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Chuck & Buck 10-15 Hour 1: It's Gameday! ABCs of the Mariners and The Dawgs have a tough test! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome in.
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  Speaker 5: It's Chuck It back in the Morning Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 5: Chuck Fowel. Former Mariner Bucket Jacobson is here, so is
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  Speaker 5: Ashley Ryan. As we get this home day edition of
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  Speaker 5: the radio program started, but not just any old run
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  Speaker 5: of the mill hump Day Today, Mark's Game three of
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  Speaker 5: the American League Championship Series. The Mariners back home to
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  Speaker 5: take on the Toronto Blue Jays. They happen to carry
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  Speaker 5: a two to o lead going into tonight's festivities and
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  Speaker 5: a chance to really grab a stranglehold on this ALCS.
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  Speaker 1: And really get the juices going.
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  Speaker 5: I think that Softy made it very obvious to me,
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  Speaker 5: like the moment that it.
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  Speaker 1: Happened, that's as our close US signs on.
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  Speaker 5: You get a win today and you're even closer to
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  Speaker 5: the World Series than that. This would be that marked
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  Speaker 5: the closest that the organization's ever gotten to the World Series,
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  Speaker 5: being just one win away and so certain.
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  Speaker 1: But I like that. I kind of like that.
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  Speaker 5: I like having the two oh lead kind of taken
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  Speaker 5: care of business, but still carrying the weight of that
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  Speaker 5: history with you. If there's a team that's not going
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  Speaker 5: to take for granted that they've got a two to
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  Speaker 5: oh lead in the American League Championship Series, it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be our Seattle Mariners. Those players feel it, they
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  Speaker 5: know it, they understand it. I think they've cracked a
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  Speaker 5: little bit under the pressure of it in the past.
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  Speaker 5: But to have the advantage to be have the momentum
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  Speaker 5: to be coming home knowing what kind of home crowd
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  Speaker 5: awaits you. I think it's good to carry that around
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  Speaker 5: a little bit because I don't think you're getting anything
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  Speaker 5: less than one hundred percent tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah they're well, they're not. They're definitely not like in a.
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  Speaker 6: Position of like, well, we're used to this, of course,
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  Speaker 6: and yeah, to we know what it feels like to
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  Speaker 6: close this situation out. I just think about the difference
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  Speaker 6: between the Mariners and Dodgers. Both did the same thing,
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  Speaker 6: go win two games on the road, and yet you
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  Speaker 6: hear the Dodgers people coming out you're two wins away
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  Speaker 6: from the World Series again, like it just seems like.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be posted that yesterday on x Yeah. Yeah, Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: are two wins away from the World Series.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and yet it just doesn't even feel like you
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  Speaker 6: can go there yet as a Mariner fan, like, I
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  Speaker 6: mean you are, and it is, well, the first pitch tonight,
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  Speaker 6: you're as close.
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  Speaker 4: As you've ever been.
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  Speaker 6: And yet I think there is a part of it
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  Speaker 6: off if you just take like the difference between the
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  Speaker 6: two teams that are sitting in the same place. One
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  Speaker 6: is like, boy, the job being finished because of the history,
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  Speaker 6: because of the fact they've never achieved the goal of
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  Speaker 6: winning a third game in this situation, and then when
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  Speaker 6: in obviously the necessary fourth game.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 6: I think that there is, without a doubt a team
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  Speaker 6: of there's still work to be done. And the mission
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  Speaker 6: wasn't to get to the playoffs. It wasn't to just
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  Speaker 6: get through one round of the playoffs. It was to
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  Speaker 6: get to the World Series and then once you're there,
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  Speaker 6: you might as well win the whole LEFN thing.
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  Speaker 2: It was interesting though, because with that MLB tweet where
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  Speaker 2: they said, Dodgers are you know, two wins away from
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  Speaker 2: the World Series. Again, when the Mariners went up to
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  Speaker 2: oh in Toronto, I went back to see what they
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  Speaker 2: had said about like what they tweeted when we won,
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  Speaker 2: and it was the Mariners are take a two zero
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  Speaker 2: lead against Toronto and just the wording was different. But
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  Speaker 2: I understand that because the expectations are different, right like
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  Speaker 2: for our series, I think nobody thinks that our series
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  Speaker 2: is even close to over, whereas you can tell they
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  Speaker 2: think that Dodgers Brewers series is basically over because now
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  Speaker 2: they're heading to LA for three games.
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  Speaker 1: I think people think our series is over.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just glad that our guys don't right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't gotten that impression.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, So I mean I don't I don't get
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  Speaker 5: I don't see a lot of don't worry about Toronto
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  Speaker 5: comments out there. I think that what we showed in
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  Speaker 5: Toronto had everybody going, oh gosh, wow, look at this
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  Speaker 5: Mariners team. Not only are we've been saying for years
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  Speaker 5: if they got in the playoffs, they would be dangerous.
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  Speaker 5: And now all of a sudden, they got over that
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  Speaker 5: first hump where the real pressure existed, and now, man,
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  Speaker 5: they're just playing free and easy out there right now.
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  Speaker 1: Don't listen to the guys in New York.
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  Speaker 5: New York media have their heads so far up New
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  Speaker 5: York's but that they don't pay attention to anybody.
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  Speaker 1: That's not called the Yankees, the Mets. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we just had Harold on yesterday and asked
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  Speaker 5: him where's the path that the Blue Jays get back
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  Speaker 5: in this thing? And he says, I really don't see one.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, granted, he's a Mariner guy, but he's also
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  Speaker 5: a national guy. He's the face of the damn network,
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  Speaker 5: for goodness sake. So I think people believe both series
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  Speaker 5: are over. I'm just glad that our players don't feel
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  Speaker 5: that way. Won't approach it that way. Damn, We'll make
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  Speaker 5: sure they don't approach it that way. I want them
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  Speaker 5: to carry the weight of the entire city on their
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  Speaker 5: shoulders into tonight and acting like they don't.
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  Speaker 1: We can't slip up once. We don't want them back
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  Speaker 1: into this series.
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  Speaker 5: I think George goes in there with the furious intent
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  Speaker 5: and there is absolutely a plan to start it off
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  Speaker 5: three to oher and not in any way or form
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  Speaker 5: let Toronto think that they're back in this series.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I don't remember.
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  Speaker 6: I saw somewhere what the percentages are of once you
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  Speaker 6: get up to zero, and it's minimal. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 6: not a big percentage of teams that do come back
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  Speaker 6: in a seven game series after going down to zip.
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  Speaker 6: And yet the fact that it's not zero is enough
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  Speaker 6: that you better not. Yeah, overlook it. It has happened
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  Speaker 6: before it can happen. I mean it was four I
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  Speaker 6: think was that first that when the Red Sox came
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  Speaker 6: back from down three zip right and came back, and
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  Speaker 6: so that was seen insurmountable at that point in time.
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  Speaker 6: They were still carrying the burden of the curse, and
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  Speaker 6: yet they ended up rallying and finding a way. So
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's just you can just think. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I think as a baseball player, you find yourself in
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  Speaker 6: the you got to stay where you are present, right
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  Speaker 6: and whatever happened before doesn't matter now, and we don't
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  Speaker 6: know what the future holds, so just treat the present
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  Speaker 6: like a gift. I think that that comes true in
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  Speaker 6: a situation like this, because the field could be completely
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  Speaker 6: different if tonight goes really south and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 6: you're like, oh man, because I mean just two to
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  Speaker 6: zero feels like basically undefeat in this whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, kind of killing.
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  Speaker 6: Them right now, whereas two to one you're like, oh
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  Speaker 6: my goodness, you could scuffle one time here you know
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  Speaker 6: tomorrow and next thing you know, you find yourself feeling
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  Speaker 6: like they have seized all the momentum and you're in
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  Speaker 6: some must win situation in Game five before you got
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  Speaker 6: to go back to Toronto. So I think that the
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  Speaker 6: team gets it, and I think that there's times when
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  Speaker 6: the media just kind of just say, well, they look
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  Speaker 6: so good or they the other team, they've stifled them.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, coming into this series, the way in which
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  Speaker 6: Toronto hit against the Yankees, and now they haven't hit
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  Speaker 6: for two games. It doesn't mean they can't hit, you
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  Speaker 6: know what I mean. I heard MJ on my way
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  Speaker 6: home yesterday talking about Vlad Guerrero, what a disappointment. Gave
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  Speaker 6: him half a billion dollars. He hasn't got one hit
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  Speaker 6: in this whole series. It's like, Okay, dude's still pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't just think that he's pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: Won series by himself against the Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's still having a pretty decent postseason. He just
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  Speaker 6: has not gotten off the schneid when it comes to
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  Speaker 6: hitting against us in two games. And yet there's not
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  Speaker 6: a pitcher in the Mariners organization. I mean, you can
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  Speaker 6: talk about an a ball kid that's sitting at home
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  Speaker 6: watching the playoffs that isn't a little fearful of Vlad
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  Speaker 6: Guerrero walking up to the dish, including all the guys
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  Speaker 6: are going to be thrown to him.
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  Speaker 5: And look, DODG just did deserve the benefit of the
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  Speaker 5: doll They are world champions, they do they have gotten here.
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  Speaker 1: Many of times before. We never have.
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  Speaker 5: So if there is a little bit of you still
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  Speaker 5: got to prove it, they still got to prove it.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean, the Dodgers have been here, they know
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  Speaker 5: they've written this story before, and yeah, they look like
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  Speaker 5: a damn mismatch for the Milwaukee Bers. I think they
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  Speaker 5: are a mismatch for the Milwaukee Bears as not a
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  Speaker 5: great matchup. Milwaukee is a feisty ass team. It's hard
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  Speaker 5: to just put together singles. They're not really trying to
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  Speaker 5: steal bases because they've been thrown out a couple of times.
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  Speaker 5: They can't get on base because the Dodgers pitching has
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  Speaker 5: been just so dominant here throughout the entire postseason.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't watching that series.
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  Speaker 5: I don't blame people for thinking that the Dodgers ticket
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  Speaker 5: is already punched. I kind of feel like we have
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of a mismatch with the Toronto Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 5: I talked about it yesterday with Ryan Healy. I think
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  Speaker 5: we have better starting pitching. I think we have better bullpen,
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  Speaker 5: and I think we have a better lineup. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: what more do you need on paper to convince yourself
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  Speaker 5: you've got the better team. We've just got a better
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  Speaker 5: match up with them. But we don't have the history
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  Speaker 5: of proving that we know how to handle this situation,
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  Speaker 5: that we know how to handle prosperity, that we know
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  Speaker 5: how to finish an American League championship series, because it's
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  Speaker 5: never been done here before. So if there's a little
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  Speaker 5: bit of doubt that's been raised by national pundits, local
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  Speaker 5: pundits in the clubhouse, then that's been earned over fifty
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  Speaker 5: years of the Mariners having never gotten there before. But
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  Speaker 5: in terms of like who looks like the better teams,
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  Speaker 5: it's not just the results. The Brewers are a terrible
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  Speaker 5: matchup for the Dodgers, and I don't and I'd be
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  Speaker 5: saying something different if the Yankees would have beaten the
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  Speaker 5: Blue Jays. We didn't match up nearly as well with
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  Speaker 5: the Yankees as we do the Blue Jays. But I
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  Speaker 5: feel we match up very well against Toronto and should win,
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  Speaker 5: should win in five games.
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  Speaker 1: That's my expectation for him.
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  Speaker 5: But you still, when you've got that entire history being
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  Speaker 5: carried carried on your shoulders, you can't let up for
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  Speaker 5: one second. Keep the foot on the frickin gas pedal.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I think too, Yeah, you look at that
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  Speaker 2: Blue Jays Yankees series and how potent the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 2: offense was. I think everybody just thinks, well, just give
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  Speaker 2: them time and they'll find their bats again. Whereas I
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  Speaker 2: mean in the Detroit series, after we played Errek Scuble
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  Speaker 2: in Game two and one, Derek Jeter went on MLB
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  Speaker 2: or Fox whatever it is and said, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: kind of forgot about the Mariner's pitching. Everybody kept talking
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  Speaker 2: about Trek Scooble, Trek scoobl Trek Scuble.
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  Speaker 1: We forgot about the Mariner's pitching. And I think that.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of been because it's a more of everybody's
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  Speaker 2: just as good on our team. We don't have mediocre
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  Speaker 2: pitching in that one ace, so people don't tend to
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  Speaker 2: look at us as a collective of dominant pitching.
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  Speaker 6: I think the idea, yeah, I mean, you need to
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  Speaker 6: have a well rounded team. You'd look at the four
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  Speaker 6: teams that are left in this thing, and they're all
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  Speaker 6: dangerous in their own right.
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  Speaker 4: They all deserve to be where they are.
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  Speaker 6: They all have some danger in their lineup, and they
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  Speaker 6: all have some good pitching. I think that yesterday you
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  Speaker 6: saw and you heard it on the broadcast when talking
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  Speaker 6: about the length of the Dodgers' lineup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.
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  Speaker 6: And they had a dude out there that decides to
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  Speaker 6: just go complete game on you too, CG.
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  Speaker 4: How's that taste.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe a bullpen is suspect, Well, get it pretty
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  Speaker 6: good if they all just stay in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 4: It's a really good bullpen.
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  Speaker 6: Matter of fact, you can't score a run on them
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  Speaker 6: if they never come in the game, and that's not
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  Speaker 6: going to continue to happen. But I think that it's
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  Speaker 6: something we've talked about because we follow this team. And
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  Speaker 6: yet even if you do pay attention to it, to
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  Speaker 6: your point, actually, even if you do recognize how good
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  Speaker 6: the Mariner's pitching staff is, it's not something that is typical.
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  Speaker 6: This is not something you typically watch where you get
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  Speaker 6: to see It's like you talk about, you can never
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  Speaker 6: take a deep breath. You can never take a deep
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  Speaker 6: breath when you have a deep lineup. Think about you
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  Speaker 6: get down into the six spot and it's Tasker Hernandez
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  Speaker 6: or yesterday or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Think about it.
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  Speaker 6: On the other hand, when you're a hitter and you
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  Speaker 6: never get to take a breath based on who's going
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  Speaker 6: to be starting against you the next day, Whereas there
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  Speaker 6: is times I can tell you from experience, you all
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  Speaker 6: of a sudden are facing some dude, it's not their best,
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  Speaker 6: it's the third or fourth best pitcher, and you're like, today,
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  Speaker 6: I'm having a day today, you know, I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 6: feeling good about the way that things are going to
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  Speaker 6: go today. You can't have that feeling. I don't care
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  Speaker 6: who it is that the Mariners are running out there
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  Speaker 6: against you, And so it's just kind of one of
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  Speaker 6: those constantly walking up hill when it comes to trying
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  Speaker 6: to generate offense against the squad.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's the best starting rotation in baseball. And maybe
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  Speaker 5: Philadelphia could have had that argument before Zach Wheeler went down,
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  Speaker 5: but nobody else can make that argument. The Dodgers went healthy.
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  Speaker 5: They have the ability to make that argument, and we're
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  Speaker 5: seeing it. They're finally all healthy. They got healthy at
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  Speaker 5: the right time this year as opposed to a year ago.
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  Speaker 5: They can make that argument potentially, and they're playing like
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  Speaker 5: it right now.
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  Speaker 1: And they're going to be a really.
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  Speaker 5: Difficult matchup if in fact we do meet the Dodgers
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  Speaker 5: in the in the World Series. But yeah, I believe me.
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  Speaker 5: You know, maybe Derek Jeter was sleeping on it. No
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  Speaker 5: national people were sleeping on the Marion. And they've been
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  Speaker 5: talking about for five years how great this team's pitch,
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  Speaker 5: and know how relentless that they can be, night after
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  Speaker 5: night after night coming at you. And we'll see it
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  Speaker 5: hopefully tonight with George Kirby. Also something that people are
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  Speaker 5: a little worried about showing up tonight is how much
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: Royal Blue is going to be in the stadium. We
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  Speaker 5: know during the regular season that Toronto fans, Canadian baseball
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  Speaker 5: fans who have adopted the Blue Jays as their team
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  Speaker 5: from coast to coast make their way down and kind
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  Speaker 5: of take over the stadium during the regular season, so
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  Speaker 5: there's a little bit of concern about whether or not
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  Speaker 5: that's going to happen tonight. I really can't answer that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know of any well, maybe some ticket people can.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect on that front. I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming the.
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  Speaker 5: Way that they sell tickets for the postseason and the
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  Speaker 5: fact that Mariner fans who might have tickets have probably
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  Speaker 5: held onto them much more tightly than they would have
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  Speaker 5: a regular season ticket to make sure that that doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 5: But certainly there's going to be a few people that
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  Speaker 5: bought tickets initially with the plan of selling tickets at
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  Speaker 5: some point, Donald, I want to go to one or
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  Speaker 5: two games, and then I want to sell a ticket
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  Speaker 5: to some Canadian uh, and then I get to go.
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  Speaker 1: Then that means I could have gone for free, or
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  Speaker 1: w I did go for free. I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think anybody can handicap this. I have no
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  Speaker 5: idea what to expect. I certainly predict that it won't
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  Speaker 5: be like it looks like in the regular season. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm also just as sure that it's going to be
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  Speaker 5: a lot more Toronto weed than it was Detroit Y
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  Speaker 5: last week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they're still going to have some folks that
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  Speaker 6: are coming down, and yeah, some people are selling tickets
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  Speaker 6: for the reasons you explained. It's like, oh again, buy
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  Speaker 6: a little strip here for you know, whether it's through
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  Speaker 6: all of the playoffs and I can give up a
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  Speaker 6: couple and get some of my money back. I don't
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  Speaker 6: even have a problem with that. I actually don't even
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  Speaker 6: mind it. It's definitely not going to be like it
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  Speaker 6: is in the regular season. When you can plan ahead
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: for months to make a trip down here to watch
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: your Blue Jays play, and it's you know, beautiful weather,
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: and it's not going to be near the takeover that
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: we see during the regular season. And to some degree,
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: I kind of think, because you are going to get
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: a full house of mostly Mariner fans, that if they
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: try there, let's go Blue Jay.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: If they try that, it's going to get drowned out quickly.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: It's actually going to give the Mariner fans an opportunity
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: to be like, no, no, And so I'm expecting it
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: to be hyped. I mean, even though there's definitely gonna
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: be more Blue Jay fans here than we saw Tiger fans,
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: not enough that.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: It's going to matter.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one thing that I was I was, I
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: guess maybe surprised by is that I didn't see a
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: lot of Tigers fans. I think I would have expected
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: to see more given that it was Game five, but
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: at the same time, knowing that they hadn't even really
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: shown up in their own stadium, I suppose.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: I was a fan base with respecting the Mariners. I
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: don't think they ever expected to beat us.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: No, I.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Mean, we've seeing Game four in that stadium. It didn't
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: seem like it, And so I do think there are
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: going to be a good number, and that is annoying.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: But I mean, kudos to them, Good on them for
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: supporting their team. But yeah, we've got to We've got
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: a job to do. Mariunderstands it's not just the team
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: that has a job to do. Mariners fans have a
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: job to do and a responsibility to not let those
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: fans take over the stadium.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: A responsibility that's right to walk that dog. Well, I again,
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, I've had a lot of
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: people ask is they're.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Gonna be I don't know. Yeah, no, one doesn't. I
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: mean maybe, I hope not. I'm certainly it's not going
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to be as bad. I don't know how to control that.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know if the Mariners know how to control that.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: So on an individual basis, if any everybody that's a
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Mariner fan decides to sell their tickets to make up
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: for it, and they think to themselves, well it's just
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: one ticket, it's just two tickets. Well, if you know
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: a thousand people do that, well they're going to get infiltrated.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: I have no idea what to expect with this, but
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: I'm certainly trust that it's not going to be as
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: bad as it was during the regular season. And I'm
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: also trusting that we're going to have kind of a
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: maniacal crowd like we did on Friday, because that was
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: some impressive stuff to see to close out the Tigers.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: All right, let's find out what's on tap for today's
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: radio program.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: What's on TEP, what's on TEP?
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: All right, five pm start tonight. It will be Shane
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Bieber going against George Kirby. Angie Mentink will join us
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: today as she has all season long, and of course
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: you don't get as much Angie in your life these
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: days now that the national networks have taken over coverage
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: from the local people. So I'm sure you're very curious
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: to hear what Angie has to say about the way
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: the series is going. So we'll talk to her at
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: eight thirty. Also, comedian Dustin Nickerson, who is become one
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: of our favorite Mariner fans out there. He's going to
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: be joining us today at nine thirty. If you're not
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: following along with him, living and dying with every pitch
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: on Twitter, you need to do it. It's actually very
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: comical as it turns out.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: He's a comedian.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: He is one of us, so he'll join us today
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: at nine thirty.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Brian Woo says he's ready.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: The only thing that he has left to cross off
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: the list in terms of getting to pitch in a
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: playoff game is being told it's time to pitch in
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: a playoff game. So he believes physically he's one hundred
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: percent and he is ready to go and ready to
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: potentially dominate. We'll see how the Mariners intend to use
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: him as this series unfolds. As we mentioned, the Dodgers
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: are up two to zero in the National League Championship Series.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: They defeated Milwaukee last night by a final score of
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: five to one.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: It's hump Day and.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Usually this is when we really dive into the seahawks
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: next opponent that will be the Houston Texans. But we
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: do have an extra day because this is Monday Night
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: football week for the Seahawks, and so hump Day gets
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: a little clouded when it comes to the Hawks on
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: a Monday night football week. Greg Bell will join us
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: today at seven five though, to give us the latest information,
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: it's Thursday night football even the National Football League Tomorrow
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: the Steelers will be at Cincinnati. That's pretty much the
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Bengals last gasp effort to try to get back into
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: this playoff race, as they'll take on the Steelers at home.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Joe Flacco against Aaron Rodgers, two forty plus year old
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: quarterbacks going head to head on Thursday night. Football College
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: football Huskies have a huge game against the Michigan Wolverines
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: at the Big House this Saturday. Cam Cleveland will join
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: us today at eight o'clock to discuss it. And the
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Montreal Canadians did defeat the Kraken last night by a
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: final score of five to four, but it did go
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: into overtime, so we got a point. Allison and Ian
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: both seem to be really happy with that point. When
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: you think about it. Yeah, you go on the road
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: for the very first time, it's their home opener. You
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: put four goals on the board, and you lose because
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: a guy skates right and has about three inches to
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: get the ball the puck into the net. It hits
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: off Joey to Cord's shoulder and it was the only
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: three inches of the net that he wasn't protecting and
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: it went into the goal.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And that's how you lose the game.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you get a point out of it. You've
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: got to point out of all three games thus far.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: And so they'll continue the road trip later on this week.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: But they did lose an overtime last night, five to four.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: All right, we are underway here on this Wednesday. The
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: ABC's of the m's coming your way early this morning,
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: as a matter of fact, next on Sports Radio ninety
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: three point three KHARFM. There are other things during our
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: four hours together, but the ab seeds of the MS
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: coming your way early here this morning. We use the
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: alphabet as a guide. They're a daily Mariner segment, and
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: we are right at the beginning of the alphabet starting today.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: It rolled over on us yesterday. And so a is
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: four attrition, which is usually what is described when you
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: talk about a Major League Baseball season and getting into
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: the Major League Baseball playoffs. You think about what you
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: have to go through, the players that you lose because
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: of injuries, and a lot of teams. By the end
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: of the year, you know, you typically don't have your
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: healthiest group, you don't have your ideal starting lineup, you
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: don't have your ideal starting rotation. And it's another one
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: of the things to be excited about if you're a
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Mariner fan. And I think it's a credit to the organization,
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: especially their pitchers, and the way that they tend to
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: keep them healthy. I think Brian Wu probably would have
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: pitched through that injury on another organization, but because of
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: our starting pitching depth, you didn't have to risk that
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: until you were sure he was one hundred percent before
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: you put him back into a lineup. We haven't really
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: suffered from that. I think about when we faced the
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Toronto Blue Jays. We got swept by them at home
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: a little bit earlier this year, and I went back
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: to look at those lineups, Bucky. Last we played the
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Blue Jays, they finished off a sweep against us. Here's
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: our We had Rowdy Tellez hitting sixth, Leodi tavera Is
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: hitting seventh, Dylan Moore hitting eighth, and Ben.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Williamson hitting ninth. I think maybe we've improved the lineup
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: since that time.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and we had coming out of the bullpen that
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: day Legumina, Snyder and Taylor Wow, three guys that didn't
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: even make our postseason roster. Yeah. So that was forty
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: games into the season. Logan Evans pitched game number two
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: of that series, they injured Bryce Miller pitched game number
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: three and gave up seven runs and two innings that day,
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: which forced you to pitch at one point in that game.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Leo Revas actually pitched in that game. And so, I mean,
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: it's a complete We have a completely different team. We
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: have a better team than we had when we faced
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: the Blue Jays earlier this year. And that's the beautiful
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: thing about the postseason. The hard part about it is
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: some people, we'll get through one hundred and sixty two
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: games and then a round of the playoffs or two
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: rounds of the playoffs, and they're just beaten down. Toronto
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: doesn't have Bob Baschett right now. For example, the Dodgers
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: a year ago had one healthy starting pitcher at the
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: better this year one healthy starting pitcher at the end
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: of last season. The Mariners have a almost their ideal
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: lineup available to them, plus the two guys that they
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: added at the trading deadline, and all five of our
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: starting pitchers in our rotation, our ideal starting rotation, are
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: healthy and ready to go again. I mean, at the
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: ten game mark, Luke Rayley was hitting fifth for US,
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: didn't even make the roster this round. We had Miles
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: master Bony in game number two of that first series
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: with the Blue Jays, which we won by the way,
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: two out of three games, leading off in game number one.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: So yeah, he was our leadoff hitter in that game.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: So it's just, you know, there's facing Toronto at the
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: ten game mark, and then there's face them at the
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: forty game mark, and then there's facing them in the
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: American League Championship Series when you are clearly throwing your
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: best that you have available to you, and we just
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: have more available to us than they do.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: M M yeah, I mean the the the lineup part
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: of it, I did not realize. I mean, I obviously
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: remember when we had Rowdy and and and company, But
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: I didn't remember ever having Miles leading off. And yet
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: there was before the trade deadline, there was holes, if
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: you will, or things I would just say, soft spots
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: in the lineup. You didn't you most certainly didn't have
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: the thought of once we get either yeah, once you
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: get past yeah, once you get past five or six,
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: you know, there most certainly was a okay, you could
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: take a deep a little bit of a deep breath,
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: and I like how some of those guys battled a
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: little bit, Williamson in particular, uh for getting his first taste.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: But yeah, there's no doubt about it. That lineup is better.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: There's one I mean, people can criticize Jerry and Justin
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: and sure there's things to criticize, but one thing you
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: can't criticize is their eye for talent one their ability
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: to develop it on the pitching side of things. And
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: they have some hitters too. For those that can't wait
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: to text in the will, they don't have never delivered
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: a or developed a hitter. It's like, I guess Kle
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: just hit He's got sixty two homers. He kind of
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: came up to the organization Julio's I mean, if he
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: just keeps up this Trendy's under the way to the
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Hall of Fame.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: But yeah, you're right, they can't do that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Pitching wise, though, they have without a doubt, figured out
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: a way that they have some sort of formula. This
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: is what we like, and then this is how we're
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: going to bring him up. And then when we get
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: him here. As much as it is difficult, I'm sure
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: for a manager and a front office and and the
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: player to to not go out there and play full
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: blast when you're just kind of dinged up a little bit.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: This team fe has figured out how.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: To do that too, because they know right now is
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: the most important part time to be healthy, and so
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: they did. They put Brian Wuo on the shelf for
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: a little bit and hopefully he's going to be ready
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: to rock and roller soon.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Naylor over tell As, Uh, you know, can zone
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: over Rayley, roblaze over Tavares.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: And you're playing your best nine night and day.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're playing your best nine, so you're not worried
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: about giving guys days off all of that stuff. So yeah,
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: it's just a it's a it's just a different different rosters.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: It's a different time of the year.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: And uh, and I think that anybody that's surprised that
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: our two and zero start isn't really looking at the
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: talent because I think we have it in spades over
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: the Toronto Blue Jays.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Be as for Bieber, now, this has been a change.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: This has been additioned to the Toronto organization. Cleveland made
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: a strange trade at the deadline, moving on from one
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: of the best pitchers in franchise history, uh and sending
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: him to Toronto, even though Cleveland ended up getting back
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: into the race and eventually won the division. For goodness sake,
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: probably would have liked to add Shane Bieber against the
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Tigers in the playoffs for all the well, he's not
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: the Bieber that he's been in the past. He's been
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: pretty good since going to Toronto three point five seven
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: era a whip of just over one. I mean, this
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: guy will carve you up. I mean he's not the
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: most I mean, he's not gonna throw one hundred miles
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: per hour. But even though he's coming off an injury
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: and he's not cy young Shane Bieber, this guy still
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: has the potential. He's really smart. He knows you know
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: where to throw the ball. He knows how to keep
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: you off balance. This guy can carve you up if
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: you let him.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: He's a pitcher. I mean, nowadays we will see a
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: lot of throwers out there. He's not one of those,
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: and it's not like his stuff. You can sit back
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: there and yawn while he's throwing it at you. You
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: still got to be ready. But he can throw multiple
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: pitches for strikes at any point in time. He's thinking
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: more about location than just raring back and blowing it
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: by in and that is effective. It just is less
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: effective if he makes mistakes. Those are easier to catch
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: up to and do damage with. And that's what we're
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: gonna need to do.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: See is for Calloween, Ashley has made a second pumpkin
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: for I didn't even realize this till I saw your
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: photo of your dumpkin that you carved for Calloween, and
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: I liked it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Literally, I liked it.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: I liked it all social media, but I didn't realize
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: the method behind your madness.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, so there is a Calloween or a pump a
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: dumpkin for every level of the playoffs. So Dumpkin number
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: one took us through the Alds.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Nice job, Dumpkin.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Oh boy, Dumpkin number one had its work cutout for him,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: because after the end of that fifteen inning game he
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: was moldy falling in on himself. She managed to just
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: hold himself up just long enough to be thrown out
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: on Saturday.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: You know, fifteen innings can wear out a dump It
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: really can.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: And I mean that thing was perfect in the morning
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: on Friday, by no, not really, that had been really funny.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: We come home, it's.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Like I couldn't take it anymore. So now Dumpkin number two.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: That's our ALCS dumpkin and it does look better better. Yeah,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: so I've got to step up my game if we win.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: We I'm not gonna say anyth again.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hear you.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: But Dumpkin number on three, should he come to fruition, Uh.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Huh, will be majestic.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't have any less of an expectation than majestic.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, I mean.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: You took it to a new level with Dumpkin number
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: two for the Alcs, and now if there is another level. Yeah, man,
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: I'm expecting the greatest Dumpkin that I've ever seen.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I know, I'm trying not to like with Dumpkin number two.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Didn't plan anything out.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Until it's great sexy, until we won.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: The ALDS, and then I saw the logo on the
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: shirts and I was like, that's it. There's Dumpkin number
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: two right there. So Dumpkin number three will be inspired
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: in the moment, by the moment when the moment arises.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: You know, I've always loved Halloween, always been.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: I just love it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I think it's a magical month, magical time of the year.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Calloeen's even better, it really is.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, In fact, you know what Calloween is so much better.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I haven't even put up any actual Halloween decorations. I
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: just have a Mariner's signs all over my house, towels
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: and dumpkins.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: That's all I've got. That's Calloween for you.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: Well, the first year doing it. We'll figure out the
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: marketing plan next year. Who knows where it goes from here?
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: All right, Greg Bell's going to join us at seven
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: oh five. We'll talk some Seahawks, and even though we're
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: gonna talk mostly baseball here today doesn't mean we aren't
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: going to recognize what the Huskies have in front of
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: them on Saturday. This is a real opportunity for them
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: to prove their worth. We'll talk about it next. Sports
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: You.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Greg Bell's going to join us at seven oh five.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: We also have headlines at seven o'clock and a lot
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: more on tonight's Game three of the American League Championship
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Series coming your way, including an up close and personal
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: breakdown at George Kirby his chances tonight as starter for
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: the Mariners.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Will do that at seven thirty.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: But there is there are some other things going on,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Yeah, there are there are, including a huge
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  Speaker 5: game for the Huskies huge on a lot of levels.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you're just simply facing Michigan and you're facing
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  Speaker 5: them one of the most famous stadiums in college football,
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  Speaker 5: one of the great home field advantages in college football.
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  Speaker 5: So that alone is a big storyline. But in considering
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: what Washington needs in the Jedfish era, they sort of
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: need that victory that propels them forward. And look, I'm
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: gonna say something, and I know that Husky fans, I
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: know Seattle sports fans are sensitive about this. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know why Husky fans get so upset about rankings, but
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: they do. And right now the team is not currently ranked,
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: and so we are the flagship, and so this is
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: really dangerous kind of this is like saying something. This
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: is like telling family members you need to act better.
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  Speaker 5: You shouldn't be ranked right now. The Washington Husky should
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: not be ranked right now. They are twenty eight. That's
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: about where they should be. And they're in both polls,
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  Speaker 5: both the coaches poll and the Writer's poll. They are
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: twenty eighth. They need a signature win. They don't have one.
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  Speaker 5: Beating Maryland and beating Rutgers. I mean, they are a
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: combined one in five in the Big Ten Conference. Your
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: non conference opponents were terrible, and you got drubbed by
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  Speaker 5: Ohio State at home, which everybody is gonna get drubbed
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  Speaker 5: by Ohio State. I think they're better than they were
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  Speaker 5: a year ago. They are so good on defense. My goodness,
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  Speaker 5: are they good on defense. So you don't have that
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  Speaker 5: signature win that jumps you in to the top twenty five.
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  Speaker 5: You beat Michigan, who currently right now is ranked right
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  Speaker 5: ahead of you twenty seventh. You beat them this week,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: you're in guarantee you you are in on the next
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  Speaker 5: poll if you win on the road against Michigan, and
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: if you lose, you got more work to get back
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  Speaker 5: into just being number twenty eight. So I don't think
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: the Husky should be ranked right now. But with a
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: win against Michigan on Saturday, hell yeah, they will jump
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: into the top twenty five, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you on that. I mean, it seems
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: like the way in which you just painted the picture.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, there hasn't been a game that I've been like, Wow,
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  Speaker 6: what a dub. I mean, you ended up winning a
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  Speaker 6: couple against some teams that you should that you should beat,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I think that if you hadn't beaten Rutgers,
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  Speaker 6: or if you hadn't been able to travel to Maryland
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  Speaker 6: and beat them, then I would have been like, this
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  Speaker 6: team's not really not even really should be in the
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: conversation of being getting ready to crack the top top
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  Speaker 6: twenty five. The fact that they pulled those games out,
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: the fact that they have now won a couple of
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: games on the road, Okay, they're definitely.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: As an achievement, better than you were a year ago.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: And this is where you get to kind of put
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: your stamp on it. If you want to be considered
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: a team that really right now you're looking okay, five
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: and one the only loss in Big Ten, you won two.
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  Speaker 6: You lost the one to the number one team in
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: the country. If you want to be considered a team
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: that should be talked about as a possible playoff team,
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: then you win this ball game. When you win the
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: ball game, you're going to jump up the rakings quite
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: a bit.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: I think they have a great chance of winning, yeah, exactly,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: And I do too, And I do think, Yeah, don't
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: worry about where you're ranked, or if you're ranked, or
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: any of it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Just get the job done.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think the teams up there saying,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: oh gosh, guys, we really aren't in the top twenty five, how.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Is that possible? They're probably using it as fuel.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: These guys don't think we can do any These guys
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: are underestimating this. Like play with a chip on your shoulder.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: We know, this day and age, everybody needs to manufacture something.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: There they're giving you one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's how I would use I
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: would use it if I was Jedfish.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: They disrespect you, Yeah, but that's fine.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: That's fine.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: The only poll that matters is the last one anyway,
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: exactly sure, Yeah, so you know, just don't. I don't
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: know why Husky fans get so bothered by not being
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: ranked or where they ranked.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: But I don't look at it as a slight.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: I think you're exactly where you should be, right on
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: the outside looking in until you get a big win
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: this year against the quality opponent, be it home or road.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: And that opportunity comes this weekend against Michigan, and you
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: get it, and I can promise you you'll be in
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: the top twenty five right now.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: In both poles.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: You've got four big ten teams clustered from twenty five
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: to twenty eight. They're in different order, Nebraska, Illinois, Michigan,
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: and you dub those four in a row at twenty
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: five to twenty eight, and the coaches it's Illinois, probably
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: because of Illinois history and tradition, then Michigan, then Nebraska,
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: and then you dubbed so you know, BOT twenty eight
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: in both. I mean, I don't think they're wrong about this,
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: So let's just go ahead.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Go in there.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Demond Williams, play like Demond Williams, like you did on Friday.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: You'll beat Michigan and we'll be talking about a ranked
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: team on Monday morning. All right, Coming up next headlines
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