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Chuck & Buck 2-23 Hour 1: USA brings home the gold! What Chuck learned at Spring training pt. 1 and the PJ party is back! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Oh, it is so nice to be back home. Good morning,
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Speaker 1: and welcome in.
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Speaker 2: It is Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM here on this Monday morning in
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Speaker 2: the Pacific Northwest. My name is Chuck Powell. Ashley Ryan
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Speaker 2: is here as well. It's as if she never laughed.
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Speaker 2: Bucky Jacobson decided not to come back. I mean, we're
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Speaker 2: all coming at this from a different.
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Speaker 1: Angle here today, we really are.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bucky went in and stayed down in Arizona. Maybe
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Speaker 2: he's gonna get a nice little hovel and move the
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Speaker 2: family down there and just live in the desert and
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Speaker 2: really really stock up on sunscreen.
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Speaker 3: Well, he's probably gonna need a lot, because you look
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Speaker 3: like you got some sun, and I can imagine how
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Speaker 3: much sun he looks like he got.
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Speaker 1: He I mean, gingers know how to avoid the sun.
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Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it.
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Speaker 4: I mean he probably got reflective skin, don't they.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he's like scaly, very scaly. At one
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Speaker 2: point I looked over in the corner of the room
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Speaker 2: and like a snake, he'd shed his entire skin and
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Speaker 2: just left it in the corner.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of skin that is a lot of skin.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've seen like a rattlesnake do that,
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Speaker 2: and it's not nearly as big as Bucky, No, like
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Speaker 2: quite a bit smaller. Actually, Yeah, so that's what at
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Speaker 2: Ginger will do. But he knows, I mean, he probably
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Speaker 2: gives himself more exposure than he should, than his doctors
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Speaker 2: would recommend, but he knows how to like position himself
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Speaker 2: in the shade.
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Speaker 1: Oh really well.
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Speaker 2: Like he leaves me out in the sun, and I'm
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Speaker 2: not exactly Mediterranean over here, so he leaves me out
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Speaker 2: on the sun side of the uh, you know, our arrangement,
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Speaker 2: and then really just does look out for himself often
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Speaker 2: got to be selfish.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I actually think that I got.
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Speaker 2: The perfect amount of sun because I was just talking
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Speaker 2: about this yesterday at home, like, because I do look
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Speaker 2: like I've been somewhere, and yet I never got sunburned.
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Speaker 1: I never got peelee or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: Of course, since I am a bit fair skinned, I
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Speaker 2: will have thirty thousand people every day while I'm at
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Speaker 2: spring training tell me I need to get out of
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Speaker 2: the sun.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why. We're very protective of other people's skin.
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Speaker 2: Much more than our own, right, Nobody ever says like,
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Speaker 2: put that sandwich down.
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Speaker 1: That's awful for you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no one ever goes out while somebody smoking a
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Speaker 2: cigarette just knocks it out of their hands. We do
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Speaker 2: a lot of bad things for ourselves, and yet it's
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Speaker 2: we're very forward with our you're getting sunburned, I.
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Speaker 3: Think because that's something that we know you like the
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Speaker 3: other person can't see on themselves, and so we're like,
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Speaker 3: I don't want to be the one responsible for them
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Speaker 3: getting sunburned because I saw it and didn't stop it.
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Speaker 1: If I was going to hold you responsible for it, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I get that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like, oh man, you saw this happening yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Tell me, damn you.
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Speaker 4: Oh I'm never coming here again.
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Speaker 1: Curse you in your entire family.
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Speaker 3: A holes.
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Speaker 2: Uh press my forehead, we're gonna white. It gets underneath
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Speaker 2: your fingerprint. You should have told me, man, Yeah, you
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Speaker 2: had every opportunity to warn me.
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Speaker 4: Now I'm gonna get peely.
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Speaker 1: Uh. But yeah, I think I struck like the perfect balance.
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Speaker 2: I was a little worried I didn't get enough and
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Speaker 2: that I would show up on work on Monday and
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Speaker 2: people would not know that I will left, which is
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Speaker 2: never a good feeling.
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Speaker 4: Well, and that you were outside all week long.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and like uh oh oh oh, you went to Arizona.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because it's one thing like when you went
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Speaker 4: to this.
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Speaker 1: Like a pale bastard.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we went to the super Bowl. You're inside Radio Row.
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Speaker 3: It's inside of an excuse. But at spring training, everyone
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Speaker 3: knows you are literally sitting outside all day.
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Speaker 1: Everyone knows, and they will hold it against it.
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Speaker 4: And they'll judge.
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Speaker 1: Uh huh so uh yeah.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, thanks for at least acknowledging that I got
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Speaker 2: a little bit of colored.
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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. And it is good
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Speaker 1: to be back.
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Speaker 2: It really is as fun as it is, and as
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Speaker 2: much as we like delivering shows like Radio Row and
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Speaker 2: also Spring training, it it is exhausting.
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Speaker 1: It does get tiring. So I was good to touch down.
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Speaker 2: It felt good to touch down here in the PNW
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Speaker 2: over the weekend, and and it was great to leave
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Speaker 2: Bucky behind.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. We just had had it.
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Speaker 4: Up to hear understandable.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that guy, Yeah, let his family deal with him.
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Speaker 4: Good luck and good riddance.
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Speaker 1: I got all appreciation for Kate.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, she's a saint.
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Speaker 1: She is a saint.
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Speaker 2: Well, we don't normally, I mean there's been so much
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Speaker 2: going on here as sports talk show hosts. I mean,
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Speaker 2: content is what we call it. And you know, sometimes
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Speaker 2: you have it. Sometimes you got a busy day, sometimes
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Speaker 2: you don't. In this industry, sometimes you got a busy period.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes you don't. I don't remember the last time I
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Speaker 2: didn't have a lot of content. I'm not even kidding you.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how. People Jim Moore used to tell
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Speaker 2: me this every time I would leave, because how do
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Speaker 2: you come up with four hours worth of material?
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I've got nine.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I had to dial it back.
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Speaker 1: What do you mean?
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Speaker 2: This city never ever doesn't have something going on. The
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Speaker 2: Seahawks have been the most interesting team in the National
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Speaker 2: Football League for the.
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Speaker 1: Last decade YEP.
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Speaker 2: And the Mariners are constantly interesting because of the fan
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Speaker 2: base and how angry they can be towards them, and
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Speaker 2: so there's always something going on.
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Speaker 1: But lately, for the last nine months.
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, it's just been a
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Speaker 2: content factory around here.
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Speaker 1: And so we.
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Speaker 2: Finally get to take a breath after a week of
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Speaker 2: Mariners spring training and after the Super Bowl, US has
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Speaker 2: finally settled and we actually this works out perfectly. I mean,
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Speaker 2: we've been wanting to talk a little bit of hockey,
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Speaker 2: and what does the hockey world do for us?
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Speaker 1: They make it the top story. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: The first opportunity that we've really had to sink our
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Speaker 2: teeth into the hockey season all year long is going
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Speaker 2: to be this week. And what happens is the Olympic
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Speaker 2: format results in the US facing Canada and the gold
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Speaker 2: medal game and the US winning a thriller in overtime
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Speaker 2: two to one to capture gold. And it's given us
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Speaker 2: all sorts of things to discuss here today and probably
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Speaker 2: throughout the week as we transition back into the crack
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Speaker 2: and season, which we'll resume on Wednesday. But my goodness,
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Speaker 2: what a game. I got up and watched the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: Glad I got to see it from beginning to end.
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Speaker 2: And the US does pull it off. They win their
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Speaker 2: first goals gold since the Miracle on Ice, which feels
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Speaker 2: like a miracle.
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Speaker 1: In it itself.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just incredible, awesome, And for it to happen the
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Speaker 3: way it did, I mean, with no short no shortage
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Speaker 3: of drama, you know, to go to win an overtime
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Speaker 3: and overtime again, and I mean the women won an
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Speaker 3: overtime against Canada, and that was exciting. Then the men
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Speaker 3: go and do it and it's just I mean, and
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Speaker 3: to have to beat Canada to do it is exactly
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Speaker 3: what she wanted to do. Yeah, and you know, Jack
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Speaker 3: Hughes does not care that he doesn't have as many
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Speaker 3: teeth anymore. Now.
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Speaker 2: If there's anything unique about a hockey player there it
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Speaker 2: is Yeah, Like, uh, I mean, think about what would
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Speaker 2: happen to a basketball player that got their teeth knocked out.
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't see them again for a month.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Instead Jack, he's just there smiling.
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Speaker 2: With blood still on his mouth like they did their
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Speaker 2: best to like clear some of it out, like while
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Speaker 2: he was resting in between shifts. And he's got freshly
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Speaker 2: cracked teeth that he could probably cut his tongue on
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Speaker 2: if he ran him across there from from a high
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Speaker 2: stick that he took the third period. And he's got
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Speaker 2: blood still dried and fresh both around his mouth, and
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Speaker 2: he gets the breakaway opportunity three on three hockey in
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Speaker 2: overtime and bang one time or through spins around camera,
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Speaker 2: gets some flush and there he is smiling his big, bloody,
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Speaker 2: toothless gern.
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Speaker 4: It was perfect, the exacta.
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Speaker 1: Baby, the image hockey baby.
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Speaker 3: It was the image that you needed right there. You
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Speaker 3: were like, yep, and it had to be him, right
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Speaker 3: because he had the goal that sent him to the
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Speaker 3: gold medal and just after waving off coming out of
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Speaker 3: the game in the semi final match, and so then
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Speaker 3: to have it be him again, it was like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: this this is fitting.
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Speaker 2: You know, and I I can we be honest though
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Speaker 2: about it. I mean, look, this is a sport where
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Speaker 2: you know, if you can ride a hot goaltender, you
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Speaker 2: can really balance out any disadvantages that you might have.
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Speaker 2: Canada was a better team and they played a better
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Speaker 2: game than what we did. But Connor Hallibuck was the
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Speaker 2: best player on the ice. He was fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Yeah he was. He's a Hella Buck girl. That was good,
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Speaker 1: I guess.
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Speaker 4: I mean that wouldn't say good. That was entertaining.
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Speaker 1: It was a try. Yeah, I appreciate it. I could
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Speaker 1: have said he ain't no Hella Beck girl, nobody, but
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Speaker 1: he is. He really is.
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Speaker 2: But they're saying this morning it might have been the
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Speaker 2: greatest goaltending performance ever. Now, sometimes we're prisoners of the moment,
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Speaker 2: and and certainly it's fresh on our minds.
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Speaker 1: But he was phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: I mean we got out shot, us got out shot
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Speaker 2: basically two to one, and from the second period on
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Speaker 2: second period through the third period just dominated and Hellabuck
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Speaker 2: allowed the one goal, but that was it. So he
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Speaker 2: gave you the chance to win, and that's what it's
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Speaker 2: all about. And you go to overtime and then anything
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Speaker 2: can happen and overtime and that's exactly what occurred. But
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Speaker 2: Canada wouldn't even let us in the second period out
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Speaker 2: of our own end. I mean it just red sweaters
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Speaker 2: firing away at our impenetrable goaltender for an entire period,
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Speaker 2: and then that crept into the third period. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm sitting there thinking in the third period, I'm like,
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Speaker 2: when's the last like clean shot that we've had. I
10:17
Speaker 2: realized we've had some shots on goal because it was
10:20
Speaker 2: a frenzied pace, but when's the last clean look we've had?
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Speaker 2: Because they've had fifteen of them and and Hella Buck
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Speaker 2: girl just keeps on stepping up for us, but they
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Speaker 2: were taking it to us. I mean even in the overtime, Ashley, like,
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Speaker 2: you start the overtime with three on three hockey and
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Speaker 2: they've got McDavid, McKinnon and mccarr.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, arguably the three best players in.
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Speaker 4: The world are all on.
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Speaker 1: The ice for them in a three on three competition and.
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Speaker 2: Three of them actually, and we've got and we've got
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Speaker 2: good play, but we didn't have those three. Yeah, and
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Speaker 2: you got them off the ice. They had their one rush,
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Speaker 2: they came up empty a couple of different exchanges, and
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Speaker 2: the Hughes clan gets it done in the end. But
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Speaker 2: I mean it was Hella buck and taking advantage of
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Speaker 2: that opportunity there in overtime and the overtime rules and
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Speaker 2: the next thing you know, you got gold around your neck.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And I will say too, it's interesting because I noticed,
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've noticed obviously with the cracking.
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Speaker 4: So we play a lot of overtime games too.
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Speaker 3: But I remember when they changed the overtime rule to
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Speaker 3: three on three, I thought, I don't know how I
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Speaker 3: feel about this, Like it's not going to be as exciting.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's like the most stressful thing ever
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Speaker 3: when it's overtime with three on three.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean ed Zoe talked about it going
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Speaker 2: into the the intermission with Mike Turico, and it's so
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Speaker 2: cool that one of our guys, and I know he's
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Speaker 2: a national guy and so one of ours, but he's yeah, he's.
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Speaker 1: One of our guys.
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Speaker 2: I always talk about how great our broadcasters are for
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Speaker 2: crack hockey. And if that doesn't prove it, I mean
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Speaker 2: he's on the broadcast.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for the Olympics.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's pretty much it.
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Speaker 2: But he said going into the overtime, overtime hockey is
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Speaker 2: just different. And if you have three on three, what
12:17
Speaker 2: you're really trying to do is create a two on
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Speaker 2: one and that's what we did and that exceptional pass
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Speaker 2: and then an exceptional one timer from Hughes and then
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Speaker 2: and then you win. But I I mean, I sort
12:28
Speaker 2: of get what Cooper saying, the Canadian head coach, in
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Speaker 2: a game like this, in a sport like this, why
12:35
Speaker 2: would you change the way that the format of how
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Speaker 2: you play hockey, Why would you change it up with
12:41
Speaker 2: that much at stake. If you were to give me
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Speaker 2: a vote, I would vote for no. It needs to
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Speaker 2: be five on five hockey, hitting into overtime and you
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Speaker 2: play until somebody scores and there's no shootout.
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Speaker 1: There's none of that stuff. That's the thing.
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Speaker 4: You have to get rid of the shootout if you
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Speaker 4: don't want to change the way it's going.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So it's just I've on stakes like that Stanley Cup
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Speaker 2: Finals or birth end of the Stanley Cup finals, or
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Speaker 2: Olympic gold medal or you know the international contest. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: the Four Nations, anything like that. You just play hockey
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Speaker 2: until somebody decides it because that's the way they want
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Speaker 2: to do it. That's the way the players want to
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Speaker 2: do it. That's why the coaches want to do it.
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Speaker 2: That's the way the sport wants to do it. That's
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Speaker 2: what the hockey gods want to do and we've changed
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Speaker 2: it to protect them. And I get it during the
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Speaker 2: regular season, but I don't think that that should be
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Speaker 2: the case on a stage like that. But those are
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Speaker 2: the rules, yeah, and you only can play by the
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Speaker 2: rules that have been presented before you. And the US
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Speaker 2: won the game two to one, and not because of
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Speaker 2: the rules, but certainly they were the first team to
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Speaker 2: have that two on one opportunity in three on three hockey,
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Speaker 2: and they executed it perfectly, exquisitely. I mean, you just
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Speaker 2: can't do it any better than that.
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Speaker 3: Well, and that's I think where Yeah, it's as I said,
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Speaker 3: I did have a hard time when it first happened.
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Speaker 4: I was like, I don't like this.
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Speaker 3: And now you're seeing all you're seeing as the teams
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Speaker 3: have kind of figured it out and you know, learned
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Speaker 3: the advantages that they can get with the three on three.
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Speaker 3: I think it has become more exciting. Would I prefer
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Speaker 3: the old way, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But I've learned to like it.
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Speaker 3: And I think Olympic hockey, because we saw so many
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Speaker 3: overt time games, really did help me to be like.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I don't hate this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, thrilling. I'm just thrilling.
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Speaker 1: What a fun game.
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Speaker 2: And we'll see, we'll see if the sport can build
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Speaker 2: off of that. The last time the US one gold,
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Speaker 2: I mean it just exploded the popularity for hockey in
14:46
Speaker 2: America and and you're seeing like the grandchildren yeah of
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Speaker 2: that movement are right now in the NHL and have
14:55
Speaker 2: closed the gap. I still I think Canada is a
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Speaker 2: better team. Frankly in a series, I think they win it.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, so it was Russia. But if if you
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Speaker 2: had a but the gap is certainly closed. I think
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Speaker 2: that US hockey is probably the second best program in
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Speaker 2: the world right now, and and so that alone shows
15:16
Speaker 2: the improvement that has taken place. I mean, you see
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Speaker 2: guys like Austin Matthews, who's from Arizona for goodness sake, right.
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Speaker 4: With his mustache.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but it just shows you that it's
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Speaker 2: not just played in the Northeast anymore or in Minnesota anymore.
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Speaker 2: Here in America, it is, you know, coast to coast
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Speaker 2: we're playing hockey and young kids are growing up with
15:37
Speaker 2: that dream and a lot of it has to do
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Speaker 2: with performances like the Miracle on Ice. And we'll see
15:43
Speaker 2: what this does for the sport going forward. It's certainly
15:46
Speaker 2: going to alter our week because we're gonna talk a
15:48
Speaker 2: lot hockey, yeah, this week with the Krack and resuming
15:52
Speaker 2: their season coming up on Wednesday. So let's find out
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Speaker 2: what is on tap for today's show.
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Speaker 1: What's on to what's on toe? All right? US two
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Speaker 1: Canada one in overtime, So we.
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Speaker 2: Will talk about how the sport can take advantage of
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Speaker 2: Olympic momentum. So we always talk about this after the Olympics,
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Speaker 2: and I'm wondering if it's really a thing or if
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Speaker 2: we just imagine it, because we're a prisoner of the moment.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that a little bit later on in
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Speaker 2: the show Krack, and we'll resume on Wednesday. They'll be
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Speaker 2: in Dallas to take on the Stars. They've had three
16:28
Speaker 2: full weeks off and so we'll check back in this
16:31
Speaker 2: week with Everett. We'll check in with Al this week.
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Speaker 1: Today. Joey Decord is going to join us.
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Speaker 2: So we're very fired up to have the goaltender on
16:40
Speaker 2: and get his thoughts on Hullabuck Girl and also US
16:45
Speaker 2: Gold and so much more so, Joey's going to join us.
16:48
Speaker 2: We love having him on the show. He'll be with
16:50
Speaker 2: us today at eight o'clock. Sounders started their season last
16:53
Speaker 2: night against the Colorado Rapids. Jordan Morris has had injury
16:56
Speaker 2: problems his entire career and starts the Sea with an entry.
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Speaker 2: He had to be removed, but his replacement ends up
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Speaker 2: scoring a goal, dishing out and assists.
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Speaker 4: Rock Rock Rothrock Rock Rock Rothrock.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing it off the top of my head
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Speaker 2: and so two nothing Sounders went over the Colorado Rapids
17:16
Speaker 2: to get their brand new season started. We'll check in
17:19
Speaker 2: with Jackson Felts at some point this week as the
17:22
Speaker 2: season is underway here in Seattle.
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Speaker 1: College basketball. There's a new number one ranked team. What
17:29
Speaker 1: a Saturday of college basketball. Man, that's how you do
17:33
Speaker 1: it right there.
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Speaker 2: If you're having difficulty gaining attention because of the monster
17:38
Speaker 2: that is football, and you are trying to stimulate the
17:44
Speaker 2: appetite for the college basketball season before March madness gets here,
17:50
Speaker 2: then schedule a bunch of awesome games on a Saturday,
17:53
Speaker 2: one after the other, and non conference style. And that's
17:58
Speaker 2: exactly what they did on Saturday. It was phenomenal, highlighted
18:02
Speaker 2: by Michigan and Duke woke up the echoes of that
18:07
Speaker 2: Christian late Neer versus Fab five regular season affair that
18:10
Speaker 2: is one of the most famous regular season college basketball
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Speaker 2: games of all time. And Duke ends up winning it,
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Speaker 2: and they take over the number one ranking in all
18:20
Speaker 2: of college basketball, knocking Michigan off of that pedestal. And
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Speaker 2: so yeah, college basketball season is underway. I love you
18:28
Speaker 2: college basketball, not as much as I used to, but
18:31
Speaker 2: it is really hard for them to get the attention
18:34
Speaker 2: that they used to get their own fault. But certainly
18:39
Speaker 2: there's a good product on the court this year, and
18:42
Speaker 2: we got a lot of catching up to do, so
18:44
Speaker 2: we'll do some of that this week as well.
18:45
Speaker 3: Well. Yeah, because we only got what three and a
18:47
Speaker 3: half weeks served until March Manness starts.
18:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we got eight days till.
18:51
Speaker 3: March I guess, yeah, I know, that's crazy. So four
18:54
Speaker 3: weeks until March Madness. I'm like, yeah, it was a
18:56
Speaker 3: good time for them to figure out, like, hey, we
18:57
Speaker 3: should put these games and get people a little excited.
19:00
Speaker 2: It's also NFL Combine week, so the Pajama Party is
19:04
Speaker 2: going to get underway. They I think they report today
19:08
Speaker 2: or at least some of the players. The executives will
19:11
Speaker 2: head there. John Schneider loves to conduct business this week
19:14
Speaker 2: from Indianapolis. It's like he takes he didn't have a
19:17
Speaker 2: lot of time off this year, but it's like he
19:19
Speaker 2: takes a couple weeks off at this time and then
19:23
Speaker 2: you know, stacks things up and he has meetings and
19:25
Speaker 2: he has he figures out free agency moves from Indianapolis.
19:30
Speaker 2: So Greg Bell will be traveling there and he tells
19:32
Speaker 2: us every year, the only reason I go to Indianapolis
19:35
Speaker 2: is not to watch the Pajama Party. It is to
19:37
Speaker 2: talk with John Schneider because we haven't seen him for
19:40
Speaker 2: a while, and so we'll have Greg Bell on today
19:43
Speaker 2: and every day during NFL Combine week. I think he
19:46
Speaker 2: should still be here. He's not in Indianapolis yet.
19:48
Speaker 4: He's in Boston today.
19:49
Speaker 1: Oh, he's in Boston, Okay, visiting his daughter.
19:52
Speaker 4: Feet of snow, I'm assuming.
19:54
Speaker 3: Oh they have that blizzard and I think they're like
19:58
Speaker 3: a foot to two feet of snow.
20:00
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully he's okay, and hopefully we will talk to
20:03
Speaker 2: him today at seven o five. And of course, Mariners
20:06
Speaker 2: of spring Training, we were there all week last week.
20:10
Speaker 2: We hope you enjoyed our coverage. And as soon as
20:14
Speaker 2: we left, or as soon as I left, the games
20:16
Speaker 2: got underway for over the weekend. Mariners took two out
20:19
Speaker 2: of three of their first spring training games of twenty
20:23
Speaker 2: twenty six, And so we will spend a significant portion
20:27
Speaker 2: of the week as well, just kind of combing over
20:30
Speaker 2: all of the things that I feel that I learned
20:33
Speaker 2: from spring training coverage. As a matter of fact, we'll
20:36
Speaker 2: tap into that next. What I Learned Part one comes
20:40
Speaker 2: your way next on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio ninety
20:42
Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM.
20:44
Speaker 1: Part of the repertoire. Yes, Ashley and I know that
20:50
Speaker 1: that's Billy Joel. Come on now, yeah we do. Come
20:52
Speaker 1: on now, get off our asses. You heard me, Cliff,
20:57
Speaker 1: I know you're judging. That's Cliff. It's Chuck.
21:00
Speaker 2: It's Ashley with you know, Bucky. How was your week
21:04
Speaker 2: and weekend? By the way, Yeah all right, yeah that
21:08
Speaker 2: has many years driving you up a.
21:09
Speaker 4: Wall, tell me about it. No, it's good.
21:13
Speaker 3: We did a late a girl's Gallantine day party. Late
21:17
Speaker 3: but we had a friend that moved back from Malaysia,
21:19
Speaker 3: so it was like a welcome home party.
21:21
Speaker 1: Wow, did she get dewormed?
21:23
Speaker 3: That's what she actually got home a week and a
21:25
Speaker 3: half ago, but she had to get like the spray
21:28
Speaker 3: shower and all that stuff.
21:31
Speaker 4: And so yeah, but all was good. It was.
21:33
Speaker 2: It was fun, okay, very good. All right, Well, welcome back. Hey,
21:39
Speaker 2: thanks Malaysian friend.
21:40
Speaker 4: Oh yeah for her?
21:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, yea, glad you made it safely. Me too. It
21:44
Speaker 1: was nice.
21:45
Speaker 4: They were gone for three years. Glad they're back three years.
21:47
Speaker 1: That's that's no picnic right there.
21:49
Speaker 4: They were living in a pretty good life.
21:51
Speaker 1: Pretty good life.
21:52
Speaker 4: They're massive condo overlooking the water.
21:54
Speaker 1: Yeah. Do they have to do like did they have
21:57
Speaker 1: to wait a little while? No, you just throw.
22:02
Speaker 4: Them right back into into society.
22:04
Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't know, Yeah.
22:05
Speaker 4: I really didn't question.
22:06
Speaker 2: It was an honest question. All right, Well, let's talk
22:10
Speaker 2: about spring training. What I learned over the past week.
22:14
Speaker 2: I think it's sort of my responsibility here this week.
22:18
Speaker 2: I was your eyes and ears at spring training, and certainly,
22:22
Speaker 2: I mean I was there for the first official practices,
22:25
Speaker 2: full squad practices and everything else. And so I've got
22:29
Speaker 2: who looks different from a year ago, I got different
22:33
Speaker 2: things that I've heard, and we've certainly did a lot
22:35
Speaker 2: of interviews throughout the course of the week as well.
22:38
Speaker 2: And so I'll spend some time filling in this week,
22:42
Speaker 2: and let's start with second base. I think this is
22:45
Speaker 2: a fascinating aspect of this team for this upcoming year.
22:50
Speaker 2: I realized that not everybody that is a Mariner fan
22:54
Speaker 2: feels one hundred percent sure about Cole Young. That we
22:58
Speaker 2: spent a lot of this off season with a lot
23:01
Speaker 2: of Marinder fans seeking an improvement at second base in
23:05
Speaker 2: the offseason through the hot stove, and so you know,
23:11
Speaker 2: various players from Cotel Marte to C. J. Abrams and
23:17
Speaker 2: others that could improve second base were tossed about I'm
23:21
Speaker 2: pretty sure they never considered any of it, and they
23:25
Speaker 2: might have knocked on the doors just to see what
23:27
Speaker 2: the price tag was. But even though you aren't all
23:31
Speaker 2: that convinced about Cole Young, based on what I can tell,
23:35
Speaker 2: the Mariners are.
23:36
Speaker 1: Very convinced about Cole Young. Now take that what you will.
23:40
Speaker 2: If you don't trust their ability to evaluate talent, then
23:44
Speaker 2: I guess you can be suspicious about Cole Young. But
23:49
Speaker 2: they the people in charge, think a lot of the
23:52
Speaker 2: young man. And when we talked to Justin Hollander and
23:55
Speaker 2: we're going to replace some of that interview for you
23:57
Speaker 2: later on in today's show, I really thought, like, give
24:02
Speaker 2: us the update on the second base camp battle. And
24:05
Speaker 2: his reaction was there really isn't one. I mean, yes,
24:09
Speaker 2: there is. Cole Young's not so locked in that he
24:13
Speaker 2: can't get knocked out of the starting job. He's not
24:17
Speaker 2: so locked in that he's guaranteed a roster spot. But
24:20
Speaker 2: to my surprise, Justin Hollander was very candid and said
24:24
Speaker 2: that no, Cole Young is the clear front runner, and
24:27
Speaker 2: I was surprised.
24:28
Speaker 1: That's further than I thought he would be willing to go.
24:31
Speaker 2: On the first week of full squad practices and so, yes,
24:37
Speaker 2: so he is the guy that they're kind of hoping
24:42
Speaker 2: and trusting is going to take a step forward. They're
24:44
Speaker 2: big fans of Cole Young, yes, and he was twenty
24:48
Speaker 2: one years old when he debuted. That's a tender age
24:51
Speaker 2: even for a major leaguer. And they gave him the
24:55
Speaker 2: marching orders last year that if you can win the
24:58
Speaker 2: job in spring training, we're gonna give it to you.
25:02
Speaker 1: And he didn't. He didn't quite get there, and so
25:04
Speaker 1: he started the year in the minors.
25:05
Speaker 2: But Ryan Bliss goes down with an injury and Cole
25:08
Speaker 2: Young was like an immediate call up at that point,
25:11
Speaker 2: and he was.
25:12
Speaker 1: It was fine.
25:13
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think he lit the world on
25:14
Speaker 2: fire as a rookie, and eventually, through his own admission,
25:19
Speaker 2: through the organization's admission, he did get fatigued from playing
25:24
Speaker 2: more baseball than he'd ever played in his entire life.
25:27
Speaker 2: And you know, being in a pennant race is probably
25:29
Speaker 2: emotionally taxing as well, and so by the end of
25:32
Speaker 2: the season he kind of wore down and they made
25:35
Speaker 2: the right decision of replacing him as the starting second
25:38
Speaker 2: basement and they didn't even give him a roster spot
25:41
Speaker 2: in the postseason, but they have every confidence.
25:45
Speaker 1: That he's there.
25:46
Speaker 2: He's a he's a piece of their future, a very
25:50
Speaker 2: strong piece. And so if I were you, I would
25:53
Speaker 2: expect that Cole Young is going to be our starting
25:55
Speaker 2: second baseman this year.
25:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.
25:57
Speaker 3: And I think that one of the concern I heard
26:00
Speaker 3: a lot from people was, well, it just doesn't seem
26:02
Speaker 3: like he's he's got all his throws are very good,
26:05
Speaker 3: you know, he missed, and I think that Naylor did
26:07
Speaker 3: make him look pretty good once Naylor got there. But
26:10
Speaker 3: I think also Naylor helped him and so he calmed
26:13
Speaker 3: him down a little bit.
26:14
Speaker 1: I think.
26:14
Speaker 3: I remember at one point there was even a conversation
26:16
Speaker 3: that maybe he'd just been a little too amped up
26:18
Speaker 3: and things like that and needed to just release, let things.
26:23
Speaker 4: You know, calm down.
26:24
Speaker 3: And so I think having someone like Naylor there to
26:27
Speaker 3: be on the receiving end of a lot of his
26:28
Speaker 3: throws and work with him more is only going to
26:31
Speaker 3: help him be better.
26:33
Speaker 2: Young and JP both struggled with their throats, yeah, and
26:37
Speaker 2: had to be bailed out by a first baseman who
26:40
Speaker 2: was much better defensively than I realized. Yeah, he's great
26:43
Speaker 2: watching him play every day for the first time in
26:46
Speaker 2: his career, and so that.
26:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an issue, but that's also a thing.
26:50
Speaker 2: That can be improved. Yeah, absolutely with Perry Hill, you know,
26:55
Speaker 2: there at his side. So I think we're going to
26:57
Speaker 2: see a better version. I think Cole Young's got a
26:59
Speaker 2: very high floor, and I think he's got more upside
27:02
Speaker 2: than what you realize. And he's got that sort of
27:04
Speaker 2: temperament like he doesn't realize like this is a big deal.
27:11
Speaker 2: He just doesn't and he doesn't quite grasp that he's
27:15
Speaker 2: really good at this. It it's just he just goes
27:19
Speaker 2: out to play ball every day. Yeah, and that's a
27:21
Speaker 2: you know, sometimes that can.
27:22
Speaker 1: Be a really valuable thing.
27:24
Speaker 2: So I'm expecting him to be the starting second baseman.
27:28
Speaker 2: Just like Cole Young got the opportunity to win a
27:30
Speaker 2: job a year ago in spring training, they're giving the
27:33
Speaker 2: same sort of license to Colt Emerson, the organization's top prospect.
27:39
Speaker 1: But my guess is, after being there a week, what I.
27:42
Speaker 2: Read into it was it's not a really high chance,
27:46
Speaker 2: mostly because of how confident they are in Cole Young.
27:49
Speaker 2: But I think they would ideally love to see cold
27:53
Speaker 2: Emerson sort of start in the minor leagues this year
27:58
Speaker 2: and then make it so blatantly obvious that he's ready
28:03
Speaker 2: for the big leagues. Then they call him up and
28:07
Speaker 2: then they figure out where do we play him. They
28:09
Speaker 2: are not going to stand in his way, I'll tell
28:11
Speaker 2: you that when they believe that he is ready. I
28:13
Speaker 2: just don't think they are going to count on him
28:16
Speaker 2: being ready to break camp as an everyday player for
28:20
Speaker 2: the Mariners and they won't activate him until.
28:22
Speaker 1: He is ready for them.
28:23
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I was gonna say that would be so
28:25
Speaker 3: unfair to him to put the pressure on it, like, well,
28:27
Speaker 3: we're relying on you to make this roster.
28:30
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that, And I'd be worried about the
28:32
Speaker 4: state of the Mariners.
28:33
Speaker 3: If you're relying on someone so young to make the
28:35
Speaker 3: roster for your season success.
28:37
Speaker 1: They're the future of the infield, those two guys.
28:39
Speaker 2: I mean, it's Emerson's going to be the shortstop next
28:42
Speaker 2: year most likely, and Young's going to be the second basement.
28:46
Speaker 2: But now enter Michael Arroyo, who he didn't spend a
28:49
Speaker 2: lot of time talking about during the week, but they
28:51
Speaker 2: really like him as well. This is a top hundred
28:53
Speaker 2: prospect in the game. And what did he do in
28:55
Speaker 2: his first spring training game? It's home run? And so
28:59
Speaker 2: then and what happens over the weekend? Articles start being
29:02
Speaker 2: written about the hidden gym and the Mariners organization, Michael
29:07
Speaker 2: Arroyo and so look, I mean it might be all
29:11
Speaker 2: three of them. I mean it could be potentially. I
29:14
Speaker 2: mean Cole Young was Brett as a shortstop. I don't
29:18
Speaker 2: know how they would That could be second short and
29:21
Speaker 2: third that could be the infield of the future. We
29:25
Speaker 2: shall see. But Michael Arroyo cannot be forgetting forgotten in
29:29
Speaker 2: all of this. He will not break camp as an
29:32
Speaker 2: everyday starter, but he might not be that far away either. Now,
29:37
Speaker 2: Ryan Bliss is the guy that won the starting job
29:39
Speaker 2: last year, and you hate to see him lose his
29:41
Speaker 2: starting job because of an injury. But he's got a
29:44
Speaker 2: long road back to try to leap frog three prospects
29:50
Speaker 2: who are younger, more talented, and the organization has a
29:55
Speaker 2: lot invested in. So Ryan Bliss was kind of get
30:00
Speaker 2: his opportunity. He didn't exactly seize it a year ago,
30:04
Speaker 2: and then he got hurt, and I don't know, maybe
30:07
Speaker 2: he doesn't get that opportunity again. Maybe he does have
30:10
Speaker 2: to turn into a utility type player, which is what
30:14
Speaker 2: Leo Revas has accepted.
30:16
Speaker 1: This is my lot in life. I'm gonna make this team.
30:18
Speaker 2: He told us this to our faces last week. If
30:21
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make this team, it's gonna be his utility player.
30:23
Speaker 2: And I understand that, and that might be where Bliss
30:25
Speaker 2: goes as well. With his athleticism, he should be able
30:28
Speaker 2: to do that. He should be able to play some outfield,
30:30
Speaker 2: second base, shortstop. Ryan Bliss could possibly fill that role
30:34
Speaker 2: as well. He told me he's faster than he was
30:38
Speaker 2: a year ago. So and his injury was not to
30:41
Speaker 2: his legs, so whatever the setback was physically, he didn't
30:48
Speaker 2: stop training. And he and Eric Young Junior both told
30:51
Speaker 2: me he's faster than he was a year ago. So
30:54
Speaker 2: he does have that weapon, which is nice to have
30:56
Speaker 2: off the bench. Yeah, I'll he's just got to catch
30:59
Speaker 2: up to a fastball, which we haven't seen him do
31:01
Speaker 2: at the major league level at this point. And then final, finally,
31:04
Speaker 2: Miles Master Bony, who we didn't talk a lot about
31:08
Speaker 2: last week. Dude put on some muscle. Of all the
31:11
Speaker 2: people that like changed physically, I could not believe how
31:16
Speaker 2: muscled Miles Master Bony is because you think of Miles
31:19
Speaker 2: Master Bony and you just think of a.
31:21
Speaker 1: Short, little singles hitter.
31:23
Speaker 2: Dude is thick, and I don't know how much he
31:26
Speaker 2: gained from a year ago, but let's just put it
31:29
Speaker 2: this way. He didn't spend a lot of time around
31:31
Speaker 2: the facility with his jersey on. I mean he had
31:35
Speaker 2: the tight T shirt on because.
31:37
Speaker 4: He wanted to show it off.
31:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you when you feel like you look better,
31:42
Speaker 2: you usually don't put a baggy sweater on.
31:44
Speaker 4: Yeah.
31:45
Speaker 3: I often said a long time ago, if I looked
31:47
Speaker 3: like in Heidi Clume, I'd probably wear no clothes to her.
31:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So I mean he was doing that for
31:55
Speaker 2: a reason. He put on some muscle. He's like jacked.
31:58
Speaker 1: So I don't know where the role is for him
32:01
Speaker 1: on this team.
32:02
Speaker 2: Obviously, you are going to have a couple utility guys,
32:06
Speaker 2: and so they've always had a couple utility guys.
32:09
Speaker 1: At one point, I.
32:10
Speaker 2: Think they had six on the roster, and so I
32:13
Speaker 2: don't know if there's only one spot this year with
32:16
Speaker 2: Leo Reevas stanking that spot, but obviously master Bony's in
32:20
Speaker 2: the running for that and no threat to be the
32:22
Speaker 2: starting second basement.
32:23
Speaker 1: So there you go.
32:24
Speaker 2: That's what I learned about second base over our time
32:27
Speaker 2: at spring training. Coming up next, get ready. It is
32:31
Speaker 2: for some people one of the most boring weeks of
32:34
Speaker 2: the entire football year, and yet I can't.
32:38
Speaker 1: Get enough of the pajama party. We'll discuss it next.
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32:44
Speaker 4: You no, no.
32:46
Speaker 1: It's it's sort of like, you know.
32:48
Speaker 2: It's it's a little bit of a precursor to draftness caroling.
32:55
Speaker 4: Oh, what a glorious time of year.
32:58
Speaker 2: And that really is I mean pajama party of all
33:01
Speaker 2: the things. And I do really do kind of like
33:03
Speaker 2: the workouts and you know, familiarizing myself with all the
33:07
Speaker 2: players that are going to be in the draft this year.
33:09
Speaker 2: But really what's exciting about it it is it's the
33:13
Speaker 2: first little reminder.
33:15
Speaker 1: Yeah that it's sort.
33:17
Speaker 4: Of like that first Crisp Fall Dead. It's just going
33:20
Speaker 4: to say the same thing.
33:21
Speaker 1: And when you start thinking about oh, Thanksgiving.
33:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like, I'm gonna grab a pumpkin spice Slotte,
33:27
Speaker 3: and I might need to put on some mittenst.
33:29
Speaker 1: Uh huh uh huh. And then Christmas is right, after that.
33:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the seasons. Tis the season?
33:36
Speaker 1: Uh huh. And so when I hear the Pajama Party song,
33:39
Speaker 1: I just know it's time for draftmas.
33:42
Speaker 4: Here we go.
33:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's time for at least some draft mess uh homework,
33:46
Speaker 2: which we'll have this week. So the NFL Combine starts
33:50
Speaker 2: this week and people will start reporting today. Greg Bell
33:55
Speaker 2: is going to join us at seven o five and
33:57
Speaker 2: he is under the snow in the northeast right now,
33:59
Speaker 2: so he'll join us.
34:01
Speaker 1: He might not be joining.
34:02
Speaker 2: The combine for a couple of days, but he will
34:04
Speaker 2: be joining us today. And look, I mean it's not
34:07
Speaker 2: just about you know, the workouts. As Greg tells us
34:12
Speaker 2: nearly every year, that I don't go to the NFL
34:15
Speaker 2: Combine to find out about.
34:18
Speaker 1: The draft picks. Now I watch for that reason, But.
34:23
Speaker 2: He goes to the NFL Combine because usually in a
34:27
Speaker 2: typical year, you don't win a Super Bowl. Yeah, and
34:31
Speaker 2: so you don't see John Schneider if you cover the Seahawks,
34:35
Speaker 2: you hadn't seen him in a month or so, and
34:38
Speaker 2: he hasn't spoken to you in like three months, because
34:41
Speaker 2: John usually does sort of avoid the media at all costs,
34:46
Speaker 2: So he does make himself available in Indianapolis, and it's
34:50
Speaker 2: usually for the beat writers like Greg the first opportunity
34:53
Speaker 2: to try to ask him some questions about the plan
34:55
Speaker 2: for the offseason.
34:57
Speaker 1: So that will take place.
34:58
Speaker 2: John's going to be an Indian and Greg's going to
35:02
Speaker 2: try to get there. But he conducts a lot of
35:06
Speaker 2: business from Indy. He conducts a lot of business this week.
35:09
Speaker 2: I mean, he'll it wouldn't be surprised me if we
35:12
Speaker 2: don't find out about ken Walker before the first workouts
35:15
Speaker 2: take place on Thursday. You know, they either sign him
35:19
Speaker 2: to a deal or we find out that ken Walker's
35:22
Speaker 2: driving too art of a bargain. We might we might
35:24
Speaker 2: discover that this week. For goodness, probably won't, but there's
35:27
Speaker 2: a chance that. But I'm just speaking to John Schneider
35:32
Speaker 2: does really treat this as like a business trip and
35:35
Speaker 2: not just to see NFL prospects.
35:38
Speaker 1: He is, he's.
35:39
Speaker 2: There on the phones working all sorts of angles, and
35:43
Speaker 2: he's got a lot of free agents that he's.
35:44
Speaker 1: Interested in keeping.
35:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is interesting to me that he it's
35:49
Speaker 3: almost like he wants to make him because he's not
35:52
Speaker 3: this way, but like he wants to make himself visible there.
35:55
Speaker 3: But then he's not that person that wants to make
35:57
Speaker 3: himself visible. So then I used to think of the past.
36:00
Speaker 3: Maybe he just wants to make the reporters work a
36:01
Speaker 3: little extra hard to get to hear from him. But
36:05
Speaker 3: I don't know. He's an interesting he's an interesting dude. Yeah,
36:09
Speaker 3: and quite figure him out, but I like it.
36:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think maybe he does kind of like
36:13
Speaker 2: his downtime a little bit. And he didn't have much
36:16
Speaker 2: of it this year, go from the super Bowl to
36:18
Speaker 2: the Combine within two weeks to say, Yeah, but you know,
36:23
Speaker 2: probably a multitasker. Yeah, something I can't relate to, but
36:28
Speaker 2: I haven't probably.
36:28
Speaker 4: Can remember more than three things in the morning.
36:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a feeling he can, you know, operate
36:33
Speaker 2: a Stopwatch for a forty time and.
36:36
Speaker 1: Negotiate Kobe Bryant's next contract all in the same breath.
36:40
Speaker 4: Or he's got a guy for the Stopwatch.
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Speaker 1: I got a guy. I got a guy for that.
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Speaker 2: Well, we'll ask Greg what he thinks of what he
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Speaker 2: might hear from John Schneider this week at the Combine.
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Speaker 2: We'll see if he's picked out his best pair of
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Speaker 2: pajamas for the pajama party. And we also have your headlines,
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