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Chuck in the Morning 8-14 H3: The Ocho, Seahawks preseason game, Mariners-Astros · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: o'clock hour here on this Friday. Great to have you
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Speaker 1: with us. My name is Chuck Powell. Then every Friday
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Speaker 1: at eight o'clock we do your eight top stories of
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it used to be once upon a time that
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Speaker 1: other Oahos. And that's the Friday Ocho. So I present
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Andrews Hurst is here filling in for Ashley Ryan. My
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Speaker 1: name is Chuck Powell. Let's get into it. Our top
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Speaker 1: story of the day. Seahawks have controversially signed former Lions
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Speaker 1: cornerback Terrian Arnold. Greg Bell was on with us a
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Speaker 1: little earlier today and we asked him why.
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Speaker 4: Because they obviously think he's going to be able to play.
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Speaker 4: And we heard in the second Hard Knocked episode that
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Speaker 4: John Schneider said, Joey Lane, one of his personnel, guys
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Speaker 4: done the investigation the teams. The team did their own investigation.
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Speaker 4: They're not waiting for whatever happens in Florida. They think
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Speaker 4: he's going to be able to play in the preseason
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Speaker 4: while he's out on bond. He's already pled fleted. I
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Speaker 4: was learning grad school journalism. You don't say plaed pleaded
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Speaker 4: not guilty. Yeah, I did learn that he pleaded not guilty.
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Speaker 4: So he's remaining free on one million dollar bond pending
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Speaker 4: what appears to be the Hillsboro County Court records. I
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Speaker 4: saw online yesterday that his next appearance the court is
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Speaker 4: supposed to be October the fifth person in Tampa.
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Speaker 1: So if October the fifth is.
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Speaker 4: The next hearing date, that suggests this is going to
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Speaker 4: drag out a while.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell with us earlier. There's a lot from our
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Speaker 1: conversation with Greg Bel. If you want to check out
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Speaker 1: the entire conversation, do that at ninety three three KJR
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Speaker 1: dot com and check out our podcast. It was at
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Speaker 1: seven oh five. So here's the story. Terry and Arnold
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Speaker 1: is facing eight felmony charges stemming from an incident where
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Speaker 1: he reportedly hired men to kidnap three others he believed
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Speaker 1: had stolen from him. Arnold was accused of then orchestrating
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Speaker 1: the beatings of the men while he directed and watched
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Speaker 1: from a separate location. Arnold turned himself into authorities, posted
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Speaker 1: a one million dollar bond, and was then released by
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Speaker 1: his former team, the Detroit Lions. A trial awaits, and
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Speaker 1: unless charges are dropped, Terry and Arnold is going to
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Speaker 1: become a Seahawk. John Schneider and Mike McDonald met with
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Speaker 1: Arnold twice in the last two weeks, worked him out
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Speaker 1: and convinced them that the juice here is worth the squeeze.
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Speaker 1: Arnold signing a one year deal with the Hawks and
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Speaker 1: presumably I don't think we've got the money on it,
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Speaker 1: but presumably.
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Speaker 5: For a song, yeah, I mean veteran minimum we're talking
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Speaker 5: about now.
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Speaker 1: The league could still suspend Arnold regardless of court ruling,
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Speaker 1: so it's not a foregone conclusion that it'll suit up
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Speaker 1: with Seattle anytime soon, and when he does, he will
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Speaker 1: likely be at the front of the line to start
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Speaker 1: inside at slot corner. Hugh Melon will join us at
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Speaker 1: nine o'clock to discuss this story further. We'll discuss it now.
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Speaker 1: It's what we open the show with here today. Most evidently,
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Speaker 1: I just I know there's a talent here, and I
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Speaker 1: certainly have a room in my art for somebody that
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Speaker 1: makes a mistake in life that they regrets and once
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Speaker 1: a do over. He didn't take a life here, That said,
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Speaker 1: pretty foolish to think that you could take the law
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Speaker 1: into your own hands like he did in this situation
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Speaker 1: and not feel that there were gonna be repercussions, like
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Speaker 1: you're just gonna get away from this, Scott Free. The
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Speaker 1: amount of things that you risked in order to exact
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Speaker 1: your own version of vengeance here at least introduces some
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Speaker 1: loose morals, I would say, and then certainly some bad judgment.
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Speaker 1: I hear the argument, somebody steals my stuff, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: pay right, Okay, I hear that argument. And we've seen
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Speaker 1: lots of movies where we rooted for the guy who
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Speaker 1: got his revenge and we left the movie theater feeling
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Speaker 1: good that Jason Statum beat a dude with a tire
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Speaker 1: irons because he called his grandma and tried to builk
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Speaker 1: her out of her you know, social Security fund, right.
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Speaker 1: We cheer that. We like that. There's some element to
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Speaker 1: it that does feel like justice to us, there's no
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Speaker 1: question about it. But there's also an element here where
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Speaker 1: he might not have even had the right people. So
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Speaker 1: there's a lot that's facing him eight counts potentially, if
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Speaker 1: everything stuck, that's life in prison. I think we're pretty
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Speaker 1: sure that hardly any of it is going to stick
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Speaker 1: in the long run. I would imagine Terry and Arnold's
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Speaker 1: going to be a free man at some point in
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Speaker 1: the near future, and when he is, it looks like
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Speaker 1: he's going to be a seahawk. All that aside, wherever
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Speaker 1: you lie on that moral ground, whether you are a
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Speaker 1: high ground or a low ground or somewhere in between,
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Speaker 1: it still comes down to a football decision being made
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Speaker 1: by an organization that once upon a time was making
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Speaker 1: decisions like talent is all that Matters, And then in
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Speaker 1: the last three years to correct some of those decisions
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Speaker 1: that they made under the umbrella of Talent is All
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Speaker 1: that Matters, they slipped from a championship team to a
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Speaker 1: mediocre football team, and in two short years where they
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Speaker 1: stressed character higher on their list, not higher than talent,
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Speaker 1: but higher on their list than they've ever stressed before
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Speaker 1: in terms of acquiring talent. Is it really worth this?
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Speaker 1: Do you really want to take the risk that this
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Speaker 1: guy's a bad seed? I mean, sure, one year minimum contract,
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Speaker 1: you cut him the moment you see anything going wrong.
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Speaker 1: But why introduce this when you're flying so high, When
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Speaker 1: you're soaring like an eagle right now in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League. So I don't hate it. I don't hate
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Speaker 1: it for the organization. They're not a bad organization. They're
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Speaker 1: not bad people for doing this. And I don't know
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Speaker 1: Terry and Arnold well enough to judge him soundly one
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Speaker 1: way or the other. It just feels unnecessary considering how
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Speaker 1: great things are going for the Seahawks organization.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it just feels like there's two ways to think
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Speaker 5: about it. In terms of the culture side of things,
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Speaker 5: obviously there are question marks with Arnold and how well
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Speaker 5: he will fit in here. Either A, you have such
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Speaker 5: a good culture that you feel like you can absorb
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Speaker 5: someone like this and maybe turn them around and get
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Speaker 5: them go in the right direction, and adding someone of
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Speaker 5: his talent would be something that not a lot of
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Speaker 5: other teams would be able to deal with, but the
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Speaker 5: Seahawks could based off of what you've built or be.
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Speaker 5: As you're mentioning here, the reason why you've gotten to
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Speaker 5: this point is by getting a bunch of high culture guys,
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Speaker 5: So why do anything to screw that up?
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Speaker 1: Those are the two ways to think about it. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I think about it the second one. The second one. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's the way I think about it. But you know
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Speaker 1: what starts making place? I see. I know how fans work. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you quickly forget about things from the past position of
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Speaker 1: need as well. Yeah. Yeah, So we'll talk more about
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Speaker 1: it with Hugh coming up at nine. We'll also talk
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Speaker 1: to him about tomorrow's event. The Seahawks preseason opener is
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Speaker 1: tomorrow night. The Defense of the Crown begins on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and I guess the Arnold signing proves Circe Lanister is right.
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Speaker 5: When you play the Game of Thrones, you win, you're dying.
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Speaker 1: There is no middle ground. The Hawks host the Dallas
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Speaker 1: Cowboys Saturday at Luminfield. Greg Bell was on with us earlier,
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Speaker 1: had a lot on this game as well. Who's playing,
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Speaker 1: who's sitting? I don't think he's got a great feel
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Speaker 1: of it. Even as a beat rider for this team
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Speaker 1: for over twenty years now. His best guess was that
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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold didn't play at all tonight, that Jadarian Price
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Speaker 1: is not gonna play at all because of an injury.
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Speaker 1: Different reason, sure, and he's I don't think there's an
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Speaker 1: expectation from Greg and him reading the tea leaves that
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Speaker 1: we're gonna see a lot of starters play tonight. But
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Speaker 1: I will say this, a lot of them played last
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Speaker 1: night for other teams. So maybe there is maybe a
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Speaker 1: reversal of thinking, we only have three pre season games,
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Speaker 1: let's let it rip, let's see guys on the field
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Speaker 1: and anders. I mean, there's got to be some something too.
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Speaker 1: We have a brand new offensive coordinator calling plays for
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Speaker 1: the first time. Shouldn't he at some point this preseason,
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Speaker 1: and not just for a series or two, kind of
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Speaker 1: get use. Shouldn't they get into a rhythm on how
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Speaker 1: to call plays with his starting quarterback and his starting
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Speaker 1: offensive line and his starting receivers. Shouldn't it some point, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there'd be more than just a drive to try to
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Speaker 1: test that out a little bit before you get to
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Speaker 1: opening day.
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Speaker 5: I mean just relying on practices alone with a new
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Speaker 5: offensive coordinator. We all know how it's excuse upon coordinated.
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Speaker 5: Everyone needs to be on this, but it's true having
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Speaker 5: it in a game situation, even if it is just
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Speaker 5: for a couple series with I think would go a
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Speaker 5: long way. So there definitely is some value in that.
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Speaker 5: Maybe not in the first game, maybe in the second
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Speaker 5: game or third game. But I don't think it's just
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Speaker 5: out of the question that Sam Donold East plays a
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Speaker 5: series today.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna have you on at nine o'clock.
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Speaker 1: I promise you that Hugh wants to see Sam Donald
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Speaker 1: play some football on Saturday. At least that would be
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Speaker 1: my best guest based on my conversations with Hugh about
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Speaker 1: preseason football in the past. Well, the preseason did kick
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Speaker 1: off last night, several games being played and several rookies debuting,
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Speaker 1: which is really the most interesting thing about opening week
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Speaker 1: of preseason seeing those college stars in their brand new
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Speaker 1: uniforms and now they look on a professional football field.
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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza debuted against the Arizona Cardinals last night. He
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Speaker 1: did not start, Kirk Cousins did. He did not face
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Speaker 1: a first team defense that Arizona puts on the field.
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Speaker 1: But I'll say this, for who he was facing and
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Speaker 1: considering it's his first time in the pros, you look
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Speaker 1: pretty damn good. Put it in the end zone.
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Speaker 6: Try and tie up this game and doze when it
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Speaker 6: was Carse Ryder touchdown cars to Jack Best.
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Speaker 1: Is that what they're calling him? Fernando Lurian Thenando? Oh,
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Speaker 1: I thought it could be the Mendelorian could have been. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: either way, I just listen to that again. Hold on
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Speaker 1: the Nandalorian, the Nandalorians. Huh. I don't know how he
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Speaker 1: arrived at that nixt night. Oh, I guess Fernando, Yeah, man, Nando?
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Speaker 1: Is he just a star wars key? I guess maybe? Huh?
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Speaker 1: He in Safty should hang out ten for sixteen, passing
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Speaker 1: ninety seven yards and a touchdown, and there was a
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Speaker 1: couple of beautiful throws on that touchdown drive that he led.
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas didn't lose the game twenty seven to fourteen
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Speaker 1: to Arizona, who also showcased their shiny new rookie as well.
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Love looked good. Levin carries fifty eight yards also
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Speaker 1: had three catches for fourteen yards in the game, but
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Speaker 1: it was another rookie who shined last night. Brightest Drew
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Speaker 1: Aller lit it up for Pittsburgh last night. The Penn
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Speaker 1: State quarterback played where Aaron Rodgers did not and the
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Speaker 1: Steelers twenty eight nine thumping of Green Bay. He went
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Speaker 1: ten for thirteen, one hundred and fifty three yards and
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Speaker 1: scored two touchdowns last night. That'll do. Now. I was
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Speaker 1: not a big fan of Drew Awler. I thought he
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Speaker 1: was kind of keeping Penn State back, but I kept
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Speaker 1: hearing people talk about his incredible talent. And I'll say
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Speaker 1: this about him. He was one of those kids, like
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Speaker 1: six foot four, good looking kid, but by the end
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Speaker 1: of the first quarter, his cheeks would be rosy red.
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Speaker 1: And you know what that means. That usually means like
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Speaker 1: you basically just got out of puberty. It does like
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Speaker 1: your nuts av in Trump to steal a phrase, to
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Speaker 1: steal a vulgar phrase, And so there might be something
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Speaker 1: to Drew Aller might just now be maturing physically. And
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Speaker 1: if that's the case, oh boy, oh boy. Because raves
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Speaker 1: about his arm talent.
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Speaker 5: Going into last year in the college, everyone was like
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Speaker 5: he was the next big thing.
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Speaker 1: Athleticism. Yeah, you know, apparently good kid. But if he
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Speaker 1: was a big ten quarterback for penn State and he's
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Speaker 1: not even reached puberty yet, big about that. Literally, maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe they got something special. Then again, it is
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Speaker 1: just one preseason game now, three more preseason games tonight
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Speaker 1: Denver at Atlanta. I don't think Pennix is playing. I
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Speaker 1: know two is starting Tampa at the Jets, and then
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Speaker 1: Miami will be at Washington to take on the entitled
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Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels and the Commanders. It am number four on
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Speaker 1: your OW show. Husky's Camp, of course, is ongoing. Scott
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Speaker 1: Eckland joined me yesterday. Was my first chance to chat
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Speaker 1: with the dog Man, one of the dog men, about
13:48
Speaker 1: how Husky's camp is going. And of course, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask him, who's the talk of camp right now?
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Speaker 7: The guy that's really creating a lot of buzz is
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Speaker 7: someone who created a lot of.
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Speaker 1: Buzzs last year.
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Speaker 7: He's not even nineteen yet, but he's entering his second
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Speaker 7: year with the Huskies, and that's John Mills. I mean,
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Speaker 7: the guy is almost six seven, he's close to three
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Speaker 7: hundred and forty pounds, his hair is down almost to
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Speaker 7: the middle of his back. He's got a mullet. He
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Speaker 7: looks like I don't know, I compared him to when
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Speaker 7: I talked with Softy and Dick about it, Michael P.
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Speaker 7: Hayes from The Fabulous Freebirds. He looks like that, the
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Speaker 7: old wrestler. It's just it's awesome. And he's such a
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Speaker 7: gregarious guy and he's got such a great personality. And
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Speaker 7: you know, he did that muggin with Mills thing that
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Speaker 7: he did with El Gaucho and just his personality, and
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Speaker 7: I think that's one of the He's kind of the
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Speaker 7: face of the program right now as much as Demon
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Speaker 7: Williams because he's the quarterback. He's the de facto leader
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Speaker 7: of this team. John Mills is kind of that face.
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Speaker 1: I think we learned a lot about Scott Eckln right
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Speaker 1: there and that clip.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we did.
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Speaker 1: He looks like my favorite professional wrestler. It's awesome. Uh. Well,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see him play. He was excellent
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Speaker 1: last year, excellent as an eighteen year old. As an
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Speaker 1: eight I think he was seventeen. Yeah this season, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, you're right. Twenty three days till
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Speaker 1: Jedfish and the Dogs make their twenty twenty six debut.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the Apple Cup opens the season this year.
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Speaker 1: I know it's strange and on a Sunday that's even stranger.
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Speaker 1: Heard Chuck in the Morning's featuring special guest host Cam Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: Next week, you know, live from Husky's Camp, so make
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Speaker 1: sure you tune in. We're gonna have jed On and
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Speaker 1: demond On and a few others. So we're excited about that.
15:32
Speaker 1: Alight them number five on the O Show. Finally we
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Speaker 1: get to the Mariners who held off the Reaper Thursday
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Speaker 1: afternoon in the Bronx. That is only one god and
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Speaker 1: his name is there, and that is only one thing
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Speaker 1: we say to death. Not today. Yeah, kind of feels
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Speaker 1: like the Reaper's in the clubhouse. But yeah, just keep
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Speaker 1: pushing it off day by day.
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Speaker 5: It's just waiting, not today, It's it's waiting until it
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Speaker 5: needs to do its thing.
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Speaker 1: Despite scoring only one single puty run generated by a
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Speaker 1: most unlikely source for offense, West and Wilson, the Mariners
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Speaker 1: pitchers stepped up to keep the Yankees completely off the
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Speaker 1: scoreboard yesterday afternoon and secure one nothing win before leaving
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Speaker 1: New York. I'm not here to tell you that's the
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Speaker 1: spark we's been waiting for. Don't don't, Yeah, don't. We've
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Speaker 1: fallen for that before we have. But considerable fight was
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Speaker 1: at least shown by the pitching staff yesterday. Logan Bizardo
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Speaker 1: Ferrer Munios to snap a six game tough one tonight
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Speaker 1: streak and keep the Mariners from falling any deeper in
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Speaker 1: the standings. The fifty seven and sixty five Mariners gained
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Speaker 1: a half game last night, so they said, five games
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Speaker 1: back with exactly forty games to play, that's plenty of time.
16:50
Speaker 1: If the Ems can summon a heater, if IF, IF, IF,
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Speaker 1: sweep or die, the Mariners can take a big chunk
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Speaker 1: out of the deficit. This weekend, they will face the
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Speaker 1: first place Houston Astros for three games in Texas. Win two,
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Speaker 1: you gain only one game sweep, and you're just two
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Speaker 1: games back with thirty seven fat games left to play
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Speaker 1: in the season. Series begins tonight at five o'clock five ten. Actually,
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Speaker 1: George Kirby for US and Peter Lambert played by Hugh Grant,
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Speaker 1: will start for the Houston Astros. I don't get that joke,
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Speaker 1: I know, but this sounds like a Hugh Grant. Peter
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Speaker 1: Lambert's here. Oh, Sissy, Peter Lambertsy you Sue Handsome. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The Mariners will not have rookie shortstop Colt Emerson tonight.
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Speaker 1: He has been demoted to Tacomas night. I couldn't have
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Speaker 1: put it more beautifully. You have a better voice. I
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Speaker 1: have a better voice than that. Well yeah, great point,
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Speaker 1: great accurate point. The Mariners will play the weekend series
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Speaker 1: with a new shortstop. Cold Emerson was sent back to
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Speaker 1: Tacoma amid his struggles. The team's top prospect heading into
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six has had his moments, certainly, and he's
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Speaker 1: going to be really good, don't worry about that. But
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Speaker 1: lately he just wasn't performing at the plate or in
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Speaker 1: the field. I don't have a problem about this. I
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Speaker 1: don't think that. I think all the overreaction that's taking
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Speaker 1: place right now on both sides is silly. They're not
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Speaker 1: going to destroy Colt Emerson by demoting him at this stage.
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Speaker 1: He's just not built that way. But I do not
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Speaker 1: know who's going to play shortstop tonight. Rock Rodden has
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Speaker 1: been called up to replace him on the roster as
18:44
Speaker 1: JP Crawford remains unable to play with injury, but it
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Speaker 1: does remain to be seen. Who starts at shortstop? Is
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Speaker 1: it Revas? Is it Rowden? Does JP make a triumphant
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Speaker 1: return at the last second? I have no idea. We
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Speaker 1: are going to talk more about it later on with
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Speaker 1: the ABC's of the MS. By the way, I don't
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Speaker 1: know if cold Emerson will be in the lineup tonight,
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Speaker 1: but I am going to be in Tacoma to you
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Speaker 1: for Rainier's Baseball, So if you want to check that out,
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Speaker 1: Riley Pay and I on the broadcast, we'll certainly talk
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Speaker 1: a lot about cold Emerson. Finally, Sounders in Action on
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Speaker 1: Sunday taking on the way, it's the white Caps. It's
19:23
Speaker 1: not the earthquakes, right, correct, white Caps? Thank you for
19:25
Speaker 1: some reason, I put the earthquakes down, but I caught
19:28
Speaker 1: it just in time. You go. It's the Vancouver white Caps,
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Speaker 1: a Vancouver Brian Schmetzer was almost Softyan Dick earlier this week,
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Speaker 1: as he always is if you weren't aware, because it's
19:39
Speaker 1: not on the MLS schedule, A struggling team did win
19:42
Speaker 1: its last match. It just was in one of those tournaments,
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Speaker 1: you know, And so they asked, Brian Schmetzer, are we
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Speaker 1: back on track?
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Speaker 8: You know?
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Speaker 3: We needed to believe again that we could win, you know,
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Speaker 3: and I talked to him about, Okay, we got the
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Speaker 3: tactics here and this is what we're gonna try and do,
19:59
Speaker 3: but you got it's actually got to believe this. You
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Speaker 3: got to actually believe that we can win. And sure
20:05
Speaker 3: as heck, the kid Seba Gomez, you know, he scores
20:08
Speaker 3: that goal in the fourth minute, just all the words
20:11
Speaker 3: I said before the game, they all started to believe
20:14
Speaker 3: they could win.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well let's go ted Lassa believe yep. Sunday at
20:19
Speaker 1: seven thirty, it'll be Vancouver and the Sounders. So this
20:23
Speaker 1: will be their first MLS match in a little while,
20:27
Speaker 1: so they haven't broken their MLS losing streak at this stage.
20:31
Speaker 1: Maybe they get it done on Sunday. Tune in for
20:33
Speaker 1: Jackson in the pre game and then the entire play
20:36
Speaker 1: by play I assume by Danny Jackson in company. All right,
20:39
Speaker 1: coming up next on the show, it is the Seahawks
20:42
Speaker 1: preseason opener. And I've waited till eight thirty to ask
20:45
Speaker 1: the question that we asked before every preseason game. We'll
20:50
Speaker 1: do it next on KJR.
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Speaker 1: All right, here we go preseason football tomorrow night at
21:27
Speaker 1: five o'clock, and uh, we're here for it. We're ready
21:30
Speaker 1: for it. Strange thing about preseason I guess so it
21:35
Speaker 1: happens to me every year. You think I would learn
21:37
Speaker 1: my lesson by now, but I guess so fired up
21:40
Speaker 1: for it, anders like this was the year I'm gonna
21:42
Speaker 1: know every nitty gritty detail about every team in the league.
21:45
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm gonna.
21:46
Speaker 8: Have the best two or three deep sleepers from my
21:50
Speaker 8: fantasy draft and anyone's ever seen deep sleeper. I'm gonna
21:54
Speaker 8: know everything about the forty nine Ers, Rams and Cardinals before.
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Speaker 1: We ever play them. I'm gonna know the entire run.
22:00
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna sink my teeth into this. Football is
22:03
Speaker 1: back and it last year and it lasts like a
22:05
Speaker 1: drive and a half and I'm like, this is really boring.
22:10
Speaker 1: Have you hit that yet? H yeah? Oh yeah, with
22:13
Speaker 1: then a drive and a half? All right, yeah it
22:14
Speaker 1: was over. But the Raider game, I mean there were honestly,
22:18
Speaker 1: there were some there were some good things. I did
22:20
Speaker 1: keep it on for most of the night, and I
22:22
Speaker 1: watched a little piece of just about every game last night.
22:24
Speaker 1: But we will certainly watch every single play a Seahawks
22:28
Speaker 1: preseason opener tomorrow night, and then we'll break it down
22:31
Speaker 1: for you come Monday morning. I mean, it's not your
22:33
Speaker 1: full scale Monday morning quarterback here on the morning show.
22:37
Speaker 1: Got to warm up, but yeah, but certainly there's gonna
22:40
Speaker 1: be a lot to discuss and a lot to break
22:42
Speaker 1: down and a lot of players. Hopefully that's the show up,
22:46
Speaker 1: the show up on Saturday that you know, create a
22:49
Speaker 1: little bit of buzz for themselves. So we got you
22:52
Speaker 1: covered on Monday morning, and he was gonna join us
22:54
Speaker 1: at nine o'clock today for some exis and o's what
22:56
Speaker 1: he's looking for. But you got to ask the question
22:59
Speaker 1: really for every single preseason game as a talk show host,
23:02
Speaker 1: but certainly before the first one, so Anders, I ask it.
23:06
Speaker 1: It's a cliche, but where will your eyes go tonight?
23:10
Speaker 1: Who are you watching? What are you watching? What are
23:14
Speaker 1: you most intrigued about? As the Seahawks start the defense
23:18
Speaker 1: of their championship crown.
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Speaker 5: The easiest answer is at quarterback with Jalen Milroe. I
23:23
Speaker 5: think he's gonna get the most lead lead in in
23:26
Speaker 5: probably the most time, and I'm interested to see how
23:29
Speaker 5: much he really has improved, because from all accounts of
23:33
Speaker 5: anyone who's been at training camp, he's had a really
23:35
Speaker 5: good last couple of weeks and looks like he might
23:38
Speaker 5: be taking some steps. So that's number one. But I'm
23:40
Speaker 5: gonna do a little more of a niche answer. Oh,
23:43
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go Elijah Arroyo. Oh, a guy that the
23:46
Speaker 5: Seahawks picked in the second round in twenty twenty five.
23:53
Speaker 5: It just feels like we were ready for him to
23:56
Speaker 5: fully break out, and then injuries and some other stuff
23:59
Speaker 5: happened last year, and obviously the emergency of A. J.
24:03
Speaker 5: Barner was a little bit more than we expected from
24:06
Speaker 5: him as well. I think we get a full on
24:08
Speaker 5: breakout season from Elijah Royo this year, especially with former
24:13
Speaker 5: tight ends coach as your offensive coordinator in Brian Flurry.
24:17
Speaker 5: So I'm looking to see what he looks like on
24:20
Speaker 5: a football field for the first time in a long time,
24:22
Speaker 5: seeing if he and Mo is taking that next step
24:24
Speaker 5: as well. So obviously Jyalen Milroll want to see what
24:27
Speaker 5: we got there, but he there's no question that he's
24:29
Speaker 5: not going to be the starter. Elijah Royle could easily
24:32
Speaker 5: be your best tight end this year if everything kind
24:33
Speaker 5: of goes right. So that's where I'm looking.
24:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm expecting both of them to play pretty
24:37
Speaker 1: significant rights, yes, especial this upcoming year. And I think
24:40
Speaker 1: that this is this is where it's hard last night,
24:44
Speaker 1: Oh man, the Chargers of playing. I can't wait to
24:46
Speaker 1: see the Chargers in Mike McDaniel's offense, except that he's
24:48
Speaker 1: not going to call anything interesting and Justin Herbert's not
24:52
Speaker 1: going to play, and Omarion Hampton's going to play. So
24:54
Speaker 1: what can I really glean from this other than who's
24:57
Speaker 1: leading for the who's leading the fourth running back on
25:01
Speaker 1: the depth chart race. That's the problem with it. Yeah,
25:04
Speaker 1: what I can't wait to find out is how Brian
25:09
Speaker 1: Fleury is gonna call again. I agree, and I think
25:12
Speaker 1: we'll get a little bit. My eyes are still gonna
25:15
Speaker 1: be on. I think we'll get a little bit maybe
25:16
Speaker 1: like how he comports himself on the sidelines, you know,
25:22
Speaker 1: see if they have any issues getting plays in things
25:26
Speaker 1: of that nature. I mean, he's not gonna show hardly
25:29
Speaker 1: any of his good stuff, but he's got to show something.
25:33
Speaker 1: He's got to He's got to practice too, yep. And
25:37
Speaker 1: whether that's gonna be with Sam Darnold or Jaln Milroe
25:40
Speaker 1: or Drew Locke, he's got to practice call and plays
25:43
Speaker 1: and kind of getting in sync with his offense. I
25:47
Speaker 1: would think the offensive line's got to play together a
25:50
Speaker 1: little bit tonight, if nothing else, but we shall see.
25:54
Speaker 1: But I think that I think my eyes are mainly
25:57
Speaker 1: on Brian Fleury. Yeah, I mean I can try to
25:59
Speaker 1: bring there's like Mike Morris. I think he's battling for
26:02
Speaker 1: a playoff spot and I really like him, and he's
26:04
Speaker 1: got baby blue eyes. I mean, I could try to
26:08
Speaker 1: pull something like that out of the fire. But the
26:10
Speaker 1: truth of the matter is I gotta find out. I
26:13
Speaker 1: think the thing I'm most intrigued about when the season starts,
26:16
Speaker 1: how does Brian Flurry replace Kubiak Clint Kubiak, And then
26:22
Speaker 1: we'll get our first taste of that. We got to
26:25
Speaker 1: see something tonight, right, Yeah, that gives us an indication of,
26:28
Speaker 1: you know, the way he thinks and how he calls
26:31
Speaker 1: the game. We gotta get something right. If nothing else night,
26:33
Speaker 1: I'm saying tonight. Yeah, it feels like tonight. You know,
26:36
Speaker 1: I'm just so excited for that preseason game. Yes, I mean,
26:39
Speaker 1: I can't wait to keep score the very.
26:43
Speaker 5: You know, they should have fantasy football for the preseason.
26:45
Speaker 1: Only we did once. Really, we tried it once. Who
26:49
Speaker 1: do you picking that situation? Well, there are three quarterbacks,
26:52
Speaker 1: three of us at the time. Yeah, it was you know,
26:55
Speaker 1: Bucky Slick and I Okay, and so we did. Was
26:58
Speaker 1: it only Seahawks, Yeah, it was only Seahawks. Okay, So
27:01
Speaker 1: you know you had to figure out which quarterback. You
27:04
Speaker 1: knew Russell wasn't going to play for more than a
27:06
Speaker 1: couple So did you take the third string quarterbacks? Is
27:09
Speaker 1: you're going to play the most or did you take this?
27:11
Speaker 1: So there was a little bit of strategy too, you know.
27:14
Speaker 5: And they say degenerates for gambling when you're betting on
27:16
Speaker 5: the mac, that's a degenerate for fantasy football players.
27:19
Speaker 1: If you're doing that, stepping back from it like nine
27:22
Speaker 1: years later, it's dumb and not all that fun.
27:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, it makes you focus on preseason probably more than
27:30
Speaker 5: you want, right right, right, But no, I think with
27:33
Speaker 5: Brian Flurry, if nothing else, because you're He's not going
27:36
Speaker 5: to give you all the fancy plays, right, and even
27:39
Speaker 5: I think you won't really have a good sense of
27:42
Speaker 5: his cadence for a play caller. It's going to be
27:44
Speaker 5: very basic stuff. If nothing else. I think what you
27:46
Speaker 5: said is good. Is what I'm looking at with him
27:50
Speaker 5: is the logistical stuff like getting plays in the communication
27:53
Speaker 5: to Sam Darnold or whoever's playing quarterback, look confused, like
27:57
Speaker 5: look over to the sideline three or four times, like
27:58
Speaker 5: what are you calling?
27:59
Speaker 1: What's going on here?
28:00
Speaker 5: Like, Uh, I'm curious to see how seamless he fits
28:04
Speaker 5: in to this kind of system. That's that obviously was
28:08
Speaker 5: hummon last year. So again we we won't be able
28:12
Speaker 5: to really tell what level that's gonna be at until
28:15
Speaker 5: the regular season kicks off. But it's still gonna see
28:18
Speaker 5: the first time what he looks like, you know, Colin plays,
28:21
Speaker 5: how confident he looks and uh, you know.
28:23
Speaker 1: Well, and if not plays, I mean, he's not gonna
28:26
Speaker 1: reveal his best plays, your favorite plays, but formations, Yeah,
28:32
Speaker 1: I mean, doesn't he have to get the offense and
28:35
Speaker 1: a feel for like if they're gonna do more full
28:38
Speaker 1: back this year, are we going to see more fullback tonight.
28:40
Speaker 1: Are they gonna do If we're gonna do double Barner
28:42
Speaker 1: and Arroyo are both gonna have good seasons this year?
28:47
Speaker 1: Are we gonna see even if it's not Barner in Arroyo,
28:50
Speaker 1: if it's you know, Sobert and You're forgetting about, well
28:55
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna have to play fullback roots. Yeah. But
28:58
Speaker 1: but even if it's not you're if you're not Arroyo
29:01
Speaker 1: and Barnard, will we see more double tight end? I mean,
29:04
Speaker 1: what will look different? What will look different about it
29:08
Speaker 1: compared to what we seem? Will we be able to
29:10
Speaker 1: tell We'll be able to tell that different. So that's
29:12
Speaker 1: what I'm going to look forward to. All right, coming
29:15
Speaker 1: up next here on the program. Well, it is a
29:18
Speaker 1: big series this weekend, is it as do I go
29:21
Speaker 1: as far as saying sweep or die? Is that what
29:24
Speaker 1: the Mariners are up against? We'll talk about it on
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three K A R F M.
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Speaker 1: All right, good morning, it is Chuck and anders Hurst
29:58
Speaker 1: with you here today. Ashley is out of just looking
30:01
Speaker 1: up one more thing. There it is there, it is now,
30:04
Speaker 1: I know. Now I've solved all of mysteries. O sober
30:09
Speaker 1: I'm done done with life, excellence, done with life. I
30:12
Speaker 1: had one last question I wanted to know, and I
30:15
Speaker 1: figured it out during the break. So that's it. I
30:18
Speaker 1: now have all the codes, the launch codes. Yeah, I
30:22
Speaker 1: can't share anything with you now.
30:24
Speaker 5: And is that what you mentioned in the first segment
30:26
Speaker 5: that no one heard? Yes, you shared the launch codes.
30:29
Speaker 1: Yeah. I solved all of the world's problems in the
30:32
Speaker 1: first segment and no one heard it. All right, we
30:36
Speaker 1: do have a problem. By the way, I do want
30:37
Speaker 1: to mention this. We did not plan this. People that
30:40
Speaker 1: tune in on YouTube are probably thinking, hey, it's cracking
30:44
Speaker 1: making an announcement today. And I both the same exact
30:50
Speaker 1: hat today.
30:52
Speaker 5: Although I have the black and white one, you have
30:54
Speaker 5: the navy and light blue one.
30:56
Speaker 1: Still the same logo.
30:58
Speaker 8: It's great.
30:59
Speaker 1: I don't wear hats a lot. I have been a
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Speaker 1: lot lately. I don't know why, but yeah, I grabbed
31:04
Speaker 1: that and sure enough, Andrews and I have the exact
31:07
Speaker 1: same hat on today. We're matchie MATCHI all right, let's
31:11
Speaker 1: talk about the Mariners, all right, So is it sweeper
31:14
Speaker 1: die this weekend? I mean, there are forty games remaining
31:17
Speaker 1: on the season. You are five games out mathematically, of
31:22
Speaker 1: course that's not the case. There would still be time
31:26
Speaker 1: to come back from anything. But shudder at the thought
31:30
Speaker 1: of being six back or eight back, Yeah, because you're
31:33
Speaker 1: one of the other if you lose the series. But
31:37
Speaker 1: the idea of being four back versus two back, man,
31:42
Speaker 1: that seems like that seems chasmic, Like the gap between
31:46
Speaker 1: that seems just so enormous, like se like momentum shifting
31:52
Speaker 1: at that stage. So does it feel that dire to you,
31:56
Speaker 1: because frankly it does to me. Yeah, I mean to me.
32:00
Speaker 5: I guess my follow up question to that would be,
32:03
Speaker 5: do you think, like eighty two and eighty gets the
32:05
Speaker 5: playoffs and is it aos or bust? Are you looking
32:09
Speaker 5: at the wild It just feels like there's too many
32:10
Speaker 5: teams to jump in that wildcard. There's seven teams from
32:13
Speaker 5: one spot.
32:14
Speaker 1: You go on a heater, you can win either one.
32:16
Speaker 1: Sure you can get in the wildcard. Sure, But and
32:19
Speaker 1: they've done this before that at times in the last
32:21
Speaker 1: five years when they looked as dead as could be
32:25
Speaker 1: and suddenly they summon their best stretch of baseball out
32:28
Speaker 1: of nowhere. They've done it. They've done it under Dan, Yeah,
32:30
Speaker 1: they have. So it's not not only is it not impossible,
32:35
Speaker 1: it's not even out of the character of the Mariners
32:38
Speaker 1: here in the last few years, so it is for
32:40
Speaker 1: this year's So yeah, but we're not done with the season. Sure,
32:45
Speaker 1: So if you go on a heater, you're in both
32:48
Speaker 1: races and you will probably overtake one, if not both.
32:52
Speaker 1: But let's see the heater. And what I'm talking about
32:54
Speaker 1: is not six out of ten, No, I'm talking about
32:58
Speaker 1: eleven out of twelve. That's what I'm looking at. It
33:01
Speaker 1: just doesn't look like they're capable of that. It doesn't,
33:03
Speaker 1: but certainly they are. Yeah, I mean there is a
33:06
Speaker 1: world where that does exist.
33:08
Speaker 5: Win three series in a row, like They've only done
33:11
Speaker 5: that once this year, and it was during their eight
33:13
Speaker 5: game winning streak. They've only won three series in a
33:16
Speaker 5: row once this year. That tells you how hard it
33:21
Speaker 5: has been for this team to play a stretch of
33:24
Speaker 5: good baseball. I don't think three series in a row
33:26
Speaker 5: is all that like, no, well impressive or like just
33:30
Speaker 5: out of this world hot. It's like good teams do
33:33
Speaker 5: that pretty frequently.
33:34
Speaker 1: Right, They'll tell you win one series, Yeah, that's all
33:37
Speaker 1: they can focus on, is true to get it going.
33:40
Speaker 1: And I think that that does keep you in the race. Yeah,
33:44
Speaker 1: win two out of three from the Astros this week. Yeah,
33:46
Speaker 1: you just got to sweep them though, Yes, sweep them,
33:51
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you've seized all the momentum
33:54
Speaker 1: back in the division. That will mean that you have
33:56
Speaker 1: won ten of your eleven games against the Astros. You've
33:59
Speaker 1: already won the tiebreaker against Houston, even if you get
34:02
Speaker 1: swept this weekend. Now you'll lose it against the Rangers
34:05
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, But yes, you already have won
34:09
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker. You've beaten them seven out of eight games. Yep,
34:12
Speaker 1: so far this season, and it has been a team
34:14
Speaker 1: that has dominated. But this is also not the same team, correct,
34:18
Speaker 1: And this is what we should have realized at the
34:20
Speaker 1: beginning of the year. Yeah, the Astros looked down, but
34:23
Speaker 1: there were some reasons for that, and let's face it,
34:26
Speaker 1: pretty good winning culture there. Whether they cheated or not
34:30
Speaker 1: at one point and however long they did it, they
34:35
Speaker 1: were also good at playing baseball and they just established
34:38
Speaker 1: a winning culture and it was hard for the Mariners
34:40
Speaker 1: to overcome that until they finally did a year ago.
34:43
Speaker 1: Now they seem to have their number. Let's hope that
34:46
Speaker 1: continues into the weekend. But we should have known they
34:48
Speaker 1: weren't just going to fade away. They have not. When
34:52
Speaker 1: we started the last series, which we won three out
34:54
Speaker 1: of four against the Astros. They came into that series
34:58
Speaker 1: with a sixteen and twenty five rec and we took
35:00
Speaker 1: three out of four. Well, they went they so they
35:04
Speaker 1: finished at seventeen and twenty eight, so they were eleven
35:07
Speaker 1: games under five hundred. That was on May fourteenth. Since
35:11
Speaker 1: that time, Josh Hater has comeback. He got back on
35:14
Speaker 1: the team on June third. We didn't face him, Hunter Brown,
35:18
Speaker 1: we haven't faced him. He's back. He came back on
35:22
Speaker 1: June sixteenth, and since that time, your Don Alvarez has
35:26
Speaker 1: turned into the best hitter in the world, like better
35:29
Speaker 1: than Judge, better than O time.
35:31
Speaker 5: I remember correctly, he wasn't in that series either. Might
35:35
Speaker 5: be right about it. I don't think he was.
35:37
Speaker 1: Might be right about that, but he's chasing a triple
35:40
Speaker 1: crown though three twenty two batting average, thirty five home runs,
35:43
Speaker 1: eighty seven RBIs.
35:45
Speaker 7: You know.
35:45
Speaker 1: I love the phrase. The person that I heard give
35:49
Speaker 1: it first was Dan O'Dowd. The aircraft carrier. That's an
35:53
Speaker 1: aircraft carrier big time. That's the definition of that, and
35:56
Speaker 1: it makes up for a lot of flaws. We saw
35:58
Speaker 1: it with cal Ralegh a year ago, and we can
36:00
Speaker 1: see how much a team can tumble without having that
36:04
Speaker 1: once you get used to having that exactly. But Alvarez
36:07
Speaker 1: is pretty much just said get all my back. And
36:10
Speaker 1: then the pitching has gotten better because they've gotten healthier
36:13
Speaker 1: as the season's gone along. Cam Smith's gotten better as
36:16
Speaker 1: the season's gone along. He's been a little bit hot,
36:18
Speaker 1: but it's really those things and it has completely turned
36:20
Speaker 1: them around again. They were seventeen and twenty eight back
36:23
Speaker 1: on May fourteenth, and suddenly they are at the atop
36:30
Speaker 1: the division right now. And they have in the second
36:34
Speaker 1: half gone fifteen and six over a stretch of twenty
36:38
Speaker 1: one games. While the Mariners were floundering, the Astros were
36:41
Speaker 1: getting well and they went fifteen, including going eleven and
36:44
Speaker 1: one over a twelve game stretch. That's the kind of
36:46
Speaker 1: heater that we need right now. And hopefully it started yesterday.
36:50
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to start today. Hopefully started yesterday. Hopefully
36:52
Speaker 1: we've already got it going. But I don't know, Andrews,
36:57
Speaker 1: I don't know if just taken two out of three
36:59
Speaker 1: certainly keeps hope alive. But if you want to feel
37:03
Speaker 1: like they're back, yeah, if you want to feel like,
37:06
Speaker 1: thirty seven games to go, we got a really good chance. Here,
37:10
Speaker 1: take three bites out of the Astros and put yourself
37:15
Speaker 1: in the position to be two games back with thirty
37:17
Speaker 1: seven to play.
37:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it also depends on how it looks
37:21
Speaker 5: for me, because if all of a sudden, like we
37:24
Speaker 5: see the August Julio that we've seen in three of
37:28
Speaker 5: his four previous seasons, then that's a huge thing. If
37:33
Speaker 5: you see some dominant starting pitching, and I mean like
37:35
Speaker 5: yesterday Logan Gilbert dominant, right, not just like okay, you
37:38
Speaker 5: you got six innings, three runs, you gave us a chance.
37:42
Speaker 5: But I mean, like all you need is one run,
37:44
Speaker 5: we're gonna win. Like we saw yesterday. If we see
37:46
Speaker 5: that kind of stuff, yeah, that's where I feel like
37:48
Speaker 5: this team can take that next step.
37:49
Speaker 1: Yeah. Nothing got fixed yesterday, Nothing healed yesterday other than
37:52
Speaker 1: the you had four pitchers step up and play great.
37:54
Speaker 1: All right. Hugh Mellon's next X's and O's our first
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