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Furness Show 8-17: Chris Crawford in for Ian, Mollywhop Monday · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 2: Choose Chill. The Mariners win two out of three in
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  Speaker 2: Houston versus the Astros over the weekend. They are now
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  Speaker 2: four games back of Houston for the division lead, two
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  Speaker 2: point five games back in the wild card, still six
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  Speaker 2: teams separating the Ms from that final wildcard spot. They
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  Speaker 2: begin in a series tomorrow and Milwaukee, one of the
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  Speaker 2: best teams in baseball versus the Brewers. Seahawks lose their
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  Speaker 2: first preseason game versus the Cowboys on Saturday, seventeen to seven,
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  Speaker 2: the Sounders seventh straight loss.
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  Speaker 3: They move.
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  Speaker 2: They're just not very good. Andrews, They're just not very good.
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  Speaker 2: It's not very fun to watch. Speaking of not very good,
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  Speaker 2: the Storm lost to the Chicago Sky yesterday eighty two
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  Speaker 2: to eighty seven to thirty on the season, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of NFL news. Jamal Adams will miss the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: six season because of a right knee injury he suffered
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  Speaker 2: in the Minnesota Vikings preseason victory over the New York Giants.
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  Speaker 2: Von Miller agrees to a one year, five point five
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me with the Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys and Jeremiah Love has a high ankle sprain unlikely
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  Speaker 2: to play the rest of the preseason. Padres gets sold
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  Speaker 2: three point nine billion dollars. I came up just short.
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  Speaker 2: I bid three point eight dollars. And also the.
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  Speaker 3: APE Top twenty five poll comes out.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State, Oregon one in two, Washington seventeenth on the list.
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  Speaker 4: Third and goal from the five for Seattle. This time
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  Speaker 4: it's lock on a shotgun. Two receivers on the near side.
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  Speaker 4: Alani to his right, takes a snap, lock, steps up,
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  Speaker 4: rolls to.
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  Speaker 3: The end, so top touchdown Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: Montry Foster with the touchdown, continues, what's been a great
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  Speaker 4: training camp for the undrafted free agents and Seattle's on
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  Speaker 4: the board.
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  Speaker 2: Headline Curtsey of the Compass Radio Network and brought to
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  Speaker 2: you courtesy of one Ian Nesto. I'm gonna talk a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about him because he's an up and coming,
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  Speaker 2: scrappy guy that I think people need to really get
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  Speaker 2: to know. Welcome to the Ian for nest Show. My
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  Speaker 2: name is Chris Crawford, filling in for Ian today, and
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  Speaker 2: I just got to tell you, Anders, I was so
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  Speaker 2: impressed listening to those headlines from a guy who especially
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously he's followed covered football for so long,
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  Speaker 2: but hasn't done that in so long to be that good,
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  Speaker 2: It honestly kind of pisses me off. Yeah, it shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be fair. It's not fair to be good looking, good
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  Speaker 2: at your job. Relatively nice, I would say, like on
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  Speaker 2: the nice spectrum for yeah, I mean, passive, aggressive, nice
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Outside of not being able to pronounce tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: and rooting for that silly college football team.
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  Speaker 3: He's kind of perfect. He's kind of a perfect dude.
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  Speaker 2: No, those I mean, I was just so impressed and
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  Speaker 2: so proud is the wrong word, because this guy has
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  Speaker 2: just done everything in this industry. But that's pretty dank
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  Speaker 2: cool to hear him covering an NFL game like that,
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  Speaker 2: is my friend, Anderson, Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I mean, I'm not surprised by it, but
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  Speaker 5: stretch the imagination. I knew you would be excellent at it.
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  Speaker 5: As soon as he stepped on the mic. He did
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  Speaker 5: a great job with the crack and when he was
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  Speaker 5: a play by a play guy for them as well.
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  Speaker 5: So here in him and Cam Cleland on the call
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  Speaker 5: for the UH for Compass Radio. Was was pretty cool
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  Speaker 5: for a Seahawks game, which you know, those are two
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  Speaker 5: guys that you know obviously have voices here on KGr
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  Speaker 5: as well, so that's awesome to see.
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  Speaker 3: It was very very cool to hear.
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  Speaker 2: And we're gonna talk about that game, but we got
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  Speaker 2: to start with the Mariners.
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  Speaker 3: Who boy, they sure the old Just when I thought
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  Speaker 3: I was out, they dragged me back in. They had
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  Speaker 3: us in the first half, they had us in the
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  Speaker 3: first half. Not gonna lie. Boy, what a big two
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  Speaker 3: wins to get that series win. And unfortunately it's also
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  Speaker 3: one that's gonna make you go what if? Because it
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  Speaker 3: really should have been a sweep. It should have been
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  Speaker 3: a sweep.
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  Speaker 2: And instead of us talking about the Mariners being four
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  Speaker 2: games back with thirty five games to go, which is
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  Speaker 2: certainly manageable but difficult, how different would it feel if
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  Speaker 2: it was two How different do you feel if it's
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  Speaker 2: a two game lead, just a quick little two game
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  Speaker 2: winning streak and a too little funk for the Astros
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  Speaker 2: and it's tied and you have clinched that tiebreaker with
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  Speaker 2: the Astros and then some no matter what happens in
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  Speaker 2: and by the way, for those who don't know, they
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  Speaker 2: play a two game series near the end of the year.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it's the second to last, the penultimate series
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  Speaker 2: before they play the Angels, I believe to end the year,
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  Speaker 2: which is friendly to be sure. Boy it Wohild just
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  Speaker 2: feels so much different and that game. I hated that
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  Speaker 2: we both had to talk about it right afterwards, Anders
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  Speaker 2: because it was just such a.
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  Speaker 3: Heart breaking loss. A heartbreaking loss.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of you know when we ever we talked
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  Speaker 5: to beat writer and people that are always in the
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  Speaker 5: stadiums for these games, and they always complain when the
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  Speaker 5: outcome of the game changes at the last second because
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  Speaker 5: they already had their game stories written. I kind of
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  Speaker 5: felt like that when I was doing right before I
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  Speaker 5: went live for my postcast on Friday, because I was
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  Speaker 5: ready to talk about how man they played a complete game.
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  Speaker 5: They even though it was a rough start from George Kirby,
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  Speaker 5: the bullpen stepped up in a huge way. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we like to do our unsung hero two innings from
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  Speaker 5: Bizardo looked great on Friday. It was everything was going
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  Speaker 5: the Mariners' way, the offense finally starting to put together
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  Speaker 5: good at bat after good at bat, and it's not
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  Speaker 5: the home run ball. They scored fourteen runs and at
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  Speaker 5: one point when it was seven to two, I believe
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  Speaker 5: on Saturday, they had scored fourteen runs in those first
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  Speaker 5: two games without hitting a home run, which is awesome
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  Speaker 5: to see.
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  Speaker 2: It's really nice to see because it's just been, like
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  Speaker 2: you said, such a problem for this team to string
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  Speaker 2: together quality at bats and then to obviously get these
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  Speaker 2: runners home. They are, you know, they've had some bad
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  Speaker 2: luck for sure. There's a stat called BABIP, which stands
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  Speaker 2: for batting average on balls and play, which the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: rank low at and the runners in scoring position stats.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people have a hard time taking it
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  Speaker 2: too seriously because it's tough to quantify just how much
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  Speaker 2: clutch means. But I'll tell you this, it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: negate clutch watching the Seattle Mariner team because they just
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  Speaker 2: haven't been for the overwhelming majority of twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: They're still absolutely carried by that eight game winning streak.
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  Speaker 2: But boy, there were some really good at bats. And
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  Speaker 2: what I really liked about this series too, and again
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  Speaker 2: I sure wish it would have been a sweep because
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  Speaker 2: we'd be a lot more jacked, I think.
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  Speaker 3: But everybody contribute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody contributed throughout the lineup, even cal Ralely, who
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  Speaker 2: had jokingly even admitted he had a three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifteen and one inch home run that Balda just gets
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  Speaker 2: over the fence. And there's some very funny stats that
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  Speaker 2: you can look at of that would not have been
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  Speaker 2: a homer at any other park. And it had an
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  Speaker 2: expected batting average of point zero three zero, which means
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  Speaker 2: three out of one hundred times that has hit, but
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  Speaker 2: it does go over the fence, and it was nice
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  Speaker 2: to see for a guy who just has had an
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  Speaker 2: absolute there's no other way to put a disaster of
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  Speaker 2: a year. But everybody contributed. The starting pitching was solid.
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  Speaker 2: George Kirby start wasn't great, but outside of the second inning,
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  Speaker 2: he battled and kept them in the game and allowed
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  Speaker 2: them to have that comeback. It was great to see
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  Speaker 2: Andre's Munios bounce back to because, yes, Friday was disappointing,
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  Speaker 2: and you give up five runs, four of them earned
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  Speaker 2: because of the zombie runner, a lot of dink and
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  Speaker 2: dunk really just two maybe bad pitches anders in that outing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, at the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 2: a results based industry.
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  Speaker 5: And that's where you leave yourself such a little room
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  Speaker 5: for error. One mistake is and it's also the life
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  Speaker 5: of a reliever, I should say, right when you're pitching
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  Speaker 5: in such low you know, sample sizes like one innings
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  Speaker 5: versus like a starter pitches six or seven, right, So,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just that was so heartbreaking because you
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  Speaker 5: want to look for something to blame. On Friday, I think,
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  Speaker 5: and we all love to get on Dan wilson first
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  Speaker 5: decision making. I think everything he did on Friday was
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  Speaker 5: the right move. Pulling George Kirby when he did was
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  Speaker 5: the right move. Letting Bizardo go two innings was the
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  Speaker 5: right move. Andre's Munos. Obviously you wouldn't choose anyone else
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  Speaker 5: to be in that situation, right, So I it's just
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  Speaker 5: and even the execution part of it, like yes, he
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  Speaker 5: left a hangar to Christian Walker, but having basically literally
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  Speaker 5: J Josel Tuve throw his bat to the ball for the
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  Speaker 5: slider that was a foot outside the zone, and then
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  Speaker 5: Dalton Varshow just the dnkest of dunks the batter after that,
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  Speaker 5: both had two strikes on them as well, either one
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  Speaker 5: of those missing or you know, hitting to a place
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  Speaker 5: where you have a defender in the game's over at
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  Speaker 5: that point. So it's there are some bad luck things
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  Speaker 5: involved with with this baseball team, there's no.
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  Speaker 3: Question about it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, they just haven't earned the benefit of
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  Speaker 2: the doubt, I think with a lot of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And if you just say they're just unlucky, no, if
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  Speaker 2: you just point to the no one's saying that. No,
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  Speaker 2: there are some people who point out that their WRC
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  Speaker 2: plus is like average, you know, that they should be
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  Speaker 2: a better offense based on.
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  Speaker 3: Team WRS numbers. I don't look at it.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't really either be. And ultimately it's a
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  Speaker 2: results based in scored like the scored yea, and they
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  Speaker 2: are near the very bottom of baseball in that. And
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  Speaker 2: that's unacceptable, right, that is simply unacceptable. So speaking of
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  Speaker 2: simple we're going to talk to Nathan Bishop at the
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  Speaker 2: one o'clock hour thanks to simply very good at this,
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  Speaker 2: very very good at this sometimes, and we're going to talk,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a course about that series, about what's coming up,
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  Speaker 2: about how realistic this really is that they can get
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  Speaker 2: not just into the postseason, but win this division and
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  Speaker 2: potentially do some damage in this postseason. But we're definitely
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  Speaker 2: going to take some time to talk about the Colt
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  Speaker 2: Emerson comments because, for those who missed it, mister Jerry
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  Speaker 2: Depoto Pobo de Poto, President of Baseball Operations Jerry to Poto,
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  Speaker 2: had some comments that certainly were controversial and basically suggested
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  Speaker 2: that and for those who miss that, Colt Emerson is
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  Speaker 2: currently dealing with a wrist injury that apparently has been
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  Speaker 2: he has been dealing with since early February, and Topoto's
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  Speaker 2: comments were basically, I sure wish you would have said
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  Speaker 2: something sooner. And I just don't know how tone deaf
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  Speaker 2: you can freaking get. I just don't think you can.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy for someone who I know is an incredibly
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  Speaker 2: smart human being who just says some of the most inane,
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  Speaker 2: tone deaf and silly things. Because blaming a twenty year
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  Speaker 2: old for this is asinine. Now is it a learning
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  Speaker 2: experience for Colt Emerson?
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  Speaker 6: Yep?
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  Speaker 2: I will also, I keep going back to this, Anders.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're a fan of the movie. You remember
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  Speaker 2: the Titans, I am, Do you remember what Bertram? You
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  Speaker 2: do remember the Titans? You do remember them? Uh, the
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  Speaker 2: quote about that it's a bad attitude when they're early
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  Speaker 2: in practices, and do you remember what the player says
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  Speaker 2: to him.
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  Speaker 3: I do not attitude reflect leadership. Oh yes, it's true.
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  Speaker 2: Attitude reflects leader. And I think the leadership for the
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  Speaker 2: Seattle Mariners because should kind of be ashamed of itself
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  Speaker 2: right now, because it's just not acceptable to put that
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  Speaker 2: blame on that kid when we've seen this over and
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  Speaker 2: over again from the Mariners anders and they have not
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  Speaker 2: earned the benefit of the doubt with injury stuff either.
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  Speaker 3: They just flat out haven't.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna be honest with you, I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe the Seattle Mariners when they say Colt Emerson hasn't
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  Speaker 2: said anything. I just flat out don't. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that someone on that training staff wouldn't have noticed
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  Speaker 2: Colt Emerson dealing with the pain that would come from
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  Speaker 2: that kind of injury either. I feel ridiculous saying it,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm gonna say it. Shame on you, Jerry Depoto
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  Speaker 2: for those comments, because they're just tone deaf and borderline silly.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And the big thing is like it's one thing
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  Speaker 5: for fans to say, hey, you need to protect the
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  Speaker 5: player from him, right, and you need to realize that
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  Speaker 5: you're not helping the team and report your injury.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 5: But then there's also fans that say, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 5: back in our day, we'd play through that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 5: All that, But the big thing is this, like you said,
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  Speaker 5: this is coming from leadership. So this is gonna be
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  Speaker 5: one of those things where you don't really understand why
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  Speaker 5: it's him. Of all the people that have quote unquote
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  Speaker 5: played through injuries this year, you've had Cal Rawley go
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  Speaker 5: play through an injury, then go in the aisle, then
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  Speaker 5: come back and still look like he's injured, by no
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  Speaker 5: doubt about it. Josh Naylor even in the past couple
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  Speaker 5: of weeks, has multiple times after he's taken swings, look
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  Speaker 5: like he's been discomfort in his right arm. JP Crawford,
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  Speaker 5: you said it yourself, literally flat out said, hey, he's
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  Speaker 5: playing through injuries right now.
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  Speaker 3: That's why he sucks a defense.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So why is it that this is the situation
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  Speaker 5: in which you're gonna call it out and not with
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  Speaker 5: those other ones. And you could cherry pick all you want, sure, right,
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  Speaker 5: but you're choosing to do it to the rookie twenty
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  Speaker 5: one year old, yes, who has struggled in his you know,
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  Speaker 5: first year in the major leagues that you already paid,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, sure, So it has nothing to do
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  Speaker 5: with money and how much you're giving these guys because
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  Speaker 5: you paid this guy too, right, So why is it
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  Speaker 5: this situation in which you're calling out and not the
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  Speaker 5: other ones.
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  Speaker 2: You hit the nail on the head. It's because they
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  Speaker 2: can get away with it. You can flat out get
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  Speaker 2: away with it because of the youth, and because you
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  Speaker 2: can now the contract is the contract. But you can't
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: option cal Rawly to Tacoma, like you literally can't, Like
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  Speaker 2: you would have to put him on waivers and create
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  Speaker 2: a big kerfuffle. And while some people would love to
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  Speaker 2: see cal Ralely go on waivers based on this year,
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  Speaker 2: I think it would be a pretty dang big mistake.
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  Speaker 2: It's because they can get away with it. They can
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  Speaker 2: get away with it because of the lack of experience.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we deal with this in jobs all
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  Speaker 2: the time, that the new guy, the grunt, is a
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  Speaker 2: guy who doesn't earn the same level of respect. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I know that when I've started a job,
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  Speaker 2: maybe sometimes they don't feel great about talking about Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand this. Hey I'm not feeling great. I'm
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  Speaker 2: certainly not gonna call in sick or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: And we shouldn't compare daily lives to MLB players' lives,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, it is somewhat similar in that structure
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  Speaker 2: where the little fish, even though he's making ninety eight
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  Speaker 2: million dollars, he's still the smallest fish in that pond.
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  Speaker 3: Four nine four five one on the Takoma Dodge text line.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know what you think about those comments and
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  Speaker 2: whether you think this is being overblown or if this
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  Speaker 2: does sort of reflect that leadership. We're also going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about the Seahawk game. We'll get into it more
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  Speaker 2: in the next segment. It wasn't the most impressive. It
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  Speaker 2: was also the first preseason game of the year, and
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  Speaker 2: anyone who takes those two seriously is crazy, just an
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  Speaker 2: absolute crazy person. We're also going to have a fun
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  Speaker 2: segment in the two o'clock hour. I'm gonna talk to
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  Speaker 2: you about some fantasy football. We are going to look
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  Speaker 2: at some sleepers.
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  Speaker 3: Now, for those of you who don't know, and I
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  Speaker 3: know I've said for those of you who don't know
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  Speaker 3: about twenty times this segment and that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: But I work for NBC Sports Slash Roada World. I
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  Speaker 2: cover fantasy football for a living, and I thought it
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  Speaker 2: would be fun to kind of go over some potential
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  Speaker 2: sleepers because draft season's coming, baby, Yep, it's coming. We
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  Speaker 2: are just getting into our leagues pretty soon here Anders.
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  Speaker 3: We're pretty excited about it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm interested to see what tips you give our listening audience,
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  Speaker 5: and then I'm gonna do the exact opposite of them
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  Speaker 5: and then see what happens. Yeah, there you go our drafts,
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  Speaker 5: there you go. You're coming upretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, being a fantasy expert might be the easiest
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  Speaker 2: thing in the entire world because there's just no accountability.
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  Speaker 2: I pick two jobs where there's no accountability, prospect writing
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  Speaker 2: and fantasy sports, yep, because you just give your takes
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  Speaker 2: and everyone forgets if you're wrong, and if you're right,
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  Speaker 2: you get to do some fun victory lapse. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see if I get to do fun victory laps instead
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  Speaker 2: of the till my head and shame and everybody forgets
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  Speaker 2: about it. There's a few players. There might even be
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  Speaker 2: a Seattle Seahawk that I listed in the potential sleeper thing.
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  Speaker 2: Sleeper is always a very subjective term, you know, Like
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  Speaker 2: I can't call Jadarian Price a sleeper. He was a
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  Speaker 2: first round pick last year who's probably going to get
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  Speaker 2: a substantial amount of playing time going forward.
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  Speaker 3: It'd be weird to call him.
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  Speaker 2: I certainly won't be calling Jackson Smith and Jigma a
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Sleeper's he is? You know what if you think out
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you know what, I think people are finally going to
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: start paying attention to this guy. It'll be really nice
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: to see. But yeah, we're gonna talk about that, but
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about some Seahawks.
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  Speaker 6: Next.
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• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Now back to Ian Furness on your Home for the
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• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Chris Crawford and for a Furness. So football is back?
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Exhibition football is back? Okay is it? But football is
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: quote unquote back.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks get off to a disappointing exhibition start, which
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: everyone will forget about very quickly, but they do lose
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: seventeen to seven. Now, Anders, we had opposite situations here
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: because I had to watch the game for my work
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: for NBC because I was covering.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: It for Road a World the Seahawks. The Seahawks game,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: got it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I had to cover that, and you had to watch
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: the Mariner game for postcast for your postcast. So I
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: just want to congratulate you. Thank you on number one
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: having a wonderful job, number two having a beautiful family,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: and number three not having to watch preseason football because
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: it's just terrible.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: I want to congratulate you on number one doing an
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: excellent job filling in for in for day. Thanks, but
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: number two not having to watch this dreadful baseball team.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Oh wait, you do stuff?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I do. I do a lot, but unfortunately
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I had to. So this was just to take you
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: a little bit behind the scenes day from hell. I
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: worked five am to nine am on a baseball shift.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I had to drive to Portland for a medical thing.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I had to drive back from Portland in Saturday afternoon traffic.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Then I had to cover the Seahawk game. Uh so
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: basically five am, and then I had to watch the
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Mariner game for my.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: OI after that fun so basically five am to one
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: am doing stuff and none of it all that fun.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: So you know, it's not the worst life, but sometimes
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: it's not the best. So just some thoughts about the
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Seahawk game number one, and I thought Greg kind of
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: hit the nail on the head here. It was a
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: difficult situation for Jalen Milroe, rotating what you drew a
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: lo As Greg pointed out, this was the first time
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: that he was throwing competitive passes in a very long
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: time against the defense. You did see the athleticism five
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: carries for thirty six yards along of twenty, but you
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: also saw why this guy's.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Not ready to be a backup quarterback in the NFL.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: And some of the sacks that this guy takes are
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: just not acceptable right now. The pocket awareness is just
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: not there, and it does remind me unfortunately. So I
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: covered the NFL Draft a lot for Roade World, and
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I talked to some folks, and after watching Milroe at
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the Senior Bowl, there were a lot of people wondering
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: why the hell this guy entered the NFL draft because
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: he really struggled.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Now. He also, the Seahawks liked what they.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Saw and they were incredibly impressed with what they saw.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Last summer, Like, how many times did we talk about it?
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Andrews Like on different POSTC asked and afore locked on
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: about just how impressive he was looking over the summer.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: So there's no doubt about the athleticism, there's no doubt
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: about I don't even think the arm talent's really in
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: question here, like he can throw the football.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Physical tools are there.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the mental aspect of the game is still very
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: much a work in progress. And sure it's playing with
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: backup players, but it's also playing against backup players for
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: a Cowboys team that's not exactly lauded for its depth.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: There's some talented players, but they were playing against you know,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to do the major league two quote, guys will be
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: begging groceries in a week.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: YEP.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: It was disappointing to see Milrod not play well, and
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: it's not a end all. And I think the fact
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: that Drew Locke is there is a wonderful thing because
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: it does allow Milroe to be that gadget player without
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: having to say, Heaven forbid, something happened to Sam Darnold.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I need to bring in and Jel and Milrow No, no, no,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: you do not gadget player is what he is, and
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: you know, as a third round pick, if all he
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: is is Seneca Wallace, if that's all he is, that's
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: not the worst thing in the world. It'll be slightly
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: disappointing because you'd like your third round pick to someday
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: develop into, you know, maybe not a starter at the
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: quarterback position, but a really good backup who maybe competes
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: for that starting gig. So far, nothing I've seen so
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: far suggests he can be that. But the nice thing
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: here is that Drew Locke is here. And I never
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: thought I would say, thank Goodness for Drew lock but
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: here we are Andrews.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm gonna put this in a little bit
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: different perspectives. I think I think it would be disappointing
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: if that's all he became, would be a because at
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: this point year two, he's not even a good backup.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: So and that's just a wasted draft pick for me. Yeah,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: You have the chance that he pops off and turns
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: into a stud in this league when you make the pick. Obviously,
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: and this is the risk you do take when you
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: take quarterbacks. This is the reason why John Schneider has
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: so rarely taken quarterbacks is because they have no other
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: value to the team. It's not like a receiver that
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: you know, he either becomes an elite receiver or hey,
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: even if he doesn't work out, we can stick him
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: on special teams or something like that.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Jalen Milroe at this point is a guy that is
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: just taking up space because you have obviously your starter
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: in Sam Donald, you have your very capable backup in
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Drew lock that you feel fine about, and obviously, God forbid,
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: if something were to happen to one of them, then
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: you would then you would need a backup for Drew Locke,
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: and that ends up being Jalen Milroll. But that's if
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: that's all he is as a third round pick. Yeah
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: uh for a team that just made another risk in
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: signing Terry on Arnold, that's.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: A good point.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: You could have spent some more capital in some other areas, right,
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: I know this is obviously like we're looking at reasons
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: to be worried.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: This is the preseason.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: So you only score seven points, right, You're you are
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: a team that has allotted for your depth.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: The Seahawks are so having that not exactly show up
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: on all levels in their first game was something that
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: if nothing else, it just causes, you know, us to
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: rethink about how we evaluate the other parts of the team. Obviously,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: none of your starters really play, so that doesn't make
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: a huge difference for me. But just regarding Jalen Milroe
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: by himself, if all he became was I hope this
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: guy turns into a backup. I think that's a wasted
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: third round pick for me.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree. I don't disagree. I just would say that,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: God it wasn't a second round pick, you know, or
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: if I haven't forbidden earlier, you know that. Yeah, you know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: there was a guy that Miami took, Oh boy, this
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: is a long time ago named Pat White, who was
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: a very similar profile to Jalen Milroe, who they took
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I believe forty seventh overall, who just was a disaster
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: as a quarterback. And the thing with Miro too is,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: you know, this is not probably a guy who can
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: be a slash stewart guy who's a wide receiver, who
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: gives you contributions for a punt returner, slash kick returner.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: He doesn't. I don't think he has that kind of athleticism.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: He has great athletics, Boyd, the guy who was complaining
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: about that, I can't talk. You're right, great athleticism, he's
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: not the athlete that is going to be someone who's
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: lining up, like you mentioned on special teams or anything
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: along those lines. I think the biggest positive that I
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: took from that game really too, and they're both kind
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: of crowd related. Number One, that was the loudest preseason
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: game I can remember in a while, and that was
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: really cool to see.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: And I'm not surprised. You're just coming off winning the
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: super Bowl. I believe it's what it's called. Oh yeah,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: it's funny that we have.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: That little scrimmage that they like to play in February
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: every year. That cost me an arm and a leg
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: to go, and it was worth every frickin' penny. That
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: crowd was hyped. It was really and four nine four
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: five one. If you were at the game, was it
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: just a case of where maybe the TV caught at
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the right times, But it just really felt like they
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: were really into this game. And it's not surprising. Just
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: like we weren't surprised that Ian was so good on
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: the call, I'm not surprised that the twelves came up
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: to show up or came in to show that they
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: are the best fans in football by any stretch of
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: the imagination. I'm not surprised by that, but it felt
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: different than the preseason game. The other cool thing is, boy,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be fun to watch Hard Knocks and see
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the actual recap. And one of the reasons I think
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: it's going to be fun, Mike McDonald looked mad. Mike
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: McDonald looked very disappointed, and that makes for good TV,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: of course, you know, and heaven forbid, I don't want
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: him to get mad after Week one against the Patriots.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I wanted to look mad after a poor performance in
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: preseason Week one. I haven't watched Hard Knock yet, but
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I'm starting by binge tomorrow and I just I needed
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: to make sure I could watch it with just no distractions.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: And I don't work tomorrow. If Ian calls me to
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: talk about some sort of aster move, I'm just not
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: picking up the phone. I'm really excited, and it's I
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: know a lot of people were really worried about Hard Knocks.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I just think they're crazy. I think it's an awesome thing.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't think any fans will worried
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: about it. I think it's more people in the building
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: who just didn't want the extra distractions and having to
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: deal with all that stuff. But to the Seahawks credit,
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: at least from what you can tell on the tape,
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: they've kind of embraced it, and that that's from people
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: who are there as well. I've said the same thing.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: It's like, hey, you know what if for if we
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: have to do this, might as well not try and
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: hide everything, will just be ourselves and that's gonna be
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: I think you'll enjoy watching the first if you watch
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: it after the third one comes out tomorrow. Yes, the
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: first three episodes, because the first two are fantastic. That's
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: also I think a reason why there's more interest in
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: the preseason this year is because you know Hard Knocks
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: obviously is you're you're seeing a lot of more behind
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: the scenes stuff for people who don't get to go
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: to training camp because those spots are very limited. Then
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: you're seeing some stuff like that you normally wouldn't be
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: able to see at this point in the year, right,
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: So that raises the interest for preseason football and you
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: want to see what's going on that you're watching on
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: your TV.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: For HBO Max.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I think I still am not a huge
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: fan of preseason football. Like I'm not going to be
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: the guy to judge where the fifty third guy on
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: the roster should make the team or not, Like that's
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: just not what I do. I'm not the film guru
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: who's looking at every single play and like trying to
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: decide what scheme Brian Fleury is gonna run. And you
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: know how that works for Sam Darnold and Drew Locke
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: and Jalen Milroe. Sure, but I just want the regular
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: games to come. But seeing that all of this is
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: kind of mixing together to form more interest in, you know,
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: the preseason of the NFL, I think it is a
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: good thing for the Seahawk.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: I have loved Hard Knocks. It was one of the
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: reasons I was so excited when we first got HBO.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: The number one reason I can't talk about on the air,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: but the number two reason was definitely to get Hard
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Knocks to watch those Like I'd seen the clips and stuff,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: but actually watching those episodes, it's phenomenal and one of
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: the smartest things the NFL has ever done is giving
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: that sort of access. Some positives also from the game.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: I thought George Alani looked fine. I feel I really
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: feel confident in George Lannie.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: Like there are some Hallani stands in the media, you
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: are one of them.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: There's no question about it. Now, I'll be honest with you.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: I was a Kenny McIntosh stan.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: So I've struggled a little bit to get on the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Hallani bandwagen because sometimes you feel like if I like
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: this one, I can't really like this one. Sure well,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: now Kenny McIntosh is no longer a thing, so it's
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: pretty easy to get behind Halani. And boy, he looked
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: good in the Super Bowl too, picking up some blocks
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: and making some pretty big receptions to help set up
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: some field goals as well. Shout out Montory Foster. And
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: this is one of the on things about preseason. This
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: is a twenty five year old rookie who graduated from
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Michigan State in twenty twenty four, gets bounced around a
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: little bit, and I wouldn't say that he's done enough now.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I've heard good things about him in camp as well.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: You know, it's just the Seahawk wide receiver room is
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: so cluttered it's tough for me to imagine that he's
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: anything more than to use a baseball term organizational depth.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: But this is one of the cool things about preseason
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: is getting these guys to show out and seeing how
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: pumped up the players were. For these guys in particular,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I forget the guy's name. I gotta get it here
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: right now, Raschard Rochelle when he has that big kick return.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that entire sideline was just bouncing up and
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: down for this dude. That's a really cool thing. So
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: we gotta take a break. I gotta ask you one
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: quick question, Yes, would you rather see a bunch of
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Jalen Milroe for the rest of this preseason or a
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: bunch of Drew Lock? Because what's more important the long
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: term building of Milroe or making sure Drew Lock is
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: ready in case something happens to Sam Darnald.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: The easy question would be Milroe because I think you
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: already know what you have and Drew Lock and that
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: probably would still be my answer. But I don't think
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: it's as easy as just saying, let Milroll play the
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: eighty to ninety percent of all the snaps here just
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: to get him as many reps as possible, because I
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: do think it's important that you feel even better about
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: your your backup situation. God forbid something does happen to
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Sam Donald. But I'll still say jil and Milroe because
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: you want to give him as much of a runway
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: as possible, because if he is going to break out,
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: it's not just going to be randomly playing third string
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: reps and being the scout team for the first team defense,
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: right It's it's going to be playing in in game
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: situations as much as possible.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: So I'll say Jyln Milroe.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest too. The main reason I say Milroe
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: as well, it's going to be a lot easier to trade.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Him if he has That's another good way to put it.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'll just be honest. I'd looking to trade him.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I just don't think that he's.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Get some value out of that pick. Then I said,
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: was no value. If you get something back for it,
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: then you get some.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Don't do the sunken cost fallacy where you think you
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: have to get some sort of third round value back,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: because there's a chance you'll never be able to get value.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Speaking of value, ESPN just came out with a list
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: where the Seahawks rank number one, and we're going to
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: talk about it next.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Cracking and The Twelfth Man, brought to you by Seattle's
• 32:32
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• 32:36
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• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Chris crawfordin Free in Forness. So ESPN every year comes
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: out with a Future Power Ranking. And what this ranks
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: is all thirty two teams based on their projected success
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: or lack thereof, from twenty twenty seven to twenty twenty nine.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you, first of all, would you like
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: to guess who was last on that?
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Mister Anderws, That's a good question. I'm gonna give you
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: a huge in they're in the Seahawks Division. Is the Niners.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: It is the Arizona Cardinals. Really, it is the Arizona Cardinals.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: So how this works is they take the overall roster
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: excluding the quarterback, excluding then the quarterback, then the coaching,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: then the front office.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: They divide that by percentage, and I'm.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Going to give you the top five teams in reverse order.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Actually I'll give you six because it just so happens
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: to be the team they're playing in the first game.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: The New England Patriots are number six. The Los Angeles
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Rams are number five, despite having a quarterback ranking of
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: twenty four. Now keep in mind it's based on future
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: and Matt Stafford. There's a very good chance does time
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: to have yes correct. Number four is the Denver Broncos.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Number three is the Detroit Lions. Number two is the
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah, and at number one your Seattle Seahawks.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: I think I agree with most of the teams on
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: this list, And again I want to clarify for most
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: people who might think this includes this season, it does not.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: It does not the first season. So it starts not
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: this season, but the following season, right, so the twenty
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: twenty seven NFL season through twenty twenty nine. So yeah,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: I think that's why I thought Niners would have been lower,
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: and I thought the Cardinals would have been higher, because
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: maybe at that point they're competing after a couple you know,
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: you know, first early picks kind of get get the
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: teams going a little bit, but maybe not.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I guess. I guess ESPN doesn't like the way the
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Cardinals are going right now.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: No, and the forty nine ers, they're not enamored, but
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: they're fourteenth. Yeah, saved basically by coaching. They are ranked
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: second in coaching.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I guess that's true.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: You can't really like and I'm thinking of like, oh,
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: team's young, they're going to develop and get better, but
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: that coaching doesn't really like.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: If you have good coaches, that's always gonna be good.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Well, and they like the Seahawks coaching as well. Yep,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: they're ranked third. Okay, I would have them first, but
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: I get it. I also wonder if this includes a
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: little bit of the whole coaching staff and some question
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: marks about the offensive coordinator, which you know, not really
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: a question mark for the two teams ahead. Sean McVay
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: is ranked one, and then obviously Mike Shanahan to three.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, Yeah, the three top coaches all in the
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: NFC West, which is both fun and frightening.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: I think most people would agree with that, though.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I have no issue with it whatsoever. They ranked the
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Seahawks front office two behind the Philadelphia Eagles at one.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: It's probably fair, but I would take the Seahawks, but
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: it's fair.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Howie Roseman, I have no problem with that, and you know,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: less lulls than the Seahawks have had. Not that the
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Seahawks have had a ton, but you know a few
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: nine and eight and a few missed postseasons. So it's
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: tough to blame Schneider. But it's I don't have an
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: issue with him being two. I'd have an issue with
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: him being any lower than two, but I'm okay with that.
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: There.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I agree the overall roster is number one, and by
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: the number, please go ahead.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: And I just want to clear if I one more
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: thing that doesn't include quarterback.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: That does not include quarterbacks, which is the most interesting
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: thing about this article.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah they have what are these? I'm gonna guess, please
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: do fourteenth? Very close?
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Sixteenth Okay, And interestingly enough, here Seth Walder, who is
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: one of the four writers who put together this list.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: While it's also done with scouts and front office members
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: and a.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Whole bunch of people.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: His bold prediction is that Sam Darnold will not be
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks quarterback in twenty twenty eight. He started last
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: season red hot and finished fairly strong in Seattle Super
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Bowl run, but from weeks ten to eighteen, he ranked
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: twenty seventh out of thirty quarterbacks in QBR. The Super
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Bowl wins certainly will buy Donald time, but if he
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: stumbles in twenty twenty seven, I don't think there are
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: guarantees that he will be resigned.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Just completely disagree that, like full on, full stop, like continue. Also,
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: you looking at weeks ten to eighteen, a lot of
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: those were just dominant defensive victories where you didn't need
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: to do anything. And then you look in the playoff
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: where they absolutely needed him in the NFC Championship game
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: and he was about as perfect as you can get
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: against the Rams, and they needed him to be every
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: ounce of that perfection. So he's only twenty nine. I
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: still think there's just wishful I don't know it's wishful
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: thinking or just ignorance around the league that still think
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: it's the New York Jets Sam Donald.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: It's not. He has gone fourteen and three and two
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: straight seasons as a starter. This dude is no no,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: and he's young. He's younger than oh my god.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be honest. I wouldn't have him at like
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the top five or anything.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's the top ten at least, but I would.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Have him in top ten if you put him at
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: like the top dozen. Okay, sixteen is far too low. Yeah,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: far too low for a guy who just you know,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: maybe statistically wasn't as good in twenty twenty five as
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: he was in twenty twenty four. Yeah, but I just
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: feel like he's getting better. And I think some of
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: this two anders is based on the fact that Sam
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Darnald be the first person to admit he didn't have
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: a great Super Bowl, Like, he didn't have his best game,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: need too, he didn't need to.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Thankfully, thankfully he didn't need to. Every time you've needed
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: him to step up, he has.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't play much better than he did
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: in the NFC Championship.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Game, NFC Championship game Thursday Night Football against the Rams,
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: the shootout loss to the Buccaneers, right.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: You can't put the blame on Dnald for really any
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: of their losses except for the first that well, the
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: big interception game that he had against the Rams in
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles. But ye, kudos to him for coming back
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: and leading them to almost pull off that win.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: They were a very long.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Field goal away, but a field goal away from winning
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: that game too. I do think though, let's say he's right, Yeah,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: let's say he does regress, and they also mentioned here,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: and Lewis Riddick, who is one of my favorite people
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: in all of sports, mentioned here that the reason for
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: concern is that Donald and Kubiak had a great relationship
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Clint Kuby for those who somehow aren't familiar here, We'll
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: see what the relationship with Flurry is, right like, We'll
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: have to see how that goes. I will say that
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: if things did take a step back, I can't guarantee
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: that Sam Donald's the quarterback next year.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: But it's really.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Hard for me to see him being so poor that
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: he's not backed for at least one more year.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I just can't see it. And also I can't see
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: him being poor. I just can't either.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: He was so instrumental in those wins in the NFC
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Championship Game, maybe a little bit less against the forty
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: nine ers because the forty nine Ers were just a
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: disaster of a football team, and he just missed on
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: a couple of throws in the Super Bowl, the one obviously,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: that almost seventy yard touchdown to Jackson Smith and Jigbu
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: and almost only counts in horseshes and hand grenades, my friend,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: it does, And I just I've have so much more
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: confidence than Sam Donald than this ranking would suggest.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: First, I want to ask where they put Joon Hurts,
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: because I think if there's any question about quarterbacks in
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: the next couple of years, it would be him.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked him because he's fourteenth, so he's
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: above Donald, but by a whole hell of a lie.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I do think the twenty fourth is interesting for the Rams,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: especially after they just took a quarterback in the first round.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, A lot of people like Ty Simpson, he looked
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: great in his preseason debut preseason debuts are.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: As Rob Rang, the guy that we trust a lot,
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: said that he looked really good in camp as well,
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: so that's something to point out.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Well, that's disappointing, Rob. I know where your loyalties are
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: supposed to lie.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: I know his loyalties are to the tape Chris Crawford,
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: not to the Seahawks, but back to Sam Donald. It's
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: like one of the reasons I think that he is
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: very much the guy like and the fact that there's
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: even questions about this it's not for this year, obviously,
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: but they're looking in the future. The fact that there's
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: even a question about this is just crazy to me
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: because I think he's the perfect quarterback for the team
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: that the Seahawks have built. When you need him to
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: go win a game, he can go do that. He
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: can sling it when you absolutely need him to. He's
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: not a game manager, I don't think. But he's also
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: a guy that doesn't you know, demand to you know,
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: we've seen Russell Wilson, you know, lots of other quarterbacks
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: that have you know, the ego has taken over in
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: which they want to be the reason the team wins
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: the game.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: That doesn't happen with Sam Darnel.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: And it's the perfect kind of marriage between the two
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: sides of things where he can be that guy if
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: you need him to be, and just he steps up
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: with whatever it takes the team to win. But he
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: doesn't have to be that guy all the time. And
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: I think that's why, no matter what happens, he's going
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: to be the quarterback not only this year, but for
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: next year as well at least, and probably for even
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: further down the road.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Speaking of counting on the guy, We're going to count
• 41:46
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• 41:46
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• 44:25
  Speaker 2: can't talk today, Nathan. But how are you doing?
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: Oh well, I'm I'm very very excited that I think
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: usually when we do this, you assign onders to the
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: role as me. Oh yeah, and so I'm glad to
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: just be able to be myself.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: Today, which feels great.
• 44:40
  Speaker 7: It's always to feel nice to feel comfortable in your
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: own shoes. So I'm doing great.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: Guys.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: It's like, I don't know, like strangely perfect outside, like
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: I feel like by August it's usually like the upper
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: eighties and I hate it. But we're just cruising around
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: in the high seventies here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: I heard you may need some help with your real
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• 45:00
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• 45:03
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• 45:05
  Speaker 3: That's awesome to hear.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: And it was awesome to see the Mariners win a series,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: even though boy it was a frustrating series win if
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: such thing exists, because it really should have been a sweep.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: It really should have been them two games back of
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: the division instead of four. But I want to get
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: your opening statements and then we'll have Anders give his
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: as well. But your opening statement in your thoughts on
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: the week that was.
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: Well, I think first of all, we have to acknowledge
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: good when we see it, and that's something that we've
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: talked about. I've talked about as the resident negative guy
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: on the show who can harp on and cling to
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: the bad. The marrit has played better this week than
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: they have in some time, and to your point, Chris,
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: they probably should have been at least four and two.
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: They won the Classic. You know, anytime you can win
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: a game one to nothing with a West and Wilson
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: solo home run in Yankee Stadium, that always is a
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: sign of a good.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: Thing for a week ago.
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: But also to your point, I think what you're seeing
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: is just the things that this team has struggled with
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: so much which feel like the little things combined with
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: maybe just a little bit more bad luck than they're
• 46:11
  Speaker 7: used to experiencing. Boy, that manifested on Friday and night.
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: That has to be the most frustrating loss of the
• 46:16
  Speaker 7: season for fans, and I'm sure for the players as well.
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: But hey, I think it's a tremendous bit if the Mirrors.
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: If the Mirrors end up missing the playoffs and the
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: one team that they are actually good against this year
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: is the Houston Astros, I think that that's a fantastic
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: turn of kind of flipping the way that things have
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: gone for so long for them. And it's always just
• 46:38
  Speaker 7: fun to watch them get the Astros. There's just something
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: aesthetically and karmically fulfilling about the experience, you know what
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: I mean.
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: And it was great.
• 46:47
  Speaker 7: I think they were the better team on the field
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: all three games against Houston, and it sucks that they
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: could not pull off the sweep. But hey, we talked
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: at the beginning of this road trip that what we're
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: looking for is for them to flip the script. Now
• 46:59
  Speaker 7: you have an o coortunity with three games against a
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: really good Brewers team, you win another series here, you're
• 47:05
  Speaker 7: coming back at five and four on this road trip,
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: and now you actually may have something to start to cook,
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: because there's still only four games back in the division
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: and still right there in the wild card.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: Mister Hurst, your thoughts, Yeah, I mean when the Mariners
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: lost that game to the Yankees ten to five on Wednesday,
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: after getting swept by Tampa over the weekend before and
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: then losing the first two against the Yankees in the
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: fashion that they did, and it just looked like everything
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: was down. Yes, you do get the one zero win
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: that Nathan was talking about, but you didn't really feel
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: like much had changed to that point. I do feel
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: like over the weekend there at least was a shift,
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: I will say, in feelings towards watching this baseball team,
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: if nothing else, because that's been one of my big
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: issues with this team is the watchability of the product
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: on the field for so long throughout the course of
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: this season has been poor to worse than that. Whatever
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: that can be, I'm not gonna, you know, be the
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: thesaurus here that Nathan Bishop can be, but actually having
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: a team that does, you know, a lot of things well,
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: then instead of just hey, if we hit a home run,
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: we win and if we don't, we lose. You you
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: got some good starting pitching performances. Uh, you had good
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: at bats up and down the lineup. You you beat
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: up on again your division rival that you've actually had
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: the number of in the last couple of years. So
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: it's good to see the Mariners still own the Astros thankfully,
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I would have been nice to see the sweep.
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: I think silver lining though it feels like there has
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: been a shift in the way the Mariners are finally
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: starting to put the things together that we have said
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: could be the case all of this time. I guess
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: the question for me is why it took this long?
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: Why did it take this long to promote Brock Rodd
• 48:49
  Speaker 7: And I think is what I'm in.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk good about good old Brock because you know,
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: we have talked about how we love our Triple B's
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: are big beefy boys. But I think to show that
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: I'm not super old, or show I'm even older than
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: you might think, we do stand a short king. We
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: do stand a guy who is listed at it I
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: believe five foot eight and no, absolutely not. It was
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: fun to see that spark. I do have to ask
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: you guys A quick question though, because there were flashes
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: of brilliance and it was fun to see and as
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: I mentioned in the opening segment, it was great to
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: see everyone contribute in this. Every single player had something good,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: but there were still moments of frustration. And boy, if
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: they lose that game on Sunday, I would be a
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: sicko and watching that pop up to Sir Anthony Dominguez
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: or to someone anyway, with the Benny Hill music playing
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: behind it, probably for the rest of my life.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: It would have been.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: If you guys have seen a clockwork orange, my eyes
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: would have been tied open and just watching that play
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: over and over again. Andrews are gonna start with you
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: about this because I was really disappointed that they didn't
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: go to Munio's for a four out save. There was
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: that a mistaken process in your mind?
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: I mean, yes, but I didn't expect anything different because
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: they haven't done it all year long, right, so it's
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: just what they do. I mean the fact that either
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: Dan Wilson or whoever's making these decisions, and we've Munyos
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: has actually come out and said he prefers pitching in
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: the ninth inning. But you know, whatever, you know, you
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: still got to do what's best for the team. At
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: this point, the refusal to accept that there's a difference
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: between the most important at bats in late game situations
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: versus the ninth inning, right and having your best reliever.
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: And you know everyone's going to point to the fact
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: that Munyos blew the save on Friday, to the fact
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: that you know, maybe you shouldn't want him in that situation.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: I completely disagree.
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: He's still your best reliever by a large margin in
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: my opinion, having your best reliever being the most important
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: situation in a late game instead of just saving him
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: for the ninth inning, for the safe situation.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: So I wish there was more of the.
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: Nuanced way of thinking instead of just you know, saving
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: him for the end of the game, so to speak.
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: But that's just not how this coaching staff slash front
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: office slash players operate.
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: I guess at this point, Nathan, I think that I
• 51:21
  Speaker 7: just want to say I'm going to answer the question,
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: but I just want to circle back really quick because
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: you were talking about being pickos, and I don't want
• 51:26
  Speaker 7: to bring too much of the internet to live radio,
• 51:29
  Speaker 7: since I know that those demographics don't necessarily perfectly align.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: But you were talking about that.
• 51:34
  Speaker 7: Drop pop up back there, and I do think that
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: there is something telling about how you experienced the Seattle Mariners,
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: because for a lot of people, that hits the ground
• 51:42
  Speaker 7: and you know, you're firing up off the couch, throwing
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: your hat, you're persing and swearing. And then there's me who,
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: to as Chris Outland, I'm the sicko guy, Like I'm
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: sitting there with my face up against the window going yes, yes,
• 51:56
  Speaker 7: like because to me, that's what being the Seattle marriage
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: fan to the Marrion's fan is in dylanmore throwing to
• 52:02
  Speaker 7: an empty home plate all the time that said, yes,
• 52:05
  Speaker 7: it was a mistaken process. Obviously it was a mistaken process.
• 52:10
  Speaker 7: But as Andre's already said, for Andrews or Anderson or
• 52:13
  Speaker 7: whatever it.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: Is, whatever you want, Yeah, what what.
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: You run Oldhursty, why would we expect anything different, you
• 52:21
  Speaker 7: know what I mean? Like it's been it's been part
• 52:23
  Speaker 7: for the course, for the Dan Wilson managerial experience. So yeah,
• 52:27
  Speaker 7: super frustrating. I think that anybody who I understand the
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: emotion of being upset with the loss on Friday, but
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: if you actually watched that game, there's no way you
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: could come away thinking that that andresmun Is melted down
• 52:40
  Speaker 7: through one bad pitch and Oel tuve hit a ball that,
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: even for jose L Tuovey, was very low to the
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: ground for the weakest table that you'll ever see in
• 52:49
  Speaker 7: your life. So yeah, at some point, maybe this the
• 52:52
  Speaker 7: marriage will have a manager who understands the idea of
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: leverage and having your best reliever in the highest leverage situation.
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: Twenty twenty six is just it's not that year, guys.
• 53:01
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• 53:04
  Speaker 2: So I was really encouraged, and by the way, I
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: think it's just insane that Munyos wasn't used in that situation.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: And what frustrated me about it was they did it
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: in the twin series and they treated that twin series
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: like the most must win series. So what changed other
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: than the fact that unfortunately Munos had one of his
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: worst outings of the year. That's kind of an understatement
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: based on runs allowed. Boy, it just it stinks to
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: see process and result both get kind of screwed up there.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: But thankfully it worked out.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: And kudos to Sir Anthony Dominguz who, after a disaster
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: of a first outing has looked like a solid major
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: league reliever.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: I know a lot of people were.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Not thrilled by that move, and I'm one of them
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: because of the fact that and good for Luis Castillo,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: by the way, shoving in his home debut with the
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Chicago White Sox. But speaking of shoving, the starting pitching
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: was pretty darn good over the series, and you know,
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: George Kirby unfortunately does give up the five runs, but
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: kept them in the game. But boy, I've been really
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: encouraged by what Brian Wu has done. I will also
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: point out that Brian Wu unfortunately dealing with some shoulder
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: trouble and that is something that we're going to have
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: to keep an eye on. Kate Anderson potentially, Hello, that
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: could be an interesting development there. With some off days
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: you could potentially go otherwise. But Nathan, how encouraging was
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: it to see Brian Wu over this road trip pitch
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: like the Brian Wu that we've been wanting to see.
• 54:36
  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I mean we've talked so many times on
• 54:38
  Speaker 7: this show in the past couple of years about when
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: the Marriers are going to be good. You know, they're
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: not going to just transform and especially this group of guys.
• 54:45
  Speaker 7: This is not going to be some slick fielding, do
• 54:48
  Speaker 7: all the little things bunt guys over, like speed on
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: the base paths kind of unit that's going to just
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: wear people down a lot, like what the team they're
• 54:55
  Speaker 7: going to play for the next.
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: Three days is.
• 54:56
  Speaker 7: And the Brewers the Marriers are very clearly designed to
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: do two things. They're designed to hit halt runs and
• 55:02
  Speaker 7: they're designed to melt your face with their starting pitching
• 55:05
  Speaker 7: depth and the turning pitching depth has been okay for
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: by their standards for a while now. But finally on
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: this road trip against good offenses, you've seen kind of
• 55:17
  Speaker 7: the best of and we talked about already the one
• 55:20
  Speaker 7: nothing win in Yankee Stadium with Western Wilts Hanging had
• 55:23
  Speaker 7: a home run. That's because Logan Gilbert showed up like
• 55:26
  Speaker 7: an ace. He shoved against a really good Yankees team.
• 55:29
  Speaker 7: They don't win that game without that effort. Yesterday, Brian Wu,
• 55:32
  Speaker 7: who's been absolute trash on the road for quite some time,
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: locks it in and looks just like home.
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: Brian Wu. And that's what's gonna like if there's going
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: to be a run in this team.
• 55:43
  Speaker 7: I think that's where it comes from It doesn't come
• 55:46
  Speaker 7: from this positional group being something that it's not, which
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: is an elite group. It does come from their strengths
• 55:52
  Speaker 7: of this roster, which is the starting pitching depth, really
• 55:55
  Speaker 7: catching fire. We've seen them go on these runs for
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: you know, three four or five weeks in a rogue
• 56:00
  Speaker 7: where they go turn after turn, just not giving offenses
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: a chance to breathe. So I do think it's a
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: great sign that it's happening on the road and against
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: above average offenses, that you're starting to see the rotation
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: flex its muscles a little.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: Bit andres How much more encouraged are you assuming everything's
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: all right with Wu and that he's able to make
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: that next start? How much more are you encouraged about
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Wu on the road based on these last two.
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think we can finally, hopefully again
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: assuming that everything's healthy. He did mention that it wasn't
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: anything to be concerned about, but we've heard pitchers say
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: that before.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: And have there something to be concerned about for sure?
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: So hopefully everything's good there, and just from all the
• 56:39
  Speaker 5: information that we know, I think we can flush the
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: Brian Wu home versus Brian Wool on the road. Obviously,
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: you're going to still have some difference in splits when
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: you pitch at one of the most pitcher friendly ballparks
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: as your home ballpark in T Mobile Park. But I
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: think the extreme of the splits is going to definitely
• 56:59
  Speaker 5: come back down to earth. And as we've seen in
• 57:02
  Speaker 5: two very hitter friendly parks in his last two starts.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: He pitched really well in the first game against the
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: Yankees in a just you know, we talked about the
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: Crawford boxes, the right field short porch in Yankee Stadium
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: is just as easy to hit a home run in.
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: And then he did it again in you know, Houston's
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: just trash can of a ballpark as well on Sundays.
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: So having doing that in those two situations and in
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: times where you needed him to be as good as
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: he was, I think is a huge sign for him
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: moving forward. And I want to say one more thing
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: about that Nathan mentioned about Logan Gilbert there in their
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: one zero win, because that's been something that I think
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: is underrated about the struggles of the Mariners in twenty
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: twenty six is yes, they're pitching staff overall. I think
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: you can look at the depth and say that You've
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: been happy with what you've gotten from the starting pitching,
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: but I think not having a true ace this season
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: has really hurt this team. And having someone who can
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: literally carry you to a victory like Logan Gilbert did
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: in that third Yankees game on Thursday, I think is
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: huge for this team because that happens when your offense
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: is struggling and you need a starter to go seven
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: innings of no run or one run baseball, to just
• 58:18
  Speaker 5: be like, hey, we need two runs today and we
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: can win the game.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: That's all we need.
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: And I feel like the Mariners haven't really had that,
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: even though they've pitched well as a whole, they haven't
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: had the guy you could literally put the team on
• 58:29
  Speaker 5: his back and pull him to victory like Logan Gilbert
• 58:32
  Speaker 5: did on Thursday. So if that can be the case
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: moving forward a few more times, I think that's going
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: to be a huge development for this team.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, some of this is just I
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: wouldn't say that Wu has been unlucky on the road,
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: but I would say it's impossible to be as bad
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: as he's been on the.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: Road, too.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: And I was honestly encouraged with the start against the Dodgers.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: I know that's five innings of five run baseball. That's
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: not what you sign up for. But it's against the Dodgers,
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: and he did strike out eight. So I think the
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: stuff and maybe more confidence on the road is starting
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: to show up for this guy. I don't think confidence
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: has ever been a huge issue for Brian Wu.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: That guy. I mean, if I was that handsome, I
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: would exude it too. Let's just be honest.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: I will always mention how handsome Brian Wu is in
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: every Mollywop Monday segment. It is written in my contract.
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: Let's just say, though, for a second, that may be
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: playing the worst. I'm knocking on all sorts of wood here.
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: I'll start with you, Nathan, and quickly. I'm demanding you
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: be quickly while I'm talking too much too. If you
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: have to go to another starter, it has to be
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Kate Anderson, or do you consider maybe manipulating the rotation
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: a little bit.
• 59:43
  Speaker 7: No, Kate Anderson is one of their five best pitchers
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: and they're trying to make the playoffs. They should pitch
• 59:46
  Speaker 7: him immediately now fast.
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: That's very fast Anderson.
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: Even if Brian Wu is an injured he should be
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: pitching that's my answer.
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: I totally agree.
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: May I ask one question of you guys, if Brian
• 59:59
  Speaker 7: wu come and then there is anything other than the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 7: best case result here and maybe he's not then totally
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 7: forthcoming about his issues with his shoulder. Is he going
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: to get lamb basket in the media by the Maria's
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 7: president of baseball operations. Is that now standard operating policy?
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 7: Do we think or was that just a one off
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 7: with cold Efferson?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of that, why don't we go ahead and
• 1:00:18
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• 1:00:22
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  Speaker 3: So Nathan.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: Popo to Poto had some comments about a certain shortstop
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: who was originally going to be sent down to Triple
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: A and then was placed on the injured list due
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: to a wrist injury, and Jerry Depoto's quote, and it's
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: just crazy how often we have to talk about Jerry
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: depoto quotes, was that he wished that Colt Emerson would
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: have said something sooner about how much it was bothering him.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: He didn't say they didn't know about the injury, because
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: they did. He had a quarterzone injection in February, but
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: he did say that he wishes that the twenty one
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: year old prospect and not a prospect anymore, but the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: twenty one year old, you know what, for all intents purpose,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: intense and purposes prospect didn't say something. And I would
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: just like you to tell me your thoughts on that quote,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: and I will just sit there and listen and be
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: invested as possible.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 7: I think that Jerry is one of the pre eminent
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: hot dog guy memes of we're all trying to figure
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: out who did this of our time. The thing that
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 7: I keep coming back to with Jerry, I'm very on
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 7: record of not caring for him, and I'm very on
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 7: record of saying I would be more than content with
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: the parents moving on from him. And I think a
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 7: lot of it is just that like this one and
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: this specific kind of thing that keeps happening over and
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 7: over again.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 6: It's it's so easily avoided. You know.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 7: We joke a lot about like, you know, the Rob
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 7: Restchneider hit tracker and Aj Pollock and Colton Wong and
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 7: all these trades that you know have not worked out
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 7: very well Chris Taylor exactly and that kind of stuff.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 7: But at the end of the day, building a baseball
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 7: roster is a hard thing, and it's definitely something that
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 7: I can't do with any level of acumen or competence.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 7: But what I do know a little bit about is
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 7: how you interact with people in your life and how
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 7: you treat them, and how you react and compartmentalize the
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 7: things that you think about in a leadership position privately
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 7: and what you choose to say publicly and to whom
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 7: and how that impacts those underneath you. And I think
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 7: that the thing that I keep coming back to with
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 7: Jerry is that this is a man who is unqualified
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 7: being a FOURD facing leadership position for a major corporation.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: I don't even really care if it's a baseball team.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: I don't care if it's like a widget machine. I
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 7: don't care if it's like the yarn manufacturer or Hershey's
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 7: chocolate or whatever the heck. This guy should not be
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 7: in charge of being the public face of a major
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 7: business entity who has to make comments to the media
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 7: because he cannot do it without coming across as arrogant,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: as condescending, as avoidant of blame as anybody I've ever heard.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 7: What was the last time that Jerry said something that
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 7: he thought was his fault and came across like he
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 7: actually meant it. I don't think it's ever happened. This
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 7: guy cannot get over his own insecurities, his own issues,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 7: and he can't.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: Lead this group of people that he's.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 7: In charge of because he can't stop going in front
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 7: of the press and saying the worst thing that he
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 7: possibly can in the worst way.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 6: Is it fair for him to be frustrated.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 7: That Cole Emerson didn't disclose of them how much this
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 7: injury was bothering him. Absolutely has that impacted the the
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 7: debut of the I think when he signed his contract
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 7: the highest paid player before his maybe league debut in
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 7: major league history. That's totally fair. You know what you
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 7: do there. You don't go to the media.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: And say all that stuff. And the fact that we.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 7: Have to have this conversation years after fifty four percent
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 7: doing the fans of favor, all the other things Kevin,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 7: the organizational stuff with Kevin Mather, the Mareta Martin situation,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 7: like over and over and over again, we have seen
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 7: this and fail at the public facing part of his
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 7: job in a way that I think for most teams
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 7: and most businesses would have involved his removal from his
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 7: position a.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 6: Long time ago. That's clearly not going to happen.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 7: As I've said, he's very obviously baked into the walls
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 7: of T Mobile Park at this point, and you would
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 7: have to like raise that place for the ground in
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 7: order to get rid of him. But it's just such
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 7: an easy l it's such an easily avoidable l that
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 7: he keeps taking over and over and over again.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: Andrews, I know you wanted to talk about this, and
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: I'd love to get your thoughts as well.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I can't say it as eloquently as
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: Nathan did, but I also want to point out that
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: in a season where I think, compared to expectations, possibly
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: in his entire Mariner's tenure, this is probably the biggest
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 5: I don't want to say failure just yet. The season
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 5: is not over, but compared to where you expected to be,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 5: the Mariners I think are the farthest away from that
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: this season than any other season so far in the
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 5: Jerry to Poto tenure. And somehow for the vast majority
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 5: of media and coverage and analysts around the league, he well,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 5: there there has been one area that's been pretty devoid
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 5: of blame, and that's the Jerry to Poto side of things.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 5: The baseball roster construction side of things. It's been mostly
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 5: on the Dan Wilson experience, as we like to say,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: the or it's or it's the underperforming of your players.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 5: At this point, very little of the blame for this
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: season has gone to Jerry Topoto, and I wonder if
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 5: there was a little part of him though, was like, dang,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 5: I'm missing out on this party. I need to say
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 5: something to to make sure I do get some of
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 5: the blame here. I'm not getting talked about enough, So
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 5: what's going on here? So, just in the weirdest situation possible,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 5: he had to once again put his foot in his mouth.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: In this crazy kind of world that we live in
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: that he just continues to find ways to get people
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: pissed off in him.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 7: It's just like we're all talking here on the radio.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 7: We're all clearly narcissists who love the sound of our
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 7: own voice.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 6: Will think it enough of it? Yeah. Absolutely.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 7: The big difference is I'm not being paid millions of
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 7: dollars to run a major billion dollar sporting enterprise, and
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 7: I'd shut up really fast if you give me Jerry
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 7: Depoto's salary, I would not be talking to the media
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 7: like that and the way that I do. So, yeah,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 7: it's just amazing, Like I get the impulse of why
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 7: he does the way that he does because I think
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 7: that I can relate to a lot of it. The
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 7: difference is just that that's not my job, and I
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 7: would like to think that if I had that job,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 7: I would discipline myself better to not make that mistake.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: It just is so toned off to me, and I
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: don't see the upside on a comment like this.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: That's the other thing. What's the what is he gaining
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: out it? I don't understand it. I just don't know artists.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: I just you know, you've seen the dig up stupid
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: like dig up man, Like what are you doing?
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: What good does this comment do?
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: And why do you feel like Colt t Emerson didn't
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: feel comfortable making those comments? What is it that makes
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: it that Colt Timerson didn't And I'll tell you what
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: it is. It's that I feel like the leadership on
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: this ball club has gotten a little bit too red,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: you know what, and been a little too bit too much.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: You gotta be super grind through, and you gotta be stoic,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: and you can't have fun playing the game. And I
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: bet you the twenty one year old doesn't feel comfortable saying, hey,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: skip my wrist frickin hurts. I bet you that's not
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: a very comfortable thing playing in that situation.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: And you know, it's not the worst thing he's ever said.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's like anywhere close to fifty four
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: percent or some of the other nonsense quotes that he's
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: given but it's not good, and it's just another Anyone
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: who is feels like Jerry Depoto deflex anytime he's criticized.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: That quote didn't do anything to dissuade you from those opinions.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: Molly Watt Monday, presented by Simply Seattle. Now, his replacement,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: brock Rodden, has looked really good over three games. And
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: you know, I'll toot my own horn here for a second.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: Those of you who are Mayawai enthusiasts know that I've
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: had brock Rodden somewhere in the top twelve to fifteen
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: prospects on my list. I am a fan. I think
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: the guy can swing it. I have some real doubts
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: about whether or not he's a starting shortstop.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: At the highest level.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: You saw a couple of plays there that brock Rodden
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: didn't get to that maybe Colt Emerson does, or a
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: shortstop not of the JP Crawford caliber probably gets too
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: as well. But I do think there was a little
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: bit of a spark there, and I really like the
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: played appearances Nathan. It's just fun to see stuff like that,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: and it was nice to have a reason to celebrate.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Obviously, the two wins mean more but seeing a young
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: guy come up and ball out, as the kids once said,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: that's pretty fun too.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 7: Everybody loves a shan O'Malley.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 6: We talked about this.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: In the first segment.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 7: And just a little scrappy guy that like you just
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 7: can you can put him up in your coat closet
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 7: there next to your night's jackets and bring him down
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 7: whenever you need to get stuff going. I'll tell you what,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 7: man like, I have no idea what brock rotten future
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 7: is in major league baseball, Chris, Obviously you're way more
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 7: educated and well suited to.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: Talk about that.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 7: Out of the two things, one, what an amazing sense
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 7: of composure and just not letting pressure get to you
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 7: get that game tying hit on Friday night like rock
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 7: Rodden deserved win on Friday night, which is part of
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 7: why that lost sucks so bad. What an incredible major
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 7: league debut that was for him. And Two, I just
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 7: one of the very best things in baseball that I
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 7: never ever get tired of is seeing a guy get
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 7: his debut, get his first good hit, make good player,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 7: strikeout or whatever, and watching his family.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 6: Just go absolutely bananas.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 7: Yea, and in this case they were extra going bananas
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 7: because he had the biggest hit of the game as
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 7: his first ever major league hit. It's just so cool, man, Like,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 7: is it a spark? I don't know, Man, he could
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 7: be back in the minor leagues within two weeks, and
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 7: he may go like one for his next thirty I
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 7: will be perfectly honest with our audience. I don't know
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 7: a whole lot about rock Rodden outside of the fact
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 7: that he's small and very white.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 6: And seems fun. But for that one night, man.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 7: That was just a really, really cool I don't know
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 7: if spark. Spark is such a loaded term because I've
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 7: been hearing spark about this team every time they win
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 7: a game for the last month, and then they go.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 6: Out and they craft the bed for the next week.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 7: So I don't want to say spark. It was just
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 7: it's more to what Andrews was saying in the first segment.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 7: It was just fun to watch that happen, and the
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 7: Marriors have not been very fun very often in twenty
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 7: twenty six.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: Did you enjoy it as much as we did? Anders? Absolutely, yes.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 5: I meant I think the composure aspect of it can't
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 5: be overstated too. A guy that brought you know, what
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 5: was it like, you know, twenty or thirty of his
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 5: family members down because he's from Oklahoma. It was a
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 5: perfect debut spot for him. That's in Houston. So it's
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: nice and close or close ish, I should say. And
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: you know, it's a big.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: Moment in the season. This is the biggest series that the.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 5: Mariners have played up until this point, and they absolutely
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 5: just say, hey, you're starting shortstop.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: You're gonna need to make some plays for us.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 5: And the fact that he not only did that, not
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 5: only just looked like a major league baseball player, but
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: in some cases did like some things that a lot
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 5: of other people in the lineup haven't been doing recently.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: I think is an awesome thing for him and having
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: him do that in his first three games at the
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 5: major league level is fantastic. So yes, I mean, is
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 5: he going to be a starting shortstop for ten years
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: to come? No, probably not, because you've already signed someone
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 5: to be that in Colt Emerson, right, But the having
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: someone just step in and like the providest spark thing,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 5: it just gets over blown. I agree, Nathan one hundred percent.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 5: But having something be different, right, and this is why
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 5: a lot of people have been advocating for not just
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 5: the firing of Dan Wilson or changing in leadership or
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: changing and all that stuff, but bring up some young guys.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 5: Sure get something different here. We've been asking for Kate
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: Anderson forever, We've been asking for Las Montes, Michael Arroyo,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 5: like all these guys, like gets something different. This team
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 5: needs to win this year and might as well turn
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: over every stone.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: At this point, I was just so pumped for this
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: kid man.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: And you know, he's not the youngest prospect by any
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: stretch of the imagination. He's already twenty six, so be
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: twenty seven next year.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: Gives me Ben Williamson vibes.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: You know, there's more pop in the back there, like
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: he hit nineteen homers in Yeah, thanks for bringing up
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: Ben Williamson to the ultimate Ben Williamson apologist, Nathan Bishop.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm believe you've got one more segment.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: Well, it's like it's like the inverse of Ben Williamson,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 5: because it's like much better offense, but maybe has holes defensive.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: A similar path to the major League in a similar
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: role that where their best is a guy who can
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: play a little bit of third base, a little bit
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: of second base a little bit of shortstop. Unfortunately, because
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: he's spud website, you don't feel great about that in
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: the outfield. But it's just fun to see. And you know,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: sometimes we get annoyed about the Mariners promoting the future
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: and talking about things where you know, there's too much
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: talk about Jimothy and not enough talk about the major
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: league roster. But this is something that that's a little
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: bit of both. You can both be extremely happy for
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: brock Rodding, be curious about what his future is, and
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: also be super thankful because he he kind of not
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: saved your bacon, but he sure as hell helped you
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: win two of those three games.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: Uh. Big old week still coming up for the Mariners.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: They have three against the Brewers, three against the Cubs.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about those series and what.
• 1:14:53
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• 1:14:55
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• 1:15:00
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• 1:15:03
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• 1:15:10
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• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: Molly Watt Monday presents it by simply Seattle, Chris Crawford
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: filling in for Ian Forness, got Nathan Bishop and Anderson
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: Hurst with me, so the gauntlet continues. The Mariners have
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: six games this week after an off date tonight, three
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: games against the Milwaukee Brewers, who they are a wagon
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: right now seventy seven and forty eight. They currently have
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: a ninety nine point nine percent chance of making the
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: postseason because they just refuse to put one hundred until
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: you actually get there. And the Chicago Cubs, who are
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: seventy two and fifty three and have been playing well.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: On the counter side of that, the Houston Astros get
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: the doll drums of the division, the Oakland YEP Oakland Athletics,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: and Los Angeles Angels of a and high time. This
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: is a big week, and Nathan just it seems like
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: an obvious point, just how important is it to play
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: well over these six knowing that the Astros are probably
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: gonna get pretty healthy against two bad teams.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 7: If they play the way that they have played against
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 7: everybody except for the Astros this year for the next
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 7: six games, they could very easily be looking at being
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 7: seven to eight games back in the AL West, which
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 7: would be just about night night time, given that I
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 7: don't think they have any games against the Astros left,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 7: so it's oh, I'm sorry, So that's two more guaranteed
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 7: wins than between the end of the We regret the air,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 7: but yeah, it's absolutely massive, and it's you know what
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 7: it is too, it's it's an opportunity for them, Like
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 7: we've talked about this before, not just to like you know, statistically,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 7: keep themselves in contention, but to prove to us into
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 7: themselves they can go toe to toe with the best
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 7: teams in baseball because we've talked had not him, all
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 7: the best teams in baseball are in the National League
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 7: this year. And that's what the Brewers are, man, The
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 7: Brewers are the Tampa Bay Rays. If the Tampa Bay
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 7: Rays really have their you know what together, like they
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 7: have this thing dialed in so well right now in
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 7: a lot of ways, like not necessarily with payroll or whatnot.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 7: They remind me of like the two thousand and one Mirriors,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 7: just in that sense of like every single player on
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 7: that team is doing exactly what they want them to
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 7: do at all times. They have a fit for absolutely
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 7: everything that you're going to try to do. They are
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 7: just so comprehensively put together, so well managed. There's just
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 7: they are the efficiency obsessed modern baseball saber door dream.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 7: They just do all of that stuff so well. That's
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 7: going to be a huge test for them. Very fortunate
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 7: that they don't face stick them Misowski in that series,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 7: but that's still.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: A really tough matchup.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 7: And then the Cubs are just, you know, a very
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 7: talented team is playing really well. PCA is probably the
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 7: MVP of all of baseball right now, so it's going
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 7: to be a huge test. If they can go four
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 7: and two or better in this week, I think that's
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 7: that will be a turning point. That will be a
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 7: spark that you can look at and say, the Marriners
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 7: can make a run because they just went toe to
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 7: toe with two of the best teams in baseball and
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 7: they came out with a couple of series wins. That's
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 7: what I need to see from this week.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: Interest.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm looking at it from a different standpoint,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 5: but the exact same result. I want two series wins,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 5: but it's less about who the Mariners are facing for me,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 5: and more the fact that one time, a grand total
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 5: of one time in twenty twenty six, the Mariners have
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 5: won three straight series one time during their eight game
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 5: winning streak late May and early June. And winning three
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 5: straight series is something that good baseball teams do, you know,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 5: a handful of times throughout, if not more, throughout the
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 5: course of a season. So the fact that the Mariners
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 5: have done that once this entire season that it needs
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 5: to stop.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 5: This is where you finally put together a stretch of
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 5: good baseball. And I still believe the Mariners talent is
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 5: to the level of the fact that they can do
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 5: that against almost any team that they play against, no
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 5: matter who they're facing. Now it would be even that
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 5: much sweeter to have it happen against Number one, the
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 5: team you're chasing in the Ale West in Houston, which
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 5: is a job done. Number two, one of the best
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 5: teams in the National League, and the Brewers, and same
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 5: thing with the Cubs in the For having those be
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 5: the three series that you end up winning, which hopefully
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 5: will be the case, that will be a definite sign
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 5: that this team has finally turned a page and just
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 5: go win three straight series.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: That's that's all I ask at this point, and it's
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 3: not that much to ask everything.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: Not every team that has these type of aspirations should
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: be able to do that and do that multiple times,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: you know, It's just those six and threes just haven't
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: been there for the Mariners this year. There's an eight, No,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: there's a five and one, and there's a hell of
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: a lot of mediocrity or worse in between. And not
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: just do I want to see them win series. I
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: just want to see them look like the baseball team
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: I've been waiting for them to look like all year.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: And maybe it won't be enough.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: There's a very good chance it won't be enough because
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: of the whole they've dug themselves. But at least let
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: me enjoy these final thirty five. Make these thirty five matter.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: Make it matter. That's what I said on mile Y
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: in the last video, is that all I'm asking for
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: now is that you make it matter. I can't completely
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: forgive you for the first five to six of this season,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: but you can make it matter. You can make it so,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: you know, and if you end up winning the World Series,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: I don't think anyone will care. Out of the first
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: five to six wins, in fact, five to six of
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: the season win. In fact, it'll just make a better
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: DVD if they still made DVDs. It would just make
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: a better story here. My biggest concern I think here
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: is that they're gonna face four of these six guys
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: are gonna be lefties. You're gonna face Kyle Harrison, Robert Gasser,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: Matthew Boyd and show to Emanaga and to be determined
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. Cubs are a tough team, and that's another
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: series where the Seattle Mariners will not have the home
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: field advantage. There will be just as many, if not more,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: Chicago Cup fans in that stadium, and that's something they've
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: struggled with. It's one of the reasons why sometimes Toronto
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: and Boston could be such a tricky matchup for them,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: because they just really don't have that home field advantage.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: But these are big games, and at the very least
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: I will take some solace in knowing that they're not
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: out of it. It's partially because of how terrible everyone
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: else is. In fact, it's more because of how terrible
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: everyone else is. But Nathan, how many times have we
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: watched Mariner games or Mariner seasons where they're just completely
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: out of it? We can take some solace in this.
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  Speaker 7: Right, Oh yeah, I mean, we're this is not the
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 7: twenty eleven Mariners.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 6: It's not the two thousand and six Mary.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's so funny, Like we talked before, if
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 7: you're a newer fan, this decade, like this is by
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 7: far your worst marriage experience. This is like the standard
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 7: media in the Seattle Mariners season thus far. It can
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 7: get so much worse in this folks. And thanks to
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 7: the extremely wide stewardship of Robert Manfred, there's about eighty
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 7: five playoff spots in baseball now, so you really don't
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 7: have to be great to make the postseason. And that's
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 7: good because this baseball team is not great. But to
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 7: your point, Chris, if they can navigate next twelve games
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 7: at five hundred or better, they are going to be
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 7: lined up coming down the stretch with so many winnable series,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 7: so many winnable games, and a real chance to do
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 7: the thing in some ways that they have done year
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 7: after year this decade, which is kind of just far
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 7: around until mid August in early September, and then catch
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 7: fire and either win fourteen in a row or seventeen
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 7: out of eighteen and then find themselves in the playoffs.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 7: So that opportunity is still there. But the real risk
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 7: is if they keep playing the way that they play
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 7: against everybody but the Astro, they can be staring at
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 7: four and eight or worse over this stretch, and then
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 7: that's probably night night.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: Nothing will surprise me, Absolutely nothing will surprise me.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 3: Nathan, you're the man. I'm gonna talk to you next week.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: And uh, just that surprised me. You just gave Nathan
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: Bishop a compliment. It's really hard.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: The ghost of Dick Fane just jumped in me and
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: was like, please stop what you're doing right now.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: We'll talk to you next week, buddy.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 6: All right, guys, thank you so much.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: You bet we're gonna talk some fantasy football next. Sports
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• 1:24:08
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• 1:24:12
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  Speaker 3: Good for him, we'll talk about that in just a second.
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• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: Can't help, but wonder what the Mariner evaluation would be
• 1:24:57
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• 1:25:00
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• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: Thanks again to Nathan Bishop Good as always, no surprise there,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: I just knew those comments about Jerry Depoto we're going
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: to be huh chef's fingers?
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 3: Can I ask you something about that? Please?
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 5: I am a little bit foggy on the entire timeline
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 5: of the situation here, so can you shed some light
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 5: on it for me?
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  Speaker 3: So so, but let me ask for please.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 5: So, to my understanding, it was reported by multiple people
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 5: that are all he's right on this kind of stuff.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: Sure that Colt Emerson was being sent down.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: Down to Triple A, not to the IL Nope, he
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: was being optioned to Triple A Tacoma.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: So when did that change and how and where was
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 5: the miscommunication?
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 3: Like? Literally hours later, hours later?
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 5: Was it Colt Emerson being like, Hey, I'm actually hurt.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 5: Don't like, don't send me down. I need to go
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 5: on the IL or was it, like how did that change?
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: So that's not too clear, and that's and I think
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: that is important. Yeah, it would be nice to add
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: that context. I just know this Jerry Depotto has not
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: earned the benefit of the deal of this stuff and
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: he until there's more clarity, and we're certainly not going
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: to hear Colt Emerson give his full side of the
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: story because that just not what happened. They would not
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: let that happen. And you know, again, I'm not saying
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: this is the biggest deal in the world. It's just
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: another tone deaf comment from a guy who was made,
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: in my humble estimation, a lot of tone deaf comments.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: I want to talk before we get into fantasy foot
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: that Devin Witherspoon extension.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exciting stuff. And you know, I remember, I
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: forget what the guy's name was. He went on with
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: Rick Eisen and Rich Eyesen. Excuse me, he might go
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: by Rick to some of his friends.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 3: I doubt it.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: Ricky Eisen was had somebody on and he was saying,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: how big of a mistake. It was that Jackson Smith
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: and Jigbo was going to make more than Sam Darnold. Well,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: now your cornerback's going to make more. Number one.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 3: That guy's full of crap.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: There's nothing to it but what Eisen pointed out, And
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: I think this is the best thing you can have
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: in an organization. If you show out and if you succeed,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: you are going to get paid by this organization. And
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: I know it's different than Seattle because there is a
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: literal salary cap in the NFL, but it's so awesome
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: to see them reward star players. And Devin Witherspoon is
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: a star. He is an absolute star, one of the
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: absolute elite, not just cornerbacks in football, defenders in football.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: And as I rewatched the Super Bowl the other day,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: it's hard for me to not say he was the
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: MVP of that game. Yeah, the plays that he was making,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: especially on those perfectly time blitz is that touchdown doesn't
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: happen unless Devin Witherspoon times that blitz. And it certainly
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: helps that the New England offensive line was not ten
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: pounds of crap in a five pounds.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: Very welcome.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: You bet, you bet your sweep fiffy. It was ten
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: pounds of crap in a five pound bag. But boy,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: he was just dominant, like the best player on the
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: football field for a large portion of that game. And sure,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: you know it hurts the flexibility. You can talk about
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: all that stuff, blah blah blah. Yeah, to keep your
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: best the most important thing is keeping your best players
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: happy and your best players locked up long term.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: I think it's awesome.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I'm just happy that it even though
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 5: there was Okay, you actually haven't seen this, but I'm
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 5: sure you've heard the stories about the talking hard knocks,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 5: about the miscommunication between the Seahawks and Devin Witherspoon about
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 5: the contract negotiation.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen this.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 5: It's in the first episode, so those I won't spoil
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 5: it's not really spoiled it. It's out there obviously already.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 5: But for those of you who have watched it, you
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 5: know they could have been interpretated that there was definitely
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 5: more drama than there really was. Sure, and now that
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 5: we know that this is all taken care of, I'm
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: also happy it's taken care of before Christian Gonzales, who
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 5: is also waiting to get paid, So having that kind
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: of lead the way and then someone else is gonna
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 5: jump in right away. It's just the way it goes
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 5: in the NFL these days. And you're right, you need
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 5: to pay your best players. And honestly, you look at
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 5: the value of positions, quarterbacks obviously number one.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: Sure you could.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 5: Argue wide receiver, edge rusher, quarterback for that second best
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 5: or second most valuable position in the NFL in terms
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 5: of how much you're gonna pay these guys. So it's
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 5: it's just as much important. It's just as important to
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 5: get Witherspoon paid as you know, a star edge rusher,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 5: the Micah Parsons right, the Miles Garretts of the world. Right,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 5: So stopping the quarterback is just as important as you know,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 5: having the quarterback that ends up making those plays. So,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 5: and he does more than just cover. That's the that's
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 5: that's where he gets his value. He he can blitz,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 5: he's great in the run game, he can play on
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 5: the inside, he can play on the outside there and
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 5: it's just just Swiss army knife and it's a perfect
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 5: player from Mike McDonald's system. And I'm happy that that's
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 5: all taken care of and we don't have to think
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 5: about that as we get closer and closer this season.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not happy as a clam.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: And they're both both JSN and both Devin Witherspoon are
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: taken care of and they're going to take care of
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: business yet for sure.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: So I wanted to talk some fantasy football.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: Now, some of you guys know that I work for
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: NBC Swarts Sports NBC Swartz.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: Uh may the Swartz stew you.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait for spaceballs too, But I I
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: do mostly fantasy baseball, but I do a lot of
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: fantasy football, a lot of fantasy football, and don't I'm
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: not as forefront as people like Patrick Doherty or Denny Carter,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: but I cover a lot of stuff and I get
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: asked a lot of questions. So I thought it would
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: be fun to take a look at some players that
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: I consider sleepers for the upcoming fantasy football season. And
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 2: I just want to preface this real quick. Sleeper is
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: the most subjective term possible in fantasy sports and maybe
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: just in sports, because if you know who the hell
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: this guy is and he've already drafted him in the
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: fifth round, good for you. But for everybody else who
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: you know, we have a lot of people who just
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: play fantasy football as a hobby. It's a way to
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: keep them connected with their friend group. It's a way
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: it makes Sundays a hell of a lot more interesting
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: when you're paying attention to the box scores.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 3: So this is for them as well as those people
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 3: who just want to win their league. Let's phrase it
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 3: this way.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 5: It's even if you know about it already, like, let's
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 5: these are players who Chris Crawford thinks are more valuable
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 5: than where they're being.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: Drafted thousand perfectly put, that's why they pay you the
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: big bucks bucks. So quarterback's always a little tough one
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: because there's only a dozen that are really.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: Playable, and depends on what league, and it.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: Depends on the league. And I'm just assuming your standard
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: one quarterback league, no superflex or anything like that. By
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: the way, four nine four five one to Comada's text line,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: if you have some questions about players that you're considering
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: drafting or keeping, anders and I would be happy to
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: answer that for you.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 5: Wou Also, I'm curious as a tech text slash talk
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 5: pack discussion that we can get to next segment.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 3: Please, what is your favorite fantasy format?
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 5: Fantasy format text text in four, nine four or five
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 5: to one what your favorite fantasy football format is.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: Do you remember do you remember how excited Robert Turbin
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: was when I told him about the Vampire League.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: That was so fun, That was very fun. You miss Turvo.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: I missed Turbo a lot.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: Man, Just you know, the motivation to get my arms
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: to look like that guy. I just need to see
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: it every single day. So I'll start with quarterback. I'm
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: gonna say Tyler Shuck. Now, Tyler Shuck had a rookie
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: season that was doesn't jump off the page, twenty three
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty four yards, passing, ten touchdowns and six interceptions.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: QBR rating of forty eight point eight. The improvement that
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: he made as the season went on really impressed me.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: And I think he's a guy who's going to get
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: a chance to throw quite a bit because I think
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: the Saints are gonna have to score a lot of
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: points to stay in games this.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: Year, and that matters.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: I won so many leagues from the garbage time all
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: Stars that were the Jacksonville Jaguires and Blake Bortles putting
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: up twenty points in the fourth quarter every year, and
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that and I do think you know,
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: there was skepticism Tyler Shuck is twenty six going on
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: thirty eight, because he was in college for what seemed
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: like a decade and he didn't start off great, but
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: he really proved as the season went on.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 3: I like his weapons.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: I think Chris Olave is one of the best wide
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: receivers in football. Juwan Johnson one of the more underrated.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: He has a couple of running backs who can catch
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: the football well. I won't be shocked at all if
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: Tyler Shuck ends up being a top ten quarterback this year.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: I would prefer him as my quarterback two top ten
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: fantasy quarterback. If you missed that we're talking about fantasy
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: getting my apologies because I don't think he's there yet.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 3: But I like Tyler Shuck. Any thoughts on Tyler Shuck
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: I wasn't even on my radar. So this is a
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 3: perfect sleep.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: Perfect me perfect running back is a little bit trickier
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: just because I can't put your Darian Price as a sleeper.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 3: I will tell you this, you can put even playing
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 3: in the NFL.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: He gave me four years of Judarian Prices, Notre dame.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: He has to earn Jadarian for me he has to
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: turn to Darien. The name that immediately jumps to my
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: mind is Keaton Mitchell, a member now of the Los
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: Angeles Chargers. I've just always been super intrigued by this
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: guy's speed, and when he's gotten a chance, he's been
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: very productive. Last year, he had fifty nine carries for
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: three hundred and forty one yards. That's a five point
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: eight average yards per carry. In twenty twenty three and
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: forty seven attempts, he averaged eight point four yards per carry.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: Do I think he's going to be a running back one?
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Do I think he has a chance to
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: be a top twenty five or so running back, which
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: would make him an excellent flex play on Sundays. I do,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: And I have some concerns about Amari and Hampton being
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: just that bellcow guy. Mike McDaniel is one of not
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: a very good NFL head coach so far, although I'd
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: love to see what he could do without two attack
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: of ilo as an NFL quarterback. But he certainly is
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: a very creative dude. He is certainly a guy who's
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: going to find a way to get Keaton Mitchell the football.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: In particular, PPR leagues and if you're not playing in
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: a PPR league, what are you doing? Like, come on,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: you gotta get that point per reception, man, I just
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: I it puts number. There's two things I'll say to
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: your format thing. Number one, quarterback touchdowns four points. You
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: have to limit that to four points. And number two,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: there's got to be PPR. That way, you add more
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: positional value and you create more It's funner. It's more
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: fun when you have the guy who catches sixty five
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: balls for eight hundred yards have some potential versatility there.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: The other guy is Kyle mon Ange, who is a
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: backup running back right now for the Bears, who I
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: think is going to develop into the starter.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: I think he's just a better player than DeAndre Swift.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to get a lot of touches.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 3: Another guy who plays with a quote unquote genius in offense.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: And Ben Johnson. I love Ben Johnson.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 5: By the way, life tell I wouldn't have like Ben
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 5: Johnson and Mike McDaniel, or do you just go to
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 5: the school of the mad scientist offensive coordinators?
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's both. Yeah, you know, it is a little
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 3: bit of both.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: I'm super happy that the Seahawks picked the coach that
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: they did over Ben Johnson, although maybe it sounds like
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: Ben Johnson picked to stay in Detroit more than he
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: picked not going to Seattle. A lot of misinformation on
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: both sides of there. But Kamdogey and Keaton Mitchell would
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: be the two running backs that I would be targeting
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: in the mid to late rounds who I think have
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: a chance to be one a little bit more running
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: back to manon On Guy. I think he is a
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: running back two who has a chance to be a
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: running back one, especially especially and DeAndre Swift has not
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: exactly been a beacon of health.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: Wide receiver.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: There's a bunch of rookie wide receivers that I really like,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: but they're gonna go off the board a little too soon.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: Jordan Tyson is a guy who I think has a
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: chance to be productive. Makayle Lemon, assuming good health, has
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: a chance to be productive. I'm gonna give you a
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: different rookie though, and I'm gonna give you Jacoby Lane.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: Jacoby Lane was a guy who out of usc who
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: tested well but really wasn't really on a hell of
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: a lot of radars. But now he enters the Baltimore
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: Ravens offense, an offense that's going to be much different
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: under their new OC compared to Todd Mankin. We're gonna
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: see them throw the football. I think a heck of
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: a lot more. This guy has perfect red zone size,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: the perfect build to be that red zone target. Jay
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: Flowers is a good wide receiver. Red zone target he
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: is not. And you know if they do have Mark
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: Andrews and Isaiah Likely at tight end, but that big
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: ride out who can run those I know the fade
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: route is not everybody's favorite play, but it can be
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: an effective one.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 3: And having somebody of his size who can line up
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 3: in the slot and allow River or excuse me, Flowers
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 3: to work inside and have him release into.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: Those Lamar Jackson just hasn't had a weapon like that.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: I am intrigued by Jacoby Lane. Have you been drafting
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: yet at all, any wide receivers or are you just waiting?
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 5: I haven't had a draft yet, so I'm excited to
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 5: kind of get this information considering you are in my league.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 5: So yes, I'm kind of pitting this against you. I
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 5: don't know if this is you trying to throw me
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 5: off in our league, or if this is one of
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 5: those situations where you're actually sacrificing possible success in the
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 5: KJR fantasy leave for the good of the content, for
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 5: the people here, and if so, good on you for
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 5: doing that.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: So I didn't think about that, So Lemon change that
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: my quarterback sleeper is to a teg a violin.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 3: He just looks like an absolute stud.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: Left him in the second round, No first round. Why
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: would you even wait? I mean, he's left handed. He's
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: gonna the two lefty quarterbacks are gonna lead Atlanta to
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: the Promised Land.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 5: Na.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many good football players that even
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: giving ups like my sleepers, and there might be a
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: few I hide, but no, I just don't have that
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: ability to not give you the players I think are
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: going to be good.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 3: And then tight end tight end's a mess.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: If I could play in a non tight end league,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: I think I would, to be completely honest with you,
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: For every Trey McBride, there are an awful lot of
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: guys that now I'll say the one Seahawk I considered.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: I do think Aj Barner is going to be a
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: tight end one this year, really, and I think that
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 2: now tight end one for those unfamiliar that means I
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: think in a standard twelve team league, I think he
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: will be one of the twelve best tight ends in football.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: He's just improved as a receiver so much. Anders the
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: very first week that Ian was being lazy. When we
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: came in, of course, we talked about the draft and
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: we talked about how excited we were that they drafted
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: aj Barner because man, he's gonna be such a good
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: blocker and such a good special teams contributing.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 3: We didn't think of him pass catcher.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: He is a good blocker, yeah, and when he played
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: special teams he did do a good job.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 5: Doesn't have to do anymore because he is legitimately a
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 5: really nice target.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: Ultimately, though, I think I'm gonna go with Greg Dolcech here.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: He's a tight end for the Miami Dolphins. I love
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: safety valves at the tight end position at PPR. And
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: you take a look at the Dolphins. They have a
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: new quarterback in Malik Willis, they have a dreadful offensive line,
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: and they lost their two best receivers, and I think
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: Plik Willis is gonna need to get rid of the
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: football quickly. And when Greg dolcich has had a chance.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: He's done a nice job. He's averaged thirteen yards per
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: reception last year, twenty six catches for three hundred and
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: twenty five yards. Far from elite production, far from production
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: that would put you in to fantasy consideration. But he's
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 2: going to be the guy there at tight end. He
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: is going to get a chance to get a bunch
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 2: of targets. I think, and don't expect a ton of touchdowns.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: Don't expect the yardage to be elite, but I think
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: the chance to get sixty to seventy catches for six
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: hundred to seven hundred yards absolutely puts you in the
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: tight end one consideration.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: And I'll just say this too.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: If you can't get Brock Bauers, and you can't get
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: Trey McBride, just wait, wait, wait, wait, don't overdraft Kyle Pitts,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: don't overdraft George Kittle, don't draft the legacy that was
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: Wait and draft a tight end like Greg Dulcic.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 2: Again, if you have any fantasy questions, four nine, four,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: five to one, we'll look at those texts.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Crawford in for Ian Forness.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: I'm already cracking up because the first TXT I see
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: here is Stan Gelba or Kelly Stopfer. I'll take your
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: fantasy question off the air. The answer is Dan McGuire.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: Go get Dan McGuire. That's six foot eight, beautiful adonnis
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: of a terrible quarterback. Boy, just saying those names makes
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 2: you appreciate Sam Darnold even more.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 3: Anders like there's been some good quarterbacks. Am I supposed
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 3: to know who those names are? No? No, ideally no.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: If you really want to be a self hating Seahawks fan,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: then yeah, you absolutely should. But that's a miserable way
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: to live, so don't do that. So I asked you
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: guys for your fantasy questions. We got a bunch of them,
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: so that's really cool. By the way, misspoke, Isaiah likely
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: is now with the Giants, and would he be a
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: good late round pick if he's available late round?
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 3: I would say yes.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: I think the name and the organization is probably going
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: to get.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 5: Him over drafted. Then the thought that he was going
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 5: to be the starter there and shit like that.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, Jackson dart Is, he's a quarterback.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: I'm probably going to avoid. But in two quarterback leaks
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: with a little bit of scrambling ability, I can ignore.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 3: What's an idiot.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 5: Before we get to your fantasy questions, I have a
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 5: rebuttal on your PPR claim please about that you need
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 5: to be playing PPR. And I'm not necessarily saying that
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 5: I disagree. I just here's my thought process with fantasy
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 5: scoring formats. Sure, I want it to represent as close
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 5: to the value that players play in a right in
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 5: a real situations as closely as you can. So having
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 5: the guy that catches a bunch of screen passes for
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 5: six yards that is just incredibly valuable because he every
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 5: reception that he gets is an extra point is a
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 5: little bit over the top for me versus just like, hey,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 5: it's however many yards you get, that's how much value
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 5: you bringing to the team.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 3: Maybe there's a good happy medium. Huh. Half point pp
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 3: are half, which a lot of people do now, so absolutely,
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 3: and I'll take half point over no point for sure.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: My rebuttal to your rebuttal is that it's literally called
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: fantasy football. So I think adding more players and more
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: people to pay attention to I like that, And if
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: you really want realism, then you know, go go watch
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 2: the game. I guess I'm not saying, ah, just watch
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 2: the game, nerd or anything like that, but I I
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: do like I get your point because a lot of
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 2: people feel the same what you did.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah two six playing Chris Crawford bingo today ten crap
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 5: ten pounds a crap at a five pound bag check?
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 3: You bet your sweet pippy check for those.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 5: Of you who don't know athleticism and for Ian forness,
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 5: that lazy Canadian.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: Hey, I didn't call him a lazy Canadian. I implied it.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: I just called him lazy and Canadian happens to be
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 2: a Canadian, that lazy, lazy Canadian.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 3: Bengo. There it is from the seven to one four.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: I'm in a PPR league non super flex, which is
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 2: my favorite format. I'm keeping Jonathan Taylor and Puka Nakua,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: but he's a great player as a no brainer, but
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 2: by her third keeper? Should I keep Tyler Warren fifth round?
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels eighth round Kyle Pitt's twelfth round, ten Teams,
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: seventeen round draft. I would probably go with as much
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 2: as I just said the tight end thing, I'd probably
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 2: go with Tyler Warren. I think he's gonna be the
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: number one receiver in Indianapolis this year and the upside there.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: Jim Daniels is close. It's just we'll see how he
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: has to react to that injury.
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 5: And the crap that he's dealing with right now. I'm
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 5: not dealing with because he did it to himself. But like, dude,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 5: come on, it's true. It's a good point.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 3: Sleeper quarterback Kirk Cousins from the Two Out states that
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 3: offense will literally put anyone to sleep. You get to
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 3: host the show next week. Okay, I actually have a
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 3: question about that.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 5: Do you think the Raiders are gonna offensively put up
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 5: some numbers because of Clint Kubiak?
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe?
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, I still am a believer in Ashton Genty.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 5: That I think he's gonna be really good this year.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 5: That's somebody do you can get for a decent value, Yeah,
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 5: snag him.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 3: Rock Bauers is a stud.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: Michael Meyer is one of the best backup tight ends
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: in football, and I think he's gonna get involved in
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 2: this offense. We've seen the Seahawks you know, and Clint
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: Kubiak offenses use multiple tight ends with success. I wish
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: there was a better wide receiver one there. But and
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 2: I'll also be curious to see who's quarterbacking right because
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins doesn't do it for me.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 3: But you can get the ball to some people, sure.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: And are going to be playing behind too. That's something
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 2: to keep in mind. I'm really excited for Clint Kubiak.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: I hope it all goes well for him. You know,
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 2: if they play the Seahawks, I'll hope they lose one
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: hundred and seven to negative six. But I do have
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 2: good thoughts about Clint Kubiak as, even in a short time,
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: one of the greatest offensive just one of the greatest
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 2: coaches in Seahawks history.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't know if you can ye for
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 3: one year, but leading him to a super Bowl and
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 3: did he lead them to the Super Bowl, helping them
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 3: to a Super Bowl, and just the schemes. Man, I
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 3: loved watching Clint Kubiak's schemes. Yeah, I guess we'll see
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 3: because it's.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: A little bit damn it with fan praise. There's not
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of offensive coordinators that I just rave about
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 2: in Seahawk history, you know. So let's see here with
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 2: the lack of bell cow running backs this year. Text
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: from the four two five, I have the number four
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: pick in a twelve teen PPR league? Would it be
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: crazy to take Jonathan Taylor over names like Puka and Jaysn?
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: Not crazy. I would still take Jasn in that spot.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 2: I expect Jsn to have a monster season. In fact,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: I'll go on record that I think Jasn will have
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 2: less catches than he did last year, less yards, but
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: more touchdowns and maybe considerably more touchdowns. I think Jasn
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: is going to be the weapon in the red zone
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: this year because he just can do so many different things,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 2: and I think the Seahawks are going to need to
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 2: find a way to get him the football.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 5: I agree, it's gonna be so tough to match his
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 5: value that he brought last year, obviously.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 7: But.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's that good. I don't think last year
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 5: was a fluke. I don't think last year was a
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 5: fluke at all. Actually, so maybe there's some regression, but
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't be surprised if, like, Hey, I'm gonna avoid
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 5: saying this because I said this about cal Rawley this
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 5: year and boy was there some regression. I wouldn't be
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 5: surprised if he does it again, though, if he's that
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 5: valuable once again, it may be in a different way,
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 5: as you said, with more touchdowns, sure, but I think
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 5: he's gonna be just a stud for a long time.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 3: He would be the fourth player off the board.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: For me, I would say I have be John Robinson one, Yeah,
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: Jamier Gibbs two. I still have Jamar Chas as the
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 2: third because I just think it's a little bit better
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: over all. And I think the Bengals are another team
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: that's gonna have to throw the football and.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 3: Fell behind a lot. So those would be my three.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: And then I think JSN, Jonathan Taylor and a few
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: other guys can be in that conversation four to five,
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: you were the manager of the Seattle Mariners. What would
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: you have done with Josh Naylor after he got cat
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: stealing third base. I realized it was the second out
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 2: and you're trying to add to your lead, but I
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 2: would have told him you look tired after trying to
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: steal third. Why don't you sit on the bench and
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: rest for the rest of the game. I kind of
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: forgot about it. That was a horrible, horrible decision from Naylor.
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 2: Now do we know that Naylor was running on his own?
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 5: No?
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: Are you trying to and am I asking myself easy questions?
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 3: Yes? But that's a big mistake and Josh Naylor stolen
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 3: bases are fun boy, there have been some bad decisions
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 3: from Josh Naylor.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 2: We were talking it a little bit off air a
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 2: little bit, and just the overall takeaway is that while
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 2: he's been better as of late, Josh naylor season's been
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 2: a massive disappointment.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 3: What was the home run that happened after that? I
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 3: feel like, yeah, it was cal Rawly with the three, right,
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 3: But that's that's what it was.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 5: Okay, So you could if I could have been a
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 5: two run homer, obviously you still win the game. And
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 5: maybe that moment gets overlooked because cal Rawly hits the
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 5: home run after that and you still score a run.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 5: But man, yeah, if that's like getting out of an
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 5: inning or something, that's There's been too many of those
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 5: moments and Josh Naylor, you mentioned it before, has just
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 5: you never know when these things are going to go south,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 5: but you don't expect him to go south in the
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 5: first year of a contract, right, So having him be
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 5: as disappointing as he has been this year, I think
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 5: is a huge reason why the Mariners.
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 3: Are where they're at.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 2: Text run the three six so pretty funny. I don't know, guys,
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 2: I think you're on a different planet. They go three
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 2: and three over this six game series. It's a complete
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: success to me. And then immediately followed up, Okay, maybe
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 2: a different neighborhood.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because I replied it was like, three and three
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  Speaker 5: is a different planet than forward too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like the guy's a great guy though he was
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  Speaker 3: fu it's very funny too. Yeah. And here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: He not wrong, but they've put themselves in position where
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  Speaker 2: three and three is just not good enough.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not going to be so you need the
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  Speaker 3: four and two. It's not impossible.
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  Speaker 2: You're just gonna have to play your very best baseball
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  Speaker 2: against the team that's not the Astros.
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  Speaker 3: For the first time in a.
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 2: Long time, lost the text, but somebody asking me about
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: Tank Dell as a potential fantasy play. Tank Dell's someone
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: I considered as a sleeper as well really so. Tank
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 2: Dell was extremely productive and then had one of the
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: most crucive knee injuries. I believe it was a knee injury,
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 2: definitely leg related. It was horrible and he ended up
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: missing all of last year. Boy, I'm a big fan
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: of that guy's talent, and I don't believe this is
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: one of the rare The Texans aren't gonna have to
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 2: throw the football a lot, but outside of Nico Collins,
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 2: I don't see a lot of weapons that I'm too
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: excited about there. And he did have a good repertoire.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 2: I love saying repertoire with CJ. Stroud before.
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  Speaker 3: I like that. It would have to be late.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not drafting him, you know, to be a starter,
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: but I'd love to have that guy on my bench.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 2: Knowing too if the injury and this is something people
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: do not take advantage of enough.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 3: If you're drafting late, you don't know who to draft.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: Take somebody with that injury, put him on IR and
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: then add another player there.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't hurt you at all.
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  Speaker 2: Don't waste draft picks on guys who aren't going to
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 2: be successful, but give that guy a little bit of
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 2: it a benefit you know that you can put that
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: guy on IR that you can use an extra roster spot.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 3: Not enough people take advantage of that.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 5: I do have a couple of talkbacks. Someone called in
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 5: looking for you. Can I play it for you please?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, gentlemen, ian forness here. Chris Crawford filling in. Thank
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  Speaker 8: you very much. I'll be back in the studio to Moral.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 8: I'll be back to Moral period. End of story. I
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 8: want to time in here for a second. We did
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 8: hear a few puns on Jerry Depodo, and I just
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 8: don't like giving him the airtime. I mean, what are
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 8: we doing? What are we doing? He's a nothing burger.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 8: So I'll be back into Moral, and I just want
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  Speaker 8: to say thanks to Chris Crawford for filling in there.
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  Speaker 6: Fella.
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  Speaker 3: That's so good, so good, that's so good.
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  Speaker 2: Now he did turn into Tucker Carlson there for just
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 2: a little bit with the what are we doing?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I totally well, if I listened to the show, I
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: would know that. But you know I have better things
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: to do. WHOA, sorry, sorry, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 3: What are we doing? Boy?
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  Speaker 2: You sure didn't hear a heck of a lot of
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: him during the World Cup, did you?
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 3: Know you sure didn't hear a lot text from our
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 3: good buddy Keith. Is Loveland a potential difference maker on
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 3: that Bears offense Potentially Him and Tyler Warren are not
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 3: very different, of course, drafted like two picks apart at most,
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 3: and a lot of people were surprised that it was
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 3: Loveland who went ahead of Warren, and I do like
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 3: Warren better as a fantasy player.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 2: The thing there is, there's no tight end to for
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 2: Indianapolis that I'm even kind of intrigued by. Comet is
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 2: still a pretty good football player, and I think he's
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: gonna get involved Luther Burden, by the way, I know
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: he's dealing with some injury stuff. Not a sleeper because
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of people are hyping this guy up. Luth
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: Burton has a chance to be a wide receiver to
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 2: this year. Just incredibly talent.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 5: Feels like Cole Comet has been the perpetual Alright, you're
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 5: gonna draft someone else, but then he's gonna steal a
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 5: bunch of their targets and yards and stuff like that.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 2: My god, I'm pretty sure Comet is actually Slovenian.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 3: For what you just described. I'm gonna talk to h
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 3: somebody who just loves the country.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if it's Softy or Dick next,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 2: but we're gonna talk about Slovenian sports Radio ninety three
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 2: point three, Get Dark fab.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 3: Chris Crawford and Free Infra nas Ian. It will be back.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 3: Did it to Burrow?
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 9: Are you sure he's back? No, it's kind of crossing
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 9: my fingers. Man and told me off the air. He's like, God,
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 9: this pretty fun with Crawford. I hope you waldly pips
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 9: for an s. You did tell me that, Oh that
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 9: was in confidence.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Oh, now he puts it on the air.
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 9: I didn't mean well, you know, an honor a Jerry
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 9: Depoto airing out his short.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 9: You know, if we only really knew that you hated
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 9: he and all along, and we would.
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 3: Have put you on somebody else's show man. Good guy,
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 3: mister Softy, How you doing today. I'm good, I'm good.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 3: Good listening to you.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 9: And and there's on the way in talking about the
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 9: Emerson thing and the Mariner's fortunes. You know, it just
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 9: dawned on me that the Mariners are in this race
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 9: and it's got nothing to do with them at all.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 3: So true It's incredible, man, It's just bizarre.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 7: End.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't this be just so Mariner?
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 9: If they made the playoffs this year and finally made
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 9: the World Series as a five We're all dumping on
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 9: him for four and a half months and they finally
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 9: get there, like in ninety five, you know, I mean
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 9: it was thirty one years ago, honestly, but I don't
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 9: remember where my mind was in Like, I don't know
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 9: late July, early August of ninety five, but I guarantee
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 9: I wasn't thinking playoffs.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 3: No. Hell in ninety five? Is it right around them
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 3: when they started making the run?
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: It was mid August? Yeah, in August, so like right now,
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 2: that's when the screw wild card stuff happened. That's right,
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: That's when j.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 3: Buner threw the big fit about the wild Card's the
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 3: wild card, not screw the wild Card.
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 9: Okay, people know what you're talking about, Yes, with truck,
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 9: but starts with f We know what you're talking about. Yeah,
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 9: I mean, that's the crazy thing about baseball, man. And
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 9: the funny thing is I've heard a lot of people say,
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 9: and it's it's obviously accurate, and it's worth pointing out
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 9: that you got six teams in front of you.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 3: Sure, but those.
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 9: Other teams are also saying, Man, there's like six teams
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 9: around exactly.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 3: You're all saying the same damn thing, same thing. Did
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 3: they all win series over the weekend?
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 2: It sure seems like they did. Baltimore win a series
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: over the weekend.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 3: Okay, so they're in a playoff spot for the first
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 3: time in MACE. Yes, and they're under five hundred. By
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 3: the way, wouldn't this.
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 2: Be just an awesome to have time to have one
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 2: game playoffs, like to have all of these round robin
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 2: thing to determine, but instead it's going to be determined
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: by some dorky formula to.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 9: Well, let me ask you this because I I threw
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 9: this out on Twitter over the weekend and I may
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 9: have been a little bit to fueled by something it Okay,
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 9: just tad, Tad. You know how you have, like the
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 9: thing you blow into when you're in the car. You know,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 9: I think I need one of those for my Twitter
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 9: accounts over a certain percentage post until.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 3: I blow here. Sorry, you're not available.
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 9: I said this on Twitter over the weekend that whatever
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 9: the six teams are that make the playoffs in the
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 9: American League.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 3: I could see any of them making it. Any of them.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, obviously Tampa Bay the Yankees would be
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 9: the top two you'd look at.
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 5: But they're perfectly capable of losing a series. And when
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 5: you say making it go into the World Series, yes.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, any of them. I can see any of them,
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 3: any of that.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 9: Anybody gets hot, they get lucky, and right, Baltimore, sure,
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 9: it's not.
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 2: It's not a compliment to Baltimore into the Minnesota and
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 2: then it's just a huge indictment of how terrible.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 9: The American League is, which is what makes this year
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 9: so mad. If the baseball gods have blessed you, all they.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 2: Had to do was be above average the worst division
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 2: in baseball, imagine it. Oh, that's what I was just
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 2: gonna say. Imagine if they would have reached that number.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 3: When it's easier than ever to make the playoffs.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and the worst division in baseball and a terrible
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 9: American League, maybe even worse than last year, by the way,
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 9: when all of us thought last year was terrible, sure,
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 9: and this year's even terrible.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 3: Lure Okay, and.
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 9: Here you are and you're struggling just to stay alive
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 9: and breathe on I was telling Chris off the ear Andrews.
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, hell, you told me right now there are
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 3: four games out end of this month. I'll sign up
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 3: for that right now.
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 9: Really, if they just float, just stay above water, they
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 9: don't lose ground, they don't gain ground.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 3: But they're four games out in the first of September.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 9: Yeah, because look at their schedule the next six games,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 9: and look at who the Astros are playing.
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 3: They got the Angels in the A's.
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 9: We talked to guys and we could be ten games
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 9: out by Monday easily.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 2: Even it's you know, Nathan said that as well. And
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 2: now that someone who has a little bit more more
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 2: cache than yeah, just a little nobody, hey, uh not
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 2: speak it would agree for sure.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 3: Did you see the eight people today? Yeah? I did.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 3: Is that where they should be? A Yeah? I don't
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 3: really care.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 9: But you know what struck me is that the SEC
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 9: got no first place votes, not a single one one,
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 9: you know it did one SEC team.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame Fighting Irris got eight of them so often they
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 2: did somehow are ranked below a team that didn't get them.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 3: So I just I don't know, man, it's gonna be
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a crazy year.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 9: You know, we all expect the Huskies to be in
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 9: the CFP conversation. But you know, a little hook cup
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 9: at USC, a little hook cup at Iowa or here
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 9: against Iowa.
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 3: Sure, hiccup at Nebraska. Never know. You never know, man,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 3: You never know. I bet you know what's coming up on?
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 3: What's that? What's coming up on you? You want to
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 3: bet what's coming up? I was going to make you
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 3: an offer.
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 9: If you can tell me what's coming up on my show,
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 9: I'll give you every all the cash I have in
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 9: my wallet.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 2: Humility, That is correct, but there's more.
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 9: What else are we doing? But also talking to Today
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 9: New York Vini that's not true.
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 2: Fabulous sports band Nope, nope, and James Mark good So
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 2: you gotta be talking because I have no money.
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 9: Yogi Roth will join us at four o'clock and then uh,
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 9: we're gonna talk to a gal named Kaylee Campos or
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 9: Camping sorry. She is the director of Hard Knocks and
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 9: she will join us here at six o'clock tonight.
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that'll be fun. That angry surly Canadian will
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 2: be back tomorrow.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 9: I'm always pleased to get to this stoff Canadian.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 2: Stay tuned for Canadians, stay tuned for the whiny American instead.
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