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Chuck & Buck 7-17 Hour 3: The Ocho, Jackson Felts and ABC's of the Mariners. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: The best twelve minutes of eight minutes of radio, brought
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Speaker 1: to you by the Ridge Complex, flavor of Pendleton Whiskey Weather.
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Speaker 2: But please break responsibly.
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Speaker 3: Well, Happy Friday to you.
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Speaker 4: It is Chuck and Ashley with you Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 4: three point three k j A RFM.
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Speaker 3: We roll into our third.
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Speaker 4: Hour here on this Friday, the eight o'clock hour, and
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Speaker 4: you know what we do almost every Friday at eight o'clock. Yes,
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Speaker 4: it is time for your eight top stories of the day.
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Speaker 4: We call it the OCHO. We get you ready for
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Speaker 4: the weekend, We recap the week, and we dance all
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Speaker 4: of that this entire segment right here on Chuck and
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Speaker 4: Buck in the Mornings, which is where we start here
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Speaker 4: today because we have station breaking news. We've been down
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Speaker 4: a player on our roster here for the last four
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Speaker 4: months and every day people want updates every single day
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Speaker 4: on what's going on with Bucky, what's going on with
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Speaker 4: the Chuck and Buck radio Show. Well, we finally can
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Speaker 4: say something today. We can officially. There's an official statement
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Speaker 4: that has been provided today to update every one of you.
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Speaker 4: And sorry, we had to be a little cloak and dagger.
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Speaker 4: We had to kind of keep things from you. I
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Speaker 4: don't like doing that as a host. I like pulling
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Speaker 4: back the Kurt and I like telling you exactly what's
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Speaker 4: going on here. But there were a lot of things
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Speaker 4: that were standing in the way of that happening, some
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Speaker 4: medical stuff which is very sensitive, and so we really
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Speaker 4: couldn't share with you. Also, there was a large element
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Speaker 4: of we didn't even know. We didn't even know what
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Speaker 4: was going on. Ashley and I we certainly didn't want
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Speaker 4: to spend any time speculating about a co worker and friend.
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Speaker 4: And so today we can finally update you on what's
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Speaker 4: going on with Bucky Jacobson. Here is the official statement,
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Speaker 4: as agreed upon by KJR and Bucky Jacobson.
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Speaker 3: Quote.
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Speaker 4: My time away for medical reasons gave me an opportunity
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Speaker 4: to reflect on my priorities and how I want to
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Speaker 4: spend this next chapter of my life. After a great
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Speaker 4: deal of consideration, I've decided not to return to the
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Speaker 4: daily commitment of the Morning Show. This was not an
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Speaker 4: easy decision because I care deeply about KJAR, the Morning Show,
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Speaker 4: and the listeners who've been part of this journey. I'm
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Speaker 4: grateful to the station for their support and willingness to
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Speaker 4: work through this process with me. We're continuing to explore
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Speaker 4: ways I can remain involved with Kjar in a capacity
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Speaker 4: that better fits my life and priorities today, and I'm
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Speaker 4: looking forward to seeing where those conversations lead. So that
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Speaker 4: is the official statement, now you know, now we know, yeah,
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Speaker 4: that officially the Chuck and Buck radio chapter has come
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Speaker 4: to a conclusion.
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Speaker 2: Ashley and I have.
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Speaker 4: Had four months to kind of get use to this
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Speaker 4: or to get ready for this, and so this is
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Speaker 4: not entirely blind siding to us, but nonetheless we can
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Speaker 4: officially say that, yes, Bucky will no longer be a
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Speaker 4: part of our show on a full time basis, but
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Speaker 4: we are working on a way to keep him part
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Speaker 4: of the show, keep him part of the station so
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Speaker 4: he can continue to hear his voice, so he can
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Speaker 4: continue to provide his analysis on the Mariners specifically. And
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Speaker 4: so I don't think you've heard the last from Bucky.
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Speaker 4: I hope not here on the show or at the station.
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Speaker 4: But yes, we have had our last day with him
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Speaker 4: as Chuck and Buck in the mornings.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I do hope that we have him visit.
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Speaker 5: I think we've gotten a lot of texts of people
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Speaker 5: suggesting maybe he should just come back for Beat Bucky,
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Speaker 5: which you know was his favorite.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he lives for trivia, loves.
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Speaker 5: Trivia, and another person suggesting the announcement had to come
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Speaker 5: out before Lebron's announcement.
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Speaker 3: Of course I love that as well. Both great points.
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Speaker 5: Both great points. I think Bucky would really like them
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Speaker 5: as well. He loves Lebron and he loves trivia.
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Speaker 4: And I want to point out I don't know what
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Speaker 4: Bucky's future entails, but I do hear it also comes
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Speaker 4: down to the Cavaliers, heat or Warriors.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so yeah, so we'll see where he ends up
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Speaker 5: as well. Yeah, but I said it before and I'll
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Speaker 5: say it again. I admire that he took the time
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Speaker 5: to think about what his priorities were and how work
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Speaker 5: fit in with him and his family and his life
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Speaker 5: moving forward. And I wish him and his family nothing
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Speaker 5: but the best. I hope that we get to talk
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Speaker 5: to him every week. And you know, I think I'm
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Speaker 5: glad he made the right decision for himself.
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Speaker 2: And absolutely and it was a great run. I mean
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Speaker 2: nine years.
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Speaker 4: There are a lot of shows that stay together nine years,
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Speaker 4: especially ones where you know, I'm going to the boss
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Speaker 4: and saying I think you should give the job to Bucky. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: a guy that has never done this before, has never
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Speaker 4: done this show before, and I think there are a
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Speaker 4: lot of doubters for us to have had the nice
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Speaker 4: run that we've had. Credit to him, credit to the
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Speaker 4: three of us here in the last five years of it,
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Speaker 4: and so it's it's been terrific. It was a success.
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Speaker 4: It was a runaway success. Yes, it really was. And
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Speaker 4: he certainly will be missed, there's no question about it.
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Speaker 2: On a daily basis.
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Speaker 4: I'm looking at his old judge Mallet right over there
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Speaker 4: in the corner right now, which makes me a little
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Speaker 4: bit sad. But certainly we will now start thinking about
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Speaker 4: what the morning show is going to look There will
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Speaker 4: be another change right now. I don't know what that's
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Speaker 4: going to look like, but there will be a person
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Speaker 4: added something. It's not just going to be Ashley and
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Speaker 4: I going forward. Something else is going to change about
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Speaker 4: the morning show. And so now you can wait on
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Speaker 4: that occurring. But today I'm still in the habit of
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Speaker 4: calling the Chuck and Buck Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: But I suppose this is the last day I can.
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Speaker 5: Call it, I know, and that is sad, because yeah,
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Speaker 5: it's the end of a really big.
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Speaker 3: Awesome chapter.
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Speaker 4: And if anybody's wondering, yes, it is in my contract
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Speaker 4: that whoever I have as a co host their name as.
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Speaker 2: To rhyme with mine.
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Speaker 5: I can't wait to find someone whose name starts with
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Speaker 5: an F.
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Speaker 2: I can't either.
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Speaker 5: It's gonna be the best.
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Speaker 4: The only problem is he's already taken a name. It's Softy,
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Speaker 4: and I'd hate to change his nickname.
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Speaker 3: Now that was Shade. Good job, all right, So there
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Speaker 3: you go, you have it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's not a great day for kJ R
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Speaker 4: here today, but it's not a sad one either, And
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Speaker 4: so now we can finally start figuring out the future
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Speaker 4: of the morning show. And I just want to thank
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Speaker 4: Ashley because this is designed to be a three person show,
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Speaker 4: and the two of us have been doing a three
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Speaker 4: person show here for basically the last four months with
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Speaker 4: very little information or knowledge on what exactly is going
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Speaker 4: to happen the very next day. So for both of us,
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Speaker 4: I think to keep our heads down and still I
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Speaker 4: think deliver a good show to you here in the
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Speaker 4: last four months, I think is a credit to Ashley,
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Speaker 4: and I think a little bit to myself.
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Speaker 2: I would say, and a credit to you as well.
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Speaker 3: You have kept this right. Yeah, well think and you've
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Speaker 3: done a great job.
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Speaker 4: Well, thank you, thank you very much. All right, so
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Speaker 4: let's move on. We've got seven other items of the
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Speaker 4: OCHO to get to. Mariners are returning to action here
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Speaker 4: after the break, and of course we are expecting better
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Speaker 4: results in the second half after a forty eight and
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Speaker 4: forty nine disappointing first half of the season. Ryan Healy
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Speaker 4: was on with us Tuesday at nine o'clock every Tuesday
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Speaker 4: at nine o'clock, and I said, what's gonna be the
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Speaker 4: key to achieving our goals here in the second half?
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Speaker 3: Three things I'll give you, Okay, good.
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Speaker 6: One is I feel like the defense has been really inconsistent,
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Speaker 6: which has given up free outs, free bases, and with
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Speaker 6: an offense it's not producing consistent runs per game. Those
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Speaker 6: free outs, free bases turning into unearned runs really makes
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Speaker 6: the game peel out of hand.
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Speaker 2: So that's one.
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Speaker 6: The second one is the offense. The offense is in
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Speaker 6: the bottom half of the league and almost every category.
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Speaker 6: The only category that I was looking at real quickly
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Speaker 6: that they're in the top ten of league and the strikeouts.
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Speaker 6: And this is a team that was built to strike
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Speaker 6: out less, maybe not hit as many home runs, but
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Speaker 6: get on base more manufacture runs than I haven't seen
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Speaker 6: that executed at a high level at all. And then
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Speaker 6: number three for me is the expectations of this season
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Speaker 6: from outside sources and maybe even from inside sources. I
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Speaker 6: think that before a season ever starts, when the label
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Speaker 6: of World Series or bus is put on you, which
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Speaker 6: I totally agree with you, and I understand why though,
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Speaker 6: after what you experienced as a team last season, why
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Speaker 6: would you not come in with that expectation. Sky's the limit.
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Speaker 6: But I think the gap between expectation and reality is
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Speaker 6: where frustration can just multiply so quickly. And this team,
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Speaker 6: this fan base, everyone surrounding it has felt so much
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Speaker 6: frustration this year because the expectation was World Series or busts,
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Speaker 6: and this team has maybe looked like a World Series
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Speaker 6: team for that eight that teen ten games stretch that
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Speaker 6: was at the end of May early June when they
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Speaker 6: went on that run. But they went on that run
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Speaker 6: because they were hitting a bunch of home runs, and
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Speaker 6: when they don't hit home runs, they're having a hard
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Speaker 6: time winning baseball games, even though they have six really
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Speaker 6: good Major League starting pitchers that are doing a good
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Speaker 6: job overall, with some higher performers than some guys struggling.
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Speaker 6: But the defense, the offense, and the expectations are the
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Speaker 6: three things that have really crippled this team in the
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Speaker 6: first half.
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Speaker 4: Ryan heay with us on Tuesday. If you want to
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Speaker 4: hear the entire conversation, it's still fresh. We haven't played
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Speaker 4: a game since we had that conversation. You did it
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Speaker 4: on our podcast at ninety three to three KJR dot com.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say this, I don't think that we are
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Speaker 4: in World Series or bust mode.
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Speaker 2: To me, that's that all in thing. That's what old.
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Speaker 4: Teams do that feel like we've got one last crack
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Speaker 4: at this let's go all in. We should be the
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Speaker 4: way this thing's been constructed properly by Jerry and justin
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Speaker 4: Jerry primarily, we should be in the middle of a
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Speaker 4: championship window, or at the beginning of a championship window,
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Speaker 4: nearer the beginning. I mean, it's just set up so
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Speaker 4: well for a lot of winning over the course of
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Speaker 4: the next decade. So I don't think that we are
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Speaker 4: World Series or bust mode like or all in mode.
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Speaker 4: I don't think that's where we're at. But make no
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Speaker 4: mistake about it. Don't get it twisted this. The goals
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Speaker 4: have not changed. I don't care about a forty eight
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Speaker 4: and forty nine season. You can turn this on every
10:29
Speaker 4: you can have every Mariner turn this on in their house,
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Speaker 4: put it on in the clubhouse so they all know.
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Speaker 4: The expectation is to go to the World Series, if
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Speaker 4: not win the damn World Series.
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Speaker 3: It still remains.
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Speaker 4: I don't care if you are forty eight and forty
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Speaker 4: nine and highly disappointed with yourselves, and yes, we are
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Speaker 4: disappointed with the way you've played in this first half
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Speaker 4: as a fan base, and yet our expectations are not changing.
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Speaker 4: Yours should not change. And if you're not okay with that,
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Speaker 4: then you're not championship pedigree. That expect is to go
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Speaker 4: to the World Series and win the American League. Rise
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Speaker 4: to the occasion, rise to the moment, Rise to your expectations,
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Speaker 4: because anything less, per your words three months ago would
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Speaker 4: be a disappointment.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And I think that's why so many people get irritated
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Speaker 5: with Jerry and Dan and the team and all these things,
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Speaker 5: is because we do have such high expectations. It was
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Speaker 5: the same way after we went to the playoffs and
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Speaker 5: then missed the playoffs the next year.
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Speaker 3: That was more crushing than if we wouldn't have made.
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Speaker 5: The playoffs the year before, because you see the team
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Speaker 5: achieve something so great, like going to the ALCS last year,
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Speaker 5: and you know these guys can do it, and then
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Speaker 5: to see what comes out the first half of the season,
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Speaker 5: it is disappointing.
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Speaker 3: So but we got time.
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Speaker 4: Let's go yeah, oh yeah, plenty of time. And this
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Speaker 4: is actually a good thing that the American League has
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Speaker 4: been down in the first half and it's not going
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Speaker 4: to be in the second half. I will sit here
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Speaker 4: and argue till I'm blue in the face that the
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Speaker 4: American League is not as bad as a great as
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Speaker 4: they were in the first half. Tigers have already started
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Speaker 4: coming on, Red Sox have already started coming on. Those
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Speaker 4: were supposed to be good teams at the beginning of
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Speaker 4: the year. The Astros are clearly not going to go away.
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Speaker 4: The Rangers haven't gone away. The Blue Jays are going
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Speaker 4: to be better in the second half. Wouldn't be surprised
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Speaker 4: of the Orioles. So the America League's going to get better.
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Speaker 4: They're not going to cooperate like they did in the
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Speaker 4: first half. We are going to have to start winning.
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Speaker 4: We're not going to get into the playoffs with a
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Speaker 4: eighty and eighty two record. It's not going to happen.
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Speaker 4: So it's time play better. The expectations remain the same.
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Speaker 4: If that's too much to handle, then just quit as
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Speaker 4: a professional athlete. Please step up, be a champion, rise
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Speaker 4: to championship status. The Mariners do have a soft landing
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Speaker 4: to start the second half of the season. The San
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Speaker 4: Francisco Giants tonight they're forty one and fifty five, and
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Speaker 4: the Cincinnati Reds after that they're forty three and fifty two.
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Speaker 4: They're really only seven teams in Major League Baseball the
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Speaker 4: kind of feel out of it, and we get to
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Speaker 4: phase two of those seven over the course of the
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Speaker 4: next six games.
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Speaker 2: So let's get off to us.
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Speaker 4: Start please first game tonight seven to ten at T Mobile,
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Speaker 4: and we now know who's going to pitch at least
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Speaker 4: the first three games of the second half of the season.
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Speaker 4: They have set their rotation and it will not be
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Speaker 4: per my suggestion, Brian wu tonight, I think.
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Speaker 2: That's our new Bryce Miller starts every game song. We're
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Speaker 2: gonna move.
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Speaker 3: Ryce Miller will get the start tonight.
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Speaker 2: I mean, per pitch.
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Speaker 4: He was our best pitcher in the first half of
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Speaker 4: the season, and I think he is our best pitcher.
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Speaker 4: A little secret I thought though, that they would start
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Speaker 4: Brian Wu and take advantage of his home road splits.
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Speaker 4: You got six games out of the gates, go with
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Speaker 4: Wu in game number one, and then you get him
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Speaker 4: in game six of this homestand because of course you're
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Speaker 4: going to go to a five man rotation, right, Nope,
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Speaker 4: Mariners have decided to stick with a six man rotation
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Speaker 4: at least for one more turn. And that means that
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Speaker 4: Brian Wu will be pitching on the road in that
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Speaker 4: monstrous four game Texas series that will greet the Mariners
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Speaker 4: after the Homestand so I don't agree with this. I'm
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Speaker 4: not angry about it, but I don't agree with this.
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Speaker 4: I'd go to the five man rotation and I'd start
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Speaker 4: Wu tonight.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I would have started Wu as well, just to give
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Speaker 5: them the two starts at home. But obviously they're not concerned.
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Speaker 5: But it is interesting for a team that is so
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Speaker 5: into analytics, they could look at the splits and see
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Speaker 5: the difference you could put You could use it to
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Speaker 5: your advantage.
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Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. It's not nerdy enough. It's too obvious.
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Speaker 2: We don't trust it.
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Speaker 3: Too obvious who you are expected to be activated?
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Speaker 4: By the way, from the concussion, IL probably means West
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Speaker 4: and Wilson will be deactivated. World Cup Final is on
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Speaker 4: Sunday at noon, Argentina versus Spain.
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Speaker 2: Here is Brad Evans with a preview. Yeah, Spain, they
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Speaker 2: are fantastic.
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Speaker 7: They've only conceded one goal in the entire tournament, which
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Speaker 7: is beyond impressive. And they're doing it without really a
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Speaker 7: proven super They've got you, Me and the mall who's
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Speaker 7: nineteen years old, will be the next superstar. It's his
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Speaker 7: chance to kind of say, I'm the youngster, I'm left footed.
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Speaker 7: I play a similar role that Messi did used to
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Speaker 7: at Barcelona and now I'm at Barcelona. I want to
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Speaker 7: be the next greatest thing.
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Speaker 2: They've done it with.
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Speaker 7: A workman like mentality and their possession based I guess
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Speaker 7: style of play has proven to be effective once again.
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Speaker 7: They won the European Championships last time around. Now they
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Speaker 7: find themselves in a final once again, and when they
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Speaker 7: go up one nothing They're not like England where they're
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Speaker 7: going to sit back and just defend, they will continue
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Speaker 7: to pass you to death. And that is the most
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Speaker 7: dangerous thing for Argentina in this one. If Spain goes
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Speaker 7: up one nothing or to nothing, I don't think Argentina
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Speaker 7: has a way back into this one because their ability
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Speaker 7: to keep the ball is unmatched in this entire tournament.
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Speaker 7: So Argentina's got their work cutout for him. But as
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Speaker 7: we've seen, if you have Messi on the pitch, you
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Speaker 7: have a chance.
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Speaker 2: Just think about this.
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Speaker 4: One team has allowed one goal the entire tournament. The
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Speaker 4: other team as a player who has eight goals by himself, yeah,
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Speaker 4: and four assists, and they find.
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Speaker 2: A way every game.
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Speaker 4: Sunday at noon, Spain Argentina for the World Cup. Jackson
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Speaker 4: Feltz will join us at eight thirty unless he's thoroughly
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Speaker 4: depressed by the Sounders' return performance last night. That's right,
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Speaker 4: the Sounders returned to the pitch last night after a
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Speaker 4: month off. They took on their rival Portland Timbers. You
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Speaker 4: would think they would have chewed through walls to get
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Speaker 4: out onto the pitch and just stomp their rivals into
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Speaker 4: the purf. Instead, they got dominated five to one. And
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Speaker 4: Brian Schwetzer was not happy.
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Speaker 8: Not good enough, not near, not even close to the
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Speaker 8: standard that we set at the club. You know, a
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Speaker 8: night where you're going to celebrate three legends, three big
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Speaker 8: people that are you know, vital parts of this story,
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Speaker 8: the franchise fifty year celebration.
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Speaker 2: The grass is perfect.
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Speaker 8: Zero excuses for that performance, just not good enough. And
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Speaker 8: I'll you know, I'll add on meat too, because I
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Speaker 8: got to own that. That's the worst loss we've faith
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Speaker 8: and it's the worst loss of the Timbers ever. And
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Speaker 8: AT's and I'm the head coach. So where's on meat too?
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Speaker 2: Love it?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I love him?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well said.
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Speaker 4: Great response after that storm in action tonight, and yeah,
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Speaker 4: they'll be in Indiana, so it won't be Saturday Night fever.
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Speaker 4: It'll be Friday night fever. Try to picture Caitlyn Clark.
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Speaker 4: They'll pop in the collar and dancing around like Travolta.
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Speaker 5: I cannot.
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Speaker 4: I can't either Storm or six and twenty the fever
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Speaker 4: just fourteen and ten. That's disappointing on both fronts. They'll
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Speaker 4: tip the ball at four thirty tonight. Caitlyn Clark is
17:42
Speaker 4: healthy this year, but still fighting, still a bit of
17:45
Speaker 4: a lightning rod for controversy. Adam Silver said yesterday she
17:49
Speaker 4: has become a political football in this country and I
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Speaker 4: think that's an incredibly unfair to her. In the meantime,
17:56
Speaker 4: on the NBA side, Lebron watch does continue. He did
17:59
Speaker 4: not make it as decision yesterday like I predicted, and
18:02
Speaker 4: he doesn't seem to be in a hurry to make one.
18:04
Speaker 3: And finally, we are eight days from training camp.
18:08
Speaker 8: We will be.
18:08
Speaker 3: Perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass,
18:12
Speaker 3: you run a mile, you miss a.
18:14
Speaker 1: Blocking assignment, you run a mile, You form with a football,
18:18
Speaker 1: and I will break my foot off.
18:19
Speaker 4: In your John Brown Hind Potts and then you will
18:23
Speaker 4: run a mile.
18:24
Speaker 3: Perfection.
18:26
Speaker 1: Let's go to work.
18:27
Speaker 7: Oh I love it.
18:29
Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
18:29
Speaker 4: Super Bowl Championships one thing, but this year we're about perfection.
18:33
Speaker 4: Better get it going, all other sports teams in town,
18:36
Speaker 4: because the world champs of the King of All Leagues
18:39
Speaker 4: are about to report for the start of a brand
18:41
Speaker 4: new football season. Our coverage on KJR begins Monday the
18:45
Speaker 4: twenty seventh right here on the Chuck.
18:48
Speaker 2: And Buck radio program.
18:50
Speaker 4: It's time for an update from Royal Birkdale. It's day
18:53
Speaker 4: two of the Open Championship. Wow, the World Cup comes
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Speaker 4: to its dramatic conclusion on Sunday. What a tournament, What
19:19
Speaker 4: a job by the host cities here in North America.
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Speaker 2: What a job by Seattle. Maybe the best of them all,
19:25
Speaker 2: maybe the best reviews of them all.
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Speaker 4: And yet it all comes to an end on the
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Speaker 4: Sunday with Argentina versus Spain. We have had such excellent
19:35
Speaker 4: conversations with our soccer experts here at the station, Brad
19:39
Speaker 4: Evans and Danny Jackson and then our own guys andrews
19:42
Speaker 4: Hurst and Jackson Felts. What a great ride it has
19:45
Speaker 4: been in joining us now on the programs talk about
19:48
Speaker 4: the championship and maybe a couple of other things. Is
19:51
Speaker 4: Jackson on radio himself? Jackson Feltz joins us.
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Speaker 1: Hi Jackson, good morning, Chuck? How are you?
19:57
Speaker 2: I'm great?
19:58
Speaker 4: I'm great, all right, Gonna get to some other stuff
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Speaker 4: in a moment. But what happened last night? Can we
20:05
Speaker 4: start there?
20:08
Speaker 1: Can I? Can I pass? Chuck?
20:10
Speaker 4: Can I?
20:10
Speaker 1: It's like it's passing? Can I just say pass? Or
20:14
Speaker 1: can I? Like do the who wants to be a millionaire?
20:17
Speaker 1: Redistobin thing? And soone a friend to let a friend
20:20
Speaker 1: answer that question because I don't want to.
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Speaker 4: I think maybe I think maybe you've said volumes with that.
20:27
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Like I'll be very very simple,
20:30
Speaker 1: is that it's the worst home loss I've ever seen
20:34
Speaker 1: by a Sounder team in my entire life. There's there's
20:38
Speaker 1: no other way to put it. It's uh, it's just embarrassing.
20:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I guess if any time you're going to
20:46
Speaker 4: be rusty, it was going to be a month off
20:47
Speaker 4: in the middle of the season. So maybe we'll just
20:49
Speaker 4: chalk it up to that. And I love that Brian
20:51
Speaker 4: Schmetzer met it head on like we were terrible. It's
20:54
Speaker 4: it's it's unforgivable.
20:56
Speaker 2: I love it.
20:56
Speaker 4: So all right, let's move on. Let's move on, Let's
20:59
Speaker 4: talk about something. Let me lift your spirits because it
21:02
Speaker 4: was Jackson Feltz that told us Spain was gonna win
21:05
Speaker 4: it all when this tournament began, and now they're one
21:09
Speaker 4: win away. So I trust you still think Spain is
21:12
Speaker 4: going to win it all.
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Speaker 1: My heart says Spain because I picked them. They have
21:20
Speaker 1: the best midfield in the world. They have the ability
21:23
Speaker 1: to control and keep the ball off of the foot
21:27
Speaker 1: of the greatest ever do it Lionel Messi my head,
21:31
Speaker 1: says Argentina. Oh jeez, you know, Chuck, there's this interesting
21:35
Speaker 1: you know, we all know it in sports, there's this
21:37
Speaker 1: interesting intrinsic quality where when you get deep into a playoffs,
21:41
Speaker 1: a team who's like battle tested, a team who has
21:44
Speaker 1: had to just totally fight through major adversity and somehow
21:49
Speaker 1: continue to just scrape and find ways to win.
21:53
Speaker 2: Over and over.
21:54
Speaker 1: Those teams have just something unquantifiable that usually takes them
21:59
Speaker 1: to the end in raising trophies. And Argentina has that
22:04
Speaker 1: over and over this tournament, especially in the knockout round.
22:08
Speaker 1: They have found these improbable ways to win, whether it's
22:12
Speaker 1: you know, just scraping and clawing against an underdog, or
22:15
Speaker 1: having to come back from two goals down laid against
22:18
Speaker 1: Egypt and then doing it again against England. It's just
22:24
Speaker 1: Argentina has that thing that's just it's so impressive when
22:28
Speaker 1: you see it happen against the best in the world
22:31
Speaker 1: over and over in the World Cup.
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Speaker 4: What explains it, I mean, shy of celestial interference or
22:39
Speaker 4: referees or rigging it For Argentina, There's got to be
22:42
Speaker 4: something tactically that they do, because that just seems to
22:47
Speaker 4: be a switch that they flip whenever they need a goal,
22:53
Speaker 4: they get a goal. How are they pulling that off?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, well put and I think each game has
23:02
Speaker 1: been a little bit different, just quickly running through them.
23:06
Speaker 1: Cape Verde was a game that after extra time in
23:08
Speaker 1: the round of thirty two, they won three to two.
23:10
Speaker 1: That was a game where Cape Verdy was not supposed
23:13
Speaker 1: to be in it. They kept hitting some improbable moments
23:17
Speaker 1: and goals. Really one of the best games, if not
23:20
Speaker 1: the best game of the tournament, and Argentina's quality just
23:23
Speaker 1: kept showing through and it was sort of like, Okay,
23:25
Speaker 1: there's the World champs doing what they do. Egypt round
23:28
Speaker 1: of sixteen, they're down two to nothing. Late in that
23:31
Speaker 1: game they score three in a row, and a lot
23:34
Speaker 1: of that's just the same way is that they were
23:36
Speaker 1: able to just as you said, turn it on. Finally
23:39
Speaker 1: they're getting the balls into the box. Finally they're pushing
23:42
Speaker 1: up the wings and getting those crosses. In Argentina against
23:46
Speaker 1: Switzerland and in the quarterfinals was one where they just
23:49
Speaker 1: controlled the entire game. They were never panicked, they were
23:52
Speaker 1: very very patient, and Switzerland eventually found an equalizer, but
23:56
Speaker 1: Argentina said, We're fine, we don't need to win this
23:59
Speaker 1: game in nine minutes. We have one hundred and twenty
24:01
Speaker 1: minutes where the better team will eventually find it, and
24:04
Speaker 1: then they eventually found two in extra time, and then
24:07
Speaker 1: England chuck, I'm gonna I'm gonna make this a really
24:11
Speaker 1: easy one to one scenario for what happened against England.
24:15
Speaker 1: So for football fans out there, and for I mean
24:19
Speaker 1: all Seattle sports fans in a Super Bowl, I'm gonna
24:23
Speaker 1: go back to Super Bowl sixty. Jason Myers hit a
24:25
Speaker 1: field goal for the Seahawks with about ten minutes left
24:28
Speaker 1: in the third quarter to give Seattle the twelve nothing
24:30
Speaker 1: lead there in Super Bowl sixty over the Patriots. England.
24:34
Speaker 1: Argentina is like, in that game, if Myers hits that
24:39
Speaker 1: field goal with twenty five minutes left, and then Mike
24:42
Speaker 1: McDonald says, actually, we're not going to use all four
24:46
Speaker 1: downs on offense. On first down, we're gonna punt the
24:50
Speaker 1: ball to New England, and for the last twenty five minutes,
24:54
Speaker 1: we're just gonna let Drake May just run against our defense.
24:58
Speaker 1: But here's the kicker. It's not Drake May running. The
25:01
Speaker 1: Patriots offense. It's Tom Brady with Adrian Peterson and Randy
25:06
Speaker 1: Moss as his weapons. On offense. England just said, oh,
25:10
Speaker 1: we have a one goal lead. Okay, Argentina, here's the ball.
25:13
Speaker 1: We are going to just sit back and park the
25:16
Speaker 1: bus and let you attack us over and over and
25:19
Speaker 1: have absolutely nothing to do on offense. Here take it,
25:22
Speaker 1: good luck, and what do you know, Argentina scores two.
25:27
Speaker 4: I mean, was it looked kind of obvious to me
25:30
Speaker 4: that it was a terrible game plan. And I don't
25:32
Speaker 4: know anything about the sport, so it was that obvious
25:35
Speaker 4: that that was just like the coaching blunder of World
25:39
Speaker 4: Cup history.
25:41
Speaker 1: And you know the funny part about that, You're right, Chuck,
25:43
Speaker 1: And you know the funny part about that is Thomas Tookele,
25:45
Speaker 1: the head coach of England, has been apparently, according to sources,
25:50
Speaker 1: retained for the next two years. They for some reason
25:55
Speaker 1: gave him a contract extension before the World Cup and
25:59
Speaker 1: now there's so much money to pay him apparently that
26:02
Speaker 1: England is not going to fire him. They're actually going
26:04
Speaker 1: to keep him for two more years through the European
26:07
Speaker 1: Championships in twenty twenty eight, which is just boneheaded by
26:11
Speaker 1: the England Association.
26:14
Speaker 4: All Right, I'm going to close with this because I'm
26:16
Speaker 4: going to talk about this a little bit later on
26:17
Speaker 4: in the show, but I want your input on it.
26:19
Speaker 4: And first of all, thank you to you and Anders
26:21
Speaker 4: and Danny and to Brad, because I've learned a lot
26:25
Speaker 4: here in the last month, and the most important thing
26:28
Speaker 4: I want to thank you for is that you all
26:30
Speaker 4: have tangible reasons why a team lost or won, whether
26:34
Speaker 4: it's coaching or strategy or individual players or whatever the
26:37
Speaker 4: case may be. I'm really tired of the national guys
26:41
Speaker 4: in the broadcast just deciding that whoever wins, they want
26:45
Speaker 4: it more. That's what they just keep saying, Well, they
26:47
Speaker 4: wanted it more. I have a feeling everybody wants this
26:51
Speaker 4: really badly, I really do, especially the final four teams.
26:55
Speaker 4: So I want to know in advance who's going to
26:58
Speaker 4: want it morea or Spain who's more passionate about becoming
27:04
Speaker 4: World Cup champions, because I don't want to find out
27:06
Speaker 4: afterwards from the national guys which one of them wanted
27:09
Speaker 4: it more.
27:13
Speaker 1: Too, Just like you have the same problem, got who's
27:19
Speaker 1: gonna want it more? They they both want it. I
27:22
Speaker 1: mean ridiculousness.
27:23
Speaker 4: I got a thousand on a scale from one to ten.
27:26
Speaker 4: How much does Argentina and Spain want this? A thousand,
27:29
Speaker 4: that's how much they want.
27:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly like for Spain, they haven't won a title
27:34
Speaker 1: since twenty ten and this is their best group since then.
27:38
Speaker 1: Six shutouts in the World Cup. That's never been done.
27:42
Speaker 1: One goal allowed in the whole tournament. The record for
27:44
Speaker 1: goals allowed in a World Cup is two and they're
27:48
Speaker 1: one right now. So Spain is clearly you know, defense
27:53
Speaker 1: maybe wins championships. Argentina, the offense is there, the attack
27:57
Speaker 1: is there. This is going to be a true test
28:00
Speaker 1: of styles and stories. That's the battle here, styles and stories.
28:04
Speaker 1: Argentina is going to want to attack on the counter.
28:07
Speaker 1: They're going to want to get those balls whipped in.
28:10
Speaker 1: They're gonna want messy his playmaking ability, Juli Andolvarez, Enzo Fernandez,
28:15
Speaker 1: all those attackers. Really they oh, what an amazing concept.
28:19
Speaker 1: They really want it. They want back to back. They
28:22
Speaker 1: want back to back for the first time in sixty
28:24
Speaker 1: years in World Cup history. And for Spain, it's the control,
28:28
Speaker 1: it's the midfield, it's playing keep away, it's tiring out
28:32
Speaker 1: the Argentine midfield legs by just keeping sixty percent of
28:36
Speaker 1: the ball and making Argentina run after it and then
28:40
Speaker 1: eventually finding their goal like they've done over and over.
28:43
Speaker 1: This is going to be an epic World Cup final
28:45
Speaker 1: on Sunday at noon. I cannot wait for it.
28:48
Speaker 4: All Right, So where you get to watch it? Are
28:50
Speaker 4: you going to be working? To be here in studio?
28:52
Speaker 4: Are you going to be at a bar? Are you
28:53
Speaker 4: going to be home? Where are you going to be?
28:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have the broadcast right here on ninety three
28:58
Speaker 1: three KJERFM M thirty pregame myself, Danny Jackson, Brad Evans
29:03
Speaker 1: kickoff at noon. We're going to have an extended postgame
29:07
Speaker 1: show to break it all down. I cannot wait for
29:10
Speaker 1: Sunday at eleven thirty.
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Speaker 4: Okay, thank you man, We appreciate it. Great stuff this
29:14
Speaker 4: entire month, really well done. Thank you, Chuck, appreciate it,
29:18
Speaker 4: Sir Jackson, Felts Jackson on radio, follow him on X
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Speaker 4: and of course tune in eleven thirty on Sunday morning,
29:26
Speaker 4: and then the match starts at twelve right here at
29:28
Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM, and we
29:32
Speaker 4: will talk about that. Wanting it more nonsense coming up
29:36
Speaker 4: later on in the show. Hugh Millan is next. Nobody
29:39
Speaker 4: wants to break down, not yet.
29:41
Speaker 2: Oh that's right.
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Speaker 4: I changed it on the rundown, didn't I that's right,
29:44
Speaker 4: that's right, I changed it on the rundown. ABC's of
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Speaker 4: the MS are next. He wants no part of the
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29:53
Speaker 4: That's the bottom line right there. So Husky's one series
29:57
Speaker 4: concludes today with Hugh Mellon and and of course we
30:00
Speaker 4: saved the QB one for the QB on, so we'll
30:02
Speaker 4: do that today at nine o'clock ABC.
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Speaker 3: So the MS are daily Mariner segment.
30:07
Speaker 4: We allow the alphabet to be our guide through a
30:09
Speaker 4: few different topics that may not necessarily be the topics
30:13
Speaker 4: of the day.
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Speaker 2: Who knows. We left off of the letter in and
30:16
Speaker 2: it is for Netflix.
30:17
Speaker 4: See, this is what happens to baseball, is that baseball
30:21
Speaker 4: does these silly things.
30:23
Speaker 2: Like football streaming.
30:24
Speaker 3: We've gotta be streaming Kings.
30:28
Speaker 4: And then they put the home run Derby on Netflix,
30:30
Speaker 4: and I thought Netflix did a very good job. I
30:32
Speaker 4: thought they did a much better job than Fox did.
30:34
Speaker 4: The very next night, in covering the Home Run Derby
30:38
Speaker 4: versus covering the All Star Game. But they ended up
30:41
Speaker 4: with a low rating and like and the headline goes
30:46
Speaker 4: out lowest rating and X number of years. I was like, well,
30:50
Speaker 4: wait a minute. They put it on streaming for the
30:53
Speaker 4: first time. There was very little notification. You're not gonna
30:58
Speaker 4: get as big a number if you're not gonna be
31:01
Speaker 4: on network. Everybody expects that the Home Run Derby is
31:05
Speaker 4: going to be on ESPN. It's been on ESPN forever.
31:09
Speaker 4: It wasn't this year, so people had arm time finding it.
31:12
Speaker 4: And it's probably not the type of sporting event that
31:14
Speaker 4: people are going to kill themselves to track down like
31:17
Speaker 4: I did on Monday. So it's not that bad of
31:20
Speaker 4: a number considering all of those circumstances. But man, the
31:23
Speaker 4: baseball bashers, I don't even know what's wrong with you.
31:27
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if maybe your mother didn't love you,
31:30
Speaker 4: I don't know. But the baseball bashers cannot wait. They
31:33
Speaker 4: don't do it in any other sport, can't wait.
31:35
Speaker 2: To get a hold of a little number, ratings number.
31:40
Speaker 2: The show's baseball wasn't as good as it should have been,
31:43
Speaker 2: so that they can say that the sport is dying.
31:46
Speaker 2: Stop it.
31:47
Speaker 4: The sport is probably as popular now as it's ever
31:50
Speaker 4: been in its history. And this is something that is
31:52
Speaker 4: a nickname called the America's favorite pastime. It's not anymore
31:57
Speaker 4: football is NFL is less. This is not a reflection
32:02
Speaker 4: of anything negative towards baseball other than the fact that
32:05
Speaker 4: baseball got over aggressive thinking we've got to stream because
32:08
Speaker 4: the NFL is.
32:09
Speaker 5: Streaming, right, And it was odd. I mean I even asked, well,
32:13
Speaker 5: is it it's weird that the home run derby's on
32:15
Speaker 5: streaming and the regular game is on network.
32:18
Speaker 3: I mean, here's the thing.
32:19
Speaker 5: With network, you can.
32:20
Speaker 3: Stumble upon it.
32:21
Speaker 2: Yeah. True.
32:22
Speaker 5: With Netflix, you have to go to find it. You
32:24
Speaker 5: have to know you know first and forming there to
32:27
Speaker 5: find it. Yeah yeah, yeah exactly. So I don't think
32:30
Speaker 5: of it as a bad thing anyway. And it was
32:32
Speaker 5: fantastic if you missed it. If you watch the All
32:34
Speaker 5: Star Game and you missed the home run derby, you
32:37
Speaker 5: chose the wrong event because the All Star Game was
32:40
Speaker 5: pretty boring, yep, and the home run derby was fantastic.
32:43
Speaker 2: All right.
32:44
Speaker 4: Always for offense, I mentioned we did a lot on
32:48
Speaker 4: the Adam Jude Jerry to Poto interview here this morning.
32:52
Speaker 4: We did it at seven oh five. If there is
32:55
Speaker 4: one thing that I'm worried about from Jerry's answers, know,
33:00
Speaker 4: I mean, I get it that if Brendan Donovan comes
33:04
Speaker 4: back and dom Canzone has turned into an everyday player
33:08
Speaker 4: and maybe Las Montes fits in this piece before the
33:11
Speaker 4: end of the season, that there might not be a
33:14
Speaker 4: need for an additional bat at the trading deadline. But
33:18
Speaker 4: all of those guys are left handed. Yeah, we still
33:21
Speaker 4: have not and Cole Emerson's left handed and really struggling
33:24
Speaker 4: lately against lefties, and Cole Young is again is left
33:27
Speaker 4: n JP is left handed, and Luke Rayley is left handed. No,
33:31
Speaker 4: the solution is not gonna be Rob Refsnyder at this point.
33:34
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm fine.
33:36
Speaker 4: With activating him and seeing what he can do for
33:39
Speaker 4: a little while. But my leash is trade deadline short
33:42
Speaker 4: on that guy. And if he doesn't turn it around,
33:46
Speaker 4: if he's not back immediately and doesn't turn it around immediately,
33:49
Speaker 4: then you better find I mean, I think even either way,
33:53
Speaker 4: you've got to find somebody that crushes left handed pitching.
33:57
Speaker 4: You got to get a no doubt or no brainer
33:59
Speaker 4: before the trade deadline because that stat is just way
34:02
Speaker 4: too real and that sample is just way too large.
34:05
Speaker 3: I think some of the other offensive things are going.
34:07
Speaker 4: To take care of themselves. I think Kyle's going to
34:09
Speaker 4: have a much better second half. I think Julio's gonna
34:11
Speaker 4: have a much better second half. I think that Brendan
34:14
Speaker 4: Donovan is going to add something when he comes back.
34:16
Speaker 4: And I think Dom Canzone's real his I can play
34:19
Speaker 4: against anybody. Numbers I think are real for the second half.
34:23
Speaker 4: But what's the most real thing is that we can't
34:27
Speaker 4: hit left handers. You got to get somebody in here.
34:29
Speaker 4: He hit left handers. So do not sleep on that,
34:32
Speaker 4: and please do not try to sell us getting Rob
34:35
Speaker 4: Revschneider back from the injury list is an addition.
34:38
Speaker 3: No, it's not. You can't do that whole. Oh we've
34:40
Speaker 3: got all we need.
34:41
Speaker 5: All the players we want or we've got are all
34:43
Speaker 5: that we need will make this work. No, you can't
34:45
Speaker 5: just look at it and say it's all gonna work
34:47
Speaker 5: itself out.
34:47
Speaker 3: Not all of it will.
34:48
Speaker 2: Now. I mean I brought up Taylor Ward. That is
34:50
Speaker 2: an improvement.
34:51
Speaker 4: He hits lefties better than he hits Righty's Spencer Steer
34:54
Speaker 4: I brought up obviously I'd like to have Byron Buxton,
34:57
Speaker 4: but it's looking less and less like he's even going
34:59
Speaker 4: to be made of it. But yeah, you got to
35:01
Speaker 4: add something that crushes lefties, and you got to do
35:04
Speaker 4: it before the deadline. Finally, PS four positioning. It's very strange.
35:08
Speaker 4: It just seems logical that major League Baseball teams, including
35:11
Speaker 4: the Mariners, would start the second half of a baseball
35:13
Speaker 4: season and put their ace on the mound so that
35:16
Speaker 4: you could start strong, you could maximize the number of
35:20
Speaker 4: starts that that person would get in the second half theoretically,
35:23
Speaker 4: And not only do the Mariners do it, nobody does it. Yeah,
35:27
Speaker 4: nobody does it anymore. It's very strange.
35:29
Speaker 3: They just come out and they're like, ah, we drew
35:31
Speaker 3: a name out.
35:31
Speaker 5: Of a hat.
35:32
Speaker 4: Here you go.
35:32
Speaker 3: Feels like it.
35:33
Speaker 4: I mean, Derek Scouble's not even starting for the Tigers
35:36
Speaker 4: in the second and they've got making up to do.
35:39
Speaker 4: He was not in the All Star Game because he
35:41
Speaker 4: missed a month with injury, so he's had plenty of rest,
35:45
Speaker 4: and yet the Tigers, who need to gain ground aren't
35:49
Speaker 4: even starting Derek Scouble tonight. It's a very odd thing.
35:52
Speaker 4: I'm not really sure what the logic is behind that.
35:56
Speaker 4: I might argue, we might be starting the best starting
35:58
Speaker 4: pitcher tonight of any one in Major League Baseball. All right,
36:02
Speaker 4: coming up next, Hugh Millin, Our Huskies won series. It's
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