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Chuck & Buck 10-27 Hour 4: Ryon Healy, Aaron Levine & one last thing. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, during the postseason, we had Ryan Heally as a
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  Speaker 1: special former Mariner analyst for us throughout the entire playoff,
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  Speaker 1: and as we were signing off with them a week ago,
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  Speaker 1: the people were like, no more, more more Healey. True, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And so we're like, well, let's give him more Healy then.
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  Speaker 1: So joining us here this morning on the program, former
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  Speaker 1: Mariner Ryan Heally is back with us on Chuck and Buck.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, sir, Good morning man. Did you guys miss me?
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  Speaker 2: We did, really did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You don't you like you right now?
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  Speaker 3: I missed you.
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  Speaker 4: You're little jealous everything to see you with your full
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  Speaker 4: head of hair and your perfect teeth and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: So the face made for radio, that's me.
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  Speaker 1: Do you got anything playing for Halloween this weekend? I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know. Do you have children? We haven't had
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  Speaker 1: a personal private conversation, just been all marriners.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I got two young ones.
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  Speaker 5: I got a three year old little girl and then
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  Speaker 5: I have a year and a half with little boy.
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  Speaker 2: My daughter got to pick the theme this year.
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  Speaker 5: Anyone out there that knows what super Kitties is, that's
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  Speaker 5: what my family's going to be dressed up as. And
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  Speaker 5: if you don't know what that is. Tune in Friday
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  Speaker 5: evening to see what my story on my Instagram looks like.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, funny story about that. I don't really
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  Speaker 4: know what super kitties are, but my daughter. I have
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  Speaker 4: a four year old daughter, so she knows what they are.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: She has a hard time pronouncing kitties. Okay, it's super
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  Speaker 4: like too many teas. There's a tea in the beginning,
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  Speaker 4: there's a tea, a couple of teas in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: So having a.
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  Speaker 2: Hard time digitalizing what that word is. Fuck you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I can say it. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: you can spell it.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly I have a thinking about past girlfriends. I would
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  Speaker 1: have gone as that for Halloween. It I love super.
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  Speaker 3: It's good that would have been.
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  Speaker 1: I wish those would have been shown up a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. All right, well here we go. Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Heally is with us here this morning, and yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's been a week and we we've had a week
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  Speaker 1: to sort of get over at all.
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  Speaker 3: What do you what are the players.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think going through a week later after such
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  Speaker 1: a near miss in getting to the World series, It's.
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  Speaker 5: Got to be a bag of mixed emotions, like obviously,
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  Speaker 5: the loss is devastating. You could see the emotions in
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  Speaker 5: their face post game after that Game seven. You gotta
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  Speaker 5: imagine that coming home for the first week, it's it's
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  Speaker 5: trying to just be where your two feet are. So
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  Speaker 5: how do I get present my family? How do I
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  Speaker 5: really enjoy the people that I haven't seen a long time,
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  Speaker 5: How I get off my feet rest a little bit?
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  Speaker 5: But I know that you probably have those those moments
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  Speaker 5: that pop up in your head, and it's probably very
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  Speaker 5: specific for the individual for whatever they feel like they
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  Speaker 5: could have done better. Yeah, you know, the managers feel
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  Speaker 5: the same way. The gms s feel in the same way.
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  Speaker 5: But everyone's processing right now and they're getting towards the
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  Speaker 5: end of you know, the devastation of it, like it
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  Speaker 5: ever goes away fully. But once they start preparing for
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  Speaker 5: next year, they feel little bit better.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously, And yet, I mean, the the baseball mentality
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  Speaker 4: is one where you kind of have to have a
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  Speaker 4: short memory. And yet when the season's over, it's not
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  Speaker 4: like I have to have a special or short memory
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  Speaker 4: because I got to move on.
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  Speaker 3: I got another game the next day.
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  Speaker 4: So how long does something like this linger for the
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  Speaker 4: dudes in the clubhouse versus obviously the way in which
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  Speaker 4: they approach normal you know, scheduled baseball, where you got
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  Speaker 4: to get out there and go grind the next day.
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  Speaker 5: I'd never been this far in the playoffs. My assumption
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  Speaker 5: is that this will be felt in spring training next year.
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  Speaker 5: I had some conversations with a few Mariners' minor leaguers
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  Speaker 5: actually last last week, and the facility that I train
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  Speaker 5: out of, and just the fact that these questions are
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  Speaker 5: going to be asked all through spring training next year,
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  Speaker 5: like these are not going away. In every decision they
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  Speaker 5: make this off season, with free agent acquisitions, trades they make,
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be compared to the team that they
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  Speaker 5: just had just because of how well they did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to get into some of that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but still just a couple more like recap questions. Dan Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: Fangrafts just did a review of his managerial performance, and
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  Speaker 1: I think they gave him an average of like a seed,
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  Speaker 1: but they gave him an f an F in his
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  Speaker 1: pitching decisions that he made during the course of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're not being that hard on Dan Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: but does the manager have a few things to improve
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  Speaker 1: on by next year, assuming that we get back.
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  Speaker 2: To the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: If you ask them that question, I'm sure he would
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  Speaker 5: say yes, just because he's an accountable leader and he
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  Speaker 5: understands that the results of the decisions you make are
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  Speaker 5: going to determine how everyone views them. And unfortunately, the
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  Speaker 5: last decision he made of bringing Bizarre to win is
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  Speaker 5: under an absolute microscope. And I listened to his post
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  Speaker 5: pre Pros game press conferences about it, and you can
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  Speaker 5: hear the tone of his voice of that's been our
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  Speaker 5: guy in pinches all year. It didn't work out this time,
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  Speaker 5: and unfortunately he's gonna have to wear this on the
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  Speaker 5: chin for the entire offseason and also spring training of.
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  Speaker 2: Where was Brash? Where was Muonios? What were you thinking?
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  Speaker 5: And you got the POTO backing them up in the media,
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  Speaker 5: which is always nice. The factor unified from kind of
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  Speaker 5: the top down there. I can't give him an f though,
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  Speaker 5: because I feel like the most the playoffs he did
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  Speaker 5: a really good job navigating that bullpen, the high leverage arms,
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  Speaker 5: the matchups. Maybe a little bit of a quick trigger
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  Speaker 5: with some of his starting pitchers, but I understand why
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  Speaker 5: you do that, because every game has high leverage, so
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  Speaker 5: you have to go to the guys that helped get
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  Speaker 5: you there. And also the starting pitching wasn't what they
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  Speaker 5: were in twenty four this whole season, so he was
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  Speaker 5: gonna go those bullpen guys that were hot, and that's
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  Speaker 5: what he did all the way throughout.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you know, moving into you know, this
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  Speaker 4: part of the of the year, obviously kind of licking
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  Speaker 4: our wounds a little bit after getting ejected, but then
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  Speaker 4: you kind of move quickly into Okay, what do they
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  Speaker 4: need to do to make it that that get those
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  Speaker 4: extra nine outs and get to a World Series next year?
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  Speaker 4: For me, and I'm not gonna speak for anybody else.
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  Speaker 4: I think Chuck and Ashly on the same page. You
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  Speaker 4: get Josh Naylor, and yet he's a Boris guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: what do you think odds are that did did Naylor
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  Speaker 4: enjoy his time in Seattle enough? Do you think that
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  Speaker 4: he made a good enough connection with his teammates in
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  Speaker 4: this town that he might come back? Or is this
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  Speaker 4: gonna flat out be the highest bidders go and get him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think bor Or Naylor is a Boris?
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  Speaker 3: Is he not?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, he says, I s, so that maybe
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  Speaker 5: gives us a little bit of benefit of doubt. But
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  Speaker 5: I was just going through there's a great article on
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  Speaker 5: the Athletic talking about the top fifty free agents out
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  Speaker 5: there with the projected contracts for be or could be,
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  Speaker 5: and then also thinking through the Mariners and what they've
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  Speaker 5: done in the open market with free agents before. And
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  Speaker 5: you know, they're projecting Josh Naylor to get a four year,
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  Speaker 5: ninety million OAR contract and then Suarez a three year,
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  Speaker 5: seventy two million ART contract. I think one of those
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  Speaker 5: two is really really manageable, and if I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: prioritize one, I would selfishly go after Naylor because I
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  Speaker 5: think the type of player and hitter he was from
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  Speaker 5: what we're seeing be successful in playoffs is what we need.
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  Speaker 5: And also, you know, he struggled the first half of
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  Speaker 5: that Alds series. You guys remember that, We're like, where's Naylor,
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  Speaker 5: what's he doing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh he had a kid? Oh wow, he rakes again.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind, We're okay.
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  Speaker 5: That was the process of a Mariner stands with Josh Naylor,
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  Speaker 5: and then he was our best hitter throughout the course
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  Speaker 5: of the playoffs outside of the one and only a
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  Speaker 5: cal rawly.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the guy that I'm putting at the top
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  Speaker 2: of my list.
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  Speaker 5: If I can anchor down first base with his bat,
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  Speaker 5: his back to bald skills, and also his power production,
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  Speaker 5: I'd be really happy. But I'm curious how they navigate
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  Speaker 5: the trademark because that's where the Mariners get really really busy,
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  Speaker 5: whether it's offseason or in season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't I'm just trying to warn people right
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  Speaker 1: off the bat, don't expect too many additions. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're going to try to handle things in house where
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  Speaker 1: they can, and that includes not just a decision between
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  Speaker 1: Naylor and Suarez, because I think you're absolutely right to me,
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  Speaker 1: that's a no brainer that you bring back Naylor. If
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  Speaker 1: those are the two price tags, I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: bigger question to go Suarez or Polonco. And I actually
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  Speaker 1: think Ryan, get your opinion on it, I think they
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  Speaker 1: would prioritize Polonco over Swarez as well.
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  Speaker 5: I agree with that statement, especially with what he did
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  Speaker 5: the bounce back year he had. I'm curious what the
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  Speaker 5: price tag on him is going to be. This article
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  Speaker 5: has him projected to sign a two year, twenty six
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  Speaker 5: million dollar contract. I think that's doable for the Mariners.
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  Speaker 5: So we can get both of those players back for
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and fifteen to one twenty million dollars combined,
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  Speaker 5: that would be amazing. I know that Ben Williamson was
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  Speaker 5: up as well. If you're talking about in house solutions
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  Speaker 5: for third base, I'm not sure what your guys' opinions
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  Speaker 5: on him are. I haven't seen him play enough, but
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  Speaker 5: I know that the Mariners traded Tyler Locklear in that
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  Speaker 5: Suarez deal to d Back, so they lost one of
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  Speaker 5: their first base prospects, and Naylor needs to be a priority.
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  Speaker 5: But they still have Williamson, and the power production doesn't
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  Speaker 5: get me really excited. But I was on Them Network
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  Speaker 5: Radio last week and Ryan Spillboard was talking about how
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  Speaker 5: great of a defender he was and how solid he
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  Speaker 5: would be for that side of the diamond. But I
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  Speaker 5: would need to see a little more power production from
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  Speaker 5: my third base bat, especially when you're losing a replacing
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  Speaker 5: with the guy just hit fifty.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting you bring that up, because you know
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  Speaker 1: the fickle fan like I want this, and then you
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  Speaker 1: get this and you're like.
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  Speaker 2: Well I want that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to Toronto Blue Jays, what did we hear
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  Speaker 1: the entire series about Toronto Blue Jays, what a great
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  Speaker 1: job they did one through nine putting the ball in play.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Williamson doesn't hit for power, but he plays great
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  Speaker 1: defense and he does put the ball in play. And
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  Speaker 1: even though it's not doubles, triples and homers, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if he's hitting down in the order and he makes
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  Speaker 1: dirt cheap compared to the seventy two million doll figure
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  Speaker 1: that you threw out there, I would almost guarantee it
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  Speaker 1: Ryan that Ben Williamson's the third baseman. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: Ben Williamson will be our third baseman, but if that's
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  Speaker 1: the price tag on Gino Swarz, if he doesn't come
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  Speaker 1: way down from that, I'll almost guarantee the Ben Williamson
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  Speaker 1: will be the third baseman next year over Gino.
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  Speaker 2: I would second that as well.
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  Speaker 5: I think your point there was well articulated at the
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  Speaker 5: Blue Jays formula. How many guys that they have that
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  Speaker 5: were just lifer in the minor leagues and they got
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  Speaker 5: up to the big leagues and they just did the
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  Speaker 5: same thing that did in the minor leagues that wasn't sexy,
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  Speaker 5: and now all of a sudden when you get nine
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  Speaker 5: guys that do it really, really well, it's beautiful and Clement,
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  Speaker 5: you're talking about Lucas like, you're talking about guys that
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  Speaker 5: can just grind out of bats. And if that's what
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  Speaker 5: Williamson develops into a little bit more. But we saw
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  Speaker 5: decent sample size. He almost had three hundred plate appearances
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  Speaker 5: this year. Obviously, the on base percentage I think will
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  Speaker 5: get better. The slug being three to ten for me
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  Speaker 5: is doesn't get me super excited at least for a
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  Speaker 5: quarner infield position. But I do know that power to
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  Speaker 5: develops at different stages for each individual player, and at
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  Speaker 5: times I've seen guys develop the power even.
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  Speaker 2: More in the major leagues.
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  Speaker 5: Why, I don't have an exact reason for you, but
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  Speaker 5: if that's something that can progress, that'd be amazing. But
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  Speaker 5: we also know the ballpark that he's playing in, and
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  Speaker 5: if you're not a power hitter stepping into that ballpark,
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  Speaker 5: it's really hard to develop into one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not going to be easy. But at the
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  Speaker 4: same time, he did after they send him down, after
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  Speaker 4: they got Geno, he went down there actually and put
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  Speaker 4: up I mean, I'm almost a nine hundred. I want
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  Speaker 4: to say eight fifty ops. He'd been up pitting my
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  Speaker 4: five homers and fifty a b's. I wouldn't be surprised
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  Speaker 4: if he ends up developing into having more power, because
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  Speaker 4: I get one and two hundred one bomb and two
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  Speaker 4: hundred played appearances up in the big leagues. But he's
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  Speaker 4: not going to be a fifty home run guy. But
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's zero chance. I just think that it's
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  Speaker 4: fine to kind of have a guy that puts the
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  Speaker 4: ball in play and grinds out AB's.
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  Speaker 3: I think that is if I had.
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  Speaker 4: To narrow down to what I think one reason why
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  Speaker 4: we didn't get to the World Series and the Toronto
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  Speaker 4: Blue Jays did, I think they were better at that.
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  Speaker 4: They were better at having tough abs.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing that goes with it, I mean they've already
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  Speaker 1: announced as an organization that will probably start next year
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  Speaker 1: at the payroll we ended at, which is a bump forward.
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  Speaker 1: That's I mean, because they added payroll at the trading deadline.
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  Speaker 1: I think after their success that they had this year,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't do a lot last offseason to add
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  Speaker 1: to this team, and I think they have fewer holes
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  Speaker 1: this offseason than they had last offseason. And then the
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  Speaker 1: success that they had. I mean they also, I think
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  Speaker 1: Ryan want to be in a position that hey, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if we went with Williamson and we start with him
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  Speaker 1: at third base, that doesn't mean that if we got
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  Speaker 1: to the trading deadline, we wouldn't recognize that as a
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  Speaker 1: potential place that needs to be upgraded. And then we
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: get aggressive again at the trading deadline like they have
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  Speaker 1: three of the last four years. I think that's something
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  Speaker 1: that Mariner fans should expect to have happened. Quite frankly,
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: if anybody's expecting some big, spendy off season.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna add Tucker, and we're gonna add Bregman, and.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna you know, we're gonna sign, we're gonna trade
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  Speaker 1: for show.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, if you're.
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  Speaker 1: Expecting that big offseason, it's probably I think you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be left one team quite severely.
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  Speaker 2: Frankly, I'm with you there.
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  Speaker 5: We have to look at the history of how the
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: Manners have orchestrated their their rosters, and they've now had
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  Speaker 5: a proof of concept was successive it of winning the
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  Speaker 5: AL West then making it to Game seven of the
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  Speaker 5: CS series, like they they know their formula has validation.
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  Speaker 5: I've heard Dipotos say this multiple times in his in
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  Speaker 5: his conferences press conferences, is like, we trust our process.
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  Speaker 2: We think our process is really good.
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  Speaker 5: I do think that this is an opportunity to audit
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  Speaker 5: everything within your system compared to what some of the
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  Speaker 5: teams look like. And they're gonna be watching that World
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  Speaker 5: Series closer than they would have years past with a
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: different set of lenses of the world's doubting this Blue
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  Speaker 5: Jays team, Like they thought the Dodgers want to go
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  Speaker 5: a four game sweep, and they were done zoning, and
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  Speaker 5: they showed up in game one and did what they
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: did the entire alcs and I wasn't shocked, Like I
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  Speaker 5: just watched these guys seven games straight conduct professional bat
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  Speaker 5: at the professional bet and then they faced a really
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  Speaker 5: great picture and.
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  Speaker 2: They did the same thing.
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  Speaker 5: So how do we get guys in our lineup that
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  Speaker 5: can have professional bats? And where can we allocate some funds?
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  Speaker 5: But they're not going to go spend a couple hundred
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  Speaker 5: million dollars in the free agent market. That's not how
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  Speaker 5: they work. They trade for guys. They make sure they
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  Speaker 5: fit there. They like Seattle, they like the they fit
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  Speaker 5: the camaraderie round there, and then we extend them. That's
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  Speaker 5: that's been their formula, So why would that change now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, heally, is there a philosophy when you were here
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  Speaker 4: that was in this kind of the mode, the new
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  Speaker 4: school mode that is a lot more swing and miss.
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  Speaker 4: It's tougher to have grinder AB's against the velocity that
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  Speaker 4: people are seeing.
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  Speaker 3: So it's there.
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  Speaker 4: There's been a time where we've seen more of the
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  Speaker 4: home run, strikeout, walk, that's your outcomes. And and yet
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  Speaker 4: I want to know if you had a sense of
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  Speaker 4: what the organization's philosophy was, because I think a couple
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: of years ago they tried to make an adjustment like
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  Speaker 4: we're not bringing to Oscar back, we're not bringing Gino
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  Speaker 4: Suarez back because we want to put the ball in
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  Speaker 4: play more, Whereas maybe that sounded like that wasn't a
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  Speaker 4: priority for us in years previous. It was that a
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: did this organization switch from something maybe back when you played,
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  Speaker 4: or even up to the last couple of years, where
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: they're thinking more of going back to kind of some
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  Speaker 4: mode school. We're gonna have some role player guys that
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  Speaker 4: put the ball in play more often.
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: You heard that last year when they made the coaching
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: changes and they brought Edgar Martinez back, and then they
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: brought the new hitting coach this year in and that
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: was the whole conversation, was the approach, the execution of
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: the approach, the consistency of it, understanding how we can
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: win in our ballpark. We're not going to lead the
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: league in home runs, even though they almost did, but
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: that wasn't their strategy going into it. I think they
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: just ended up having a few players that were having
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: those type of years and they said send it. Let's
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: go of like, if this is what you want to do,
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: this what we can do, Let's let's win some ballgames.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Do with that.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: There was always a consistency of conversation when I was there, though,
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: of commanding the strike zone, and whether it was your
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: a swing swinger for the fences or it was a
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: contact play, move a runner over, it was still it
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: was still commanding the strike zone. It's very consistent on
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: the pitching side as well. They always talked about strike one.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: There were specific counts that they really wanted us to
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: win on the offensive side. Obviously, the even counts, the
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: one to one counts, the two to two, the three
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: two counts. They really wanted us to win those counts.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: So if we had to gear down a little bit
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: in those to win them, so be it. But there's
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: also understanding your role like that. When I was there,
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: we had the Nelson Cruisers, we had the Robinson Canoes,
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: the Gene Seguraz, the Kyle Seegers. We had a lot
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: of guys that had different profiles of hit her and
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: they really wanted those guys to maximize what that opportunity was.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Like it was Jean Jane the hit machine, and Robbie
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: Canoe is gonna spray doubles and then Nelson Cruz can
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: hit homers and Kyle Seager is going to clean up
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: whatever was less from there hitting doubles and homers. Like
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: that's just which is the formula, Like you knew who
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: you were as a player, and it was more so
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: dominate that profile instead of Now it seems like they're
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: trying to integrate more of a team wide approach. And
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: that's at least what we saw the Blue Jays do
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: and do it to absolute perfection.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Super Kiddy himself, Ryan Healey is with us right here
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: on Chuck and Buck in the morning's Super Bowl excuse me,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: super Bowl, I called the Sounders a hockey team earlier,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and now I'm to all in the World Series, the
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Monday.
• 17:02
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of people right now in Seattle, as
• 17:11
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• 17:15
  Speaker 1: but let us use our last two minutes with you
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: here today to do just that. So far, series, even
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: at one game apiece, how long does this thing last?
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: In your opinion, who comes out on top and why?
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I hope for seven games.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: That's since I really haven't been a Diehart fan of
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: a team in a long time, like the Mariners were
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: the first time I was in it heavy, I always
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: rooted for seven games.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: I just love the pressure. I love it back and forth.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: So I wont seven games, and man if the Dodgers
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: pitching staff does what they've done, like Gossman's the best
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: I saw him throw, I feel like he didn't throw
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: that well in the CS series. I also, most life
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: i've seen in his fastball y'ama motive. He pitches like that.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: I don't see them having it shot it really is
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: gonna come down to a lot of the key factors
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: that we saw in that CS series. Who is sures
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: are gonna be? Who is bead are gonna be? Because
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: we know what the Dodgers starting pitching is gonna be.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: But I don't think the Dodgers' offense is clicking on
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: all cylinders yet. So my prediction is Dodgers and seven.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Dodgers and seven.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even think it's gonna last seven.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Really, it's gonna go back to Canada. Oh you think
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: there's gonna win all three?
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I think win all three in La just in this
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: you just want it to be over.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I might, Yes, for the first time in my life,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I'm like, am I even gonna watch?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: And I did?
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I did watch Friday Night, and I did watch Saturday
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and Toronto.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: You know, you're right.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: They did the things that they did to us and
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: against good pitching in the previous series. But I do
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: think the Dodgers pitching is healthy, and a healthy Dodgers
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: rotation is perhaps the most dangerous thing on the planet.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they chip away too, they like manufactured or run
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: with two outs in game two where you're like, oh wow,
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: this is gonna be a cruising inning for them, and
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: all of a sudden it was a double single.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's a that's one run.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: They just kind of did that to you a couple
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: of times where they score runs so quickly, like.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: How did that happen?
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: So I see that happening, and then once they get
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: the big blast, I think that the Blue Jays need
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: to score early to quiet that Dodger crowd.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah all right, man, Well, great to catch up with you.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. We'll bug you again real soon.
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• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, is this ego guy's ego going to
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  Speaker 1: be completely out of control. It's Chuck and Box Sports
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, the flashcards, and the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: next thing you know, he's studying trivia.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: It's one of his hobbies, one of his passions.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I get it too, because I'm mean, I
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: love me some trivia.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: We have a game every Thursday because of that, because
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: you force us into it. But Aaron Levine might actually
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: like it more than you do, Bucky, and tonight, tonight
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: we will have video evidence that he has reached the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: mountaintop of trivia. Aaron Levine joins us right here on
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck in the Morning. Congratulations first and foremost.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Hey, thanks, I'm waiting for Bucky to take the online
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: anytime tests next and I can't wait to see him
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: on the show.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Also, yeah, I wouldn't even know how to go about
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: signing up for it, let alone, would I ever qualify
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: for it? If they wanted to do a bloopers reel,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: they would have me on the first episode.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: I mean it's all about It's all about casting sometimes, Bucky.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: I think if you get past the first test and
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: have your zoom audition with them, they take one look
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: at that beard and they say that guy is on
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: the show.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: That's our guy. Right.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: They ask all about fishing, baseball, campfires.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Uh, whiskey. I got a chance.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: My children, My children know those categories.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: If you do, I'm in.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Aaron Levine's gonna be on Jeopardy tonight. So tonight He's
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: going to be on Jeopardy. How awesome is this for you?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: Well?
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: To have an opportunity to go on a completely different
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: channel in Seattle, I mean, that's that's kind of crazy
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: beyond Como Fortnite.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: Uh No.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: I got to thank my bosses at Fox thirteen for
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: allowing me to do that. It's been a dream of
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: mine for a long time. But you mentioned it being
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: a hobby. I was a competitive golfer my entire life,
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: and I stopped playing golf about six seven years ago.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: Competitive well, not competitively.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: I just wasn't very good at it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: First of all, I had an eye condition also that
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: provided prevented me from being.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: On a golf course.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: So I needed to fill that competitive hole in some way,
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: shape or form, and who knew it was going to
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: be trivia, But believe it or not, when I play
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: in a trivia match, I get the same adrenaline rush
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: as I would before teeing off for a big round
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: of golf.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Well okay, I mean, yeah, that's crazy to me because
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: I would just be nervous as all get out that
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: I'm going to know no answers, not one single answer,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: and yet give the people just a little bit of
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: an idea of we talk about these flash cards that
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: you'll bust out.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: You'll have I don't.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Know, a stack maybe five six inches tall that you
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: just go through as questions and answers.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: But how many flash cards do you have?
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: I might have to send out a picture of this eventually.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: I have about twenty eight to thirty shoe boxes full
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: of index cards that I have written out over the
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: course of the last six and a half years. It
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: started with me just making cards for top fifty operas,
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: top fifty paintings, top fifty books of the nineteen hundreds
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: and whatever, and just to give myself a solid foundation,
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: and ever since then it's been making a card for anything.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: I don't know either, on Jeopardy or any of the
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: trivia matches that I'm in, and it has slowly grown
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: into this mountain of index cards. The funny part is,
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: I'm sort of this old school guy that has physical cards,
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: while everybody else in the trivia world has these apps
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: that they just kind of swipe on their phones, going
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: one after the other, so you never know if they're
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: actually studying or not. I, on the other hand, have
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: these big boxes that I bring with me everywhere I go.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Everywhere he goes.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Aaron Levine is with us, of course, from Fox thirteen. Tonight,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: he'll be on Como. He will be appearing on Jeopardy
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: at ten thirty this evening after Monday night football, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: so he makes his debut on Jeopardy. So is there
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: like a guide to getting there? I mean, do you
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: know what it takes to get on Jeopardy? Take us
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: through that entire process of wanting to be on it,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and then how difficult it is to actually get on
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the show.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: So it's funny, I was I'm competing in trivia regularly
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: against people who have been in trivia bowls, trivia quiz
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: bowl throughout their high school.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: Careers and stuff.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: I always wanted to be on Jeopardy growing up, but
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: watching it with my parents like as a teenager at
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: the dinner table every night.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: But then I stopped going. I didn't go to.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: Any trivia nights like at bars for the next you know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: through college.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: In the next fifteen years.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: When I turned thirty seven, I watched an episode of Jeopardy,
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: and I just set a long term goal of saying,
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: hey by the time I turned forty in three years,
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: I want to feel comfortable enough to take the online
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Jeopardy test, and by the time I turned thirty nine,
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: I felt comfortable enough to do so. So it's been
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: sort of the six and a half year process of
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: starting to study. Took that first online Jeopardy test.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: You have to pass that one.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: Then they give you a second fifty question test that
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: is procter to make sure that you're not cheating, and
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: then if you pass that, then eventually hopefully you will
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: get an online audition. Once you have the audition with
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: the show, you are automatically placed into a contestant pool
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: for the next two years.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: So I was in the contestant pool for the.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: First time in July of twenty twenty one. I spent
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: thirty seven consecutive months in the contestant pool without getting
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: it called the show. It expired last August. I took
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: the test again, went through the whole process again, had
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: my zoom audition believe it or not, in spring training
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: in Arizona, and was back in the contestant pool since February.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Then got the call in the late July take the
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: show last month and ever since then, it's been one
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: big blur with the Mariners in the playoffs, going to
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Detroit and Toronto twice, and coincidentally, had they won Game seven,
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: my airgate tonight would have been the first day that
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: the Mariners ever hosted a World Series game. So that's
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: my one big regret. It would have been an all
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: time coincidence. But unfortunately, hopefully they'll get back there soon.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: All right, Well, I mean getting you do a lot
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: of these shows, or not shows necessarily, but you go
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: to events and kind of nerd out a little bit
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: doing a bunch of trivia stuff. You and I have
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: spoken about this many times before and after doing you know,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: postgame shows are in press boxes and whatnot. So what
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: was the biggest eye opener of doing the biggest one?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Because this has got to be to some degree like
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the like the super Bowl of trivia.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's no question.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: And it's It's interesting though, because the World Quizzing Championships
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: in the trivia world are considered the top of the top,
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: and then you go to various events, like there's a
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: Sporkle Con. We were in Detroit and that was the
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: second time for playoffs. That was the second time I
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: was in Detroit because I had just been there a
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: year prior for this annual convention called Sporkle Con. And
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: I've been at the Trivia Nationals in New.
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: Orleans earlier this year.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: Jeopardy is by far the highest profile where you start
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: hearing from your former teachers from high school and people
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: you haven't talked to in twenty years. In the trivia
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: world itself, there are there are incredibly talented trivia players
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: that everybody knows about in that circle that consistently dominate
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: those those realms. It's like when you're playing competitive golf
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: and you feel like you're a pretty decent golfer going
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: out and shooting US seventy three, seventy four, and know
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: once you get out there that you're going to get
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: lapped by some dude that shoots sixty three or sixty
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: four on a regular basis.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Make sure you ask everything in a question. Oh well, yeah,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: get that done.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Crazy is a big deal, that's right.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: And the one thing, by the way, the one thing
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: people don't see when they're watching from home, is how
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: huge a factor the buzzer is. You're not allowed to
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: buzz in until a guy off stage activates the buzzer
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: when Ken Jennings is done reading the clue, and so
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: if you don't time it correctly or if you buzz
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: in too quickly, you're actually locked out for a quarter
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: of a second, which could be the difference between you
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: getting in and you're not getting in. And psychologically that's
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: a big deal because imagine knowing six correct answers in
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: a row but not being able to get in on
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: the buzzer, but then getting in on the seventh and
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: getting it wrong. Then you're sitting here with six hundred
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: negative six hundred negative eight hundred dollars and you knew
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: six out of the first seven answers, but you were
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: just never able to get in.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Wow, gotta have a buzzer game. It happened so fast.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Tough Altuve or somebody maybe for a pointer.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly how to cheat Jeopardy. That would have been
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: a good tip for you. Okay, So I remember when
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Cliff Claven and Cheers wanted to get on Jeopardy for
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: like years, and then he finally got on and he
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: showed up at the set and it was like Bucky
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: was joking about earlier.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: It was like beer Boston sports.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: It was like every category was like his ex areas
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of expertise, and he dominated round one, and then in
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: round number two it normalized and he fell apart. So
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: what are your one or two areas of expertise that
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: you were hoping to get when you game on the scene.
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: I was hoping for anything from history to geography. I
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: actually feel fairly good in I shouldn't say opera, but
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: like some of the classical arts types categories, there was
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: almost a sense of satisfaction at times where, and I
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: can say this if there was sports on the board
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: that I didn't necessarily gravitate towards sports, because I was
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: playing against the stereotype of oh, this is a sports guy,
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: He's going to go straight to the sports questions. I
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: felt like I could handle other things. The one area
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: that I am very bad at is wordplay. I'm horrible
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: at anagrams. My mind thinks in a very linear fashion.
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: So if you say crossword clues A because it starts
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: with A, I'm fine. But if you say that A
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: is the exact middle of the answer, my brain does
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: not work. So that was the area that I was
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: most concerned about going on the show.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, well you get you be successful
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: to us. We'll watch tonight, make sure that you know
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: we approve, and then you can step up to the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: big leagues and play beat bucket way these weeks.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Good luck with that.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm looking forward to that for sure.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I'll bet you are. I bet you are.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Where are you gonna have a party tonight?
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: You have? Like?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: What do you got tonight? What do you got going?
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: How are you you got a viewing schedule?
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: I've got an eight and a half year old that's
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: really excited to stay up till eleven o'clock to watch
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: this episode.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't exactly you know, it's not exactly in.
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  Speaker 6: My favor to have a ten thirty at night on
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  Speaker 6: a weekday episode, but.
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  Speaker 7: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody gets to watch the World Series and then or
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: Monday Night football and then tune in later tonight at
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  Speaker 6: t I'm thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, ten thirty.
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  Speaker 1: It is well, congratulations, We're excited for you. I mean
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: watching you go through your flash cards for years and
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: here you are right on the doorstep of seeing yourself
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  Speaker 1: on Jeopardy.
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  Speaker 2: So awesome.
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  Speaker 7: Congrats man, Thanks a lot, guys, thanks so much for
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: the support.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, brother, Aaron Levine joining us right here on
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the checkerbox is not gonna er. It's not gonna rate
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  Speaker 1: well in Toronto. No, Yeah, he's a huge ratings tonight there.
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  Speaker 1: But but that's exciting for him. That's awesome. You've been
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: hearing about this for a while now. I got a buddy,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: one of my best friends in the world, and he's
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: been wanting to get on.
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  Speaker 2: Jeopardy as entire adult life.
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  Speaker 1: And it just hasn't happened for him. I'm sure he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't pursued it as aggressively as what Aaron is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there's a lot that's gone into it.
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  Speaker 4: He showed me a couple of pictures like incognito, like
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: pictures about he couldn't quite he wasn't supposed to announce
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: that he was, but he was gonna wait until after
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: the Mariner's situation was done. But just getting on there.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: The first thing, you're gonna laugh when you see how
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: he wrote his name.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And he also knows the result, by the way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and can't tell anybody.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 9: We don't know if he's on more than one night.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I don't know. We don't know if he won.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he embarrassed himself, embarrassed Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know.
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  Speaker 9: I'm gonna doubt that well, so he can be crazy.
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  Speaker 1: One last thing coming your way next Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM, my final segment here on this
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Monday edition of Chuck and Buck in the Morning, or
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: one last thing we go round the room, Bucky, what
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  Speaker 1: you got?
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  Speaker 3: I am completely torn.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know for sure if I was going to
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: have it in me to watch the World Series, and
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: I watched on Friday. Saturday, I went to the Dustin
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Nickerson Show, so I did not watch it. And I'm glad,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: especially as dominant as it was with that pitching staff,
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: And yet I am finding myself when watching game one
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  Speaker 4: torn between my recent disdain for Toronto since they knocked
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: us out and your lifeline, and my lifelong disdain for
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: what is the National League's evil empire, right, I mean
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: the dog So I just don't I my kids there
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: are both in this mode now, right. They watched some
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: sports with me and they typically So who are we
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  Speaker 4: cheering for?
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know who I'm cheering for?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like a good series, I guess most most years,
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  Speaker 4: though in my life I've not.
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  Speaker 1: Cheered for anybody in the world series. Most of my life,
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  Speaker 1: I've not cheered for anybody in the world. I just
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  Speaker 1: want a good series. But I will say I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: sure I was going to watch at all Friday when
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I left work, but I did flip it on, mostly
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: drank Martiniz and listen to music. Did not have the
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: audio up, but I did watch both games. And so
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: we're no, you don't be interested, No, none.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: So there's not party of this against like the idea
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: of the Dodgers, the way that they've constructed their team
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: and money that that's worrisome versus like, but I can't
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: really cheer for any team.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: George Springer on it Answers, Yeah, you're cheering for like
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  Speaker 3: a sinkhold. Possibly, Yeah, I dirt, but like a I
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  Speaker 3: aim to tie.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm watching in case show hey or somebody
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: else does something historic.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose, but I have zero rooting interest either way.
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  Speaker 3: None.
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  Speaker 9: I haven't watched a second.
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  Speaker 4: See mine is like it's I don't have a rooting interest,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: because that is implying I'm rooting for a team. I'm
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: just I find myself rooting against both teams the whole time,
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Like I want.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: This guy to strike. I never ran. I can't want.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't. It is a lose lose. It's not
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: a win win. It's a lose lose situation for me
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: right now, and I don't like it.
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's why I'm not watching any other We can't both.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Of them lose.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm stupid sports.
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I found out.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: A lot that apparently it can't happen.
• 34:39
  Speaker 9: So just not watching seeing myself the.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Trouble, Ashley, what your one last thing?
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  Speaker 10: Well?
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: I bring sad news for everyone.
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: Last night was the final sunset after six pm that
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: we will see until March. Next Sunday, the sun will
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: set at four forty nine pm after we change the clocks.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Wow, darkness, Hello darkness, my old friend. It was really
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: dark Saturday morning. It was like nine am and it
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: still looked like it was four eight.
• 35:09
  Speaker 10: And really dark Saturday night too, because we were driving
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  Speaker 10: home and just the pouring rain and driving.
• 35:15
  Speaker 9: Wind and it was darkness.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: The valley was without power for the last couple of days.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: We didn't we we had we still had it.
• 35:22
  Speaker 10: We lost power on Saturday, but it came back early
• 35:24
  Speaker 10: Sunday morning.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Some of ours ours held on. I don't even know how,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: because we almost always lose power, Like somebody could just go, hey,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: our power will go out.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Hey talk how you do it?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Gone?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it flickered a lot, a lot, a lot,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: went out a couple.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Of times, but immediately came right back on.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: My biggest problem is I woke up, walked to the
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: grocery store Sunday morning, and like thirty five percent of
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the leaves had blown off the trees.
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, I don't not even know Halloween yet
• 35:58
  Speaker 10: it is there.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, they're gone.
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  Speaker 3: Crap.
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: All right, I will close my one last thing here today.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe I should save this for tomorrow. But you know,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: all these head coaching firings that are taking place. There
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: are only if you're like char Clark Lee from Vanderbilt,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: who I just watched on game day and it looks
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: like he's having the time of his life. Or Brent
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Keys undefeated at Georgia Tech and yet has been a
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech man his entire career, or a Kalani Sataki
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: who's killing it at BYU. I mean, they're all gonna
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: have ash crack at one. They probably might all three
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: of them. That might be three of the.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Hirings right there.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Penn State, LSU, Florida might be those three guys. But
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: considering what you have to do once you get there
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: for a little bit of a pay raise, when you're
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: being treated like a god on your campus right now,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: do you really want that? Do you want a three
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: million dollars pay raise but a championship or else right
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: away kind of situation? Or do you want to stay
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: where you're a god playing winning football, building a great program?
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Uh, and don't face the pressures of that.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: I would want to go try myself at the highest
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, by us not winning NASH Championship, it don't
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: regardless how good he does, and he's done great, and
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: yet I would have to think. No, I want better players,
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: I want more resources at my fingertips, and I'll take
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: the pressure that comes with it because I believe in
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: myself and my skills and my ability to build the program.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: I would do it. And you're getting a pay raise.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Now it's the pressure. You don't do it. You don't
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: have much of a leash. That's the nature of Ultra.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it is a little bit different because it
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: used to be I have to go there if I
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: want to win a national championship.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Now it's I could go there.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: But I do know that if I don't win in
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the national championship, I'm probably getting fired.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know if I will different all different. I
• 38:05
  Speaker 9: don't know if I would or not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, Clark Lee looked like he was living a good
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: life down there without a single hair on his head.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to you tomorrow at six am.
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