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Chuck & Buck 6-15 Hour 2: Headlines and the big stories, Shaheed's contributions & take note of the Hurricanes. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Off the mark, adding over the rebound. That's over. That's over.
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Speaker 1: Nick fans, this is not a dream. Your long long
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Speaker 1: wait has ended. Go ahead and cry. After fifty three years,
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Speaker 1: the Knicks.
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Speaker 2: Are finally NBA champions once again.
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Speaker 1: What a deserving Stanley Cup champion.
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Speaker 2: The Carolina Hurricanes are one of the best teams in
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Speaker 2: the regular season. Had a brilliant playoff performance. Yeah, they're
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Speaker 2: going to clinch it appropriately with.
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Speaker 1: A total team effect and a shut up the kind
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Speaker 1: of Hurricanes. Where the Stanley Cup for the second time.
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Speaker 3: Yes, after sixty two long years, the NBA and NHL
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Speaker 3: seasons have come to an end. It was very long, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: really long, really long span of time. Good morning to you.
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Speaker 3: It is our seven o'clock hour here on this Monday morning.
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Speaker 3: Highlights provided there by ABC. They had the call of
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Speaker 3: the NBA Finals on Saturday night and the Stanley Cup
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Speaker 3: final on Sunday as well. And we've got two brand
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Speaker 3: new champions showing off their bling. The New York Knicks
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Speaker 3: are champs of the NBA for the first time in
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Speaker 3: fifty three years. Think about that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a long time.
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Speaker 3: Like Softy wasn't even born, wasn't he think he's fifty two,
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Speaker 3: isn't well?
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Speaker 4: Maybe I think you're right.
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Speaker 3: And then the Carolina Hurricanes have won for the second
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Speaker 3: time in their franchise's history as they took out the
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Speaker 3: Las Vegas Golden Knights in six games, winning last night
1:48
Speaker 3: three to nothing in Las Vegas. So congratulations to Rod
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Speaker 3: Brenda Moore, dead coach, and to Jordan's Stall, the captain
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Speaker 3: of the team who won the Consmke Trophy as the
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Speaker 3: best player in the playoffs and he was sensational at
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Speaker 3: age thirty seven throughout it. We will talk about both
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Speaker 3: of those things more a little bit later on here
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Speaker 3: in the radio program. We will also chat with Danny
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Speaker 3: Jackson here in a moment, as soon as I'm done
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Speaker 3: with my headlines that are brought to you by Frost
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Speaker 3: Brewed Corps Light Choose Chill. The Mariners lost to the
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Speaker 3: Washington Nationals yesterday by a final score of ten to one.
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Speaker 3: They lost eighteen to four the combined scores of the
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Speaker 3: last two games, so they've now lost four out of
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Speaker 3: five games. They are back to just a game over
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Speaker 3: five hundred, but still a first place team. They get
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Speaker 3: to press the reset button here today tomorrow. Cal Roley
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Speaker 3: JP Crawford expected to both be back from the injured list.
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Speaker 3: There's reports of Randy A. Rose Arena might be back
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Speaker 3: by tomorrow as well. Of course, some other injuries. Yesterday,
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Speaker 3: Josh Naylor and Andres Munios both left the game with
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Speaker 3: injuries as well, So we'll get updates and pass them
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Speaker 3: on to you when they become available. College World continues today,
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Speaker 3: Ole miss the first team to be eliminated. Meanwhile, North
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Speaker 3: Carolina sitting pretty at two and oh. Today Alabama Texas
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Speaker 3: at eleven, Georgia at Oklahoma. They are playing at four o'clock.
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Speaker 3: And the World Cup continues as Seattle will play host
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Speaker 3: for a first time here this morning at not this morning,
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Speaker 3: right at high noon, as it'll be Belgium taking on
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Speaker 3: Egypt today at noon, the first game played in Seattle
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Speaker 3: of the World Cup. We're just like halfway through everybody's
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Speaker 3: first games at this point, but we do have certainly
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Speaker 3: plenty of action to come. But World Cup is underway,
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Speaker 3: and we don't have Danny just yet, not just yet, Okay,
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Speaker 3: all right, we are expected to talk with Danny Jackson
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Speaker 3: here momentarily. Also, I guess since I have a little
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Speaker 3: more time for headlines and didn't have to rush through it.
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Speaker 3: UFC Freedom two fifty was held yesterday at the White House,
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Speaker 3: and I guess big success. I guess the fights were good.
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Speaker 3: I guess everything went off well. And yet Dana White
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Speaker 3: said afterwards, I'll never do it again. Apparently it's quite
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Speaker 3: the undertaking, and he at this stage in his career,
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Speaker 3: does not want that big of an undertaking, so so
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Speaker 3: a one and done situation. It sounds like on the
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Speaker 3: lawn at the White House. But I guess it was
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Speaker 3: a successful event. I watch none of it. All right,
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Speaker 3: It is our seven o'clock hour. Great to have you
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Speaker 3: with us here this morning, as there's a lot going
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Speaker 3: on today. We've got two champions we've already discussed today
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Speaker 3: in our professional sports world, and we'll talk about both
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Speaker 3: of those a little bit later on in the show.
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Speaker 3: We have a baseball team that suddenly is struggling again,
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Speaker 3: so we'll talk more about that with Baseball Brunch as
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Speaker 3: a matter of fact, while we wait for Danny, and
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Speaker 3: I'm sure he's gonna call us here in a little bit.
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Speaker 3: But I would just say this because I mentioned this
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Speaker 3: in our last segment about the Mariners. I mean, I
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Speaker 3: know that the season is filled with ebbs and flows
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Speaker 3: t one hundred and sixty two games. You get hot
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Speaker 3: for a while, you get cold for a while. We're
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Speaker 3: all frustrated. They're frustrated that they're sitting here with such
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Speaker 3: a good roster heading into the season, and with the
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Speaker 3: rest of the American League and the American League West
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Speaker 3: specifically cooperating this year. They're disappointed that they haven't built
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Speaker 3: a bigger lead and that they haven't played better baseball,
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Speaker 3: and that they've had these injuries that they've had to
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Speaker 3: deal with as well. So there's no question about that,
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Speaker 3: But there was just something distasteful about the last five
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Speaker 3: days of Mariners baseball.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: I didn't get to watch Friday, and it sounds like
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Speaker 3: that was a complete effort. And I was doing the
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Speaker 3: Tacoma game and so you know, I'm getting updates. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: we couldn't even get it on the television Friday night,
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Speaker 3: so I'm just getting updates on my phone. So I'm
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Speaker 3: sure that they played well, but the four games that
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Speaker 3: surrounded that, the bread to the sand, which a very
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Speaker 3: thin sandwich apparently too thick of bread and to sand
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Speaker 3: too thin a meat, but the bread around it, I mean, look,
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Speaker 3: they went into those games wanting to win those games. Okay,
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Speaker 3: they did, I want to say that right up. I
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Speaker 3: mean I know that, but the moment, the moment they
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Speaker 3: fell behind, it did feel like it was just from
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Speaker 3: manager all the way to the last guy on the bench,
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Speaker 3: like just a complete rollover. And you're gonna have those
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Speaker 3: games occasionally in one hundred and sixty two game season.
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Speaker 3: You know, they talk all the time there is forty
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Speaker 3: you're gonna win, They're gonna be forty that you're gonna lose,
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Speaker 3: and who you are is the rest of the eighty.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's just goes with a long season. Like
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Speaker 3: some days it's just not in the cards. But to
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Speaker 3: have stacked four of those in the last five days,
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Speaker 3: I mean there were legitimate I could pinpoint the moments
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Speaker 3: in each of those four games where the entire everybody
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Speaker 3: associated with the Mariners that was there on site for
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Speaker 3: the game just made the decision. It's over. It's gonna
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Speaker 3: happen occasionally. It's hard to stomach when it happens in
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Speaker 3: a clump like that. Yeah, when you have to watch
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Speaker 3: that four times in five days, where you're facing the
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Speaker 3: Orioles and you fell behind a little bit in both
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Speaker 3: of the last two games, and you just decided organizationally,
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Speaker 3: this is about getting our bullpen healthy the rest of
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Speaker 3: the way. And then you aren't even able to use
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Speaker 3: that healthy bullpen because you couldn't stay in the other
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Speaker 3: in two of the three games, and you had a
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Speaker 3: blowout on Friday. You didn't even need to have a
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Speaker 3: healthy bullpen over the weekend because of that, right, And
7:41
Speaker 3: so then you get to Saturday and Sunday, and yeah,
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Speaker 3: they did rally back, fought to get back, tied the
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Speaker 3: game up. Cold Emerson with the two run over ties
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Speaker 3: the game up. But then as soon as you fell
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Speaker 3: back again, it was like, that's it. We gave it
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Speaker 3: a try. We're not gonna risk anything else. Get games over.
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Speaker 3: I repeat it, that happens occasionally in a baseball season.
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Speaker 3: You just don't want it to You don't want to
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Speaker 3: have to see that four times in five days. And
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Speaker 3: we have watched that four times in five days. So
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Speaker 3: highly frustrating and an opportunity now to, as I said,
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Speaker 3: a couple of times, hit the reset button, have a
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Speaker 3: couple guys get healthy by tomorrow, be back at home.
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Speaker 3: And considering how disappointing seventy three games into the season
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Speaker 3: that this year has been for the Mariners. You're still
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Speaker 3: a first place team and getting healthier starting tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: Well, and I yeah, And I think that what made
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Speaker 5: it so frustrating too, is to have watched the wild
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Speaker 5: games we had in Baltimore that we won, and you
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Speaker 5: know that, yes, there's luck, but it just seemed like,
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Speaker 5: you know, things were go the little things were going
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Speaker 5: our way, and then you kick those next two games,
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Speaker 5: and then you play really well and then you kick
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Speaker 5: the next two games. I mean, it's just the I think,
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Speaker 5: the same thing we've talked about this whole year, the consistency.
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Speaker 5: There's no consistency. It's just up and down. It's like
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Speaker 5: a it's making me see sick.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, uh yeah, Well, there's no doubt. I mean, this
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Speaker 3: team has not played as well as they are capable
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Speaker 3: of playing. They have had some injuries, they have a
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Speaker 3: manager that I feel has mismanaged the bullpen. There have
9:24
Speaker 3: been a lot of things at play here, and I
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Speaker 3: do believe they'll get it ironed out. And I still
9:30
Speaker 3: think that they will impose their will on the rest
9:34
Speaker 3: of the division. I mean, all that said, they have
9:37
Speaker 3: I think the third best run differential maybe the second
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Speaker 3: second best run differential in the American League still right now,
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Speaker 3: which everybody pointed out a few years ago on the
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Speaker 3: other side when they had a good record, but their
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Speaker 3: point different or run differential wasn't all that it's the
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Speaker 3: second best, and so that there's something to this that
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Speaker 3: you could have really not had a lot go your away,
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Speaker 3: and yet you still find yourself in first place right now.
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Speaker 3: But it definitely needs to iron out. I think it
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Speaker 3: will iron out. I think it will straighten out. I
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Speaker 3: think CAL and JP will infuse something into that clubhouse
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Speaker 3: starting tomorrow, and I do believe they will eventually pull away.
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Speaker 3: But I'm with you. If you spent the entire weekend
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Speaker 3: moaning and groaning over your local baseball team, I was
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Speaker 3: with you, because that's hard to stomach. Four out of
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Speaker 3: five games where halfway through the decision is made, Well,
10:30
Speaker 3: tonight's not all night, boys, let's just play out the string.
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Speaker 3: That's gross.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And as you pointed out earlier, there was no
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Speaker 5: yesterday with Emerson Hancock. There was no nothing, no adjustments
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Speaker 5: made after it was very clear they had figured something
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Speaker 5: out in that fourth inning, and it was just hit
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Speaker 5: after hit after hit. And you're just one. It's like, okay,
10:50
Speaker 5: well Emerson is just gonna wear this one and two.
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Speaker 5: We're not gonna fix anything about it though, We're just
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Speaker 5: gonna let it continue.
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Speaker 4: I don't know, I just.
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Speaker 3: Yea, yeah. I don't get how you can give up
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Speaker 3: five hits in a row without changing something up. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: without throwing a like a brushback pitch. Like you know,
11:09
Speaker 3: people hear a brushback pitch, they're like, well, I don't
11:12
Speaker 3: want to stoop to that level. That's part of the game.
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Speaker 3: I'm not talking about hitting someone. I'm not talking about
11:17
Speaker 3: sending a message in the ribs. It's something about, like
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Speaker 3: the other team is too comfortable at the plate. The
11:24
Speaker 3: other team is obviously coming up and trying to they've
11:27
Speaker 3: read something about your scouting report. And I would think
11:30
Speaker 3: after two of those, you'd be like, okay, I got
11:33
Speaker 3: to throw a ball here, I got to brush somebody back,
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Speaker 3: I got to come inside on somebody. I gotta make
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Speaker 3: somebody uncomfortable. And to allow five consecutive hits on five
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Speaker 3: consecutive pitches without a pitcher reacting to that, without a
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Speaker 3: catcher reacting to that, without a manager reacting to that,
11:50
Speaker 3: without a pitching coach reacting to that without Josh Naylor
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Speaker 3: coming in from the side, like, hey, Bud might want
11:56
Speaker 3: to try to throw something outside the strike zone to
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Speaker 3: see if they'll chase, other than just try to get
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Speaker 3: ahead because they've obviously figured out what you're going to
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Speaker 3: try to do on the first pitch. So yes, that
12:07
Speaker 3: was frustrating as well, but a frustrating weekend for the Mariners,
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Speaker 3: no question about it. But for all of you people
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Speaker 3: that had soccer come into your lives, hopefully you had
12:16
Speaker 3: the time of your life this past week watching the
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Speaker 3: World Cup get started. And there wasn't a huge upset
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Speaker 3: from what I understand, in the past week, but there
12:29
Speaker 3: were a few.
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Speaker 1: Draws we'll call it a drawka.
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Speaker 3: There were a few draws that certainly got the eye
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Speaker 3: of a few people. I mean Brazil Morocco played Brazil
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Speaker 3: to a drawa Japan played the Netherlands, which is a
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Speaker 3: powerhouse in soccer, to a draw. Sweden was played to
12:47
Speaker 3: exsume me, Switzerland was played to a draw. And so
12:51
Speaker 3: a little bit of drama, if you will, was infused
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Speaker 3: into the World Cup this past week. And we still
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Speaker 3: have half of the field yet to play at this point.
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Speaker 4: That is the crazy thing.
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Speaker 5: I was looking at the schedule because I was trying
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Speaker 5: to see when England was playing and realized they're not
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Speaker 5: even playing till Wednesday. And yeah, it's you know, everyone's
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Speaker 5: about a week in between each game. Because the US
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Speaker 5: played Friday, they'll play again Friday. It is interesting to
13:17
Speaker 5: see how long it really.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean if you're going to play once
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Speaker 3: every week, and I can't tell you how exhausting it
13:24
Speaker 3: might be. I mean occasionally Sounders played twice a week,
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Speaker 3: but this is the World Cup. You want everybody to
13:29
Speaker 3: be at their peak. So I could imagine how exhausting
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Speaker 3: it is to run around without pause for ninety minutes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes me tired thinking about it.
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Speaker 3: They really always has. That's one thing I'll give you
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Speaker 3: soccer athletes, is that just watching you makes me tired. Yes,
13:45
Speaker 3: but you know you need a work a week and
13:47
Speaker 3: so you space it out. I think that's one of
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Speaker 3: the great parts about the World Cup. Almost every game
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Speaker 3: is like highlighted.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, about four a day, which is nice.
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Speaker 3: The World Cup junkie can watch pretty much every second
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Speaker 3: of the entire tournament, and so I sort of not
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Speaker 3: sort of, I really appreciate it now. I didn't watch
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Speaker 3: a lot of it, you know, because I'm not a
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Speaker 3: huge soccer fan, but for those that are man you
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Speaker 3: get to taste every drop of this tournament the way
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Speaker 3: that it is structured. And so even though we are
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Speaker 3: playing host, we don't have our first game until today.
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Speaker 3: It will be Belgium and Egypt that are going to
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Speaker 3: get started at noon. And then Friday night, the US
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Speaker 3: made its debut and by all accounts, and we were
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Speaker 3: looking forward to talking to Danny Jackson about this, but
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Speaker 3: by all accounts, it sounds like the US played about
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Speaker 3: as well as could be expected and surpassed expectations everywhere.
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Speaker 3: I heard just this morning, I've heard several times over
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Speaker 3: the weekend that was the best individual match that a
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Speaker 3: US men's team has ever played, and that was Friday night,
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Speaker 3: and therefore to one win. So they got some recognition,
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Speaker 3: certainly some attention. Maybe the US has figured something out.
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Speaker 3: Certainly they seem like the more athletic team in that
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Speaker 3: game on Friday, and four to one hell a way
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Speaker 3: to start. I mean, you do the mathematical equation. If
15:19
Speaker 3: that were a baseball game, that final score would have
15:22
Speaker 3: been ninety one to six. Yeah, that's the math. That's
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Speaker 3: the math that you use. It's like dog years. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: ninety one to six, that's how big of a blowout
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Speaker 3: it was. Doesn't seem like it. Four to one doesn't
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Speaker 3: sound like But when you do the transitional math to
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Speaker 3: another sport, ninety one to six.
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Speaker 4: What a dominant performance, paraguays.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, basketball game two hundred and sixty.
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Speaker 5: Five thirty Wow, that would probably be one of the
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Speaker 5: most lopsided victories ever.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they put it together in match number one.
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Speaker 3: It is just one match, but that's a hell of
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Speaker 3: a way to start, and sounds like even the Americans
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Speaker 3: who were trying to talk up the US before it
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Speaker 3: got underway, the American and analysts even they were sort of,
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Speaker 3: I can't believe how well they played in match number one.
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Speaker 3: So good start, good start to it all a long
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Speaker 3: way to go. Friday is going to be a big,
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Speaker 3: big deal here in Seattle when the US takes on Australia.
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Speaker 3: And after the way that the US played, I mean,
16:30
Speaker 3: they've got everybody ready for a run now, because that
16:33
Speaker 3: looked different even to the experts who analyze every second
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Speaker 3: of every match that this squad plays. It even looked
16:41
Speaker 3: different to them. So maybe they've figured out some special
16:44
Speaker 3: sauce here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if they.
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Speaker 5: I mean when we talked about it with a green
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Speaker 5: Jacket draft with Andrews and Jackson, they didn't say, you know, well,
16:53
Speaker 5: we don't think the US could do something. It was well,
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Speaker 5: it would be hard for them to win it, but
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Speaker 5: if they made it to the round of thirty two
16:59
Speaker 5: or out of the round thirty two, they thought that
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Speaker 5: would be a success. But I don't think anyone expected yeah,
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Speaker 5: that dominant of a performance in their first game. Hopefully
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Speaker 5: they can keep it up against Australia on Friday and
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Speaker 5: shut those all seas down to Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think the expectation now gets ramped up a
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Speaker 3: little bit for this team that maybe round of thirty
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Speaker 3: two might have felt like an achievement, but.
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Speaker 4: That where can you go?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? How far can you take this? Then again, it
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Speaker 3: might just be one match, all right. Coming up a
17:30
Speaker 3: little bit later on in the show, we have our
17:33
Speaker 3: Seahawks one series, our QB one. Hugh Mellen stops by
17:36
Speaker 3: at eight o'clock. We'll find out who he's going to
17:39
Speaker 3: break down. Shouldn't be that big of a mystery to
17:41
Speaker 3: you at this stage and speaking of our Seahawks one series.
17:44
Speaker 3: It's one analyst breaking down one key Seahawk player for
17:47
Speaker 3: one entire interview. We are also in Seahawks one series
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Speaker 3: recap season as well. If you didn't hear Brian Walters
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Speaker 3: on Friday in our Seahawks one series, then you missed
17:58
Speaker 3: his analysis of Rashid shah Heed will replace some of
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Speaker 3: that for you next and react on Chucking Box Sports
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Speaker 3: Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M. All right,
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Speaker 3: good morning to you. It is Chucking Ashley with you.
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Speaker 3: Seahawks one series comes your way at eight o'clock today
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Speaker 3: with Hugh milling Our QB one always a feature dettraction
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Speaker 3: when Hugh Millon joins us for the Seahawks one series,
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Speaker 3: So that's coming your way at the top of the hour.
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Speaker 3: Shucks one series recap coming up here in a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Of course, we haven't had Greg Bell. We've had Greg
18:49
Speaker 3: Bell on a whole lot, but we haven't had him
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Speaker 3: to do our Seahawks one series. So that's coming before
18:54
Speaker 3: the end of the month as well. But let me
18:56
Speaker 3: tell you something before we dive into Seahawks one series
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Speaker 3: recap about Greg Bell. Oh, that guy gives good recommendation.
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Speaker 4: Oh oh yeah, where did he send you?
19:05
Speaker 3: Uh? Well, I had a Tacoma day on Friday, and
19:09
Speaker 3: you know, I have not gotten a lot of good
19:11
Speaker 3: recommendations for some reason. A lot of people that live
19:14
Speaker 3: in Tacoma don't know where to send you. Okay, that's
19:17
Speaker 3: been my experience. And so he had recommended in the
19:22
Speaker 3: past the sandwich shop where they treated me like I
19:26
Speaker 3: was a criminal or something. When I went the first time,
19:29
Speaker 3: I was the first person in line, the only person
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Speaker 3: in line. They had just opened their doors and they
19:34
Speaker 3: told me it would be an hour and forty five
19:36
Speaker 3: minutes where I can get a sandwich.
19:37
Speaker 4: What.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, apparently they had a lot of backed up orders.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that shouldn't top the people who walk into
19:45
Speaker 4: the restaurant, right.
19:48
Speaker 5: Right.
19:49
Speaker 4: You should still be able to make the person who
19:51
Speaker 4: comes in side sandwich.
19:52
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that person be a priority, the person that took
19:55
Speaker 3: the time to come there.
19:57
Speaker 4: That's interesting.
19:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, So anyway, I won't go back to the So
20:00
Speaker 3: I said, you got to come up with something else,
20:02
Speaker 3: and so he mentioned Camp Colemos, which is a pizza place.
20:07
Speaker 3: And then right next to the pizza place, because I'm
20:11
Speaker 3: getting the pizza and it looks good, smells good, bar's great,
20:15
Speaker 3: got beer on tap, everything else, So everything looks good.
20:18
Speaker 3: And then I say, hey, by the way, because it's
20:20
Speaker 3: Tacoma day, right, I bounce around to a few different
20:23
Speaker 3: places when I do an old day in Tacoma, and
20:26
Speaker 3: I say to the guy, do you have a coffee
20:28
Speaker 3: shop anywhere within walking distance around here? He goes literally
20:32
Speaker 3: right next door, and it's awesome, and it was so
20:36
Speaker 3: Now I don't know if I'm going to go anywhere else.
20:38
Speaker 3: I got my little pizza shop because it was fantastic.
20:40
Speaker 3: And then right around the corner is a donut slash
20:44
Speaker 3: coffee shop which was fantastic called Fusion. So I think, yeah,
20:49
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm ever going to ask again
20:51
Speaker 3: where should I go in Tacoma? I think maybe I've
20:53
Speaker 3: found my spots.
20:53
Speaker 4: Hey, you got it figured out. You got pie and donuts?
20:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, pie and donut. How do you beat that?
20:58
Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. So nice job, Greg, good recommendation.
21:04
Speaker 4: Finally, you're good for something.
21:07
Speaker 3: Right exactly. You can't spend your entire life just, you know,
21:11
Speaker 3: snooping around the seahawks. Yeah, you gotta be good for
21:14
Speaker 3: something else.
21:14
Speaker 4: You give us something.
21:15
Speaker 3: Sounds like you're good at recommending pizza places, all right.
21:18
Speaker 3: Seahawks one series recap. On Friday, we had former Seahawks
21:22
Speaker 3: Brian Walters on the radio program and he admitted selfishly,
21:26
Speaker 3: I'm taking the guy that does the same things that
21:29
Speaker 3: I did as a football player, return kicks, catch passes,
21:33
Speaker 3: things of that nature. And so he chose Rashid Shahed
21:36
Speaker 3: to break down, and I will tell you this, most
21:40
Speaker 3: of the conversation was overwhelmingly positive. He loves Rashid Shahed.
21:45
Speaker 3: He thinks that the Seahawks would not have won the
21:47
Speaker 3: Super Bowl without Rashid Shahed. He thinks he's the best
21:50
Speaker 3: kick returner slash punt returner in the entire National Football League.
21:55
Speaker 3: So what am I choosing to highlight in our Seahawks
21:57
Speaker 3: one series recap? Well, the little amount of criticism that
22:03
Speaker 3: he did levy against Rashid Shaheed, because Rashid, let's face it,
22:07
Speaker 3: he didn't get incredibly active in the Seahawks passing game
22:12
Speaker 3: and his short stint with the football team. And so
22:17
Speaker 3: he's been brought back on a seventeen million dollars per
22:20
Speaker 3: year contract. And I'm sure that's not just a return
22:22
Speaker 3: kicks and punts. How do we get him to be
22:25
Speaker 3: more active in the passing game. Brian Walters talked about
22:29
Speaker 3: a couple of the weaknesses he did detect in Rashid
22:33
Speaker 3: Shahed's game last year as a Seahawk.
22:35
Speaker 6: I think at some point when you're some of these
22:38
Speaker 6: deep balls, now he's he's fantastic, right, you know, he
22:42
Speaker 6: a lot of times has two three steps on guys,
22:44
Speaker 6: but sometimes he doesn't have the two or three steps,
22:47
Speaker 6: which is fine, right. Dvs are fast too, and they're
22:50
Speaker 6: right with him. I think his strength to the ball
22:54
Speaker 6: can be a little bit better. I think sometimes you
22:56
Speaker 6: see him kind of throw his hands up early looking
22:59
Speaker 6: for that pass interference before the balls even hit the ground.
23:03
Speaker 6: And I'd like to see him just play through that,
23:05
Speaker 6: play through it, go up, try to high point. It
23:07
Speaker 6: doesn't matter if you get pass interfeit or not, but
23:09
Speaker 6: you're trying to make a play. It's all about the ball.
23:12
Speaker 6: And I think a few times last season I saw
23:16
Speaker 6: him just kind of almost give up on a deep
23:17
Speaker 6: ball because he's trying to sell the pass interference. And
23:21
Speaker 6: I think that would be something I'd want to see
23:23
Speaker 6: him just just just be strong up to the ball.
23:26
Speaker 6: Let the rest, figure out the pass interference, don't throw
23:28
Speaker 6: your hands up wanting to call before the ball did
23:30
Speaker 6: you hit the ground?
23:30
Speaker 3: So I'd say those two.
23:31
Speaker 6: Things can really elevate him to the next level along
23:34
Speaker 6: with all the other things that he brings. That is
23:37
Speaker 6: just really he's just so talented back there, and we
23:40
Speaker 6: don't even really got to the special teams part of it. Yeah,
23:42
Speaker 6: but it would be as a wide receiver to be
23:44
Speaker 6: that number two guy, That's what I'd like to see.
23:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did eventually get to the special team's part
23:49
Speaker 3: and you can hear it all the entire conversation on
23:51
Speaker 3: our podcast at ninety three to three KJR dot com,
23:54
Speaker 3: and he went as far as saying yes to my question,
23:57
Speaker 3: is he the best kick returner right now in the
23:59
Speaker 3: National Football League? He said yes to that. So there's
24:01
Speaker 3: a lot this guy brings to the table. I think
24:03
Speaker 3: he's even going to be used by Brian Florey, who
24:05
Speaker 3: likes he didn't do it much this past year with
24:08
Speaker 3: San Francisco, but in the past he's kind of like
24:10
Speaker 3: running that jet suite. Maybe not as much as Sean McVay,
24:12
Speaker 3: but the forty nine ers have done that with receivers
24:15
Speaker 3: in the past, and we saw Rashid Shaheed be involved
24:18
Speaker 3: in the run game as well this past season under
24:20
Speaker 3: Clint Kubiak. But he's and so there's a lot that
24:25
Speaker 3: he brings to the table. I mean, he couldn't be
24:27
Speaker 3: a better teammate. I mean, by all accounts, both Seahawks
24:30
Speaker 3: and New Orleans Saints, they all swear by the guy,
24:32
Speaker 3: loved the guy, and we know how important that is
24:34
Speaker 3: to John Schneider and Mike McDonald that they want a
24:37
Speaker 3: great culture there and Rashid Shahead fits in that nicely.
24:41
Speaker 3: But in order to earn seventeen million dollars per year,
24:44
Speaker 3: which is what they paid him this offseason, I think
24:47
Speaker 3: we do have to see a little bit more out
24:49
Speaker 3: of him In the receiving game. Hugh was critical, and
24:52
Speaker 3: I think I can speak on behalf of Hugh on that.
24:55
Speaker 3: He was critical of some of his his rescis skills.
25:01
Speaker 3: And so when you play nine games and you only
25:04
Speaker 3: catch fifteen balls for one hundred and eighty eight yards,
25:09
Speaker 3: that doesn't pop, that doesn't stand out to you. You're
25:12
Speaker 3: expecting more than that if you are the Seattle Seahawks.
25:15
Speaker 3: And so a full off season in the program, a
25:19
Speaker 3: brand new offensive quarter that everybody's getting to know at
25:22
Speaker 3: the exact same time kind of puts Rashid a little
25:25
Speaker 3: bit more on an even playing field. He's not just
25:27
Speaker 3: playing catchup to try to figure out the offense, to
25:30
Speaker 3: figure out Sam Darnold. So we should see better production
25:34
Speaker 3: out of him this season. And I think in order
25:37
Speaker 3: to justify that contract, we kind of have to see
25:39
Speaker 3: better production out of him.
25:40
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, absolutely, because that is the one thing that
25:42
Speaker 5: I think everybody is concerned about, is how much he's
25:45
Speaker 5: getting paid and what you know, if you're just going
25:47
Speaker 5: off the usage from last year.
25:49
Speaker 4: It wasn't it wasn't great. So how are you going
25:52
Speaker 4: to implement him?
25:52
Speaker 5: How are you going to use them and make that
25:54
Speaker 5: seventeen million, you know, seem like a steal.
25:57
Speaker 3: And Walters had said something about a number two receiver
26:00
Speaker 3: you heard. I mean, I think Cooper Cups still are
26:03
Speaker 3: number two. I would think so, but you know, seventeen
26:07
Speaker 3: million dollars per year, certainly we want to see an
26:10
Speaker 3: expanded repertoire from Rashid Shahid. I mean, he was a
26:13
Speaker 3: really great deep threat with the New Orleans Saints for
26:16
Speaker 3: a few years and we never really took advantage of that, or,
26:22
Speaker 3: as Brian Walters pointed out, maybe he is to blame
26:26
Speaker 3: a little bit for not having earned the trust to
26:28
Speaker 3: be able to catch those deep balls because he wasn't
26:30
Speaker 3: fighting hard enough for it. But we've got to see
26:33
Speaker 3: more production out of him. I think that we will
26:36
Speaker 3: see more production out of him, And yet I would
26:38
Speaker 3: just say this to wrap up the conversation. That's the
26:43
Speaker 3: thing about football is maybe you're not getting the sack,
26:47
Speaker 3: but how good were you to take up some defense
26:50
Speaker 3: so somebody else could get a sack?
26:53
Speaker 6: You know.
26:53
Speaker 3: Hugh pointed this out a lot about DK Metcalf. Yeah,
26:56
Speaker 3: maybe he hasn't had the production that a lot of
27:00
Speaker 3: people thought, but the amount of attention that he draws
27:03
Speaker 3: that he commands defensively made him more valuable than just
27:09
Speaker 3: his statistics because it freed other people up to make catches.
27:13
Speaker 3: I don't know if Rashid Shaheed is demanding that sort
27:16
Speaker 3: of attention, but the speed element has to be respected,
27:21
Speaker 3: and so I think part of this is we're going
27:24
Speaker 3: to pay him because we want the defense to respect
27:27
Speaker 3: that speed element in our offense. And even if we
27:31
Speaker 3: don't use him as much as his salary suggests, that
27:36
Speaker 3: we should use him. He's still playing a valuable role
27:40
Speaker 3: in our offense because there's no way that you can
27:43
Speaker 3: ignore speed like that when you're game planning defensively, so
27:47
Speaker 3: sometimes you're making plays on the field even when the
27:50
Speaker 3: play doesn't even go to you.
27:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that can be a huge thing.
27:54
Speaker 5: I mean that's why you know, when DKA left and
27:56
Speaker 5: everybody was wondering, how's JSM going to do because he
28:00
Speaker 5: doesn't have DK that attention, and yeah, thank goodness, JSN
28:05
Speaker 5: just barely eked that out.
28:07
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, well, yes, certainly JSN was. It turns out,
28:12
Speaker 3: it turns out it doesn't take away from the point
28:15
Speaker 3: he was making that DK does command a lot of attention.
28:19
Speaker 3: How's that going to affect the other receivers? But it
28:22
Speaker 3: turns out we now know JSN didn't need that, right.
28:27
Speaker 3: JSN just needed to be featured more and turned into
28:31
Speaker 3: a number one himself and not a one B or
28:33
Speaker 3: a two or one A or however you wanted to
28:37
Speaker 3: describe him. He was ready to be the man. He
28:39
Speaker 3: was ready to be wide receiver one. And certainly we
28:43
Speaker 3: all saw a lot in JSN, but we didn't expect that.
28:46
Speaker 5: No, And I do think Honestly, him playing next to
28:49
Speaker 5: DK m DK getting that attention probably helped him a
28:52
Speaker 5: lot in that first year to be able to figure out, really,
28:56
Speaker 5: you know how he could be helpful in this offense
28:59
Speaker 5: and and gain his confidence in the National Football League
29:02
Speaker 5: and all sorts of things. So I would say that, yeah,
29:04
Speaker 5: DK that first year was still help I.
29:08
Speaker 4: Just JSM wasn't going to struggle as much as we
29:10
Speaker 4: thought he was.
29:11
Speaker 6: All right.
29:11
Speaker 3: Coming up next, we've got a new Stanley Cup champion
29:15
Speaker 3: in the NHL, and why that could be good news
29:18
Speaker 3: for us here in Seattle Sports Radio ninety three point
29:21
Speaker 3: three KJRFM.
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Speaker 1: What a preserving Stanley Cup champion.
29:32
Speaker 2: The Carolina Hurricanes are one of the best teams in
29:35
Speaker 2: the regular season, had a brilliant playoff performance. Yeah, they're
29:42
Speaker 2: going to clich it appropriately.
29:45
Speaker 1: We're the total team effort and a shut up the
29:49
Speaker 1: con the Hurricanes where the Stanley Cup for the second time.
29:57
Speaker 3: Femaleen's buddy Sean McDonough on the call last night ABC
30:01
Speaker 3: of the Carolina victory. Stanley Cup championship is theirs again,
30:07
Speaker 3: A three to nine things shutout of the Las Vegas
30:09
Speaker 3: Golden Knights. Take that, Golden Knights, Your pampered sons of
30:13
Speaker 3: so and so's.
30:14
Speaker 4: Ah, go back to your crapstable and cry about it.
30:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't do a little more crying nights. A bunch
30:21
Speaker 3: of crime crap playing jackasses. This actually is a good
30:27
Speaker 3: result here in Seattle, because for those that have wondered
30:32
Speaker 3: if the Seattle crack and are lost at this stage
30:36
Speaker 3: and if they've done things the right way in piecing
30:41
Speaker 3: together what they are hoping to eventually be a Stanley
30:44
Speaker 3: Cup champion, doesn't feel that way. We've had a couple
30:47
Speaker 3: of disappointing seasons back to back. We've rifled through head coaches,
30:51
Speaker 3: We've already had three of them in the infancy of
30:54
Speaker 3: the organization. We've already let go of a general manager here,
30:58
Speaker 3: We've already let go of our architect and Ron Francis here.
31:03
Speaker 3: And we've had several soul searching, soul sole giving press
31:11
Speaker 3: conferences here in the offseason where the organization is vowing
31:15
Speaker 3: to turn over every stone, every rock to try to
31:19
Speaker 3: find out the secret solution for getting this team not
31:23
Speaker 3: just into the Stanley Cup playoffs, but to the Stanley Cup,
31:27
Speaker 3: like the Carolina Hurricanes have pulled off. I would say
31:31
Speaker 3: that this result is a pretty promising sign because one
31:37
Speaker 3: of the criticisms of the Kraken has been you don't
31:40
Speaker 3: have star player, you don't have star magnitude. You gotta
31:43
Speaker 3: have that difference maker. You got to have that fifty
31:45
Speaker 3: goal per game, fifty goal per season score. Where's that
31:49
Speaker 3: number one line that you can count on for a
31:52
Speaker 3: point to night, you know that sort of thing. We
31:55
Speaker 3: don't have that at this stage, and yet really neither do.
31:59
Speaker 3: The Carolina Hurricanes and the Kraken were built by the
32:06
Speaker 3: former architect of the Carolina Hurricanes, Ron Francis, comes over
32:11
Speaker 3: from Carolina to Seattle and wanted to build his this
32:16
Speaker 3: organization the way that they built things in Carolina and
32:20
Speaker 3: had success with. So from that standpoint, I kind of
32:25
Speaker 3: view that as a little bit encouraging. I mean, obviously
32:29
Speaker 3: they've got a much deeper team, even though they don't
32:32
Speaker 3: have the superstar individual player. But when you're led by
32:36
Speaker 3: a thirty seven year old defenseman who goes on a
32:39
Speaker 3: tear in the Stanley Cup finals and scores five goal
32:43
Speaker 3: five games in a row, I mean Jordan Stall. According
32:47
Speaker 3: to Rod Brenda Moore, he was the reason that they
32:50
Speaker 3: ended up winning the Stanley Cup this year. They also
32:53
Speaker 3: have a head coach that Ron Francis tried to get here,
32:56
Speaker 3: tried to lure away to Seattle, and so I mean,
33:00
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it was time for Ron to go.
33:03
Speaker 3: Let's just put it this way. I get why he's
33:06
Speaker 3: not here anymore, but I think maybe that his vision
33:12
Speaker 3: was right. Perhaps he just hasn't had the right leadership.
33:17
Speaker 3: And look, the entire organization loves them some Jordan Eberley.
33:22
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if they should love him as much
33:24
Speaker 3: as they actually do. I mean what I saw leadership
33:28
Speaker 3: wise out of Jordan Stall. Do we have that guy
33:30
Speaker 3: on our.
33:30
Speaker 4: Team, That guy would be nice if we did.
33:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's not the most most talented guys
33:36
Speaker 3: in the world. That's an experienced dude that will get
33:39
Speaker 3: run over for a by a bus for his teammates
33:42
Speaker 3: if he if they ask him to, if it means
33:45
Speaker 3: that they can get closer to the Stanley Cup championship.
33:49
Speaker 3: So I think it's an encouraging sign because they're architect.
33:54
Speaker 3: The guy that set the foundation there is the guy
33:56
Speaker 3: that set the foundation for this organization, and he moved
34:00
Speaker 3: on from Carolina and tried to create that same magic here.
34:04
Speaker 3: And it's not quite worked out, but maybe we're not
34:08
Speaker 3: as far away as you think. Maybe the idea of
34:11
Speaker 3: going with a deep roster and not really depending upon
34:15
Speaker 3: having a superstar or being able to luck it into
34:19
Speaker 3: one in the draft or have to spin for one
34:22
Speaker 3: in free agency or trade ten players to get one
34:26
Speaker 3: in an off season, that was sort of the blueprint
34:30
Speaker 3: for how he was going to build this organization here
34:33
Speaker 3: in Seattle. And so I'm going to take a little
34:37
Speaker 3: bit of hope from that. And I know a lot
34:42
Speaker 3: of people have complimented the krake In on how they've
34:46
Speaker 3: put this thing together. They just can't get over the top.
34:49
Speaker 3: And maybe it is just the difference between maybe you
34:52
Speaker 3: have to move on from a couple of the younger
34:55
Speaker 3: players who might not get the intangibles it takes to
34:59
Speaker 3: be a campion and bring in a veteran That can
35:04
Speaker 3: be a difference. From that standpoint, the grit that Carolina
35:08
Speaker 3: plays with, I'm not sure that we play with here
35:10
Speaker 3: in Seattle, and maybe we don't have the two or
35:14
Speaker 3: three clubhouse leaders that they have in Carolina. So I
35:19
Speaker 3: just my conclusion is that maybe just maybe we're not
35:24
Speaker 3: as far away as it feels. Considering that Ron Francis
35:28
Speaker 3: set the tone in Carolina for them, and they've won
35:31
Speaker 3: two Stanley Cups because of that, and he's the same
35:34
Speaker 3: guy that set the tone here. Maybe we're not as
35:36
Speaker 3: far away as it feels right now.
35:38
Speaker 5: Well, and it's like you know, an artist when they
35:40
Speaker 5: move on, when they pass, then all of a sudden,
35:42
Speaker 5: their art is better appreciated. So perhaps with Ron Francis,
35:47
Speaker 5: once now he's not there, everyone will actually be able
35:50
Speaker 5: to see what he did create now that he's not
35:53
Speaker 5: going to be with the team anymore.
35:54
Speaker 3: I think there are a lot of good players on
35:56
Speaker 3: this team. I mean, I'm not some hockey expert, but
35:58
Speaker 3: there's a lot of good They're all a lot of
36:00
Speaker 3: good players on this team. This team should have been
36:01
Speaker 3: better than it's been the last couple of seasons.
36:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's why it's been so disappointing.
36:05
Speaker 3: Something's missing and whatever Lane Lambert brought seemed to fix
36:10
Speaker 3: a couple of things, but it exposed a couple of
36:12
Speaker 3: other things. And so I don't know how aggressive they're
36:15
Speaker 3: going to be this offseason, but obviously they're going to
36:18
Speaker 3: have to be some changes made to this roster, and
36:22
Speaker 3: from what we understand, they're going to happen sooner than later,
36:25
Speaker 3: like we're I mean, the season's over. It's been over
36:28
Speaker 3: now for a minute, but it sounds to me like
36:32
Speaker 3: the organization is ready to start wheeling and dealing and
36:35
Speaker 3: try to and try to correct some of those areas
36:40
Speaker 3: in their turning over every stone they felt are keeping
36:44
Speaker 3: them from being the Carolina Hurricanes.
36:46
Speaker 4: All right.
36:46
Speaker 3: Coming up next Seahawks one series with Hugh Millan on
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