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Chuck & Buck 2-18 Hour 3: Bryan Woo, Jeremy Guthrie and more as the Pitcher's Day celebrations continue! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three kJ r f M, and happy pictures
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  Speaker 1: Day to everybody out there. I mean, I know you've
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  Speaker 1: exchanged your greeting cards, uh and probably boxes of candy
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  Speaker 1: and celebration of Pitcher's Day right here on Chuck and
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  Speaker 1: Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ.
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  Speaker 2: R f M.
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  Speaker 1: And it would not be complete if we didn't talk
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  Speaker 1: to the guy that had the most outstanding season of
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  Speaker 1: our starting pitchers last year. Brian wu is with us
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  Speaker 1: right here on Chuck and Buck. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: We're doing great?
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  Speaker 3: Goodness?
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  Speaker 1: See yeah, how are you feeling good? How was the
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  Speaker 1: off season?
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  Speaker 2: Did he have a baby?
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  Speaker 3: Did you get married, did you get engaged?
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  Speaker 2: Anything?
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  Speaker 4: It seems like there's a lot of that going around here.
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  Speaker 5: We're taking that time. No, it was good.
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  Speaker 6: Short obviously, but that's kind of that's how we like
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  Speaker 6: it to be around here now.
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  Speaker 1: Short off seasons, I might need you to be the
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  Speaker 1: evaluator of what happened this offseason to your pitching staff.
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  Speaker 1: So help me break just so we get a better idea.
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller and George Kirby proposed right to their correct.
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  Speaker 1: Who would you think was the more romantic proposal? Knowing
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  Speaker 1: them the way that you know them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get in it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh boy, George easily, I'd say George, George, George puts
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  Speaker 6: some thought into it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, it's he probably.
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  Speaker 6: He probably planned it out romantic, you know, make it intimate,
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  Speaker 6: hang out with the family or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: After.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure Bryce had something going through his head. I
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  Speaker 6: couldn't tell you what it was.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't figure that guy.
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  Speaker 5: I don't really.
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  Speaker 6: I think we're over complicated. I don't think there's a
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  Speaker 6: lot going on up there anyway.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, So who do you think is better at
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  Speaker 1: changing a poopy diaper? Logan, Gilbert or image in Handcott.
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  Speaker 5: That's also an easy answer. I'm taking Emerson all day.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Logan's uh, Logan's great in a lot of high
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  Speaker 6: pressure situations.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think changing a diaper is one of them.
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  Speaker 1: I think Logan would pick up like the heavy diaper
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  Speaker 1: and then start doing a workout with it, like help
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  Speaker 1: can get some jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Out of this.
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  Speaker 6: No, I bet Emerson hasn't missed a beat, and I
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  Speaker 6: bet Logan's fallen way behind. But I'm sure I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure I'll figure it out what time. The thing
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  Speaker 6: that I was more worried about Logan was the sleep schedule.
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  Speaker 6: He's a he's a big sleeper, so one two year
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  Speaker 6: old newborns. Yeah, I haven't I haven't exactly asked him,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm sure that I'm sure his wife is doing
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  Speaker 6: a lot of the heavy lifting there too.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: In all seriousness, I am curious just I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been just swimming along as this foursome along
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  Speaker 1: with you know, Luis Castillo, the big brother figure, obviously
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  Speaker 1: off to tremendous starts in your career with a long
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  Speaker 1: way to go, and all of a sudden you start
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  Speaker 1: adding significant changes in your personal life to this. Are
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  Speaker 1: they reacting any differently? Do they look any differently out there?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how are they handling all of this added
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  Speaker 1: to their plate?
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  Speaker 5: So far? Looks pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I think we got a lot of newborns,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of young families on the team as well,
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  Speaker 6: So I think it's something that it's a you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's a little bit of a collaborative effort. I think
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  Speaker 6: with the guys and the wives and you know, everybody's
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  Speaker 6: kind of helping each other out. I think everyone's a
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  Speaker 6: lot of people are in the same situation right now.
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  Speaker 2: So but.
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  Speaker 6: All I know is hopefully we got some dads strength
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  Speaker 6: coming and yeah, maybe wiser with the with the years
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  Speaker 6: and and the newborns. And I'm thinking all the positive stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Good dad strength. It is real. It's a real thing,
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's ever tangled with their old man knows
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  Speaker 4: that's real. My dad could still kick my ass and
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  Speaker 4: he's five and six and eighty years old. Yeah, well
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  Speaker 4: they cheat too, I know that for a fact. Oh man,
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  Speaker 4: the first time I tried bowing up on him, he
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  Speaker 4: grabbed an area that is sensitive and squeezed and I
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  Speaker 4: went down to my knees.
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  Speaker 3: He said, if you ever feel froggy, go ahead and jump.
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  Speaker 3: That works out for you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, uh well, let's uh, let's talk some pitching here
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  Speaker 1: on Picture's Day with Brian Wu. I want to bring
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  Speaker 1: up a source subject just to get it out of
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  Speaker 1: the way, because obviously you're swimming along, having the just
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  Speaker 1: an outstanding year, All Star everything else, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in Cy Young voting and everything else, and then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here you are for the biggest
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  Speaker 1: games of the year getting ready for the playoffs, and
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  Speaker 1: I remember the look on you her face out there
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  Speaker 1: on the mound when you threw that pitch, and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't write. So how difficult was it for the
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  Speaker 1: timing of that getting ready for the playoffs and here
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  Speaker 1: you were not sure if you were ever going to
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  Speaker 1: be healthy enough to be able to contribute to the team.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's frustrating.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, injuries never fun, and then to come at a
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  Speaker 6: time like that, it was super unfortunate. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: you work with the hand that you're dealt and you know,
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  Speaker 6: I put a lot of trust and and faith and
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  Speaker 6: our and our training staff, and you know, it was unfortunate.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously wouldn't have wanted to go that way, but yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you got to deal with the hand your Dealton did
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  Speaker 6: our best to get back and.
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  Speaker 5: It was definitely.
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  Speaker 6: A motivational point going into the off season of you know, one,
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  Speaker 6: you want to get back into that lot, but to
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  Speaker 6: you want to you know, contribute the way that that
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  Speaker 6: you know how so, yeah, you learn from it. It stinks,
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  Speaker 6: but luckily we've got a bunch of other guys that
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  Speaker 6: are pretty good at at the same thing, so makes
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  Speaker 6: that part a little bit easier.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, frustrating for everybody, including us, you know, just
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  Speaker 4: as fans getting to watch it, especially after the year
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  Speaker 4: that you had. But I mean that was a spectacular year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that was that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean yeah, I mean it was it was I mean,
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  Speaker 4: was there something different? Did something click last year? I
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  Speaker 4: mean it's not like you weren't good before that, but
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  Speaker 4: last year was way more of a just kind of
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  Speaker 4: every single time you went out there, you're going six
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  Speaker 4: innings and absolutely shoving. Was there anything that clicked for
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  Speaker 4: you last year?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 6: I think it's just like I always talk about it,
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  Speaker 6: it's just a you know, cumultive day by day, just
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  Speaker 6: trying to be as consistent as I can be, trying
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  Speaker 6: to learn and get better using the time that we
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  Speaker 6: have with each other, with you know, with the pitchers,
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  Speaker 6: of the catchers, whoever it is. It's building relationships with
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  Speaker 6: the guys in the locker room, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 6: a it's a holistic approach of how can I just
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  Speaker 6: get a little bit better each day. I think you
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  Speaker 6: try to take it in huge chunks. It you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's it's not gonna it's not gonna pin out the
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  Speaker 6: way that you wanted it to. So for me, I've
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  Speaker 6: just learned that little steps, consistency, getting a little bit
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  Speaker 6: better every day, that's all it really is. So if
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  Speaker 6: I can, you know, bring that approach into every day
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  Speaker 6: and try to get a little bit better every day,
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  Speaker 6: and then when it's time for me to go take
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  Speaker 6: the ball, it's just you know, compete the best way
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  Speaker 6: that I know how.
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  Speaker 5: That's all you can really do.
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  Speaker 6: So I think, yeah, last year was just a kind
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  Speaker 6: of a culmination of that of just consistency and you know,
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  Speaker 6: doing my job every fifth day.
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  Speaker 1: Brian WUIs with us ready around Chuck A. Buck Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M, And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I know in talking to you in the past, you
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  Speaker 1: just said that message just just you know, sharpening things
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  Speaker 1: always in the off season. Bryce probably came back with
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  Speaker 1: a gyro ball this year, and you know, Logan probably
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  Speaker 1: has a you know, some sort of an aquarium that
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  Speaker 1: he's carrying around to try to help his arm flexibility.
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  Speaker 1: But you kind of you just kind of fine tune
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  Speaker 1: always in the off season. So I'm assuming that's what
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  Speaker 1: you stayed with. You just rode that horse again this year.
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  Speaker 6: Yep, pretty much yeah, no, no new toys, just kind
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  Speaker 6: of just raising the floor of everything. I just you know,
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  Speaker 6: if everything can be just a little bit better every day.
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  Speaker 6: And yeah, yeah, same same five pitches for me, same stuff. Obviously,
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  Speaker 6: you're always always looking for ways to get better, but
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  Speaker 6: not not really reinventing the wheel.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, motivating wise or motivation wise, I mean getting to
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  Speaker 4: where you guys got and ultimately we already went over
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  Speaker 4: the kind of the frustrating part of not being able
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  Speaker 4: to be a big part of the postseason. But you
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  Speaker 4: still know how much you contributed to get to that point.
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  Speaker 4: I mean with the regular season that you had, so
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  Speaker 4: you still as a squad come up short of where
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  Speaker 4: you want to be. So how motivated was that as
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  Speaker 4: it were one of those all right, that's the next
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  Speaker 4: step and then we just build on that for this year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 6: I think you know, everybody in that locker room felt
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  Speaker 6: how how Game seven felt in Toronto, being uh, in
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  Speaker 6: that clubhouse and on the bus ride, on the on
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  Speaker 6: the plane home, like you could feel obviously how much
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  Speaker 6: it meant to those guys, and yeah, you kind of
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  Speaker 6: just trying to bottle that up and take that into
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  Speaker 6: the off season, take to the next season. Obviously, it's
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  Speaker 6: it's not really a situation of like, all right, we're
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  Speaker 6: just gonna get back to that point and win, like
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  Speaker 6: you gotta re you know, you got to earn that
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  Speaker 6: again starting in camp, and we we know what it
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  Speaker 6: takes now we know, you know a little bit more
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  Speaker 6: about our group as a whole, and you know what
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  Speaker 6: it takes to get through a whole season and then
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  Speaker 6: what it takes to you know, climb your way through
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  Speaker 6: the postseason. And it was it was definitely good experience
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  Speaker 6: for everybody, especially just having a pretty young group. But
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  Speaker 6: is in super experience in terms of you know, playoff experience,
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, it was. You know, you try to take
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  Speaker 6: that as a positive in terms of the learning experience,
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  Speaker 6: but you also you bottle up that that motivation of
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  Speaker 6: of how much that Game seven stung.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of motivation and inspiration, I'm curious you guys as
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  Speaker 1: a group, I don't know, I think like six or
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  Speaker 1: seven of you I saw in the photo, maybe more
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  Speaker 1: of you went to the Super Bowl to watch the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: How how much did that add to the motivation and
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  Speaker 1: inspiration to see how Seattle reacts to a championship run.
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  Speaker 3: Like that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's it's pretty cool. I think we
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  Speaker 6: we've had the you know the privilege of talking to
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  Speaker 6: a few guys as we got to talk to McDonald
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  Speaker 6: a little bit about you know, just the the winning
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  Speaker 6: and you know, building something special, but also the culture
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  Speaker 6: and the process of which you know that requires. And
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  Speaker 6: I think that's the stuff that I try to take
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  Speaker 6: more from. Obviously, an incredibly talented team and you know,
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  Speaker 6: they they looked pretty strong all season and then just
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  Speaker 6: kind of got better as a year went on.
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  Speaker 5: But talking more about you know, how.
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  Speaker 6: He approaches every single day and you know, the commitment
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  Speaker 6: and the thought process and you know, the culture within
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  Speaker 6: the building and how you get people to kind of
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  Speaker 6: change the way that they think about each other and
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  Speaker 6: winning and you know, all those little things. That was
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  Speaker 6: the stuff that impressed me a lot more. And then,
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  Speaker 6: like you said, obviously that to see how the city
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  Speaker 6: of Seattle, you know, receives and supports and each game
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  Speaker 6: you know at Lumen is it's unbelievable obviously, but you know,
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  Speaker 6: we get to experience something pretty similar at T Mobile
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  Speaker 6: and yeah, we know how you know how special that is,
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  Speaker 6: and we're we're incredibly grateful for the support that we get.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that that clincher in Detroit, I mean way
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  Speaker 1: that that crowd.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, once you see it, man, it's like you
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  Speaker 6: never wanna, never want to see it.
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  Speaker 5: It's like just keep yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Every every position player likes playing behind a kind of
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  Speaker 4: the bulldog or whatever term you want to use for it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean pitchers that kind of go out there and
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  Speaker 4: compete and have that kind of grit, so to speak.
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  Speaker 4: What is it like on the other side of it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think Naylor is a guy that brings
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  Speaker 4: a calm, will certainly brings it. I think Brendan Donovan
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  Speaker 4: is a guy that's going to bring that same type
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  Speaker 4: of thing.
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  Speaker 3: What is it like?
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  Speaker 4: And it's when you're watching guys start to flourish and
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  Speaker 4: turn into guys that kind of are the reciprocal of
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  Speaker 4: that same exact thing that you guys bring every single day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. No, it's it's incredible.
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  Speaker 6: It's you know, it's something that as you get a
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  Speaker 6: little bit more experience, how much you know, you appreciate
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  Speaker 6: it more and more of the guys that you know,
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  Speaker 6: like Donovan said, like playing with their hair on fire
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  Speaker 6: really coming into each game with the mentality that, like,
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  Speaker 6: we're gonna go take this game from you. It's not
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  Speaker 6: just we're gonna play, you know, nine innings and kind
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  Speaker 6: of see who comes out on top. Like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 6: go find a way to win each game. And so
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  Speaker 6: going out to pitch and knowing that those guys are
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  Speaker 6: behind you, it makes your job, you know, that much
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  Speaker 6: easier that I know that I don't have to be
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  Speaker 6: perfect because I know that I've got, you know, seven
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  Speaker 6: guys behind me that are have that mentality that you know,
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  Speaker 6: we're all we're all in it together, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: carry that through one hundred and six two games, and
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  Speaker 6: then carry that through a couple series in the postseason,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, that's what it takes is a number
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  Speaker 6: of those guys and a group of those guys that
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  Speaker 6: share that that same mentality.
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  Speaker 1: Kl gonna have an even better year.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, it's obviously gonna be pretty tough to
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  Speaker 6: top that, but I think no one's expectations are higher
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  Speaker 6: than than his, you know, than his own. But I
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  Speaker 6: think the beauty of it is, you know, our team
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  Speaker 6: and the strength of our lineup and pitching wise, and
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  Speaker 6: you know, everything top to bottom is we're not going
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  Speaker 6: to ask him, you know, to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 6: It's just he just needs to go out and be
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  Speaker 6: cal and be the leader that he is. And you know,
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  Speaker 6: duty does behind the plate, duty does at the plate.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it doesn't need to be anymore. Whatever he gives,
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  Speaker 6: and we know that he's gonna, you know, come prepared
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  Speaker 6: every day. We know that he's gonna put the work in,
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  Speaker 6: like the results will show if you know, he stays
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  Speaker 6: consistent with the process. And that's exactly you know what
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  Speaker 6: you saw last year. But the beauty of it, I
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  Speaker 6: think this year is just we've got dogs and dogs
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  Speaker 6: behind him. That doesn't need to be you know, doesn't
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  Speaker 6: need to be that if it is great, and if not,
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  Speaker 6: then I think we'll still be just fine.
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  Speaker 4: I'm expecting eighty. Yeah, but on take sixty or sixty one,
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  Speaker 4: if he just wants.
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  Speaker 1: To come up, He's not about getting better. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think sports is all about getting better.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, Ultimately, I mean this is a it's a hill
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  Speaker 4: that I'm willing to die on, the the MVP hill.
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  Speaker 4: And it's no slight. Darren Judge, Aaron Judge is is stupid.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you make him look stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty often, but we actually do have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: success against them. If you're knock on wood, yeah, yeah, yeah, it.
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  Speaker 4: Is what it is, just like that, Yeah, you're good
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  Speaker 4: against most people. But I mean, his seasons was unbelievable offensively.
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  Speaker 4: But to me, it's not a contest because of what
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  Speaker 4: I know it takes to be behind the dish and
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  Speaker 4: all of the things between the years, what Cow does,
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  Speaker 4: to me, it's an undeniable MVP. I was excited about
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  Speaker 4: asking all of you pitchers, I mean, was that something
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  Speaker 4: that you guys, are you on team cal MVP? Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: and then how big of a contest would you even
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  Speaker 4: consider that that was?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean obviously we're all we're all biased, but
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  Speaker 6: it's hard to explain to even just not even if
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: you know, you know baseball, even if you're just not
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  Speaker 6: a catcher, Like very few people see the hours that
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: are put.
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  Speaker 5: In being you know, the team's leading catcher and.
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  Speaker 6: Not just you know, if you're here during spring training,
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  Speaker 6: you see it. He shows up at five, he leaves
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  Speaker 6: at three, whatever. It is like they're long days and
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  Speaker 6: during the season it's no different. We have seven o'clock game,
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: he gets to the field at like eleven, he leaves
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  Speaker 6: by whatever it is, ten or eleven. Like they're they're long,
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  Speaker 6: long days that you don't get the appreciation for. You
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  Speaker 6: run the pitching staff, you lead the team, you know,
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  Speaker 6: communicating with each and every person in the building, and
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: then you put all that stuff that I just said
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: and I haven't even mentioned, you know, the production at
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: the plate and the platinum glove defense and whatever. You
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: can go on and on and on, but yeah, I mean,
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: it's it's it's just one of those things. I think
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: if you if you know, you understand, you appreciate, you
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: really see it, then you know that you know that
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: was a one of a kind season.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so is it?
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Uncle Cal and Uncle Brian? Now are those your new
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: nicknames with all the babies around here?
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Yes, I don't know. Whatever they wanted to be, I
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: don't know. If I still don't feel like I'm at
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: quite uncle status. Cal Cal definitely gives off uncle vibes.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: You can hand them back with oh yeah, yeah. The
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: Funkel roll is a great role to be in. Put
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: all the good stuff, good vibes, you want to give
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: them gifts or whatever, and as soon as they start crying,
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: you just hand them right back.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Well, man, I can't wait to see a pitch again
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: this year. I mean, what a great couple few years
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: you've had with this team. So let's see what we
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: can do here in twenty twenty six. And all the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: best to.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: You, absolutely a thank you, very.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Much, appreciate you.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Brian will joining us up right here on Chuck and
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: buck in the morning. So check another box. Ask three
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: of the five if you're doing the countdown, if you're
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: keeping score at home, that's three of the five starting
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: pitchers and the Mariners rotation here on Pittures Day that
• 18:37
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• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I love it when a plan comes together.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah you hold the oh yeah, I mean yeah, especially
• 18:46
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• 18:49
  Speaker 4: you love this pictures Day, might as well. Might as
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: well get it out there. We got the bartender Williamson
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: coming out here. Charlie Furbush is coming out.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: It may be his Picture's Day, I told you, Yeah,
• 19:00
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• 19:02
  Speaker 3: There's a roaches just coming out of the woodworks.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, who knows, Maybe we'll put all three of
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: those guys on in our next segment. I don't think
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: we're done talking pitching. We got two more pitchers to go,
• 19:14
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• 19:18
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• 19:22
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• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I hope he was not. I hope he was a hitter.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Can't wait to find out.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to him at nine thirty today.
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• 20:25
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  Speaker 1: I mean the only bad thing about being in Phoenix,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Arizona right now, Peoria, Arizona for spring training is that
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fine. I don't need to go putting ducats
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• 21:14
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• 21:16
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• 21:18
  Speaker 1: It's chugging buck in the morning. Sports Radio ninety three
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM, and it is Pitcher's Day. Happy Pitchers
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Day to you all and joining us here on our set.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: And I think the only reason he's here, I'm pretty sure,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: is to celebrate Pitcher's Day with us. Maybe we can
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: clear that up. But former Major league pitcher fourteen year
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: career the Pride of Roseburg, Oregon Stanford Cardinals, so we
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: had to deal with him in the Pac ten for
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: all those years as well. Jeremy Guthrie is with us
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: here on the radio program.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: How are you.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to be here with you guys Arizona.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Like you said, no better place to be in March, yeah,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: and February, I guess for that matter. But nice to
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: be here.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great to have you all right, Probably start with
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: what's emblazoned across your chest? Talk to us about Custom Cleats?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, what brings me here? Yes, it is Pitcher's
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Day to all those who celebrate, and I'm one of them. However,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: why am I Mariner's camp today? Because I own a
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: company called Custom Cleats. We take your sneaker and we
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: convert it into a baseball cleat, a softball cleat, football, lacrosse, golf,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: whatever sport you play on a field. We carve into
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the bottom of the shoe. We glue on our special
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: cleat plates. I wore them when I pitched because I
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: wanted to wear a much nicer looking cleat than the
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: black one that they always sent to me. So I
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: got some colorful shoes back in my day. Later on
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: invested in the company and now am the owner of
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: custom Cleats. We are on social media at custom cleats.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Pretty easy to find us custom cleats dot com. And yeah,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: today we are delivering nineteen of fifty two pairs for
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: our guy Josh Naylor. So as you're paying attention this year,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: you are going to see him wearing onto believable. Well
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: that's just to start. Who knows, it could be eighty
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: by the end of the year.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: But the years, the ruby red slippers, the doros, these
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: ones that he was wearing last year.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: We didn't do those. Those were another group. So he's
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: got he's got suppliers all over the country. Yeah, Stadium
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: custom Kicks does artwork. We don't do artwork. We just
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: convert the shoe as is into a cleat and so
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: some of that Dorothy and the bedazzled stuff, Ye was
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the beautiful work of Alex car all the Jordan's. Yeah,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: those are those that's us.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, good to know, so yeah, please, yeah, I got
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: you got to know that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: You got to be able to follow and say you
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: want to have credibility with the kids, the young fans.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: You gotta know your stuff here.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, does he sit down with you and map them out?
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Or do you present him different things? And then he
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: chooses the man.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Needs no coaching. Okay, the man needs no help whatsoever.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: He gets big ideas. He said. He was with his
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: brother a couple of months ago. They selected fifty two
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: pairs the ones. I like, I'm going to order these
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: bottom all off eBay, ship them to us. We get
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: a windfall of shoes and start going to work.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Did you also make his belt that we could be
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: seen from outer space after his son was born.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys know this in this day and age,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: in the age of sport, if you don't look good,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: don't even show up in this day. So everyone's got
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: something going on, whether it's show belts, show shoes, whatever
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: it is. The drip starts from head to toe.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: And for those listening that think I'm just the old
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: fuddy duddy, you know, stuck in the mud guy, I
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: was one of the first ones to go patent leather
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: shiny shoes. But as a matter of fact, I had
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: some veterans look at me like, what are you doing?
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah? No, that was that was the culture back in
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: the day. No doubt about it you show up and
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: try to put some bling bling as a rookie or
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: even as a young player at all, you know very
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: much like, hey, we're not doing that here. But in
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: this day and age, I mean, holy cow, you can
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: show up wearing whatever you want, whatever color you want,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: whatever style you want, and it's pretty accepted, even from
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the veteran players.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: He've got a pay raise too, so he might have
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a different pair of shoes every game.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: He might. He might, and he deserves it. I mean,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: what a what a great sign for the Mariners. Get
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: that trade last year, See the boost he gave to
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: the team and helped them in that run they were
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: already on. And to go back and make sure they
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: get him back for twenty six and beyond, huge signing
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: fight for mister Jerry.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: I don't know if there's a better endorsement that you
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: can get than a guy Josh Naylor stealing thirty bags
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: in your.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I know, and without being caught, if I'm not mistaken.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: With us, Yeah, I mean I think he got caught
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: once or no. Nineteen for nineteen with us.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, but I think there was when I think of
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: the other eleven bags that he s told he maybe
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: was thrown out, but he's probably wearing one of those
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: other people.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: No, No, he was wearing our speed. Speed never slumps. Yeah,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and that's Josh Naylor right there.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I call him Vicky Henderson. Jeremy got three is with us,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: a long time a major league pitcher, also Pacific Northwesterner,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and a man celebrating Picture's Day with us here today.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So just talk us to us about you know, your
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: process at this time of the year and in the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: things that a pitcher has to do here in spring
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: training in the first week or two to get them
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: ready for the start of the season and the long
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: arduous one hundred and sixty two game process.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Well, completely dependent on where you're at in your career,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: right the first five spring trainings of my career fighting
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: for an opportunity to make a big league roster. So
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: you've got to come in very much prepared, throwing your
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: best bullpens right from the beginning, knowing that within two
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: weeks you're going to be on a mound facing hitters,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: knowing that every time you face a guy, someone's evaluating
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: where you're at, your stuff, your ability to pitch. You know,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: you got to get out and so if you're a
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: young guy, very different than if you're an established veteran,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and fortunate for the Mariners five veteran I'm going to
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: call them all veterans at this point, five really established,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: tremendously talented starters. Those guys probably come in more with
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: the mindset of how do I healthily build up my
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: pitch count so that by opening day I'm in that
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: ninety to one hundred and five pitch range, maybe it's
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: eighty five, depending on where they finished last year with
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: health wives and injuries, and so you're less concerned about
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: how do I get somebody out and how do I
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: impress a coach with my stuff? But it's more, can
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I just build up my pitch count, make sure I'm
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: strong and so that I can start to peak, you know,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: as we get into April and start the season.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jeremy, I mean I don't know for sure. I
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: mean you and I actually played kind of a similar
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: time frame. Both of us broke in like a month apart,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: and you played with some really good pitchers.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, I C. C.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Sabbathia Hall of Fame guy obviously, but did you ever
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: pitch on a staff that was like how this Mariner's
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: staff is where it's kind of I mean, one it's Alrighty's,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: but it's just they're all kind of young, with the
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: exception of Luis Castillo, and they're all kind of klawn
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: and biting and scratching to get better every single year.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: And now all of a sudden, they're looking like they're
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: one of the best staffs. And yet they're very similar.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: They do a lot of things different, but they're also
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: very similar in a lot of ways. Did you ever
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: have that and was that something where you could kind
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: of draw off of one another and push each other
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: during the season.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: No, I don't. I don't think I was ever part
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: of a staff as talented as the one that you
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: have here, or as young for that matter. So I
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: was on some staffs and in Baltimore where we had
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: really young pitchers, but guys that were trying to get
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: established in the league, not guys that were kind of
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: so confident and established that they were kind of, you know,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: competing with one another. I think what as I got
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: into later in my career, we had more of a
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: veteran presence down in Kansas City, an edits in bolcz A,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Jason Vargas a Chris Young myself. So that was a more,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: you know, a little bit beyond the horizon of where
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: the young staff is here. So what the Mariners have
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: is unique. You guys are perfectly positioned to continue what started,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: you know, two three seasons ago and almost peaked last
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: year with the World Series appearance. The Mariners are exactly
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: where they need to be. The key is can they healthy?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Because the talent is undeniable, and I love what the
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: rotation does so well for me. One of their calling
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: cards is they're aggressive. They throw strikes, they attack the zone,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: and they make you beat them. And their stuff is
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: so good that rarely do they get beat.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Former Major league pitcher Jeremy Guthrie. I got two former
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Oregon athletes sitting here at the set with me here,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: former major League baseball players. As we talk about pitchers
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: on pitchers Day. It's very strange, and I guess this
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: happens in a rotation. This probably happened to you over
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: your fourteen year career. You probably had a similar off
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: season to all five of these guys, but they're all different.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: You have Kirby who's.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Still yet to reach that lofty ceiling that we've been
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: talking about for so many years. You've got Gilbert who's
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: still trying to who's been solid to very good and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: still trying to take that next step every single year.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I want to become a little bit better every year.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: You got Brian Woo coming off a career year trying
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to repeat that. You got Bryce Miller coming off a
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: really concerning injury that he spent his off season making
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: sure that doesn't happen again. And then you've got the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: veteran and Luis Castillo, who is trying to prove that
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I still got a lot of bullets left in the chamber.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: You probably have experienced all five of those off seasons
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: during your fourteen year career, and yet they're all on
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: one staff.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I think that goes back to that point. If
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: you got guys that are feeding off of one another. Yeah,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: they're learning from each other, they're competing against one another. They,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: you know, to a man, obviously they want to be
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: the guy that leads the staff, and I think that
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: mentality should exist. You should have five pitchers in your
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: rotation that want to be that opening day guy, and
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: obviously only one can do it. But to have that
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: kind of different position of each of the five I
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: think is really valuable because they can all help one
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: another in different aspects of what they're trying to accomplish.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: And I think you look obviously to Luis as the
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: leader of that staff, and being that veteran leader. There
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: was also the one that was healthy all year last year. Right,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: It's just I call he's a cabayo. He's a horse.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: And so you have a lot of great things going
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: and I think the complementary aspects of each of those
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: five starters makes them better as a as a whole,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: as a group.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Jeremy the the the grit that Josh Naylor brings to
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: the squad, I mean, Cayl Rawley has that same type
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: of thing. I think they just signed a guy, Brendan Donovan,
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: that has that sort of thing. I think on the
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: flip side of it, you know, I don't know for
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: sure if I ever used the word grit when it
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: came to pitchers. It's like the guy's a bulldog on
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: the mound. I mean you being an Orgoni, and I
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: guarantee you got grit and that you were a bulldog out.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: There, no doubt about it.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Flyfish, you would imagine hunt flyfish I guess anyways, I
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: think that how important is that?
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: To me?
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: It feels like it's important. I mean, having played at
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Elsie State, It's just there's a different there's a mentality
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: that goes into it, and I feel that that is important.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: It's not absolutely necessary. Talent is more important than just
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: about anything else. And yet how important do you think
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: it is? Because I've I feel like this Seattle Mariners
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: team has more grit, has more gamers, has more bulldogs,
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: if you will.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Than they've ever had or have had in a long time.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Anyways, how important do you think that is for success
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: of a team?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Don't It can't be overstated in my opinion. To go
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: along with your stands here, you get to this level,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: everybody has a certain amount of talent that ranks in
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: the top whatever, ninety ninth percentile in the world right
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: of what they do, and pitchers, hitters, fielders, the whole thing.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: And so for me, that sixth tool the one that's
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: probably more important than all of the other ones at
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: this level because the talent's established the track record. Everything
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: else is the grit, and the grit starts between the ears.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: What do you have going on in your brain? How
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: do you prepare? How do you deal with failure? How
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: do you keep pushing when success is already in your
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: rearview mirror? How do you go towards it when you
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: haven't achieved it yet? That happens with that idea of grit.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: And so when you have a team that shows that tenacity,
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  Speaker 2: that shows that work ethic, that shows an inability to
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  Speaker 2: be satisfied with any level of success, you have a
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: team that can achieve anything. And that is what you're describing.
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  Speaker 2: And so for me, how important is it? It's probably
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: more important than anything else at this point. Your guys
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: have the talent, they have everything they need, but can
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: they put it together between the ears? Do they have
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: that kind of thought process and preparation? Last year showed it?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I mean really, for me, the last three four seasons
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: have showed it. And I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: as valuable in twenty six as it's ever been. And
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I think the fans number one recognize it, appreciate it,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: and again they're going to benefit from what this team
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: brings to the table.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: You're closing in on almost a decade removed from your
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: major league career, but do you still get that those
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: juices this time of the year. Does some sort of
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: physical thing happen to you when spring training begins, like
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: alarm bells go on inside your body.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Physical mutations to the body. Know, nothing happens to me.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I don't transform or all time.
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  Speaker 1: Turn into a butterfly. A butterfly, you cocoon your way out.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: But I do get excited, and you know, I get
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: a chance to be around the game a ton with
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the Royals, I work in with their television team. I
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: traveled the world. I was in eighteen countries last year,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: teaching or just talking baseball in over ten of them
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: remote parts of the world. I just got back from
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Kenya and Uganda last week, where I was at orphanages
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: where they teach baseball. So for me, I just appreciate
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: what baseball is, what it means to people, the purpose
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: it gives, the unity that it causes amongst diverse people
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: all over the world. I love the sport, and so
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: when the sport comes back in spring training to get
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: ready for a season, I just get excited. I get grateful,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: and I'm optimistic about all that it's going to do
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: for people.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Can you help but be overwhelmed by memories of past
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Pictures Day celebrations that you've had.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I love pictures Day. Pictures Day is great. You show up,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: you see, it's a reuniting of friends. It's a chance
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: to kind of you know, show up and look. Look
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: how good I look after I worked out for five months,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: my nice tan, whatever you got going for you. It's
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: like the first day of school. That's the easiest way
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: to put it. Everyone has been to school right, had
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: that first day feeling right. You want to put your
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: best shoes on, your brand new backpack. You want to
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: look good. You got a perfect haircut, and you're ready
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: to rock and roll.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Make sure you get a slice of cake later. We'll
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: have that roll in a little bit for Pitcher's Day cake.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I don't want you to miss out on that. And
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a tip of the cap to the Baseball hot mid
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: that is the state of Oregon before we close out,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: known for it, Jeremy, Thank you, man. Appreciate you. Great
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: to meet you down here and have fun while you're
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: down here. In Custom Cleats, Josh Naylor will be brought
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: to you by Custom Cleats this year.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thanks guys, have a great one.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll continue with our coverage. Just bring training
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  Speaker 1: next Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R F M.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: All right, it is Picture's Day. Happy Picture's Day to
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you all. Hopefully it's been filled with all the joy
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: that it customarily is filled with your every annual experience
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: with it. Hopefully you woke up to a big breakfast
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: this morning. Did Picture's Day breakfast out there? Gifts for
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the kids, you know, and for our part. Boy, we
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: got Logan Gilbert check, we got Bryce Miller check, We've
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: got Brian Woo check. But we've got a little over
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: an hour to go, and we still are gonna try
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: to get George Kirby on the airwaves and also the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: rock himself, Luis Castillo, to join us before the end
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: of the show. It's gonna be touch and go. Yeah, close,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be tight.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I think if you just if we were to get
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: that drop that actually has of the pelice lens of
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: or the dia lenzdor, if we had that and we
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: could blaw it out here across the speakers, I think
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: that would sum and in Luis Castillo, you know what
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, because he might not remember that today is
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Picture's Day.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Oh he remembers, You think so oh he does, he'll
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: get in before the gun.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, are the end?
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well I hope you're right, because don't as
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: much as I as much as I poke fun at it,
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: because let's be real, I mean, most of what we're
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: celebrating is the fact that some people, some people pictures,
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: get to work one day and then get four days off,
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: and then they get to work one day and get
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: four days off.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: If you want to celebrate such laziness, you can go
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: ahead and do it. And I'm trying to get on board,
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: but it's difficult.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Oh well, I mean you're sitting here worried Luis Castillo
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: isn't going to remember. And yet he brought me a
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: brand new coke today, really yeah, bought me one.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Really yeah.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: It was wrapped very well for sent me a picture
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  Speaker 1: of it.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: You think that was for pictures Day. That's not just
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: him being a kind human. Maybe thought you look cold?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Handmade it?
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Oh really?
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Stitch a little bit of a cardigan, maybe more than
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: a jacket, i'd call it. In the offseason, cosby sweat
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: what he pretty.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Much made me. Okay, well that's nice. I didn't know
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: he was celebrating that hard. Then yes, he did not
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: forget it if he brought you a cardigan, a hand
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: knitted cardigan, not.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Right when he got hands stitches a cardigan for every
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: lover of pitchers. Boy, that's that's the guy that's not
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: gonna forget. So I'm not gonna get one, no chance chance,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: all right. So we do have a lot more to
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: do on Pitcher's Day. So we haven't even talked about
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the bullpen yet, which I'm sure we're going to get
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: to in the nine o'clock hour. But there are some
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: other things going on in the sports world we should
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: update you on Seattle sports scene that we should update
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: you on. If you remember a couple of years ago
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: and Notre Dame ended up winning going all the way
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: to the National Championship Game a couple of years ago
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: in college football, but earlier in the seas and they
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: lost at home to Northern Illinois, And one of the
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: scenes of that entire sports year was the Northern Illinois
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: head coach Thomas Hammock not being able to control his emotions,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: like just crying right there on the television set. It's
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: sort of I mean, it made the rounds that year.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: One of the great images of the entire calendar year.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four from the Sports World, Well, guess
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: what he's now a Seattle Seahawk. He was hired as
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the running backs coach Ies Pade running backs coach in
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: the league. If I'm understanding this correctly, Thomas Hammock is
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: now a member of the Seahawks coaching staff. So interesting,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: interesting higher from the team, and an interesting career choice
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: by him to Hey, I want to get into the
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: National Football League. Why not jump on with the world
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: champs right now and be a part of their coaching staff.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean not a probably couldn't find a
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: better time to jump in. And because we've discussed since
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: the Super leading up to zuper Bowl and even after
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl win that it doesn't look like that's
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: going anywhere. And yet what comes with that, with a
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: price of of being a champion and having a good
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: team is people coming to try to poach your coaches.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: They try to poach the guys that you have that
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: kind of led you to where you were at, and
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: so you got to replace those guys. It's it's one
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: of those I don't know, the whole heck of a
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: heck of a lot about Thomas Hammock. I do remember
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: that incident or that situation you were talking about, But
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: at the same time, it's just one of those.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, is there really anybody that you.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Trust a whole heck of a lot more than John
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Schneider and Mike McDonald to bring in?
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Who it is?
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's John Schneider's had a pretty darn good career.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Not perfect, not impeccable by any stretch. There's there's a
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: couple drafts that weren't perfect. But he's human, and so
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: everybody should give him, grantam some grace with that. But
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: for Mike McDonald, you know, you've discussed it many times,
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: the idea of him needing to change, you know, at
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: the linebacker position, and how quickly he made that change.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: So a guy that has a vision and knows what
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: it is that he needs to fit his vision.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Same thing with Ryan Grubb.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: They go get him, and I think he knew early
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: on in that that this is not the relationship that
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: I need, and so pulls a plug on that and
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: goes out and gets Clint Kobiak. So whoever they're going
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: to bring in, my initial thought.
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: Is trust well, and they have experienced together.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: So the two of them work together for five seasons
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: with the Ravens. Oh nice McDonald does know him. Very interesting,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: very interesting hire certainly there for the Seahawks. Also, the
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: kans City Chiefs announced that Patrick Mahomes has decided to
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: play ball financially with him again rework his deals to
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: clear up twenty million dollars in cap space that they
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: can use this year to try to rebound from there
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: what has to be described a disastrous season during this
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: dynastic run for the Kansas City chief So Patrick Mahomes
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: doing Tom Brady things to try to help the Kansas
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: City Chiefs get back to where he thinks that they belong.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Take every other quarterback in the National Football League. It
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: can be done. And then also just do want to
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: mention because we haven't had a chance to mention it
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: much this week Adam Silver's talk on the expansion with
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the NBA and pretty much the same old message over
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: all Star weekend about yes, it's something that we're gonna
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: start the process of start the process, and we got
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: to be at the end of the process of discussing
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: it forgardness sake.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Ago.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's please just announce the damn thing and
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: let's get it over with. H He Also, of course,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: tanking is a big issue right now. And frankly, I
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: don't really understand why you're rigged the lottery anyway. So
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: what does it matter if.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: A team tanks?
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Why are we getting all flustered about this? They can
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: tank all they want. You're gonna give it to whoever
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: you want to have the number one pick anyway, So
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: no big deal as far as I'm concerned, No harm,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: no foul. They want to control it. The teams can't, well,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: well they ain't lose as much as they want.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: We're gonna chew who gets the picks.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: All right? Coming up next on the radio program Pitchers Day,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: we'll continue here live from Peoria as Mariner spring training
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: coverage continues on Chuck and Bucks Sports Radio ninety three
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: point three kJ RFM.