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Furness Show 5-15: Anders and Jess in! Danny O'Neil and Ty Dane Gonzalez · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now from the Star Rentals Sports to us ORD ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three JJRFM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Sports headlines are brought to you by Frost Brewed Coors
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  Speaker 2: Light Choose Chill. The NFL official schedule release took place
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  Speaker 2: last night at five o'clock, and a lot of what
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  Speaker 2: our own softy Chopper Maler predicted did come true. The
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks schedule features a franchise record six primetime games, including
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  Speaker 2: five at Lumenfield and a week eleven by that's six
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  Speaker 2: primetime technically, even though the seventh is a standalone game
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  Speaker 2: against Philadelphia in Philadelphia and thank you, Chopper nine to fifty.
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  Speaker 2: They'll open the twenty twenty six NFL season with the
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday night game against the New England Patriots, their opponent
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  Speaker 2: in Super Bowl sixty, and they'll end the regular season
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  Speaker 2: in Los Angeles to face the Rams, the team they
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  Speaker 2: beat in the NFC Championship Game. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 2: a coincidence. The defending champs will play a total of
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  Speaker 2: ten games against teams that reached the postseason, two each
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  Speaker 2: against the Rams and forty nine Ers, as well as
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  Speaker 2: games against the Patriots, Panthers, Bears, Eagles, Broncos and Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: No international games at the Seahawks, which is awesome. The
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  Speaker 2: NFL's pushed back on criticism of midweek games as well
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  Speaker 2: as those that are streams, saying that they're following fan
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  Speaker 2: interest in scheduling a Wednesday night opener featuring the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: and Patriots.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about how many fans would be interested
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  Speaker 2: in a Wednesday night game, but.
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  Speaker 4: They will make more money. That's all they care about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they will make money and that's all they care about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: there we go. So following fan interest means following the dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough, that's what that means. I think I agree
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  Speaker 2: with that sentiment as well. Mareners went their series against
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  Speaker 2: the Astros, finishing that one with an eight to three
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  Speaker 2: finals score. During the getaway game yesterday, Luis Castillo a
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  Speaker 2: bounced back effort when five and two thirds given up
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  Speaker 2: four hits, three earned runs, three walks and striking out six.
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  Speaker 2: Mitch Garver and Luke Rayley both went yard. They win
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  Speaker 2: the series three to one. The team is back at home,
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  Speaker 2: hosting the Five Days tonight for another shot at the
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  Speaker 2: defending the Vetter Cup six forty first pitch we also
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  Speaker 2: learned yesterday that cal Rawly was sent to the ten
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  Speaker 2: dail with an oblique strain, and apparently World Cup ticket
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  Speaker 2: prices are falling for the games in Seattle. Might want
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  Speaker 2: to get on that if you're interested in attending. Two
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  Speaker 2: time major champion John Rahm apologized for hitting a volunteer
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  Speaker 2: with a divot after he took a swing in frustration
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  Speaker 2: during the first round of the one hundred and eighth
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  Speaker 2: PGA Championship yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Let's get rolling.
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  Speaker 2: We have a giant I infness sized hole in the
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  Speaker 2: show today, yes, and we'll try and fill that void
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  Speaker 2: as much as possible.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I definitely knew what that reference was referring to.
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  Speaker 6: I'm really glad because I actually got a little nervous
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  Speaker 6: that all of a sudden it would be Graham over here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, taking care of grandson. But it's iconic.
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  Speaker 5: It is iconic. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we were helped out by Jackson furious
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  Speaker 2: Felts yesterday. I can't wait to hear that impression once
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  Speaker 2: again at some point. But you know, he big time
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  Speaker 2: us once again. He gets called up to the big
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  Speaker 2: leagues to co host with me. And then he's going
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  Speaker 2: to do it for the afternoon show right after that.
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  Speaker 2: I guess they really liked what he provided to the
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  Speaker 2: show yesterday. So now it's just me and Jess. The
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  Speaker 2: Big two no longer the Big three of Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: ninety three point three.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, which ones are we? If we were going big three?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm going back to old school in Miami Street.
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  Speaker 6: I think Ian's Lebron, right, yeah, so, uh you.
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  Speaker 5: You wouldn't like that, but yes, I probably do.
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  Speaker 7: You Wade.
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  Speaker 2: I like the Wade a lot, Okay, because I like Chris,
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  Speaker 2: But okay, great, perfect.
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  Speaker 5: I think that works out really really well.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm trying to think of a scenario where there
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  Speaker 2: was a big three and then one of them left
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  Speaker 2: and then there was just a big two. That's That's
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  Speaker 2: where I'm trying. There is something like that text line
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  Speaker 2: help us out, please, because I know there's something basketball, football, anything. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: there was a big three, one of them left and
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  Speaker 2: it ended up being a big two.
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  Speaker 6: You could go with the Legion of Boom because they
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  Speaker 6: had a constantly rotating big four. The fourth that was
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  Speaker 6: constantly being replaced was it Byron Maxwell was the first
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  Speaker 6: to go. He got a huge contract elsewhere after the
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  Speaker 6: Super Bowl and that well Brandon Browner obviously was one
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  Speaker 6: of them as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah bye.
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  Speaker 6: But anyway, yeah, that position turned over. So but the
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  Speaker 6: Big three between Earl Cam and Sherm sure State. So
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  Speaker 6: I would put that one in that category.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little harder with football just because the rosters
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  Speaker 2: are so big.
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  Speaker 5: I'm thinking, like you're talking.
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  Speaker 4: About like five yeah, or.
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  Speaker 5: Baseball yeah yeah, yeah, hockey or something. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: There's this scenario out there.
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  Speaker 8: I know it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just not remembering it at the time.
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  Speaker 4: We rely on our brilliant listening.
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  Speaker 2: In our text line. Yeah, please help us out there
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  Speaker 2: is a big three going to a Big two situation. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the entire NFL schedule is out. I did a cool
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  Speaker 2: exercise yesterday with Corbyn Smith on Lockdown Seahawks. If you
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  Speaker 2: missed it, go check it out after you listen to us,
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  Speaker 2: of course, and we went through the entire schedule win loss.
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  Speaker 2: What do you expect the expectations regarding you know, if
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks are going to be a better team in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six versus twenty twenty five, they could still
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  Speaker 2: be a better team that have a worse record or
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  Speaker 2: vice versa, and I honestly, going through all the games,
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  Speaker 2: I came out with the exact same record, thirteen and
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  Speaker 2: four for the Seattle Seahawks. I have pretty high expectations.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to talk about those with Danny O'Neil a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later. Today we got Ti Dankenzalez joining us
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  Speaker 2: at two o'clock. I'm excited to chat with him. We've
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  Speaker 2: got some daily power play. Almost all of the spots
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  Speaker 2: in the conference finals in the NHL playoffs are filled.
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  Speaker 2: I still have not watched a ton of NBA, so Jess,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I can lean on you for that one. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you're still watching, even though the Celtics
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  Speaker 2: are now out.
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  Speaker 4: We were hurt.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously our household, the mcdagel household, is very very
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  Speaker 6: beside itself.
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  Speaker 5: For those who don't know, that's combining two last names
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  Speaker 5: right there.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, we're a benefit over the over here.
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  Speaker 6: No, but the reason so I offered him my last name,
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  Speaker 6: I didn't take his. And so whenever we're you know,
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  Speaker 6: out and about and doing things together, I always say,
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  Speaker 6: the mcdagils, like the mcdanigagles, are here.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a fun thing.
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  Speaker 7: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So now that the full schedule is out,
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  Speaker 2: just what kind of thoughts do you have on how
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  Speaker 2: it's shaped out. Is there like a stretch that's looking
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  Speaker 2: kind of promising to you? Is there a stretch that's
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  Speaker 2: looking tough to you? Is there a stretch that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of making or breaking the season? We got two
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  Speaker 2: of the final three games are against the Rams. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's drinking the Rams kool aid. I'm not in on
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  Speaker 2: that just quite yet. So what part of the schedule
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  Speaker 2: stands stands out most to you?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think it's something that Corbyn brought up yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Is the open or the opening to the schedule? I
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  Speaker 6: should say not the open er, but you know that
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  Speaker 6: is could be smooth sailing to start things off, and
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  Speaker 6: hopefully you stay healthy during that time as well, and
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  Speaker 6: that might be a situation where you get to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: week three against the Commanders, maybe even you know, if
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  Speaker 6: you're routing, you know, you start with the Patriots. They're
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  Speaker 6: not going to be good this year. The Cardinals, sorry,
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  Speaker 6: but you're not there yet. I know that they're trying
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  Speaker 6: to improve, but not Commanders last year. I don't I
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  Speaker 6: don't know what to expect from the Commanders if they're
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  Speaker 6: going to have a bounce back year. I called them
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  Speaker 6: the sophomore slump from last year just because of you know,
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  Speaker 6: they they they out expectations people. I guess they exceeded
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  Speaker 6: expectations in their first year under Dan Quinn and making
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  Speaker 6: the run that they did, you know, losing in the
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  Speaker 6: NFC Championship. But I don't think that last year. I
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  Speaker 6: think that's their their floor right now. So I look
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  Speaker 6: at that anyway, just so I look at this. Corbyn
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  Speaker 6: said yesterday too that he could see them starting out
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  Speaker 6: six and oh, I see five and one.
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  Speaker 4: But I think that's reasonable. It's gonna be.
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  Speaker 6: A dip and it might be honestly against the Kansas
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  Speaker 6: City Chiefs, but that's well, it's week seven, but it's.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be six and one.
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  Speaker 6: So before that I could see them hulling, not so
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  Speaker 6: the Niners at home at the Broncos.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe that's why I have their loss. I think they
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  Speaker 5: lose that one.
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  Speaker 6: That's the one that stands if I'm looking just through
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  Speaker 6: September on October, that's the one where and I'm not
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  Speaker 6: going to be mad about it unless they lose in
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  Speaker 6: horrible fashion and get a you know, a horrible injury.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, it's a Thursday night game, short week right after
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  Speaker 2: playing the Niners on the road at Mile High Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Broncos were a good team last year. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: people believe that if Bonix plays in that AFC Championship game,
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  Speaker 2: they're the ones facing the Seahawks and the super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: and not the Patriots. I think I agree with that
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  Speaker 2: me too, So that would be a tough one for
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  Speaker 2: the just There's too many things kind of going against
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks there. I believe they beat the Patriots, take
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  Speaker 2: care of business against Cardinals and Commanders. Everyone everyone's taking
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  Speaker 2: the rams kool aid. On the NFC side, everyone loves
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  Speaker 2: themselves some La Chargers because Justin Herbert, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a good quarterback. I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: good team, but I'm not, you know, saying they're super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl contenders at this point in time. I do believe
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  Speaker 2: the Niners will be better this year than they were
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  Speaker 2: last year. But for whatever reason, even if they are better,
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't mean they match up well against the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: We see Mike McDonald and his kind of defense have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of success against the Kyle Shanahan offense, and
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  Speaker 2: he did it even more so when he was on
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  Speaker 2: when he was at Baltimore as well. I remember that
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Day game a couple of years ago that he
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  Speaker 2: just dominated them, and I think that was one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that the Seahawks were looking at when they
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  Speaker 2: were hiring their head coach two years ago. So that's
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  Speaker 2: one of those things where I believe the team will
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  Speaker 2: be better, but it still doesn't match up well against
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. I actually think the Niners might have a
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  Speaker 2: better record than the Rams this year personally. So that's
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  Speaker 2: a hot take, I know, and I'm not usually a
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  Speaker 2: hot take guy, but that's something that I'm looking forward to.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of how the NFC West hierarchy plays out,
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  Speaker 2: because I still believe it's Seahawks at the very very top,
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  Speaker 2: and I think Rams and Niners are going to kind
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  Speaker 2: of battle it out for that second spot, probably both
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  Speaker 2: make the playoffs once again. Chiefs at Home be a
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  Speaker 2: fun one on Sunday at Football. That'll be such a
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  Speaker 2: cool matchup. Patrick Mahomes will be completely healthy by then
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  Speaker 2: by all, you know, signs are pointing that direction. And
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  Speaker 2: then this third of three straight primetime games Monday Net
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  Speaker 2: Football against the Bears.
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  Speaker 5: Same thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think everyone's kind of really high on the Bears.
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  Speaker 2: I still have to see a little bit more from
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  Speaker 2: Kayleb Williams, and their defense is just not very good,
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  Speaker 2: So I think the Seahawks take advantage there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple parts of the schedule that kind of
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  Speaker 2: scare me a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Looking right after the.
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  Speaker 2: Bye away to the Niners, home against the Cowboys, home
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  Speaker 2: against the Giants, who I think will be a lot
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  Speaker 2: better this year, and then away to the Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 2: before your last three games of the season. I think
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  Speaker 2: they'll be kind of a big stretch in the season.
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  Speaker 2: But Jess, I don't know what you think about just
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  Speaker 2: where the Seahawks will be going into their by as.
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  Speaker 2: Now that I have my eyes on the schedule, I
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  Speaker 2: can kind of pinpoint, like my predictions on where the
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  Speaker 2: season is going to go. But just considering, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple like Bears Kobe Bryant revenge game, you
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  Speaker 2: got Eagles to Reek Woolen revenge game, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: and then obviously the Chiefs with Kenneth Walker, Like, where
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  Speaker 2: are you looking in terms of where do you think
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  Speaker 2: the best matchup's going to be on the schedule.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you're looking from just a bird's eye view
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  Speaker 6: of where I think they'll be, I don't think they'll
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  Speaker 6: be worse than eight and two.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I really don't.
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  Speaker 6: I think this matchup or this schedule completely suits them.
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  Speaker 6: I like I said, you know, that Thursday night football game,
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  Speaker 6: that might be a tough one, especially because you're playing
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  Speaker 6: the Niners the week before. I could see that one,
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  Speaker 6: But like you said that, the Chiefs is another one,
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  Speaker 6: and I would hate for them to lose back to
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  Speaker 6: back weeks. That might be a little demoralizing. But I
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  Speaker 6: also think that because you're going from you know, Sunday
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  Speaker 6: night football then to Monday night football, you get your
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  Speaker 6: stuff right, even if that does happen. And I don't
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  Speaker 6: see anything that scares me beyond those two games. And
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  Speaker 6: the Broncos don't necessarily scare me because of who they are.
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  Speaker 4: The week scares me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're not gonna win every game. There's no
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  Speaker 2: one that goes just seventeen and ago, right, No, So like.
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  Speaker 4: There's here the you know, the Patriots and the lose
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  Speaker 4: the Super Bowls to the Giants.
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  Speaker 5: That was when there were sixteen games, if there were seventeen,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just.
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  Speaker 6: Saying, I'm just saying, yeah, you can go eighteen and
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  Speaker 6: one in a season and you know, not be satisfied.
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  Speaker 5: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get some more schedule talk throughout the show, kind
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  Speaker 2: of go through the whole schedule and give our season
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  Speaker 2: predictions as we move along today. But I want to
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  Speaker 2: get to a little Mariners talk. Obviously, they were playing
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  Speaker 2: for most of the show yesterday and now we kind
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  Speaker 2: of know they went three out of four against the Astros.
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  Speaker 2: Are you high in the Vetter Cup, Jess, because like
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  Speaker 2: for me, it's like Chuck mentioned this today in our podcast,
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  Speaker 2: it's the seat, it's the Mariners and the Padres battling
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  Speaker 2: it out for the heart of a Cubs fan, because
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  Speaker 2: that's what Eddie Vetterer is. He's a massive Cubs fan,
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  Speaker 2: and for whatever reason, the Vetter Cup Eddie Vetterer massive
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  Speaker 2: Cubs fan involves not the Cubs, but the Mariners and
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  Speaker 2: the Patrace.
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  Speaker 4: It's his hometown and Seattle based band. So like I
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  Speaker 4: get it, I do too.
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  Speaker 2: But there's two nationally televised games this weekend, so obviously,
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  Speaker 2: like the league thinks, this is a big deal.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's just fun, to be honest, it's
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  Speaker 6: another reason to get eyes on it. I have seen
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  Speaker 6: the actual Vetter Cup, which is a guitar.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't know, it is really cool.
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  Speaker 6: And also I do a lot of clubhouse work, and
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  Speaker 6: when I'm down there, I see guys jamming out and
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  Speaker 6: there together, not necessarily using the Better Cup. Right, But
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  Speaker 6: I had never seen that before the Vetter Cup was around.
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  Speaker 6: So the Vetter Cup's not even a cup.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's a guitar.
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  Speaker 5: Do we not understand Dallas semantics here?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, what do they call the Battle of
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  Speaker 6: I ninety, you know, between the Red Sox and the Mariners.
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  Speaker 4: It's just Red Sox.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, because it's Boston is on one end of I
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  Speaker 6: ninety and Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: They call it a cup.
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  Speaker 4: They don't.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I need is they don't call it that,
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  Speaker 6: but they call it maybe just the Battle of AI ninety.
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  Speaker 4: I'll have to look it up. But they don't call
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  Speaker 4: it a cup. So there's something else that the Better
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  Speaker 4: Cup could be called if it's not a cup.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I think that's gonna be kind of
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  Speaker 2: an interesting series for me because look, I know, winning
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  Speaker 2: three to four against the Astros always feels good, but
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it's one of those things where they're one of
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  Speaker 2: the worst teams in baseball and we've kind of seen
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  Speaker 2: that now. The Mariners have won I think seven of
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  Speaker 2: eight against the Astros this year, and if you look
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  Speaker 2: at the record against every other team, it's well below
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  Speaker 2: five hundred. But you've got to get fat against those
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  Speaker 2: bad teams. And I'm wondering if there's a reality where
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  Speaker 2: the Astros start to think that they're in cell mode,
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  Speaker 2: because I don't see them being any part of this
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  Speaker 2: American League conversation, especially now with call those Korea being
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  Speaker 2: out for the year, and seeing that the Mariners just
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  Speaker 2: dominate them on this level tells me.
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  Speaker 5: And they haven't been able to dominate anyone else.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, they lost to the White Sox in the previous series,
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  Speaker 2: and like the White Sox are better this year, but
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  Speaker 2: they're still not a contending team by any stretching the imagination.
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  Speaker 2: That just tells me how far down the Astros have fallen.
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  Speaker 2: Which you won't see a tier on my face for
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  Speaker 6: Kind of want to beat them at their best also, sure,
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too, But I just want to beat them, period.
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  Speaker 2: long time now, because, like I said, they went three
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  Speaker 2: of three's the White Sox, and then it just keeps
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  Speaker 2: kind of one step forward, one step back, and it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be harder to do that now with Cal
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  Speaker 2: Rawley on the IL. I understand that, but you see
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  Speaker 2: really good performances up and down the lineup, minus the
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  Speaker 2: you know, how are Randy Roseraino is playing really well.
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  Speaker 2: He's cooled off a little bit as of late, but
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  Speaker 6: Considering his youth and experience, what he's doing right now
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like what I've seen from Brendan Donovan. Josh
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• 16:53
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully that quest will be completed soon, because yeah, if
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  Speaker 6: Well, also considering you know, the the guys who we
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  Speaker 6: expected to do a little bit more with where they
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  Speaker 6: are right now. I mean, Cal has been a fraction
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  Speaker 6: of what we expect Cal to be, and I don't
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  Speaker 6: doubt that when he comes back from the il that
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  Speaker 6: he will continue to live up to I'm not expecting
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  Speaker 6: another sixty home run season or anything like that, but
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  Speaker 6: I know he will come back and be like I'm
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  Speaker 6: just not that worried about him as long as this
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  Speaker 6: injury isn't hindering him throughout the season. But I do
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  Speaker 6: like the positives that we're seeing Julio doing well.
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  Speaker 4: The guy's stepping up.
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  Speaker 6: And we saw some of that last year too in
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  Speaker 6: the run that they made, you know, success from unexpected places.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't expect Cole Young to be as impactful as
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  Speaker 6: he has been thus far, and between Mitch Garver stepping
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  Speaker 6: up in Cal's absence and what we've seen from Luke Raley,
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  Speaker 6: I look at those as positives as everyone else catches
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  Speaker 6: up to where they need to be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if you look at the position players
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  Speaker 2: that play every single day, Cal Rawle is the only
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  Speaker 2: one for me that has been a disappointment for the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners this year. I think Julio has been good. If
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  Speaker 2: you look at his stats and you know kind of
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  Speaker 2: see where he's at in the middle of May, I
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  Speaker 2: think I would have expected just about what he's providing
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  Speaker 2: been more than I expected. He's hitting over three hundred
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  Speaker 2: on May fifteenth, when one's the last time that happened
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  Speaker 2: for a Mariner's havior.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't even know why I've glossed over into.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Randy's been your best offensive player in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: all year long, and he's been super consistent and somehow
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  Speaker 2: flown under the radar. Luke Rayley has over a nine
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  Speaker 2: hundred ops right now. Dom can Zone's been good. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about Cole Young. I think Josh Naylor probably is
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  Speaker 2: the one other if you were to look at the
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  Speaker 2: entirety of the season. Obviously, he started off so cold
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of those numbers are not reflective of
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  Speaker 2: the player that he's been in the last two to
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  Speaker 2: three weeks. But you know, if you look at the
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  Speaker 2: entirety of the season, yes, he's also underperformed. So callan
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  Speaker 2: Naylor I'll give. In terms of every day position players
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  Speaker 2: that have underperformed this year, let's go to I guess
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Leo Revass has turned into an everyday player unfortunately not
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  Speaker 2: been as good as you know you expected from him.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: But I didn't really have high expectations anyway from him.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Jp Crawford, I think has actually looked okay with the bat.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: We're talking offensively only at this point in time. Gets
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: the defense and pitching in a second. But in terms
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: of expectations, I am looking at the lineup. I'm seeing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys either performing to their expectation level
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  Speaker 2: that I had going into the year, or above that
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  Speaker 2: expectation level. So you could look at that two ways.
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  Speaker 2: For me, you could look at that positively, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're getting more out of these parts of the lineup
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  Speaker 2: and you should expect more wins to come. Or you
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  Speaker 2: can look at it like, hey, some regression is due
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  Speaker 2: for someone like Randy or Roseeran and he's not gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a three hundred hitter. I think what I'm seeing
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  Speaker 2: is pretty legit from him. I don't see a very
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: fluky three hundred hitter. He gets on Baston, he steals
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of bases, the defense leaves some to be desired,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: But I like what I see from him. I think
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Luke Rayley is gonna come back down to earth a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, but I still like what I'm seeing from him.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be closer to the player that
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  Speaker 2: he was two years ago from the Mariners than he
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  Speaker 2: was last year because he was injured all of last year.
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  Speaker 2: Col's really the only one that is severely underperformed, especially
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: in the last three weeks. So if you get that
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  Speaker 2: guy right, this offense will be in good shape.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The other caveat to that is they can't hit against
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  Speaker 2: left handed pitching, and whenever there's a left handed pitcher
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  Speaker 2: that comes in, the Mariners just somehow forget how to
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  Speaker 2: hit the ball, They forget how to take good abs,
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  Speaker 2: they forget how to walk when it's given to the
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  Speaker 2: They I don't understand the just severe gap between their
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  Speaker 2: ability to hit pitchers when it's a right handed versus
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  Speaker 2: a lefty, And a lot of that is the players,
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  Speaker 2: because Luke Rayley and Dom can Zone are only playing
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  Speaker 2: against right handed pitchers right now. So I wonder how
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  Speaker 2: long this experiment with Rob Refsnyder is gonna last because
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: he's not an every day quote unquote player, but he's
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: playing every day against lefties, and you know, it's less
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  Speaker 2: often you're playing against left handed pitching than right handed pitching.
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  Speaker 2: But I just don't know how long you can stick
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  Speaker 2: with someone who's struggling that much at the one thing
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  Speaker 2: that he's supposed to be good at, and that's hitting
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  Speaker 2: left handed pitching.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it does make sense.
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  Speaker 6: So what you're saying with when it comes to rough Snyder, like,
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: I didn't even think about that, And like, what position
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: are you plugging your lineup with that's taking away from
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: something else that might become a more dire need is
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: kind of where my head goes there, And well, you
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: have a plug, you have a plug in right here. Yes,
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: we need that today. That is what I would consider
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: a utility situation, and you kind of need a stoleworth
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: in there. And so my only concern when it comes
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: to that is what is it taking away from what
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: you could have that you might need more than that?
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And like the really good team says, the point
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: you're making, Jess, and I totally agree with you is
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: that the really good teams have good players at the
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: bottom of their lineup or the bottom of their roster,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: not even their lineup, guys that don't play every day.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: And you look at the Dodgers, like the Miguel Rojas, right,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: the guy who hits the game winning home run for
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: them in game seven of the World Series. Is not
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: like the Sho Heo Tani's the taskar Hernandez right now
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: on their team. He's not that big name guy. But
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: all all the good teams have those players who play
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: their role, whether it's a really good defensive player, whether
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: it's a guy that can come in and mash versus
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: left handed pitching, whether it's a guy that's a pinch runner.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Even you have those guys that play really good at
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: those roles at the bottom of your roster, and the
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Mariners don't really have that right now. It seems like
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: the top end of their roster minus Cal I understand
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: that injury. Now he's on the il so you can
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: kind of hopefully that fixes him. But the top to
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: the middle of their roster, and again I'm not looking
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: at pictures right now, this is just position players has
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: been good. I like what I see from Julio. I
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: like what I see from Dom Canzone, Luke Rayley, Randy Rose, Arena,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Brandon Donovan when he's healthy, JP Crawford offensively, Cole Young,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Josh Naylor.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: In the last few weeks. When you get like those guys.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: That are playing every single day, I think I've been
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: a positive in some cases surprises. But the guys the
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: bottom of your or the Leo Revos is, the Connor Joe's,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: the Rob Refsnyders. Of course, it just seems like you
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: neque guys to fill those roles in a little bit
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: better spots, and that's where I think you can add
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: at the deadline. I know it's not deadline talk on
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: May fifteenth, but we've seen trades happen in May in
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the last few years of Major League Baseball. The one
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: last year that comes to mind is a huge one
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: is the Raphael Dever's trade from Boston to San Francisco.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Now he's been okay this year, but I'm just talking
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: like trades have happened in the last couple of years
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: in this part of the season, especially for teams that
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: think they're contending, and I think the Mariners do believe
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: that they are. They've usually traditionally waited until the trade deadline,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: but I would like to see maybe a little more
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: urgency this year. You've stated yourself that you're in a
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: championship window, go make a trade.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: Well, and they finally proved it because I think that
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: we heard a lot from Jerry Depoto if you go
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: prior to twenty twenty that okay, we're looking at twenty
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: twenty twenty one, and then it was two okay, and
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: then finally you proved that you actually are in a
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: championship window. And I do not think last year was
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: a fluke. I do not think last season was a fluke.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: They put together the right pieces and then they proved
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: that they want to keep it going by re signing
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: Josh Naylor. You know, they had extended cal last year,
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: and we saw them actually making investments to put these
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: pieces in place, which they need. They already had the pitching.
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: And by the way, shout out to Bryce Miller. Just
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: shout out to him getting back. That is Miller, truck owner,
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: King of I five, Bryce Miller. We need to get
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: him a Chevron sponsorship. That man was up and down
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: between Evert and Tacoma, just trying to get back. That
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: is one that I kind of glossed over in the
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: beginning when we were talking about what wasn't there. You know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: we were talking about calendar performing and other guys not
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: necessarily stepping up to the expectations.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: But Bryce just wasn't even there yet.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: And I think that that is something that we will
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: see continue to be a positive for this route. Because
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: I know we're not talking about pitchers right now, but
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: that is something that just kicked up in my head
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: when it counts when it comes to things, why they
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: might be under five hundred right now, but also still
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: one game out of verse.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: This is why you're a professional in this business, chess,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: because that is a perfect tease to our next segment.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the pitching side of things. You know,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: who has overperformed and obviously who was underperformed. There's on
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: one solid name that I can think of on that
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: both bullpen and starters. We'll talk about that next here
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 35:43
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• 36:00
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• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Hurst Jessman McIntyre filling in for Ian Furness. I just
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: want to read this text before we get to our
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: conversation regarding the Mariners pitching two six as Lol. Of
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: all the narratives for this lousy organization over the years,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: this one that everyone on the station is beating like
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: a dead horse is a favorite. Mariners Baseball the American
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: League stinks, which, by the way, is only an argument
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: for the Yankees winning the Pennant. Look, I agree with you.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: I am tired of relying on the rest of the
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: league to suck to make the playoffs, right. I would
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: like to just believe in that our team is good
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: and that's going to prevail no matter how good the
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: rest of the league is.
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I realize that you can take advantage of
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: a schedule because a lot of your opponents in the
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: American League are not as good, one of those reasons
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: being the Houston Astro is a team we just played.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: But it would be nice just to feel good about
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: how good, how well your team is playing. And the
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Mariners under five hundred, I mean they haven't played well enough.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: They're twenty two to twenty three. That's under expectations. As
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: we you know, are comparing expectations to reality at this point,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I think they will end up being the team that
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: you're asking for, or that I'm asking for two six,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: because I still believe they're gonna if cal Rawly is
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: able to come back and be the player we know
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: that he can be, and if the pitching rotation ends
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: up kind of taking that next step forward, which I
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: do believe is coming. We'll get to that in a second.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: That's where I do believe that this team will start
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: to be a part of the Yankees' raise tier and
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: not the rest of the league in terms of the record.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, And I mean I hate to, you know, trump
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: the old narrative that you know they tend to heat up,
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: but they do tend to heat up. I'm sorry, but
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: that's just the way this team works, and you don't
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: want to depend on it though, So I am with
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: you on that one, and I do think that they
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: are capable of that as well. But I look at
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: this last series, right, they did what they had to do,
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: and you don't want to celebrate them beating the teams
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: that they should, right, they took three four, right, But
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: a lot of people are like, well, it's just sock
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: this year.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think in a lot of our heads,
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: it's not just the Astros smack them and so right exactly,
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: and their only loss was a one run loss, and
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: you don't want to see that and everything, and but
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: you know, a four to three loss is not the
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: end of the world. And they beat the teams that
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: they should, so we're not seeing them play down to
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: their competition, which would be more of a concern for me.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: But I completely agree with what you're saying at the
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: same time, and it's not even early anymore. So yeah,
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: that's what I was going to bring up earlier. There's
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: something that Rick Riz said to me one time, and
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: he said, you are You're not going to win one
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: hundred and twenty games. You're also not going to lose
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty games, no matter how good or
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: bad your team is. It's what you do with the
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: other forty. And I think the Mariners might be entering
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: that territory right now of the other forty.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a big gap though, between teams
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: that win one hundred and twenty teams and a games
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: a team that loses. It is, but I guess he
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: was a lot of difference there.
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: Right, it is, But no one is going to do
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: either one of those things. So when you are looking
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: at this from a thirty thousand foot point of view,
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: it's okay, like, let's not freak out where you know,
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: we're over a third into the season right now at
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: twenty two and twenty three, so this is not early.
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: But I think we are entering the zone of we
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: need to see them keep churning out series wins without
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: getting concerned because even though they heat up later on
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: in the in the season, traditionally, as we've seen, you
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: can't depend on them winning thirty of forty five thirty
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: eight of four towards the end of the season.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: One of the reasons we're having this discussion about, you know,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: is this team really as good as we expected them
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: to be going into this year, is because they're pitching
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: staff both for good and bad reasons. You have the
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: good from George Kirby and Emerson Hancock and Brian wu
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: most of the year.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: There was a couple of.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Starts in between there that you know, he kind of
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: got lit up a little bit, But his last couple
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: have been excellent, So I think he's back to exactly
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: what we expected from him coming into this year. Logan
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Gilbert is a tough one for me to evaluate because
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: as of right now, I mean he just doesn't have
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: the efficiency that I'm used to seeing from him, and
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: it's it's tough to watch. Sometimes there are times where
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: he absolutely dominates lineups. I mean, but as of right
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: now he has a three point seven to eight year
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: ra which is not awful by any stretch of the imagination,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: but it's you know, it's I want to see more
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: from him. There was a time two years ago in
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four where he was like, this is the
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: ace of the staff. I'm the guy that's going to
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: go and dominate. He led the league in innings pitched,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: which is one of the most important stats for starting pitchers. Obviously,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: the big question mark is Louis Castillo and or Bryce Miller,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: because with the marriage's decision to go to a six
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: man rotation, it's one of those things where you know,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: are they doing this just because they don't want to
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: hurt the feelings of Louis Castillo? Right is it one
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: of those situations where he right now does not give
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: you the best chance to win. It's Bryce Miller that does.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: And I can't say that for sure right now. I
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: know a lot of people want to write the name
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: on the coffin for Louis Castillo and just kind of
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: be done with it right there are There is a
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: part of me that wants to do that as well.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: I think his age is concerning the signs that it's
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: not necessarily a velo thing with him is actually more
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: concerning for me, because you know, if it was a
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: velo thing, there might be something with injury that you could,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: you know, put him on the eye my own fix.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: But it's not.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: It's more of a command thing. And I think it's
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: just him knowing that his stuff doesn't play up as
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: much anymore. But I also know that, and we talked
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: about this with EEno yesterday. With the six man rotation,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: there are positives. If Louise Castillo is, you know, not
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: falling off a cliff at this point, If he's closer
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: to what he gave you last year, a six man
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: rotation makes a ton of sense for the Mariners. You
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: want to keep everyone fresh, but you don't want to
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: do that at the detriment. You don't want to do
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: that just because you don't want to make a hard
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: decision because a guy that has a six cra is
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: you don't want to tell him that he's now going
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: to the bullpen, right, a guy that's you're paying it
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: quite a bit of money too. So that's where I'm like,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going to wait a little bit longer before I
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: make that declaration that this is exactly happening with Louis Castillo,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: because what I saw against Houston. I know we've talked
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: about that they've struggled, but seeing him do that, and
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: I realized it's five innings of almost six innings five
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: and two thirds of three run baseball isn't necessarily ace
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: like or ideal. But for the majority of that game,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: it was five innings of one run baseball, and he
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: almost guys the expected batting average on the double that
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: scored two runs to make it three earn runs instead
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: of one was one hundred. It is Houston's stupid ballpark
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: that literally cost him two runs yesterday.
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: So well, how many more starts are you willing to
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: be patient with him for?
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a combination of what I see from him,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: and you know, what I saw from Bryce Miller two
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: days ago was good, and that's exactly what I wanted
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: to see. But I have to see that for a
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: certain amount of time as well before I'm ready to say, hey,
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: you're in and you're out. So I'd give it at
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: least one more month with both of these guys in
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: the rotation, And obviously sometimes injuries happen and makes your
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: decision a lot easier. Sure, if one of your guys
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: gets injured, we're not hoping for that by any stretch
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: of the imagination. But if Luis Casti turns the corner
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: a little bit and is more like what we saw
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: yesterday from him, I think that I could definitely see
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: a world where a six man rotation for the rest
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: of the year makes sense. I'm not saying it's the
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: right thing to do, but it makes sense. So that's
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: kind of my my thoughts on it. Moving forward, We're
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: gonna talk to Danny at one twenty about a lot
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: of this stuff. We'll talk to him about the Seahawks
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: schedule and I just want to pick his brain about
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: you know, what it was like working with Jessman McIntyre.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: All that coming up on Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 2: predicted quite a few of the games that ended up
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: actually being on the schedule for the Seattle Seahawks. Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Chopper nine to fifty. Six prime time games the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: including five at lumin and a week eleven by opening
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six NFL season against the New England Patriots,
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  Speaker 2: of course, their opponent in Super Bowl sixty. They play
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  Speaker 2: a total of ten games against teams that were in
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  Speaker 2: of the midweek games as well as those that are streamed,
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  Speaker 2: stating they're following fan interest in scheduling a Wednesday night
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: opener featuring the Seahawks and Patriots. I wonder what fan
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: asked for a Wednesday night football game.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: You know what, it's money dollars ask for more games
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: during the week. The Seahawks are playing the majority of
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: the week this season, which is insane.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they play every game they play on every day
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: of the week this season except Tuesday, which is pretty wild.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Win their series against the Astros, finishing that one eight
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: to three.
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: In the final score.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: During the getaway game yesterday, Castillo went five and two thirds,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: giving up four hits, three earned runs, three walks, and
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: striking out six. Mitch Garvern Luke Raley both went yard.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: They won that series three to one. They're back at
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: home tonight six forty first pitch against the by the
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Days for the Vetter Cup. Cal Rawley going to the
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: ten day IL with an oblique strain and apparently World
• 46:23
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• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about that right now in hour number two.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, it is the Infernest Show. My name's Anderson Hurst.
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  Speaker 4: I like it you're leaning into this music.
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  Speaker 2: Then joined by Jessmin McIntyre. Sounds like it should be
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: some like uh eighties PI movie or show or something
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: like We're at the sand Loot. Yeah, yeah, I like
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  Speaker 2: that too. Anyways, welcome back. My name's Anderson Hurst. As
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: you guys know, I'm probably or you probably know, I'm
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: a huge soccer fan. I'm super excited for the World
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Cup come to Seattle this summer. I'm super excited for
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: the World Cup in general, no matter where it is,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: but having it be in my home country and in
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: my hometown is a huge positive. It's the first time
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: it's ever in Seattle. I hope you guys if you're
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  Speaker 2: interested to have a chance to get to go to
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: the games. I know the whole story with the ticket
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: prices have been super expensive and you know how difficult
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: it can be to find tickets. I noticed that just
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: put in the headlines that World Cup tickets are falling
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: for the games in Seattle, which makes me happy. I
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: hadn't seen that, So can you give me more information
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: regarding what you saw on that one?
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean tickets, and I don't know if this
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: is just the nature of tickets in general, when it
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: comes to big events like this, where they start off
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: huge and just sell what they can sell. But over
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: the last couple of I don't know, I would say
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: probably two weeks, I've seen them falling and I saw
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: some headlines about that as well. Percentage wise, it looks
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: like up to ten percent of a fall right now
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: from what I've been able to look up.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: But is this on third party sites? With the official
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: FIFA website, I believe.
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: That this is third party so because I think that's
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: the only way we can get that data right now.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, and you can easily just look it
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: up however you want to go. Ven U Kings is
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: the one that helps sponsor this station, so we recommend
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: you go there. Softy as an in there so you
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: can get a little discount. That's a good way to
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: just kind of see the get in price and stuff
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: like that. I just I'm wondering the kind of interest level,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: because I know not everyone's a soccer fan. I am
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: not living under a rock here. I understand that, especially
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: here in the States, there's not a ton of soccer fans.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: But I know there's a lot of people that, Okay
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: that tell me whenever I ask them, Okay, I'll watch
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: during the World Cup. I think that's a great event.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: So now that it is that event that apparently everyone
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: watches soccer, it is the most watched sporting event in
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: the world, what's your interest level going to a game?
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: And we talked about kind of your max price. It
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: is kind of a once in a lifetime opportunity if
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: you're not trying to travel the world and go do this.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: But I'm wondering what your interest level in your excitement level,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: not just for the games here in Seattle, but we
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: heard yesterday from Jackson and the Sounders that there's going
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: to be this really cool watch party barge that's on
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: the pier.
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: I think that's super fun. I've always remember watching, you know.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: World Cup broadcasts, and you know, whether it was in
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Brazil in twenty fourteen, South Africa and twenty ten, Russia
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: on twenty eighteen, and Katar in twenty twenty two. I
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: always see these really cool fan experiences on site for
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: you know, giant watch parties for the games. And having
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: one of those be again in my hometown and something
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: that I can personally experience sounds like a ton of
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: fun to me. So I'm just curious on the overall
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: excitement level for the World Cup. Again, I know not
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: everyone's a soccer fan. Maybe on the more casual side,
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: if you've kind of you are one of those people
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: that only watches soccer once every four years, where's your
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: interest level there? But for I'll kind of give you,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: like my handicap of the tournament so far. First, let's
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: talk to US. I'm excited for the US national team
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: this year because I believe in twenty twenty two they
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: had a very young core, but it was, in my opinion,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: probably the most talented US team that they've ever had.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Now I realize they just get to the round of
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: sixteen and they lose, and that's the farthest they have Actually, No,
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: they did go to the quarterfinals one time. I do
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: I stay corrected there, but they've never made a semi
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: final run and I don't think necessarily they're quite good
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: enough to do that this year. But I do see
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: an uptick in the quality of play, not just with
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: the roster themselves, because a lot of them are going
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: to be the same players from twenty twenty two, but
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: they've gotten older. But I also like their coach as well.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Mauricio Poschettino, and we talked to Christian Rolldon yesterday and
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: his interest level and you know how he's staying focused
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: on the last two Sounders games before he hopefully gets the.
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: Call to go to the World Cup as well.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: But Jessman, as someone who is a registered casual soccer
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: fan yourself.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: Yes, I actually have the card of my well.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, great, I want to see that. What's your number?
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: Because I want to make sure you can't You can
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: only answer this question if you're a registered casual soccer fan.
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: Okay, great? With the Union, what are you more interested
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: in this World Cup?
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: Because in the US, no, I am always interested in
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: the World Cup, and you know I root for the Sounders.
• 51:43
  Speaker 6: I've gone to games, I have always had a good time.
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: But I can't consider myself a bona fide soccer fan
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: the way you are. I'm not an expert the way
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: you and Jackson are. But the Sounders when I first
• 51:55
  Speaker 6: moved out here all the way back in two thousand
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: and nine, hosted me at a couple events and I
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: have had an absolute blast. The soccer population here when
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: it comes to fanhood.
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: It's a niche for sure.
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: Amazing. Yeah, it's really no, it's amazing.
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't even call it a niche, like I would
• 52:11
  Speaker 6: call it rugby, more of a niche than soccer, and
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: I worked a lot of rugby. So anyway, when it
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: comes to it being here, it doesn't amp it up
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: for me, just because I always get amped up for it.
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: I'm excited for the city to get to experience it, though,
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: but not me as a fan.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: And by the way, I have some numbers for you.
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: Numbers, yeah, because I didn't have the specifics, but this
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: one is coming from a PRIs. Yes, Sophia Schwarzwelder for
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: the Seattle Times has some numbers that actually surprised me.
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: This is what I was reading this morning, but I
• 52:43
  Speaker 6: wanted them in front of me. So the market has
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: shifted in recent weeks as fans hoping to experience the
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: World Cup live can now get a ticket to the
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: Guitar versus Bosnia and uh, thank you Hurtz.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: For on June twenty fourth for around two hundred dolls.
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, that's a good price if you're talking the
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: World Cup.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder if and I'm not questioning the reporting
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: whatsoever in this, but I wonder what the disparity is
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: between a game between Qatar and Bosnia and Herzegovina versus
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: you know me as a soccer fan, I don't know
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: anyone on either of those teams.
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: But the US match against Australia has dipped out of
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: the four figure range.
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: Okay, so that's get in price.
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: Yes, okay, yes, this is all I'm assuming.
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: Like the lowest price that you could get is that's
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: what we call get in price, folks, but out of
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: the four figure range. So if you wanted to watch
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: your hometown team and take on Australia, which you might
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: know a couple of people on, you know, guitar, but
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: just US, honestly for me, for under one thousand dollars
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: right now?
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that. And it's still a little high.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: It's still a little higher than I expected it to be.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: It's still a little higher than I wanted to be.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: I would hope that, like the US get in price
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: game will end around five hundred dollars. That's kind of
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: what I'm looking at here. If that is the case,
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: I think that'll be much more realistic for a lot
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: of fans.
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: If I'm going to be completely.
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: Honest, I think You're absolutely right, because it's and especially
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: considering what everyone is doing, like economically right now, we
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: are all kind of trying to pick what's worth it
• 54:23
  Speaker 6: when it comes to doing anything outside of what we
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: need to get by. But also this is confirmed resale
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: market data got it, and that the average cost to
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: get into Seattle's group stage matches has increased almost thirty
• 54:39
  Speaker 6: percent over the last month.
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's that's a good sign.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: I hope that trend continues as we get closer and
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: more people are looking to sell their tickets and stuff
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: like that. I just for me, as someone who hopefully
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: is lucky enough to get to go to the games
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: with a media credential and not have to pay out
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: of pocket, I have a tough time really gauging what
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: my level would be in terms of how much I'd
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: be willing to pay. But I'm also a massive soccer
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: fan at the same time, so I'd probably look at,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: you know what games I want to go see, and
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: you know what players I want to go see, and
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: maybe like later in the tournament too, when it's like
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: a knockout stage game instead of a group stage game,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be kind of the big thing for me,
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Seattle is hosting a Round of thirty two game, which
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: could be the US by the way, so that based
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: on the bracket and how everything's fallen out, that would
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: be pretty cool if the US is playing a knockout
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: game in Seattle. So I'm looking forward to this one.
• 55:37
  Speaker 5: Guys.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: The other teams that you'll look out for in terms
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: of who might win, A lot of the favorites are
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: saying France or the odds makers are saying that the
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: favorites are France, Spain, England, Portugal or kind of the
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: Big Four for me, and you know, I kind of
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: agree with that. I think there's a couple of teams
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: that could fly under the radar as well. Argentina obviously
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: up there as well with you know, they're defending champions.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: But you know, it's one of those situations where you
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: just I would recommend if you have any sort of interest,
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: just getting involved in any way you possibly can. You
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: don't even have to go to a game, go to
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: one of the viewing parties on the bar.
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: I got the party bars.
• 56:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that thing.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Looks cool, it looks awesome. I don't know if there's
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: gonna be a cover charge to get in there.
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: I don't either, so I don't want to just completely
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: say hey, it's it's free. If you don't want to
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: go to the game or anything like that. I know, yeah,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: absolutely go check it out. And there's other gonna be
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: other parts of the city that they're gonna kind of
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: block off for a kind of party atmosphere sort of
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: thing moving forward for the World Cup. So I'm super
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: excited just what it's gonna do to the region and
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: having the influx of people from all around the world
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: to come here to watch the beautiful game, so to speak.
• 56:46
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• 56:50
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• 56:52
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• 57:04
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• 57:43
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• 57:45
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• 57:48
  Speaker 2: how are you?
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: Not?
• 57:49
  Speaker 22: Too much is going on, but you need to up
• 57:51
  Speaker 22: your standard. Yeah, you need to if you've been looking
• 57:54
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• 57:55
  Speaker 23: We're in sorry shape there.
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: Well, it's just kind of how we how we roll here.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: I've had to fill time basically for these first hour
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: or so, just waiting to get to the Danny o'nil conversation.
• 58:06
  Speaker 23: Come on, come on, man, we need to We need
• 58:09
  Speaker 23: to work on your your messaging here.
• 58:10
  Speaker 22: Okay, you're not filling time. You're making people's afternoon.
• 58:14
  Speaker 23: You're giving them an unexpected treaty. You're showcasing your talents.
• 58:17
  Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, I don't know rand Ambassador Danny O'Neil.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: I guess so, geez, I need to hire you but uh,
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: it was unexpected. But I don't know how much of
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: a treat it was for the first little bit. But uh, Danny,
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: what's going from the dang apostrophe? It's the best riding
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: you can get for from Seattle Sports out of New
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: York City. Uh, we got the Seahawks schedule all right?
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: First of all, before we get dive into everything, here
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: are you. Are you a guy that's a fan of
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: all the leaks that come out throughout the days before
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: or you just want to hear everything all at once
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: and see it in front of you.
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: The entire Seahawks schedule.
• 58:51
  Speaker 22: Used to drive me crazy because I was responsible for coalescing,
• 58:55
  Speaker 22: like coordinating, and there would be when I was a reporter,
• 59:00
  Speaker 22: there would be like a slight question of why aren't
• 59:03
  Speaker 22: you getting any of these leaks?
• 59:05
  Speaker 23: What kind of reports? So I really hated it.
• 59:07
  Speaker 22: Then now I think it's kind of fun, and in fact,
• 59:11
  Speaker 22: I've embraced the idea that the NFL is the one
• 59:16
  Speaker 22: survivor of the monoculture. There used to be a time
• 59:19
  Speaker 22: when we agreed upon what facts were. There were the
• 59:22
  Speaker 22: same three major broadcast stations that if you missed your
• 59:27
  Speaker 22: hit show, you had to wait until reruns YEP came
• 59:30
  Speaker 22: around and all that's fragmented. We're now a bunch of
• 59:34
  Speaker 22: diverse streaming services. People have their own series that they watch.
• 59:38
  Speaker 22: But the one thing is the NFL still rules the world,
• 59:41
  Speaker 22: and we will cover the schedule releases.
• 59:43
  Speaker 23: If it was the gosh darn moon landing.
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: It's true. That is true.
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: It absolutely is.
• 59:49
  Speaker 6: Danny, I want to dive into what we saw with
• 59:51
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks. It's no surprise that we saw them get
• 59:54
  Speaker 6: a record number of primetime games. But how hard do
• 59:58
  Speaker 6: you think John Schneider Mike McDonald high fived when they
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: officially didn't get an international game?
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 23: Yeah, I don't.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 22: I don't think any NFL team wants the international games,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 22: but Roger Goodell prohibits them from saying this because it
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 22: would get in the way of him making the annual floating.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 22: Someday there will be a division that plays in Europe,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 22: despite a solid thirty years of evidence that were the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 22: only country that really cares about tackle football, which.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 23: By the way, I'm fine with. I don't think we
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 23: need to export our games.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 22: I think it's kind of shameful that we actually send
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 22: meaningful football games.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 23: Over to Europe. Because when their kickball teams come to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 23: the US.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 22: They're not playing league games, they're playing friendlies. Yeah, and
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 22: so I think it's a little shameful.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 23: I don't.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 22: I like the I think that the Seahawks by by
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 22: having to go on hard knocks, oh, they're they're taking
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 22: one for the team there, so they don't they don't
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 22: have to go to Europe.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was going to ask which one do you
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: think that coaches and gms would prefer when it comes
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: to hard knocks, because it's extremely invasive when it's you know,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: down to a time where they're trying to prep for
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: the season, when they have oh you're on camera, you're
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: micd up, and it's it can be a distraction. But
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 6: you think that they would choose hard knocks ten out
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 6: of ten times.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 22: I think if you gave them the choice between hard
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 22: knocks and going to Europe or going for playing an
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 22: international game, I think they take the international game, really
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 22: because it's just one week.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 23: Yeah, I do. I think they take.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 22: I think and maybe teams have gotten better at managing
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 22: hard knocks, but the fact that they now have.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 23: To basically force teams to do.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 22: It, yeah, I think I think hard knocks is a
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 22: big pain in the butt for people. But nobody can
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 22: say that except for Seattle sports writers who write out
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 22: of New York.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I would have thought, honestly, and then you know
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: more than I do about this kind of stuff, But
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: I would have thought to travel well, especially if you're
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: going somewhere like Australia, I can like really throw a
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: wrench into your kind of full on schedule. I know,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: like I said that, teams have gotten better at managing
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, But I'm not shedding a tear
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: for the Niners who have to do it twice.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 5: They have to go to Mexico City and Australia. How
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: about that one.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Danny, someone in the in the division and are very
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: good friends. The San Francisco forty nine ers getting two
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: international games, including the one in Australia, which is the
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: farthest one away.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 22: So I think it's lame that the Seahawks are opening
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 22: that their opener is on Wednesday.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 23: Yeah, I think I think it sucks. I think it
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 23: should be Thursday.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 22: That that feeling is offset by the fact that I
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 22: know Kyle Shanahan is more upset about having to go
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 22: to Australia than we are about the Seahawks playing on Wednesday,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 22: so I'll consider that a fair trade.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I could totally picture it now, the angry
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan coming into his press conference like I did
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: not want to be here. I did not want to
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: be here, and he has to do it twice.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I understand Mexico City's pretty dang close. It's closer
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: than East coast trip for them. But Australia one man
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  Speaker 2: that that that one's tough.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's not like they're going to see the Kucku
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  Speaker 6: bars or anything. No, they don't have time to have fun.
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  Speaker 23: No, definitely.
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  Speaker 22: Do you think an angry Kyle Shanahan is similar to
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 22: an angry Sean McVay After after Day one of the draft,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 22: when he came out and I saw reports. I think
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 22: it was Chris Simms from Pro Football Talk who said
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 22: that it was actually it's unrelated to the selection of
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 22: the quarterback. He and Les Sneed had got into a fight,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 22: and Chris Sims said, I'm not going to tell you
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 22: what the fight was about, but I thought I thought
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 22: that was very funny. The why why McVeigh was in
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 22: such a snit after their first round.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and how could it not be about the quarterback?
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, what what are we doing here? And he
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: came out and said that like he hadn't talked to him.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Is I don't understand how that. That just seems like
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: someone trying to throw someone off the scent, so to speak.
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  Speaker 23: Yeah, there is a little bit of their their protesting
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 23: a little too much. I enjoy it.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 22: I enjoy when people sort of act out of their
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 22: feelings then have to pretend they weren't actually mad.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 23: Well, like we saw you, you were mad, Yeah, happened.
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  Speaker 2: Well, And now that you talk about it, there's a
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: lot with the Seahawks' rivals. I guess you can throw
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: the Patriots into that conversation because a they're playing them
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: next year and they just played him in the Super Bowl.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: But obviously with the the Mike Rabel Diana Russini stuff
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: going on there, there's a lot of distractions with the
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: Seahawks rivals. You got the Puka Nakua situation in La
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: uh and then obviously what we just talked about with
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: the Niners having to do two international games and angry
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan going up to the podium to talk about
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: how much he loves international games.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 22: Yeah, I think it's interesting that the Rams. I believe
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 22: the Rams got seven primetime games. Yeah, when their schedule
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 22: came out.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 23: And they've they've got Obviously, Sean.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 22: McVay is a really good coach, and I expect them
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 22: to hit the skids sooner without all those first round picks.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 23: I thought that was going to catch up with him.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 23: He hasn't because they've drafted well. In mcvay's a hell
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 23: of a coach.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 22: That said, you've got a very awkward situation there between
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 22: your quarterback and the guy that you've drafted to replace him.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 22: When whenever that time comes the fact that your your
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 22: coach was Now we're being told he was mad at
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 22: something unrelated to the quarterback with his GM after the
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 22: first round, after the first day of draft picks, and
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 22: it is it is an older team. I'll be I'll
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 22: be interested to see how that all sorts itself out.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 22: And Puka Nakua, they are going to have to make
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 22: a decision. I wonder if they're going to extend him,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 22: because that seemed to be the slam dunk consensus. Of
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 22: course they'll extend him. And and then with what's happened
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 22: now where he he he had an incident, he was sued.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 22: There's not any criminal proceedings against him, so there's no
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 22: reason to think that there's going to be a disciplinary case.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 23: From the league. But the question of whether or not
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 23: they're going to invest in him, are they going to
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 23: sign him to a long term contract? And if they don't,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 23: how is what kind of mood is he going to
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 23: be when he shows up?
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's just even if they do, just an
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: overall distraction, like we just talked about, So you kind
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: of hinted at something there that I've been a little
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: bit curious on. Are you drinking the Rams kool aid?
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: Everyone seems to think they're the best team in the NFL,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: even though the Seahawks beat him twice last year, won
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, probably had a better draft. I know
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: they traded for Trent McDuffie's so that really helps them.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: But I don't know, man, I just don't think the
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Rams are the all that in a bag of chips.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: They're not on the Seahawks level, if I'm being completely
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: honest going into this year. But are you one of
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: those people that's drinking the Rams kool aid that they're
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: one of the best teams in the NFL.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 5: If not the best team.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 22: I think they're among the best if Stafford stays healthy,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 22: but that is a bigger if. Then I think a
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 22: lot of people there's just the assumption that he's going
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 22: to be fine. If you remember last year, there were
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 22: questions over the offseason and even into training camp about
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 22: his back.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 23: They're not a.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 22: Deep team, or not as deep as they've been because
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 22: at some point trading the first round picks like they
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 22: have for veterans a lot of.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 23: Those guys who've now moved on.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 22: I've been really impressed with how well they've sustained it.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 22: But I'm not sure why everyone assumes that the Rams
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 22: are going to take another step forward, because I really
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 22: haven't seen that. And man, it sure seems like they
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 22: could have used another wide receiver. Maybe DeVante Adams is
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 22: going to be someone who defies sort of the age charts,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 22: and he still continues to catch touchdowns at a huge clip.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 22: But you had so much production from two wide receivers,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 22: one of whom is older and the other of whom
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 22: has gone through an offseason which has seen him go
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 22: to some sort of rehabilitation facility where there were pictures
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 22: taken of him, So I.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 23: No, I think people.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 22: I think people are acting like the Rams are the
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 22: defending champions instead of the Seahawks, right, And I don't
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 22: think I don't think that's a bad thing for Seattle,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 22: but it also is kind of puzzling because they sat
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 22: Seattle beat him.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 23: And if you have to go back to some.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 22: Two point conversion, which I know people intended to do,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 22: I think that's hilarious.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 23: If that's the you think that that's all that separated
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 23: the Rams from winning the Super Bowl.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 6: Danny and Neil joining us from the dang Apostrophe andrews
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  Speaker 6: Herst Jessman McIntyre filling in for Ian today, Danny, let's
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: get into the actual schedule, and I'm not going to
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 6: make you go through the rolodex.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 4: Of loss when loss.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 6: But in looking at the first half of the season,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 6: obviously they got a favorable bye week in week eleven.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 6: I don't think you could ask for anything better than
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 6: that smack dab in the middle of the season. But
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 6: you know they have all the all the primetime games,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 6: which we talked about, but we were looking at it yesterday,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 6: Corbyn Smith told us from Emerald City Spectrum yesterday that
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 6: he could see them starting the season six and oh,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: and Andrews and I were talking earlier, we don't see
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 6: them losing more than two games before they hit that
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 6: bye week. What do you think when it comes down
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 6: to actually parsing that schedule.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 23: It's hard to tell.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 22: I would tend to agree with you the first first
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 22: blush that the first the before by looks to be
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 22: more favorable than the after by like degree of difficulty.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 22: But and and generally, the there is a carryover of
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 22: teams that win the Super Bowl tend to have carry
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 22: over some level of success toward the first half of
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 22: the next year, like the the the idea that they've
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 22: played too many games or that there's a hangover that
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 22: really isn't something that you've that you've seen, but it's
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 22: hard to know. Washington in Week three, the Commanders were
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 22: not very good last year, but you're gonna have a quarterback.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 22: They look like they have the quarterback position figured out
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 22: with Jade Daniels, so the question of.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 23: How he looks.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 22: They do face good quarterbacks through that first half, so
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 22: I'm hesitant to sort of say, hey night, they eight
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 22: and two looks like a very realistic possibility or that
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 22: that's what you should expect because of the caliber of quarterbacks.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 23: The process of defending a title is interesting. I think Seattle.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 22: This time it's going to be different for them. Under
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 22: Pete there was an attempt to kind of turn the
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 22: page and sort of continuing to embrace his approach of
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 22: trying to celebrate the uniqueness of individuals as guys started
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 22: to pull apart, where you had Marshawn holding out when
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 22: training camp began, some of the tensions were beginning to
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 22: build over Percy Harvin. That first half of the season
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 22: was was really difficult for him.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 23: I think Mike McDonald has.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 22: A much more buttoned down approach, both in terms of
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 22: how he sees the roster, how he sees the culture
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 22: that he's building. It isn't as much sort of celebrate
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 22: the uniqueness and revel in this success that you've achieved.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 22: And I think that I think ultimately that's going to
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 22: bode well for Seattle in this sea.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 23: I think that's gonna end up being a better approach well.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 6: And he got them to buy in, That's that's the thing.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 6: How do you get them to buy in so fast?
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 6: And I just think that's so unique for someone who
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 6: was in his position for such a short period of time,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 6: And that's different than that overtly celebrating. It's buying into
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 6: it's a trust the process situation.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 22: Yeah, I definitely think that the guys on the defense
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 22: have a pretty intense amount of respect for how not
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 22: just what Mike's defense is, but how how he goes
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 22: about running it. And I've heard stories about him saying, hey,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 22: I screwed this up, and he's not. He's never going
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 22: to be a peer with these guys, but he is
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 22: a younger coach and someone who his willingness to acknowledge
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 22: when he's maybe called a play that didn't put them
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 22: in the best position or coming with an idea, I
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 22: think it's built some credibility with them, whereas Pete it's
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 22: I would never say that Pete's understanding of football fundamentals
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 22: is I mean, he's spent so much time and understands
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 22: his defense, but he didn't really he didn't want to
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 22: make his defense complicated. His whole idea was to simplify
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 22: it and to work. What Pete really excelled at was
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 22: that culture. And it's not that one way is better
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 22: than the other, because clearly Pete was an epically successful
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 22: coach both at USC and then in Seattle. But the
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 22: way Mike has built that credibility is different, and there's
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 22: just no doubt he has it.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 23: Those guys on that.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 22: Defense really believe in the calls he makes and the
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 22: way in the system that they've put in place.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just feels like if you're comparing kind of
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: the ten years there, from the super Bowl winning team
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen to the super Bowl winning team this year,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: it just feels like, I don't know if you agree
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: that this team would have an easier time. I don't
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: say easier, but it would be more likely that this
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: team gets tossed around with the d word, the dynasty,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: especially if you were able to kind of go back
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: and repeat this year. It seems like with the PEAT teams,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: once those personalities that he was celebrating would and the
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: individual players ended up kind of moving on, which is
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: always what happens in the NFL. It seems like that
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: message kind of rings hollow a little bit, But with
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's almost like the star of the team is
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: the system and that can kind of extend that window
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: a little bit more.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 5: Do you agree?
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 23: Yeah, I do.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 22: I think that that's a pretty good way to phrase it,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 22: and much more succinct than what I was trying to
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 22: put together.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 23: But no, but that idea of look Pete's defense.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 22: They they had, they had a free safety in Earl Thomas,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 22: who allowed them to play a single high safety, a
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 22: cover three defense, and and they.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 23: Tried to have as few rules as possible. They didn't
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 23: blitz a lot.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 22: They they played what they played, and they didn't game
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 22: plan for specific opponents nearly so much as they just
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 22: tried to free up their players to play fast and strong.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 22: And they had extraordinary talent right and and and the offense.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 22: It's not that it was unscripted, but there was a
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 22: lot of playgrounds football with Russell improvising you had the
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 22: ability to play fast and it was They really did
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 22: embrace that sort of personality of the players celebrating the uniqueness,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 22: and it made it hard to tell guys no. It
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 22: made it hard to say no. There was a There
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 22: was blow back when Marshawn didn't get a new contract
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 22: after they won the Super Bowl. There was certainly blowback
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 22: after the second Super Bowl appearance when Cam held out,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 22: missed the first two games and you saw that, you
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 22: saw how that frayed. Now when you have the star
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 22: is the system that it's the defense that can create
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 22: its own difficulties because guys feel that they're not being recognized,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 22: they're being seen as a cog rather than somebody that's
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 22: that's doing the majority of the work. But I would
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 22: tend to agree with you that I think it's more
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 22: sustainable that way, because, like I said, there for all
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 22: of and I this isn't a knock on Pete or
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 22: his approach, because it was the most successful era of
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 22: Seahawks football that that we'd seen. It was incredibly fun.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 22: Those players are beloved to this day. But some of
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 22: some of what happened, some of how it declined, was
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 22: because it was very combustible because of the kind of
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 22: personalities that they'd empowered.
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  Speaker 2: the cal Rawley situation. That's the biggest news of the life,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a couple of days for the Mariners. He
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  Speaker 2: goes on the ten day. I l first, I want
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it kind of feels like this should have happened
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  Speaker 9: a week and a half ago. Yeah, you know, and
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  Speaker 9: and I get it, you know, you want to try
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  Speaker 9: and hang on for as long as possible because of
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  Speaker 9: how important cal Rawlely is to this club, even with
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  Speaker 9: all of his struggles this season, and obviously he's tried
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  Speaker 9: to and I mean he's successfully gritted through a lot
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  Speaker 9: of stuff, you know, over the years and has been
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  Speaker 9: able to produce in spite of those things, and so
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  Speaker 9: you know, you want to balance trusting really the captain
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  Speaker 9: of your team, but also protecting the player from himself.
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  Speaker 9: And for a club that that does tend to exercise
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  Speaker 9: a lot of caution, especially early on in the season
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  Speaker 9: with some of their best players, I thought this was
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  Speaker 9: a little uncharacteristic from the club. And yeah, as I
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  Speaker 9: think we've learned here over the last couple of days,
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  Speaker 9: probably not the right to say and to let that
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  Speaker 9: play out, but at least they've done it now, and hopefully,
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  Speaker 9: you know, whatever happened on Wednesday, whether he reaggravated the
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  Speaker 9: injury or just kind of finally succumb to the discomfort,
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  Speaker 9: hopefully it's nothing that has gotten more serious than it was.
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  Speaker 9: And hopefully they can just kind of get him off
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  Speaker 9: of his feet here for a little while and get
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  Speaker 9: him right, because obviously he's just so incredibly important to
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  Speaker 9: this club.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I was kind of going through the everyday
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: players offensively, and he was really the only one. I
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: guess you could throw in Josh Naylor if you look
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: at the entire season as well, but cal Rawley was
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: really the only one that's been underperforming as of late offensively,
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  Speaker 2: So It's one of those things where I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you agree with me on this. I said yesterday
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  Speaker 2: before they put him on the il that at this point,
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  Speaker 2: Mitch garverer playing every day right now versus this version
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  Speaker 2: of cal Rawley gives you a better chance to win
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  Speaker 2: because cal Rawley at the plate's giving you close to nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And I realize that, you know, cal probably even while injured,
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  Speaker 2: gives you more defensively than Mitch Garver does. It's not
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  Speaker 2: it's comparable. The pitching staff likes pitching to him. Do
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  Speaker 2: you agree that right now, at this point in time,
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  Speaker 2: it's not just about protecting cal Rawley, which is job
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  Speaker 2: number one. It's about giving you the best chance to win,
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  Speaker 2: and I think Mitch Garver does that.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I might stop short of saying that you're
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  Speaker 9: in a better position with Garver right now than with
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  Speaker 9: the twenty twenty six version of cal Rawley, because at
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  Speaker 9: the very least with cal you just you never know
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 9: when it's going to turn around. There's obviously just such
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 9: incredible upside there. But I do get where you're you're
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 9: coming from with that sentiment. And yeah, I mean, even
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  Speaker 9: though that Garb entered yesterday with what a seventy seven
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 9: WRC plus a sub two hundred slug and a sub
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 9: two hundred you know, batting average. There's actually some things
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  Speaker 9: that he's done this year that I really liked. I
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  Speaker 9: think he's actually done some pretty good things this year.
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  Speaker 9: You know, he's taking his walks, he's hitting the ball
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  Speaker 9: hard very often. He's got, you know, over a fifty
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 9: percent hard hit rate on the season. He's actually been
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 9: pretty darn good behind the plate as well. I think
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 9: he's twelve or fourteen on the ABS challenges and the
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 9: first one that he missed was like zero point one
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  Speaker 9: off of the plate, you know, So he's been really
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 9: good in that regard, and obviously some of the arms
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 9: in this rotation and the pitching staff in general like
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 9: throwing to him.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I tweeted this yesterday. You know, look, it's
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 7: obviously not a.
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  Speaker 9: Good situation to be in when you lose a player
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 9: of cal Rawley's caliber, despite how much he's struggled this year.
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  Speaker 7: But you know, you look around major League Baseball, in
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 7: the state of catching in Major.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 9: League Baseball, the Bears could be far worse off, I
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 9: think than they are right now with someone like garb
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 9: with someone like Johnny Parada, who is kind of an
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 9: interesting guy. You know, a minor league performer, has had
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 9: a couple of up to coffee in the big leagues,
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 9: and you know last week when he had his cup
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 9: of coffee, when when Cal was only able to d age,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 9: he actually looked pretty good. You know, they could be
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 9: in a worse position because, like I mean, we've seen
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 9: guys like hey Zeus Soucre Jacob Nottingham and guys like that,
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 9: you know, roll through here. We know how bad catching
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 9: can get. And I don't think the Marrors are necessarily
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 9: in that position. I think there is maybe not upside here,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 9: but a little bit of floor here with with this
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 9: group right right now that I think they'll be able
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 9: to manage this and whether the storm's all right until
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 9: Cal is able to.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 7: Get back on the field.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I just want to clarify really quick. I
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: don't think that Mitch Garver, it would be better long
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: term or even just this season than the hope of
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: Cal Rawly returning. I meant, like the current injured version
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: of Cal raw even before he reaggravated.
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  Speaker 7: Over thirty eight.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly exactly so, And I totally agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you're looking at backup catchers around the
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: league just a few years ago, we're looking at seb
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: Zavalla falling into this situation right now, that's not exactly
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: a place you want to be in. Well, you mentioned
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: the pitching staff there the talk around towns about the
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: six man rotation in Louis Castillo. Are the Mariners avoiding
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: a tough conversation by going to a six man rotation
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: or are they doing the right thing and trying to
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: keep their guys fresh and giving Castillo as much of
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: a runway to kind of get back to the version
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: that we were used to seeing for the last couple
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: of years. Where do you fall in the six man rotation.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 9: While they're on the stretch of you know, playing however
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 9: many games it is without an off day.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 7: I think a six man rotation is fine.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 9: What I don't understand is this idea of piggybacking and
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 9: Bryce Miller and Louis Castio, specifically before this stretch of
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 9: games ends. Apparently that's that's what's going to happen in
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 9: the second to last game of the White Fox series,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 9: that Miller and Cassio are going to piggyback Andrews. You
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 9: watch Bryce on on Wednesday? Did that looks like someone
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 9: that needs to be piggybacked?
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 5: No, I do not think so. Tight Ening is awes.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: I do think he should have been pulled out of
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: the game a little bit earlier than he ended up being,
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: but especially with that ten minute delay. But no, in
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: terms of you know, I don't need think you need
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: to limit him to three innings or four innings or
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: however many they do.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I just I don't. I've thought about it about
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 7: this a lot.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 9: There really is no justification that I can think of
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 9: for piggybacking Miller and Castio together, because now Miller is
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 9: at you know, I think he had a limit of
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 9: about eighty five pitches. He wound up throwing eighty one
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 9: on Wednesday. He should be ready for the full slate
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 9: his next time out. So the only thing that I
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 9: can think of that makes some sense, and I'm not
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 9: saying that I agree with it, but this is the
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 9: only thing that kind of makes some sense to me,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 9: is that the plan for piggybacking Castio and Miller is
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 9: that this is a way to ease Castio into moving
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 9: into the bullpen. Where they essentially schedule a bullpen appearance.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 7: For him, so he knows what's coming.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 9: He knows that he's going to have to get his
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 9: clock started a little later than he's used to, that
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 9: he's going to have to get used to, you know,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 9: warming up out of the bullpen, coming in mid game,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 9: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But you can only
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 9: do that this one time, because beyond that point you
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 9: are just hamstringing your roster in a multitude of ways
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 9: by essentially wasting a roster spot, wasting a spot in
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 9: your rotation, and your bullpen by piggybacking these two guys
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 9: when one of them doesn't need a piggyback partner and
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 9: the other has frankly been one of the worst starting
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 9: pitching ball Baseball. Even with how you know well Castillo
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 9: start went yesterday, he's still bottom five in hard hit rate,
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 9: bottom ten and barrel percentage. Forty percent of the base
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 9: runners that are reaching against Castillo or scoring.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 7: Right now, that's a bottom five mark in the league.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 7: So you know, look, I get it. You won a
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 7: lot of games with this guy, Andrews.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 9: The last time you had me on here, you asked
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 9: me about moving on from Castio, and I essentially said
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 9: that it was like a worthless conversation to have because
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 9: I just felt they weren't going to do anything about it.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 9: And we're kind of seeing why I said that. But
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 9: the difference now between you know, how I felt then
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 9: and how I felt now is that their hand has
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 9: been absolutely forced for Multitude to raise. And it's not
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 9: just what Castillo has done and his struggles, but also
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 9: Ancock is done, and also just relative to the rest
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 9: of the organ, to the rest of the rotation, I
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 9: mean low and Gilbert is still struggling to get deep
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 9: into games. You know, Brian Wuz had a couple of
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 9: blow up starts like you can't look at what's happened
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 9: there in the rotation and then go and then turn
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 9: around to Emerson Hancock and say, yeah, you're the odd
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 9: man out just because we can't say no to Louis Castio,
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 9: just because we can't make this difficult decision and have
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 9: this difficult conversation with him. And again, like I was saying,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 9: like I get it, you want a lot of games
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 9: with this guy. You have a ton of respect for him.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 9: I have a ton of respect for Louis Castillo, you know,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 9: not just as someone that's covered him, but also just
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 9: as a fan of the club and a fan of
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 9: the player himself and of the picture. But and look,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 9: I don't I don't know how much Luis Castillo really,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 9: you know, out of the bullpen really benefits anyone. But
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 9: it's better than the alternative of forcing him in the rotation.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 7: But they need to pick a side.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 9: Yeah, after this next start, after this piggyback start, they
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 9: need to pick a side. And ultimately what they need
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 9: to do because they're obviously not going to DFA him,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 9: They're obviously not going to completely.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 7: Cut ties with him.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 9: There's not going to be a finality to any sort
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 9: of decision that they make. They're going to need to
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 9: put him in the bullpen. So they just need to
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 9: move on with their five best guys.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 5: So let's talk to you kind of mentioned that there,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 5: let's talk about him in the bullpen. I agree.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: I think you either need to do the regular six
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: man rotation and have him start once every seven days.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: I think there's a point in which I draw the
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: line on that. If he continues to be the sixth
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: eur a pitcher and all the stats you just gave
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: me regarding his hard hit rate, the personercentage of base
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: runners that come into score, which just means he's not
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: getting the outpitch when he absolutely needs it, which I
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: think is the biggest difference from him this year in
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: in years past. If that continues, if we don't see
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: what we saw and his last start against Houston that
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: was a big positive sign for me, then you need
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: to move him to the bullpen. Do you see a
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: world where he actually plays up in the bullpen, because
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: it feels like there's kind of a dichotomy of thought
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: Pross sees when it comes to Luis going to the bullpen.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: This guy that has stuff that's declining, it could get
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: better going to the bullpen, or his value of not
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: having great stuff initially is going to play out even
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: worse than the bullpen because you need stuff for it
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: to work.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 7: It's difficult because at times this year we have seen
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 7: the fastball eat and he kind of reincorporated the change
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 7: up this last time out and it actually worked quite
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 7: a bit for him. Yep.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 9: So if you get that version of Luis Cascio, sure
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 9: that could play up out of the bullpen. But what
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 9: I worry about is the Lewis Casio that we even
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 9: saw in the first two innings of yesterday's game where
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 9: he's just kind of spraying the ball all over and
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 9: you can't find the strike zone consistently, and he winds up,
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 9: you know, putting a guy on base. And now he's
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 9: pitching out of the stretch, which has always been you know,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 9: a bit of a problem for him ever since he's
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 9: come over, but it's especially like he's especially just non
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 9: competitive out of the stretch this year, So.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 7: I worry about that.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 9: I think him coming in with you know, with a
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 9: runner on base is a non starter for me. So
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 9: you're already limited in that regard. I he to me,
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 9: he would essentially be a mop up guy, you know,
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 9: and there would obviously be times where you know, you're
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 9: down a couple of arms and you would have to
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 9: use him in some different situations. But yeah, again, just
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 9: for all the reasons that I listed, you know, earlier,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 9: and I just listened now, Like, I just.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 7: Don't really see how.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 9: Pitching out of the bullpen and benefits him and benefits
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 9: the team. But again, they're not gonna DFAM, so you
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 9: kind of have to choose the lesser of two evils. Yeah, right, Yeah,
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 9: And I think the lesser of two evils here is
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 9: you would just put them in the bullpen because I
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 9: just I don't I don't like the idea of going
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 9: with a six man rotation beyond this this stretch of games,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 9: just because again I just listened to the numbers, you know,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 9: and how much he struggled this year. You know, the
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 9: hard hit rates, the barrel percentages, et cetera. Why am
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 9: I sacrificing Brian Louse starts, Emerson Hancock starts, Logan Gilbert starts,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 9: George Kirby starts to start.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 7: That guy, you know what I mean. Again, I have
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 7: a lot of respect for him, but.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 9: Still, this is a team that was eight OUs away
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 9: from going to the World Series last year.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 7: You got to make difficult decisions.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I agree with you. I do see
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 2: the positive side. I will say I can't help but
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: think if you you know, we're in this situation last
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: year and you had six guys as he felt pretty
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: comfortable in, uh, you maybe wouldn't have had the Brian
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: wu situation right at the end of last year. He
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: would have been more fresh come postseason time. So there
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: is some positive sides, especially if you're a team that
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: knows you're gonna be in the postseason. You see the
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: Dodgers do this all the time. They have their Dodger vacation,
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: as our guy Joe Shean likes to say, right, and
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: they even run a six man rotation right now if
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: I remember correctly. They just they play to get in
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: the postseason and have their guys as fresh as possible
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: for that point in time. So I get it, But
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: I said, there's a there's a line in which I
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: draw if he continues to be the six E R guy.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Tys, I don't think it's it's not it's
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: not something you can kind of continue to sacrifice your
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 2: team on.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 9: Well, and I would I would counter by saying that
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 9: I think there will be other opportunities later on in
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 9: the season for you to protect some of your arms,
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 9: specifically with with Kate Anderson.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 7: Okay, I think I think maybe coming out of the All.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 9: Star Break there might be an opportunity to run a
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 9: six man rotation with Kate Anderson part of it.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I completely see that, So so.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 9: Something to ponder there as well. But yeah, I totally
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 9: get your perspective. It's just I don't know, it's just
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 9: hard for me to justify taking away especially while you're
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 9: still kind of hovering around five hundred and you can't
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 9: really build a ton of momentum right now, and it
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 9: feels like you're kind of doing this one step foward,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 9: two steps back thing. It's just hard for me to
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 9: justify throwing a guy out there that has struggled as
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 9: much as Luis Cassio has and taking away starts from
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 9: some of your better arms in the process.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of alluded to it earlier. What did
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 2: you see from Bryce Miller and his debut a couple
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: of days ago. I know it kind of ended a
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 2: little bit if he but you know, I think from
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: what we saw for the majority of his start, it
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: looked pretty dang good.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 9: I think, you know, there's there's some natural growing and
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 9: that's not really necessarily the right term to use, but
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 9: you get what I'm saying. Just kind of returning to
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 9: the rotation first time back out. You know, hasn't pitched
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 9: in a major league game, you know, real major league
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 9: games since October. He definitely didn't look like the guy
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 9: that we saw for most of twenty twenty five, And
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 9: I think that's the big thing, right is that he
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 9: you know, looks more like the Bryce Miller that we
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 9: that we know and love, and that starts with the velo, right,
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 9: the velo right out of the gate, you know, and
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 9: he was a bit amped, right, So we can attribute
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 9: some of that to to that, you know, to start
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 9: the game, you know, the ninety nine's and the ninety eights.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 9: You know, for the most part, you know, Bryce is
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 9: probably going to be more.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 7: So like ninety five to ninety seven.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 9: But overall, you know, on on Wednesday night, he averaged
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 9: ninety seven and a half on the on the fourth seamer,
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 9: So that was good to see.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 7: And you know, he didn't look uncomfortable really at any times.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 9: There there was some you know, some moments there again,
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 9: like I said, like some some awkward moments there for him,
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 9: but you know, overall, like like you know, he wasn't
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 9: able to get his first strikeout into the fourth inning,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 9: you know, and all that, and then the sixth inning
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 9: kind of got away from him after that, you know,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 9: ten to fifteen minute delay. But overall, I felt pretty
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 9: encouraged by what we saw from Bryce. And you know,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 9: I think again you can just easily it's kind of
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 9: like the Luke Rayley thing, right, you can just easily
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 9: point to injuries as the cause of why last year
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 9: went so poorly for him. And you know, this is
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 9: a guy that's just you know, one year removed from
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 9: you know, putting up a sub three e R. He
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 9: was one of the best, you know, starting pitchers in
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 9: all of baseball.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 7: I forget exactly.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 9: It was like pitchers that have thrown one hundred pitches
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 9: that through one hundred and eighty plus innings and had
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 9: a sub three R and twenty twenty four colet. He
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 9: listed the stat on the show a couple of days ago.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna kind of butcher it here live on the show.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 9: But especially it was like there were only like three
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 9: other guys that reached those marks, and it was like
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 9: Zach Wheeler, Schooball, et cetera.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, like Bryce.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 9: Miller was an elite company. Well last time that he
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 9: was healthy. That's the kind of arm that you're potentially
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 9: adding to this rotation. So I'm excited to see, you know,
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 9: how how the next few starts go for him. Again,
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 9: I'm I'm a little frustrated at the idea of piggybacking
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 9: him with Castillo and the next start and essentially taking
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 9: some Manys away from Miller potentially there.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 7: But yeah, overall, pretty encouraged with what we saw on Wednesday.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you mentioned it there.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 2: It's just he's closer to this the Bryce Miller that
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 2: we saw in the playoffs last year than the Bryce
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 2: Miller we saw in the regular season last year, and
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: I think that's the most encouraging sign moving forward.
• 1:44:32
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• 1:44:33
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• 1:44:34
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• 1:44:37
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• 1:44:41
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• 1:44:44
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• 1:44:47
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• 1:45:10
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  Speaker 24: A Anders. I like the soccer topic. I still remember
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 24: in Hawaii watching the World Cup finals. I think it
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 24: was Netherlands versus someone. The Netherlands lost. Thou was in
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 24: Hawaii and I think they've opened the bar around six
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 24: o'clock in the morning and we were over served and
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 24: they had to give us oatmeal at about ten o'clock
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 24: in the morning. But it was the time of my life.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 24: I'll never forget it.
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  Speaker 5: Oooh, that's awesome.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: I have a very similar story actually, and the one
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 2: you're referring to is twenty ten Netherlands versus Spain. Spain
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: ended up winning that one one zero in extra time,
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: won a crazy game. That was I have a very
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 2: similar story since twenty fourteen. The following World Cup, I
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: watched the US knockout game against Belgium and I watched
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 2: them face Belgium in that game, and I think it
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: was around six am at that time. I was also
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 2: in Hawaii at that time, which is pretty fun. It's
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: a great place to watch World Cup. It's extra early
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 2: and I just have a ton of, you know, weird
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: memories when it comes to World Cup twenty eighteen, I
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: was in college watching with all my buddies. It was
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: in Russia, so more more early games and then twenty
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 2: twenty two. Obviously, last World Cup was one of my
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: favorites because my wife is from Argentina and we followed
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 2: their entire run, including watching the final at Queen Anne
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: Beer Hall starting at seven am, and it was one
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: of the happiest moments of my life.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 5: Honestly, if I if I birth of my son.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: Wedding day, honestly, the Argentina winning the World Cup might
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 2: be up there for me and I'm like I had
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: just become a fan.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 5: It's there's so many cool moments. Guys.
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: Find a team, find a reason you like a team.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: Doesn't have to be the US. It can be the US,
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: but maybe find another team too that you just get
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 2: drawn to. Highly recommended.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 6: When I was at ESPN, we always chose Guam because
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 6: we just wanted them to win.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't think I've ever been alive
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 5: when they've been in the World Cup.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 4: They were Cinderella one year to get in.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 6: I mean we're talking early two thousand, like mid two thousands,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 6: so it must have.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 4: Been two thousand and.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 6: Six, was lost six then, yes, I believe they were
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 6: in that, but we were just all about team Guam.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 4: But I remember where I was in twenty fourteen, and
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 4: like I said, I'm not your.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 5: Gam has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 6: Maybe it was during their qualified, like the qualifiers that
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 6: we were rooting for them. Yeah, I just remember because
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 6: we carried a ton of it totally. We were there
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 6: and we just all wanted Guam to win. Maybe that's
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 6: what we were doing. Maybe we had a pool going
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 6: on who was going to qualify. I got it, but
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 6: that that was who we chose. No, I love it.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: I love those Cinderella stories. There's a couple of big
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 2: ones that come to mind. Last World Cups was Morocco
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 2: being the farthest African team, they got to the semifinals,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: which was a big one for them. The one in
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, the cinderella story was Costa Rica made it
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 2: to a quarter final, which is pretty crazy.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 5: There's always one. There's always one every single year.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 6: Fourteen is that the one with but America made it
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 6: and then there was some questionable calls. The team USA
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 6: made it, but there were some questionable like it was
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 6: Landon Donovan No.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 5: Twenty ten.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 6: Okay, okay, I just I you know, I don't know
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 6: that it's all all that well, but I had gone
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 6: home to New York to watch and you know, you know,
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 6: don't tempt me with a day drink.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 4: It was in the middle of the day. I went
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 4: to my hometown bar, in my hometown where I grew up.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 6: And you know, when I call up the boys I
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 6: went to high school, whe didn't they all come and there?
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 4: They don't turn down a day drink either, And we
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 4: just had so much fun.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 6: But there were I remember them getting eliminated with just
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 6: a terrible call at the end of that game. And
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 6: if someone who doesn't religiously follows soccer, I still remember
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 6: where I was. Maybe I didn't remember the correct here, sure,
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 6: but I remember what I was doing during that round.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 2: Robins so many great memories. Four five here says sorry,
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 2: Luis adds nothing in the bullpen. Miller would be a
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 2: weapon in the bullpen. There really wasn't a difference between
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 2: Miller slash Castillo and Houston. Luis just pitched longer because
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 2: the bullpen was too short. Yeah, if you look at
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 2: their final line, it ends up being almost the exact same.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 2: And now I realize that, like you know, there's more
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: than the final line. You got to look at the
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 2: eye test too. Miller definitely passed that eye test. I
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 2: think Louis Castillo, for the most part did. He looked
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: a lot better and that starts than he did in
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 2: previous starts. But just looking just because that was Miller's
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: one start against Houston, and you already, for those of
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: you who are already to annoint him as you know,
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 2: the number five starter and just get Louise out of here.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 2: He's You could say the same thing about Louis Castillo
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 2: because that you could. You can't say, oh, but Louis
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 2: Castillo faced a terrible lineup in Houston, but then also
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: be ready to anoint Bryce Miller is the fifth man
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: in the rotation because they faced the same lineup essentially
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: so and they both pitched around the same So I
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 2: think I would give him at least a month, as
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: you asked me earlier, how long you'd go with the
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: six man rotation. And if the six man rotation, if
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: if Louise turns it around and it ends up working
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 2: I hope it does, then that's what you continue to
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 2: move with going forward. I'm fine with not how having
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 2: one less bullpen arm for me, because like, you're not
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: really missing a lot, and hopefully starters are able because
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 2: they have the extra day of rest to go a
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 2: little bit longer in games, as well. A couple other
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 2: good things here. Twenty thirteen fourteen, everyone and I mean
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: everyone in Seattle was talking about a dynasty. This is
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 2: referring to the question I asked Danny about likelihood to
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 2: be a dynasty, more so now with Mike McDonald. Yes,
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: I realized that they were talking about it after the
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 2: Seahawks won their first Super Bowl in twenty in twenty
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 2: fourteen from the twenty thirteen season, But it didn't end
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: up happening after you lost the second one. It fell
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 2: off a cliff. Seattle didn't go back to a team
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 2: an NFC championship game. They did not, So I'm saying
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 2: it's more likely to happen. I'm not saying it was
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 2: wrong to have those conversations at all. You look at
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 2: the roster by that point. But my point in asking
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 2: Danny that was it seemed like that team, as much
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: as any elite team in NFL history, was built on
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 2: how good the players themselves were, and I realized that
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: how most teams are built. But there is an aspect of, Hey,
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: our coach and our scheme helps get the most out
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 2: of everyone. And I'm not saying this team now isn't talented,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 2: but by far. That's not what I'm saying. But I
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 2: think if you had to as teams morph into different
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 2: versions of themselves, We've seen this with the Chiefs in
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 2: the last few years, right when you have to move
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 2: on from certain players. If you have a scheme that
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 2: you believe in, think about the Patriots. They didn't have
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 2: the same roster in two thousand and nine that they
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 2: did in like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, you know. So
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: that's where I believe in this kind of hierarchy. Whether
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: it's the coach Mike McDonald, whether it's the current version
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 2: of John Schneider in his drafting ability, I believe in
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 2: this version of the Seahawks to have a better chance
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 2: at making that long term Do you word dynasty. Let's
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: get the thoughts of one Dick Fane. He's gonna join
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: us next from Shaney Stadium next on Sports Ready in
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: ninety three point three KJRFM. All right, let's head down
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 2: to Tacoma, Washington, then Shaney Stadium.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 5: We got Dick Fane joining us right now.
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 2: Dick, you got your Christmas present where you able to
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: avoid all the leaks yesterday?
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I did a pretty good job, actually, Okay.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 25: I mean I just I put them all aside. If
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 25: something came onto my Twitter scroll, I just scrolled past it.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 25: Softy handed me his sheet of integrity at about two thirty.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 25: I just kind of put it over to the side, okay,
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 25: until I knew we were going to talk about it
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 25: in the five o'clock segment, And so at four fifty five,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 25: I took sheet out and I did a quick, little,
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 25: quick little rundown of it with everybody else.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 5: Okay, there you go.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 2: So you're telling me when you were a kid and
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: you knew your parents were hiding your Christmas gifts somewhere
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 2: in the house, that you wouldn't go looking for them.
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 25: Well, first of all, Santa brought my Christmas gifts. Second
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 25: of all, yeah, no, I mean I wasn't really I
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 25: wasn't really a box shaker. Okay, you know, I wasn't like,
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 25: you know, I kind of yeah. I would look at
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 25: the box and say, okay, I know what I asked for.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 25: Is it in the shape of this okay, right, so
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 25: I did do that, but I didn't go up to
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 25: it and like shake it or try to, you know,
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 25: peel off a little corner to see what kind of
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 25: a box it was or anything like that. I wanted
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 25: the I wanted the full surprise when I opened it,
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 25: when I put it on my lap, open it up,
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 25: and that's when I want to know.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 7: What it was.
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 5: All right, all right, that's a man of honesty right there,
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 5: mister Dick Fane.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 25: I love it.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 2: Well, what about because this reminds me of a situation
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 2: that I found myself in recently, is whenever are you?
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 2: Do you like to record sporting events and watch them later?
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 14: Yes?
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 25: I I don't watch them like the a day later
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 25: or after usually after the What I do like to
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 25: do is I like to record sporting events and you know,
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 25: maybe be like twenty or thirty minutes behind live.
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 5: Oh okay, so you can fast forward to Commercis board.
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 25: Through the commercials and if I need to go and
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 25: you know, do something, you know, help the kid with
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 25: homework for twenty minutes, or do this or do that
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 25: or run an errand I can just you know, just
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 25: pause it or you know, stop it and then and
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 25: then pick it up where I left off. So yeah,
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 25: but I won't normally watch a game the next day,
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 25: unless it's maybe like a Seahawker Husky game where I
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 25: have to rewatch it and kind of, you know, remind
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 25: myself of what happened.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So you're not one of those people where you'll
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 2: watch it knowing what the final score already was.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 5: No, Okay, I don't like See.
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 2: I know there's people that do that, especially in the
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 2: soccer world, because every game, especially if you're a Premier
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 2: league guy, that all the games can be at like
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 2: four thirty or six or seven thirty or right. If
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 2: you want to sleep in, you can record it and
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 2: watch it whenever you wake up. But then I'm like,
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: I can't stop the urge for myself to go on
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 2: Twitter and look and see what the final score wars
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 25: So like, yeah, I would have no interest watching that
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 25: game if I woke up and the first thing, you know.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: So, say the Seahawks played an international game at six thirty, right,
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 2: and you want to sleep in, would you if you
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 2: woke up at nine thirty or ten o'clock and knowing
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 2: that the game was already over and you could easily
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 2: look up the final score, but you had the game recorded.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 25: Phone off, phone off, phone off.
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 5: You'd watch the all time.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 25: Okay, the only time we've had a six thirty game
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 25: I think was Tampa Bay. Yeah, in Berlin, and we
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 25: actually did we actually did a thing at our church
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 25: because the church service was actually supposed to start, yeah,
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 25: like ten minutes after like it was scheduled to start
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 25: a regular time is nine forty five, right, So the
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 25: pastor was like, all right, Seahawks viewing party in the
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 25: sanctuary at six thirty leading into church at nine forty five.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 25: So I was I was at church at six thirty
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 25: watching that game.
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 2: Beautiful. You know what, you don't miss mass and you
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 2: still get to watch almost the entire games. That's exactly
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 2: win win situation there. That was a crap game though, Yeah,
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: it was a crap wanted to Tom Brady played in
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: that game, did he not?
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 5: I remember?
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 25: And every pass he threw was like three yards of
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 25: the air. But somehow they were still able to beat us.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 5: So yeah, that that. Oh God, I don't miss those days.
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 5: I really don't miss those days.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 2: How about this thing I posted to Danie O'Neil earlier
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 2: in the in the Hour Today, al right, early in
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 2: the show, I should say, uh, do you think the
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 2: Seahawks are more posed to be a dynasty with Mike McDonald.
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 5: Than with Pete Carroll?
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 25: I think probably not, Okay. I think that the Seahawks,
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 25: the first iteration of the Seahawks just had transcendent all
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 25: time great players talent. Now, if you're gonna tell me
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 25: that three or four years from now, we're looking at
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 25: Devin Witherspoon and Nick emn Worr and Jackson Smith and
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 25: Jigba and Jadarian Price, and we're gonna be looking at
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 25: like first team all Pro guys that could be Hall
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 25: of famers in ten years, then I might rethink my
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 25: rethink my expectation of that. But as of right now,
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 25: I just think I don't even know if the Seahawks
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 25: were the best team in the NFL last year, really,
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 25: I really, I think I think it was very very close.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 25: I will say that the Seahawks were trending better than
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 25: the le Let's put it this way. I think the
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 25: Ramp for most of the season, I think the Rams
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 25: were the best team. I will say I think that
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 25: in the playoffs, the Seahawks were in the best the
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 25: best team because look at the playoff game. You know,
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 25: people go back to you know, how close it was
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 25: at the end, and they all they all were gonna
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 25: remember the fourth down stop. I mean, if you look
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 25: at that game, the Seahawks led a vast majority of
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 25: not the whole game. I have to go back and look,
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 25: I mean, the Seahawks, I'm not gonna say dominated the game,
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 25: but they clearly won the game, right Whereas in the
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 25: first two meetings with the Rams, the Rams controlled six
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 25: of those eight quarters. Yeah, maybe even seven of those
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 25: eight quarters. And so you know, so I don't think.
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 25: But the good news is the Rams quarterback is ninety
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 25: four years old, so yeah, I mean, and the Seahawks
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 25: quarterback is going to be solid at the very least
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 25: for the next six or seven years. So you're in
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 25: good shape there, and the rest of your rosters is
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 25: very young. It's kind of interesting you brought that up,
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 25: because you know, I'm gonna kind of talk about something
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 25: similar as far as you know, Matt Holkins wrote an
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 25: article about the thunder right in the in the paper,
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 25: and you know, talking about it, I know, I know,
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 25: it's you know, taboo for anybody in Seattle to say
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 25: anything good about the Oklahoma City Thunder. But they're building
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 25: their program kind of the way the Seahawks have built
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 25: their program, kind of the way really that the Mariners
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 25: have built their pitching staff. They haven't been able to
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 25: do it on the offensive side, but the Mariners have
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 25: just been able to draft and develop, draft and develop,
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 25: draft and develop to the point where we've we've got
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 25: too many pitchers, Like we've got too many starters in Seattle.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 25: We've got two stud starters in the minor leagues with
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 25: no place to go. So I mean that's a good
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 25: problem to have. So yeah, I think that I just
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 25: think it's so hard for a dynasty in the NFL.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 25: I just it's very great because everything about the NFL
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 25: rules tries to prevent the dynasty.
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And the only reason I think it's a little
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 2: bit more likely is because you're not so reliant on
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 2: that all time talent like the Seahawks were in that
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 2: portion of their I think if they were to lose
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 2: someone or even it doesn't even have to be a
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 2: big name, but the bottom ends of their roster. I
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 2: trust this scheme with Mike McDonald and kind of the
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 2: culture to fill in those gaps a little bit better
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: than maybe with the Pete Carroll.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 25: Lege cable leader of men. Yeah, I think Mike McDonald's
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 25: a better defensive.
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 23: Scheme than be here.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 2: All right, speaking of minor leagues and tons of pitching,
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 2: too much pitching. What do you guys got coming up
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 2: from Shaney Stadium?
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 25: We got a lot coming up here. We have got
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 25: our first bracket Summer Bracket contest of the of the year,
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 25: the best sports logos from major teams here in the
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 25: in the Pacific Northwest. We'll do that at four o'clock
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 25: with our special guest, Chuck Powell is gonna join me
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 25: in Jackson as a as a third voice for that hour.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 25: Hubreed love millin at five o'clock today, we're gonna talk.
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 25: Did you see the picture of that barge that they're
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 25: gonna have out So I've got Ashley Fosbrook coming on
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 25: from the Sounders and she is gonna tell us all
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 25: about the you know, the events that they're gonna do
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 25: down at the waterfront. Tell us more about that barge
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 25: that they're gonna have out there for with the big
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 25: screen for the soccer games that'll be at five thirty today,
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 25: so we get we got a lot going on.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 5: The show, looking forward to that.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 2: Have a good one, Dick, and we're we'll be right
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 2: back here on Sports Ready ninety three point three KJRFM.