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5-1 H1: Rookie Camp Underway & Top Five Mariners · The Gregg Bell Show

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Speaker 1: And it starts up again. That's the NFL keeping themselves
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Speaker 1: relevant and in the news. Rookie Manning camp this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Their veterans are still, they're here, where they have been here.
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Speaker 1: They I think are off today, but they have been
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Speaker 1: here working on weight training, out in grass drills. Phase
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Speaker 1: one of the off season program voluntary. The whole off
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Speaker 1: season voluntary, minus one mini camp in June. But we
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Speaker 1: talked about yesterday. Mike McDonald told all the veterans starters, Hey,
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Speaker 1: you had a long season, you won the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: you celebrated through May or through February, and so take
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Speaker 1: the first week or so of the many the off
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Speaker 1: season program off. Just don't even come. If you have anything,
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Speaker 1: If we have any meetings or anything, we'll put on zoom. Yet.
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Speaker 1: Sam Donald's here, Julian loves here, Devin Witherspoon, Cooper Cup.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of regulars, a lot of veterans
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Speaker 1: sending a message by being out here this week. And
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Speaker 1: the voluntary completely voluntary, and the coach already said don't come.
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Speaker 1: Part of the offseason training. It's a couple weeks of this.
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Speaker 1: Then there's a second phase. That's when the players are
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Speaker 1: expected to come, even though it is still voluntary, highly encouraged,
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Speaker 1: and that's on the field, more running plays and shells
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Speaker 1: and actually not even shells, just T shirt and shorts.
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Speaker 1: That's the second phase. A couple weeks into May. Then
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Speaker 1: they get into the OTAC Organized Team Activities, which spread
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Speaker 1: across three weeks. That leads into June, and then in
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Speaker 1: mid June, early to mid June, they have their only
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Speaker 1: veteran mini camp of three days and that's it. Then
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Speaker 1: they're off until training camp and that's at the end
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Speaker 1: of July, leading up to September ninth, Wednesday, the NFL
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Speaker 1: opener at Lumenfield, and all of a sudden, here we go.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of amazing, Chris. A lot of people think, hey,
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Speaker 1: it's great for the eight rookie draft picks. I already
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Speaker 1: got signed the first day. That's not what it used
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Speaker 1: to be. The contracts now, by the Collective Bartney Agreement,
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Speaker 1: a couple of cbas ago are slotted their rookie contract.
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Speaker 1: Sam Bradford, when he got drafted number one overall in
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Speaker 1: the early two thousands, blew it up for the rookies.
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Speaker 1: He got such a huge contract with the Rams. He
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Speaker 1: was getting more money than Rams veterans who had been
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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, the greatest show on turf, and
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Speaker 1: the Union said, oh wha, wait a minute, he was
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Speaker 1: getting guaranteed money before he'd even stepped in an NFL building.
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Speaker 1: That was more than veterans who had played four or
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Speaker 1: five six years for the Rams had made Super Bowls.
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Speaker 1: And that's when the rookie salary, basically a rookie about
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Speaker 1: rookie slotted contracts, came in. You get a contract with
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Speaker 1: a value four years preset the value at where you
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Speaker 1: are drafted from around one all the way through seven.
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Speaker 1: And that pretty much ended holdouts. Now there's still squabbles
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Speaker 1: over how bonus money is paid and when they would
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Speaker 1: get paid. And that's the only leverage that an agent
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Speaker 1: and a player has, and it usually only lasts for
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Speaker 1: a day or two or something if that into the summer,
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Speaker 1: if there is some kind of impass. Otherwise the drama's gone.
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Speaker 1: I can still remember to bring this up every year.
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Speaker 1: I can still remember waiting on the curb in front
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Speaker 1: of the wrestling room at Eastern Washington and Cheney at
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Speaker 1: a Seahawks training camp under Mike Homer and waiting for
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Speaker 1: Kelly Jennings, a first round pick defensive pack out of
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Speaker 1: Miami to sign his first round and contract. It was
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Speaker 1: ridiculous And that was the last Sea how cold up
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Speaker 1: that I remember. So no, so, Chris's not quite that
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Speaker 1: big of news that they got four of eight ink already.
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Speaker 2: H No surprise there. Let's get on with it. Let's
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Speaker 2: see what these rookies are about. Get them out running around,
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Speaker 2: getting used to playing with one another, right because I mean,
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Speaker 2: obviously this is the rookie class. So only a handful
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Speaker 2: probably gonna make the roster. Hopefully a couple of them
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Speaker 2: will be on the practice squad. But he has a
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Speaker 2: good opportunity to see it the Seahawks way. You know,
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Speaker 2: you've played college ball, but now you're in the pros
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Speaker 2: and there's a professional standard and the Seahawks have a
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Speaker 2: great way of doing things and now you're you're getting
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Speaker 2: your first taste of it.
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Speaker 3: So this is really cool moment for them.
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Speaker 2: And excited to see what somebody's rookies bringing to this team,
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Speaker 2: this championship team, I should say.
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Speaker 1: Softy Maller and Dick Fane out here. Jedari Price was
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Speaker 1: on the podium yesterday holding up a new number eight.
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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, he's got Kobe Bryant Matt Hasselbik's old number.
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Speaker 1: We are catching up at eleven o'clock with the mayor
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Speaker 1: of Dennison, Texas. Why are we talking to the mayor
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Speaker 1: of Dennis and Texas on ninety three point three kids,
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Speaker 1: you are in Seattle, well in January twentieth the mayor
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Speaker 1: of Denton Tech Dennison, Texas. Excuse me, on the Red
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Speaker 1: River right across the Ooklahoma, Ward, a town of about
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Speaker 1: twenty five thousand. Robert Crawley, the mayor of Dennison, proclaimed
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Speaker 1: it Jedaian Price Date. This was after his final season
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Speaker 1: at Notre Dame and he was heading into the NFL Draft.
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Speaker 1: He was a two time All district running back. Jedarion
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Speaker 1: Price was at Dennison High School. He played. He ran
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Speaker 1: for two hundred and thirty five yards, his coach told
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Speaker 1: us on the air last week, in the longest running
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Speaker 1: rivalry game in Texas high school football, and that's saying something.
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Speaker 1: Texas high school football is different, and Dennison is involved
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Speaker 1: in the longest running Battle of the Act down in Texas.
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Speaker 1: He ran for two thirty five his senior year in
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Speaker 1: the Battle of the Acts and then ran for three
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Speaker 1: plus three point forty five is what his coach for
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Speaker 1: Whitson remembered last week with us. Later in his senior
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Speaker 1: year against the team from Frisco, Texas right outside the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Metroplex. Robert Crowley named a day after Jedarion Price,
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Speaker 1: who has two younger siblings and a mom, grew up
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Speaker 1: in Dennison. We're going to talk to Robert Crowley about
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Speaker 1: what Jedarion Price means to that city and going to
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame and getting a degree, enrolling early at Notre
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Speaker 1: Dame because he was such an outstanding student on top
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Speaker 1: of raising his two younger daughters at home while his
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Speaker 1: mom was going through sixteen rounds of chemotherapy with breast
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Speaker 1: cancer when he was twelve years old. His mother, a
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Speaker 1: single mom, Jessica Butler, had Jedarion Price when she was
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Speaker 1: seventeen years old in Dennison, Texas. And there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of people who are New Seahawks fans on the
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Speaker 1: town by the Red River across the Yoklahoma border in Texas,
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Speaker 1: and one of them is most likely the mayor Robert Crowley.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk to him at eleven o'clock at
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Speaker 1: eleven thirty. Well, redback your text four nine four to
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Speaker 1: five one on the Tacomadad's text line, and I'm interested
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Speaker 1: to hear what you have to say about what your
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Speaker 1: weekend plans are for the first weekend in May. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna go to see the wind the Mere Cup, maybe
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Speaker 1: Emerald Downs, as I mentioned, is the first weekend for
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Speaker 1: Emerald Downs opening the boating season. I guess that means
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Speaker 1: boats that I haven't been docked on the water all
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Speaker 1: year around here. Come back out of storage. It's going
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Speaker 1: to be a beautiful debut for weekend, and of course
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Speaker 1: the Mariners three game series at home Tonight Game one
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Speaker 1: against Kansas City with Brian Rule on the hill, and
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Speaker 1: then tomorrow night another night game with Randy Johnson being
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Speaker 1: honored and his number fifty one retired. Of course, I
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Speaker 1: was joking earlier that fifty one already belongs to each
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Speaker 1: year of Suzuki enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame,
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Speaker 1: another fifty one. Randy Johnson preceded him, and for the
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Speaker 1: two and a half years he was here, Chris I
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Speaker 1: was in Seattle for his two and a half years.
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Speaker 1: He was amazing. He was dominant. He did it often
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Speaker 1: with a bad back. I remember going to games at
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Speaker 1: the Kingdome and he would be lying in the dugout
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Speaker 1: on the floor between innings because he was trying to
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Speaker 1: stretch his back out, and then he'd just go out
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Speaker 1: and shove again for seven, eight, nine innings back when
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Speaker 1: pitchers did that. He was Let's see, Chris, he was
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Speaker 1: you were probably that was probably just before.
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Speaker 3: You were born, right ninety two.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you don't remember ninety five when he almost single
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Speaker 1: handedly got him into the playoffs, But.
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Speaker 2: That I do not, but I'm sure YouTube would gladly
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Speaker 2: help me out just by tipping in a few things
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Speaker 2: and looking it up.
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Speaker 1: For those of you who were in Seattle in the
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Speaker 1: early nineties, they will vouch for me with me that
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Speaker 1: Randy Johnson as great as Ken Griffey Junior was, and
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Speaker 1: he was a pre eminent national superstar. Randy Johnson was
9:00
Speaker 1: the guy who I mean, Randy Johnson came in in
9:03
Speaker 1: extra innings on one day's rest in Game five of
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Speaker 1: the first round series against the Yankees at the King
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Speaker 1: I was there. I was sitting right about next to
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Speaker 1: last row of both third base. My wife and I
9:14
Speaker 1: bought tickets for like ninety bucks for a pair. Can
9:17
Speaker 1: you believe that we saw a deciding elimination game of
9:19
Speaker 1: playoffs for forty five dollars each back in nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: five and we were sitting two rows of boves pitching.
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Speaker 1: And then the All Star Game, John Cruk goes up dirty.
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Speaker 1: He just basically dropped his bat, covered his head and
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Speaker 1: ran out of the batter's box. On one of Randy
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Speaker 1: Johnson's pitches, he was that dominant And yeah, I know
9:36
Speaker 1: he only pitches once every five days, but when he pitched,
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Speaker 1: he it was amazing. It was off in lights out
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Speaker 1: some of the greatest theater in moments in Mariner's history.
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Speaker 1: The Mark McGuire, ma'am a five hundred plus foot home
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Speaker 1: run off of him in the Kingdome, and then he left.
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Speaker 1: He didn't get with a bulletin that the Mariners had
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Speaker 1: traded Randy Johnson to Houston, and we could believe it.
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Speaker 1: We thought this was like the guy like Mount Rainier
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Speaker 1: would be here forever. And yeah, if you rank all
10:07
Speaker 1: time Mariners each Ri Suzuki, Ken, Griffy, Igar Martinez, you
10:12
Speaker 1: can't go too far down that list without mentioning Dye Johnson,
10:15
Speaker 1: don't you think Griz.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's he's He's an all time legend. He I
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Speaker 2: remember him when I was around early two thousands, just.
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Speaker 1: On pitching days, of course, but in the unwritten rule
10:28
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball is you don't talk to pitchers
10:30
Speaker 1: the day they before the game, the day they pitched,
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Speaker 1: only after. But yeah, Randy Johnson, I was part of
10:35
Speaker 1: his persona. It was his intimidation six' eleven on a,
10:41
Speaker 1: mound that's sixty feet six inches. Away it felt like
10:44
Speaker 1: he was throwing it from forty five, feet like it
10:46
Speaker 1: was a little league. MOUND i, mean and he's throwing
10:48
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety some miles an. Hour at the,
10:51
Speaker 1: time not too many guys did, That and of course
10:54
Speaker 1: now that's. Commonplace but in the early to mid nineties
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Speaker 1: people also forget he was not a Homegrown. Mariner The
11:02
Speaker 1: montreal expos traded, him And Randy johnson said it of
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Speaker 1: course changed his career in the trajectory of his, career
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Speaker 1: but it Was Randy johnson's trade from The exposed to
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Speaker 1: The Seattle mariners that started all of this for. Him four, nine,
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Speaker 1: four five, one that's Coming dodge tech. Line who are
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Speaker 1: the top Five mariners you would put all time in
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Speaker 1: mariner's history in? Orders AND i would put three, Four
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Speaker 1: no lower than. FOUR i can't. IMAGINE i can't think
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Speaker 1: of four Above Randy. Johnson can, You Chris?
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Speaker 3: Uh where Does Jamie morier?
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Speaker 1: Rank he's a bit down the. List he would rank.
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Speaker 1: High he would rank highly for, me of, course because
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Speaker 1: of his. Longevity BUT i mean some people Put Dan
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Speaker 1: wilson on there because of his longevity as. Well in
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Speaker 1: the fact that he. Stayed he was remant ninety five
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Speaker 1: team and.
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Speaker 3: Hang, on my, bad are we talking to just pictures
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Speaker 3: Or i'm talking?
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Speaker 1: Everybody oh? Everybody top Five.
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Speaker 2: Mariners well never, mind let's let's SOME i was thinking,
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Speaker 2: Pictures so let's let's redo.
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Speaker 3: That, definitely each your.
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Speaker 2: Row i'm sure you agree with, That felix, Hmmm Ken
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Speaker 2: griffy maybe, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Maybe, Yeah, Edgar Edgar, Martinez Mike, Cameron Jay, Buhner Brett.
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Speaker 1: BOONE i, Mean i'm talking some two thousand ones because
12:22
Speaker 1: of how great that team one hundred and.
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Speaker 3: Sixteen the man set a.
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Speaker 1: Record she, yeah, yeah they were. Amazing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah kN number one, Obviously Eachi. ROW i think number
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Speaker 2: Two korro fan favorite from the ninety five. TEAM i
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Speaker 2: think it Goes Alex, rodriguez but left in SUCH i.
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Speaker 3: Think alex misses the top. Five. YE i think you'd
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Speaker 3: have to Go, Ken, okay we can, flop we can flip.
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Speaker 3: Flop that's.
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Speaker 2: FINE i didn't get to see him in his dominant
12:48
Speaker 2: years like, that SO i would Have. No he definitely
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Speaker 2: didn't play as, long that's, true but even then he
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Speaker 2: was so freaking.
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Speaker 3: Good not to say.
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Speaker 1: That Randy johnson wasn't here nearly as long As felix.
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Speaker 1: Was BUT i mean the three six oh here on
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Speaker 1: the text line is Saying Randy johnson maybe number.
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Speaker 2: Two, no you, KNOW i THINK i think it's a
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Speaker 2: fair discussion if you want to interchange, it, Like i'm
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Speaker 2: not going to argue with someone that has him that.
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Speaker 1: High, No i'm not.
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Speaker 3: EITHER i would hear it.
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Speaker 2: OUT i Think ken is number, one though he has
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Speaker 2: to be the gold standard of The. Mariners would you
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Speaker 2: not agree on. That there can't be anyone that would
13:23
Speaker 2: say someone's better Than ken Unless julio becomes just this
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Speaker 2: eleven Time Gold glove, winner silver, slugger you, know five
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Speaker 2: and no home runs something like.
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Speaker 1: That what Made griffy so amazing is that he Transcended
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Speaker 1: seattle and he was he was a number one pick
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Speaker 1: and he played with his, dad but he lived up
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Speaker 1: to the hype and became something much bigger Than seattle
13:47
Speaker 1: at the time that very few people knew That seattle
13:49
Speaker 1: wasn't In Southeast. Alaska AND i mean he was on
13:53
Speaker 1: the cover of magazines and leading sports shows and had
13:57
Speaker 1: candy bars and it Was jake gigantic what he was
14:01
Speaker 1: leading off this week in baseball and the hat on
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Speaker 1: backwards and the, smile and to, me that gets the number.
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Speaker 1: One Echio suzuki a sensation In japan before he came
14:11
Speaker 1: to The United states and then a sensation as a
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Speaker 1: rookie in two thousand and. One, obviously And i'm not
14:16
Speaker 1: trying at all to slighty Hero, tozuki but you have
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Speaker 1: a hard time putting anyone Of Ken Griffy junior for.
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Speaker 1: Me but it's interesting to consider. That and there's people
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Speaker 1: on the text line that are Putting Edgar martinez first
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Speaker 1: and Then Junior, Eachiero randy And felix TWO o six
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Speaker 1: says four two. Five it's. Interesting it's it's something to
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Speaker 1: consider for a team that loves to go back to its,
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Speaker 1: history it's something to.
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Speaker 1: ONE a couple of days here this, weekend the rookies
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Speaker 1: are here without the veterans on the field with. THEM
15:07
Speaker 1: cb eight, Says so only certain days and certain times
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Speaker 1: you can have the veterans on the. Field the rookies
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Speaker 1: get their time it's they're gonna be sixty some almost
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Speaker 1: seventy guys here this weekend between undrafted. Rookies they're probably
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Speaker 1: gonna sign about. Eight they have eight open spots on the,
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Speaker 1: roster six of them are. Known we've gone through that this.
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Speaker 1: Week then they have tryout, guys Including jake Gets lafi's
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Speaker 1: games to be in eligible for a rookie mini, camp
15:33
Speaker 1: so he is not going to be throwing this, weekend
15:37
Speaker 1: but gets Laugh there'll be others quarterbacks because they're not
15:40
Speaker 1: going to just have one guy. Throwing But John schnighter
15:43
Speaker 1: yesterday was taking time out to thank the staff and
15:48
Speaker 1: that all the guys that put together equipment and arrangements
15:52
Speaker 1: and hotels and everything to get almost seventy players into
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Speaker 1: this rookie mini, camp and often one or two or
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Speaker 1: three try out guys from this get an offer to
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Speaker 1: be a undrafted free agent signing with The seahawks going
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Speaker 1: forward in their offseason program toward THE. OTAs it's not
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Speaker 1: at all unheard, of but, four as we mentioned at the,
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Speaker 1: top four of the eight rookies draft picks are already.
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Speaker 1: Signed and that's a fate a. Company that's just a
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Speaker 1: formality now at THE. Cba it's not like that's. News
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Speaker 1: they'll all eight against eventually get. Done Jeniiing price yesterday
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Speaker 1: unveiled to the media and to the public as the
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Speaker 1: Newest seahawks first round draft, pick only the fourth running
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Speaker 1: back The seahawks have ever drafted in the first round
16:36
Speaker 1: and joining LIKES, A Kurt, Warner Sewn alexander And Rashad
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Speaker 1: penny back in twenty, Eighteen price is number. Eight That's
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Speaker 1: Kobe bryant and way back to WHEN i first covered the,
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Speaker 1: Team Matt hasselbeck's old number number. Eight and at eleven,
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Speaker 1: O'clock Jenium price is From dennis In, texas and going
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Speaker 1: to talk to the mayor Of dennis And, Texas Robert,
16:55
Speaker 1: crowley because he Proclaimed Jendarium Price day and his town
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Speaker 1: back In january, twentieth and we're going to talk About
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Speaker 1: price and his family and the impact on the. City
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Speaker 1: we've already talked to the head coach In Dennison High
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Speaker 1: school In texas telling us the exploits Of, price and
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Speaker 1: then we're going to talk to the mayor who named
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Speaker 1: a whole day After Pryce price, yesterday which played it
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Speaker 1: down and SAID i didn't think it was that. Bigger that's.
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Speaker 1: Serious as he put, it to name it a whole
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Speaker 1: day after me In. January But, clark the second round
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Speaker 1: pick FROM, TCU i think he has a real strong
17:28
Speaker 1: chance to break in it to the rotation and perhaps
17:30
Speaker 1: start next To Julian love at. Safety yes they Have,
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Speaker 1: Tyokatta yes they've signed veteran free Agent Robert thomas from
17:41
Speaker 1: The Indianapolis culture was a starter for two years. Ago
17:44
Speaker 1: but now you take a second round pick at sixty.
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Speaker 1: Fourth chris AND i have talked about. This he's probably
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Speaker 1: playing in some, point if not, Starting he's definitely in
17:52
Speaker 1: the plans in the rotation for his ability to play
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Speaker 1: on the, ball passes in the, air and the. Tackling
18:00
Speaker 1: Jullian Neil he's a cornerback who has played safety in
18:03
Speaker 1: the past At Fresno, state moved a cornerback At. Arkansas, long, physical,
18:08
Speaker 1: speed tackle and that's the common theme to the four
18:13
Speaker 1: defensive backs out of eight draft choices That mike McDonald
18:16
Speaker 1: And John schneedder got last. Weekend they could all. Tackle
18:19
Speaker 1: Jillian neal loves. Tackling he also loves press coverage and
18:23
Speaker 1: if you miss what he said with H millon last
18:24
Speaker 1: week when he got. Drafted this is what he said about. Physicality,
18:29
Speaker 1: Julian i'm going to paint a scenario for. You it's
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Speaker 1: it's in the fourth. Quarter it's a critical.
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Speaker 4: Time you get the huddle call or from the.
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Speaker 1: Sideline what's the, coverage what's the defense that you like
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Speaker 1: the most that you, say, yeah that's the ONE i
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Speaker 1: want to be.
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Speaker 4: In and what's your role in?
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Speaker 5: That so we're in a fourth two five country country cover,
18:51
Speaker 5: three basically a true. Zone wait you say you say
18:54
Speaker 5: we're in a fourth, quarter.
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Speaker 3: Yeah fourth, quarter any important.
18:58
Speaker 1: Situation what's your favorite what's your favorite defensive? Call and
19:02
Speaker 1: you're rolling. It so you're saying you're playing country cover.
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Speaker 6: Three oh, no, no, no, no, no, no we're playing, Man.
19:08
Speaker 5: I'm Gonna i'm gonna touch.
19:10
Speaker 6: Them i'm gonna Go i'm gonna go touch. Them i'm
19:12
Speaker 6: gonna go touch on. Somebody i'm gonna go touch on.
19:15
Speaker 6: Somebody they're not getting gassed. Me and if you get,
19:17
Speaker 6: Passed i'm gonna look back for the ball And i'm
19:20
Speaker 6: gonna get that simple AND i touch somebody on the.
19:23
Speaker 1: LINE i love. It, now are you in off coverage
19:28
Speaker 1: or impress in this? Situation i'm in.
19:30
Speaker 5: Premise i'm all up in your. Face i'm gonna get
19:33
Speaker 5: down and dirty with. It that was.
19:39
Speaker 1: After Julian neil On friday, night third round pick for The,
19:42
Speaker 1: seahawks said we're going back to. Back one of the
19:45
Speaker 1: first things he said on the call with us on
19:48
Speaker 1: the speakerphone was we're going back to. Back he hadn't
19:50
Speaker 1: even been In seattle yet and had never been in
19:53
Speaker 1: The seahawks UH a practice, yet and he's already talking
19:56
Speaker 1: about going back to Back mike McDonald after we told him.
19:59
Speaker 1: That so, yeah we're gonna talk about. Messages he also
20:02
Speaker 1: talked about The seahawks defense and watching it from a
20:06
Speaker 1: far of course he watched like everybody watched The Super
20:08
Speaker 1: bowl as. Well, CHRIS i don't know if you have
20:10
Speaker 1: that cut too about The seahawks, defense the, team.
20:13
Speaker 5: They're like big. CORNERS i feel LIKE i fit well with.
20:16
Speaker 5: THAT i could fit in those. Teams the head, coach
20:19
Speaker 5: my corners coach that coached At arkansas was the assistant
20:24
Speaker 5: corners coach at The seahawks two years, ago so he
20:29
Speaker 5: it was meant to. Be he talked, east.
20:33
Speaker 1: He's fits the, physicality the, tackling especially at a. Cornerback.
20:37
Speaker 1: Position it allows the reason That mike McDonald stacked with
20:42
Speaker 1: four more cornerbacks in this draft out of eight picks
20:44
Speaker 1: after Losing riquel and free agency is the more the.
20:48
Speaker 1: Better he, says you can never have enough defensive. Back
20:50
Speaker 1: they told us that after the, draft and it's because
20:53
Speaker 1: it really is the key to the multiplicity and different
20:56
Speaker 1: looks that he gives on, defense Moving Devin witherspoon in
21:00
Speaker 1: and out From nickel to the outside. Corner for, instance last,
21:02
Speaker 1: year he rotated three starting cornerbacks in two positions Between, Riek,
21:07
Speaker 1: Woollen Josh, job And. Witherspoon and that doesn't even count
21:11
Speaker 1: What nick even warri did last, year which was play.
21:13
Speaker 1: Everywhere he was a post, safety he was, inside he
21:17
Speaker 1: was a slot. Corner at, times he was A sam linebacker.
21:20
Speaker 1: MOSTLY i, mean their base defense was basically five and
21:22
Speaker 1: six defensive backs And nick even wore was off of
21:26
Speaker 1: A sam pass, rusher A sam linebacker on the. Outside
21:30
Speaker 1: he was even a defensive end Against, minnesota WHICH i
21:33
Speaker 1: SWEAR i think that was A december. GAME i think
21:35
Speaker 1: They mike McDonald put him at defensive end just to
21:38
Speaker 1: give teams film to study and. Consider oh, Now nick
21:42
Speaker 1: Even worey's coming from the end with a hand on the.
21:45
Speaker 1: Ground so you have corners who can play safety or
21:49
Speaker 1: give corners who can, tackle and then you can do
21:51
Speaker 1: those kinds of moving around and mixing matches of your secondary.
21:54
Speaker 1: Pieces and that's WHERE i Think Bud clark And Julian
21:57
Speaker 1: neil fit. In Both, stevens they they were not going
22:00
Speaker 1: to draft. Him they thought he was going to be
22:01
Speaker 1: a third round pick and they'd already used. It their
22:05
Speaker 1: plans were to go With. Neil they thought he might
22:07
Speaker 1: be a fourth round pick at, worst and they didn't
22:09
Speaker 1: have a fourth round. Pick they were trying to train
22:11
Speaker 1: down and didn't get. One and then he Was Bo,
22:14
Speaker 1: stevens An All american guard who has played both left
22:17
Speaker 1: guard and right guard At All american, level All big
22:19
Speaker 1: ten level At, iowa the offensive line factory that Is.
22:23
Speaker 1: Iowa he was there in round, five and so they
22:27
Speaker 1: plucked one of their stash of expected twelve draft picks
22:30
Speaker 1: next year in a stronger overall draft and traded into
22:34
Speaker 1: round five when they didn't have a pick until round
22:36
Speaker 1: six to Get Bo. Stevens and that's they're not getting
22:40
Speaker 1: Both stevens to just stash him on the. BENCH i
22:43
Speaker 1: Think chris he's going to compete With Anthony. Bradford bradford
22:46
Speaker 1: is in the final year of his rookie contract at
22:49
Speaker 1: the starting right. Guard mike McDonald after the draft was
22:52
Speaker 1: really coy when we asked him which side is Bo
22:54
Speaker 1: stevens going to begin playing? On left or? Right but
22:57
Speaker 1: they didn't draft him and trade a draft pick from
22:59
Speaker 1: next year to have him just stand and Watch gray's
23:02
Speaker 1: abel play left. GUARD i really believe he's going to
23:05
Speaker 1: compete at right. Guard they've Tried Christian hayes and he has.
23:08
Speaker 1: Failed they've tried With timmy and he has failed at right.
23:12
Speaker 1: Guard it's been a revolving door of guys trying to
23:15
Speaker 1: compete With. Bradford mike mcdog keeps saying he Loves, bradford
23:19
Speaker 1: loves how he's. Played he thinks that he's much better
23:22
Speaker 1: than the rap that he gets from fans that Think
23:25
Speaker 1: bradford is a weak. Link but the fact remains that
23:28
Speaker 1: there hasn't been anybody worthy of taking his, position and
23:31
Speaker 1: that's a large reason why he has remained the. STARTER
23:35
Speaker 1: i think Bo stevens has a chance to be that.
23:36
Speaker 1: Guy the sixth round Pick Emmanuel. Henderson we talked about.
23:40
Speaker 1: Him he's a wide receiver who can straight line, fly
23:42
Speaker 1: just straight line. Speed he was a punt gunner and
23:46
Speaker 1: a punt returner At, kansas a rare punt returner who
23:48
Speaker 1: also tackles punt. Returners and that's where his first job
23:52
Speaker 1: lies to. Me because they lost Dere Derek, young they
23:55
Speaker 1: let his contract end and he signed With Las vegas
23:57
Speaker 1: And Clint kubiak and New raiders Coach Week young was
24:00
Speaker 1: their gunner for a couple of years and good at.
24:02
Speaker 1: It big wide, receiver fast running down the. Sidelines the
24:05
Speaker 1: outside gunner has to be fast and strong to get
24:08
Speaker 1: through usual double teams on the sideline trying to get
24:11
Speaker 1: to the punt, returner And Bo stevens excelled at that At.
24:14
Speaker 1: KANSAS i don't remember done this since two thousand and,
24:18
Speaker 1: two AND i don't remember AN nfl team drafting a,
24:21
Speaker 1: gunner but that seems what they've done to me For
24:23
Speaker 1: Themmanuel henderson far more than a wide, receiver at least
24:25
Speaker 1: so far in a crowded wide receiver. Corps for The,
24:28
Speaker 1: Seahawks Andre, Fuller Devin, eastern And Michael dansby two corners
24:32
Speaker 1: and a nose. Tackle Devin eastern three fifteen and sixty.
24:34
Speaker 1: Five those guys are going to have to play special.
24:37
Speaker 1: Teams AND i don't know how much a sixty, five
24:39
Speaker 1: three hundred fifteen pound nose tackle played special. Teams But
24:41
Speaker 1: Brandon peeley played special teams for this team last. Year
24:44
Speaker 1: can remember he forced a fumble In washington on a
24:47
Speaker 1: kick return on a kickoff coverage. Play so it's not
24:50
Speaker 1: unheard of for The seahawks to put a guy like
24:53
Speaker 1: A Devin eastern on special, teams and they're going to
24:55
Speaker 1: have to play special teams to be on the field during.
24:57
Speaker 1: Games eight picks on A Super bowl, Team, chris we
25:01
Speaker 1: talked about this. Too it's not guaranteed all eight of
25:04
Speaker 1: those draft picks are going to make this, team not
25:06
Speaker 1: on A Super bowl champion that's returning twenty of twenty
25:08
Speaker 1: two starters and they set to. President last, year they
25:11
Speaker 1: Cut Damian, martinez the seventh round. Pick theyre running back
25:14
Speaker 1: From Oregon state In. Miami SO i don't think it's
25:17
Speaker 1: guaranteed that all eight of these draft picks we're seeing
25:20
Speaker 1: and getting assigned numbers, too are going to be on
25:21
Speaker 1: the field or even on the. Roster september, Ninth no.
25:24
Speaker 2: Question this is a championship caliber roster and if you
25:27
Speaker 2: don't fit the, coacher you won't make, it and The
25:30
Speaker 2: seahawks have no problem cutting. You the good news is
25:33
Speaker 2: there's thirty one other teams that might take a shot on,
25:35
Speaker 2: You so that's an. Opportunity but if you want to
25:37
Speaker 2: be on this, team there's a way to go about.
25:39
Speaker 2: It And i'm, sure as you, MENTIONED i, think what
25:41
Speaker 2: was it Maybe, tuesday they can cut anybody like if
25:46
Speaker 2: you don't meet what they're trying to do their, expectations
25:49
Speaker 2: they have no issue with moving on from. You and
25:51
Speaker 2: you've seen that as soon AS. Markea donald got. HERE
25:54
Speaker 2: i mean he may changes during mid season letting guys.
25:57
Speaker 2: Go so you think that as a rookie coming in
25:59
Speaker 2: you don't fit what they're trying to, do you will
26:01
Speaker 2: find yourself on the roster just Because, no The seahawks
26:04
Speaker 2: will take that loss and try to recoup it at some,
26:07
Speaker 2: point but they're looking for guys that are ready to
26:12
Speaker 2: endure a, challenge make one another, better and at the
26:15
Speaker 2: end become a. Champion that's their goal and that's their.
26:18
Speaker 2: Mindset so if you don't have, that as you mentioned
26:21
Speaker 2: with the seventh round draft pick that got. Cut that's
26:23
Speaker 2: a huge, possibility just as it is with, anybody even MAYBE. Jd,
26:28
Speaker 2: price like he's not like if he doesn't GET i,
26:30
Speaker 2: mean they probably will cut him because you know he's
26:32
Speaker 2: he's guarantees of. Money but my point, is if you're
26:35
Speaker 2: not coming in with that mindset and right, attitude you
26:38
Speaker 2: can see yourself out the.
26:39
Speaker 1: Door not only, That John schneider in sixteen years as
26:43
Speaker 1: general manager has had thirty two undrafted rookies make the.
26:46
Speaker 1: Roster so those rookies at the bottom of the sex
26:50
Speaker 1: sixth seventh round Picks henderson full Or Eastern, dansby they know,
26:54
Speaker 1: that their agents know, that and they know they have
26:57
Speaker 1: to earn their roster spots because there could be eight
27:01
Speaker 1: undrafted rookies signing on the field today who could push
27:04
Speaker 1: those draft picks for their. Jobs and it's it's not
27:08
Speaker 1: at all. Rare in, fact it's common for a few
27:11
Speaker 1: of those undrafted rookies every year to make the roster and,
27:14
Speaker 1: contribute especially on special. Teams, so, yeah the die's been.
27:18
Speaker 1: Cast The seahawks have set that precedent way before this
27:21
Speaker 1: and A Super bowl. Roster it's not like there's gaping
27:23
Speaker 1: holes that a ton of rookies are going to come
27:25
Speaker 1: in and have an impact on four, nine four five to.
27:29
Speaker 1: Come a dodge text on questions at the top of the,
27:32
Speaker 1: hour getting a lot of responses about the top five
27:34
Speaker 1: mariners of all. Time in two poh, Six Greg bliss
27:37
Speaker 1: isn't making your top. Up no for Saying Ryan bliss
27:40
Speaker 1: is not making a tough five More Ryan, bliss please
27:43
Speaker 1: coming up. Next little inside ball thing related to The
27:46
Speaker 1: Boston Red, sox who are suddenly one of the worst
27:49
Speaker 1: teams In Major League baseball with the riches that that
27:53
Speaker 1: ownership has and the money they spend on. Contracts do
27:56
Speaker 1: a little inside ball thing on a theory as to
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Speaker 1: why The Red sox are so. Bad at eleven, o'clock
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Speaker 1: the mayor Of, Dennison, Texas Robert, crawley is joining. Us
28:03
Speaker 1: why are we talking to the mayor Of, Dennison. Texas
28:05
Speaker 1: it's the hometown Of Jeduran price and number one pick
28:07
Speaker 1: for The seahawks who had A Jedurian price day In.
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Speaker 1: Dennison Robert, crawley the mayor Of, Dennison, texas proclaim that
28:13
Speaker 1: In january he's going to talk to us about. That
28:15
Speaker 1: In Jederium price and his family's impact on the city
28:18
Speaker 1: Of dennis And. Texas at eleven o'clock eleven thirty year
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Speaker 1: chance to be part of the show when we read
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Speaker 1: back your text from The Tacoma doutche text, Line Ian
28:26
Speaker 1: ferness is going to join me and we go out
28:27
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Speaker 1: Bell Just, Tribune Christopher kidd with you as we are
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Speaker 1: every day every weekday ten am to noon here on
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Speaker 1: ninety three point THREE. Kjrfm top of the. Show we
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Speaker 1: posed the question on the tacomadadge text line four nine
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Speaker 1: or less voice. Message who was the top five mariners in?
29:05
Speaker 1: History in your? Mind it came up talking About Randy,
29:08
Speaker 1: johnson Because Randy. Johnson It's Randy Johnson celebration weekend at
29:13
Speaker 1: The yard And soto three game series Against Kansas city
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Speaker 1: that starts Tonight Tomorrow night's, game preceded by the retirement
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Speaker 1: jersey retirement ceremony number fifty one Of Randy. Johnson the
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Speaker 1: tall left hander nineties icon In. SEATTLE i mean he
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29:37
Speaker 1: and is waining into The Baseball hall Of. Fame CHRIS
29:40
Speaker 1: i mentioned it during the. Headlines didn't give you a
29:43
Speaker 1: chance to. Respond But nick sixty And hawks, NINETEEN i,
29:46
Speaker 1: mean was that real last?
29:48
Speaker 2: NIGHT i, mean, yeah that was RO i just think
29:50
Speaker 2: that that is A i think the blowout state says
29:54
Speaker 2: more about a bad night And ogianaobi playing his greatest
29:59
Speaker 2: basketball game. EVER i don't think it's necessarily about both one,
30:04
Speaker 2: SPORT nhl being more competitive than THE. NBA i just
30:07
Speaker 2: look at it from a basketball. STANDPOINT i, mean, hockey
30:09
Speaker 2: you're you're probably gonna score maybe two to four. Goals in,
30:13
Speaker 2: basketball there's just too many. Possessions and AS i, Mentioned
30:17
Speaker 2: ogiananobi had a career night And Atlanta hawks had their worst,
30:21
Speaker 2: Night and when you combine those two, things you get
30:24
Speaker 2: an eighty two to nineteen for a team that looked
30:27
Speaker 2: like they just rolled out of bed and was, like.
30:28
Speaker 3: Oh we have a.
30:28
Speaker 2: Game, meanwhile This knicks team they're not, missing including one
30:32
Speaker 2: player not to mention they have a better, team, so.
30:35
Speaker 3: YEAH i would it. Was it was a bad bad.
30:38
Speaker 2: Night for The Atlanta hawks elimination game, Too yeah it.
30:42
Speaker 2: Did that wasn't a great representation of what they were
30:45
Speaker 2: the pot the prior five, games like they were playing
30:48
Speaker 2: really good.
30:48
Speaker 3: Basketball The knicks had a better.
30:50
Speaker 2: Team no one expected The hawks to win the, series
30:54
Speaker 2: but not to get beat in the fashion that they.
30:56
Speaker 1: Did do you know who the worst teams in The American?
31:00
Speaker 1: League switching to baseball right now are The Houston astros
31:04
Speaker 1: have the soft record well along with The Los Angeles.
31:07
Speaker 1: Angels The astros pitching staff just decimated by injuries AND
31:10
Speaker 1: i don't know what they. Have we talked To Gary
31:12
Speaker 1: Hill junior on The mariners broadcast team this week and he,
31:16
Speaker 1: SAID i don't know Where houston. Turned they're out of
31:18
Speaker 1: pitching and they're twelve and twenty at the bottom of THE,
31:21
Speaker 1: al not only THE Al, west but THE. Al The
31:24
Speaker 1: royals have been bad for a couple of weeks and
31:26
Speaker 1: they're twelve and nineteen coming Into Sego field excuse, ME
31:29
Speaker 1: T Mobile park. Tonight and also twelve and, nineteen half
31:33
Speaker 1: game behind.
31:34
Speaker 2: Is the worst, record like The Red sox no one
31:37
Speaker 2: saw that.
31:37
Speaker 1: COMING i know WHAT i. Mean they weren't considered to
31:40
Speaker 1: be A World series, contender but they've fallen off a.
31:44
Speaker 1: Cliff they're twelve and nineteen back onto a two game winning.
31:47
Speaker 1: Street they Pay houston this weekend At Fenway, park so
31:50
Speaker 1: somebody's got to. Win But John henry and the money
31:54
Speaker 1: that The Boston Red sox spend and the revenue they
31:56
Speaker 1: get out of that, park and their television deals and
32:00
Speaker 1: popularity The Red, sox they're at the bottom of The American.
32:04
Speaker 1: LEAGUE a little inside ball is that with theory as
32:07
Speaker 1: to why this isn't they fired their whole coaching at
32:09
Speaker 1: Alex core the manager hole on the main coaching. Staff
32:13
Speaker 1: they fired him in the middle of a road trip last,
32:15
Speaker 1: week so they're starting over from a leadership baskepbat on the,
32:18
Speaker 1: Field Buster only the long TIME Espn baseball WHERE i
32:24
Speaker 1: Covered WHEN i covered baseball as a beat, writer he
32:26
Speaker 1: was A yankees beat writer for The New York. Times
32:28
Speaker 1: Buster only yesterday wrote that one of the interesting theories
32:32
Speaker 1: about the Struggling Red sox offense and rival front offices
32:35
Speaker 1: is That boston has been impacted significantly by the enforcement
32:40
Speaker 1: of the coaching. Boxes you, know this Year Major League
32:42
Speaker 1: baseball said the third and first base coaches have to
32:44
Speaker 1: stay within the white lines of the. Box that's been
32:48
Speaker 1: an ignored thing for, decades if not, centuries of guys
32:52
Speaker 1: just standing all over the. Place the coaches will say
32:55
Speaker 1: they want to especially, when say a third base coach
32:57
Speaker 1: says when a right hitt and batters, up they want
32:58
Speaker 1: to get out of that coach's. Box they don't get
33:00
Speaker 1: killed online drives coming off of pulling right hand or
33:04
Speaker 1: pulling a. Pitch Well only said that in rival front
33:07
Speaker 1: offices to The Red, sox they think that the factor
33:11
Speaker 1: for The Red sox losing was that The Red sox
33:13
Speaker 1: have always been regarded by other teams as being extraordinary
33:17
Speaker 1: and ascertaining the grips and relaying the pitch types to.
33:21
Speaker 1: Hitters that say the third base, coach and they can
33:25
Speaker 1: see a right handed pitcher in the stretch with his
33:29
Speaker 1: hand going into his glove gripping the. Ball he'll get
33:32
Speaker 1: a wide toward the home plate side of that third
33:35
Speaker 1: base coaching box to be able to see directly into
33:37
Speaker 1: that glove in the, hand and that they were tipping
33:40
Speaker 1: pitches to the third base coach who would then give
33:43
Speaker 1: a quick signal to the. Batter and now that they're
33:46
Speaker 1: making the base coaches go back into the, boxes that
33:48
Speaker 1: advantage is, Gone Buster only, says and so a somewhat
33:53
Speaker 1: of a derivative the younger brother of the trash cans With,
33:58
Speaker 1: houston when they were banging on him to tip pitches
34:02
Speaker 1: from somebody out in center. Field catching the catcher signals
34:06
Speaker 1: a scandal that still went unpunished By Major League. BASEBALL
34:10
Speaker 1: a scandal that has changed the way baseball catchers and
34:14
Speaker 1: we see or give signs to the. Pitchers it's changed
34:17
Speaker 1: all the way. DOWN i was at a college game
34:19
Speaker 1: last weekend seeing my former high school PITCHER i told you.
34:22
Speaker 1: About they're using a different remote press of button pitch
34:27
Speaker 1: calling system because of The houston Trash. Cans, well now
34:31
Speaker 1: The Red sox are losing out on the ability to tip,
34:34
Speaker 1: pitches so says A buster only from rival front, offices
34:37
Speaker 1: because they're being enforced to be inside the Coaching BUT
34:40
Speaker 1: i JUST i found that. Interesting is the kind of
34:42
Speaker 1: an inside ball thing that when you see when you
34:45
Speaker 1: used to see coaches way out of the, box that's
34:47
Speaker 1: what they were actually. Doing i'p next From dennis And.
34:51
Speaker 1: Texas The mayor Of, Dennison, Texas Robert crawley on his
34:55
Speaker 1: City's Jadarian Price, day The seahawks first round, pick and
34:58
Speaker 1: how revered he. Is back in along The Red river
35:01
Speaker 1: In North. Texas he's joining us live on the air
35:03
Speaker 1: From texas next on ninety three point THREE kjrfm