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Best of Chuck & Buck at Spring Training Day 1 2-16 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Your home for Spring training presents Chucking Bucks Daily Recap podcast,
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  Speaker 2: Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 2: three kJ R FM, Spring Training twenty twenty six. It
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  Speaker 2: is here and joining us at our set is the
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  Speaker 2: left hander coming off an outstanding season for your Seattle Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: Gabe Spire joins us here on Chuck and Buck in
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  Speaker 2: the Morning, Our first player to sit in the barber's chair.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready for your haircut? You're ready for your
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  Speaker 2: close up here, Gabe? Yeah, let's do it. Happy to
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  Speaker 2: be here.
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  Speaker 3: No haircuts?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got you got good lettuce going
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  Speaker 2: on off.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks. I just actually did get a haircut.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you did?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but kept a little bit of a party
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  Speaker 2: there in the back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, my wife actually cuts my hair, so oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's actually yeah. Is she trained at this or YouTube trained? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: she's cut my hair for the last three or four years,
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  Speaker 4: so she's she's got it a science to it, you know.
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  Speaker 4: She's no, yeah, exactly too.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's me. That's me.
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  Speaker 2: You can see it. You can see it's right there
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  Speaker 2: in front. Of you, so you can trim your own beard. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Bucky and I we we don't. We spare no.
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  Speaker 3: Expense with our haircuts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We gen only go to the finest. As you
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  Speaker 2: can tell. Very difficult to maintain these luscious locks on
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  Speaker 2: this side of the table.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm fallically challenged. I've been for over
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  Speaker 3: half my life now. But my wife doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: Cut my hair, so I don't know if that's a
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  Speaker 5: bus I would love, actually if I had hair for
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  Speaker 5: my wife to cut. Yeah, maybe she could do my beard.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if I wanted that close to my
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  Speaker 5: face with scissors.
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  Speaker 3: So how was the off season? It was good?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I lots of family time and you know, it
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  Speaker 4: was back home in Santa Barbara, California, just with my
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  Speaker 4: two year old and wife, and you know, my parents
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  Speaker 4: are there and my wife's family's there as well, so
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  Speaker 4: lots of family time. We took a trip to Hawaii
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  Speaker 4: and that was nice to kind of just relax on
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  Speaker 4: the beach there and but you know, other than that,
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  Speaker 4: just getting ready for this year and lots of you know,
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  Speaker 4: workouts and throwing and all that. So happy to be
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  Speaker 4: back for sure.
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  Speaker 5: How was How was the off season just I mean
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  Speaker 5: it was one of the bigger years as far as usage.
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  Speaker 5: You got last year's how I mean, did it feel like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'm ready for this thing, for a little bit of rest,
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  Speaker 5: and how did your arm bounce back?
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  Speaker 3: It was good?
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  Speaker 4: You know, that first week I really didn't do anything,
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  Speaker 4: no no weight's, no throwing, just to give my body
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  Speaker 4: a little grace, you know. And you know there was
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  Speaker 4: some makes and pains from the season, no doubt. It
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  Speaker 4: was a long year. It was my biggest workload I've
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  Speaker 4: ever had. But you know, just just a week off
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  Speaker 4: that was it. And then you know, start throwing into
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  Speaker 4: the net. I started getting into the weight room and
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, I've been at it ever since. And arms
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  Speaker 4: feeling good, body's feeling good, and you know, getting ready
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  Speaker 4: for spring training in the WBC too, that's gonna be,
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  Speaker 4: you know, super exciting for me. But like I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: everything's feeling good, happy with where I'm at, and happy
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  Speaker 4: to be back to.
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  Speaker 2: You beat me to the punch. I was gonna ask
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  Speaker 2: you that congratulations. What was that call like that from
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  Speaker 2: Mark de Rosa to find out your team America?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know it was it was crazy, you know,
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  Speaker 4: not going to say I was expecting it, obviously. You know,
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  Speaker 4: that's such an elite group, elite team.
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  Speaker 3: To be a part of.
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  Speaker 4: Just just to be considered to be on that team
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  Speaker 4: just such an honor, and I feel blessed to you
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  Speaker 4: know that I'm going to be able to wear a
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  Speaker 4: USA across my chest and play the game I love
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  Speaker 4: and and all that. But the phone call was good,
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  Speaker 4: you know. I I actually missed his first call. I
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  Speaker 4: was working out, so I after my workout, I went
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  Speaker 4: to my phone and saw that I had a voice
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  Speaker 4: mail from It said I don't have Mark Deurosa's you
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  Speaker 4: know phone, Yeah, phone number saved in my phone, so
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  Speaker 4: it said maybe Mark de Rosa. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I kind of knew what it what it might be,
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  Speaker 4: you know, considering you know, he's the manager and all that,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, listen to the voicemail and that it
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  Speaker 4: was exactly what I expect did him asking me to play.
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  Speaker 4: And and for me, you know, I feeling as good
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  Speaker 4: as I did it, it was a no brainer for me.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, if I had not been feeling good,
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  Speaker 4: it would have been a much harder decision. But I'm
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  Speaker 4: feeling good, like I said, so it was an easy
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  Speaker 4: decision for me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if he starts telling you any stories about me,
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  Speaker 5: don't listen.
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  Speaker 3: Teammates, they are old teammates.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, you don't listen when it comes to throwing with
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  Speaker 5: the Stars and stripes. I mean what you talk about
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  Speaker 5: it being a dream come true or is no brainer
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  Speaker 5: if your arm's feeling good. I mean, just the idea
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  Speaker 5: of did you ever kind of envision that this would
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  Speaker 5: be something you'd be able to do?
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  Speaker 4: You know, no, not necessarily. I'd never really, this was
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  Speaker 4: never in my plans by any means.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I had a conversation with my agent at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the year and he said it might happen. He
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  Speaker 4: was like, hey, man, I'm going through the list of
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  Speaker 4: American Lefty relievers and I think that they might they might.
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  Speaker 4: You might be getting a call. So he kind of
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  Speaker 4: brought it to my attention, and and you know, I
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  Speaker 4: was thinking along, like if I do get that call,
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  Speaker 4: like I really want to do this. This is such
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  Speaker 4: a special thing, you know, such a cool event to
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  Speaker 4: represent your country, and I'm just really excited to participate
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  Speaker 4: in it. And I really am hoping to get to
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  Speaker 4: face some of my teammates here, you know, on the
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  Speaker 4: other side, that'd be that'd be cool to face you
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  Speaker 4: know where I know in our pool, Italy's in there,
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  Speaker 4: so Masraboni and canz Own are playing for Italy. It'll
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  Speaker 4: be really cool to kind of square off against those guys,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, obviously others as well. But I'm just
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  Speaker 4: really looking forward to it, and like I said, just
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  Speaker 4: super blessed and honored to be considered even just considered
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  Speaker 4: for this team. Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you also have teammates that'll be on your team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, you're already teammates with Cal Rawley,
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  Speaker 2: but now you're gonna be teammates on Team USA for
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  Speaker 2: goodness sake. I mean, have you talked to him about that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course he was my He was one of
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  Speaker 4: my first phone calls after I got off the phone
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  Speaker 4: with d Roh. But yeah, that's gonna be awesome to have.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna shake him off a lot on the world.
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  Speaker 4: Say, as you guys watch me during season, I rarely
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  Speaker 4: shake you know, maybe only with two strikes when I
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  Speaker 4: really want to go to something. That's kind of the
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  Speaker 4: only time I really do. But it's gonna be nice
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  Speaker 4: to have you know, Mike, I would selfishly say my catcher.
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  Speaker 4: But with col back there, you know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of familiarity there, and and we're comfortable with each other.
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  Speaker 4: We're on the same page. So it's gonna be nice
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  Speaker 4: to have him back there, and and you know, continue
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  Speaker 4: to get to watch him hit homers as well, and
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  Speaker 4: that's always fun sitting on the bullpen and seeing him
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  Speaker 4: smash baseball. So really excited I get to play with him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I can understand why it would it
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  Speaker 5: would make sense being able to do that together. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I'm coming off the heels of last year getting as
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  Speaker 5: far as you guys got. I mean, what's the feel
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  Speaker 5: early in camp here? I mean, is it just kind
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  Speaker 5: of a hunger of oh, we're getting back there and beyond.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, of course. I mean, you know, it's it
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  Speaker 4: was a tough, tough way to you know, being that
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  Speaker 4: close you could almost taste it, you know, and then
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  Speaker 4: getting getting knocked out like that.
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  Speaker 3: It was tough.
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  Speaker 4: But like you said, everyone's hungry and and I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, last year everyone had you know, we come
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  Speaker 4: in with more experience. Now everyone in this clubhouse has
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  Speaker 4: now played deep into the postseason and so you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think experience speaks a lot to have been there,
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  Speaker 4: and now we know what it takes to get there,
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  Speaker 4: we know what it's gonna feel like when we are there,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that that's gonna be helpful to push
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  Speaker 4: pass and get to the top of the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: Gabe Spire is with us here on chalking Back our
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  Speaker 2: coverage of twenty twenty six Mariners is spring training right
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  Speaker 2: here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk us then through an off season. So you know
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  Speaker 2: you're coming off your best year of your career. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's safe to say. You're nodding right now, so
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  Speaker 2: you agree, I agree with you. You are also you
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  Speaker 2: played longer though into the season and probably pitched more
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  Speaker 2: than you have in any season or at least on par. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you are adding WBC preparation to your spring training.
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  Speaker 3: So what did you do?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would think that I had such a
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  Speaker 2: good season, I'm just gonna do the exact same thing
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  Speaker 2: that I did a year ago. But maybe you can't
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  Speaker 2: do that because of the calendar. So how did you
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  Speaker 2: approach the off season? Was it similar different? What did
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  Speaker 2: you change up? If anything?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? You know, nothing, really, I just got ready like
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  Speaker 4: I always do. I mean, I think coming into this
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  Speaker 4: past season at twenty twenty five, I you know, had
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  Speaker 4: a the Mariners kind of wrote me on a program
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  Speaker 4: to follow, and they did the same for me this
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  Speaker 4: past offseason, and it was essentially the same.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, we we played about three weeks longer than we
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  Speaker 4: would than we did the in years past. But so
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  Speaker 4: everything was just pushed back about three weeks and and
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  Speaker 4: the WBC hasn't changed meet my preparation in the off
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  Speaker 4: in the off season or anything like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna you know, spring training games start here pretty soon,
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  Speaker 4: and the WBC starts, you know, even later than spring
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  Speaker 4: training games do. So it's not like I had to
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  Speaker 4: ramp up any faster or quicker or anything like that.
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  Speaker 4: So my ramp up was the same as it has
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  Speaker 4: been in years past. Obviously, the games in the WBC
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  Speaker 4: are going to be a little bit more intense than
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  Speaker 4: this bring training game would be. But but no, nothing,
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  Speaker 4: nothing really changed.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know if I've changed anything either.
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  Speaker 5: No, yeah, you don't need to change, don't don't fix it, broke, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: who's your tattoo?
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  Speaker 3: Artist. I need some of that fine line work. I've
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  Speaker 3: got a couple.
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  Speaker 4: So the guy that has done my left arm, he's
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  Speaker 4: in Santa Barbara. Back home, they're more kind of like
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  Speaker 4: traditional kind of just you know, big bold tattoos. And
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  Speaker 4: then this on my on my right arm is more
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  Speaker 4: like fine line work. And in this guy's in San Diego,
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  Speaker 4: I'll shout him out. My guy back home, his name
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  Speaker 4: is Ken Knox. And then my guy in San Diego
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  Speaker 4: is Chewy Espinoza and Chewy yeah ink Masters. He he
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  Speaker 4: applied to be on Ink Masters and he actually he's
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  Speaker 4: a tattoo artist and he has no tattoos himself, and
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  Speaker 4: that's the only he told me. That's the only reason
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  Speaker 4: he didn't get to go on the show. They didn't
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  Speaker 4: want an artists without any work done on them on them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, it is unusual, right, But yeah, I haven't
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  Speaker 4: gotten any recently. It's actually been a couple of years
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  Speaker 4: since my last one. But I think, you know, having
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  Speaker 4: a kid has pushed that kind of to the side
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  Speaker 4: for for the time being. But I definitely want more
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  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna stick with my two guys. They do
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  Speaker 4: great work. So I'm looking forward to getting back on
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  Speaker 4: their table and getting more work done.
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  Speaker 2: What is the motivation when you get one? I mean
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  Speaker 2: what what? What does the story behind them all?
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  Speaker 4: So it started, you know, my first one was for
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  Speaker 4: my grandfather who passed away, and and then my second
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  Speaker 4: one was for my uncle who passed away. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: they started off pretty meaningful, and as as I went,
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  Speaker 4: they got less and less meaningful. You know, like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I like that, just look cool. You know, as you
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  Speaker 4: get more, you know, it becomes less. You know, it's
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  Speaker 4: more just about getting it and getting what you want
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  Speaker 4: and what you like. They're in my mind there doesn't
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  Speaker 4: need to be some sentimental value behind it, and just
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  Speaker 4: get what you want.
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  Speaker 2: Well no, I mean, we don't need to stretch it
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  Speaker 2: out any further. Go ahead and show us the surprise
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  Speaker 2: that you got Bucky in my face on your back.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you don't don't have to, You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to stretch out the suspense any longer.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah maybe next year.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe next year? What have you jumped up? Horrible?
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  Speaker 2: Well I wouldn't expect him to do that, but I
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  Speaker 2: would expect you to now get one.
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  Speaker 4: Now that I've planted that seed in your head.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you're talking about less and less meaningful.
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  Speaker 3: Get less meaningful than that.
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  Speaker 4: Just cool. My artists are pretty pretty handy. They might
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  Speaker 4: make be able to make it pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You can find photos of us on the internet. It's fine,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you need. Or we can be there in person
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  Speaker 2: and model for you if you would like. Gabe Spire
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  Speaker 2: is with us right here on Chuck and Bucky in
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  Speaker 2: the mornings as we get you set for Mayor in
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  Speaker 2: her spring training here. So all right, you're the first
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  Speaker 2: player that we've actually talked to. I mean, we just
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  Speaker 2: kind of arrived here, so be our eyes and ears.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the guy that changed the most in the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the guy that you know looks like he you know,
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  Speaker 2: worked out this off season.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone looks good, you know. I mean I'm trying to think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, nothing's like jumping to the top of my mind.
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  Speaker 4: But I know Munos's first bullpen he was throwing ninety nine.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't understand that guy. He's uh,
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  Speaker 4: that's just crazy to me. I for me, bullpens are
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  Speaker 4: so different than game speed. It's it's amazing to me
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  Speaker 4: that he's able to throw that hard in a bullpen.
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  Speaker 4: For me, I'm always like three four miles an hour
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  Speaker 4: slower than I am in game because I need adrenaline.
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  Speaker 4: I need a hitter standing in the box and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: a jersey on and fans in the stands to get
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  Speaker 4: to my you know peak. But that jumps to the
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  Speaker 4: top of my head, I guess. But yeah, everyone's looking
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  Speaker 4: good eye. Everyone is on the same page here, I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like we talked about earlier, just going as
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  Speaker 4: deep as we did last year. Everyone's hungry and ready
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  Speaker 4: to get after it and ready for the season to start.
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  Speaker 4: I know, spring just started, so we got a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of time and to get right, get to get
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  Speaker 4: you know, hitters get swing dialed in, pitchers get other
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  Speaker 4: things dialed in. So we got time. But everyone's ready
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  Speaker 4: and you can feel it and we're all excited.
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  Speaker 3: How often did you guys keep in touch?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it seems like this team is pretty tight,
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  Speaker 5: Like everybody kind of gets along, and everybody's rolling in
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  Speaker 5: the same direction.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when I played.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you're tight with your boys, you spend more
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  Speaker 5: time with them than you do with your family during
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  Speaker 5: the season, and yet this off season comes and everybody
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  Speaker 5: kind of gets a break. Everybody goes their separate direction.
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  Speaker 5: Did you guys still keep in touch and were you
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  Speaker 5: keep in touch with guys with what you were working
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  Speaker 5: on in the off season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we always have we have a text
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  Speaker 4: thread going and guys jump on there. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: like pretty constant through the off season, the group text
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  Speaker 4: through with the team. But then individually, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I talked to Cal and Brash and a few others
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  Speaker 4: here and there. You know it, like you said, it's
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  Speaker 4: the off season, it's kind of everyone's time to wind down.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, absolutely that that definitely takes place, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'd say mostly on the group text, and then you know,
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  Speaker 4: you also have coaches reaching out asking how things are going,
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  Speaker 4: and trainers asking if you have any issues with anything
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  Speaker 4: and all that. So, like you said, it is a
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  Speaker 4: very tight knit group and and that that sometimes I'll
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  Speaker 4: be away from my phone for a while and come
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  Speaker 4: back and see two hundred unread messages and I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: how the heck? And it's because of that group text
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  Speaker 4: is just it's always going. So so yeah, it just
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  Speaker 4: shows how I guess tight everyone is.
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  Speaker 2: Who needs who needs your wife to give him a haircut.
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  Speaker 2: Who's got bad hair at starting spring training?
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  Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I don't want to throw anyone out, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'll throw someone all right, Bryce Miller. Bryce Miller needs
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  Speaker 4: to shave it off. You know, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: He's got good hair. I'm just giving him a hard time. Yeah, No,
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: I mean who's there? Yeah, nobody. I can think of nobody.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: I can think of it, all right.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: Man. Well, hey, thank you very much for joining us.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: We appreciate it.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to this season obviously, and can't wait to
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: see you pitch in the WBC as well. It's gonna
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: be an exciting spring for you, no doubt.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate you guys for having me.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: All right, Gabe Spier, it's chucking Box Sports Radio ninety
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM. A president, A president joining us now.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Jerry Depoto is with us live here at spring training.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Great to see you.
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: It's a joy. It's a joy, beautiful weather. We've been
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: down here a week now and the guys showed out.
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: It's spring training is a fun time.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: It is here, it is here, and it just seems
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: to me I started the show with us today. Maybe
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: I'm reading into it because of the close of last
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: year and the excitement of the offseason and everything else.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: But it feels like there's a little different air. It
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: doesn't feel like, hey, we got to trace down those astros.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: It feels like we're the team to beat. Kind of
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: confidence around here. Would you agree with that?
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: I would agree with that, you know, without trying to
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: get a little over the top. Yeah, you know, our
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: guys are confident. We we know we have a good team,
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: and we experienced a lot of things last year. We
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: came up a couple out shorts of going to the
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: World Series, and and and that gave our guys that
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: that the confidence necessary to believe that we can go
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: out there and really run it. It's we have we
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: have stars, we have personalities, we have depth, we have pitching.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: It's a there's a lot of things that we're doing
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: right now, and I think the league around us is noticing.
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: I think generally speaking, we we go in with a
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: pretty favorable outlook on twenty twenty six.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Every single player.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: And I'm sure you carry this even up to being
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: you know, general manager and now print you know president.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, the the idea of you have to always
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: be improving you not getting as good as you guys
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: got last year. Not good enough. You want it, You
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: have somewhere you need to go. So overarchene thoughts on
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: what it was you were wanting to do to improve
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: the squad.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: You know, we had three big things we wanted to address,
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: and we hit them while we were going into the
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: off season. Then number one was bringing back Josh Naylor.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: You know, he cooperated and and that happened, you know,
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: early in the off season, which really, you know, made
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: our off season possible because it's a if we were
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: waiting all off season long to see how that turned out,
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: you know, a lot of doors could potentially close. But
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: you know, it worked out to our advantage. And and
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Nails is here for the next five years at least,
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: and and and really has been from the day we
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: acquired him through the start of this camp. Just a
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: it's a I hate to use something as simple as
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: just a shot in the arm. He just lifts everybody up.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: He's he's smart, he's he's thoughtful, he's a great teammate,
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: an excellent player. So that was number one. Number two
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: was adding impact at the back end of our bullpen.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: And we feel like we did that with the acquisition
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: of Jose Ferrara from Washington and obviously cost us a
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: prospect that we held in pretty high regard. But des
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: was sink and slide and he's got an above average
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: change up and and I feel like with Gabe Spy
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: or Matt Brash, Andre's Munoz Edward Bizardo really gives us
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: that type of back end that you see in championship teams,
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: which was a goal. And then we wanted to add
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: that one more back to lengthen the lineup, and and
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: that one took a while.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: It was someone said to me man the offseason Flew.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: I said, yeah, unless you were sitting waiting for the
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Cardinals to train us Brendan Donovan.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: But that was stretched out for a little while.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: It took a while, but you know, ultimately we landed
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: the guy that we had our eyes set on the
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: whole time. And and here in the early going in
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: spring training, it's it's been worth the wait. He's he's
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: everything we thought he would be from a makeup emotional,
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: you know, it's an energy, just a quality player who's
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: a pro and goes about his business the right way.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: So what do you envision for him and where he
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: plays on the field that you.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: Know in Brendan's case, and I talked to him about
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: this the day we acquired him. You know, we we
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: want his focus when he's coming into spring training to
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: be third base. It's a position he has played a
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: fair bit in his career, but not in recent years
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: because he was playing with Nolan Arnauto And I guess
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: when you're playing with a Hall of Famer, you don't
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: get the reps. But you know Brendan is he is
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: like the super Swiss Army knife defender who can do
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: just about anything defensively on a field. He's played everywhere.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: You know, we're not going to ask him to pitch,
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: catch or play center, but it's right now we're viewing
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: him as the likely opening day third baseman. And one
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: of the reasons why Brendan was such an appealing target
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: for us in the offseason is because of his versatility,
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: it allowed our young players to continue to grow and
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: their growth, their assent to the big leagues isn't hindered
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: by someone blocking them. It's Brendan could just go be
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: a good player and move around the diamond in ways,
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: even if it's playing a different position every day, so
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: that leaves the door open for us to take the
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: big step forward. Brendan makes us a better, more stable
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: team the day he shows up, but our real growth
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: comes from the young players taking steps forward, and that's
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: not hindered by adding Donovan.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: So then how does that handicap? I guess if I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: were betting in Vegas. Cole Young did good things for
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: us in middle of the summer last year. There was
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: a four or five week stretch where he played about
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: as good an offensive you know, second base as you
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: can play. He was among the four or five best
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: hitters at his position in the league, and toward the
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: end he took on a little water, he got tired. Obviously,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: we left him off the postseason roster in favor of Polanco,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: who was swinging a hot bat. And yeah, it's Cole
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Young is a good young player. He's twenty two years old.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: You can tell he took his offseason very seriously. He
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: comes in as the favorite if I were betting man.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: But there are a lot of good players in this camp,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: and you know, all age twenty two or younger Cole Young.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I mentioned Michael Arroyo and obviously Colt Emerson. We're getting
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Michael some reps at third base. Colt Emerson is taking
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: some reps at third base. He's played both shortstop and base. Again,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: versatility is the key.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: You're talking about Cole Young and how he obviously took
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: the offseason seriously, how about Colt Emerson. Donovan could be
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: a guy that could play second if he plays third base.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: So how's he looking into the beginning to camp.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Like he always looks. He takes everything seriously. You know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: Colt works hard. He is He's an incredibly mature player.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: You'd never know if sitting down that he's twenty years
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: old and has you know, played sparingly above double A.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: And I think the quality of what he brings in
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: every fast of the game. He hits all the boxes,
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: he runs a little bit, he throws, he plays defense,
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: he's versatile, he hits, he gets on base, he's got
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: some power, and he's and he's young, and he picks
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: it up pretty quickly. So, you know, we've generally been
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: of the mindset, and this has been a number of
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: years now when guys come in and they're ready to
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: do their thing, and we think they have a chance
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: to be difference making players. We just don't get in
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: their way. Give them them the opportunity to go do
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: what they do. You know, and I say that there's
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: some depth on this team that hasn't existed in years past.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: And we go in as the defending AO wes champs.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: We do have World Series aspirations, and you know, you're
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: gonna have to get it done in order to make
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: your way onto the team, and Colt has both the
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: skill and the focus to make that happen.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: For our audience's purpose, because I think even you and
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Justin and others are struggling with this. How excited should
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: they be about Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan And how
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: much do we need to limit our excitement for these
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: two players.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: It's hard to limit the excitement. You know, I'm not
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: one to limit excitement. And you know, as these these
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: last couple of days, as they've thrown their lives, first
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: time throwing live two hitters in a major league camp.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: Both of them have thrown lives in Shove camp in
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: January headed into early February, but this was the first
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: time to see them throw against major league hitters. They
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: didn't throw against invites or minor league free agents. They
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: threw against guys who played in All Star Games last
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: year and they stood out, which is hard to do
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: in a camp that has this kind of talent. But
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: you know, I'll start with Kate Anderson because he threw first.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Obviously the thing I'll hit with Cad. We just got
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: incredibly lucky that they picked our ping pong ball. Lucky
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: did somebody pick the ball the best pitcher in the
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: country at LSU as an amateur coming out, it was
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: as polished as you're going to see, not just what
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: he does on the mound, but who he is as
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: a person. His work habits, his focus, seemed like a
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: guy that probably wasn't going to stay in the minor
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: leagues for very long. And that's the feel you get
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: when you watch him pitch. There's it's certainly not a
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: guy that's likely to spend much time at the low
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: levels of the minor leagues. And you know it's it's
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: so sharp. It's all the pitches. It's the precision as
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: fastball gets up to ninety six ninety seven, sits around
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: ninety three ninety four and has a finished to it
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: that you just don't normally see. And the special part
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: about kid is the command that he has of his
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: secondary pitches. He's got them all. And you know, he
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: looks like he could pitch in the Atlanta Braves rotation
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: in the nineties and you wouldn't blink. Ryan Sloan through yesterday.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Ryan is he's young. He looks like he's twelve, and
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: he throws like he's been in the big leagues for
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: ten years. You know, it's he's big, he's physical. His
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: first lives, he was ninety seven and ninety nine with
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: explosive fastball. He threw a two seamer that we hadn't
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: really seen before that that again, explosive is the only
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: word I can use. A slider that makes you buckle.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: It's both of these guys have all of the ingredients
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: to pitch at the front of major league rotations. And
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: you know, they're twenty and twenty one years old. It
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: shouldn't take very long for them to come. But they
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: got like we talked about with Colt and the depth
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: that we have around the field. We got five pretty
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: good starters in the big leagues too, which is a
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: good problem to have.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Do you ever see ad Max Beyond Thunderdome? Remember that movie?
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I remember that there was Highlight, there was Master Blaster,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: and there was this And that's what Ryan Sloane reminds
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: me of because from across the field, Master Blaster, Blaster, well,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Master was the mind behind it. And then Blaster was
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: this like the mountain kind of hulk figure and you
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: sew him from it and everybody was afraid of him.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: And then he took off his mask and he was
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: just a child.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: He had this baby face and like, he's just a child,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: don't hurt him.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And when Sloan.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Walked up, I'm like, you look like you're ten years
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: old with a bock up. Yeah, well, and you look
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: like the mountain from the neck down together.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: He does have that. You know.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: It's when you I'm not the greatest scout in the
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: history of the world, but I've done it for long
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: enough to know that. You know, the easiest thing to
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: identify his physicality, and and Ryan Sloane from eighteen years
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: old when we first scouted him, had all the physical
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: attributes of a front end major league starter. What we
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: didn't really expect until we got to know him a
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: little bit was how well put together he is, you know, mentally, emotionally,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: he's resilient.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I think he.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: Has the right balance of ready to learn and I've
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: got this and which is a really nice combo, by.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: The way, in case you were wondering, it's pretty obvious
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: to see the pride and the happiness.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Like exude out of you, ooze out of you.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Almost when it comes to you talking about young pitchers,
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: that's pretty obvious you were a pitcher at one point
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: in time. When it comes to makeup, I mean, I
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: don't know for sure if these young guys that you
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: have have more of a guy to look up to
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: than Cal Rawly. I mean, we were talking earlier on
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: our show today just about Cal rowlying what expectations would be.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, you hit sixty homers. You know, he's asking,
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: what do we think an eighty one hundred? I mean,
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: while I don't want to put any limitations on the guy,
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: the makeup of this guy, I mean, it almost feels
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: like he's one that could repeat spectacular historic season.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it would be hard for me to expect any
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: more than sixty one, right, you know, but hey, I
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: say this about Cal like there's I don't know that
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: you can really put a put a bar on what
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: he can achieve. We saw that last year. What he
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: accomplished last year is so much more than we could
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: have expected the day we drafted him, as he's come
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: through our system. You know, I've said this jokingly over
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: the course of this offseason. You know, Cal went from
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: an awesome secret in the Pacific Northwest, you know, the
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: thirty five homer platinum glove catcher with great leadership skill
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: who really appeals to every man, to being like an
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: international superstar goes by one name. And you know, it's
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: it's pretty awesome to watch that development. And I'll say
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: this about the effect or the impact that it has
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: on our young kids. It has an effect on the
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: other twenty five players, regardless of their age. You know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: he takes it so seriously. His focus, his intensity, his work,
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: it's all just come so far. And he went from
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: being you know, a really good you know, I guess,
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: burgeoning star in our league to becoming a superstar player
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: in a season. And and I don't think that it
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: was a one time thing. This is just his skill set.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: You know, you've got a switch hitter with power. He
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: really closed up the platoon hole that he had before.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: You know, he was a much better lefty than than
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: righty hitter, and that is no longer true. He's equally
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: as good from both sides. He controls a run game,
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: he controls a staff, he's prepared. I could say as
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: many good things as you want to say. And the
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: quality of the I guess the example he sets for
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: the young players is really mirrored by our other major
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: league players. You know, those young pitchers we talked about.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: It's a or Colt Emerson or Cole Young. They have
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: cal they have Brian Wu, they have Logan Gilbert, they
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: have a group of players around them.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: You know that.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: I think that they all take pride in passing it
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: on paying it forward with those young guys because they
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: live through it. They grew up in this organization, and
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: I think they take pride in making sure that the next,
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: you know, iteration of the Mariners of the next stage
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: of young player has that same quality when they get
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: their opportunity. What's his scouting grade in terms of intangibles? Eighty?
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's eighty.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: And I say that is true of a couple of
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: our guys. But gall it's a no brainer, eighty, right,
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: And that was true before before he hit sixty. He
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: was he had eighty intangibles, then now he's got eighty
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: intangibles and ninety power.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Jerry Depoto is with us here from spring training. I
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: do want to get into a couple of other topics.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Hopefully we have time to flush these out the challenge
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: system this year. What's the organizational philosophy on who gets
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: the challenge? When you get the challenge? Is it just
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: a couple of players that you're going to give that
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: to at the plate? How are you going to manage
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: that as the organization?
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: Everybody but Randy? Oh yeah, I say that Randy's been
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: you know, Randy's been prone to in the early morning
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: sessions that you may have seen with Kate Anderson or
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: Ryan Sloan, you know, and Randy's been quick to challenge
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: and he's not always been. But uh, you know, everybody,
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: you know, just like we do with with everything, it's
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: a you know, everybody's gonna have the opportunity to to
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: feel it out, to get a sense for it. My
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: guess is that the older players will be more likely
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: to tap it than than than most. But I would
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: say that the young players are the ones who actually
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: have the experience doing it, so you know, we would
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: encourage those young guys to to kind of show us
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: the way. And it's last spring we had the first
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: taste of this at the major league level, and unsurprisingly,
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: our eighty and tangibles guy who we just talked about,
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: was believing or not one hundred percent on his challenges.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: He was always right.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: I was wondering, you ever to let a picture do it?
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Or he's just gonna let cow.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: You know, I don't know why you would let the
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: picture do it because the picture. And I say this
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: with the mind or the heart of a pitcher, I
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: think every pitch I throw yes is stright, especially you
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: know with catchers who framed today, and you know Cal's
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: catching it and he has a pretty good sense. I'm
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: sure that we're gonna have a pitcher that feels strongly
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: enough about it then in the moment decides they're going
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: to challenge. But I think Cal has enough control of
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: the game that he's more likely to be the one.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: WBC this has been a I know, not everybody loves it,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: especially executives.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: I think we have more players going to the WBC
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: than any other organization in baseball, which again I think
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: is a pretty awesome thing. It's just it expresses that
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: we have talent, that we're diverse. It's gonna leave a
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: big hole in our camp. You know, Rob Refschneider, who
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: we signed in the off season. I'm really thrilled to
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: have both in the clubhouse and on the field. Rep said,
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: you know, it's really hard to walk into a new
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: camp and he has seventy five guys. You got to
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: get to know. I said, yeah, in a couple of days,
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: it's gonna be like fifty.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: But we are.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: We're gonna get hit as hard as anybody generally speaking.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: You just cross your fingers on health. You know, guys
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: are gonna go. And I think right now in the Olympics,
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: if you're watching Olympic hockey, you see Kevin Fiala, you know,
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: went down with a leg injury and he's out for
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: the year for the Kings. That's your biggest fear now.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: I say that, and I flashed back to last springs,
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: four Nations in hockey, this year's you know, Olympics, the WBC,
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: which comes up every couple of years. There is nothing
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: you can do in preparing for a major league season
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: that gives you this kind of rush, this kind of
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: competition it's like playoff, and everything that happens is happening
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: at Defcon one, and you can't replicate that in spring training.
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: So you just hope that you can get your guys
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: physically prepared to go do it so that you know,
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: injury is less a concern because what's happening on the
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: field is so much better in preparing them for what
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: happens in October than anything we can do here.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: What is your respets to the statement the Dodgers are
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: ruining baseball?
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: I just think they're awesome, you know, and where they're deep,
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: they have stars everywhere they've done it generally speaking, they're
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: good at scouting, they're good at player development, they're good
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: at roster building. And you know, I I I get it.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: You know, it's a Their payroll is considerably higher than
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: than just about anybody else in the league, and you know,
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: and and very much higher than the teams that are
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: outside the top three or four. I say that, and
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: it's it's hard to be to take shots at what
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: they've built. And you know, and and the people I
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: think they're smart. They've done a good job. They take
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: advantage of the resources they have and the market. They
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: work in and and and they do what they do.
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: You know, I say that there's always been teams like
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: the Dodgers. You know, in our baseball lives, there's been
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: dominant teams. Sometimes they're big market teams, sometimes they're they're not,
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: but they don't always win the World Series. And you know,
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: it's a it's part of being consistent over time and
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: showing up and just banging down the door. We feel
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: like we have the ability with the roster we have
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: to go toe to toe with anybody, regardless of the
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: size of their payroll or how many stars they sign.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: What's the what is the benefit? The deferred money part
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: of it is one thing that I think a lot
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: of fans and myself, I'll just say, well makes sense,
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: you know, when they have to spend two bucks now and.
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: We don't, you know, lean into deferred payments. I guess
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: deferred payments are payments. You know at some point you're
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: gonna have to pay that bill. And you know, the
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: Dodgers are one of the very few teams in Major
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: League Baseball who have revenue systems where they can reasonably
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: look forward ten, twenty or thirty years and and believe,
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: all right, we can manage that. You know, if if
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: these deferred payments come due at a certain point, they're
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: all hitting and you're ten years out and you are
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: the average major league payroll, you can't manage you know
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: that part of it. And when you look at the
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: what's happening with deferred payments around the league, they have
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: you know, they were, they were trending in the early
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: two thousands. They went away for a reason because they're
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: very hard to manage. But you know, there there are
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: a number of teams in the league that I think
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: believe that they can manage that over the long term.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: They know their finances better than I do. So I'm
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: not one to throw stones. I know that's not something
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: that we feel as realistic an our market. So we'll
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: just try to sign good contracts with players we like
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: and and and do it in a more traditional way.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Well, I got a million other questions for him.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Sure Bucky does as well, but uh, we do appreciate
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: the time. We don't have time to get into all
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: of them. I think I just closed with this, what's
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: your man bun policy for Brendan Donovan? Are you saying
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: is are the Mariners pro man bun anti man bun.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: What are we going to do with that? The hair
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: of his?
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: You know, we got a couple of man buns, and
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: and I'm generally there's I'm open love them all. You know,
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: we get Teddy McGraw, who's an in house, former draft
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: pick of ours, who's in his first major league camp.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: You know, if he lets it down, it's a glorious flow,
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: you know, and we've we've dubbed him breaking ball Jesus,
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: but you know, when they when they pile the man
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: ball up, man bun up. I I do think it's
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: it works for me, okay, because it gives me the
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: vibe that we are who we are. And you know,
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: I think if I had to pin Brendan Donovan, and
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: I've known him for all of a couple of weeks
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: in my life, but if I had to thin slice
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: his first week as a Mariner, it's a it is
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: a shocking ability just to come in and be yourself.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: And we've always embraced that, We've expressed it in our culture.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: And and if that means you're gonna wear a man bun,
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: fire away.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: All right, I got it. I'm glad we cleared that
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: up today. Thank you very much, we appreciate you have
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: a great year. All right, So Mary Depoto, Executive of
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: the Year at MLB. We'll we'll continue here from spring
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: training next. That's Chucking Buck Sports Radio ninety three point
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: three kJ r f M. It's Chunking Buck in the
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Is our week from spring training continues.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: And I was hoping to get both Kate Anderson on
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: at some point this week, and I was also open
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: to get Ryan Sloan on at some point this week, Bucky,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: how about doing them both together here on Chuck and
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Buck in the Morning. So that's right, the two star
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: pitching prospects firing up the ranks. Kate Anderson is with us,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: and so is Ryan Sloan. Well, it's good, good to
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: see you both. Good to meet you both. Really excited
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: about seeing you here at camp. So, Kate, what's it like,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, a year ago you're on a college campus
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: and now you're here at big league camp.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: What's it been like so far?
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah, really just trying to take it all in. Me
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: and guys like Ryan and all the other guys within
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: the Mariers Complex. Has been really really cool to just
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: kind of learn from them as well.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: When you saw his thighs, where you're like, oh, or
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: my thighs supposed to look like that if I'm in
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: the major leagues.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: You know, he's a pretty buff dude over here, right
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: right he.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: I'm not sure what's going on over there, but he's
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: something different than me in the.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: It's Illinois, right yeah, look at me. Look at the
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: two of us. We're practically physical.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Twins, you and I.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: Ryan.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: You know it's at Illinois upbringing.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: You got some different Illinois water chug.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Ryan, describe your game for those listening that are like,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: oh wait, I've heard of this guy, but I haven't
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: done a lot of research. Described for our audience your
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: game on the mound.
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah, my game on the mountain pretty simple. Throw a
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: ton of strikes. That's pretty much it. You know, I
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: have full confidence in my stuff to throw all five
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: of my pitches in the zone when I need them,
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: and then same thing if I need to throw them
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: out of the zone.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: I have the confidence to do that.
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: So my game in a nutshell essentially is just I
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: can throw any pitch at anytime.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I think, when you watch kid throw, what are you like?
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Oh boy, I wish I could do that. Is there
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: anything like that that happens for you? I love the kids.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: It's a little bulldog out there.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: He's out here grunting and catch play.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: You're a gun doesn't come easy to me. All right,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: he's I'm all for it.
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: I can't.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: Like I said, the thighs are a little different here, are.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: A little different, aren't they. Everybody has effortless hondo. They
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: let me grunt a little bit.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Describe your pitching approach, your your style, and then what
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: you've seen from Ryan.
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: I think for Ryan throws a lot of shrikes, obviously
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: has crazy stuff, but yeah, I think what makes him
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: great is the fact that he throws four five pitches
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: for shrikes whenever he wants, and when you throw ninety
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: seven and obviously it makes a lot easier.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: I want to ask both of you guys, when you
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: get to come in here. I mean, obviously there's not
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: another lefty in the starting rotation. It's spectacular starting rotation,
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: not necessarily another lefty for you to model yourself after.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: But when you just get to watch these guys that
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: are basically doing it where you guys want to be
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: doing it sooner than later, what is it is there
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: any one thing out of any of these pictures that
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: each one of you guys are taking. You're just like,
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: I love the way that he does that, or I
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: love the way that he does this.
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: I think each picture is unique. But when you look
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: at the starting rotation, they're just they go around, they
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: go about their business just so professionally, and you really
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: admire that. And when you just take things one step
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: at a time, just just really being able to watch
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: them and understanding of what they do is special. Just
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: you kind of can just kind of take that for
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: a grain of salid and just continue to work the come.
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think there's just a common denominator between all
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: of them. Like Kate said, they all go about their
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: business extremely professionally, and then there's just tiny things that
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: separate them. Depending on what they need for their body.
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: They know their bodies extremely well, so just depending on that,
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: they know what they need and they go about their business.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Any of them been a jerk because we'll get on them.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: We'll get on them, don't you worry? Yeah?
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, the pictures that are actually well mariners in general
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: are like just knowing for really good dudes they are.
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: I haven't had one bad experience about any of the
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: guys here.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: It's it's great, It really is great.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: We've got We've been fortunate enough to get to know
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: them a lot. And so how you guys are really
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: in a good position here. They'll take time with you,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: take advantage of it, pick their brains, and you know,
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: it's not like you're asking some old fuddy duddy. They're
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: they're going after the same mission that you two are,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: So take advantage of that.
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: We've gotten really lucky with ye being able to wear
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: a navy and teal every day.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Well, it is a big adjustment for you to go,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: you know, LSU all the way up to the Pacific Northwest.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much time have you had to
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: stomp around in.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: The p and W.
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: I yeah, I've been there a couple of times. Okay,
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: it's beautiful during the summer. I got to go, man,
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: really really beautiful weather and just excited to learn about
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: the city and see what it has to offer.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know nothing can compare to the amazing
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: state of Illinois.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: But how about you.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Have you got to the Pacific Northwest yet?
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: I have?
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: I have?
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: I actually jumped at the opportunity to get out of
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: Chicago this this off season down here in January. But yeah,
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: I've been to c L a couple of times. I
• 41:50
  Speaker 8: was an Everett for the last three or so weeks.
• 41:53
  Speaker 8: I was able to go to a game, was able
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: to go see the city. So I was really great
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: to just be able to get up there and experience everything.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: All right, So all right, what's the I know you
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: guys got to get running, But what's the mission this year?
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Kate? What is the what is the goal for you? Yeah?
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: I think what the marriage are known for dominating the
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: strike zone. Okay, think when you when you have that mindset,
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: it makes things a lot easier on yourself.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Ran, you got a mission statement here for us?
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think for me, just continue refining my routines,
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: continue to refine my mental state. Just keep growing up
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: and maturing and just learning from everyone. Just be able
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: to learn, want to learn day in and day out,
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: and good things are gonna happen.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: He's never gonna win a college World Series, that's right.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: You know that he gonna have those thoughts.
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: Well, he got drafted on a high school.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Pretty cool as well. Gentlemen, great to meet you have
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: a great camp. Enjoy it.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Soak it all up, and we will look forward to
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: watching you develop and grow and get to know you
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: a little better over the years.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Great to meet you here today. I appreciate having Thank
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: you all.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Training coverage continues.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Former Mariner Bucky Jacob said, Chuck Powell with you live
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: from Peoria, and yeah, you never know who you're gonna
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: grab during the break, and so we brought over former
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Mariners center fielder amateur loisure. Uh it is Mike Cameron
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: joins us right here on the program.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: Good to see.
• 43:20
  Speaker 10: You, good, good to be here, guys, appreciate it.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Tell our audience about your winter sports skills.
• 43:26
  Speaker 11: Uh, well, I did that probably. I don't even know
• 43:29
  Speaker 11: if I was started watching the Winter Olympics, but I
• 43:34
  Speaker 11: was going downhills on my skateboard front end and laying
• 43:40
  Speaker 11: down to lose and the skeleton. I did that and
• 43:44
  Speaker 11: I didn't come out. Well, it works out a little
• 43:47
  Speaker 11: bit worse when you're on concrete.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: So I could picture though.
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: On the short track speed skating, I was still packing Quadzilla's.
• 43:56
  Speaker 10: I would love to do that one. I don't know.
• 43:58
  Speaker 10: I don't know if my my.
• 43:59
  Speaker 11: Right lab room would will allow me to do it
• 44:01
  Speaker 11: at this point, But I would love to do I
• 44:04
  Speaker 11: was just watching it right now. I love when they
• 44:05
  Speaker 11: go around when they had the one arm behind their
• 44:07
  Speaker 11: back and they're sliding and trying to stay really.
• 44:10
  Speaker 10: Tight on the on the on the turns. But I
• 44:12
  Speaker 10: could do that.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: I think I could do it all about the butt.
• 44:14
  Speaker 10: It'd be It'd be like a little baby seal out there. Nice.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Uh, well, I want to congratulate you the statue that
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have made of your of your play.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: What what uh your reaction to that?
• 44:32
  Speaker 11: Well, first, I think I took about three seconds before
• 44:36
  Speaker 11: I started crying.
• 44:38
  Speaker 10: Uh. This is something that I didn't expect at all.
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: Guys, when, uh, Mike, when John Stanton called me, I
• 44:47
  Speaker 11: had no idea, Why the heck is John Stanton calling me?
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: Is going to offer me a minority stake and ownership
• 44:53
  Speaker 11: or something? Or did I do something wrong on Twitter?
• 44:57
  Speaker 9: Uh?
• 44:57
  Speaker 10: What is it?
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: And obviously I thought he was gonna maybe wave a
• 45:01
  Speaker 11: five year thing for a blue jacket. But then when
• 45:03
  Speaker 11: you started talking about this seventy five year anniversary and
• 45:07
  Speaker 11: some of the things that are commemorative of the team,
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: and he said, oh, we're gonna give you guys, you
• 45:14
  Speaker 11: know you and maccamore a part of that one picture
• 45:17
  Speaker 11: that you had guys had after ninety eleven, and we
• 45:20
  Speaker 11: clinched that that flag thing I didn't notice, didn't know
• 45:23
  Speaker 11: them symbolism of it to that magnitude. You know, I
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: was cool with the little bobbleheads or whatever, but it
• 45:31
  Speaker 11: has kind of, you know, reformed itself in a sense
• 45:36
  Speaker 11: to the I get a chance, as I stated, you
• 45:38
  Speaker 11: know when we was out for FanFest, to be a
• 45:44
  Speaker 11: little guy from a small town in Georgia to this
• 45:48
  Speaker 11: magnitude five thousand miles away, four thousand miles away or
• 45:51
  Speaker 11: whatever it is from Georgia, to have a symbol of
• 45:55
  Speaker 11: this nature, to be you know, embedded and impacted in
• 45:58
  Speaker 11: the community and along with the baseball club. I don't
• 46:04
  Speaker 11: really have the words for it, because it's it was,
• 46:06
  Speaker 11: it's such a team thing.
• 46:07
  Speaker 10: And I was like, the first thing I asked him, like.
• 46:09
  Speaker 11: Well, how do the other guys feel about it, because
• 46:11
  Speaker 11: you know, Dan Wilson's in the picture, I think lose
• 46:16
  Speaker 11: in the picture, so a couple other guys if I
• 46:18
  Speaker 11: can remember it perfectly. But I've just embraced it, man,
• 46:23
  Speaker 11: because I'm still not really comfortable with that because when
• 46:26
  Speaker 11: you think of statues, you think about the iconic guys
• 46:28
  Speaker 11: are like Griffy and Ichiro and Edgar and those guys
• 46:32
  Speaker 11: like that.
• 46:33
  Speaker 10: But to be a part of this.
• 46:34
  Speaker 11: Community downtown in that area, man, and have someone come
• 46:38
  Speaker 11: by when they're drunk and take a piss.
• 46:39
  Speaker 10: On it, it'd be pretty cool to be able to
• 46:42
  Speaker 10: see yourself, you know, fifty years from now.
• 46:45
  Speaker 11: You know, my grandkids and they grew up and it's like, man,
• 46:49
  Speaker 11: you know, you know Pops, he's uh.
• 46:52
  Speaker 10: You know, very well liked and very known, and this mortalized.
• 46:56
  Speaker 11: I mean, I don't even you know, I kind of
• 46:59
  Speaker 11: written when they when they when they did the press release,
• 47:02
  Speaker 11: I kind of snuck and see what people are going.
• 47:03
  Speaker 10: To say, Well, they didn't win nothing, they didn't do nothing.
• 47:05
  Speaker 10: And I'm just like, hey, man, it's gonna be there
• 47:10
  Speaker 10: for life.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: If you life.
• 47:11
  Speaker 10: If you don't like it, go there and take a
• 47:13
  Speaker 10: pice on it.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well let me see that.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, did you at any point say, well, John,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: I appreciate this, not to be greedy, but I did
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: hit four homers.
• 47:24
  Speaker 9: In one game too.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe we could commemorate.
• 47:27
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think I think this is much bigger than
• 47:30
  Speaker 11: the four home run thing. Man, to be as you stated,
• 47:34
  Speaker 11: be it immortalized in this this this type of moment,
• 47:37
  Speaker 11: and to be able to hopefully be here to see
• 47:40
  Speaker 11: it and have some of my people said my my
• 47:43
  Speaker 11: step mom, my mom passed away here right before the
• 47:47
  Speaker 11: New Year, and I was gonna tell about it, and
• 47:51
  Speaker 11: I didn't get a chance to tell about it because
• 47:53
  Speaker 11: we had to keep it under the wraps for a while.
• 47:55
  Speaker 11: But man, I'm ecstatic, you know, to be at a
• 47:59
  Speaker 11: part of and you know, just to be able to
• 48:02
  Speaker 11: celebrate it with some family and just to know about
• 48:05
  Speaker 11: you know that I'm a part of this, you know,
• 48:09
  Speaker 11: history in the franchise, Be a part of this history
• 48:12
  Speaker 11: and franchise history, and man, like I just have sincere
• 48:19
  Speaker 11: gratitude in that space because you just don't get these
• 48:24
  Speaker 11: type of things no anywhere. When you think about statues
• 48:26
  Speaker 11: of people, you think about historic feats and different things
• 48:30
  Speaker 11: that they've accomplished.
• 48:30
  Speaker 10: And I just played baseball, you know what I'm saying.
• 48:33
  Speaker 10: So this is.
• 48:34
  Speaker 11: Pretty spectacular in their right, and I'm happy to be
• 48:38
  Speaker 11: able to, like I said, be able to witness this
• 48:41
  Speaker 11: happening in September. It's going to be really cool, man,
• 48:44
  Speaker 11: I'm really excited about seeing something like this.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, ye, you're right, man.
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: And ultimately that was that point in time and for
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: our country was crazy and it was how it was nuts.
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: How baseball, I mean you were part of the sport. Yeah,
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: that kind of brought everybody back to together, you know,
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: in a time after a time of tragedy like that.
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: So I mean as far as bringing everybody back together,
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: everybody's back together here as free training and after last
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: year great run and yet just barely coming up short
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: of you know, getting to the fall classic. What's your
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: overarching feel when you walk in this building? Is it
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: a lot more confident than last year at this time?
• 49:21
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think there's a little bit also more of
• 49:27
  Speaker 11: the expects expectancy of what after you experienced something and
• 49:32
  Speaker 11: you fall so short. I've done it on a couple
• 49:35
  Speaker 11: occasions here and understand it from that nature, man. And
• 49:39
  Speaker 11: to be literally maybe a pitch or two away from
• 49:44
  Speaker 11: you know, having the Seattle Mariners in their first World
• 49:48
  Speaker 11: Series and you know, in their lifetime and obviously it's
• 49:51
  Speaker 11: like now you're getting an open canvas all over again.
• 49:54
  Speaker 10: You got to start back building it up.
• 49:56
  Speaker 11: You know, framing it up, pitching, uh, painting it up,
• 49:59
  Speaker 11: how however you want to do it, the decorations of
• 50:02
  Speaker 11: it over the course of a long season, and you
• 50:04
  Speaker 11: know that, you know some of the things that happen
• 50:06
  Speaker 11: over the course of a long season and the expectancy.
• 50:09
  Speaker 11: So I think guys are excited about that opportunity and
• 50:13
  Speaker 11: some of the players they've brought in to solidify some position.
• 50:16
  Speaker 11: You have some young players that are going to probably
• 50:19
  Speaker 11: get an opportunity to be a part of what it's
• 50:22
  Speaker 11: to be expected. And not only that, you know, like
• 50:25
  Speaker 11: as you get better, other teams get better too.
• 50:27
  Speaker 10: So the.
• 50:31
  Speaker 11: Mindset of that is like, Okay, let's see what we
• 50:34
  Speaker 11: stack up at and let's make a run at it again,
• 50:36
  Speaker 11: see where we come out at. Because in the end
• 50:39
  Speaker 11: of the day, man like, it's really hard to win
• 50:43
  Speaker 11: constantly on baseball and the game it seems to be
• 50:47
  Speaker 11: getting a little bit more difficult with all of the
• 50:51
  Speaker 11: analytics and everything else where they pinpoint all the different
• 50:55
  Speaker 11: things that you do as a player, and so it
• 50:58
  Speaker 11: makes it more difficult to score runs and to get hits.
• 51:01
  Speaker 10: And everything else.
• 51:02
  Speaker 11: So you know, guys are you know, coming up with
• 51:04
  Speaker 11: ways to try to get an edge or an advantage
• 51:06
  Speaker 11: in that situation as a player yourself, the growth of
• 51:10
  Speaker 11: the player. There's just so many different aspects that come
• 51:13
  Speaker 11: across the season. You know, second year guys trying to
• 51:20
  Speaker 11: prove that they still can they can do it again.
• 51:23
  Speaker 11: You got veteran players still proving that I can do it.
• 51:26
  Speaker 11: You got young young, younger guys coming in and just
• 51:30
  Speaker 11: trying to find their way and trying to find their
• 51:32
  Speaker 11: niche and their fit amongst the team.
• 51:35
  Speaker 10: And then it's just you know.
• 51:36
  Speaker 11: Just the expectation of the city, expectation of the ball club,
• 51:41
  Speaker 11: expectation of the league in itself that you start to
• 51:45
  Speaker 11: put those things in place, and then you got to
• 51:48
  Speaker 11: try to figure out where you are and just go
• 51:50
  Speaker 11: play ball and see what you match up with with
• 51:53
  Speaker 11: some of the best in the game.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, in our last minute here or two,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: give me somebody that's standing out to.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: You at camp so far.
• 52:01
  Speaker 11: Well, you know, so this is my first day, but
• 52:03
  Speaker 11: obviously I know a lot of guys I'm very very
• 52:08
  Speaker 11: interested in to see in a healthy Johnny Ferrari from Mellow,
• 52:12
  Speaker 11: I mean, that's like one of my guys I want
• 52:14
  Speaker 11: to see, you know, how these guys are gonna get
• 52:16
  Speaker 11: a lot of opportunities with the World Baseball classes coming
• 52:19
  Speaker 11: up and so many guys leaving, so they're gonna it's
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: going to create a lot of opportunities in that light.
• 52:26
  Speaker 11: And I think, you know, so it's going to be
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: interested to see how these guys start to formulate their
• 52:33
  Speaker 11: careers approaching the major league level in that sense, and
• 52:37
  Speaker 11: so and I'm sure there's some other guys I'm you know,
• 52:41
  Speaker 11: still like learning a few other new names and everything.
• 52:44
  Speaker 11: But you know, the eyes don't never lie, so you know,
• 52:47
  Speaker 11: you get a chance to see it from that perspective myself.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Pretty great that you're a World Series contender and at
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: the same time you have so many exciting young players
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: for the future. I mean, that is a hard thing
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: and Made League Baseball to achieve, but this organization's done it.
• 53:02
  Speaker 10: Yeah, no doubt about it.
• 53:04
  Speaker 11: You know, it's been kind of knocking on the door
• 53:06
  Speaker 11: here for the last few years and just kind of
• 53:09
  Speaker 11: bridging the gap between the veteran players and some of
• 53:13
  Speaker 11: the younger guys, in which I think, like I mean,
• 53:15
  Speaker 11: we're still talking about the oldest guys in the locker
• 53:19
  Speaker 11: room are still eight or nine year eight nine year
• 53:22
  Speaker 11: veterans if anything, you know. So, uh, that is something
• 53:26
  Speaker 11: that has been very bright here in Seattle to be
• 53:31
  Speaker 11: able to.
• 53:31
  Speaker 10: See it, and it creates a lot of excitement.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 53:35
  Speaker 10: You know. The one thing that I think that people
• 53:39
  Speaker 10: tend to forget.
• 53:39
  Speaker 11: We put so much height in this perspective of prospects
• 53:45
  Speaker 11: and there still is a lot of mature, a meturation
• 53:48
  Speaker 11: process and growth in the person and the player itself
• 53:52
  Speaker 11: to be able to play this game.
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 53:56
  Speaker 10: So you know, and we talk about this a lot.
• 53:59
  Speaker 11: You know, just have and some grace for some young guys,
• 54:01
  Speaker 11: because sometimes this computer will hype a person up so
• 54:05
  Speaker 11: much that that doesn't happen in a short short period.
• 54:10
  Speaker 11: They are already labeled that, you know, they're not prospects
• 54:13
  Speaker 11: or whatever it may be. And that's one of the
• 54:15
  Speaker 11: biggest things I can always contest to that because you know,
• 54:18
  Speaker 11: I was wondering, wasn't one of the top prospect and
• 54:21
  Speaker 11: then all of a sudden I hit a three year
• 54:22
  Speaker 11: spurt where it's like, oh, he's a top prospect and
• 54:24
  Speaker 11: he's this and he's that, and like, okay, he doing
• 54:26
  Speaker 11: the big leagues and it's like, can you do it over? Again,
• 54:28
  Speaker 11: and it's there's just so much and that you know,
• 54:31
  Speaker 11: I made it to the big leads at twenty two.
• 54:32
  Speaker 11: A lot of these guys getting here at you know,
• 54:35
  Speaker 11: twenty yeah, you know, twenty one, twenty two or some
• 54:39
  Speaker 11: of some of the guys, and it's just like man
• 54:41
  Speaker 11: like man. I remember I was an a ball at
• 54:43
  Speaker 11: twenty years old. These guys are here in big league camp,
• 54:46
  Speaker 11: so you know, just to get that opportunity to go
• 54:48
  Speaker 11: ahead and and get that experience is pretty immaculate in
• 54:53
  Speaker 11: that right.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: You're a guy from elegance to just operate under the radar,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: you know, because of all the other things of shiny
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: objects him. Hey, great to see your congratulations on the
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: honor on the statue. I'm glad we got to put
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: you on the air here today. Have fun here at
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: spring training and we'll chat with you down the line.
• 55:10
  Speaker 10: Definitely, I appreciate it. Guys.
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: All right, Mike.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Cameron joining us right here on Chucking Back in the morning.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: We'll continue next Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: We're here to talk about America's favorite pastime. It's time
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: to talk some Mariners baseball, and joining us here at
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: the set is the voice of summer around these here
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: parts in Seattle.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: It is Rick RaSE.
• 55:35
  Speaker 9: Good to see you, sir, Chuck, great to see you,
• 55:38
  Speaker 9: and Buck, it's nice to be down here at spring training.
• 55:40
  Speaker 9: Got in yesterday afternoon and seeing the guys working out
• 55:45
  Speaker 9: and get on field one and field two, and it's
• 55:48
  Speaker 9: a brand new season and it just continues. And tell
• 55:51
  Speaker 9: you what, it's gonna be a heck of a here.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a heck of a year.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: But we're all gonna know that it's gonna be your
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: last year, as that has been made public saying so rich, so.
• 56:01
  Speaker 9: No, this is this is going to be it. You know,
• 56:04
  Speaker 9: fifty two years in baseball, eight years in the minor leagues,
• 56:07
  Speaker 9: forty three of the big leagues, and this is something
• 56:10
  Speaker 9: that I've been thinking about for the last couple of years.
• 56:13
  Speaker 9: And Gregreen and I said, down my boss and Kevin Martinez.
• 56:17
  Speaker 9: Of course, I've worked for the greatest bosses in the world,
• 56:19
  Speaker 9: and I thought, you know, after you know, all this time,
• 56:23
  Speaker 9: forty plus years with the ball club, I need to
• 56:26
  Speaker 9: spend more time at home with my grandkids are getting older.
• 56:28
  Speaker 9: They're twenty seventeen and the little girls eleven. A little
• 56:31
  Speaker 9: figure skater. She wants to be an Olympics one day,
• 56:33
  Speaker 9: and I think she's going to But I just need
• 56:36
  Speaker 9: to slow down a little bit. But I'm not going anywhere.
• 56:38
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna still stick around, still make my home in Azequah,
• 56:41
  Speaker 9: and I've got a place down here, but I've rented out.
• 56:44
  Speaker 9: I'll use it for six weeks. I'll come down here
• 56:46
  Speaker 9: during the spring. I still want to do things for
• 56:48
  Speaker 9: the organization if they'll have me, and you know, talk
• 56:51
  Speaker 9: with season ticket holders and the people up in the
• 56:53
  Speaker 9: suites and still be an ambassador for the ball club.
• 56:56
  Speaker 9: But I'm really looking forward to this season. It's going
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: to be a great year.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: It is going to be a great year.
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: But I mean, yeah, I was when I found out
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: that you were going to decide to spend some more
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: time at home with your grandkids and step down from the.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: Position I've gotten to watch.
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: I started realizing, I don't know for sure if there's
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: anybody that has bridged the gap between my youth as
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: a Mariner fan through you know, my days as short
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: as they were of playing as a Mariner fan to
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: now as a guy covering the team and doing this,
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: and so the end of an era is an understatement
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: in my opinion. So thanks for everything you've done, and
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: I'm glad you are.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: Still thank you.
• 57:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, over forty three years, you get a
• 57:37
  Speaker 9: chance to see kids get to the big legs and
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: have a big league career like you did, and you know,
• 57:45
  Speaker 9: go on to other things. It's great to see, you know,
• 57:48
  Speaker 9: the different stories. And that's what's what's great about this game.
• 57:51
  Speaker 9: You get to know these kids. You know, I see
• 57:54
  Speaker 9: a young man come over from Japan in two thousand
• 57:57
  Speaker 9: and one and turn into one of the greatest players
• 57:59
  Speaker 9: the game of baseball.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: And here he is.
• 58:02
  Speaker 9: He's working out right now, each row, never stop stretching. No, no,
• 58:05
  Speaker 9: I mean he could get in the game here on
• 58:07
  Speaker 9: Friday and get himself a base at the left field
• 58:10
  Speaker 9: like there's no tomorrow. But that's what I love about
• 58:12
  Speaker 9: this game. It's the people, the stories. Here's Tucker, the
• 58:16
  Speaker 9: team dog, and you know he's SIT's with me and
• 58:19
  Speaker 9: everybody else at breakfast time because we all, Hey, Tuck,
• 58:22
  Speaker 9: how you doing, buddy, because I got a piece of bacon.
• 58:24
  Speaker 9: He's your best buddy. But he's a great dog. But
• 58:28
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna miss it. I'm going to take in. Everything's
• 58:31
  Speaker 9: going to be hiding every I'm going to take in
• 58:33
  Speaker 9: every drop of this season, do it and take a
• 58:35
  Speaker 9: mental slapshot of the places I go, you know, on
• 58:38
  Speaker 9: the road only four road trip. Don't gonna really kick
• 58:40
  Speaker 9: back this year on the road. But it's it's gonna
• 58:43
  Speaker 9: be a great season because I believe Danny Wilson coaching
• 58:47
  Speaker 9: to Derry to Poto to Hi talk, how you doing, buddy,
• 58:50
  Speaker 9: have put together a team that can get this team
• 58:52
  Speaker 9: to the postseason and well beyond.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you called this guy's games too, did you? Did
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: you get to read the article he wrote about.
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: Yes, and it was beautiful. Thank you, Thank you so much.
• 59:06
  Speaker 9: I really appreciate you, know what you wrote to you
• 59:08
  Speaker 9: know about you know, our relationship and what we both mean,
• 59:13
  Speaker 9: what everybody means, you know, to the organization. So it
• 59:17
  Speaker 9: was beautiful. You should have been a writer, buddy. Yeah,
• 59:19
  Speaker 9: I think I text you. Yeah, yeah you did text me.
• 59:21
  Speaker 9: But there's no I didn't want I don't want to
• 59:23
  Speaker 9: be right. It takes a whole heck of a lot
• 59:24
  Speaker 9: of time, and plus I can only write about things.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: That I actually care about, and I do care about you.
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: I care about what you mean to this organization and
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: to me personally as a kid. I mean it just
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: I can remember hating, absolutely hating Saturday or Sunday mornings
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: when I would wake up and Mom had a certain
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: set of clothes on her work her lawn care clothes,
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: because I knew that meant before I could go ride
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: my bikes or go play with the ball, I had
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: to go outside.
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: And pull a whole bunch of weeks.
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: But the nice thing was is after I would procrastinate,
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: I would basically procrastinate until the Mariner game would start,
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: and then I'd turn it on, listened to you and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: Dave paint the picture of what was going on in
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: the Maria game. And so it made what was essentially
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 5: torture for me, it made it somewhat enjoyable and a
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 5: good memory now, yeah, great memory now. And yeah there's
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: there's Yeah, you wouldn't take I wouldn't take it back
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: for the world.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 9: So well, I could still see a little Bucky Jacobson
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 9: the pride of Hermiston, Oregon watermelon capital of the world. Right, yep,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 9: that's but yeah, that's that's the impact that we have,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 9: you know, on communities and people that listened because I
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 9: remember as a kid growing up in Chicago listening to
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 9: Jack Brickhouse, you know, six years old, nineteen fifty nine,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 9: I'm listening to the Cubs and listening to the White Sox.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 9: White Sox went to the World Series, you know, in
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 9: nineteen fifty nine, lost in the six games of the Dodgers.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 9: But I remember how Jack brick House, Lloyd Petted, Blue Boudreau,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 9: Bob Elson, you know, brought the game alive to me
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 9: and I could see Comiskey Park in Chicago or Wrigley
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 9: Field on the North Side. You know, yeah, I think
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 9: we have that impact in Daveney House. You know, without him,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 9: I wouldn't be here. He was the greatest thing that
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 9: ever happened to me in my career, got me here
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 9: in nineteen eighty three. But he was the greatest storyteller
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 9: of all time, of all time, and he's in the
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 9: Hall of Fame. That's That's all you need to do about,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 9: mister Kneehouse.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: And I went and Dave and you I did the impact.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, you are you know that voice
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: that I mean I had it growing up in Saint Louis.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: I had Jack Buck and you know, hey, kid, I
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: got to meet him one.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: Day, did an internship at cam Ox and uh, all right.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: He thought I was his daughter Julie's boyfriend at the time.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: And he was so confused, you hated my daughter? Are
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: you hating my daughter? Yeah?
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 10: G A you g h t e R.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 9: Did you do a good jack bug buddy?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: I had plenty of practice, you know.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: I did my Fannon curvy curving fair. Uh so that's
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: what I grew up with. But uh, yeah, you're a
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: part of that. The people that you've impacted is just
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: a remarkable What a remarkable.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: Career you've had.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: So congratulations on it, and we do urge you to
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: soak up every drop this year. It's gonna be uh
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a fun year. And I know you
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: want to talk about this team, So let's talk about
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: this team.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it feels to me like we're there.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: There's an attitude of yeah, yeah, we're done chasing the Astros.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah we're the team to beat. Now come get us.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's the attitude, you know. I was talking to
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 9: Danny Wilson earlier this morning when he met with the media,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 9: which was Daniel Kramer and Ryan Diffison, myself and Uh,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 9: you know, there's uh, there's a quite confidence in the
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 9: plume house, Yes, knowing that they can get back there.
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  Speaker 9: They they got there last year, eight outs away from
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 9: the World Series. I think they're better right now than
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 9: they were at the end of last season. You know,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 9: Brian wo is healthy. They really missed him right at
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 9: the end of the year. And they didn't have Logan
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 9: Gilbert for two months early in the season, George Kirby
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 9: for two months, and Bryce Miller you know, battled the
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 9: you know, the LB issues, but he came back at
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 9: the end of the year. And uh, and now you've
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 9: got a team that's that's built to go the whole way.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 9: They have a chance to win this whole thing. And
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 9: and they believe that, and that belief is so powerful
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 9: in the game of baseball, and getting as close as
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 9: they did, they know that, Okay, we know how to
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 9: get here. Now, we know how to get through, you know,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 9: the American League Championship Series and get the fan base,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 9: you know, to the World Series for the first time.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 9: And this we our ball club, which is our fiftieth season.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 9: But there's abundance of you know, confidence in that clubhouse,
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  Speaker 9: and this team is just ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it just makes sense.
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  Speaker 5: Fiftieth season, I'll start making those little rubber wrist bands
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: that win it for Riza World Series. For the fans, yeah, well,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 5: and a fan just as much as everybody else too.
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  Speaker 3: You've watched more games than any fans have.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean, I just I think that there is
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: something about the where they went last year and almost
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 5: a une settle feeling of Okay, we're going beyond that
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: right now. There's how much further that you can go
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: beyond that besides getting to the Fall Classic and then
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: winning it. So to me, what I feel like is
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: the best thing. If you were going to say this
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 5: team for better, you got Josh Naylor for the full seat.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: You know, obviously Cal Rawley back majority of the nucleus
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: of this team, back the pitch starting staff. But if
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: you're just sitting there thinking about, Okay, what is the
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: thing you're going to be watching the most over the
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: next six weeks before they break camp, what's the thing
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 5: that you're most interested in watching.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 9: It's the same thing, believe it or not, Bucky and
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 9: Chuck every year. I love watching the kids, you know,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 9: because you know who's going to be the short stop
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 9: Jape Crawford. Cal Raley's coming off the greatest season in
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 9: the history of Major League Baseball for a catcher. How
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 9: he didn't win the MVP Award.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: We could discuss that for the next hour, and maybe
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 9: we will. Yeah, sixty old runs, you know, more than
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 9: any catcher, more than any DH, more than any Briner
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 9: in history. And I didn't have a pass ball all
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 9: year long.
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  Speaker 3: You should be in the Hall of Fame right now
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: for that, you know.
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  Speaker 9: But the answer your question, I'd love doing the same
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 9: thing every year, watching the kids.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 9: I'll go down to the lower fields. Were sitting outside
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 9: the clubhouse right now, and off to my leftters field
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 9: one and two. I go down to three of the fields, three, four, five,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 9: and six, and I'll go up to a coach or
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 9: a manager said who should I look at here? Five
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 9: years ago I went down there to field five and
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 9: I can't remember who the coach was. I said, who
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 9: should I look at her? He said, look at that
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 9: outfielder out there, Julio Rodriguez. And then I watched him.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 9: I go, wow, you know this kid is going to
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 9: be something. He's pretty good. And he turned out to
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 9: be the best center fielder in the America League right now,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 9: and I think he's going to win an MVP Award
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 9: real soon. But that's what I like to do in
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 9: this organization. Jerry Depoto, Justin Hollander, Scott Hunter. They've got
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 9: one of the best farm systems again in baseball. But
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 9: think what they did over the last seven or eight years,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 9: getting Logan Gilbert in the first round in twenty eighteen,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 9: George Kirby in the first round out of Elon University
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 9: in twenty nineteen, Emerson Hancock in the first round of
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 9: twenty two, twenty, Bryce Miller fourth round, Brian Rose sixth
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 9: round in twenty twenty one, and then Kate Anderson last
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 9: year in the first round, and the other guys that
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 9: they've you know, drafted out of high school.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: And I love.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 9: Watching Cole Emerson a first round pick and Cole Young
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 9: a first round pick, and how these kids are battling
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 9: for a job Ryan Bliss along with Ryan at second base.
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  Speaker 9: So that's what I'd love to do and tell those
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 9: stories of the kids and how they got here. I
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 9: remember in nineteen eighty seven when we drafted a seventeen
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 9: year old kid out of high school, by the named
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 9: Ken Griffith Junior. And he made the ball club in
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 9: nineteen eighty nine as a nineteen year old kid. And
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 9: to me, those are still the greatest stories.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 9: Here at spring training. You know, cal Rawley is going
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 9: to be the starting catcher. You know, the starting five
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 9: in that rotation is maybe the best starting five in
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 9: all of baseball. But I love seeing the kids come
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 9: through and see them develop and see how they get better,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 9: and see when they're going to make the team. Because
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 9: they're going to make the team sometime in the near future.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 9: It's just a matter of when.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: How excited are you about Brendan Donovan adding him to
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: this team?
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: What do you think he brings to the table.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 9: Chuck, I just talked to him about five minutes ago.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 9: It's very nice, great kid, you know. And he had
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 9: his backpack and he had bat sticking out in the
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 9: glove and he was walking towards field one and he
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 9: stopped and we talked for ten minutes, you know, and
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 9: I said, welcome to the organization. You're going to love
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 9: it here. He says, family's a big thing for me.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 9: He's got a two year old baby and now one
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 9: on the way. Do in August. He has made his
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 9: home in Alabama. His dad was in the military flu
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 9: Blackhawk helicopters, and you know, he's got that discipline, that
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 9: military discipline.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: He said.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 9: He loves the game of baseball. Moved around a lot
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 9: as a kid. I go, okay, that's what you do
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 9: in baseball. But he's happy to be here, happy to
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 9: be you know, going to third base, you know, right now,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 9: and gives the ball club an All Star and a
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 9: Gold Glove defensive player who hit for an average to
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 9: eighty seven. He says, I play like my hair is
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 9: on fire. And I love that. Bucky that too, with
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 9: your beard on fire. Yeah, with your beard on fire.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 9: But what a great addition. But they were able to
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 9: do that to get a Josh Naylor and a Suarez
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 9: last year, a Luis Castillo in twenty twenty two, and
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 9: a Brendan Donovan this year because they had the farm
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 9: system to do it. They had the kids talent enough
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 9: with the other organizations to give up these still talented
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 9: veteran type players in order to make these deals. They
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 9: had the farm system to get a Brendan Donovan from
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 9: the Saint Louis Cardinals. So I can't wait to see
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 9: what he does for this ball club.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 5: I can't wait to see somebody wear the number thirty
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 5: three they can actually hit it. Seems like it's been
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: a while since we've had anybody.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Wear that number. They can actually swing it. That was
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: my number.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you remember who we've had Sebby Zavola was that
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 5: one of the I think maybe back in thirty three.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 5: So I'm just happy to see somebody who can swing
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: it wear my number again last year, I mean Josh
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 5: Naylor or this offseason they end up re signing Josh Naylor.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: He obviously loves Seattle huge. Seattle loves him.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, I mean in the half of a season that
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 5: you got to watch him and in a postseason. What
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: is it that you like most about this guy? Because
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: to me, the old school play, the player that he.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: Seems to be.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 9: I love the one thing that stands out. He loves
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 9: a game of baseball. You know, he loves putting on
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 9: a you know, apartment, get out there and competing, and
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 9: he just sees the game differently. You know, he sees
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 9: all the little things to get an edge offensively on
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 9: how to hit a pitcher. But you know, we were
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 9: talking during FanFest and this is a guy who isn't
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 9: built like a bastealer, but he stole thirty bases last year.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 9: He was nineteen for nineteen when he came over, you know,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 9: in the deal from the Arizona diamonbacks wasn't thrown out
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 9: at all, you know. And and we were talking about
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 9: one particular picture, and I said, you know, I talked
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 9: to Ricky Henderson, you know, the greatest base stealer of
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 9: all time, when he was here for Glorious ninety two
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 9: days back in two thousand and I asked Ricky, I said,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 9: what do you look for when you know you can
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 9: go on a pitcher, right handed hitter, right handed pitcher.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 9: Rather if his elbow flared up a little bit, he
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 9: was going home plate. If it dipped down a little bit,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 9: he was coming back to first base. I said, what
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 9: do you look for? He said there was one particular pitcher,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 9: and he didn't mention his name, but he blew bubbles,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 9: not an actual bubble, but his cheeks would blow out
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 9: when he threw a fastball. So as soon as I
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 9: saw his cheeks start to flare out a little bit,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 9: I took off. I go, that's brilliant intel you know,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 9: but that's the guy who wants to get better. What
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 9: am I looking at in the conversations that you have
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 9: in the dugout, during the game or before the ballgame?
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 9: Certain you know you're going to face a certain picture.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 9: It's information like that that you glean that makes you
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 9: a better ball player. Ninety feet is the difference between
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 9: winning and losing, you know, in a close ballgame. And
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 9: this guy stole thirty bases last year as a first baseman,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 9: and of course he can hit and drive the ball
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 9: out of the ballpark like you did in the ALCS
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 9: against the Toronto Blue Jays. What a great addition, and
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 9: very quickly they got him resigned and that was huge.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: I started calling him Picky Henderson last year.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, a little out of the thicker side than Ricky,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 9: but he's still.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: Last year.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 9: Yeah, give you a few tips, Yeah like that. Hey,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 9: you know what, stealing his greatest form of flattery or
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 9: something like that.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: Did you get an opportunity to stand in front of
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: the team and say you better win the World Series
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: this year?
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: It's my last year, get it done.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 9: No will that happened, But but you know.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: Have you allowed yourself to think about.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 9: That, like men, no doubt about it.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: This happened.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 9: I thought about that one after the last it was made.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 9: You know, last year, in Game seven of the American
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 9: League Championship Series, I said, this club is going to
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 9: be back here. They're going to be back in the
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 9: World Series. And I believe in my heart they have
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 9: the team to win it. And uh, you know, they
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 9: believe that in that clubhouse. And that's like I said
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 9: earlier that it's the most powerful thing is is believing.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 9: They believe in each and every guy that's next to
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 9: him in the clubhouse. And yeah, they it's like unfinished business. Okay,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 9: we got this far last year. Now foul that. Let's go.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 9: Let's get it done this year. And they're going to you.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 5: I don't think you've got to see a bunch of
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 5: Colt Emerson obviously. I mean, you just got a little
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 5: bit of time at Triple A. But you've seen him
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 5: in spring training. I mean, the dude looks, he looks
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 5: the part. You've got to watch Cole Young in his
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: major league debut season last year, and so when you're
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 5: watching those two young guys, I mean, having watched baseball
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: for fifty plus years like you have do. They both
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: look like guys that are going to be able to
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 5: help this team this season at some point in time,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 5: whether it's at the beginning or midway or all the way.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 9: No doubt about it, Bucket. You know, both first round
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 9: picks out of high school, you know, so talented. They
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 9: can help out at second base, but they also can
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 9: move around. Both can play shortstops as a kid. I'm
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 9: sure there were shortstops in Little league, in high school.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 9: You know, they definitely can help out this ball club.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 9: That's going to be I think the biggest battle on
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 9: this team is his second base. Pretty much rest the
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 9: i't field. The infield is all set, but who's going
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 9: to play second base? And I was talking to Dan
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 9: Wilson about that, you know this morning. Where are the
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 9: battles if any end on this ball club that's second base.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 9: Don't forget Ryan Bliss too, because he was our starting
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 9: second basement last year. He got hurt bicep ten and
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 9: his shoulder and everything. So you got Bliss, you got
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 9: Cole Young, you got Colt Emerson, and eventually, you know,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 9: all these guys are going to help out the ball
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 9: club during the course of this season and for a
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 9: long time after this year. But great love for the
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 9: game of baseball. He's excited, and he said, and he's
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 9: got a great sensibility about where he's at. He's only twenty,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 9: he said. Even if I go to Double A this year,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 9: which he's not going to. He finished up at Triple
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 9: A and in the postseason last year. But he said,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 9: if I end up at Double A baseball, he said,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 9: I'm only twenty. I know I'm going to get there.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 9: I know I have the ability to get there. I
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 9: know what I have to do to get better. And
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 9: with that kind of attitude, you know this kid is
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 9: gonna be successful. Cole Young, I'm sure feels the same way.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 9: This kid came up in May of last year and
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 9: did a heck of a job. So it's gonna be
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 9: fun watching that second base position this spring.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I know that I have given you the advice
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: to soak it all up this year, So I'm gonna
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: just say to close out our conversation, I think I'm
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: gonna give that advice to all Mariner fans. Soak it
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: all up this year. Rick Riz, you know the last
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: chapter and is the legendary play by play broadcasting career.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: We're not gonna hear.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: It won't be the last that we hear from you.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: I know that we'll see year round, but you've made
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: it official. This will be your last year calling game.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: So if you don't mind, we're gonna.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: Soak it all up.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 9: All right, Thank you, Buck. It's always a pleasure visit
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 9: with you guys. You do it's a tremendous job. And
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 9: I'll tell you what, this is gonna be an outstanding season.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 9: I'm going to enjoy every drop. I was just talking
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 9: to somebody. I think it was Franklin Goodiers. I'm just
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 9: everything's heightened already. This is my first day of the spring,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 9: you know, this year, I'm just gonna take everything in,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 9: take a mental snapshot and pictures as well. But this
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 9: has been the greatest joy of my life. Is to
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 9: be around the game of baseball all my life and
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 9: to say I've been a Mariner for forty one years
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 9: has been a complete blessing. So it's gonna it's gonna
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 9: be fun. Thank you, my friend, Thank you, Chuck. All right,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 9: luck you did it right, you buddy. Thank you.
• 1:15:26
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