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Chuck & Buck 6-26 Hour 3: The Ocho, Jackson Felts and a Guardians preview. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Oh I love this day. I know, I know you
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Speaker 1: Sound thinking to myself, Man, I want to take a
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Speaker 3: I love it. I love a rainy day. I have
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Speaker 1: It's like offense in football. It's all about balance.
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Speaker 1: Uh, Weather's lock weather. It happens every day, and yet
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Speaker 4: It was Weather's like weather.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's lock weather.
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Speaker 4: I liked it.
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Speaker 1: You can try to predict it, but he's got a
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Speaker 1: Yeah. All right, here we go. Before we get to
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to your eight top stories of
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Speaker 1: the day, and it starts with the World Cup. Last night,
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Speaker 1: the US was finishing up group play. They really didn't
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Speaker 1: have anything to play for, and Coach Potch he kind
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Speaker 1: of treated it that way. He had five guys with
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Speaker 1: yellow cards, so he didn't put them on the field.
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Speaker 1: He had an injured superstar who he didn't start in
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Speaker 1: the game last night, and so they faced Turka, which
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Speaker 1: had everything to play for last night because they were
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Speaker 1: already eliminated. It was their World Cup final last night.
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Speaker 1: To knock off the host team would have been a
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Speaker 1: nice feather in their caps before they head back across
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Speaker 1: the water.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 1: US started off one to nothing only they haven't lost
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Speaker 1: a match in the World Cup where they scored first
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Speaker 1: since nineteen fifty. But Turkey a came back. They took
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Speaker 1: a two to one lead. US response they tied it too,
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Speaker 1: and it looked like for sure we were gonna get
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Speaker 1: a two to two draw, which seemed okay with everybody.
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Speaker 1: And then this happened.
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Speaker 2: The USA's big star gets nutmegs coolers still trying to
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Speaker 2: get in chance.
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Speaker 1: For a cross, comes back to the top of the box.
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Speaker 1: Now it's clipped in at the backside. Turkey I scared.
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Speaker 2: The winning goal in the ninety eighth minute. They might
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Speaker 2: be going on tomorrow, but they're going wild now.
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Speaker 1: Good call from Fox. Crazy How that happened? The old
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Speaker 1: nutmeg I like that. That's my favorite soccer term. Nutmeg.
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Speaker 3: I just like that one too. I'd never heard it
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Speaker 3: before last night. Oh really, yeah, I don't know if
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Speaker 3: you know this, Chuck. I don't watch a lot of soccer.
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Speaker 1: Well, you don't walk to a lot of soccer. I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you this. You don't see many walkoffs in soccer.
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Speaker 1: I mean, sure, if they go to penalty kicks, you will,
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Speaker 1: but I mean that's the nature of it. But you
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Speaker 1: don't see many walkoffs in soccer. And they had one
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Speaker 1: last night ninety eight minutes. There's only ninety minutes in
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Speaker 1: a match, and so that means he went to extra time.
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Speaker 1: And guess how long the match lasted if you didn't
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Speaker 1: watch it last night, ninety eight minutes. They literally scored
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Speaker 1: with like two seconds left on an imaginary clock that
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Speaker 1: we don't get to see, and end up winning the
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Speaker 1: match by a final score of three to two. I
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Speaker 1: mean you had already you'd already walked away and counted
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Speaker 1: that as a draw.
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Speaker 4: I mean yeah.
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Speaker 1: And somehow they get the ball in the corner, nutmeg,
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Speaker 1: our best player get it in front of the goal,
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Speaker 1: and then had like three great opportunities to score and
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Speaker 1: eventually do score. So Turka's World Cup is over. But
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Speaker 1: they finish it on a real good note for them. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: the US will play Wednesday night Versus Bosnia. After their
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Speaker 1: three to two loss to close out group play. Team
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Speaker 1: USA played without nine of its eleven starters to begin
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Speaker 1: the match because of that whole yellow card thing and
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Speaker 1: the Polistic injury, but they did sub Polistic into the game.
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Speaker 1: At the fifty eight minute mark. He looked fresh. He
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Speaker 1: certainly didn't look injured in any way, looked a little feisty,
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Speaker 1: looked like he wanted to fight a couple of players
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Speaker 1: from Turkey A in the match. But he looked fine.
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Speaker 1: And it feels like Mauricio Pachettino decided that we need
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Speaker 1: to see him play if he's healthy before next Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: so they got Pulisic going a little bit. Pachettino also
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Speaker 1: after the match accused critics of the loss of being ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: We won the group. He emphasized pretty short team and
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Speaker 1: coach performed with that mindset last night in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's the right thing to do,
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Speaker 3: because it would have been nice to have gotten that
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Speaker 3: third win.
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Speaker 4: They hadn't gotten that ever before.
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Speaker 3: But is it gonna make or break or change anything
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Speaker 3: that happens moving forward. No, you got, as you said,
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Speaker 3: he got everything he needed to get out of it.
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Speaker 3: He got to see a star run around and get nutmegs. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and he was healthy.
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Speaker 4: So there you go.
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Speaker 1: You got.
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Speaker 3: You saved all the guys from yellow cards, from getting
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Speaker 3: another one and missing any game time. You got to
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Speaker 3: get some of the guys that never maybe never would
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Speaker 3: get to play in a World Cup game got some
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Speaker 3: playing time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if they didn't have the edge that is required
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Speaker 1: to win a match, you might understand it, right, considering
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Speaker 1: that their coach was making it pretty obvious. We've accomplished
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Speaker 1: what we set out to accomplish. My mom, she provided
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Speaker 1: some content. Oh if we want, what'd she say? She
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Speaker 1: spent the entire match texting me just question after question
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Speaker 1: about the celebrities there. Who would you rather sit with?
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Speaker 1: Kelsho or Leo? Oh? Because Ashton Kutcher was there, she
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Speaker 1: knows Kelson.
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Speaker 3: Of course from that seventy show. They showed one woman
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Speaker 3: who I have had no idea who that was.
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Speaker 1: I think I do know where we just don't recognize
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Speaker 1: her any Yeah, no makeup on it because she's old. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, I think I'd rather sit by Kelso to
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Speaker 1: answer Mom's question. Yeah, I hear the lot of celebrities
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Speaker 1: smell like they really have a physical odor about them.
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to sit next to Brad Pitt.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he looked annoying. Jackson Feltz will be with us
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour to talk about Kelso
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Speaker 1: versus Leo.
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Speaker 3: Right here, Karis Hilton bringing the ball out and then
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Speaker 3: looking really really smart while she said it on the stand.
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Speaker 1: Weird, So we'll chat with him at eight thirty. The
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Speaker 1: NHL Draft is tonight. The Toronto make Beliefs own the
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Speaker 1: number one pick in the draft that'll come your way
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Speaker 1: about four point fifteen. They'll make that pick. They are
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Speaker 1: expected to take Gavin McKenna, the superstar out of Penn State,
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Speaker 1: with the number one selection. It's about the only sure
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Speaker 1: thing tonight and that is going to be McKenna to Toronto. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: the draft sets up pretty well for the Kracking to
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Speaker 1: take an offensive defenseman at number seven if in fact
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Speaker 1: they end up with the pick. More on that in
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Speaker 1: a moment. Mike Benton joined us earlier this morning cracking
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Speaker 1: pre and postgame host and also just Captain Cracking, and
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Speaker 1: I asked him to give us some names of a guy,
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Speaker 1: maybe two that could be available at number seven. For
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Speaker 1: the cracking, Well, it's.
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Speaker 5: Been a while since, you know, someone took a defenseman.
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Speaker 6: I think maybe that.
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Speaker 5: High in their case and for the Kracking in their sense,
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Speaker 5: they really haven't ever picked a defenseman who can be
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Speaker 5: kind of a game changer for their franchise. It's been
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Speaker 5: a lot of forwards here, So guys, I'm really curious
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Speaker 5: about what a player like Keaton Verhoff could do if
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Speaker 5: he is there at seventh overall. I mean, the rumor
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Speaker 5: is that, you know, and the word is that there
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Speaker 5: could be a few defensemen who can you know, be
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Speaker 5: game changers.
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Speaker 1: For your franchise.
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Speaker 6: Maybe not be andshell ready for this next season, but
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Speaker 6: give them about probably a couple of years or so
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Speaker 6: a proper development, you know, they might be in a
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Speaker 6: position to start contributing and eventually a few years down
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Speaker 6: the road be a top end guy, maybe as well
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Speaker 6: an NHL All Star. They're hot to me, I've heard
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Speaker 6: as close to be NHL ready, and some people have
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Speaker 6: compared him to Drew Dowdy. I think he's got all
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Speaker 6: the tools kind of talking to folks and you know,
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Speaker 6: listen to others as far as what he could do
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Speaker 6: and with his potential.
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Speaker 1: I'm all about an offensive defenseman. If we end up
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Speaker 1: picking at number seven, which might not happen, should be
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Speaker 1: making the pick. Around five o'clock. We'll have a pre
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Speaker 1: draft coverage with all of our Kraken broadcast stars at three.
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Speaker 1: A draft starts at four from Buffalo, and the Kraken
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Speaker 1: will pick seventh if they keep the pick. Of course,
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Speaker 1: last night, the Kraken tried to trade it away for
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Speaker 1: a proven offensive scorer. According to all reports, the Kraken
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Speaker 1: put together a trade and a free agent offer for
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Speaker 1: Dallas star twenty six year old score Jason Robertson, and
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Speaker 1: apparently Jason Robertson turned us down, turned the offer down,
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Speaker 1: And apparently it has a lot to do with Botrell
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Speaker 1: just stalking him.
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Speaker 4: I moved, I changed my email address, my phone number. Okay,
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Speaker 4: he's practically stalking me.
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Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know all that, So I am sorry.
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Speaker 4: He's sorry.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so no, he wasn't stalking him. But obviously there
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Speaker 1: was a real concerted effort. I mean, we got a
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Speaker 1: thumbs up from ownership to say, hey, offer what it,
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Speaker 1: whatever it takes. Yeah, offer over market value. Let's get
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Speaker 1: him in here, we need him. And then Bochrell put
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Speaker 1: together a deal that, according reports, Dallas was alright with,
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Speaker 1: and Robertson just turned it down. He turned us down.
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Speaker 1: He does not want to be a member of the
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Speaker 1: Seattle Kraken.
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Speaker 3: But I will say the one thing that makes my
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Speaker 3: heart not hurt as much, because if he had said
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Speaker 3: like no and then taken less money from the next
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Speaker 3: team that offer, I would have been like, well, now
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Speaker 3: that's just a big f you you're giving us. But
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Speaker 3: he said no to us. He said no to Ottawa,
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Speaker 3: he said no to Saint Louis. He even said no
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Speaker 3: to Dallas, who offered him twelve million dollars. So he's
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Speaker 3: got something in mind. I'm very intrigued to see where
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Speaker 3: he wants to end up. I do love that the
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Speaker 3: Kraken took a big swing. I think that's awesome and
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Speaker 3: I hope that they have more of those swings in
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Speaker 3: their repertoire.
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Speaker 1: Well, there are other big name players that are being
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Speaker 1: rumored to be dealt. Dylan Larkin from Detroit is wone.
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Speaker 1: He's also put together a short list of teams that
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Speaker 1: he says he'll play for, and that's it. Those are
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Speaker 1: the only ones. Robertson must have a similar situation going
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Speaker 1: on there. But the Kraken obviously, you know, you can
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Speaker 1: be disappointed, you can point fingers, you can blame it
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Speaker 1: on they just aren't good enough. Yeah, there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of things out there, but has actually pointed out
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Speaker 1: the positive is that they're obviously going to be very
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Speaker 1: aggressive toward adding a significant offensive piece, and that could
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Speaker 1: be added. The seventh overall pick was part of that
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Speaker 1: trade that would be added before the draft starts tonight.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. So keep your eyes and ears to the ground, yes,
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Speaker 4: or pealed?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you keep them both to the ground, though
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Speaker 1: you might get run over.
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Speaker 4: By it's awesome.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, why is that guy's head stuck on their ground? Eyes?
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Speaker 4: Peeled, ears to the ground?
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Speaker 1: All right? Item number four and our eighth item oho
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Speaker 1: here to start this eight o'clock hour on a Friday,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I would imagine most of you are
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Speaker 1: familiar with this, but cad and Clark obviously has had
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Speaker 1: a rough time being accepted by her WNBA peers. This
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Speaker 1: has been going on for a long time. Caate and
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Speaker 1: Clark fans have had enough. Caden Clark attackers thinks it's
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Speaker 1: part of the game and she needs to toughen up,
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Speaker 1: and she brings a lot of this on herself. Well,
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Speaker 1: it might have reached a point earlier this week where
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Speaker 1: it went too far. Alica Thomas of Phoenix, who's Felix
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Speaker 1: like a strong individual. She pretty much pinned Caitlin Clark
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Speaker 1: to the court with her fist to the neck and
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Speaker 1: no official made a call. They even reviewed it and
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Speaker 1: didn't make a call, and Fever coach Stephanie White went
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Speaker 1: off after the.
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Speaker 7: Game, You're coming in here aware of what happened two
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Speaker 7: nights ago and that still happens. Absolutely unacceptable, Absolutely unacceptable.
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Speaker 4: And the reckless close.
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Speaker 7: Out that they actually reviewed and the foot still comes
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Speaker 7: down on top of the defender's foot that wasn't upgraded,
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Speaker 7: absolutely disrespectful. We have a generational talent and a WNBA
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Speaker 7: superstar who had two cheap shots right there that weren't called.
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Speaker 7: And I just say, again, absolutely unacceptable.
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Speaker 1: Stephanemore, aunt Caitlyn, what made you want to maybe make
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Speaker 1: that statement so forthley tonight.
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Speaker 7: Because they were so egregious. I mean, the fist in
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Speaker 7: the throat is crazy, is crazy, It's dangerous. The landing
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Speaker 7: spot when you went to review it and she still
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Speaker 7: comes down on top of another foot, Like, I don't know,
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Speaker 7: because to me, that's like a do over on a test.
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Speaker 7: How do you screw it up again?
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Speaker 1: Stephanie white Head, coach of the Fever, after the game
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Speaker 1: defending Caitlin Clark, feels like somebody needs to The WNBA
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Speaker 1: did hand out a one game suspension to Alyssa Thomas
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Speaker 1: for her actions, but man, they've shown a new angle
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Speaker 1: on it. It looks terrible. It looks worse than a
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Speaker 1: one game suspension.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I there are people who listen to the
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Speaker 3: show who are big NBA or WNBA fans and watch
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Speaker 3: it and they're like, oh, Kitlin Clark's just fine.
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Speaker 4: You guys need to chill out.
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Speaker 3: It's like, well, Caitlin Clark can handle her own, clearly,
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Speaker 3: she's doing a good job. She's given some back too,
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Speaker 3: but there's no place for some of this stuff. It's
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Speaker 3: not that Caitlyn Clark can't handle it, it's that it's
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Speaker 3: become like a not hack, a shack way worse.
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Speaker 4: And I just don't quite understand why they're all doing it.
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Speaker 1: Well, hackershack was a strategy to put a bad free
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Speaker 1: throw shooter on the line. That was a completely different
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Speaker 1: thing than you are allowing your face of your organization
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Speaker 1: to get beat up on a nightly basis, and then
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Speaker 1: if she complains her fights back, then everybody gets angrier
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Speaker 1: with her, like you're sucking the joy out of her
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Speaker 1: wanting to play basketball.
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Speaker 3: And it seems what you're doing, Yeah, it seems like
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Speaker 3: it's something the WNBA is anti because they even did
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Speaker 3: that thirtieth anniversary poster and Sophie Cunningham's the picture for
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Speaker 3: the fever, which she's not the face of the fever.
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Speaker 4: I mean, she's great. It makes no sense.
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Speaker 1: Other news from the WNBA, Marina Maybry of Toronto scored
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Speaker 1: a WNBA record fifty three points in a game last
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Speaker 1: night versus the Sparks. The Storm snapped an eleven game
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Speaker 1: losing skid with a ninety nine eighty eight win over
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Speaker 1: the Liberty. Rookie Flage Johnson scored a career high twenty
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Speaker 1: eight points, and in the NBA continues to be on
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown trade watch. At some point, the Celtics will
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Speaker 1: have no choice but to move him, and I am
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Speaker 1: buried intrigued as to where Jalen Brown might end up
16:04
Speaker 1: item number five on the OCHO. The Mariners are once
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Speaker 1: again a five hundred baseball team. Oh no, we suck again.
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Speaker 1: Well no, no, rob Now come on now, it's.
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Speaker 4: Quite a jump.
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Speaker 1: They don't suck, but they certainly are stuck in this
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Speaker 1: stage of mediocrity. Forty one and forty one is the
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Speaker 1: record after last nights or yesterday Afternoon's five to one
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Speaker 1: lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates. They just can't get it going.
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Speaker 1: Look like they were starting to get it going a
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Speaker 1: little bit again, and then you lose two out of
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Speaker 1: three to the worst team in the American League East,
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Speaker 1: and then you lose two out of three to the
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Pirates when you were up one to zero in
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Speaker 1: the series. They have not scored more than three runs
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Speaker 1: for eleven consecutive games.
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Speaker 4: That's the part that sucks the most.
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Speaker 1: Here we sit. We no longer have a short sample.
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Speaker 1: We've got eighty two games and so far this has
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Speaker 1: been nothing more than a mediocre baseball team. Doesn't matter
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Speaker 1: that they're in first place. They have far underachieved once
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Speaker 1: again in the first half of the season. But once again,
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Speaker 1: I suspect they'll get it going in the second half
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Speaker 1: and probably have a hot July in a hot August
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Speaker 1: and start to pull away from the American League West.
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Speaker 1: But right now they don't suck again. But they are
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Speaker 1: certainly consistently mediocre in twenty twenty six, and that in
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Speaker 1: and of itself is frustrating. Also for Major League Baseball,
17:29
Speaker 1: the All Star vote reached end of phase number one
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Speaker 1: of the voting, and the results, if they look screwy
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Speaker 1: to you, there is only one entity to blame, and
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Speaker 1: so why should a place that's not even a real
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Speaker 1: country be able to dominate the All Star voting For
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, Ernie Clement was the leading vote getter
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Speaker 1: of all the American League for phase one, so he
17:59
Speaker 1: is a right to the All Star Game as the
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Speaker 1: starting second baseman. Meanwhile, the ballot, it is a choice
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Speaker 1: between a Blue Jay and somebody else at every single position.
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Speaker 1: So please hear my words, America unite on this. I
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Speaker 1: don't want one more blue Jay starting the game. So
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Speaker 1: that means all other American cities have to vote. I
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Speaker 1: don't because, by the way other blue Jay is worthy
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Speaker 1: of starting, They're not deserving of it, right, The blue
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Speaker 1: Jays aren't very good, So vote the other guy on
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Speaker 1: the ballot, even if he's a Yankee. We'll get over that. Yep,
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Speaker 1: no more Blue Jays starting in the All Star Game.
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Speaker 4: You know it's something when somebody can unite us with
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Speaker 4: the Yankees.
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Speaker 1: Finally, the Seahawks one series is going to conclude today
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Speaker 1: here on Chuck and Buck in the Mornings. Yesterday, Evan
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Speaker 1: Gettings of the game in San Francisco joined us to
18:49
Speaker 1: talk about Brian Fleury and evaluate his move from San
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Speaker 1: Francisco to Seattle.
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Speaker 8: It's interesting. I know that Clint Kubiak didn't take a
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Speaker 8: direct route from San Francisco to Seattle. He spent one
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Speaker 8: season in New Orleans. But to me, the hires kind
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Speaker 8: of along those lines where Flory has worked his way up,
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Speaker 8: not as quickly as Kubiak, but he's from the Shanahan
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Speaker 8: school of thought when it comes to offense. And I
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Speaker 8: like the hire for the Seahawks because I think it
19:16
Speaker 8: kind of keeps the status quo, so to speak, offensively
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Speaker 8: similar system, a lot of the same playmakers outside of
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Speaker 8: obviously Kenneth Walker, so I think that Seattle is trying
19:27
Speaker 8: to keep things the same. San Francisco has churned out
19:31
Speaker 8: coach after coach after coach, coordinator after coordinator, Demico Ryans,
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Speaker 8: Robert Sala, Kubiak now Flori. So they've been accustomed to
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Speaker 8: losing good talent, and obviously Seattle has been used to
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Speaker 8: acquiring and then maximizing that talent.
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Speaker 1: Evan gettings on Brian Floory, our brand new offensive coordinator.
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Speaker 1: We've not never done a coach in the Seahawks one series.
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Speaker 1: We've also never done our punter in the Seahawks one series.
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Speaker 1: We're going to change that today too. John Ryan's going
19:59
Speaker 1: to to talk about Michael Dixon today at nine o'clock.
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Speaker 1: Coming up next, though, Jackson Feltz is gonna join us.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the World Cup. I might even
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Speaker 1: try to nutmeg him right here in studio Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM. Joining us now on the
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Speaker 1: radio program World Cup. Broadcaster, host of Sounders Weekly, and
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Speaker 1: also a guy that forever will be tied emotionally to
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Speaker 1: David Softy Maler. Jackson Feltz joins us here on our
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Speaker 1: radio program, Good morning, SIRP.
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Speaker 2: Good morning Chuck. I'm sorry I sound a little horse.
20:38
Speaker 2: I was yelling at Mauricio Pochattino.
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Speaker 1: Whoa were you angry with our coach. Why?
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Speaker 2: Just a bit angry for a few reasons. I think
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Speaker 2: he's had some missteps over the last week or so,
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Speaker 2: not playing Christian role don in Seattle, rotating his team
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Speaker 2: completely last night, playing Christian Polisic way more than I
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Speaker 2: think he needed to, and then a very odd press
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Speaker 2: conference last night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he seemed bothered that people were bothered that they
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Speaker 1: lost this match. Do you see his point of view
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Speaker 1: at all?
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Speaker 2: No, not really, except over the last week for the
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Speaker 2: United States, it's been a lot of just praise the
21:17
Speaker 2: reporters and I've listened to a lot of his press conferences.
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Speaker 2: It has been glowing and it has been positive, and
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Speaker 2: it has been talking about what a great job he's done,
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Speaker 2: what a great job the team has done. And it
21:30
Speaker 2: sort of is like, buddy, you know, have the view
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Speaker 2: from thirty five thousand feet. Everybody has been speaking glowingly
21:37
Speaker 2: about your team, and there is some criticism to be
21:41
Speaker 2: given for what happened last night. So I don't understand
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Speaker 2: what he went on about. And it's kind of just,
21:47
Speaker 2: you know, Pochettino, like, get a handle right now on
21:50
Speaker 2: what's going on. You guys have won the group, but
21:53
Speaker 2: you don't need the praise.
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Speaker 1: Well, I would say that I don't know if I mean,
21:59
Speaker 1: you know, you know my level of soccer knowledge. If
22:02
Speaker 1: you're gonna start nine guys that you don't normally start,
22:05
Speaker 1: and you're sitting out guys with yellow cards and ballistic
22:07
Speaker 1: you're basically just playing to make sure he's okay to
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Speaker 1: play next Wednesday and you want to get him back
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Speaker 1: into the rhythm of things. I'm not surprised by losing
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Speaker 1: a match last night to Turkey A. But is there
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Speaker 1: what's the fear of losing that match? Does it disrupt
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Speaker 1: any of the great momentum that the team had built
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Speaker 1: for itself.
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Speaker 2: Well, first off, Chuck, thank you for saying it correctly.
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Speaker 2: Turkey A. I know somebody who, as you said, I'm
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Speaker 2: emotionally tied to, does not want to call it no,
22:40
Speaker 2: but listen, I think to your question absolutely. I think
22:45
Speaker 2: that right now this was a train rolling down the
22:48
Speaker 2: tracks and it was full steam ahead. It was all power,
22:52
Speaker 2: and I think that by fully rotating the team, you're
22:55
Speaker 2: right it wasn't surprising that they lost to Turkey A.
22:59
Speaker 2: I think you could see it coming if you were
23:01
Speaker 2: to say they're rotating the entire team. The problem is
23:05
Speaker 2: is that when you do that, you give up to
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Speaker 2: first half goals that your normal starters would not have
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Speaker 2: given up, and it puts you in a situation where
23:16
Speaker 2: you give up then a winner in the ninety eighth
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Speaker 2: minute instead of an equal And listen, if that had
23:20
Speaker 2: been a goal to make the game two to two,
23:23
Speaker 2: maybe it feels a little bit different. I'm not sure,
23:26
Speaker 2: but regardless, you look at the faces of the players
23:30
Speaker 2: and the staff after the game when they're doing kind
23:33
Speaker 2: of their you know, big circle prayer after the final whistle,
23:37
Speaker 2: coming off of a three to two loss. Nobody looks happy.
23:40
Speaker 2: The vibes are gone, and the train that was rolling
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Speaker 2: down the tracks is now stopped, and you're gonna have
23:45
Speaker 2: to get that train rolling again for Bosnia coming up
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Speaker 2: on July first, and that is an added task that
23:52
Speaker 2: you didn't need to have happen.
23:54
Speaker 1: How do we like the matchup with the Bosnia Herzegovina.
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Speaker 2: I like the matchup. Listen. They're a fine team, They're
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Speaker 2: a solid team. They're not better than Australia, They're not
24:05
Speaker 2: better than Paraguay, they're not better than Turkey A They're
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Speaker 2: they're fine. They got a three to one win over
24:12
Speaker 2: a really bad Katari team. I wouldn't say that I'm
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Speaker 2: impressed by them at all, but listen, I mean juggets
24:20
Speaker 2: Like I tell you know, the guys on the afternoon
24:22
Speaker 2: every every day, do not gamble on soccer, because soccer
24:27
Speaker 2: is a sort of thing where it takes one moment,
24:30
Speaker 2: one lapse, one crazy instant that can turn a win
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Speaker 2: into a draw, draw in to a loss, and it
24:37
Speaker 2: just takes one moment you saw last night, ninety eighth minute,
24:41
Speaker 2: one moment that takes a draw where listen, I think
24:45
Speaker 2: the vibes still would have been good if it's a
24:47
Speaker 2: two to two final, but you let in that ninety
24:49
Speaker 2: eighth minute goal, everything changes. So against Boski and Herlviingra.
24:54
Speaker 2: I don't think that it's a situation where you can
24:57
Speaker 2: just chalk it up and say, yeah, we're better, we're
24:59
Speaker 2: gonna win. Anything can happen in soccer. We are the
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Speaker 2: better team on paper, the much much better team on paper.
25:06
Speaker 2: But you know in soccer that doesn't mean much. One
25:09
Speaker 2: moment can change everything.
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Speaker 1: What other things do you have to tell those two
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Speaker 1: jokers every day because it doesn't soak him, like keep
25:15
Speaker 1: your fingers out of your noses and you know, stuff
25:17
Speaker 1: like that.
25:18
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, how much time we have on this interview.
25:23
Speaker 1: Jackson Feltz's with us to talk some World Cup soccer
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Speaker 1: here today, us losing to Turkey A last night three
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Speaker 1: to two. And they do, though, advance out of their group.
25:35
Speaker 1: Of course, they won the group and they will play
25:37
Speaker 1: next Wednesday against Bosnia Herzegovina. All right, so what you
25:42
Speaker 1: did see a Polistic? Did you like it? Does he looked?
25:45
Speaker 1: Did he look like vintage Polistic to you?
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Speaker 2: That's the thing. It's a good question because you know,
25:52
Speaker 2: I didn't like the fact that Christian Polistic played thirty
25:55
Speaker 2: five minutes coming back from injury. But damn chuck, he
25:58
Speaker 2: looked so good. He looked so so good. He's creating
26:03
Speaker 2: and he's playing so smart, he's playing so fast. No
26:06
Speaker 2: sign of the injury whatsoever. Thank goodness, he didn't get
26:10
Speaker 2: any reinjury. That would have been a disaster. But he
26:12
Speaker 2: looked excellent, and it sort of, you know, gives you
26:16
Speaker 2: the confidence that all right, well, with Polisic in there
26:19
Speaker 2: with a fully fit yellow cards clear team that we
26:22
Speaker 2: saw against Australia, that we saw against Paraguay, with that
26:26
Speaker 2: team in there, with Polisic as the star. Okay, we're
26:29
Speaker 2: we're back looking like we should because Christian was on
26:32
Speaker 2: another level. I mean, it's just his intelligence. He makes
26:36
Speaker 2: one run in the second half where he kind of
26:39
Speaker 2: raises his left hand calls for a little ball over
26:42
Speaker 2: the top of their back line, and it was such
26:44
Speaker 2: a smart positioning play from Christian to know where the
26:48
Speaker 2: where the left back was for Turkey, a stay on side,
26:52
Speaker 2: get the communication for the ball popped over and it
26:55
Speaker 2: nearly creates a goal. He's such a brilliant player, and
26:59
Speaker 2: he's so quick, and you know, if he brings even
27:03
Speaker 2: that level of probably what is about an eighty percent
27:05
Speaker 2: polistic last night into the Bosnia game, no doubt that
27:09
Speaker 2: he's gonna be able to control things in the middle
27:11
Speaker 2: of the attack.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, group play is one thing. I mean
27:14
Speaker 1: World Cup group play that's exciting, there's no question that's
27:17
Speaker 1: really generated a lot of excitement. But now we're getting
27:20
Speaker 1: ready for knockout stage, and so what happens to you
27:24
Speaker 1: during knockout stage? What happens to your sleep patterns, to
27:27
Speaker 1: your appetite, your relationships at home and abroad? I mean,
27:32
Speaker 1: how much is this gonna change the adrenaline, the stress,
27:36
Speaker 1: all of that hypes up from this point forward.
27:40
Speaker 2: It's a great question. You know, my wife rises sitting
27:42
Speaker 2: across from me right now, and I know she knows
27:44
Speaker 2: that for the next few weeks, I'm about to be
27:46
Speaker 2: a mental mess. The sleep will be less. I'm kind
27:50
Speaker 2: of glad. I'm my throat's a little sort of but
27:52
Speaker 2: I'm getting over the little thing that I had. I'm fine,
27:55
Speaker 2: and it's sort of is you know, it's gonna be
27:58
Speaker 2: absolutely wild. It's like it's a playoff time for the
28:01
Speaker 2: Seattle Sounders. Like it is, you know, you know, you
28:04
Speaker 2: know what to the wall, intense, full focus, you know,
28:08
Speaker 2: I know we need to pay attention to everything else
28:11
Speaker 2: going on Mariner's you know, et cetera, et cetera. But
28:14
Speaker 2: you know, ninety nine percent of my waking focus is
28:18
Speaker 2: just can the United States do something that they have
28:22
Speaker 2: never done before? Can they not only get to a quarterfinal?
28:26
Speaker 2: Can they get a miracle? Can they create a seminal
28:30
Speaker 2: moment for soccer in this country? Can they do something
28:33
Speaker 2: crazy and upset a Spain or a Portugal in Los
28:36
Speaker 2: Angeles in a quarterfinal? Can they get to a semi
28:39
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles? Can they do it. That's gonna be
28:42
Speaker 2: so much on my mind for the next few weeks
28:45
Speaker 2: is the potential for where soccer could go in this
28:50
Speaker 2: country thanks to how good this national team is.
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Speaker 1: Awesome. Stuff, man, grab a lozenge and enjoy the weekend,
28:58
Speaker 1: and then we'll we'll ramp it up again next week
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Speaker 1: with you.
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Speaker 2: We sure will shut thanks buddy.
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Speaker 1: All right, Jackson Felts joining us right here. You can
29:07
Speaker 1: follow him at Jackson on Radio of course, a vital
29:11
Speaker 1: part of our family here at Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 1: point three kJ r FM, and we appreciate him coming on.
29:18
Speaker 1: By the way. He tried to speak in code there,
29:20
Speaker 1: but I know what he was saying with that whole
29:23
Speaker 1: you know what to the walls thing?
29:25
Speaker 4: Balls, Yeah he said, wavos.
29:28
Speaker 2: Yeah.
29:28
Speaker 1: He was talking about.
29:31
Speaker 4: Not one, but two multiples. Yeah, a pair.
29:35
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you don't want to go ball.
29:37
Speaker 4: To the wall unless that's all you got.
29:40
Speaker 1: To work with. Well, right, exactly, might as well face
29:44
Speaker 1: it all right. Coming up next on our radio show,
29:49
Speaker 1: we will have a preview of what the Mariners are
29:53
Speaker 1: up again starting today at four Sports Radio ninety three
29:55
Speaker 1: point three kJ RFM. Hey, it's Chuck and Ashley with
30:11
Speaker 1: you here on this Friday. Great Friday to you all,
30:15
Speaker 1: by the way. And I don't know if I don't
30:17
Speaker 1: know the background of the story at all. I just
30:19
Speaker 1: saw somebody that came up the news was left on overnight.
30:22
Speaker 1: I have not chased the television channel. And so there
30:26
Speaker 1: was a construction worker being interviewed and he had like
30:30
Speaker 1: he had eyeglasses that had like it looked like a
30:34
Speaker 1: flowery design. So a big, rugged construction guy. But it
30:37
Speaker 1: looked like he was wearing maybe his wife's like he
30:41
Speaker 1: picked up his wife's glasses on accident, you like, out
30:45
Speaker 1: of emergency that day, Like I'm just gonna grab them,
30:48
Speaker 1: no big deal. And wouldn't that be the day that
30:51
Speaker 1: the TV news crews roll in, Yeah, why wouldn't it
30:54
Speaker 1: be and interview you and you completely forgot that. Oh
31:01
Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm wearing my wife's glasses.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's good.
31:07
Speaker 2: I like it.
31:08
Speaker 4: Or maybe he just liked him.
31:09
Speaker 1: Maybe he might he might say he might, and who knows,
31:11
Speaker 1: who knows. I realized this would I realized that today's
31:16
Speaker 1: grandpas aren't like my grandpa's. That's right. I can't even
31:19
Speaker 1: imagine how my grandpa would have reacted. If he saw
31:22
Speaker 1: himself on the news and forgot that he had Dorothy's classes.
31:25
Speaker 2: On that day.
31:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, my dad wore glasses and he wouldn't have been thrilled.
31:30
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah maybe but maybe maybe this this is like,
31:34
Speaker 1: oh I love these classes.
31:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, these are great, these are these are comfy.
31:38
Speaker 1: I've stole them from Dorothy all right. Guardians tonight, Mariner's
31:43
Speaker 1: forty one and forty one not playing good baseball, which
31:47
Speaker 1: is becoming more of the norm frustratingly, so the Guardians
31:52
Speaker 1: aren't exactly lighting the world on fire, so this is
31:55
Speaker 1: and yet they're a first place team as well. This
31:57
Speaker 1: might be the most lackluster matchup of first place teams
32:01
Speaker 1: the way they're playing as of late that you'll see.
32:04
Speaker 1: So forty two and thirty nine Guardians versus the forty
32:07
Speaker 1: one and forty one Seattle Mariners battle of first place team, yeah,
32:12
Speaker 1: get it. Tonight in Ohio. We're also catching Cleveland at
32:18
Speaker 1: a point where they're really banged up. I mean, we
32:21
Speaker 1: don't have Fay Jose Ramirez. He's on the injury list
32:24
Speaker 1: and he's pretty much their offense. Without him, they're not much.
32:29
Speaker 1: They don't have much sock to them. They also are
32:32
Speaker 1: without anhel Martinez, who was probably having the second best
32:36
Speaker 1: season of all Guardians offensive players. Brian Rochio has been
32:40
Speaker 1: pretty good this year, and then Chase de Lauder, who
32:43
Speaker 1: is the big rookie that hits third for them, is
32:45
Speaker 1: also on the injury list. So they're without their first, second,
32:47
Speaker 1: and third hitters in their lineup. And as you might suspect,
32:52
Speaker 1: they're not performing all that well. They've gone three and
32:55
Speaker 1: six in their last nine games, so they're limping into
32:59
Speaker 1: this series as well. But the one thing the Cleveland
33:02
Speaker 1: Guardians do as an organization, just like the Mariners, they
33:06
Speaker 1: find pitching. They can lose pitching, and they got somebody
33:09
Speaker 1: else ready to step up so they can pitch. We
33:12
Speaker 1: are fifth in the American League, actually in all of
33:15
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball e they are sixth, so they're right
33:19
Speaker 1: there with us. And for a team that has not
33:21
Speaker 1: scored more than three runs for eleven consecutive games to
33:27
Speaker 1: have to face some more good pitching in Cleveland, well,
33:32
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly expecting us to turn it around offensively
33:36
Speaker 1: over the next three days. I would imagine we're gonna
33:38
Speaker 1: have to win close ballgames, and that means use your
33:42
Speaker 1: best relievers when you have the opportunities, Dan Wilson, So
33:47
Speaker 1: this should be a low scoring series this weekend, and
33:52
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask for anything more than two out
33:54
Speaker 1: of three. Let's comp somehow steal two out of three
33:58
Speaker 1: away from the Cleveland Guardians, and that, to me would
34:01
Speaker 1: be an achievement.
34:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say.
34:03
Speaker 3: I mean, two months ago, I had been like, let's
34:05
Speaker 3: go sweep the Guardians even though we were really not good.
34:08
Speaker 4: But now I'm like, yeah, two out of three, let's
34:10
Speaker 4: just win a series. Please.
34:11
Speaker 1: There's not fall under five hundred.
34:12
Speaker 2: That's it.
34:13
Speaker 1: There's not fall under five hundred right now or at
34:15
Speaker 1: any point.
34:16
Speaker 2: That's it.
34:17
Speaker 1: Wenday night, wednd to night. Get above five hundred. If
34:19
Speaker 1: you want to lose the next day, fine because you're
34:21
Speaker 1: half five hundred, and then win Sunday over five.
34:24
Speaker 3: Just don't go below for yeah, and then we can
34:25
Speaker 3: play the winning song on Monday, which is always really nice.
34:28
Speaker 1: Yes, So that's all I'm asking. Why don't think it's
34:30
Speaker 1: that much?
34:30
Speaker 4: Can we also just score more than three runs in
34:32
Speaker 4: one game?
34:34
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that's fine. Okay, two things. Third thing,
34:39
Speaker 1: can I ask to use your bullpen properly. Can Gabe
34:43
Speaker 1: Spire pitch more than Alex.
34:44
Speaker 2: Hoppy this weekend?
34:45
Speaker 4: Can you throw at least three pitches?
34:46
Speaker 1: Yeah? Can we maybe go over one?
34:49
Speaker 2: Yeah?
34:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now we'll tire them out.
34:52
Speaker 3: Let's get him past twenty pitches this weekend in the
34:55
Speaker 3: last nineteen days.
34:56
Speaker 1: I mean, there have been a lot of things throughout
34:59
Speaker 1: it history where we have taxed people physically. You know that,
35:05
Speaker 1: that's a god that had to roll the boulder up this.
35:08
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Atlas the first guy to the guy that
35:13
Speaker 1: ran the marathon, remember that? Oh yeah, the guy that
35:16
Speaker 1: ran the marathon and that established He went twenty six
35:19
Speaker 1: miles and that is that's what established the marathon. Like,
35:21
Speaker 1: there have been a lot of people that have been
35:23
Speaker 1: physically taxed, but apparently no one more so than Gabe Spire.
35:28
Speaker 4: I hope his arm's okay after that pitch yesterday.
35:31
Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, our Seahawks one series comes
35:34
Speaker 1: your way. Uh, John Ryan is going to join us.
35:37
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35:40
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35:43
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