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Chuck & Buck 5-18 Hour 1: M's swept, Colt called up, Mariners Morning After & more troublesome leakage! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Something complete? This is Chucking Buck in the morning. What's
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  Speaker 1: game on. Welcome Monday morning. Welcome into the radio program
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  Speaker 1: known as Chucking Buck in the Morning. So hope you
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  Speaker 1: had a great weekend out there. Oh man, there was
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  Speaker 1: some wonder for weather, some cold weather on Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: My goodness, did it get cold on Friday night?
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  Speaker 3: Very rainy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I was out of Tacoma Cheney Stadium
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  Speaker 1: for the Rainiers game. I went to about the sixth inning. No,
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  Speaker 1: actually it was in the rain delay. There was an
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  Speaker 1: hour and a half rain delay. It went to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, it was like forty five with sideways rain
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  Speaker 1: going on on Friday night. And yet those tough ass
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  Speaker 1: kids and Tacoma. They wanted every drop of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were like, oh, it's giving me life.
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  Speaker 1: Oh they were exceptional Friday night. They were the life
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  Speaker 1: of the party out there at Cheney Stadium. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday was lovely. Sunday even lovelier. And here we are
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday where who cares what the weather is?
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  Speaker 1: We're together again.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's all I was thinking, right.
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  Speaker 1: It's our hearts, our love for one another that will
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  Speaker 1: warm us during the cold days and coolest down in
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  Speaker 1: the summer. Preach Ashley Ryan is here, She's not buying it.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell. And still no Bucky Jacobson.
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  Speaker 1: We should know something, by the way this week as
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  Speaker 1: to what exactly is going on and when Bucky will
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  Speaker 1: be returning. So we welcome you into the show four
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  Speaker 1: hours coming your way here today and we will preview
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  Speaker 1: it all with what's on tap coming up here in
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But of course, we could go a
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  Speaker 1: number of different directions with our top story here this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Undoubtedly the top story is that our baseball team hopefully
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  Speaker 1: hit rock bottom this weekend because they were dominated by
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  Speaker 1: a San Diego Padres team that not only won the
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  Speaker 1: Vetter Cup, but swept the Vetter Cup this year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't we do that last year and it
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  Speaker 4: was way more fun that way.
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  Speaker 3: It is embarrassing this year, embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible, terrible losses over the weekend. And and look, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's not a good team right now. I mean
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  Speaker 1: with the offense struggling again for April and May, and
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  Speaker 1: now you've got injuries that are piling up on this team.
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  Speaker 1: I still think the pitching has been very good this year.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe short of great, but I think our pitching has
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  Speaker 1: been very good this year. And yet you can't do
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  Speaker 1: it every night. And then, no, without question, every night
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  Speaker 1: that you do slip up a little bit pitching wise,
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  Speaker 1: that's the one night that the offense actually scores, you know,
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  Speaker 1: four or five runs. That's just how a struggling team goes.
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  Speaker 1: But when you step back from it, when you take
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  Speaker 1: the thirty thousand foot view of it, you still are
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  Speaker 1: sitting there, all right, we still have well over one
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  Speaker 1: hundred games to go. Nobody's running away with it. In
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  Speaker 1: the American League West, this team is notorious for starting
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  Speaker 1: slowly and then getting hot in the summer. We kind
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  Speaker 1: of lean back on at the beginning of the season.
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  Speaker 1: On paper, this certainly looks like the best team in
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  Speaker 1: the American League West and one of the best teams
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  Speaker 1: in the American League. And so you got a long
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  Speaker 1: way to prove that, and I still believe that they'll
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  Speaker 1: get there eventually. But right now, today, on the morning
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  Speaker 1: of May eighteenth, twenty twenty six, we have a bad offense,
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  Speaker 1: we have a worse defense, and we have a manager
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't I think, make good decisions consistently and is
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  Speaker 1: failing to figure out ways to get this team out
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  Speaker 1: of its rut so far. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: I think he feels over I think he looks overwhelmed
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  Speaker 1: to me at this stage in the process, and that
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  Speaker 1: led to his ejection over the weekend. Again, he even
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  Speaker 1: chooses strange times to get overheated.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that wasn't the time to get you're trying
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  Speaker 4: to get ejected to get your team fired.
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  Speaker 3: Up, That wasn't the moment to do it.
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  Speaker 1: He just there have been like he's been ejected a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times and both times you're like why then,
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  Speaker 1: And yet then there are other times you're like, get
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  Speaker 1: in somebody's face the grill and it's just like hum.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that. I just think he's just he
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  Speaker 1: seems overwhelmed to me. So you got a bad offense
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  Speaker 1: right now, a worse defense, and a bad manager right now.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not saying anything to the length
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  Speaker 1: of let's fire our manager. I'm not there, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: say this. If I found out later today he was
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have a problem with it. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of where I'm at at this stage. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies fired a really well liked manager two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago because there was no reason why that Phillies
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  Speaker 1: roster should have gotten off to the bad start that
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  Speaker 1: it gotten off to. And even though Rob Thompson had
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  Speaker 1: had success, and even though Rob Thompson was really well liked,
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  Speaker 1: Phillies went with, we need to shake up because we
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  Speaker 1: can't let this thing get away from us. And since
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  Speaker 1: that time, they've gone fifteen and four.
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  Speaker 3: That would be nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm not saying that's the conversation today, but
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  Speaker 1: I am saying he seems to be struggling with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different facets of his job right now, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not doing anything to help this team get out
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  Speaker 1: of its early season duldrums. So it's not the one thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of things right now. But this team
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  Speaker 1: needs some sort of shock to its system because every
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  Speaker 1: time they seem to take a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: step forward, they immediately ruin any momentum that they've built
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  Speaker 1: by just floundering at playing baseball. And that's what they
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  Speaker 1: did this weekend. That was gross. That was three games
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  Speaker 1: of barely being competitive against the San Diego Padres team
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  Speaker 1: that has a great record, but they were not They're
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  Speaker 1: not even playing well right now, and yet we came
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  Speaker 1: in here and let them steam roll us at home
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  Speaker 1: for three straight games.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm I'm pissed that this is the second
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  Speaker 4: Monday in a row we're coming in saying that was
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  Speaker 4: an ugly weekend of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: And to have done it at home and you had,
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  Speaker 4: you know, decent weather yesterday. You're on Sunday night baseball
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  Speaker 4: thinking like, okay, this is going to be you know,
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  Speaker 4: I was excited to tune in and watch the game.
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  Speaker 1: Even the networks for the first time ever are like
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  Speaker 1: that team's good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then it's like, wait a minute, we'll show you.
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  Speaker 4: And so it's just the whole thing is so frustrating
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  Speaker 4: that I to have gone from where we thought like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: we could be over five hundred after this weekend, and
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  Speaker 4: now we're four games under five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: It's just and again that can be erased. And a
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  Speaker 1: good week's a good week's.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what it's what it's.
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  Speaker 4: That's where it's frustrating those is that that's what it's
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  Speaker 4: that we do. Right, So we'll go, we'll we'll get close,
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  Speaker 4: we'll come back again, and as you said, whatever momentum
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  Speaker 4: we have, we find a way to screw it all up.
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  Speaker 4: And so it's just this one step forward, two steps back.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like every single week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's like one step forward, one point one
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  Speaker 1: step yeah. I mean we're not we're not drowning in quicksand.
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  Speaker 3: No, but this weekend seemed like two steps back.
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  Speaker 1: I will say, well, the way they played was poorly,
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  Speaker 1: but it's no different than the previous week, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And you're not digging yourself any big giant hole at
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  Speaker 1: this stage. And like I said, there's over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: games to fix it. But right now, this present moment,
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  Speaker 1: they are not playing good baseball. No, they're playing bad
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  Speaker 1: baseball right now, and the only thing that they've proven
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  Speaker 1: so far through forty eight games positively is that they
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  Speaker 1: can beat the Astros. That's it. That's the only thing
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  Speaker 1: that has been proven seven and one against the Astros.
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  Speaker 1: If we didn't own the Astros, where would the season
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  Speaker 1: be at this stage. And so it's rough, and I
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  Speaker 1: still think it'll turn around. But yeah, I share everybody's
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  Speaker 1: anger and frustration because I don't know why we have
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  Speaker 1: to do this every single season, but apparently we do.
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  Speaker 1: And we will certainly talk more about that a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later on, but really the big story, and it
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  Speaker 1: pains me that we have to weave this in to
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  Speaker 1: getting swept by the San Diego Padres over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: because I was anticipating this being a really exciting moment
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  Speaker 1: for Mariners baseball, for the Seattle sports scene. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about it so much, and that is the activation of
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  Speaker 1: Colt Emerson, our number one prospect, the number six overall prospect,
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  Speaker 1: and the entire sport, and I could not wait for
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  Speaker 1: that to happen at some point this year. I was
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to, as I mentioned last week, having the
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  Speaker 1: declaration it's time like being ahead of it like it's
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  Speaker 1: time for cold Emerson to be activated, whether that shortstop
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  Speaker 1: or third base. I was really anticipating that I would
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  Speaker 1: say it before they did it. And yet cold Emerson
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  Speaker 1: gets activated yesterday, almost feeling almost as if it was
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  Speaker 1: out of desperation that they activated him yes yesterday. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't even give his parents time to come see his
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  Speaker 1: debut yesterday, as Brendan Donovan's injury obviously is one that
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  Speaker 1: cannot be overcome with a short stint on the injury list.
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  Speaker 1: And so Colt Emerson gets activated for the game yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and actually looked pretty good, got a walk and had
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  Speaker 1: two hard hit balls to right field, and didn't struggle
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  Speaker 1: at third base, that's for sure, and so he gets
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  Speaker 1: activated yesterday. But Ashley, it was as if, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like it was out of necessity. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: the Colt Emerson activation to be out of luxury. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted at some point this season like the team's going well.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, we can't deny this kid down
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  Speaker 1: in Triple A, This twenty year old freckled face wonder
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  Speaker 1: is just hitting the snot out of the ball. And look,
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  Speaker 1: this is about winning a championship, and so we think
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  Speaker 1: he's better than JP at shortstop or Donovan at third base,
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  Speaker 1: and so this is us going for it. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and activate him. Now teams on a roll,
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  Speaker 1: and this guy makes us even better. And instead it's
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  Speaker 1: like Donovan's hurt, Cal's hurt. Can't hit need a spark?
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  Speaker 1: Can a guy that's not even hitting all that well
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  Speaker 1: in Tacoma at age twenty, Let's activate him day of
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  Speaker 1: get him up to the big league club, let him
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  Speaker 1: debut on a Sunday night. And it happens so awkwardly
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  Speaker 1: that he doesn't even get his family to see his
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  Speaker 1: career start in Seattle. So even that fell flat for
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  Speaker 1: me over the weekend. I mean, that was something that
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  Speaker 1: I one of the things this year that I was
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  Speaker 1: anticipating most was seeing Colt Emerson activated. But it felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was out of necessity rather than a luxury.
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  Speaker 1: It should have been a luxury.
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  Speaker 3: No, and it would have been nice to have it
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  Speaker 3: be a luxury.
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  Speaker 4: But I think when when I look at this team
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  Speaker 4: and think of when he would have been activated, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know that it ever would have been like all positive.
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  Speaker 4: And now we're just bringing him up because he's just
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  Speaker 4: so good, because I think we kept talking about that
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  Speaker 4: it would be is JP just, you know, gonna lose
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  Speaker 4: his job.
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  Speaker 3: He's just not good enough. He's just not good enough.
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  Speaker 4: So I didn't anticipate it in a way of like
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  Speaker 4: JP's playing pretty well, but Colt's playing better.
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  Speaker 3: It was more like JP needs to go, And so
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  Speaker 3: it didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I never really thought it was going to come in
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  Speaker 4: an all positive way, but I definitely would have hoped
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  Speaker 4: it would have come in a more positive way than
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  Speaker 4: it came yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, even the video of.
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  Speaker 4: Him getting told down Intocoma kind of was like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you don't need to sit down, you gotta go.
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  Speaker 3: You're drive drive straight to the state. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: mean it, and he had to had to race.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he got to have.
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  Speaker 4: Like his emotional reaction that you know, the player like,
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  Speaker 4: because usually there's a build up kind of and you
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  Speaker 4: didn't even get that. It was just like, you gotta go,
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  Speaker 4: but we should probably film this because he's going up
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  Speaker 4: to the big leagues. And so that kind of was
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  Speaker 4: a bummer because I really love it when the guy
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  Speaker 4: walks into the office and sits down and gets the
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  Speaker 4: build up and the talk with the manager.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. It felt like a desperate How
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  Speaker 1: are we at the game forty eight mark of the
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  Speaker 1: season and we're desperate. I mean I just watched cold
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  Speaker 1: Play on Friday. Yeah, he does not look locked into me.
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  Speaker 1: And now and now you're going to deliver him to
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  Speaker 1: the major leagues, have him play a position that he's
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  Speaker 1: not playing. He was playing third base like once every
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  Speaker 1: five games, So now he's going to be playing a
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  Speaker 1: secondary position, and you are kind of rushing him to
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  Speaker 1: a struggling team it doesn't have all of its pieces
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  Speaker 1: and parts, and it's like through something kid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, hey step in, we need you here, make something happen.
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  Speaker 1: And so yeah, it was just kind of all clumsy
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  Speaker 1: and awkward, and you're right, Like he even had to
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  Speaker 1: talk about how I didn't speed. I don't speed when
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  Speaker 1: I drive. No, he's only been driving for like fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Just got his permit like last week. So all of
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  Speaker 1: it just not how I envisioned it. No, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I get that, and I did envision it. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not anti JP Crawford, but I did envision that there
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  Speaker 1: was going to be a point this season where there
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  Speaker 1: was just going to be this Emerson's killing it. I
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  Speaker 1: realized we got a seven game lead in the division
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  Speaker 1: right now. But the truth of the matter is, as
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  Speaker 1: we look forward to the playoffs, he's a better shortstop
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  Speaker 1: than JP is right now, and let's activate him and
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  Speaker 1: make our team that m much better. That's how I.
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  Speaker 4: Pictured it, And it would have been awesome if it
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  Speaker 4: could have worked out that way.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I pictured it. Instead, Emerson's not killing it
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  Speaker 1: in TRIPLEA. He might not be ready for this just yet.
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  Speaker 1: He's close, He's close, He's probably not better, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a chance he's not better than JP right now, right now,
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  Speaker 1: at this very moment. And the last thing on earth
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to do to him was activate him while
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  Speaker 1: where in a position where he might not get off
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  Speaker 1: to a good start.
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  Speaker 3: Right because you don't want to send him back down.
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  Speaker 1: That's the worst case scenario is that he comes up,
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  Speaker 1: he struggles with a struggling team, and then two weeks
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  Speaker 1: from now, you got to send him back down to Tacoma,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got to live with the fact that I
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  Speaker 1: got my first chance and I blew it. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: what he's got to live with at that point. Now
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  Speaker 1: I realize he's mature. Everybody talks about it, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: mature beyond his ears. That's what they've said about cold
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  Speaker 1: to Emerson now for three seasons that he's been as
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Mariner. But the game can humble you. It humbles
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  Speaker 1: the best. Look what it's done to cal Raley this
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  Speaker 1: season for goodness sake. And so I wanted Colt Emerson.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know, you know, a red hot hitter
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  Speaker 1: coming up to the big leagues, joining a good team
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  Speaker 1: and just adding to it. Yeah, and instead we have
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  Speaker 1: a he's he wasn't struggling down in Tacoma, but he's
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  Speaker 1: hitting two fifty five and I just watched him strike
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  Speaker 1: out twice on Friday night. And you're joining a team
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  Speaker 1: that feels broken right now, and almost as if you're
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  Speaker 1: asking the twenty year old, hey, go fix it. It
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  Speaker 1: just could have been so much better. But that's the
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  Speaker 1: state of the Mariners right now, like nothing is going
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  Speaker 1: smoothly for this team at this point.
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  Speaker 4: No, and you would have liked it for him to
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  Speaker 4: have gotten a big cheer when he comes up, but
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  Speaker 4: not to be the biggest cheers, you know, like when
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  Speaker 4: he when caught that ball in foul territory and it
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  Speaker 4: was like whooh, okay, we've got somebody. It was more
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  Speaker 4: like we've got somebody that can catch the ball. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it just seemed like they were the fans last night
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  Speaker 4: were latching onto everything that they could. That was kind
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  Speaker 4: of somewhat positive because, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, there was still an excitement level and it shows
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  Speaker 1: you so much. It shows you how tuned in today's
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  Speaker 1: baseball fans are. I mean, every nearly everybody in the
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  Speaker 1: building knew that cold Emerson was being activated and knew
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  Speaker 1: the name before they saw the text saying cold Emerson
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  Speaker 1: was going to be activated. And even if they didn't know,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: they were given a quick lesson by the person that
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  Speaker 1: did know sitting next to them. And so there was
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  Speaker 1: great fanfare and a great welcome and the Mariner fans
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  Speaker 1: did their job last night, showed up a big crowd
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  Speaker 1: last night for Sunday Night baseball, even though it was
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  Speaker 1: an after late afternoon game for us. And then to
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  Speaker 1: see him. He was six, number six in Tacoma just
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  Speaker 1: two days ago, and it looks like he's chosen the
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  Speaker 1: number four. Any player that gets a single digit to
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  Speaker 1: start their career usually means we think that you're here
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  Speaker 1: and special and are going to be here for the
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  Speaker 1: next fifteen years in this Mariner uniform wearing number four.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: And so there were great things about it, I mean
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: exciting things about it. It just could have been so
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: much better. And it certainly was not the moment that
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I had hoped Colt Emerson would experience.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: No, and I would agree with that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I felt weird tuning into the game
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: and being so excited to watch him because it wasn't
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: exactly the It wasn't a great moment, right, I mean,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: it was a great moment for him to be activated,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: but it wasn't a great moment in general.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Like, you know why he's being called up. You know
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: that now Brendan Donovan's going on the IL, you know
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: that we're struggling.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: So and then you had Friday and Saturday to ugly games,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: and so then you are going to Sunday just hoping
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: to get a win and not get sweep and you
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: would like to have been able to focus a little
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: bit more on the positives of Colt Emerson coming up
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: versus like all of the things and then adding in.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Colt Emerson and being like, oh, yeah, but that is exciting.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: All right, let's find out what's on tap for today's showing.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: What's on TEP?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: What's on TEP? All right, eight to three was a
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: final score. We'll get to the details of the game
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: coming up here with Mariners morning after at six thirty.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: The ms are swept by the San Diego Padres over
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the weekend, so they have fallen four games under five
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: hundred at twenty two and twenty six. They will play
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: tonight again at six forty. The Chicago White Sox roll
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: into town. Brian wu will start for the Mariners, and
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Chicago will go with its rookie left hander. Yes, that's
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: right left hander, Noah Schultz will get the start for
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the White Sox. He is six feet ten inches tall,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Noah Schultz. H So, we're gonna chat with Scott America,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: who covers the Chicago White Sox today at seven oh five,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and get his thoughts on their season because they're two
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: games over five hundred right now. I mean, they're one
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of the great stories in Major League Baseball at this
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: point because they've gone from one of the worst teams
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: in the history of baseball each of the last three
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: years to suddenly being two games over five hundred forty
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: six games into this campaign. So we'll talk to Scott
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: about that coming up at seven oh five. Cold Emerson
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: made his debut because Brendan Donovan was placed on the il.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: We certainly are not done discussing Colt today on the show.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: PGA Championship our second major of the golf year, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the title is taken by Aaron Raie, his first ever
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: major championship. And boy, you want to talk about somebody
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that pulled away? I mean that tournament was close from
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the beginning through halfway through Sunday. I mean it was
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: one of the most jumbled up, you know, constantly moving
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: leader boards that you've ever seen. And then all of
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a sudden, people wondered, Aaron Ryse never won this before?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Will he wilt down the stretch?
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: And he's like, no, no, watch this seventy foot put.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I'm going to pull away like you've never seen before.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: And apparently he's just one of the great sweethearts and sports.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Everybody loves it.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so congratulations to Aaron Rye will certainly spend
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: some time talking about that on today's show. The NBA
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Conference Finals are now set and it's the Cleveland Cavaliers
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: who punched their ticket to the Eastern Conference Finals. They
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: stomped Detroit last night, one twenty five to ninety four.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Spencer Halls, it's going to join us today at eight o'clock.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Now that the conference finals are set in both the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: East and the West. We'll talk to Spencer about it
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: today at eight Cleveland at New York on Tuesday. Tonight
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Game one, San Antonio at OKC, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Buffalo
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and Montreal Game seven. You know what they say about
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: a game seven and the Stanley Cup Playoffs, There's nothing
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: like it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: I've heard that before.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: So Buffalo versus Montreal in Buffalo, Game seven at four
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: point thirty. And then the Conference finals will be set
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: after tonight's in the NHL as well, and they are
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: set to begin on Wednesday in the West. All right,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: we've got other headlines. I got more headlines, a lot
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: of headlines from this weekend. Couldn't even get to the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: mall here this morning. But certainly we'll piece this thing
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: together one step at a time. We got Mariners morning
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: after coming your way. Next Sports Radio ninety three point
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: three KJRFM, Well, good morning to you. I know, depressing
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: song capitalizing a depressing moment. The Mariners lost not just yesterday,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: but Saturday and Friday as well to the San Diego Padres.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Padres came away with a Vetter cup,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: which is a guitar, as it turns out, not a cup. Yeah,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: it's the guitar of a Cubs fan, right sense. Yeah,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And so they they obviously were drinking out of that
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: guitar on the way flight home celebrating their sweep, their
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: season sweep of the Seattle Mariners, who right now are
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: in a bad state. Bad state, there's no getting around it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: They are just not playing good baseball right now. And
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: yesterday was one that was tight. The Mariners couldn't score.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: We're kind of used to that here as of late, certainly.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: But George Kirby was on the mound and George was
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: looking good. He had allowed just one run himself through
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: five innings, and then came the sixth inning, and for
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: whatever reason, the San Diego Padres just started to pound
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: George Kirby. Maybe he was tipping his pitches, maybe he
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: ran out of gas. Either way, it was extra base
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: hit after extra bass hit off of George and one
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: guy that he'll see in his nightmares for the next
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: week or so. Is Gavin sheets into another one? My goodness,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Cavin Sheets. His second home run had a four nothing
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: pod Ray's lead highlight on NBC Sports last night. Did
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you like the NBC Sports coverage?
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: It was all right, it's all right, you're right, Yeah,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: it wasn't. I thought.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: One thing that bothered me a will say. And I
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: don't know if this was just on my TV or
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: if you had the same problem. The audio was off
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: with the video because I had to stream it on
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Peacock because I have fubones, so we don't have NBC,
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: and so I had to stream it on Peacock and
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: I kept trying to match it. So yeah, the streaming,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: so then I'd hear like the hit before i'd see
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: the person swing the back.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Mine was fine, but uh yeah, I like Benetti
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: as a play by play man, but I think that
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: they're I mean, they're everybody's got to put some new
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: wrinkle on it. So his real color analyst is Anthony Rizzo.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: And yet they want to do this guys from each
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: one of the teams.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then Rizzo down to the and yeah, and.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: So you're going way too much down to Rizzo and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: have to call him out by name, and you try
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to keep him involved in the conversation, and I think
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: it kept Pev and Hyphen from really getting involved as
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: much as they should. And so I don't know. I
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: think there's something to having the same guy in the booth.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're only doing one game a week, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: maybe you should get some continuity and some consistency rather
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: than try to reinvent a wheel that is not broken.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know well.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: And the two teams don't need to hear from representatives
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: of their teams, right You hear from your people every
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: night when you watch a normal game.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I actually like hearing the National guys discuss the Marriers.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: So I think they've made a mistake, but it's their
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: first year doing this and so who knows, maybe they'll
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: course correct during the course of the year. I'm stalling
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: because I don't want to talk about this game.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I think that's a great thing to do. So about
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: that broadcast.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Avin Sheets just dominated yesterday. He was three for three
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: in the game. He hit two home runs, a double,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: and two walks. In the contest, two runs, scored, four runs,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: batted in, and he led the San Diego Padres to
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: an eight three pounding of the Mariners. As I said,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: George Kirby seemed to be sailing along, but then in
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the sixth he gave up five runs in that sixth,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and so the line looks really ugly for George. Five
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and two thirds innings, six earned runs allowed, and did
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: only allow six hits, but almost all of them extra
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: base hits in the game. So eight to three is
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: your final score. The Mariners had one hit that was great,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: one lousy.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Hit against he didn't get no hit.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Against a pitcher that hasn't who's just basically in spring
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: training right now. And Lucas Gilito because he didn't even
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: sign until the season started, and yet we couldn't get
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to him. Loaded up the bases at one point, tried
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: to put a rally together, but that did produce three runs,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a crooked number in the six but never could get
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: another rally started, and so the Padres went at eight
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: to three over the Mariners on Sunday Night Baseball, the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: one bright spot was our first game with Colt Emerson,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and it sounds like he's here to stay. Justin Hollander said,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: we're not activating him, just for ten to fifteen at bats.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: It looks like the idea behind this is cold. Emerson's
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: a Mariner for the rest of his life. That's the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: idea behind this. And how that fits, you know defensively,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: who knows. But Emerson made his debut. He only got
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: three played appearances because we couldn't get a hit and
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: so he had a walk, and he also had two
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: well hit balls to right field that were unfortunately caught.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: And he played third base, not his first position of shortstop,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: because Emerson was replacing Brendan Donovan, who was placed on
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the injury list. Here's Colt after the game, after a
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: strange day.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: It's been a crazy day. Really got to the field
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: packing my stuff up for Salt Lake. We're going their
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: necks and getting ready to play Sunday game. And then
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: right before probably ten minutes for the game, the skiff
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: was like and then there were like games in two
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: and a half hours. You better drive out there and
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: get ready. And I was like, I don't know if
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I'm playing or not, but I better get up there
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: and try to mentally prepare for playing today. And you know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: came out here and honestly probably was for the best.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: You know, I didn't have time to think about this
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: is my debut. You know, it sucks that didn't get
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: a win, but we fought and and uh it was fun.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Day was like I'm sure your parents were probably your
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: first goal was the calling, but telling you, I'm sure
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: you would like to have him here, but like calling
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: telling oh, they were freaking out, and they were freaking out.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: That was really it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: It was very cero. You know dream about stuff like that.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: You dream about time your parents that you made it
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: the bigs and it's finally came and they came on
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: my way up to Seattle on the car. So I
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: wouldn't want it any other way. Special day for me,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: I'll be remember that's forever and very grateful for this stuff.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Well, that's good for you to say it that way.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's not anybody that doesn't say great things
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: about cold Emerson the person and how mature he is
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: as a twenty year old. But I wanted it to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: be another way for you.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I wanted you to be able to know the night
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: before and to call your parents and they could catch
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a flight and they could be there, and your a
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: couple of your best friends and maybe your coach from
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: high school, you know, the important people that could be
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: there for you. I I wanted you to join a
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: team that was playing great baseball, like we expected them
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: to be playing this season. I wanted you to not
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: have to replace somebody that was injured and it felt
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: more like you were having to save the Mariners last
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: night and give them a spark, versus joining an already
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: well oiled machine and making that feel less pressure packed
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: than what it must have felt like. I dreamt of
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: it where you took your time to get to the
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: ballpark and didn't have to race. I dreamt of it
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: that you got to sit in your manager's office and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: really soak in the moment about getting called to the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: major leagues, rather than Jerry needs you there in twenty
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: five minutes, you know, so good for him. I didn't
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: want it. He didn't want it any other way. I
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: wanted it another way for him. And then I wanted
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you to actually play on a team that won the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: baseball game.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would have been nice.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: I can understand from his point the fact that it
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: was fast and you don't have time to overthink it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: It's just I gotta go.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: And then so you got that part out of the
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: way without the nerves, But at the same time, the
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: nerves are part of it, right going having that time
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: to really process it and think about it and be
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: nervous heading to the ballpark for your first day versus
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: I don't have any time to think about this.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I just have to go.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I can understand how that would be somewhat helpful, but
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: I think part of the entire experience is to have
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: those nerves and have that moment and remember like, oh
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: my gosh, I just remember how scared I was, you know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: And I don't know, it would have been nice to
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: have given him that opportunity.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he's underway. It's he'll play again tonight, and
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: it looks like he's gonna play. He's gonna be in
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the lineup, but at least through Brenda Donovan's injury, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: then I would think beyond I would think it's gonna
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: take a real strange event for him not to remain
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: on this team now that they have activated him. I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: don't think that they are of a mind. I don't
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: think they've ever been of a mind that when they
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: were considering activating cold Emerson all the way back in
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: spring training because he had a shot making the team
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: coming out of spring training. I don't think that there
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: was a thought that once he's activated, we're just going
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to jockey him back and forth from Tacoma when we
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: need him. I don't think that's what they envisioned for him.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: So maybe he's here to stay. Maybe he is in
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: our lineup as of last night and through the next
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: nine years, we'll have cold Emerson to cheer root for
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: with the MS. Tonight, the Chicago White Sox are in town.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: They actually have the record over five hundred perfect. I
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: don't know if anybody would have predicted that in this
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: matchup at the beginning of the year, but they are
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: two games over five hundred. Meanwhile, the Mariners are now
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: four games under five hundred. Brian wu will start tonight
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: against the White Sox. First pitch is at six forty.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: We are facing a left hander for each of the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: next two nights. Tonight it will be six foot ten
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: inch Noah Schultz, who's one of the White Sox top prospects.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: He was activated earlier this year as well, and so
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: that's the matchup tonight at six point forty. We'll talk
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: more about that with Scott Murkin today at seven oh five.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, there was an award handed out yesterday,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: a major award, and I guess somebody prematurely broke the news.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: We'll discuss it on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Find it as Chuck and Ashley with you. Coming up
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: headlines at seven o'clock. We'll also preview tonight's the series
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: with the Chicago White Sox. It begins at home Scott Murkin,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: it's going to join us at seven oh five. Why
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: are the White Sox playing better baseball than the Mariners?
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Very interesting question, wait to dive into that. Yeah, we
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: also have more headlines to get to because there were
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: a bunch of them over the week and I haven't
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: even had the time to announce that. From now on
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: every horse race, I'm gonna listen to Edzo. Yeah.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: I got a text from him that said I have
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: money for the college fund.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Nailed it.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, I love that you
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: just sent me this text.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Napoleon Solo won the Preakness, and Eddie Olcik, who we
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: brought on specifically to have him make his picks at
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: this time, at this time on Friday, and he absolutely
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: nailed it.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he said, I got money for the college fund. Also,
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: I hope Chuck and.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Your listeners all won money.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah me too. Well I didn't, but I hope. I
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: hope our listeners did. Me too. Also over the weekend,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: we now have the conference final set in the NBA.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: The Cleveland Cavaliers took out the Detroit Pistons and so
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: they advanced to face the New York Knicks and the
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Finals. That series will start on Tuesday. The
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals, the much anticipated Western Conference Finals versus
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: between OKAC and San Antonio that will start tonight. As
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, now OKC has not lost in
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. They have kind of dominated this entire process.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, I mean, I'm one of those
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: people that kind of believes that you'd gotta lose first
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs before you can figure out how to win.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: San Antonio's trying to defy that. Yeah, and they actually
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: are a matchup nightmare for OKA. See, they did extremely
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: well against the Thunder during the regular season. So this
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: is gonna be a fascinating series that starts tonight in Oklahoma.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: And I'll be a big Spurs fan.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: You're gonna be a big Spurs fan. I think Spencer
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: is as well.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Walk around my house like Wemby. My arm's flailing in
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: the air like this.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: The game will also feature the two MVP top vote
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: getters as well, as we learned yesterday and apparently prematurely
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: SGA wins back to back MVP Awards in the National
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Basketball Association, and it was supposed to be revealed last night.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Prime Video tried to work out a deal or did
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  Speaker 1: work out a deal where they not only got a
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Game seven in the NBA playoffs, but they also were
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: they were apparently had the rights to this announcement, but
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  Speaker 1: Sham Sharanya, who works for ESPN, the new woes at
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  Speaker 1: ESPN had the information and there are some people that
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  Speaker 1: have theorized that he just said an alert, but he
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  Speaker 1: set it for AM and not PM maybe, and that
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  Speaker 1: he had set it so that it would happen right
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  Speaker 1: after it would time, right as soon as the announcement
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  Speaker 1: was made and then it would go out, so that
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  Speaker 1: he did forget. But it went out in the morning
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  Speaker 1: and pissed off the good people at Prime Video Sports
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  Speaker 1: and they called him out continuously throughout the course of
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast last night.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and I mean here this is it could have
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  Speaker 4: been an honest mistake. You are absolutely right. But in
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  Speaker 4: the case where you get information early, I mean you've
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  Speaker 4: got to make sure that you're correct on when you're
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  Speaker 4: releasing that unless he meant to do it in the morning,
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  Speaker 4: which is also possible, and in which case if he
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: did leak it early, really the person at followed the
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  Speaker 4: people at fald or whoever told him early. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if he didn't know the information, he's not leaking it out.
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  Speaker 3: Someone told him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that I don't understand this importance of
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  Speaker 1: we get to announce it or you get to announce it. Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to watch anything on Prime video. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean I didn't. It didn't bother me one way
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  Speaker 1: or the other. But I think they all have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of information, and so that's why they made the deal,
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  Speaker 1: so that we have the right to break it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they break a lot of stories inside of inside the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: All star rosters are always broken inside the NBA. But
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Sharanya and a lot of people have that information. But
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: there's the gentleman's agreement that we are going to let
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  Speaker 1: these certain people break these stories, they have the rights
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  Speaker 1: to them, and Sharanya did not allow that to happen
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  Speaker 1: last night.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm sure, as I said, I'm sure it
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  Speaker 4: was an honest mistake. That makes sense that he said it,
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  Speaker 4: or that he you know, wrote the tweet said it
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  Speaker 4: for seven thirty am instead of PM, and simple easy mistake.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: I do think people are overreacting to it. It's not
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: like they're saying Cade Cunningham won the NBA MVP and.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: It was some big surprise.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, you knew that SGA had a pretty good
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: chance of winning it, So I think it could have
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: been a lot worse had he been, you know, breaking
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: something that just absolutely blew people away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I really do like SGA. I mean, he is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: There are games where it's like, I don't can you
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  Speaker 1: even miss, Like it's he's just such an unbelievable score.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think I don't even know if he
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  Speaker 1: deserved the MVP this year. I mean, he averaged thirty
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  Speaker 1: one points per game this season, but Nikola Jokic led
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  Speaker 1: the league in rebounds and assists.
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  Speaker 4: Well, And this is it's the same conversation last year
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  Speaker 4: because when he won it and it was between him
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: and Yokich, It's like, really.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's not the same conversation. It's a different conversation
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: because what I just said, Nikola Jokic, nobody has ever
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: done this before from a center position led the league
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  Speaker 1: in rebounds and assists this year thirteen rebounds and ten
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  Speaker 1: and zero point seven assists per game. That's insane. He
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: also averaged a steal and a half per game and
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: twenty eight points per game, so he barely qualified with
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: sixty five games played because you had to play at
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: least sixty five So maybe that was part of the equation.
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  Speaker 1: But they gave it to SGA, who played a hole
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  Speaker 1: whopping sixty eight.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he was way past the thresholder.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but thirty one points per game, four rebounds, six
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  Speaker 1: and a half assists. I mean there was a center
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  Speaker 1: who led the league in rebounds and assists in the
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  Speaker 1: same season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it should I don't think SGA should have
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  Speaker 3: won it.
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  Speaker 1: I would have gone with Jokic. That's who I would
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  Speaker 1: have voted for. All right, Coming up next, Scott Murkin
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