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Chuck in the Morning 8-4 Hour 1: Did the M's do enough? NFL News & Notes and Brady Russell. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Morning on your home for the Super Bowl Champion twelve
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  Speaker 3: Hey, well, great morning to you.
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  Speaker 4: It is live radio programming here from the Virginia Mason
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  Speaker 4: Athletics Center. Welcome into the show here on this Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Chuck Powell. Ashley Ryan with you as
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  Speaker 4: well as our training camp coverage continues. And yes, a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of dampness in the air here this morning,
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  Speaker 4: a little overcast in the air, Nothing wrong with that.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't gonna complain about that as we get ready
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  Speaker 4: for another practice here at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
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  Speaker 4: And Ashley Rilly, I'm kind of under the gun here
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  Speaker 4: because this is my last chance to get on the
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  Speaker 4: first a couple episodes of Hard Knocks.
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  Speaker 2: So far nobody, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean, I realized they probably already have it shot and
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  Speaker 4: ready to go for tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, tonight's episodes probably in the books.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but this is But if I did something spectacular
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  Speaker 4: today then maybe they couldn't resist like going back there,
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  Speaker 4: taking a few things out and putting me in there.
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  Speaker 5: That I didn't scratch the whole episode and make it
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  Speaker 5: more about you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm not gonna you know, I don't be ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, you know, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna go that far. I'm not saying it
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  Speaker 4: should be about me. I'm just saying there could be
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  Speaker 4: something that I do today that's important and they don't
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  Speaker 4: want that to get in the hands of other media outlets.
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  Speaker 2: Let's face it.
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  Speaker 4: So if they fell asleep on the job after I
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  Speaker 4: did something spectacular, you know, like uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like like if a deer.
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  Speaker 2: Ran out onto the field and collapsed and I brought
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  Speaker 2: it back to life.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, now, that would be definitely beginaranteed.
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  Speaker 6: To be an episode two at least, or like maybe
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  Speaker 6: maybe we're like the the credits are rolling and they
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  Speaker 6: kind of are showing some things there at the end.
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  Speaker 4: If I turn out to be the beast Master, I
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  Speaker 4: think they're gonna want that on the first episode.
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  Speaker 5: Well that I could guarantee.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they want me going to you know,
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  Speaker 4: Stars or Netflix taking your.
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  Speaker 5: Skills there, No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: So Hulu.
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  Speaker 4: Hulu loves a beast Masters story. I've heard so anyway, well.
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  Speaker 5: Known amongst media outlets.
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  Speaker 2: Well see, we'll see. I mean, I think they kind
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  Speaker 2: of took me for granted, maybe didn't take advantage of
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  Speaker 2: a great resource over here. But I'll watch anyway tonight.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 4: No cameras in my face, is the point. And I
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  Speaker 4: would have thought there would at least been they at
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  Speaker 4: least snooped around to see how interesting I could be.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe he'll be in the background. I could be in
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  Speaker 6: the background, right like maybe, yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: That legitimately could happen.
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  Speaker 4: But I really haven't seen them other than like driving
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  Speaker 4: past them in the morning and watching the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the poop truck empty out their facility.
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  Speaker 5: On their morning truck.
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  Speaker 3: They got their Yeah, well yeah, they got their own little.
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  Speaker 2: Operation back there.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, over on the train tracks deal when you on
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  Speaker 4: the tracks, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: They just live over there. Yeah. I think they spend
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  Speaker 2: the night in trailers right right over by the tracks.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: lot of stuff to discuss today, including the Hard Knocks episode,
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  Speaker 4: which will debut the first one in Seahawk's history, which
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  Speaker 4: we'll preview a little bit later on in the show today,
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  Speaker 4: but we are of course going to start with the
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  Speaker 4: Major League Baseball trading deadline. It came and went yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: and oh my goodness, was it busy. I think you
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  Speaker 4: might argue that's the busiest trade deadline day and the
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  Speaker 4: history of sports. There wasn't a lot of activity leading
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  Speaker 4: up to the weekend, and so they saved it all
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  Speaker 4: for the last three days, and particularly yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there were moves flying around.
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  Speaker 4: I've watched trade deadline days on MLB Network where they
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  Speaker 4: were begging for you know, that news breaking sounder to play,
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  Speaker 4: and last night it was interrupting, or yesterday afternoon, it
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  Speaker 4: was interrupting every conversation that they were trying to have
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  Speaker 4: about the last trade that was made. They would get
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  Speaker 4: interrupted by a new, updated deal. But it turns out
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  Speaker 4: the Mariners did not make another trade after our show
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  Speaker 4: we got in our nine o'clock hour yesterday. The last
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  Speaker 4: Mariner trade the Taylor Ward acquisition from the Baltimore Orioles
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  Speaker 4: for Alex Hoppey and two minor league prospects that weren't
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  Speaker 4: even among the top prospects in the organization to bring
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  Speaker 4: over Taylor Ward. And that, of course couples with the
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  Speaker 4: Luis Castillo trade that occurred over the weekend for Sir
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  Speaker 4: Anthony Dimingas Nolan Jones and another minor league prospect in
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  Speaker 4: Boston Smith, which I do find odd that you know here,
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  Speaker 4: you got your name, your kid, Boston Smith, and he
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  Speaker 4: grows up to play on the White Sox organization.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that seems like he shouldn't have been allowed.
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  Speaker 4: But now he's in the Mariners organization and it'll be
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  Speaker 4: a few years before we see him, if ever we
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  Speaker 4: shall see, but we do know that they have made
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  Speaker 4: a couple of moves that will affect the roster starting tonight,
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  Speaker 4: and Ashley got the opportunity possibly tonight where an offense
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  Speaker 4: that has struggled for the entire season has an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: here to activate Brendan Donovan and put Taylor Ward into
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  Speaker 4: the lineup. And man, you just add two you had
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  Speaker 4: two bats like that to a lineup, and it suddenly
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  Speaker 4: looks full, It suddenly looks robust, It certainly suddenly looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Man, how do we not win with this lineup right now? Well?
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  Speaker 6: And it's interesting because maybe maybe yesterday when we were
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  Speaker 6: talking about how we couldn't sleep because of the Major
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  Speaker 6: League Baseball trade deadline, that was tongue in cheek, or
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  Speaker 6: maybe those that being my first.
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  Speaker 5: Thoughts in the morning, that was, yeah, I couldn't either, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't take my nap, couldn't sleep last night.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I was so annoyed. I couldn't either, and I
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  Speaker 5: was so tired.
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  Speaker 6: But this morning when I woke up, my first thought
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  Speaker 6: was Mariner's play tonight.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm pretty pumped. I'm looking forward to it now.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what will happen when we get.
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  Speaker 6: On the field, but the optimism that I have is
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  Speaker 6: is very high.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I don't know how they're going to
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  Speaker 4: arrange it, but theoretically, you could of Cole Young leading off,
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  Speaker 4: Taylor Ward hitting second, Randy or Rose Arena third. You
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  Speaker 4: could go Josh Naylor if you wanted to put a
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  Speaker 4: lefty fourth, Julio could drop all the way to fifth.
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  Speaker 4: You could have dom Can zone than sixth cal seventh,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Brendon Donovan eighth, than cold Emerson ninth. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that is a that's a better lineup than the Astros have.
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  Speaker 4: It's a better lineup than the Rangers have. And we
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  Speaker 4: already know that we have better pitching staffs than both
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  Speaker 4: of those two teams. So again, we just land at
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  Speaker 4: this exact same place. There is no reason not to
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  Speaker 4: win the American League West. There just isn't. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it certainly isn't on paper. The only way that you
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  Speaker 4: don't win this division is if you just dreadfully underperform
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  Speaker 4: for the entire six months of the Major League Baseball season.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, think about that, think about the specter of
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  Speaker 4: that the only way that you don't win the division
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  Speaker 4: because the other two organizations aren't exactly in a position
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  Speaker 4: to pounce at this point. The Astros are down more
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  Speaker 4: than they've been in over a decade, and the Rangers,
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  Speaker 4: even though they're in the equation, tried to sell off
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  Speaker 4: every piece that they had at the trading deadline, and
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  Speaker 4: that shows you how they feel about their roster. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 4: we have a team that almost every expert in the
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  Speaker 4: field picked to win the American League West this year.
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  Speaker 4: Vegas still thinks has a pretty good shot at getting
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  Speaker 4: to the World Series, maybe even winning the World Series
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  Speaker 4: at this point. So the only way you don't win
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  Speaker 4: this division is if you collectively got together and for
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  Speaker 4: six months underachieved every single day.
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  Speaker 5: And boy, would that be really effing disappointment. I just
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  Speaker 5: would be pissed.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, if we get to the end of the season
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  Speaker 6: and that's what happened, because it's been disappointing to watch
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  Speaker 6: them underperformed this far, and it, yeah, for sure, and
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  Speaker 6: we just keep waiting. And that's the one thing, though,
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  Speaker 6: is we have that that.
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  Speaker 5: Well they there's they're slow to start. We've got the
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  Speaker 5: second half. We usually warm up in July. Okay, well
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  Speaker 5: July's over. We're now in August, so well, yeah, let's
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  Speaker 5: get it going.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So how did they do? Did they do enough?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they certainly could have done more. I said
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  Speaker 4: yesterday at this time twenty four hours ago. You didn't
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  Speaker 4: get better with the Luis Castillo trade. You cleared money
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  Speaker 4: for this year and next. You so you got rid
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  Speaker 4: of your worst contract in your organization. You cleared up
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  Speaker 4: your starting rotation, which, despite the embarrassment of riches that
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  Speaker 4: you seem to have at the starting pitching position, you
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  Speaker 4: sure took that advantage and turned it into arguably a
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  Speaker 4: detriment with the ways that you creatively tried to implement
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  Speaker 4: having six starters on a roster.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it worked. I don't think it was
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  Speaker 2: a disaster like some others tend to believe the piggyback
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  Speaker 2: or the six man rotation. But it certainly didn't.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't effective that it didn't make the team better,
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  Speaker 4: that's for sure. And so we're out from underneath that.
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  Speaker 4: So that's been clarified. We have a willing relief pitcher
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  Speaker 4: that we can add. Unlike Castillo. I think Castillo would
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  Speaker 4: have been a better relief pitcher than Sir Anthony Dominguez.
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  Speaker 4: I think had he accepted a demotion to the bullpen,
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  Speaker 4: and maybe he would have, you just didn't want him
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  Speaker 4: to suffer that indignity apparently well, I think Castillo could
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  Speaker 4: have been a very effective reliever. I'm not sure that
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  Speaker 4: Sir Anthony Dominguez is going to be a very effective reliever,
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  Speaker 4: but he is better than what we had behind the
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  Speaker 4: Big four, which might not even be the Big four
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  Speaker 4: anymore the way Bizardo has been pitching as of late.
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  Speaker 4: So I think Diminguez is an upgrade over Alex Hoppy,
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  Speaker 4: who has left and gone to Baltimore, but maybe not
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  Speaker 4: overwhelmingly so. So bottom line, I don't think we got
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  Speaker 4: better from the Castillo trade, even though there were some
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  Speaker 4: tremendous advantages to making that deal. I do believe we
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  Speaker 4: got better with Taylor Wards addition, and so I think
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  Speaker 4: that a team that had all sorts of troubles. It's
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  Speaker 4: the biggest problem with the team. They can't hit left handers.
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  Speaker 4: And now you bring in a professional hitter who's had
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  Speaker 4: a long career. He's been pretty productive for most of
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  Speaker 4: his career, and this season a reworked Taylor Ward does
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  Speaker 4: a couple of things that this lineup has not been
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  Speaker 4: good at. He gets on base at an extremely high clip.
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  Speaker 4: He leads the American League in walks, he's among the
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  Speaker 4: major league leaders, and on base percentage at three eighty three,
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  Speaker 4: and so that's something that this lineup has been missing.
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  Speaker 4: And he does actively hit left handed pitching. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I defend and will always defend the ref Schneider, Pollock
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  Speaker 4: Garver decisions in the moment. Don't ever defend the way
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  Speaker 4: they performed here, because it's been a disaster for all
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  Speaker 4: three of those guys. But in the moment, you were
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  Speaker 4: taking three veterans who had years of proven track record
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  Speaker 4: of hitting left handed pitching, and for whatever reason, they
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  Speaker 4: got here and couldn't do it anymore. Well, Rob Reschneider,
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  Speaker 4: I suppose has the excuse of, ah, there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: that can happen in six months off from the last
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  Speaker 4: time that I played baseball.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have that with Taylor Ward.
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  Speaker 4: He is presently hitting left handers actively. Yesterday he was
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  Speaker 4: hitting left handers all right. And so if he comes
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  Speaker 4: here and cannot hit a left hander and cannot hit
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  Speaker 4: it all and suddenly can't get on base. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know how to explain that. All I can tell you
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  Speaker 4: is based off of the numbers. He should give the
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  Speaker 4: Mariners a couple of things that they sorely need in
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  Speaker 4: their lineup, and that is an ability to hit left
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  Speaker 4: handers and an ability to get on base, and to
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  Speaker 4: create more traffic and more run scoring opportunities. And so
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  Speaker 4: from that standpoint, I don't think that we got aggressively
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  Speaker 4: better yesterday or over the course of.
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  Speaker 2: The trade deadline.
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  Speaker 4: But I think already the best roster in the American
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  Speaker 4: League West that has done nothing but underachieve for the
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  Speaker 4: entire season this year did get better yesterday where the
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  Speaker 4: Rangers did not and the Astros really did not. And
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  Speaker 4: so from that standpoint, yes, it's a successful I'll give
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  Speaker 4: it a B trading deadline. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: we could have expected Ashley anything ultra aggressive. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 4: little more aggressive. I could have seen a little more aggressive.
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  Speaker 4: But when you're three games under five hundred and you
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  Speaker 4: really are just waiting for your guys, I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: know that the rest of this season is going to
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  Speaker 4: hinge on whether Cal Julio and Josh hit the baseball.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of the way that's.
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  Speaker 4: Even with the addition of Taylor Ward, it's gonna come
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  Speaker 4: down to it's going to come down to whether there
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  Speaker 4: are three best hitters are going to hit this year
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  Speaker 4: at any point with any consistency. So from that standpoint,
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't expecting a team three games under five hundred
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  Speaker 4: to be overly aggressive, And frankly, I'm just relieved at
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  Speaker 4: this moment that we still have George Kirby, Emerson, Hancock,
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  Speaker 4: and Randy or Rose Arena on the roster.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that's the key, because that's what we
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  Speaker 6: talked about yesterday. That's what I was afraid of, is
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  Speaker 6: that we're going to get an update that one of
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  Speaker 6: those guys is gone, especially you know, to I would
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  Speaker 6: have I would have hated getting rid of Kirby. I
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  Speaker 6: could have I would have hated get getting rid of Emerson,
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  Speaker 6: although I could have understood that one more and I
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  Speaker 6: would I would have not understood why you're getting rid
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  Speaker 6: of the most consistent hitter in your lineup when hitting's
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  Speaker 6: been a problem. So to go into that trade deadline
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  Speaker 6: and yeah, not be overly aggressive, I'm fine with that,
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  Speaker 6: not even be aggressive, but you come away with a
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  Speaker 6: right handed hitter, which is what you needed.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't overpay for him. And there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, better team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, better team today than what they were at this
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  Speaker 4: time yesterday. And not again, not aggressively better, but better.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think that they needed to get aggressively better.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the Houston Astros added a Dalton VARs Show
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  Speaker 4: is a very He's a great defender and a good player.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we got to know him with the Toronto
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  Speaker 4: Blue Jays last year in the ALCS uh very well.
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  Speaker 2: He's a good player. That's who they added at the
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  Speaker 2: trading deadline, despite the fact that they had a much
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  Speaker 2: bigger need to add a starting pitcher than we had.
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  Speaker 3: Think about this, then we had to add a hitter.
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  Speaker 4: Their their need to add a starting pitcher was far
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  Speaker 4: more dramatic than our need to add a hitter here.
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  Speaker 3: And you know how badly we needed a hitter here.
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  Speaker 4: And yet they traded a starting pitcher, one of the
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  Speaker 4: guys in their rotation for Dalton var Show. And again
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  Speaker 4: he's he's going to improve their defense and center field,
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  Speaker 4: and he gives them a weapon and their and their
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  Speaker 4: life lip, just like Taylor Ward gives us a new
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  Speaker 4: weapon in our lineup, but they didn't even address that.
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  Speaker 4: Their biggest issue and that is starting pitching. And as
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  Speaker 4: I said, the Texas Rangers, they the only news that
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  Speaker 4: they made yesterday is that Jacob de Gram, Nate Yvaldi,
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  Speaker 4: and Corey Seeger told them We're not waiving our no
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  Speaker 4: trade claus. They tried to trade them all yesterday. That's
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  Speaker 4: how confident they are now. One thing I'm a little
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  Speaker 4: worried about is that we're gonna have like a major
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  Speaker 4: league situation here where they might rally around that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they tried to trade us all. A bunch of veterans
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  Speaker 4: might rally the troops around the idea that ownership and
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  Speaker 4: management wanted to give up on them when they were
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  Speaker 4: only two and a half games out of first place,
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  Speaker 4: And so maybe they rally around that fact. But the
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  Speaker 4: truth of the matter is that shows you just how
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  Speaker 4: confident the Rangers are that they can hang with the
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  Speaker 4: Astros and the Mariners the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of the way.
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  Speaker 4: So not only do I think we have a passing
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  Speaker 4: grade at the trading deadline, I'd give it a B.
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  Speaker 4: And compared to the Houston Astros, I mean they can't
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  Speaker 4: get any more than a C. And the Texas Rangers failed.
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  Speaker 4: They I mean they failed. I mean even the trades
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  Speaker 4: they tried to make got rebuked by the people they
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  Speaker 4: were trying to trade. So from my standpoint, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was a fine trading deadline. I'm not surprised that
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  Speaker 4: Jerry and Justin weren't overly aggressive, and I think, just
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  Speaker 4: as I've thought all season long, they're still despite the
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  Speaker 4: two and a half game deficit in the division, zero
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: reason why this team doesn't win the division, and if
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: they don't, then it's just a case of six months
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: of classic underachieving. There is nothing wrong with this roster
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: compared to those within our division who are hunting for
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: the same thing.
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  Speaker 6: Right, They're and not saying that winning the division is
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: the end goal, because we have some people who are like, wait,
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: that we want more than that. Yeah you want, sure,
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: but you should, but you should start by winning the
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: division and then go from there.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Well, I say this repeatedly. I just want to get into.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: The dance, yes, exactly, and then you never know what happens.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in this sport, this is not the NBA, this
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: is not not even the National Football League.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: This is Major League Baseball. I mean, the Los Angeles
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Dodgers have won back to back world titles. They won
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: by a cleat, literally a cleat over the Toronto Blue
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Jays last year. Isaiah Kiner Filefa didn't get his cleat
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: to the bag before he got tagged. That's how close
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: the Blue Jays came to beating the Dodgers. And the
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: year before, the Dodgers weren't even the best team in
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: their division. The Padres were better, and they absolutely blew
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: a playoff series, absolutely blew it and allowed the Dodgers
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: to get through the door that they had no business
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: passing through. So anything can happen in the playoffs, especially
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: when you have great pitching. And I think that we
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: are going to have great pitching, not just starting pitching.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I know that there's this big conversation about we should
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: have added another reliever. I could have lived with adding
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: another reliever, but I don't think we needed to. And
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I'll explain that a little bit later on in the
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: show U at seven thirty as a matter of fact,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: when I intend to talk about the trade deadline again.
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• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Ryan Heally's gonna join us at nine o'clock today to
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: talk about the deadline and the rest of the way.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: A lineup that will feature Taylor Ward and we are
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: expecting Brendan Donovan to be activated from the injury list
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: and from his paternity leave in time for tonight's game. Also,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Sir Anthony Demingez should be in a Mariner uniform tonight
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: as well as the Mariners get set to host the
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Detroit Tigers six forty. As your first pitch, Emerson Hancock
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: pitches for the Ems, Troy Melton, who actually gave us
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: more trouble than Trek Scooble. If you remember in the
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: series we played against the Tigers last year, Melton's the
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: guy we couldn't hit. Ray Polanco owned Trek Schooble. Nobody
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: could hit Troy Melton.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I have read that he's supposed to start tonight, but
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: then I also read this morning that they're undecided.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: So if we get any update on that, I'll pass
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: that along. But I'd like to avoid Troy Melton. I
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: don't think there's any way to do it over the
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: course of the next three days because he is really
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: damn good. Trek Scooble's going to debut for the Dodge
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: tonight in Chicago against the Cubs. I have a little
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: more to say on school, because there was one thing
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: about the whole Dodger conversation we had at nine o'clock
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: that I really think is important that I make clear.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: I'll just say shortly quickly that I'm not blaming the
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Dodgers for acting like the Dodgers. What I'm blaming is
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: that there's a system that is in place in Major
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: League Baseball where the Dodgers can be the Dodgers, if
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: that makes any sense. If it doesn't, I'm going to
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: explain that a little bit later on. In the show
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Little League World Series Snowhomish Boy, there's something about Lake Mary.
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  Speaker 4: They just whooped are local ladies of the snow and
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  Speaker 4: over the Storm ninety five eighty three Brianna Stewart against
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  Speaker 4: her former team twenty four points and eight rebounds. And
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks training camp continues. That's why we're here. Hard
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  Speaker 4: Knocks episode, the first one is tonight. Kobe Bryant, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, injured and out six to eight weeks for
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  Speaker 4: the Chicago Bears, so his new team and the Hall
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  Speaker 4: of Fame game will be played this Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Preseason football to be played this Thursday between
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: the Panthers and the Cardinals with Hall of Fame weekend
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  Speaker 2: coming up on Saturday.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Coming up next though, on our program, we're gonna go
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: over some NFL news and notes. We don't have Mariners
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: morning after, but there are lots of NFL news and
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: notes to pass along, including b Jean Robinson breaking the bank.
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  Speaker 2: We'll tell you about it next.
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  Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Hey, Chuck and
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Ashley with you as our camp coverage continues to hear
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• 23:06
  Speaker 4: are going to talk a few NFL news and notes
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: before I get started. Though obviously I won't speak on
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  Speaker 4: behalf of Ashley, but I think that she's with me
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: on this that we want to just offer our support
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: to all the people in Spokane. What a horrible situation
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: out there, and we just want safety for all and
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: thinking of you. And I know that the you know,
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: thoughts and prayers cliche gets kind of made fun of
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: in today's world, but I don't know what else how
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: else to say it. Our thoughts are with them and
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: we're praying for them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry, that the fire can get contained.
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  Speaker 6: And I did post something on X yesterday that's like
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: a list of resources that people want to donate to
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  Speaker 6: help people.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: So that's an option too if people want to help.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well, yes, thoughts and prayers to all
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: those in Spokane. The firefighters fighting the blaze and everything,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: everyone trying to fight evil out there. So certainly it's
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the weight heavy on a lot of people here today.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk some NFL news and notes. A
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: busy news day today.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Bjon Robinson has signed the biggest deal for a running
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: back in NFL history. The Falcon Star running back has
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: agreed to a three year extension worth up to seventy
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: five million dollars. It's fifty one million dollars guaranteed.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: It's twenty two point five million dollars per year, which
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: does break Saquon Barkley's record of twenty points six million
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: dollars per year annually for the Star Falcons running.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Back, which, of course that's a lot of money, but
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, when you think about it, it just so pales
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: in comparison to other star athletes in sports right now.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, Trek Scooble is going to get a sixty
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: million dollars per year contract this offseason from the Dodgers,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: as long as there's not some huge lockout, which there
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: might be. So and then you think about Baker Mayfield,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: you know, fighting for fifty five million dollars a year
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: and apparently was offered fifty and it's not nearly enough.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: And here is arguably the best running back in the
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: National Football League and Bijon Robinson and he tops out.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: He sets a record at twenty two and a half
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: million dollars. It just shows you how the league has
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: treated slash mistreated running backs here over the last decade
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: or so. And I do mostly belong. I do mostly
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: subscribe to the camp of the You know, running backs
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: are a dime a dozen, but that's only from the
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: standpoint of yes, there are a lot more guys that
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: you can find to run the football for you in
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: the National Football You even find guys to run the
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: football for you in the National Football League. But Bijon
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Robinson's oh no, no, no.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Those guys.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Those guys are not dime a dozen. Those guys are
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: worth their weight in gold. And I think about Seahawk situation. Here,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: we're without Ken Walker, and I think that this offense
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: can end up having a productive running game. I think
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Jadarian Price, I'm expecting that he plays a nice role
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: in all of that. I'm expecting that Zach Charbonay comes
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: back and is at least the one a running back
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: that he was a year ago, which was an effective
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: running back at times. I am expecting that our offensive line,
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: which seemed to find its groove running the football toward
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: the end of the regular season and carried that into
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: the playoffs, is gonna get even better at that. So actually,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: I think there's a good chance we're gonna have a
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: really We're gonna have a solid running game, maybe even
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: a really good running game. But I don't think it's
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: gonna look like it looked at the end of the
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: year with Ken Walker running wild on NFL teams, And
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: I certainly don't think it has anywhere close to the
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: upside that the Atlanta Falcons have the Detroit Lions have
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: because they have the special not only do I run
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: the ball for fifteen hundred yards in a season, but
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I'll catch ninety passes to kind of running backs in
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: their backfield, and that just you just that you don't
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: find that growing on trees. I mean, that's just a
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: level that is beyond on what most teams have, and
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: it should be worth more than twenty two point five
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: million dollars per year.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I would think so.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: And I do think in somebody like Bjon Robbinson's case,
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: to earn the money that he's going to earn. And
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: to see I mean, because we've talked a lot about how, yeah,
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: the running backs are underpaid, and finally it does seem
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: like they're recognizing, oh no, it's actually a very valuable asset,
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: not only to just our overall game, but especially to
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: our quarterback.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: It gives them another option.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Well, it kind of corrected itself. There was a recognition
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: of okay, maybe we are overpaying running backs, and so
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: it corrected. But then it overcorrected.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, and then all of a sudden, now running backs
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: can't get a payday at running backs are considered.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Washed at twenty eight a dime a dozen.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Saquon Barkley, you know, they pretty much just let
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: walk from the New York Giants. They didn't want to
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: invest in him, and then he ends up being an
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: MVP type player that pretty much delivers the Super Bowl
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: to Philadelphia. He was the best player on that team
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: that won the Super Bowl. And so we are course correcting.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know how far it will go the other way,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: but this is a step in the right direction. And
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: now Jamir Gibbs, who said yesterday, only time will tell
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: when he returns to practice. I would think he's going
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: to get at least what Beijon got. And so there's
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: a new high bar in the National Football League for
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: running backs as special as Barkley, Robinson and Gibbs. Aaron
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Donald also in the news today. We're still kind of
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: waiting to find out if, in fact that he will
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: return to the Los Angeles Rams and I think something's
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: been left out of the conversation about Aaron Donald. Aaron Donald,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: if he wanted to just win another Super Bowl, would
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: have come back last year. I mean, they had a
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: team that could have won the Super Bowl right a
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: year ago, was very close.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: To winning the Suer.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: He could have come back at any time during the
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: season if he just wanted to win another Super Bowl.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: He wants to come back to play with Miles Garrett.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Now, why is that? Is it? Because Miles Garrett is
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: just so charismatic and I got to soak up everything
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: about Miles Garrett. You know, I think we could become
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: best friends. Maybe we'll room together on the road, Maybe
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: we'll form a family band and tour the country. Miles
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: and I, No, it has nothing to do with that.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: It has everything to do with Aaron Donald. Wants to
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: find out what he can do at the top of
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: his game in the National Football League when he's not
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: double teamed and triple teamed every play. This is Aaron
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Donald scratching a curiosity that he has about his own abilities.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I dominated the National Football League for my defensive tackle
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: position and defense's game plan for me.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Every single play.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Well, they can't do that if Miles Garrett's on the outside.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: They can't double team us both. They can't triple tea
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: me and double team him. And so this is a
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: lot more about Aaron Donald than it is.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: About the Rams than people are letting on.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: He's considering a comeback because he wants to actually experience
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: the National Football League where he can just you know,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: he doesn't have to constantly be attended to by opposing offenses.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: And so if Aaron Donald in his workouts, and this
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: is why I think there's a delay, is like, I'm
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: not the same player and I don't think I can
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: get back to being the same player. Two years off
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: is an awful long time. And yeah, I stayed in shape.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: I look damn good, but that doesn't mean I'm.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: In football shape.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: And so if he doesn't feel like he can be
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Aaron Donald again. I don't think he's coming back, and
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: I think that's what's holding this up. He wants to
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: make damn sure that when he comes back to the
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: National Football League for the reasons of I want to
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: see what Aaron Donald, the great Aaron Donald myself and
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: do against offenses that aren't game planning against me on
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: every single play.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: But I can't be that if I'm not.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: The same guy.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: If I come back and just embarrass myself and I'm
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: not even getting double teamed, then I'm going to ruin
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: my legacy. I will have fought to come back for nothing.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: I don't know if he really cares about winning another
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl, Otherwise he would have come out of retirement
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: last year. So I think this is purely about whether
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Aaron Donald thinks he can get back to being the
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: same player he was when he retired, and if he can't,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: he's not gonna come back.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: That's my feeling, and I feel like that's a perfectly
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: reasonable thing to do, because, Yeah, the last thing you
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: want to do is have this illustrious career that everybody
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: talks about how great you were in the NFL, and
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: then you didn't know when you knew originally when to
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: hang it up, but then you're like, oh no, wait
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: a minute, I think I might have a little bit more,
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: only to not have more.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you tied a pretty bow on it.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: You retired earlier, you left everybody wanting more, well maybe
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: not us, so left the world wanting more, and then
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: you got off the stage and let everybody speculate about
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: how much more you could have done had you just
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: stayed when you had plenty left in the tank. And
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: now you're going to jeopardize all of that two years
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: later by coming back.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: And I think he's got too much.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Self pride, not team pride, self pride to jeopardize anything
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: that he has accomplished individually. He doesn't want his last
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: thing remembered about him to be Hey, remember when Aaron
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Donald tried to come back and he was a shell
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: of his former self. He wasn't even facing double teams anymore,
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: and he was a joke. You know, that's the last
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: thing Aaron Donald wants to have happened.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because it's his legacy, not the teams, that's that
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: he should be worried about.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: I think that's all he is worthy exactly, Otherwise he
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: would have come back a year ago. Brady Russell's going
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: to join us at our set next. He's always entertaining
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio Ty three point three kJ RFM.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: If we could have created that, we don't.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Have the manpower unfortunately, but we do have Brady Russell
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: joining us here at our set from your Seattle Seahawks
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: here at training camp. Always enjoyable to talk to the
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: big personality that is our full back slash tight end,
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Brady Russell.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: How you doing many, sir? I'm good. I'm happy to
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: be here. Great to see you. Yeah, it's good to
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: see you. Feeling I feel great?
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, fresh fresh legs even though it's day nine practice.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Nine eggs on day nine of practice. Well, that probably
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: speaks to either it's a soft camp, that's what you're
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: telling us, or you're saying that I did my work often.
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: No, I just did my work good. Yeah, punch the
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: what do they say p's and q's something like.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: That, something like that, something like that. All right, So,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: I mean I don't want to bury the lead here.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: I mean football you would think would be the lead.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: It's not the lead in Brady Russell's life.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Your wife is due like any second.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: No are you distracted right now because you're afraid you're
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: gonna miss a text or a phone call.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: No.
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: No, she's got plenty of numbers in the building here,
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: so they can come get a hold of me in
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: meetings or something. But it is pretty crazy that it
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: could just be at any moment, all of a sudden,
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: I'm pulled out because my life's in labor or something.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: But we could be watching practice today and if you're
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: running off the field, we know what's going on.
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: It's either that or I'm going pe one of the two.
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: One of the two. That happened almost every practice. Nobody knows,
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: but most every practice.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: All right, so is this your first child?
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir, first child? Yeah, we got a little girl. Yep,
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  Speaker 8: little Hadley Hadley Russell.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. I like it.
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  Speaker 8: Unless she doesn't look like a Hadley, then I don't
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  Speaker 8: know what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: How do you determine? I don't know. It's a good question.
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  Speaker 8: People ask me that, though, They go, what if she
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  Speaker 8: doesn't look like a Hadley?
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a plan B. Right now, right you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna panic and just name her Oots. Yep, I'm only
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  Speaker 2: all right. We're gonna go with Oots. That's funny, nimember Robbie,
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  Speaker 2: Robbie be cute girl? Name would be a cute girl? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Uh so are you nervous excited? How you're feeling
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  Speaker 4: about Because excited?
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  Speaker 2: Excited? For sure.
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  Speaker 8: It's gonna be just a whole new phase of life.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm sure give me a whole new perspective on
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  Speaker 8: what it's like.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the.
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  Speaker 8: Kind of the I feel like I'm gonna get a
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  Speaker 8: crazy perspective on the way God sees us as his children,
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  Speaker 8: like just being the creator and your creation and the
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  Speaker 8: pride you have in that and the like the good
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  Speaker 8: you want for it like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be really cool. That is a
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  Speaker 2: cool that's a cool way to look at things. Brady
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  Speaker 2: Russell is with us is hard knocks following you around?
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  Speaker 2: Do they know this? Did they have? No?
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  Speaker 8: I don't think they do. But I think that's kind
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  Speaker 8: of funny. What a great storyline.
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  Speaker 2: I'll keep it secret, your secret safe with me.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody listens to this show secret safe with me, so
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  Speaker 4: I won't tell anybody. Well, let's talk a little football,
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  Speaker 4: then New offensive coordinator this year, and I keep hearing
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  Speaker 4: that man and he's doing some interesting things with running
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  Speaker 4: backs and tight ends and you're in both rooms.
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  Speaker 3: So is that true?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely, He's using us in all sorts of ways, different
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  Speaker 8: ways that are. It's so creative in the run game
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  Speaker 8: and stuff and innovative too, So I think it's fun
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  Speaker 8: getting to like you're running stuff and it might be
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  Speaker 8: the sort of the first time it's ever really been run.
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  Speaker 8: So it's like, hey, we want you to do X,
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  Speaker 8: y Z this way instead of this way. Like it
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  Speaker 8: might be like correcting things on the move because because
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  Speaker 8: we haven't ever done it before.
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  Speaker 2: So can you give us an example or would that
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  Speaker 2: be a violation of turn?
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  Speaker 8: I mean it could just be like a certain motion,
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  Speaker 8: like you want me to motion in a certain way
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  Speaker 8: so that it looks like something else and presents itself
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  Speaker 8: in a different way than it actually is. Like they
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  Speaker 8: might think I'm running a different play and then I
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  Speaker 8: go do something totally different because it presents itself as
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  Speaker 8: something and flip the script and is totally the opposite.
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  Speaker 4: It is it natural to when you when you get
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  Speaker 4: introduced to a new offensive system where you're like this
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  Speaker 4: does everybody just think this is really going to benefit
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  Speaker 4: me personally.
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody probably hopes.
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  Speaker 4: That yeah, yeah, but but but you're such a team guy,
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  Speaker 4: like does your is your first thought, like, man, this
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  Speaker 4: is a really good offense, this is really going to
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  Speaker 4: benefit Sam.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's my first thought really.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's more like every year, my one of
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  Speaker 8: my goals for the last three years, I'd say it
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  Speaker 8: has been the carve outer role on offense, and it's
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  Speaker 8: never really happened, never come to fruition. But that's been okay,
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  Speaker 8: Like we I'm still here, I'm on the team, I'm
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  Speaker 8: loving ball, I'm doing what I feel like Gods created
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  Speaker 8: me to do. Right, And just because that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 8: him involved in the offensive scheme, that doesn't mean it's
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  Speaker 8: not a good thing. Like we won a super Bowl
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  Speaker 8: last year, right, Like that doesn't obviously that was good
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  Speaker 8: and and I.
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  Speaker 2: Knew what he was doing, right Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So like while everybody wants to be involved in while
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  Speaker 8: everybody wants their talents to be presented, like at this
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  Speaker 8: end of the day, like we all just want to
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  Speaker 8: win too. So I think that seems to be a
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  Speaker 8: sentiment that's pretty like it goes across the whole team.
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  Speaker 8: It's not just me. It's thinking that way.
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  Speaker 2: How about Hadley, We'll never have to know a day
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  Speaker 2: where you're not a Super Bowl champion.
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  Speaker 8: I'm actually planning on her calling me super Bowl champion
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  Speaker 8: before she says father. Her first word, first word is
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  Speaker 8: super Bowl champion.
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  Speaker 4: That'd be quite the thing to pull off, right there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, score a couple of touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: For it this year would be nice. That would be nice.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Special tea you're not opposed to it. Special teams
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  Speaker 4: is obviously a role that you've embraced, and it's it's
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  Speaker 4: one thing to embrace that and to accept that. It's
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  Speaker 4: another thing when your organization embraces that. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: I'll be honest, I'm I'm not one of those guys.
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  Speaker 4: As a sports talk show host, I kind of always
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  Speaker 4: laughed at the three phases of the game, like there's
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  Speaker 4: no way special teams is orton his defense and offense.
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  Speaker 4: Until I watched your team play last year and win
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  Speaker 4: a Super Bowl, and I'm like, this is all three
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  Speaker 4: phases and they're all very good, too, great, all three phases,
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  Speaker 4: And by the end of the year, Special Teams was
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  Speaker 4: off the charts. So what's it like to be somebody
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  Speaker 4: that has embraced special teams for an organization that has
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  Speaker 4: really embraced special teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's so cool to have.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, they pour so much into me and in
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  Speaker 8: the way that that like they trust me to lead
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  Speaker 8: a lot of the players, and they trust me to
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  Speaker 8: coach guys that are like the young guys and bring
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  Speaker 8: them along with me. So it's like it's a really
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  Speaker 8: cool role to have because while I don't get recognized
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  Speaker 8: by the public or I'm not like a big name
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  Speaker 8: in the Seahawks organization, Like, there's a whole lot of trust,
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  Speaker 8: in a whole lot of I guess value that they
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  Speaker 8: put into me that sure is unseen, and like it's
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  Speaker 8: a cool it's a cool feeling.
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  Speaker 4: So is there inner competitions like you and tyrees have,
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  Speaker 4: you know, tackle competitions on special teams play? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: does that that happen as in special teams?
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure everybody probably wants to lead the team in tackles.
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  Speaker 8: But also at the end of the day, like I
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  Speaker 8: think this is a really evident thing on film that
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  Speaker 8: I love, Like a lot of teams you'll see someone
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  Speaker 8: get tackled and everybody just kind of someone gets up
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  Speaker 8: and then the person gets up and they walk off
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  Speaker 8: the field. But like every time someone makes a play
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  Speaker 8: on our team, like almost all eleven are there just
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  Speaker 8: freaking out, like celebrate we just got to tackle inside
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  Speaker 8: the twenty five, Like I don't care whether it was
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  Speaker 8: me that set an edge and Tyrese got to go
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  Speaker 8: make the play or Tyree's funneled it to me and
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  Speaker 8: I got to make the play, Like I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 8: made the play if it wasn't for the other team
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  Speaker 8: that are out there with me. So at the end
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  Speaker 8: of the day, like, yeah, everybody wants to tackle because
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  Speaker 8: it's fun to go smack somebody, But uh, we don't
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  Speaker 8: really have competitions in that way. We're just we're just
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  Speaker 8: pumped for each other to make plays.
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  Speaker 4: That said, there's you see all these turnover chains and everything.
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  Speaker 4: They have a special team like a bat that you
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  Speaker 4: just put a notch on, Like you get to notch
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  Speaker 4: the bat, Yeah, carried around on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 8: What do you think, Yeah, we need some kickoff backle
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  Speaker 8: bats something something to celebrate the big special team shit,
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  Speaker 8: because you guys, as a collective get a lot of those.
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  Speaker 2: Well, man, you got a lot of things going for you.
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  Speaker 2: You look lean and yet.
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  Speaker 4: You're heavier, so you've you've created the magical combo of
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  Speaker 4: the off season. You're a super Bowl champion, and you
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  Speaker 4: got you got a baby on the way.
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  Speaker 2: So life is good for Brady, right, It's great, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's great, all right. Great to see you, yep. Always
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  Speaker 2: a pleasure to have you on. Brady Russell joining us
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  Speaker 2: right here on the radio program, Back with More. Greg
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  Speaker 2: Bell joins us next Sports Radio ninety three point three
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