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: He's just cool?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Number one. The helmet is so dope like that is
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: just one of the best designed helmets of all time.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: It was like five words, you know what, five words
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: were good enough, baby Like. I just I loved it.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: And it's one of the reasons why the Mandalorian is
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite things, because there's just something about
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: that lore you know. I know that schors starting to
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: become popular again. By the way, is lore also and
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: spill the tea period. I'm hearing that as being a
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: new cool thing. I talked to a bunch of high
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: schoolers at the game yesterday for words to tease my
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: nieces have, so I found out that those are the
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: ones that I should be using, are lore t and
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I can't use suss or six seven anymore. But there's
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: something about Nicki min Worry being that silent. Well he's
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: not silent though, that's to be fair, he's not keep.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: You can talk with the best of them. Yeah, but
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: there is something it's almost like a silent assassin when
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: he's on the field, like don't see that blitz coming.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: You don't see just how much damage that guy can
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: do on the field. So he to me, Nicki Min
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: worry is Boba Fet? Do you have anyone who comes
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: to mind?
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm seeing a lot from the text line I
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: mentioned the one that I thought of earlier, So I'm
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: just gonna start reading them because we can get to
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: some more later. But the couple that stand out to me,
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: this is another Boba Fet comparison, but it's to Josh
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: Naylor always looks serious and intimidating and doesn't say very much.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Oh okay, I like that, So I kind of like
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: that comparison too. I like like Nicki Min Warri's as
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: well with the assassin kind of part of things.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: But the not.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: You know, not talking a ton is definitely on the
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Josh Naylor side of things.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Four to five.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: John Schneider is short, Han Solo never tell me the odds.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: I like that also is great. Yeah, there's there's a
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: lot of other good ones there. You know, you could
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: make whoever you think Anakin is who kind of has
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: that arc of was the chosen One and then turn
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: to evil and then maybe you could redeem themselves later.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: The first name that comes to my mind with that
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: is Russell Wilson. Sure was the chosen one, won us
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl and then turn to evil and left
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: and like the galaxy hates him, and then we still
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: haven't seen his redeeming himself yet. Maybe that eventually, maybe
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: as a broadcaster possibly, I don't know about Seattle.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it would be so funny if he
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: was like doing the preseason games or something like that,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: that would be pretty fun. Oh my gosh, that would
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: be something. By the way, one of my favorite things
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: is people who take Burt marshmallows and recreate that you
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: were the chosen One thing where they have like a
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: marshmallow talking like ton Solo Bert Marshmallow. I hate you know,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: it's so good. There's so much creativity in this world.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I like that. Another one that I saw
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: that I really liked from our good friend Keith Callous Jaba.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Both are big dumpers. I'm sorry, that's so good. That's great,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: so good. It's probably now. I think Cols is a
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: little more toned than Jabas would be like without getting
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: too in detail there, Yeah, Jaba, you know, maybe not.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see this new movie. What the because
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I've seen in the previews that there is if it's
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: not Job of the Hut, there is a Job of
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the Hut type character.
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see that just because you know,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: with special effects and John Favreau job he does. I'm
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: excited to see just a recent one here. Each Row's
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Yoda is almost too good. That is like, that is
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: the I probably should have saved that, by the way,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: four nine, five or five one Koma Doadje text line
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: up for whatever you can think of their Let.
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: Us know on the talk back to iHeart app Red microphone,
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: I'll go through those jests. You know, is busy doing
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: just things right now. She always is, So I'll be
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: the one listening to your voices today. Maybe an impression
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: of such characters. Oh yeah, that would be great. Yeah,
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: that would be really good.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: We'll check those out of two thirty a least no
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: jar Jar binks though, let's let's just let's just stay
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: away from that one. Guys. It's uh not a character
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: that whoa. Yeah, that's good. Seeing a lot of Darth
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Vader stuff. I want to know who is the uh
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: the the hands the Han solo, like, who is that
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Hans now short? John Schneider was a good one there,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: but I want to I want an athlete for that one.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: And also I was thinking about this, who's the Palpatine man?
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's it's funny because we just got a
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: text two five three. If Russ is Anakin and you know,
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: turns into Darth Vader is definitely amper proper that that
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: is almost two on the nose, guys, see, like tempts
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: him to come to the dark side, and then that's
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: that's his fall to the dark side.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: So good, so good, so good. You know, he just
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: he won two steps a little too hard and that's
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: what happens is you go to the dark side. Is hey, Seattle,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I know what. I give Russ credit for playing with
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: that a little bit, like on the on the instagrams
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, Like he's leaning into a little bit. Ye,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: it definitely is. Oh man, what would Pete Carroll be.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Oh that's a tough one. Oh I think I could
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: see it though, Yeah.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: Maybe no, no, yeah maybe maybe kind of but just
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: now there's not enough connection it'll come to me, It'll
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: come to me.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Does that make Jim mora uncle Oman? Then I guess
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: it's a very short times one.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yeah, boy, that's tough. That might be Pete Carroll.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: That might be Pete Carroll. I'm trying to think who
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: would be like the R two D two, the the
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Ultimate Assistant. Maybe Gary Payton's are two D two. Yeah,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: maybe that's the comedy real boy is. There are so
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: many great NBA podcasts now. I watch a ton of them.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: The Jeff Tigue one is great, although I have to
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: be very careful because they use language that is very
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: much not appropriate. But it's terrific.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Gary Peyton, if he started a podcast, would be I
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: think it would be the best podcast in the entire world.
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: If we could get a Gary Payton or Gary Peyton
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: with Vernon Maxwell would be just an absolute terrific podcast.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I think, or even you know, Sean can figure some
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: stuff out and do that podcast with him too. I
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: think that would be very fun as well. NICKI min
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: worry is the Millennium Falcon.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Oh? I like that.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: That is a really good one, kind of a out
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: of the ordinary, but very effective tool to use. Like, sure,
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: I don't think of him as a non character character,
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: but the Moneium Falcon is a character in Star Wars.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Let's be honest. Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, look, I
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: know this. I collect sports cards, and Star Wars cards
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: are absolutely huge right now. Millennium Falcon stuff sells like crazy.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: What sells the best right now though, is baby Groky,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Like it's not even close. It's just such a popular character.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: I did see another one earlier in the text line
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: as I'm refreshing and everything. Speaking of Grogu. That a't Julio.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: He's he's super powerful but has yet to master his powers.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: I think that's fair.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: And he's young. I think that's fair, even though Grogu's
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: fifty years old. Actually I think one hundred and fifty.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: I know it as fifty.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so weird. It's such a cute little baby,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: and then you tell me it's one hundred and fifty
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: years old. It just just doesn't quite add up to me.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Trying to think who would be the hole in the
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Death Star that they attack the very worst thing, Like
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: who would be the man that's basically saying who your
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: least favorite? Oh, Jamal Adams is Cairo Wren. That's an
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: interesting one. There was a little bit of a redemption
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: for Kylo Wren spoiler alert, not a lot of redemption
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: for Jamal Adams at the end of his time with Seattle. Yeah,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: not a lot, not a lot.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: We got to think something Sonics related. Now that we've
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: mentioned almost every other sport.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Well, Debtla Shremp, it just is a Star Wars character.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: I'd be pretty sure. I'm pretty sure I've seen Debtlo
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Shremp like just hanging out.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: By the way, it's great to see how many people
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: are into this. On the text, I was like, is
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: this something that nobody's gonna actually have interested in it?
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: But then that is more proof that Star Wars is
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: just such massive You know what, we got a couple
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: of minutes here, Anders. I know you're a huge fan
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: of it. I am talk about why Star Wars means
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: a lot to you.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, first of Fall to May the fourth. So
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: if you're wondering why are we having Star Wars right
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: after you know, mariners get swept and everything, but no,
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: it's honestly, it was the thing I love most growing up,
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: Like everyone kind of falls someone loves. Some people love Pokemon,
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: some people love uh, you know, gi Ja whatever, Barbie's
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: if you're you know, into that stuff. What everyone kind
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: of gravitates towards one thing when they're growing up, at
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: least one thing. It maybe multiple things as well. That
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: was Star Wars for me, super easy. I grew up
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: when the pequel prequels were coming out, so I like
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: have that even more or so, Like I was born
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety seven, so I was two when the
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: first one came out, and then I was what was
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: that five when the second one came out, and then
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: I was like eight or nine when the third one
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: came out, So I like, I literally grew up with
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: them at that time. So maybe that's why I have
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: a little bit of a fond memory of the prequels.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: Softy and I have that argument all the time. He
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: hates them.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: I do not.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Uh, it's is what it is. I think. I think
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: it's where you grew up, man, like those things. If
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: those were the first Star Wars movies that Softie would
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: have seen, whether he agrees or not, he would have
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: loved him in that way. Like it's just because of
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: the fact that we like to dump on nostalgia or
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: like to sometimes grab onto nostalgia, so much like that's
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: by the way, this is a really good one too.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: It's a little bit darky four two five, but Mike
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: McDonald is General Veers, deadly confident but not flashy. I
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: kind of like that comp General vis. I'm a Star
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Wars nerd. I don't even know who that is. Are
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: they in the sequels?
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure that's probably why I hate the sequels
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: if you guys haven't figured that out, and just no,
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: they're not even Star Wars to me?
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Two excuse me, says, have you guys ever met Softie?
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: You're literally stealing your show today?
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: Too bad?
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what can you do?
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: We're gonna ask him what he thinks.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: That's gonna be an interesting talk back today.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: Okay, a couple of good ones. Randy Johnson's Chewbacca like
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: it just tall you say a lot? Nope, there was
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: another good one that I just missed, Jay Buner's Han solo.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I think that's pretty good. I think that's you know
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: what else is cool about that one? Jay Buner had
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: a rocket for an arm, so it's kind of like
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: his blaster.
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: That's a great point. What kind of plays it really cool.
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: It's like kind of like not the main character, right,
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: but is like a fantastic side character, you know what
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: A guy you could see telling Buner or a griffy
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: don't get cocky kid too when he's playing next. Such
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: a good point and you know what, he got cocky. Anyway,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to another nerd in Molly Watch and he's
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: probably cocky too, Yeah for sure. Nathan Bishop coming up next,
• 53:02
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  Speaker 1: social media is Nathan Bishop. Nathan, how are you doing, buddy?
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: Hi guys, I'm good. Do I get to talk about
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: Star Wars today? Or are we done with that now?
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Thousand percent?
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: Like you?
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: You can talk all you want, my man. It's it's
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: that type of day, is uh? Is there anybody who
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: immediately you comped one that we didn't mention?
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: I made a short list. Can I share it with him?
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Please? Please?
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: I'm happy to do. This is all Mariners and Star
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Wars related crossovers. So the Rise of Skywalker is obviously
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: an abomination. Everybody hates it for good reason. It should
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: be stricken from the cannon. However, there is a brief
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: cameo by a character named Babu Frick who just goes, hey, hey,
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: and it's very funny. That's Muninrii Kawasaki. Nelson Cruz is
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Mace Window Window, which is Samye l. Jackson's character, just
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: very handsome, very strong, the most powerful Jedi Franklin goudieras
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: we're staying on the Handsome Train is po Damren, just
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: extremely heroic, very mildly tragic. Adrian Beltree is a kind
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: of a b roll character in Mariner's history, and I
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: also took a b roll character from Star Wars. He's
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: a Chopper, the robot from Rebels who is very capable
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: and just loves chaos. He's a very chaotic character, and
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: that's Adrian Beltray. John Stanton is the Viceroy from Phantom
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: Menace in the sense that he just thinks he should
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: be allowed to do whatever he wants me doesn't have money,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: and he's kind of a bumbling pool. Da Holy is Watto,
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: who is the trader in the Phantom Menace. On Tattooine,
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: Victor Roebliss is Sabolba, who when he doesn't win, he
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: just starts throwing things at people.
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: And Tom Murphy is Tobacca. He just kind of looms
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: and stares at everything and occasional week runs.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Tom Murphy is the best visual representation of Chewbacca on
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: this list. Without question, Boy, I wish we could have
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: given you like another hour.
• 55:35
  Speaker 7: You might have been able to just I didn't that
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: was that was just off.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: The last segment. I heard you guys going and I
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: had to get something to be able to contribute. Well,
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: you could do that for an entire show.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for listening. Talk about the sweet Yeah,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: it sounds a lot better to me. So we're gonna
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: switch things up. I'm gonna play Ian, Andrews is gonna
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: play Christopher Crawford after the much more handsome version, and
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: only Nathan can play Nathan. But I'm gonna give my
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: quick opening statement just because I had a joke that
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: I can up with real quick. You know, you get
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: into this thing and you think it's going to be great,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: and then by the time you leave, you just think
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: it's going to be awful. But enough about the Mariner's
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: parking garage. Okay, Nathan, it's your turn.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: I'm so happy to be here. I'm so sad that
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Ian can't joined us on. We finally got the weekend
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: where the Mariners laid an egg as opposed to you know,
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: sweeping Monday through Wednesday and then and excuse me, playing
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: poorly Monday through Wednesday and then playing exceptionally well over
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: the weekend. They finally laid an egg for us. But
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: I was actually not really feeling full of hatred and frustration.
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: I was more thinking analytically today, just you know, I
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: feel like when we've been talking about the show, when
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: we've been talking about the Mariners this season on the show,
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: we've done a lot of contextualizing of well, things aren't
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: going as well as we'd like. But the American League,
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: it's this historically mediocre thing this year. It's really almost
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: unfathomable to think about the Maritors playing so poorly that
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: they would miss the playoffs in this American League this year.
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: But here we are. We're a little over twenty percent
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: of the way through the season, and they're sixteen and nineteen.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: They're on pace to play something like a seventy six
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: to seventy eight win team. We all think that they're
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: better than that. We all think they don't have to
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: be much better than that in order to make the playoffs.
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: But why are they in this position? Is it just
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: baseball being baseball? You know what I mean? Because these
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: things happen over the course of the season. Well, I
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: think that there are some things going on that are
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: kind of causing this, and some of them are things
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: that I think the team probably bears some responsibility for
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: not planning better for or foreseeing, and other things are
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: just bad luck, one of them being injuries. Guys like
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: Matt Brash, Cal Raley, Brendan Donovan are three of the
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: most important players on this roster, and they're all hurt
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: and not playing right now. That's a huge thing to
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: try to overcome. You're dealing with regression from guys who
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: had career seasons in guys like Cal again and Josh Naylor,
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: who's off to a slow start this year. And then
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: you're just dealing with veterans who are continuing their decline.
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: And I'm thinking about guys like Luis kets In, JP Crawford.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: All of those things are happening simultaneously right now. I
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: think none of those things feel like a surprise to
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: me or to you guys, But having all of them
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: kind of combine in this past week and just seeing
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: all of that, I feel like we kind of saw
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: the worst case scenario for the way this team could
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: play this week with the combination of injuries, regression, and
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: just bad veteran play at this point. So it's going
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: to be interesting to see where they go from here,
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: because if the season is going to slip away, and
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: all of this promise and all of this hype that
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: we've been expecting and looking forward to in a way
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: that we really haven't as Mariner fans in since at
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: least a decade or so. I think if it's going
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: to slip away, these are the kinds of things that
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: are going to stack to have them slip the season away.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: So I'm not sure where they're going to go from here.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: They've got one heck of a challenge the next three days.
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: It's kind of unfair they don't have a day off today,
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: but they're going to need to play better because whatever
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: the American League is going to do, we were promised
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: a better team than this. I don't care about the
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: American League. I want to see great baseball, and the
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: Mariners have not yet played great baseball.
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: Anderson Hurst your opening thoughts, my friend, Yeah, I mean
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: kind of playing off that. It's weird because Nathan's gonna
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: be the stats nerds guy. I'm gonna be the eye
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: test and feelings and vibes guy, because sometimes I'll come
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: on and you know, during my postcast or on Ian's
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: show or with you guys whatever, and kind of you know,
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: have a lot of stats to back up what I'm
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: saying and stuff like that.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: That's not gonna be today.
• 59:23
  Speaker 4: Just the past series looked anemic based off of what
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: lineups they were putting out there, based off of the
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: lack of focus on the defensive side of the ball
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: and multiple situations and just the overall I don't know,
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: lack of accountabilities not the right term because we don't
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: really know exactly what's going on behind the scenes, but
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: it just doesn't seem like either player leadership or coaching
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: or anything higher than that is holding these guys to
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: a higher standard to play better baseball, like Nathan was
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: saying right there. So I'm disappointed in where you know,
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: the Mariners are at right now. They feels like they
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: were kind of cl i mean, out of it after
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: that road trip to get to five hundred, and all
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: of a sudden, there are just a few games back
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: of the best record in the American League besides the Yankees,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: of course, and now all of a sudden, we're talking
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: about a team that's sixteen and nineteen once again. And
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: it's funny how, you know, the Royals come into that series,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: and it did the narrative round them as they're struggling.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: They've had a terrible first month of the season, and
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: three games sweep and all of a sudden, they have
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: basically the same record as you right now.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing, and you know you can take
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: that as a positive and a negative. Right this can
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: strange so quick. The thing that frustrated me about this
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: weekend was we talked about when they swept the Cardinals,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: who are bad baseball team. Their record doesn't suggest that
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: per se, but they're a bad baseball team. We saw
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: them win those three games in three different ways. We
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: saw a game where they outslugged the Cardinals, we saw
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: a game where they outpitched the Cardinals, and one that
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: was a similar score, but it felt different. It felt
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: like a little bit of both. Yeah, well, guess what
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: we saw this weekend, guys. We saw that we can
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: lose in three different ways. We saw them lose the pitching.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: They we saw them lose the pitcher's duel, of course,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: we saw them lose the slug fest. And then you
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: just got your butt whipped. On Sunday. It was four
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: to one. It was not that close. It never even
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: with the one nothing lead. I was sitting there in
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: my suite drinking Christal, which I that's a lie. I
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: was drinking like water or something like that. But it
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: was something that I never felt good about it. I
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: just never felt good about that game. And that's frustrating
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: to me because all of the goodwill that I build
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: up with this team just slowly dissipates series after series.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: And this is not that small a sample, guys. We're
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: five games away from the quarter point. Five games away.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: That's not that small. It's not large, it's not a
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: complete indictment, and it's not necessarily predictive, but it's pretty
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: pretty gross. What no, please, Nathan, go ahead.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: I was just gonna add to your point too. It's
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: not like they've played an exceptionally hard schedule at this
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: point either. Some of these series losses. They've lost series
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: to the Royals, now to the Angels, a couple other
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: bad teams in there. I mean, there's never been a
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: point in time that I feel like I've watched this
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: team and felt like they're playing up to their potential.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: They're playing as well as they can. But I don't
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: know if that's if that's just maybe me having to
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: recalibrate what I think of what they're capable of because
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: I heard you guys talking in your opening segment on
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: the show today, and I heard about the CVC method,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: which is a much more refined version of the NHB meth,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: which is just eye test. I honestly don't know, you
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: guys if I remember a Mariner team that's worse at
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: defense overall all over the field, like without Julio playing
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: his best defense. And this is not about me. I'm
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: not ranting about Julio's defense here, but they need him
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: to be his best version of his defense to hold
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: that outfield together because there's nothing else out there, you guys,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: there's nothing like Tudos Trandi. As you said, made a
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: fantastic diving play on Saturday, But I don't know what
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: you do with that. And we're gonna have to have
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: a conversation. I guess we don't have to have it yet,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: but we're going to have to have a conversation about
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: every single time a ground ball gets hit to the
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: left side of this infield, it's a potential disaster every
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: single time. And you can as a fan when you
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: watch the game, you can feel it. And if you
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: can feel it, you know that the team can feel
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: it too. That stuff drains you, man, It drains the pitchers,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: it drains the morale of the whole team, knowing that
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: if a ball gets hit to that left side, you
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: have no idea what's going to happen. And I'm not
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: trying to dog JP, but man, they cannot do this
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: for an entire season, you guys, like it's going to
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: It makes the pitching. It feels like the pitching has
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: not reached its peak yet. And that's partially true, but
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: also how would you know, because whenever a ball's hit
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: in play, it's a potential catastrophe. It's just it's so
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: hard to watch, and it's it's going to suck the
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: life out of what is otherwise a promising season in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: my opinion.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford in Free In Forness, Molly Wattmunday presented by
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  Speaker 1: Simply Seattle so cal Roy Missus two straight games scratched
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: from the lineup, like minutes before the game was about
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: to start, or it would have been minutes if Randy Johnson.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: And we'll talk about Randy in the second part of
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: the show, our second part of Molly What Monday.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: But this is.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Concerning to me because I don't think cal Rawley has
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: missed two straight days in a very long time, And
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: maybe this is just the Mariners way of saying, you
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: know what, we really want you to get rest. If
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: I'm the MLBPA, I am investigating that Will Wilson placement
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: on the on the injured list. Excuse me, because boyle
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: boy that, to quote my good friend Michael Scott, the
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: timing was nothing short of predominant. I am concerned because
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: this guy has just gotten beaten up so much. I'll
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: start with you this time, Anders, How concerned should we
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: be about this cal Rawley injury?
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know a ton about it, so to
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: be completely honest, the fact that they haven't put him
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: on IL is I mean, it's a it's weird to
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: me because if you know he's not gonna play for
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: at least two games, wouldn't you want the extra reliever
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: or the extra body on the bench to bring in
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: in a situation like I just don't know why they
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: would willingly play shorthanded like that. What however that works,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know, But just especially if you kind of
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: foresee something happening where it's like, hey, it's probably best
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: to at least give him a week to get him back.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: We know he's been beat up. He played so many
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: games last year. We need him to be good for
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: us to you know, be where we want to be
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: this year. But it's not like he was tearing the
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: cover off the ball before he was injured as well,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: So I'm not terribly concerned about Cal. I still think
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: he'll show up and be back. It doesn't seem like
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: this is a long, long term thing. I think a
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: quick eye ole stint is the maximum that we see
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: unless there's something that I just don't know about. Sure,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 4: and maybe that kind of time away would be good
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: for him to kind of just you know, get the
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: you know, spring training that he never really got with
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: the WBC and everything. Just get him some rest and
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: a little bit reset.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: But that's just me. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't see it of reason to be super
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: concerned with Cal. But that's not the case with other
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: parts of this team.
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  Speaker 1: Nathan, let me ask you this, just your thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: that as well. And also, heaven forbid, if cal Rawley
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  Speaker 1: was to you know, miss a month or something like that,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: is that a position you got to look at upgrading?
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Because Mitch Garver and Johnny Pareda does not exactly inspire
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: a heck of a lot of confidence in me. But
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: if it's short term, I guess you're probably just sticking
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: with it. But how patient can they be in that situation?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if they had played, you know, if we were
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: talking about what would it be a twenty two and
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: thirteen team or something like that that had gotten off
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: to a great start and stretched out to a six
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: game lead in the American League West. I think that
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: that's a different conversation, Chris. But I'm putting as moderate
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: concern because I don't trust the Seattle Mariners a ability
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: to communicate about an injury and b ability to diagnose
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: and properly treat an injury. I think that there's a
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: long history with this organization of really weird injury stuff
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: going on. And then just looking at cal too, we
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: know that this guy's been beat the hell the last
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: two years. He's caught the He's of primary catchers last
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: two years, Salvin Perez has played the most at three
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: hundred and thirteen games. Kel's played three hundred and twelve.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: He's like one of the most used catchers in baseball
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: since he broke into the major leagues. He's also at
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: twenty nine, which is not old, but it's also not young.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: This is a big man. He may have heard that
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: he has a particularly large feature on his frame, and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: there's just reasons to think so. In the past, when
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: Cal has been beat up, he's never come out of games,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: He's never missed games. He's not started an occasional game,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: and then invariably the Mariner's like, oh no, we can't
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: win the game without Cal Rowley. We're going to pinch
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: hit him. We haven't even be able to see that
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: happen in the last two days. So it makes me
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: think that there's something going on that at least is
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: different for him. He's feeling something different that he has
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: n't felt in the past. That's something other than just
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: I caught a couple of foul balls in the wrong
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: spot and I'm really banged up in that kind of thing. So,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: you know, we don't know, how can we know? But
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: I would say moderately moderately concerned now as far as
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: him missing time. If it's more than like three weeks, man,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: they got to get a catcher. This is not This
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: is a team that's already running Leo Rivas out at
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: third base every single day. There's multiple holes in the lineup.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: JP Crawford's literal only contribution to the team right now
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: is drawing walks like they can't have another lineup position
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: that you're just punting for a month plus and just
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: hoping that it all kind of works out. Because they're
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: sixteen and nineteen. Man, they got to get it together
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: and start moving forward. So yeah, if it's more than
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: three weeks, I think they got to look some at
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: finding something. You're not going to replace cal Raley, but
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: you have to find something better than what you have.
• 1:08:38
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• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: talk quickly about the bullpen because Matt Brash speaking of injuries,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: that first is precautionary. Then it's a trip to the
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: fifteen day injured list. It's Matt Brash, something something to
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: kind of keep in mind. By the way, one of
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: the players that they acquired was Jose Ferrara. One of
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: the players they gave up for Jose Ferrara Harry Ford,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: who you know has not look good in tripa A
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: this year. But it is worth pointing out that harry
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: Ford would probably be a lot more exciting to bring
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: up Johnny Pareda in this situation, I think the bullpen
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: actually has looked pretty darn good. Now this is the
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: CVC eye test again. You know, some of the numbers
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: are not great. Andre's Munio's ZRA is what it is,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: and you know, Gave Spiers had some struggles in some spots.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: But I think overall the bullpen has looked pretty great.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you the same question, Nathan. If Matt
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: Brash is going to miss significant time, and even if
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: he's not, do you still think they need another bullpen.
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  Speaker 3: Arm I think that at some point this team will
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: have to add a reliever if they're going to try
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: to contend for a World Series, But I don't think
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: that it needs to be the kind of the same
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: level of concern as where we're jumping the trade deadline
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: by months in order to add it. Because to your point, Chris,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: the way I kind of feel about the bullpen right
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: now is that I feel like the guys who are
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: supposed to be the best relievers are kind of playing
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: a little bit worse than I thought that they would,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: But the guys that I didn't really expect anything out
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: of are playing better. Than I expected, So it's kind
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: of balanced itself out. Like a guy like Cooper Chriswell
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: has been really really solid this year, and you didn't
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: come into the year expecting anything from Cooper Chriswell. And
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: then I think we kind of sexed about it a
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: little bit. Yesterday Edward Bizarro looks fantastically. His last performance,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was dotting the everything was right on
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: the edge of the zone. You're throwing all of his
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: pitches for strikes or just off. He had hitters absolutely
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: completely confused. So you know, if Munio's here's the thing,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: If Andres Munhoz has a bad year and God forbid
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: loses his closer position or something like, yes, that's a
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: huge concern. You can't really plan for that. That's just
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: something that happens because relievers are fickle and unpredictable by nature.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: But he's going History tells us that he's going to
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: work this out and be perfectly fine. His stuff looks fine,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: his slider looks great, he still gets great swing and miss.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: It feels more just like this is a small sample size.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: A lot of the batted balls are finding grass on
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: him right now, So I think that it's mostly Okay,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: I would say, on the level of concerns that I
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: have for this roster, that would be one of the
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: lower ones right now.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: So Anders, it's a situation where it's the eighth inning
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: and it's not a huge platoon thing. It's not left
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: left right, it's right left right, and the lefty is
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: not like an elite guy. Sure, it's the eighth inning
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: and you don't have Matt Brush available, but you do
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: have everybody else who's pitching that any it's Bizardo.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: It's pretty easy for me based off how he's look now.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: I'm also I think Ferrera has been pitching much better
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 4: than his you know, EO A or and shows right now.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 4: And this is another conversation with how bad the defense is.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 4: When when you have a guy that's gonna, you know,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: generate a lot of soft contact ground balls bloops, you've
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: got to have defense to make those plays behind him,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: and right now they are just not. So that's that's
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: another reason why you know, it's a skill set for
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: what he is. He's a guy that pitches to contact,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 4: not going to strike a ton of people out. I've
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: actually been pretty impressed with his ability to pitch against
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: right handed hitters as well, more than I was expected.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 4: I thought he was a straight up lefty special so
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: I think he's actually been a little bit better than
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: I expected him to be. And now you're kind of
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 4: having to equate him and pitch him a lot more
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: often than we expected him now that Matt brashes out
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: and he's kind of in an elevated role. But Bizarto
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: has been just fantastic and he has continued to look
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 4: good the same kind of thing where he gets left,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: he's out, he gets right, he's out, he gets in
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: high leverage spots, you know, clean inning versus coming into
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: mop up. That's the big question to me is Matt
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 4: brash was His best skill to me was coming in
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: with guys on base and cleaning up, cleaning up anything environment.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: And I don't see that specific skill set with a
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: lot of these relievers. That's gonna be the one area
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: that I have a question mark over if he misses
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 4: a significant amount of time. But I agree, I think
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 4: the bullpen's actually been one of your best parts of
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: the team this year.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I think, can I real quick, Nathan,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: I want to give Seattle Mariner fans a ton of
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: credit because there are a lot of fan bases who,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: after what happened to Bizardo, would have just completely dumped
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: on this dude. I haven't seen that at all, not
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: even a little bit. People have realized how good this
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: was and how terrible of a position he was put
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: in there. So just a quick shout out to Mariner
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: fans for getting that one right. It was absolutely the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: right call. Nathan. I want to ask you about Luis Castillo,
• 1:13:18
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• 1:13:20
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• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: Louis Castillo, Yeah, normally I'm not at the very bottom. No,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: absolutely not. I would put you over.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not the Seattle Mariners of people. Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, Like that's meat and that's all I'm looking for. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: percent off of your order. Luis Castillo, I think and
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: the text line has given us a lot of crap
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: about what we think about this bullpen. I'll be curious
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: what they think about this one four nine four five one.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: I thought, Luis Castillo actually looked the part. Sunday six
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: innings of four run baseball still not ideal. They just
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: ask you this, Nathan, as a guy who has been
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: a Seattle Mariner fan for a long long time, you're
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: old Nason Bishop. Can you picture the Seattle Mariners paying
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: Luis Castillo the money that he's being paid to be
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: a bullpen option?
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: No, absolutely not, And I can't really picture them asking
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: him to do it as far as just you're asking
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: a veteran to do that at this point in his career,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: after what are we looking at. He's made seven starts
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: this year after being a perfectly acceptable starting pitcher in
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, so it's going to make people upset.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: But Castillo is I mean, I don't want to get
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: too nerdy on this, you guys. I acknowledge that Castillo
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: has not pitched great this year. He's not been he
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: has not looked good. He has looked like the worst
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: member of this rotation in twenty twenty six. But just
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: to dabble a couple of things, most of his his
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: rate stats and everything are pretty much in line with
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: where he was last year. The two things are he's
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 3: walking more guys than he has in the past. He
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: needs to get that taken care of. But a big
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: one that stands out as a thing called left on
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: base percentage, which is just what number of what percentage
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: of base runers that he allows does he keep on
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: base without allowing them to score. And the last five
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: seasons of his career before this one, he was running
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: a left on base percentage well into the seventies, up
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: to almost eighty percent in twenty twenty four. This year
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: it's fifty eight point eight percent, which is incredibly low.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: Makes me think that this is a guy that more
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: than pitching atrociously the way that his era makes it
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: look like he's pitching, he's pitching in a way where
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: the sequences of bad things that are happening are all
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: being sequenced together at the worst possible times to make
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: him look as bad as it possibly can. So I'm
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: not ready to kick him out of the rotation yet.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: I think that I don't think the team is going
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: to do it. Caristia has been a phenomenal Mariner at
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: this point. I understand that the rotation is kind of
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: the part of this roster that needs to carry this team.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: But I think he deserves more time. I think he
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: at least deserves through May, and if things get worse
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: from here, you can maybe shorten that time.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: But oh, I'm sorry, Please keep going. I love to
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  Speaker 1: cut you.
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  Speaker 3: No. That was that was about my point that was
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 3: about my point.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: I'm good, okay, and you make your point. Now that's
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: how this works.
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  Speaker 4: I tend to agree, but I will say there is
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 4: a point where if what the results you're getting, Xiet agree,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 4: I think he looks fine. It's actually the expected stats
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 4: aren't that different. There's a it's a little bit of
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 4: a drop from last year, but the expected stats stats
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 4: are not that different from last year. I just think
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 4: he was getting pretty lucky last year and he's getting
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 4: pretty unlucky this year. So it's somewhere in the middle
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: about what his actual you know, output really should be
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 4: between this year and last year. And he, let's be honest,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 4: he was your second best starting pitcher last year from
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 4: beginning to the end of the year in terms of resources.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: So you can't just like discount that and everything that
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 4: he has given you. However, the reason why I think
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of people eager to push the button
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: on the getting rid of Castillo from the rotation is
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: a you have a guy that was your best pitcher
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs in Bryce Miller. B you have a
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 4: guy that might be could be the best pitcher on
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 4: the staff right now in Kate Anderson, he's really dang good.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 4: So it's because you have options that you feel like
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 4: are better than Louise Castillo right now, which is the
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 4: main reason there's a lot of urgency with that. So
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 4: I can understand the thought that you could be getting
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 4: more from the starting pitching position than what you're getting
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 4: from Louise Castillo right now. That's not saying that what
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 4: he's doing is not a completely serviceable five starter, which
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 4: I think he is. So that's kind of where I
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: stand on things I agree with.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: Well, please go.
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  Speaker 3: Can I just add one thing if we're just going
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: off of like everything other than e er, if we're
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: talking just strikeouts rate stats, expected stats, that kind of thing.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: Brian Lousman worse than Louis Castillo this, and I know
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: that that's built off of just two straight bad starts. Sure,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 3: and that's fine, but that's the whole point. We're talking
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: about seven starts, you guys. It's less than two much
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: a month and a half of baseball. So are we
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: gonna kick Brian wu out of the rotation because he's
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: got his strikeout rate is plummeted. He's down from like
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: nine point five to five strikeouts per nine last year,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: to six point three seven this year. He's not striking
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: anybody out. But this is also a guy that's not
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: leaving it, not stinding anybody on base. So I'm just saying,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: it's not like we've got four aces and one guy
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: putting up a stinker here. You know what I mean.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: To fixate on Castillo is unfair to him, is all.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: I'm totally agree.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: I totally agree. The only thing I will say, and
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: I have said this before, when it finally unravels for Castillo,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: it's going to be ugly because of the fact that
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: he generates zero extension, and people pick up the baseball
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: very quickly on guys who generate zero extension, It's going
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: to get ugly. I don't think it's reached that point yet.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: It's possible it could happen this year, though. It is
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: definitely something that is fea And you don't take Brian
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: Wiu out of the rotation because he's too gosh damn handsome.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: I've got a few minutes here left. Randy Johnson meant
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: a lot to me as a kid, Nathan and I
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: have a funny feeling he meant a lot to you too.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: Finally getting that number retired. Just just talk about what
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: Randy Johnson means as a Seattle Mariner.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that I don't this is probably a
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: controversial opinion, but I think that Randy Johnson is the
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: greatest baseball player to ever wear a Seattle Mariner's uniform
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: because I think he's probably the greatest left handed pitcher
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: to ever live. I don't disagree. And I think that
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: you look at the kinds of stuff. There's these things
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: like Lebron James when you watch him in high school
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 3: and he was a rookie and he came into the NBA,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: and you just recognize that evolution had with this one
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: individual jumped like a spot and a half or two
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 3: spots ahead down the evolutionary chain. And I feel like
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: that's what Randy is because Randy was at his peak
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: once he figured out how to harness his command. He
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: was built in a pitching lab, but like thirty years
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: before pitching labs, and he did it in a way
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: with stuff that I think at his peak would go
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: toe to toe with some of the better stuff today.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: And this is a guy that was throwing in the
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: early to mid nineties and it really kind of topped
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: off you know, I was looking there's so many things
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: I was looking up. I was looking up to his
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 3: game log in nineteen ninety five, and just you want
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: to talk about stuff that you will never see again,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: Like I'm just reading off a smattering of his starts
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: from nineteen ninety five. This is the pitch total of
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: what he was doing in those games. One hundred and
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 3: thirty one pitches one twenty eight three, one thirty four,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: one sixty one forty. I mean, this man, there's nobody
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: There has been nobody like Nanny Johnsin since he did that.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: And it culminates on October second, nineteen ninety five, when
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: the Seattle Marriers, who were literally nothing and had done nothing,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: they were avoid of baseball history, which was kind of
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 3: pretty what they became after him too, uh, stepped on
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: the mound in the Kingdom and for nine innings through
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 3: a complete game, almost a perfect game, to send the
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: Seattle Marriers to the playoff. And if you go back
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 3: and watch it, as I have probably hundreds of times,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: it's the most legendary moment in Sala Mary's history. In
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 3: my opinion, it's Randy's Brandon iron hot On points to
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: the dome and bedlam and then it's just chaos. And
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: that's Randy Johnson at the peak when the mayors needed
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: him the most. Randy Johnson was at his best, and
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: I'm really happy to see him get his kudos man,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: because it's well well overdue.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: It's really important to me. And I've told this story before,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: but I'll tell it again. I went to Game five
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: as a twelve year old and Randy Johnson comes in
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: to pitch and it just dominates. And I actually asked
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: my dad if we could go home because my ears
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: were hurting so bad from how loud that stadium was,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: Like I just it was just pulsating. I have weird
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: ear drums anyway. But one of the best moments I
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: ever had with my father was after Randy Johnson gave
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: up a run because I just started sobbing that they're
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: gonna lose, They're gonna lose. He made me go through
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: this and they're gonna lose, and he says my head
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: up and he said, you know they're gonna win this game, right,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: And I have never forgot that moment. And while Randy
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: isn't directly responsible swung on and line down, the left
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: field line is more responsible. Randy's a big part of that,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: and Randy's a big part of why baseball just means
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: so much to me. He is without question, the best
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: left handed pitcher of all time. He is up there
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: for the greatest Seattle Mariners. The Mount Rushmore cannot be
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: complete without Randy Randall K. Johnson. He is just such
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: a special player who was there for nine and a
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: half years. Anders you were a little too young too,
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: but you've seen the highlights. You see what this guy
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: means to people.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I hear people like you guys talk about
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 4: him and what you know, what it was like to
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 4: watch him pitch. I still had a couple opportunities to
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 4: watch him pitch. I really didn't. Wasn't a full on,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 4: like a ware baseball fan until his probably his Yankees days,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: to be completely honest. Sure, but I still know how
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: much he means to this city. And I feel like
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 4: this is much that the the general feeling I have
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 4: about this Randy Johnson weekend that we just witnessed it.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 4: This was overdue. Oh my god, it's just completely overdue.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: We talk about Edgar and Griffy, Yeah, and you know
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 4: the Etiro and all those guys, so much and like,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 4: it's great to honor your legends, but it feels like
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: you don't have that same conversation surrounding Randy Johnson. And
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 4: maybe it's because you went somewhere else and had a
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 4: lot of success, had more success.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: Sure, honest, he was a better picture when he left Seattle.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah it sucks, that's true. Yeah, real quickly. The big
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: thing with Randy Johnson is you can argue that the
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Griffy divorce is a two way straight Griffy wanted to
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: leave and the Mariners weren't exactly thrilled about maybe paying
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: him another contract, and the media stuff was a little
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: bit it's questionable. The Alex Rodriguez was kind of a
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: one way divorce, even though the Mariners did not offer
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: a fair thing. The Randy Johnson divorce is entirely on
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners, and shame on everyone in that organization
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: for creating that divorce, because you pissed off a lot
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: of your kids. And we are your mom and you
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: are our mom and dad, and you let mom leave,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: you let Randy leave, And it's still something that bugs
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: me to this day. And acting like everything was hockey
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: dory was a little bit frustrating during that ceremony, acting like, hey,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: you know, it's just one of those things you happen
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: to go on. No, you created that situation and made
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: up a bunch of crap about a back injury while
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: that guy goes on to win four more cy Youngs. Yeah,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: I just it just really irks me. But at the
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: same time, seeing that fifty one hanging up meant an
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: awful lot to me. Nathan, you are the absolute best.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: I love you very much.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: I hate that I have to do this with you
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 3: next week, right back at you, except I cannot wait
• 1:25:43
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• 1:25:44
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• 1:25:49
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• 1:26:08
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• 1:26:11
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• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert against Bainbridge Island's own Jr. Richie Marriers did
• 1:26:19
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• 1:26:22
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• 1:26:25
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• 1:26:27
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• 1:26:30
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• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: I've seen in osamback coach. Yeah, he just fell apart.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: That team was should have been a five seed and
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: they barely snuck into the playoffs and kind of had
• 1:26:43
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• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: good question. Sad news. Former Yankees rod radio broadcaster John
• 1:26:49
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• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: think we've all heard the Yankees win. It is high,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: it is Farhead, it is God. He is so good,
• 1:26:59
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• 1:27:01
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• 1:27:04
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• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers, it stinks to see that Tischooble is being
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: placed on the il due to loose bodies in his elbow.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: He will undergo surgery, probably three months off. I keep
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: saying after the All Star break, it's gonna be well,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: after the All Star break. It's May second, right now. Yeah,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: that's a weird. We're probably talking about not seeing tiscooball
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: maybe until September. That's a bummer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, Okay, absolutely, whether you want to be or not,
• 1:27:58
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• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit about the Mariners. We
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to talk about Emerson Hancock, and
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: holy crap on a cracker, was that impressive?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let me say something really quick before you get
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 4: into it, because I know you've been on the Emerson
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 4: Hancock train earlier than most people, honestly, and even myself,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 4: I am a registered Hancock doubter. Sure before what was
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 4: it Saturday's start, I was still like, Okay, is this
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 4: really the Emerson Hancock that we're seeing? I saw like
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 4: a couple signs, like his first two starts were really good,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 4: then his last two were like okay, mah, and then
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 4: I saw sat what happened on Saturday. And first of all,
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 4: Kansas City's offense has actually been really good this year.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 4: So that's a good team to do that against ye
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 4: in my opinion. Sure, and he looked so nasty and
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 4: I am officially on board, like all in on board,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 4: like you cannot take this guy the rotation.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you want to be negative, Nelly, if
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: you want to be see what people think Nathan Bishop busy,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: you know it's actually not accurate. He's just a really
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: honest dude. Can he avoid the clunker?
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: Because we saw we certainly didn't see fourteen strikeouts for
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: members in Aircock last year, but we saw flashes and
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: then there would be a turd. There would be a
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: turd in a large punch bowl, but an even larger turd, right,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: and we need to see if he can do that.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: But I was just looking at if you guys haven't
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: checked out Baseball Savant, it is a wonderful page that
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: can give you a bunch of stuff. In fastball run value,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: he's in the ninety eighth percentile of all pitchers. In
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: pitching run value, He's in the ninety fourth percentile in
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: among all pitchers. He is in the ninety seventh percentile
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: among all pitchers in walk rate. And this is the
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: big one to me K rate of twenty eight point
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: nine percent, which puts him in the eighty sixth percentile.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: Now there's still some hard contact. He ranks well below average,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: and that's that forty fifth percentile. Forty percent of the
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: hits against him are heard contact. YEP, barrel rate of
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: ten point five percent is not great. That's in the
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: twenty six percentile. He doesn't really Now this changed a
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: little bit against Kansas City. Typically he doesn't get a
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: lot of chase and for those who are unfamiliar with chase,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: swinging at pitches outside of the strike zone, having enough
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: deception in the pitch to get them to swing it
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: not strikes. Even with that start against Kansas City, he
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: still ranks well below average twenty seven point five percent
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: of the time. So there are some numbers here that
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: suggest that Emerson Hancock is not this good, but there
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: are numbers that back it up. And again, I'm going
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: with the CVC test, the CVC. I'm going with the
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: CVC test. That sweeper or slider or splunker or glip
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: glark or whatever you want to call it was as
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: good as any pitch I have seen from a Mariner,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: probably since El Cambio. Like it's been a while since
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: I have seen a really really good pitch. I said Cambio,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: didn't I it's Cambio.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 4: Sorry, no, I don't even know who that is.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: But that's what they call.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: Felix's change up. Oh okay, got it? Okay, since Felix
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: has changed and it's just one start, and I'm not
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: saying it's going to be that good going forward, but
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: this new armslot, Yeah, and what we've seen, and here's
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: what I'll just ultimately say, Anders, there is no way
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: in hades that you could take this guy out of
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: the rotation.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: Zero. You go with a six man rotation if you
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: have to, you do something along those lines where maybe
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: you give a guy an extra day of rest so
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: that you maybe even don't go with a prototypical six
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock has to pitch because these type of results
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: have to matter. And what you would be telling the
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: team if you took an Emerson Hancock out of the
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: rotation and they're not thinking of it. I'm just telling
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: you right now, what you'd be telling the team is
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: results don't matter that much. We care more about contracts,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: We care more about prospect pedigree, we care more about
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: that type of stuff. Because if you take Emerson Hancock
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: out of the rotation, what you tell me is winning
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: ain't that important? Okay, let me flip that on you.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 4: Sure, before we get back to Emerson Hancock, I want
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 4: to jump off the conversation you just put out there, Okay,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 4: with what you tell your team is if you do this,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 4: is that winning isn't that important?
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: Sure? What about the shortstop situation? Oh, that's such a
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: great question, because.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 4: That if what happened, what's happening right now, is if that,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 4: if that's actually the way that they're thinking, they would
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 4: do something about the shortstop situation.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: That's true, that's true, especially when you've got a guy
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: in tria A. He's not playing super well. Well, he
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: hasn't been great. No, don't know. He had a triple
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: Because my sister and brother in law went to the
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: game and asked me who colj. Emerson is and I said, well,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: he's pretty good. That's no shout to them, they just
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: have much more important things going on in their life.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Melissa Marth and Anthony Mark two are
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: the best teachers in Mason County. It's a great point
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: and for those who are paying attention. JP Crawford's defense
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: has been an issue for a while and the Mariners
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: have done a really good job of just making sure
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: nobody ever talks about it, because if you listen to
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: a broadcast, you will never hear anyone mention JP Crawford's well.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 4: And if they do, oh, it's such a shoranded glove.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: I'm so surprised that. By the way, Maiden Airy yesterday
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: and the airs are one thing. It's the fact that
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: what defense is. Let me get my humail and off hearing.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: Defense is about making plays that are in front of you.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: Let me look at the camera I'm doing this. Defense
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  Speaker 1: is about making plays in front of you. But defense
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: is more about run prevention, and run prevention is not
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: just making the plays in front of you. It is
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: taking away hits. It is taking away those extra base runners.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: And there is no worst shortstop in Major League Baseball
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: right now that plays every day at doing that than
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: JP Crawford. I love JP Crawford, what he's done for
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: the Mariners. I'm very proud of my son's career. JP
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  Speaker 1: Crawford is much more of a detriment than an asset.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: Even with these walks. I can't do it anymore, Anders, No,
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  Speaker 1: I can't. And if you really don't think Colt Emerson
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: is ready to be your everyday shortstop, then you got
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: to look elsewhere. You've got to look elsewhere. What I
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: would ultimately do I saw someone in the text line
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: four nine four or five one. Let us know what
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: you guys think about to coma dodge text line. Ultimately,
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: I would make JP Crawford a role player where he
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: would get some starts at short, he would get some
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: starts at second, and he'd get a heck of a
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: lot of starts a designated hitter. And let's just be
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: honest here. One of the reasons why JP Crawford it's
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: similar to a Luis Castillo situation. Jimmer Crawford makes a
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: lot of money and the Seattle Mariners don't pay utility
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: guys eleven million dollars. I think it's actually like twelve
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: and a half this year. Yeah, they just don't do that.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: You're never going to see them do that. It's a
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: really good point you make though there, because look, Bryce
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: Miller has earned the chance to be in this rotation
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: based on what he did in the postseason and in particular,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: what Bryce Miller did at the end of twenty twenty four,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: where he was one of the very best pitchers in baseball.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: And let's not forget twenty twenty five. I don't think
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: he was ever healthy. I just don't think he was
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: ever truly healthy. Concern will be will Bryce Miller ever
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: be healthy again? I don't know. Yeah, I just don't know.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller to me makes so much sense for the bullpen.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: It's almost too easy because I see that fastball playing
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: up so well. He gives you that multiple inning option.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: It's a chance to manage his innings. It's a chance
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: to also showcase him as a potential trade player as well,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: because Bryce Miller, because of his contract, and because of
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: his pedigree and because of his success, has a ton
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: of potential value as a trade candidate, more so even
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: than Emerson Hancock teams like Bryce Miller teams have been
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: trying to get Bryce Miller.
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  Speaker 4: He's had a longer stretch of success in Major League
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  Speaker 4: Baseball than.
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  Speaker 3: Members so much.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great point. That's why they pay you the
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: big bucks because you make good points like that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll go into that in a different the Patreon kg
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  Speaker 1: R will have that discussion.
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  Speaker 3: Great.
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  Speaker 1: The Emerson Hancock cannot be taken out of this rotation now,
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  Speaker 1: not just because of the message it's ends, but also
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  Speaker 1: because you can't rely on enough of these guys right now.
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  Speaker 1: Like Logan Gilbert has shown flashes, but they are flashes
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  Speaker 1: because they never go more than five innings.
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  Speaker 4: George Kirby pretty good. He's been your best pictures. Yeah,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 4: him and Hancock mad your two best pictures. I would
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  Speaker 4: agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, like the five innings of two R
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  Speaker 1: on baseball, you want to talk about bad luck there,
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  Speaker 1: dunk and dunk and dink and duck because your defense
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: can't make plays behind him exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder how much better someone like Louis Castillo would
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 4: look if he had good defense.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question. That's a great question. And boy,
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  Speaker 1: I just also I've talked about this before. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think Louis Castillo's stuff plays up in the bullpen. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he's a guy that's going to be like
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  Speaker 1: this great swinging miss dude out of the bullpen here.
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  Speaker 1: I think Bryce Miller could be a great swinging this
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  Speaker 1: guy out of the bullpen there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the big questions for me regarding this situation is
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  Speaker 4: how healthy is Bryce Miller?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 4: If he really is like okay, I'm back and ready
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  Speaker 4: to go, I would have a hard time not wanting
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  Speaker 4: to put him back in the rotation just to get
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  Speaker 4: that value from him, because you know you it's starting
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  Speaker 4: pitching has more value than relief pitching, just straight up,
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  Speaker 4: end of story. I used to kind of think the
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  Speaker 4: same way you did regarding Luis Castillo going to the bullpen.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 4: I've sort of changed my tone a little bit, kind
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  Speaker 4: of looking at especially who he is turned into as
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 4: of late, a very fastball dependent fair guy where it's
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  Speaker 4: like if he gets the VLO, he actually gets a
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  Speaker 4: decent amount of swing and miss, and if you tell
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 4: him every couple days, hey, one inning, get three outs,
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 4: like just pump that fastball, mix in a couple sliders
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 4: and change ups. When you can, but just pump that
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  Speaker 4: fastball from one inning go up to night nine. I
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  Speaker 4: think there's there's some value there. Now, what you're saying about,
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  Speaker 4: you know how much they're paying them and stuff. That's
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  Speaker 4: a real thing. Sure so I could. But they'd also
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  Speaker 4: paid Mitch Garver twelve million to be a backup catcher.
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  Speaker 1: List that's a really good point. That's a really good point.
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  Speaker 1: They have been willing to do something like that, so
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  Speaker 1: I'll give them some credit credit. It's it's nine million more.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, they were willing to do
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  Speaker 1: it and realized probably makes it easier with the guy
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: like cal Rawley behind him compared to But that's a
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: fair point. And you know, I will say this too
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  Speaker 1: with Luis Castillo and again, six innings of four run baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It's a result business, and it's not good enough. The
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  Speaker 1: eye test looks better. Yeah, and I am seeing I've
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  Speaker 1: seen in all of his starts a ton of two
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  Speaker 1: strike counts and just not putting guys away secondary stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the thing. There is a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: and I'll go sabermetric dorky on you here a little bit.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of noise that gets involved when
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: you're getting swings and miss with strike one and strike
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: two and not in break three, that that tends to
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  Speaker 1: kind of change a little bit. Yeah, I would bet
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: Luis Castile and he struck out five yesterday. Five and
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: six innings is not an abhorrent number whatsoever. And again
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: you take away that fourth inning, and Luis Castille was
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: really good. The first three innings. I was like, Okay,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: Luis Castillo, this is great to see. And then that
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: fourth inning. I also think he got squeezed a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday. Yeah, it was tough to tell because I
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: had a horrible angle, like a behind home plate but
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: like to the side type of thing. You just really
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: can't tell what isn't is this?
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 4: Did you look at the MLB app and be like,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 4: all right, let's see where it was.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: I should have, but I was just drinking too much
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: champagne and eating too much caviar for me to know.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: My god, it would have been nice. But I will say,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: if anyone offers you a chance to go sit in
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: a suite, go do it. It's really cool. It's like,
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: it's a really cool little thing to get to do. Obviously,
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: not everyone could do something like that, but hey, make
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: rich friends, see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I just want to say one more thing
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 4: regarding the Bryce Miller situation is it would be one
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 4: thing if he was a stud all of last year,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 4: had didn't have a ton of injury history, has this
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 4: injury this year, and then you know, gets his rehabed
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 4: assignment done and then is ready to come back, right
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 4: and sure, it's basically a sure thing that he's gonna
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 4: be that, But I don't think he is at this point.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 4: If you remember most of twenty twenty five, he was
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 4: a bad starting pitcher, like around the same of what
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 4: Louise Castillo has been just for these what five six
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 4: starts great points, So there's no guarantee that he comes
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 4: back and is better than Louis Castillo. What's nice about
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 4: the situation that the Mariners are in right now is
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 4: they can slow play this a little bit, make sure
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 4: Bryce is really ready, which is why they had him
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 4: to do a thirty day rehab assignment, which is pretty
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 4: abnormal for someone in that situation. So I am not
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 4: as urgent to kick Just get Louise Castio out of
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 4: there no matter what, and let if you have something
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 4: that you know is better now. Kate Anderson's another situation
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 4: all in in itself. There's a lot of noise surrounding
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 4: him possibly being an option soon because it just seems
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 4: like double A he's surpassed that there's no point in
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 4: him being there anymore. I don't know if the Mariners
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 4: want him to go make a starting triple A or not,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 4: or if they're looking to bring him up right away.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 4: That is a whole nother discussion in and of itself.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 4: But if we're just talking Bryce Miller, I don't think
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 4: it's a guarantee he comes and is better than Luis Castillo.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: No, there's no guarantee whatsoever. And you know, the postseason
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: was great. Let's not forget how good he looked against Toronto.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: Let's not forget how good he looked really and that
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: Detroit start too until it kind of fell apart a
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: little bit. But and we have seen Bryce Miller look excellent.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: The metrics just adore this dude's fastball because it gets
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: so much RPMs on it, but there's no real great
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: secondary pitch behind it. And if you sit on that
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: fastball and he doesn't have his best command, it's very
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: similar to a poor man's Brian Woof situation. The other
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: thing is the Mariners have a dude they took third
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: overall who has zero point three seventy.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 4: Ros Kate Anderson.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, kN Anderson has a chance to be a really
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: special pitcher. And by the way, Ryan Sloan struggling in
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: double A right now, I wouldn't worry too much about that.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: He's a young guy pitching in some tough confines at times.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 4: He also expected a longer developmental path one thousand Kit
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 4: Anderson a thousand percent.
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: The fact that, in fact I expected him to start
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: at Everett, I did not expect him to be in
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: double A, which just shows how much they like both
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: of those guys. But Kate Anderson has a chance to
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: be just a different dude. And it's fun to watch
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: because this is not a guy who throws ninety eight
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: ninety nine miles per hour. He can get it up
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: to ninety seven. But he has three plus to plus
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: plus secondary pitches. And for those unfamiliar, there's a twenty
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: eighty scouting scale that Anders is just infatuated with. He
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: has a tattoo of it, actually that he doesn't show.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: I really don't he does, he has he thinks he
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: has bell curve for life, and then has a twenty
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: eighty tattoo. Right, Actually, it's wrapped around like one of
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: those bicep tattoos used to be.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 4: I can't pull that up off, Unfortunately, I don't think.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: Anyone can pull that off, except for Pamela Anderson. She
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: pulled it off real well. But everybody else, by the way,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: stop with the baseball stitches as a BICV tattoo. Come on, man,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: come on, original, original, come original, like my good Friends
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: three eleven. It's way I'm just so old. I am
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: so flipping old. But Kate Anderson has three pitches that
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: can generate swings and missus right freaking now. And this
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: guy dominated SEC, which is double A baseball. I was
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: talking to my buddy Keith Law about this. Keith really
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: wants to see Kate get to Triple A and face
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: hitters there. Okay, the Mariners just don't do that like
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: we have seen Brian Wu, Bryce Miller, Logan Gilbert.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: I'm shocked. All of those guys made at like most
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: A two starts in Triple A, and some of them
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: are rehabs, and some of them skipped. Some of them
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: just flat out skipped. Logan Gilbert skipped, Brian Wu skipped.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they just don't do that, But I
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: get it. I understand why you'd want to see what
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: he can do in triple A. In Harder confines the
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: PCL is a really tough place to pitch because there
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: are just bandboxes that you can hit the ball out
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: of there. But I'm really impressed with Kate Anderson four
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  Speaker 1: nine four five one on the Coma Dodge text line,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not really a beef connoisseur, but I don't know
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  Speaker 4: the different types of beef.
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  Speaker 1: Anything at a Brazilian steakhouse, for me, is my favorite
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  Speaker 1: kind of beef. That's such. If you've never done a
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  Speaker 4: I have not, but I was told that it's Mexican,
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  Speaker 4: but there are some similar similarities.
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  Speaker 1: That's yo to watch some baseball, softy, you have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time on your hands. I can't believe he
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  Speaker 1: did that talk to text man. But finally we get
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  Speaker 1: the ull. That was phenomenal. Yeah, and it was super accurate. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: super accurate. Oh, let's see a lot of Star Wars talk.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, General Viers, the commander of the ATA
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  Speaker 1: T I feel stupid now. I feel really dumb too.
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  Speaker 1: I can picture him in my face. I just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: picture General.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's well, there's like nine thousand fricking Star Wars characters.
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  Speaker 4: Especially like the non descripts, either stormtroopers or admirals that
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  Speaker 4: are on the Imperial side that like that aren't supposed Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they're supposed to all look the same, you.
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  Speaker 6: Know what I mean?
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who's the Taunton of the Seattle's God? It was
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: on to good question. Probably probably one will have to talk.
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  Speaker 4: You had a question, actually, who's Walter Jones?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, who is Walter Jones?
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  Speaker 4: See, I think he's R two D two. I think
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  Speaker 4: that's very good and not in the aesthetic way, definitely
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  Speaker 4: a different aesthetic. Yeah, but in terms of their role
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 4: in the franchise, like the dude that can just is
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 4: the most kind of the most important piece. If you
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 4: really think about the plot of a New Hope, R
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  Speaker 4: two D two is kind of the most important piece
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  Speaker 4: the entire plot. He holds the plans to kill the
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  Speaker 4: death Star.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just did a picture of the two
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  Speaker 1: next to each other, you'd think, what the hell are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about?
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  Speaker 4: But the role, but the actual role makes a lot
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 4: of sense. And you mentioned something about the showing up
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 4: for preseason. Yeah, absolutely, that guy just he didn't need preseason.
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 4: He didn't need anything too.
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  Speaker 1: And R two D two would just come out of
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: nowhere and just save everybody's band exactly.
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  Speaker 4: It's such a Walter Jones thing to do.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: If I see Walter Jones, I'm gonna call him R
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: two D two and find out what the heck happens.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: A lot of talk about the bullpen, many people disagreeing
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: with us.
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  Speaker 4: Tell us why you feel the way you do?
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  Speaker 1: Chris, So look number one the CVC again. The eye
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: test has been like that five run game from Andre
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: Smunos was as unlucky as I think I've seen from
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  Speaker 1: any Seattle Mariner closure in a long flipping time. I
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: love what I've seen from Farrer. Somebody suggested he's been disappointing.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 4: Well, I will say as someone who has to defend
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 4: Jose Ferrere on a daily basis, Yeah, on the Mariner's postcast. Sure,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 4: And I constantly get a lot of flak for it. Yeah,
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 4: it is annoying having to consistently say, oh, he got
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 4: unlucky again, he got unlucky again.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: But I look at those number. It's not like he's
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: got like an ERA of six or something like that.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: It's just, you know, there's more contact made against him
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: than some of the other guys. And he Nathan has
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: brought this up a lot that maybe he's not the
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: best fit for what Seattle has.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 4: Defensively, Yes, a skill set that doesn't match what we're
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 4: what we.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: Are one thousand percent. I get that. But man, I've
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: just been I've been impressed that he's been able to
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: handle a multi inning role. I've been how impressed he's
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: been able to handle a left on left close a game.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: And I saw him close a game, and I've seen
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: him in high leverage situations do it too. I I
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: just vehemently disagree that he's been a disappointment. And you know,
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: it's worth pointing out that the guy they traded for
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: has absolutely stunk in tripa A as well too, like
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: Harry Ford has really struggled on the trade. I think
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: so far Seattle is winning that trade by a good amount.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: Four to five. Chris, thank you for the three to
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: eleven reference on I'll be We'll do not finish the
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: rest of that one, but I do appreciate that you
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: appreciate my three eleven references. Man, I used to love
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: those hip hop rap our hip hop rap goodness grace,
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: it's rock rap types of group. Yeah, the olymp Biscuits,
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: the the three elevens, those type of guys.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 4: I did get something on the text line from the
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 4: three six is saying Asado its com as an Argentinian steakhouse.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 4: Now it does say that on Google and then maybe
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 4: they advertise themselves as such, but that the actual stakes
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 4: when you look at I'm married to an Argentina, the
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 4: very someone who was born and raised. She literally just
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 4: moved here a few years ago, and she said that's
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 4: it's not Asado from Argentina, which is not a bad thing.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 4: It's just not like she's very particular about you know,
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 4: where to find that kind of stuff. There's only a
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 4: few places around town that are all by the way.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 4: Al Gaucho same thing. Also not very Argentinian, not because
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 4: of the way they cook their food, but because asado
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 4: is supposed to be kind of like very casual like
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 4: hot dogs for us, but just much better meat. Obviously
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 4: so and obviously Al Gaucho is very high class.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Oh my gosh, El Gaucho sponsored me,
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: please please.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 4: Steve Large and Luke Skywalker from the four two five. Now,
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 4: Luke Skywalker is a tough one to classify, really is
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 4: because I could I could see Steve Largent for sure.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see Steve Large.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 4: I could also see Kangriffy Junior.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: I could see the coolness factor of a Luke sky
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: is definitely you know, you could argue King grify junr
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: is Han Solo in the coolness factor, you know, like
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: like just the don't get Cocky's type of stuff. I
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: get the Hans Solo as well. Text from uh jed
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: this one. I knew somebody is gonna bring it up.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's wrong, though, Jeremy suggests Sue Bird
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: is Princess Leah.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: I definitely get it in terms of like just the assisting.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: You know, Princess Leah is a very key focal point
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: of that. I kind of think Gary Payton's to Princess
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: Leah and the fact that he's per personality incredibly important
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: to the story. Not somebody could talk trash to you know,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: he could talk trash right back to you. But I
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: do get the super bird thing because it's not it's
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: not just a oh girl is this person? But it's
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: a actually good comp and anytime those happened, that is nice.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: Somebody I lost the text I think it was four
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: two five asking what about moving JP Crawford to third base?
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: So it makes sense from a range point of view.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: The concern there is the lack of arm strength at
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: third base. I just don't think JP Crawford has the
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: arm strength to play, and we've seen Leo Reevos who
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't e He's looked okay there, and it would be
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: something I guess I could consider, but more in the
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: utility type of role. Like again, the role for JP
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: Crawford should be, let's be honest, the role for JP
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: Crawford should be what the role for Colt Emerson is
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: going to be when he gets called up. Colt Emerson's
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: going to get called up, and he's gonna play some
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: short stop. He's gonna play some second base. He's gonna
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: play some third base.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 4: I needna play second Coley Young get everything.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: Well, you could see Cole Young maybe getting a day
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: off or two. You know you shouldn't. Cole Young's defense
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: is way too freaking good.
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 4: It's the only one that's pulling his weight.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: Eat my god, this infield defense is just a disaster.
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: I could have gone on for hours about Joshnayler throwing
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: home in that stitch, not throwing home in that situation, because.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, okay, for those who don't know, it was in
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 4: Luis Castillo's beginning on Sunday, correct right, and there was
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 4: zero outs, zero uploaded, zero out loaded. Pretty easy ground
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 4: ball to Josh Naylor. He doesn't have to move anywhere.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: Doesn't have to move it all.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 4: He tries to throw it a second, he goes to
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 4: get the double play to first. But why aren't you
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 4: throwing home.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: Especially in a situation where you've got the lineup you do,
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: where Connor Joe and Johnny Pareda are playing. They're a
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: big part of your lineup for that game. Sadly, run
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: prevention was so important. Go get that guaranteed out at home,
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: and then man that play at whole play was close
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: to Julio Rodriguez throw was such a great throw. We'll
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: be nice to have a catch that can tag. That's
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: the other thing. Parina did not do a great job
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: on that tag. He didn't do a great job on
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: the tag on one of the worst sins I've seen
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: in the year two from Kansas City. I think Kids
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: Cidney needed to get home. I think Kid's City was like, Nah,
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: we're good, we're up by three. Let's just go ahead
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: and get this over with. It's just frustrating to see
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: those mistakes. Two o six Softy smells like Admiral Akbar Is.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for those you don't know, there's a running joke
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 4: that someone texts in Softie smells like fish every single
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 4: day and they change it to everyone that part today
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 4: from me to four. So that's fantastic.
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: I really like that. Let's see here from the two six.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: The talent basis of the MS is undeniable. The leadership
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: and the want too are questions. Twenty twenty five was
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: a good, great lineup. I remember how much I hated
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: that pro team playing the right way. I want Emerson up,
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: Anderson up. I want effort mistakes, not lolly giggers. You know,
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of times when I hear the lack of
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: effort thing, I get kind of frustrated because because you
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: don't know what effort is actually being made. But there
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: have been times that I have watched this team and
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: said that wasn't you at one hundred percent? And I
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: could accuse every single player I think of doing this,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: even Julio.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, even Julio Er in the second game of the series.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, or I just went straight under his glove.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 4: Now it may not have mattered in the greatest game
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 4: of things I think.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: That run was going to say, but it still works
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: bad and it put them in a really bad situation.
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Andres Munios for getting out of that
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: situation and giving you a chance to still get back
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: in that game. So a lot of talk about Julio defense,
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: and I have to give Anders credit. I wasn't really
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: paying attention to it. I just you know, assumed, but
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: I have watched it. It has not been as good.
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: Here's the reason I'm not concerned. I don't think it's
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: a lack of range thing. I think it's a mental
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: gaff thing. And I want to point something out to people.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: Every great defensive player goes through this. King Garvey Junior
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: his first two years in Major League baseball? Do you
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: want to guess how many airs he made? Anders? How
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: many seventeen seventeen from an outfielder. That's a lot of frickin' airs.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: And these things just happen like Brooks Robinson made mes omarvs.
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: Skel I saw him make a bunch of airs as
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: a Seattle Mariner. There are great defensive players who just
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: have some bad luck defensively, and then just we all
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: have those mental days right now, the guy who's making
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of money, we don't excuse it as much,
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: and I get that, but we're all human beings. I
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: just don't have a lot of concern about Julio rodriguezz No.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 4: And I don't even think it's a long term thing
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 4: where it's like, oh, is he no longer a great
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 4: center fielder. I just think up until now, I'm like, Wow,
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 4: I've never seen him have that much of an issue
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 4: in center field. But that's what I've been seeing as
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 4: of late.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: So four two five, I did not realize Hean was
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: such a Star Wars fan. To take it is crazy,
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: like he's got the Chewbacca mask on, he's watching probably
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: at this point he's up to solo something like that.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: He depends on what time he started the start of
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: the movies. Do you watch the movies. I know you
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: don't like the sequels the seven, eight nine, but if
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: you were watching him, would you start at one or
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: would you start at four and then go to one
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: and then go.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 4: To all Right, So here's my take on that. Okay,
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 4: if it's the first time, if I'm showing someone Star
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 4: Wars for the first time, I watch and release order,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 4: so a new hope is first okay, But then every
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 4: subsequent time that I want to watch the whole series,
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 4: I start with number one.
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: So the introduction is for correct, but then once you
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: have had the introduction, you start.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 4: With one correct, And I actually think it elevates the
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 4: prequels when you watch the sequel or the original trilogy first.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 4: Oh interesting because or at least for a new fan,
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 4: because I think you get the original story that came
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 4: out first, and then you have all these questions about, oh,
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 4: what about the Clone Wars that they talk about? What
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 4: about you know, uh Obi Wan and you know, meeting
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 4: Darth and having his friend become Darth Vader and all
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 4: that stuff, And then that gets filled in with the
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 4: prequels and it makes you kind of want that content
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 4: a little bit more versus just watching it from the
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 4: beginning to the end and have it be linear linear.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, so, you freaking nerd?
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 7: I'm such a nerd.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: No, that's that's a great answer. And you know I
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: ultimately agree, Do you think so?
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: I think I ultimately agree. We'll talk to someone who
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: hates Star Wars. Next. Softy KJR FM.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford in Free in Forness, just real quick, Thanks
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: for all the kind words. I really appreciate it. Every
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: time I see on the text line there are nice
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: things to say about me. It means that my drive
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: up here and my effort was worth it. But honestly,
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: if you said negative things, probably do it too, just
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: because you know it's fun, you like doing it, you're
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: good at Oh, thank you, buddy, you're good at it too.
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: And I just it's great to be able to talk
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, I'm miss talking to my good friend.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: We used to do it a lot more, and yeah,
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: now we have a good excuse to do it.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, why not?
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: So Softy's doing something pretty important r.
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's big time in us. Yeah, you guys will
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 4: find out on his show what he's doing. But they
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 4: got something else planned for you. So no Crosstock today unfortunately.
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: But I can trust Stock with you. Yeah, let's do it.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're across from each other and we're talking so cross.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: So let me ask you something. Okay, you've got a
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: little one. I do have a little one. What's the
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: plan for first Mariner game? Have you thought about this? Yeah,
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: I've thought about it a lot.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 4: I've I see like little kids go to the game,
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, God, I want to take my son
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 4: so bad, But there is a lot to be said.
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 4: And I get a little weird feeling when I see
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 4: like infants with the big headphone things, and I'm like
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 4: it's not good for their ears and stuff. I get
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 4: a look like as someone who's a new dad used
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 4: to like, it's not really the best thing for him,
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 4: but I do. I cannot wait until the point that
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 4: I can take him to these things. I think me
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 4: and my wife have kind of discussed like maybe around
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 4: six months or so, which would be around July.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: Late July.
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 4: Would be kind of the first time we're thinking about it,
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 4: and once, you know, we feel like he would be
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 4: comfortable in that environment.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 4: I know, marriage games aren't incredibly loud compared to Seahawks games,
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 4: sounders games, cracking games, all that kind of stuff, but
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 4: we still want to wait a little bit longer. I
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 4: feel like, but you are going to bring into bumper
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 4: shoot right, like you're going to make.
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: Sure that absolutely no cochell. You're going to Coachella. We
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: went to Coachella. Yeah, yeah, with him speaking kind of
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: a coach.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 4: I literally put him on stage with Justin So that's
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 4: pretty cool.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: That's awesome, And that's a you have Anderson, Olivia Rodrigo
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: and the Tupac Hologram all dancing, and it's just, uh,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: it's just a wonderful experience. I don't think I could
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: do Coachella. No, I know I couldn't. It's too hot
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: and it's there's too many people there that I would
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: just be tempted to slug. Like there's some really punishable
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: faces who end up going to those types of things.
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, but you know what, I'd go to
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: Coachella to watch a go watch a crack and minor
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: league game. Yeah.
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 4: Cochella Valley, Yeah Valley, Absolutely, I am. And that's one
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 4: of the best stadiums that isn't the top level of sport. Yeah,
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 4: that I think is out there. I like Shaney Stadium
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 4: a lot too, sure, but Coachella Valley down in Palm
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 4: Desert there is fantastic.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: I think that would be really fun. Just you know,
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: golf in as well, throw some golf in, Like, maybe
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: go to some Calleague games too, Like, go to some
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: minor league baseball, see some of the younger players and stuff.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: I will tell you most of those stadiums are dilapidated
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: and it's a really bad league. If you like pitching,
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: do not go to Calleague baseball games. By the way,
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: I sent a text in the group chat the Mariners
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: ACL team the Arizona Complex knee, no, just Arizona Complex League.
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: That's a very good correction, my friend. They beat I
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: believe the Dodgers twenty four to fourteen. Oh my god.
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: The Mariners drew twenty one walks.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 4: This is not a football score.
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: Twenty one walks. And there were eight wild pitches by
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers as well, So anybody who was there. I
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: text my buddy Keith law there and he said that
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: game must have took four hours, and I would have
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: left very very early, like I would not stick around
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: for twenty four to fourteen.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 4: But do you prefer those games or the one zero
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 4: eighteen in games? Oh?
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: Boy, oh boy, I guess it depends. I would take
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: that over the heartbreak of a one zero playoff loss
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: a regular game. I'd probably prefer the one nothing just
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: because here's the thing too, a one nothing win in
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: extra innings now with the zombie runner at second base
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: becomes even more impressive slash pathetic. You know, it's a
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: combination of getting credit and also taking away.
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a really good question. I miss long games.
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: I will tell you this. I had so much fun
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: at the game yesterday. But the one thing people don't
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: think about with these slower game or shorter games, it
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: took me longer to get home than the game. That's
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: a problem, right.
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, what how many people are commuting from as
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 4: far as you are.
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: That's a great point. And they're not supposed to just
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: look out for me, but they do. But the thing is,
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: man like, if you are somebody who's coming from Mason
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: County or even Thurston County or somewhere along those lines,
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: you better get to the stadium frickin early to get
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: the most out of your bank for the buck. And
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: was really disappointed that they only opened the gates ninety
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: minutes early. That's too, not enough, in my personal opinion.
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: Enough to do around the stadium there too, there is,
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: but I'm a worry wart and I like to be
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: as early as possible. I got in line at like
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: ten forty five. And uh oh, another thing that I'm
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: gonna I made the joke about it during mollywat Monday.
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: The people who do not back in to these spots
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: in the parking garage should be arrested and deported and
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: deported and then arrested like in like just keep going
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: back and forth making beautiful swim with it because having
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: to and of course me being an idiot and a
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: nice guy, but mostly an idiot letting those people back
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: out goe man, Like, I just don't understand why more
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: people don't do it.
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 4: Almost every car has the parking or the yeah, the
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 4: parking camera on the back any exactly, It's so much
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 4: easier to back into degree spots.
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: There's literally a dude or dudet who was walking around
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: that is literally there to help you back in. Don't
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: be selfish or don't be stubborn. Ask that guy for help.
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: He will help you back into your spot. Yeah, man,
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: that's annoying. And you know, I had to park on
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: level five because for whatever reason, the parking garage was
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: just super full.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 4: I mean Randy weekend, Yeah, Randy weekend, but like having
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 4: to wait through that, oh yeah, flipping cars and of
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 4: course there's people coming from different sides and stuff. Man,
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 4: it is it really is such a convenient thing when
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 4: you get in, and it's the worst getting out of
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 4: that thing, especially you know, it's not exactly to park
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 4: in that thing either.
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: But where do you do you take the light rail
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: to games or what do you usually do?
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 4: I usually drive when I can We're lucky enough to
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 4: usually get media parking availability in the garage, but you
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 4: have to go to the top floor for that, so
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 4: I have to kind of figure out, Okay, am I
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 4: gonna try and get out of here before final pitch,
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 4: so I can, you know, miss all the traffic and everything.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 4: That's where I come in. I live in Seattle, like
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 4: literally in Seattle, so I don't worry about spending too
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 4: much time at the game. My commute is not too
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 4: bad compared to yours at least. Yeah, so I have
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 4: a little bit different of experience, but I get that
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 4: that is not the norm with with a lot of
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 4: people as well. I want to ask you one thing,
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 4: because you mentioned JP kind of in the utility role,
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 4: how would you do that with Brendan Donovan.
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: So Brandon Donovan's even more interesting because of the fact
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: that I think he can play the outfield and you can't. JP.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: Crawford just doesn't have enough experience or the speed of
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: a Brandon Donovan. Not the Brandon Donovan's burner. But we've
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: seen Brenda Donovan handle at corner Ollefield spot in Saint
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: Louis five.
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 4: He played left field. I think almost as much a
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 4: second base last year, you know, for.
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: The for the baseball heads, everybody's looking for the next
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: Ben Zoeberst. Yeah, the next Zobrist who can play everywhere.
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: I'm Seattle, I'm turning him into that Zoebrist. I am
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: making him a guy who plays left field, right field,
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: third base, and guys, I get it. The Cole Young's
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: defense is so good at second base. I'm not suggesting
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: benching Cole Young. Suggesting Cole Young can use a day
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: off here and there to get a designated be the
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: designated it or or just a day to rest day
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: last Yeah, like that's when you don't have Cole Young.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: I'm by no means suggesting what is probably the team
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: MVP over the first thirty five games that in that
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: vicinity anyway, I think it's I'm not suggesting benching him. Yeah, absolutely, boy,
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: I think that's your cy Young if for the team
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: is Emerson Hancock and your MVP is Cole Young. But yeah,
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: the one thing, the Mariners have versatility, but they have
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: versatility in a way where you don't feel great about
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: any of the defense either. So it's an interesting situation.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: So coming up next, you're gonna hear Softy and Dick.
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: They're gonna be talking to mister Well, no know what,
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: I'll let him.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 4: They're gonna be talking to someone very cool.
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be Jim Riggleman. Thanks so much for listening, guys.
• 2:07:22
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• 2:07:23
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• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: This is paddle Day, saying so long everyone,