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Chuck & Buck 3-26 Hour 1: It's Opening Day! Mike Cameron joins the show and we have TV info. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: ninety three eight point three kJ R f M, and
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Speaker 1: happy opening day to you all. That's right, we made it.
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Speaker 1: I know there was some doubt there for a while,
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Speaker 1: but we persevered and we got here to the opener
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Speaker 1: of the Mariners twenty twenty six Major League Baseball season,
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Speaker 1: one of the most eagerly anticipated, if not the most
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Speaker 1: eagerly anticipated season in the history of Mariners Baseball. And
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Speaker 1: what did we decide to do on Chuck and Buck
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Speaker 1: The same thing we do every year, just station ourselves
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Speaker 1: here live from Jimmy's on First across the street from
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Speaker 1: T Mobile Park where all the action's gonna go down
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Speaker 1: later on this evening. Bucky Jacobson, the former Mariner who's
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Speaker 1: hit a walk off home run in that building, is here.
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Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan back at our studios.
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Speaker 1: Here we are, Bucky. Baseball season gets underway today, and
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Speaker 1: here we sit in our comfortable position at Jimmy's, our
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Speaker 1: home away from home. Yeah, locked in.
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Speaker 3: Locked in, ready to rock.
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Speaker 2: I haven't done the hours thing, but it is I
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Speaker 2: don't know, twelve ish thirteen hours from now where we're
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Speaker 2: gonna get to see the World Series champs take the
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Speaker 2: field the first time.
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Speaker 1: That's the first thing that comes out of your mouth.
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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't it be? I don't know why? Why? What
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Speaker 3: else would happen? Oh?
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Speaker 2: You think that, I mean finished somewhere, but beneath number one,
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think this is the year
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Speaker 2: I have not been We've been doing this for what
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Speaker 2: eight or nine years.
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Speaker 3: I've been a Mariner fan for forty five years.
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Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever been more optimistic and more
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Speaker 2: excited about an.
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Speaker 3: Opening day than today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's you just look up
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Speaker 2: and down that we've we've watched this pitching staff to
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Speaker 2: kind of come and turn into the gem that it
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Speaker 2: is for years, even before they kind of arrived on,
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Speaker 2: you know, the big league stage, and then when they
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Speaker 2: got here, they haven't disappointed. You've seen a few guys
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Speaker 2: come up through the minor leagues, as far as the
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Speaker 2: cal Rawley's and Julio Rodriguez that have created a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a nucleus. They went out last year got Naylor,
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Speaker 2: and now we get a full season of Naylor. They
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Speaker 2: added a few other pieces to the puzzle. Brendan Donovan
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Speaker 2: can't wait to see somebody actually swing it with the
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Speaker 2: number thirty three on their back.
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Speaker 3: That's gonna be exciting.
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Speaker 2: It just feels the like it's the most complete lineup
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Speaker 2: and I can think of back to and when I
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Speaker 2: said lineup, I mean just roster in general, back to
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Speaker 2: the two thousand and one season, probably when they went
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Speaker 2: out there and had a record breaking year. So I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm not predicting one hundred and sixteen wins. That would
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Speaker 2: be a bad year for them. I think it's way
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Speaker 2: more than that. But no, it just feels like this
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Speaker 2: is the year. I think this team is hungry. I
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Speaker 2: think coming off of last season. They know what it
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Speaker 2: takes to kind of get there, and they're gonna be
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Speaker 2: I'm sure that they worked all off season to make
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Speaker 2: sure they can get over that hump.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this. You know, I woke up
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Speaker 1: from my daily nap yesterday fell asleep to the MLB
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Speaker 1: Network as they were starting their prediction show day. So
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Speaker 1: all day long they were just doing ramp up for
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Speaker 1: the season, and every single expert at the network was
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Speaker 1: on and giving their predictions. And so I fell asleep
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Speaker 1: to that yesterday taking my daily nap, and when I
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Speaker 1: woke up, I just so happened to have Tom Verducci,
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Speaker 1: who's one of my favorites alt lighter former pitchers, on there,
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Speaker 1: and Brian Kenny, who's the sabermetric king of the network,
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Speaker 1: and they were the three and they were to the
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Speaker 1: point where they were making World Series predictions, all three
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Speaker 1: of those gentlemen, and I like them all. I like
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Speaker 1: all their analysis had the Mariners going to the World Series,
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Speaker 1: and two of them had them winning the World Series.
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Speaker 1: So that's what I woke up to yesterday on the
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Speaker 1: first day because we've actually had a Major League Baseball game.
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Speaker 1: It was last night So the first day of Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball, I woke up to hearing that the Mariners
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Speaker 1: are going to win the World Series. How about that?
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Speaker 3: Well, they can't be wrong.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if we played sixty two and then
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Speaker 2: the rest after that, I mean, just can we get
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Speaker 2: the trophy now? I mean, that wouldn't be near as
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Speaker 2: much fun. I'm down for the ones sixty two and
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Speaker 2: then some. But I mean it's not surprising. We saw
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Speaker 2: last year how this team kind of came on the scene.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say they burst on the scene. They'd been here.
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Speaker 2: They'd been creeping up towards this for I don't know
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Speaker 2: the last three four or five years where it feels
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Speaker 2: like it's there's something big growing, and last year they
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Speaker 2: kind of proved it that they were right there, capable
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Speaker 2: of playing with anybody, and eight outs away from getting
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Speaker 2: to the first World Series in franchise history. It just
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Speaker 2: feels to me like they're better. They're significantly better on
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Speaker 2: Game one of twenty twenty six, and they were on
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Speaker 2: Game one of twenty twenty five, and that last year
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Speaker 2: turned out quite nice. So I think that this team
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Speaker 2: has that grit that you want. You know, there's no complacency.
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Speaker 2: There isn't something like mission accomplished. You know, we got
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Speaker 2: eight outs from the World Series.
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Speaker 1: That's their attitudes that spring training when we were down there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they just flat out understand that this is this city,
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Speaker 2: this fan base, them themselves wearing the uniform of a
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Speaker 2: team that's never been the World Series. They take that
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Speaker 2: as a challenge. They don't take it. I don't think
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Speaker 2: is pressure of oh my gosh, what if we don't
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Speaker 2: because you can't look that far ahead. I mean me
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Speaker 2: joking around saying, well, their World Series champs, and do
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Speaker 2: we even really need to play the rest? That's kind
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Speaker 2: of tongue in cheek, but I mean they know is
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Speaker 2: one game at a time. But if they play up
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Speaker 2: to their capabilities, they know that they can play with anybody.
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Speaker 1: It's funny because as optimistic as you and I and
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Speaker 1: Ashley and I think a lot of our listeners feel,
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Speaker 1: and as much love and attention that they're getting from
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Speaker 1: the national people, which is something that normally a Mariner
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Speaker 1: fan feels like they'd get neglected in that conversation, but man,
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Speaker 1: it is being laid on thick. Those guys seem to
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Speaker 1: like the Mariners more than Mariner fans like the Mariners
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Speaker 1: heading into this season, but I harkened back to a
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Speaker 1: conversation that we had at the end of last year
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Speaker 1: when we had to initially swallow the disappointment of George
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Speaker 1: Springer ruining the season and the chance to go to
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Speaker 1: the World Series for the first time. And I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you brought it up. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: Ashley brought it up, but they do know that we
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Speaker 1: discussed it, and it's like, how optimistic that all three
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Speaker 1: of us, and I think a lot of people listening
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Speaker 1: are about the future and where we probably have entered
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Speaker 1: a championship window. I think we're firmly in that championship window,
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Speaker 1: and the way that Justin and Jerry have put together
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Speaker 1: this roster, this organization, I think we're going to remain
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Speaker 1: entrenched in that window for a while. So that's a
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Speaker 1: very that's an awesome thing. That's a hearty thing to
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Speaker 1: attach yourself to as a baseball fan, especially a Mariners
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Speaker 1: fan who's, let's face it, suffered through a lot of
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Speaker 1: losing seasons. But I remember that conversation that we had
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Speaker 1: about as excited as I will be when twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: when we get to Opening Day twenty twenty six, which
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Speaker 1: is where we are this morning. As excited as we
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Speaker 1: will be and as much as we're looking forward to
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Speaker 1: next season, there really is that grind of like you
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Speaker 1: got to start at the bottom of the hill. We
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Speaker 1: got to go through all that again, in all that emotion,
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Speaker 1: all those slumps, all of the you know, the injuries
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Speaker 1: that are inevitably going to occur, and the lineup frustrations
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Speaker 1: and the how did you start that guy and why
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Speaker 1: did you bring that guy into the game conversations? I mean,
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Speaker 1: we start today at the bottom of that hill. And
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Speaker 1: is as great a hikers as it seems like the
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Speaker 1: Mariners are. I mean they look fit, their backpacks look
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Speaker 1: like yep, and they look really sprite. I mean they're bounding.
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Speaker 1: They might bound up this damn mountain. But nonetheless, opening
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Speaker 1: day you got to start at the beginning of it,
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Speaker 1: and you gotta be ready for anything that happens.
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Speaker 3: It's the beauty of it.
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Speaker 2: How you just got to stack days after days after days,
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Speaker 2: and that starts.
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Speaker 3: I mean it starts with the work you put in.
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Speaker 2: I mean it starts with how you're treating your body
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Speaker 2: and everything from A to Z. How you're going to
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Speaker 2: go about your business for the next seven eight months,
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Speaker 2: is what's going to dictate it. Yeah, you're right, you
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Speaker 2: have I mean, just let's just say one hundred wins
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Speaker 2: is what you're kind of going for. That kind of
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Speaker 2: guarantees you're gonna find yourself in the postseason and then
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Speaker 2: see what happens after that. That means that's at least
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Speaker 2: one hundred days you've got to go out there and
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Speaker 2: battle against another group of twenty six that's gonna try
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Speaker 2: their best to not let you get the w on
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Speaker 2: that given day. Some of those could be easier than others,
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Speaker 2: but none of them are ones that you just can
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Speaker 2: say collectively as a group, we can just throw our
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Speaker 2: jock in the field and we're gonna we're gonna win
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Speaker 2: this game. You have to work, you have to kind
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Speaker 2: of grind at it, and it's something that I think
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Speaker 2: that's probably the most demoralizing part of coming up short.
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Speaker 2: You know, we can all remember hearing Julio's scream from
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Speaker 2: the back room, whether it's a shower or wherever a
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Speaker 2: heck he was at after that final loss of the season.
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Speaker 2: That is that pain is coming from all the work
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Speaker 2: that was put in and now it's over short of
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Speaker 2: where you.
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Speaker 1: Want to be and you got to start all over
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Speaker 1: the yeah.
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Speaker 2: And so it takes probably some time in the off
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Speaker 2: season for these guys to kind of pack that away
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Speaker 2: and put it away between the years in their heart
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Speaker 2: and just the pain part of it. And then you
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Speaker 2: turn that on again and you say, Okay, well that's
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Speaker 2: what motivates me when I'm tired and I'm doing my
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Speaker 2: extra workouts.
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Speaker 3: Do I stop. I got to twelve.
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Speaker 2: You're supposed to get to fifteen, Well, then get your
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Speaker 2: ass to fifteen. I think that pain is what kind
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Speaker 2: of pushes you to get those extra reps in and
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Speaker 2: do what you need to do, because that's what turns
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Speaker 2: into come opening Day and the day after that and
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Speaker 2: the day after that for one hundred.
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Speaker 3: And sixty two games.
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Speaker 2: That's what gets you to where you feel more confident
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Speaker 2: is the work you put in leading up to today.
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Speaker 2: So from the last game last season to today, there
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Speaker 2: was a bunch of work. None of it counted for
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Speaker 2: anything other than the fact that between the years, when
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Speaker 2: you're stepping into the batter's box against one of the
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Speaker 2: best pitchers out there and it's a division game and
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Speaker 2: it means whether or not you're gonna win the division
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Speaker 2: or it's a playoff game, and it means whether or
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Speaker 2: not you go on or your season's over. The work
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Speaker 2: you put in is what is the amount of confidence
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Speaker 2: that you have in yourself, and it's the amount of
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Speaker 2: confidence that your team has in you. When you show
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Speaker 2: up and you're out of shape, people you feel it.
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Speaker 2: You feel it yourself, but you feel that your teammate
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Speaker 2: recognizes so and so didn't put in their time, they
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Speaker 2: didn't do what they were supposed to do. I didn't
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Speaker 2: see that out of anybody at entering. I feel like
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Speaker 2: everybody kind of took took the pain from last year
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Speaker 2: and used his fuel to get ready for this season,
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Speaker 2: and and today's the day that we get to finally
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Speaker 2: see how it works out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they say that the beauty of the opening day
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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball is that hope springs eternal. Everybody
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Speaker 1: starts at zero and zero, and that I think that
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Speaker 1: does apply. I think that certainly applies to teams like
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and Colorado. But when you are considered the heavy
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Speaker 1: favorite to get to the World Series and you've never
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Speaker 1: been there before, that's a different kind of feeling there's
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Speaker 1: there's a little bit of can we just speed forward
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs already? I don't know if I can
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Speaker 1: take the anxiety of a full season of this. And
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Speaker 1: and yet the journey is as great as the destination.
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Speaker 1: And that's how we got to approach this as Mariner
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Speaker 1: fans this year, to just enjoy this thing one pitch
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Speaker 1: at a time, because I do ultimately think it's going
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Speaker 1: to end up in a good place. Maybe not the
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Speaker 1: ultimate place, but I think it's going to end up
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Speaker 1: in a good place for the Mariners here in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's no guarantees, obviously, and you've got to go
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Speaker 2: out there and do it. But to me, it's like
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Speaker 2: when you haven't if you're the Pirates, if you're a
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Speaker 2: bad team, your.
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Speaker 3: Hope spring's a turn to be okay this year? Buddy?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, So whoever it is, you're kind of thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 2: let's see how this works out, and yet you kind
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Speaker 2: of know that the forecast is not greatness.
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Speaker 3: Whereas when you have.
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Speaker 2: High expectations for yourself and the outside world is putting
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Speaker 2: high expectations on you, you kind of have this feeling
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Speaker 2: like no matter how game one goes, or how my
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Speaker 2: first tenant bats go, or how my first outing goes
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Speaker 2: on the mound. I'm looking forward to a good season.
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Speaker 2: I think that if you just go man to man,
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Speaker 2: they're all really excited about how it's going to go. Now,
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Speaker 2: you take that and put that, you lump that together
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Speaker 2: as a group, and they're going to end up being
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Speaker 2: a better team than a lot of teams out there.
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Speaker 2: You still have to do the work, and so it's
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Speaker 2: you know you're gonna go through some ups and those
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Speaker 2: are going to be enjoyable. You know you're gonna have
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Speaker 2: some downtimes and those are not as enjoyable. But how
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Speaker 2: do you manage it between the years and then on
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Speaker 2: the field to make it to where those those high
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Speaker 2: moments last longer and the down the valleys don't last
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Speaker 2: year as long.
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Speaker 3: That's the beauty of it.
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Speaker 2: I think that, you know, when you have young teams
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Speaker 2: that are inexperienced in the postseason, every single opportunity, even
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Speaker 2: if it turns out to be a failure or coming
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Speaker 2: up short of where you're at, that's either it's not
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Speaker 2: a failure, it's just more of a learning experience. I
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Speaker 2: think that this team learned a lot from last year.
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Speaker 2: I think that if there's one thing I could say
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Speaker 2: for certain, there's not a guy over there now that
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Speaker 2: has any doubt. Can we play with the best teams
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Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball? Can can we really compete.
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Speaker 3: For a World Series? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I mean they took the they took you know, the
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Speaker 2: Blue Jays obviously to the brink.
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays took the Dodgers to the break exactly.
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Speaker 2: And that that's and so that's basically where you up
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Speaker 2: putting it all together and you think to yourself, you know,
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Speaker 2: why not us, why can't we do it? Well, the
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Speaker 2: only reason you can't do it is if you don't
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Speaker 2: believe you can do it and you don't put the
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Speaker 2: work in to do it. I don't see this team
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Speaker 2: coming up short. I don't see this team quitting short
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Speaker 2: of where they want to be.
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Speaker 3: Now. You got to get the bounces and things got
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Speaker 3: to go your way. But you go out there, work
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Speaker 3: your ass off.
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Speaker 2: And create your own luck and see where it works out.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna make predictions today, and we're gonna do
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Speaker 1: a lot of different things to get you ready for
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Speaker 1: Opening Day. There's no question about that. I will say
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Speaker 1: that as we start the grind toward the one sixty two,
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Speaker 1: toward possibly getting to the World Series. Finally, I can't
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Speaker 1: sit here on this day and tell you what's gonna
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Speaker 1: happen in the postseason. I think it's the most unpredictable
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Speaker 1: postseason in American professional sports. I know the Dodgers seem
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Speaker 1: to have cracked the code, but I mean the Blue
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Speaker 1: Jays came within a bad read off the bat by
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Kiner Filefa of beating them last year. They came
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Speaker 1: within a ball getting stuck in the bottom of the
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Speaker 1: left field wall from beating them last year and winning
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Speaker 1: the World Series. The previous year, they were all but
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Speaker 1: sunk by the San Diego Padres, who gagged the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: to the next round of the MLB Playoffs. So anything
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Speaker 1: can happen in the postseason. I will just say, and
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Speaker 1: I've been saying this all offseason, what I think is
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Speaker 1: going to be a different year here in Seattle in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Is even the two out of four
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Speaker 1: years that you've made the playoffs here recently, it was
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Speaker 1: still at times a tortuous kind of existence for a
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Speaker 1: Mariner fan. I mean, a team that has just apparently mastered,
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Speaker 1: you know, playing like garbage for a month at a
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Speaker 1: time and then saving the season because they can't do
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Speaker 1: anything wrong in July or August. I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: going to be that kind of year. Those I mean,
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Speaker 1: even the sixth, even this years we made the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: they were at times excruciating hair pulling. I don't think
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have near that kind of season this year.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying put your feet up on the desk,
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Speaker 1: but I think that this is going to be a
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Speaker 1: lot more comfortable regular season than you've experienced in the
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Speaker 1: Depoto era for sure. Uh and maybe the most comfortable
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Speaker 1: regular season since two thousand and one. There's nothing that's
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Speaker 1: going to top two thousand and one, but the most
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Speaker 1: comfortable regular season you'll have. And then we'll take our
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Speaker 1: chances in the playoffs. But that is a prediction that
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Speaker 1: I will make. Ashley. Did you wake up with cartoon
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Speaker 1: birds singing to you this morning? Did you get your
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Speaker 1: opening day started the way that it should be.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, cartoon birds in the voice of Daveney House just
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Speaker 4: telling me to rise.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe not here, maybe not oh here?
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Speaker 3: Now, can you hear me? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, everything's new here.
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Speaker 4: So oh that was all these extra buttons that I
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Speaker 4: never had pushed.
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Speaker 1: Before your control board.
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Speaker 4: So you guys couldn't hear me, but I think the
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Speaker 4: audience could because my mic was on.
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Speaker 1: But now you can, okay.
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Speaker 4: So I said, yeah, I woke up with cartoon birds
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Speaker 4: and the voice of Daveney House telling me to rise
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Speaker 4: and shine.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's lovely.
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Speaker 4: It was pretty magical.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Rick Riz like came in, he did, and served
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Speaker 1: you hot made biscuits. Yeah, yeah, screen homemadeine o.
17:11
Speaker 3: Seven.
17:12
Speaker 4: That's how you're supposed to do Opening Day right now, rule.
17:18
Speaker 1: Before everybody knows that nine innings of mimosas. I think
17:23
Speaker 1: that is how you do opening Day.
17:25
Speaker 5: That's what I've heard.
17:26
Speaker 1: Well, I mean right now things are calm. I mean,
17:29
Speaker 1: we don't play, as Bucky said, for another thirteen hours here.
17:33
Speaker 1: It's a late not only his opening day a night game,
17:36
Speaker 1: but it's uh, I think the last game that's played
17:38
Speaker 1: tonight at seven to ten against the Guardians. Right now,
17:42
Speaker 1: you're at Jimmy's on first the I mean the chairs
17:45
Speaker 1: are still on top of the tabletops, but I've moved
17:48
Speaker 1: a couple of them, and even the chairs feel like champions.
17:51
Speaker 3: They felt lighter. I moved one and it was like, wow,
17:54
Speaker 3: that feels like a champion chair.
17:55
Speaker 1: Feels like a championship.
17:57
Speaker 2: Somebody that is going to be celebrated a championship is
18:00
Speaker 2: going to be sitting in that later today and for
18:01
Speaker 2: the next twenty some one hundred and sixty two games.
18:05
Speaker 1: I'm going to make a predictions there's gonna be somebody
18:08
Speaker 1: sitting right here, right here, right here, in this little chair. Yes, yeah,
18:13
Speaker 1: that's going to be that's going to wet themselves with
18:16
Speaker 1: World Series Championship excitement in my chair six months from
18:21
Speaker 1: seven months from now. I also like the bucking through
18:23
Speaker 1: in there, like eight months, eight months of this, Like
18:26
Speaker 1: that's you're including a parade. Yes, that's what you're doing.
18:29
Speaker 1: You go to eight months and you're already factoring in
18:31
Speaker 1: the parade.
18:32
Speaker 2: I'm figuring that this season is going to be the
18:34
Speaker 2: longest season in Mariner fan history and Mariner player, Mariner organization,
18:39
Speaker 2: the longest one, because you're right, it ends in a parade.
18:41
Speaker 1: All right, well, how are we going to do this today?
18:44
Speaker 1: Let's find out what's on tap for the show?
18:48
Speaker 2: What's on TEP, what's on tap?
18:52
Speaker 1: My Cameron's going to join us at six thirty. Pete Woodworth,
18:55
Speaker 1: the pitching coach, and our friend is going to join
18:58
Speaker 1: us at eight o'clock today. We're gonna hear from the
19:01
Speaker 1: gas Man himself. This might be the greatest sports year
19:04
Speaker 1: the gas Man's ever had, so we're gonna hear from
19:06
Speaker 1: him at eight thirty today, And Jerry Depoto we'll be
19:09
Speaker 1: here to personally welcome us and you to the Major
19:13
Speaker 1: League Baseball season today at nine to twenty five. So
19:17
Speaker 1: that's what we have guest wise coming up on the show.
19:20
Speaker 1: We also have not one, but two Green Jacket drafts
19:23
Speaker 1: because the Sonics story yesterday kind of muddled up our
19:28
Speaker 1: rundown for our show yesterday, so we've got to get
19:31
Speaker 1: two of those suckers in today. But it works out
19:33
Speaker 1: fine because we'll have a Mariners preview with one of them,
19:36
Speaker 1: and we'll have a Major League Baseball overall season preview
19:39
Speaker 1: with the other one. We will do those at seven
19:42
Speaker 1: and nine o'clock today. Your headlines, it will be Ems
19:46
Speaker 1: versus Guardians here at t Mobiles seven to ten. First
19:49
Speaker 1: pitch Logan Gilbert gets the start for the MS. Tanner
19:52
Speaker 1: Biby will get the start right hander for the Cleveland Guardians.
19:56
Speaker 1: The roster is set. There are no surprises. The roster
19:59
Speaker 1: that we broke down a week ago that Ryan Devish
20:03
Speaker 1: had provided ends up being the roster that they're going with.
20:07
Speaker 1: That means Ryan Bliss has made the team as a
20:10
Speaker 1: utility player because of the JP Crawford injury. It means
20:14
Speaker 1: Leo Rebos will be starting at shortstop at least in
20:17
Speaker 1: Game number one tonight. It means Bryce Miller's on the
20:20
Speaker 1: il to start the season. It means Emerson Hancocks and
20:24
Speaker 1: the starting rotation, and he's actually going to start Game four,
20:27
Speaker 1: not Game five, from what we heard yesterday from Adam Jutes.
20:31
Speaker 1: We'll talk about all of that. The Yankees and Giants
20:33
Speaker 1: started the baseball season last night, with the Yankees winning
20:36
Speaker 1: seven to nothing on Netflix and apparently Netflix does not
20:40
Speaker 1: have their stuff together. I didn't watch, but the first
20:44
Speaker 1: ABS challenge in the history of Major League Baseball, they
20:47
Speaker 1: were late to they missed it, and so it was
20:51
Speaker 1: an unsuccessful challenge. So score one for the umpires. But
20:55
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the ABS system today because
20:58
Speaker 1: that's going to be a big topic season long, and
21:00
Speaker 1: certainly in the first month of the season, so we'll
21:03
Speaker 1: discuss that the Sonics, of course got the vote yesterday
21:06
Speaker 1: from the NBA Board of Governors. We have since heard
21:08
Speaker 1: from Todd Liwiki here locally and Adam Silver, the man
21:13
Speaker 1: in charge. We'll hear a little bit from them later
21:15
Speaker 1: on in the show. JSN held his press conference to
21:18
Speaker 1: announce I'm rich. Also, we found out yesterday that the
21:22
Speaker 1: season will in fact officially start on a Wednesday this
21:26
Speaker 1: year in the NFL, so the Seahawks will defend their
21:29
Speaker 1: title beginning with a Wednesday night affair and not the
21:33
Speaker 1: typical Thursday night opener in the National Football League. And
21:37
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament resumes. Man, there's a lot going on.
21:41
Speaker 1: The Sweet sixteen round starts tonight at four o'clock, and
21:45
Speaker 1: of course you can hear coverage on our sister station
21:49
Speaker 1: there at nine fifty. Coming up next, we will reward
21:53
Speaker 1: our Mariners morning after song, we'll find out what we're
21:58
Speaker 1: going with according to you. We put the poll up yesterday. Also,
22:02
Speaker 1: Mike Cameron will join the show. It's Chucking Buck in
22:05
Speaker 1: the Morning live from Jimmy's on first It's Opening Day
22:08
Speaker 1: People Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. There you go, Bucky,
22:12
Speaker 1: there's our winner. That's the song we're gonna play after
22:15
Speaker 1: every Mariners win at six thirty throughout the season. One
22:19
Speaker 1: more time, one more time, one more win. Yeah, I
22:22
Speaker 1: like that. We'll don't get that.
22:25
Speaker 3: I'm down with it. I'm down to celebrate a whole
22:27
Speaker 3: heck of a lot this year.
22:28
Speaker 1: It was a close race, was it close? Yeah?
22:31
Speaker 4: Thirty one percent with that one to twenty nine point
22:33
Speaker 4: six for it's a beautiful morning.
22:35
Speaker 1: Wow, that is closed. That's one of the closest poles
22:38
Speaker 1: we've ever done.
22:38
Speaker 4: I think so.
22:39
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I think it's a good one. I
22:42
Speaker 1: think it's a good one, and I think that I
22:44
Speaker 1: like the idea that it kicks at the beginning and
22:45
Speaker 1: then it kicks even bigger, Yeah, a little bit into
22:48
Speaker 1: the song. So I think we can get behind that
22:51
Speaker 1: for an entire season. Are we got Cammy on the line?
22:54
Speaker 1: We do all right? Joining us now on our opening
22:57
Speaker 1: day coverage Chucking Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three
22:59
Speaker 1: k j R FM. Former Mariner one of the best
23:03
Speaker 1: defensive center fielders you've ever seen it at four home
23:06
Speaker 1: runs in the game one time. I don't know if
23:07
Speaker 1: you even knew.
23:08
Speaker 3: That, but I didn't know that.
23:09
Speaker 1: You didn't know that watched it? Yeah, yeah, good. He's
23:12
Speaker 1: gonna have a statue made of him and he just
23:14
Speaker 1: hopes that people don't walk by and whiz on it.
23:17
Speaker 1: That's Mike Cameron in a nutshell right there, and he
23:20
Speaker 1: joined us here on Opening Day. Cammy, how you doing.
23:24
Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning to you. Early morning for you guys.
23:29
Speaker 1: Early morning for us all the time. How did your
23:31
Speaker 1: morning start? I mean, it is Opening Day? Does it
23:34
Speaker 1: just feel different to a former Big leaguer to wake
23:37
Speaker 1: up on Opening Day?
23:40
Speaker 5: Uh? Yeah, like you know, like you you understand that,
23:44
Speaker 5: you understand that this is like one of the one
23:46
Speaker 5: of the best days of a ball player's life, you know,
23:51
Speaker 5: opening day, getting a chance for their uniform fresh cliss
23:54
Speaker 5: Chris uniform and beginning the voyage of trying to uh
24:00
Speaker 5: chase an opportunity to play for a championship.
24:04
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I can mean obviously, I mean everybody gets
24:07
Speaker 2: to start O and oh and you got the grind
24:09
Speaker 2: and the journey that is one sixty two and then some.
24:13
Speaker 2: I mean you you down at spring training with the guys,
24:15
Speaker 2: what was the field? Just overall as far as this team,
24:19
Speaker 2: to me, it felt like they were hungry, uh, to
24:21
Speaker 2: get beyond where they went last year, even though last
24:23
Speaker 2: year was a really successful season.
24:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think you know a lot of times
24:30
Speaker 5: when you experienced something of that nature and you're so close, man,
24:35
Speaker 5: you kind of you start to imagine what could what
24:38
Speaker 5: could possibly happen if we put this together and.
24:40
Speaker 3: Put that together.
24:41
Speaker 5: But no one thing about this spring training was kind
24:43
Speaker 5: of crazy because everybody was gone and so other than
24:47
Speaker 5: you know, the starting pitchers. So these guys got a
24:49
Speaker 5: chance to start their cohesion very early. So you know,
24:56
Speaker 5: you just understand that the nature of it and the
24:58
Speaker 5: communication and talking to most of the guys is pretty
25:02
Speaker 5: much the same. Uh. You got a full opportunity to
25:06
Speaker 5: see Brendan Donovan, you know, just kind of get comfortable
25:10
Speaker 5: in the ram of you know, missing some of the guys,
25:13
Speaker 5: but the fact that he had a chance to play
25:14
Speaker 5: at Fools didn't playoff full spring trainer, but get ready
25:17
Speaker 5: with the team, you know, and him being a very
25:21
Speaker 5: integral piece and Maren is trying to repeat as a
25:26
Speaker 5: ao WES title holder and also try to get back
25:29
Speaker 5: to get back into the playoffs and do as much
25:32
Speaker 5: damage you can late in the season with the eyes
25:36
Speaker 5: with the potential of trying to get to the World Series.
25:40
Speaker 5: We know that's a difficult task, but that is the
25:42
Speaker 5: ultimate task for everyone. But at the same time, man,
25:46
Speaker 5: it's just a matter of guys getting ready. And that's
25:49
Speaker 5: why I say it was a unique spring training because
25:51
Speaker 5: we saw so many other younger players while some of
25:54
Speaker 5: the other guys were playing for their countries in the WBC.
25:57
Speaker 1: Mike Cameron is, whether it's this morning, you're on Opening days,
25:59
Speaker 1: already been up, had an opening day cup of coffee,
26:03
Speaker 1: probably stretch, maybe an opening day offline, and now he's
26:07
Speaker 1: joining us for an opening day conversation. What kind of
26:12
Speaker 1: season are you expecting from Julio Rodriguez this year?
26:15
Speaker 5: Mike, I just think that I think if anything, that
26:22
Speaker 5: Julio would tell you, I can't tell you any numbers,
26:24
Speaker 5: but I would say that the boundaries or the initial
26:28
Speaker 5: thought of Julio having at least close to a you know,
26:31
Speaker 5: a thirty thirty season is definitely you know there again
26:36
Speaker 5: and probably if anything, just maybe a little more consistency.
26:40
Speaker 5: I mean, we wish we all are searching for as
26:42
Speaker 5: players or you know, as we play. You know, his
26:46
Speaker 5: case is just trying to get just a you know,
26:48
Speaker 5: probably a little bit better somewhere along the lines, almost
26:51
Speaker 5: to the point that if he does, you know, we're
26:54
Speaker 5: talking about probably a top five MVP type of player
26:59
Speaker 5: because of what he's able to do across the board
27:01
Speaker 5: with his skill set.
27:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cammy, I mean you were here when when this
27:06
Speaker 2: team had the best regular season that they'd ever had
27:08
Speaker 2: back in N one. I mean that I can't think
27:11
Speaker 2: of a team besides that one that even comes close
27:14
Speaker 2: to the talent and the expectations to be quite honest,
27:18
Speaker 2: when you I don't want you necessarily compare guys, but
27:21
Speaker 2: just the feel of what it feels like when it
27:24
Speaker 2: comes to these guys individually and how they're kind of
27:26
Speaker 2: going out there getting ready to.
27:27
Speaker 3: Do something big.
27:29
Speaker 5: Oh yeah. The good thing is, you know, but they
27:33
Speaker 5: all been you know, they played together with adding you know,
27:36
Speaker 5: mind us a few guys and adding a few guys
27:39
Speaker 5: before the most part, you know, most of the guys
27:41
Speaker 5: experienced last year back here again. And then you have
27:46
Speaker 5: the addition of Josh being full time now you know,
27:52
Speaker 5: losing Gino. But there are other pieces in place. You know,
27:55
Speaker 5: hopefully you can get a chance to see a young
27:59
Speaker 5: Coast i'd just Cole young. I call him young Cole,
28:03
Speaker 5: but see how he had just he adjusted to the league.
28:09
Speaker 3: Uh.
28:09
Speaker 5: You also got Brendan Donovan coming over, who's uh, you know,
28:12
Speaker 5: like I said before, the integral piece and that. And
28:15
Speaker 5: then you have some guys that are just you know, uh, look,
28:18
Speaker 5: really getting trying to get healthy.
28:20
Speaker 1: Uh.
28:20
Speaker 5: Some guys trying to repeat or get better in some
28:25
Speaker 5: some consistency moment of their season. And and then you
28:31
Speaker 5: have your your you know, your pillars, there, your you know,
28:35
Speaker 5: your your cows, and your JP when he's able to
28:38
Speaker 5: come back, but you have Louis Rebus filling in for
28:41
Speaker 5: him right now. And and then you just you have
28:45
Speaker 5: guys that are just trying to Okay, we got the
28:49
Speaker 5: game back together. Let's see if we can stay healthy
28:52
Speaker 5: and put it together and go chase it, go see
28:54
Speaker 5: if we can get to where we were lasting, probably
28:57
Speaker 5: even give an opportunity to play for your World Series.
29:02
Speaker 5: At this time that the team is looking.
29:04
Speaker 1: For Mike Cameron with us right here on Chuck and
29:07
Speaker 1: Buck in the morning, they are saying that this opening
29:10
Speaker 1: day is the most eagerly anticipated since your team the year,
29:17
Speaker 1: coming off the and sixteen wins, and I would just
29:22
Speaker 1: ask you, if you can tap into your memory, what
29:25
Speaker 1: was the feeling that you guys had knowing, you know,
29:29
Speaker 1: you didn't pull off your postseason goal that year, but
29:32
Speaker 1: you made history the previous year, and the expectation I'm
29:35
Speaker 1: sure was, hey, we went a World Series this year.
29:38
Speaker 1: Otherwise that it's a disappointment. Can you talk about how
29:42
Speaker 1: you guys felt on opening day that year?
29:47
Speaker 5: Just eager to be honest with you, I mean, we're
29:51
Speaker 5: just eager to get an opportunity to try to see
29:55
Speaker 5: where we matched up. That we know that there was
29:57
Speaker 5: a lot of dynamic change for a team wise or whatever.
30:00
Speaker 5: But and we added a PC here and a piece there.
30:04
Speaker 5: It's similar as fashion that it's just twenty twenty sixteen
30:07
Speaker 5: here and and just look to get guys healthy. We
30:10
Speaker 5: knew we were gonna be a good team, and just
30:12
Speaker 5: the matter can we stay healthy and get through the
30:15
Speaker 5: season in the same manner. You know, these guys have
30:19
Speaker 5: the same opportunity just looking around and saying, okay, you know,
30:23
Speaker 5: like we were there, you know, like we just got
30:25
Speaker 5: to get you know, get get healthy, well, stay healthy
30:31
Speaker 5: and get through the season. With some consistency with some
30:34
Speaker 5: players that give you a chance to win, give you
30:38
Speaker 5: a chance to win on a daily basis, and you know,
30:40
Speaker 5: I think the next year we end up winning nineties
30:42
Speaker 5: ninety three games, but we didn't make it. There's a
30:45
Speaker 5: different format of playoff format or whatever. But you know,
30:48
Speaker 5: we understood where we were. I think everyone around the
30:52
Speaker 5: league understood where we were, and even probably a little
30:55
Speaker 5: bit you know, kind of gunshot because we did win
30:57
Speaker 5: those hundred and sixteen and we lost to the Yankees
31:00
Speaker 5: eventually in the ALCS. So we understood that. Everyone understood
31:05
Speaker 5: that we know what it is, and we knew what
31:07
Speaker 5: we were trying to gun for, and we just came
31:10
Speaker 5: up short again in September at the end, and where
31:12
Speaker 5: we didn't make it, where two teams I think, you know,
31:15
Speaker 5: winning one hundred games in the same division we won
31:17
Speaker 5: ninety three. So if I'm not mistaken, I can't go
31:20
Speaker 5: back that far. But I would think these guys do understand,
31:23
Speaker 5: you know, where they are and how to do it,
31:28
Speaker 5: and maybe understand there's maybe it's going to be a
31:31
Speaker 5: different type of route this year than it was last year.
31:34
Speaker 5: We're looking to be consistent in the same fashion.
31:37
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, no, that was that
31:39
Speaker 1: was my fault. I was just gonna ask us uh uh.
31:42
Speaker 1: You know we wrap up here with Mike Cameron here
31:45
Speaker 1: this morning. Do you have any opening day traditions? I mean,
31:48
Speaker 1: will you crack out an old lucky jockstrap today or
31:50
Speaker 1: something like that to uh to wear around the house
31:53
Speaker 1: or to the yard or anything like that. What's the
31:56
Speaker 1: plan here today, CAMMI.
31:58
Speaker 5: Not at all, man, You know, I think I'm so far,
32:02
Speaker 5: you know, kind of away from it in that sense.
32:04
Speaker 5: I'm just a fan of the interreactions and take some
32:07
Speaker 5: young guys who made the team, you know, the opportunity, man,
32:11
Speaker 5: like I got a chance to do it, I think
32:13
Speaker 5: from ninety seven to twenty eleven, well ninety eight my
32:18
Speaker 5: first true opening day, and so you know, like it
32:21
Speaker 5: is a fun time. It does bring back those childhood
32:24
Speaker 5: opportunity and memories when you see the bunny and stadiums
32:27
Speaker 5: and everything. But for the most part, man, it's a
32:30
Speaker 5: joy to be a part and be a to see
32:32
Speaker 5: opening day of baseball because we know it's for extended
32:36
Speaker 5: period of time, and everyone who loves baseball understands and
32:40
Speaker 5: knows about happily opening day. Major League Baseball.
32:43
Speaker 1: All right, So let me get this straight. There's three
32:44
Speaker 1: of us here and I'm the only one that wore
32:46
Speaker 1: my lucky jockstrap today to the park. Is that what
32:50
Speaker 1: I'm getting? And yeah, two former players here and I'm
32:52
Speaker 1: the one. Yeah, yeah, I feel weird now.
32:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's okay, it's okay, okay, Yeah, go ahead and
33:04
Speaker 5: do it.
33:06
Speaker 3: Well.
33:06
Speaker 1: Hey man, great to catch up again. Thank you very much,
33:09
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you down the line. But enjoy
33:11
Speaker 1: the season.
33:12
Speaker 5: This is gonna be fun, definitely, you guys enjoy enjoyed today.
33:17
Speaker 1: Also, all right, Mike Cameron joining us right here on
33:20
Speaker 1: the radio program part of our opening day coverage, Chuck
33:24
Speaker 1: and Buck live here from Jimmy's on first You know
33:27
Speaker 1: where we station ourselves on opening Day and when we
33:31
Speaker 1: come back on the other side there some of you
33:33
Speaker 1: aren't going to be able to make it, and we
33:35
Speaker 1: know that to the game here tonight. You want to
33:37
Speaker 1: watch it on television, and yet there's a lot of
33:40
Speaker 1: confusion as to how that's going to happen. I think
33:43
Speaker 1: we can clear it up for you, so we'll do
33:45
Speaker 1: that next Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A
33:47
Speaker 1: r F M. Hey, Happy Opening Day, Do everyone Chuck Powellen,
33:56
Speaker 1: former Mariner Bucky Jacob said live from Jimmy's on First
33:59
Speaker 1: right across the stret from the ballpark where tonight seven
34:01
Speaker 1: ten first pitch Mariners start their twenty twenty six season
34:05
Speaker 1: against the Cleveland Guardians. The streets are dark and cold
34:09
Speaker 1: and empty right now, but this place is gonna be
34:11
Speaker 1: a live wire about twelve hour now.
34:14
Speaker 2: Sun is coming up, though, doesn't it look like more
34:17
Speaker 2: of a championship and a sunrise.
34:20
Speaker 3: A little bit?
34:20
Speaker 1: Championship dawn. It is the name of my band, Champion
34:23
Speaker 1: back Colic, great.
34:25
Speaker 3: Name band, Championship Down. I love it.
34:29
Speaker 1: Good morning to you all, and yes, we got a
34:32
Speaker 1: lot to do today. We got headlines coming up at
34:35
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. We also have two green
34:38
Speaker 1: jacket drafts. Jerry Depoto is gonna join us, pet Woodworth's
34:40
Speaker 1: gonna join us. So yeah, we got you covered here
34:43
Speaker 1: on opening day. Also, we do have our loser song
34:49
Speaker 1: for the games that the Mariners lose for Mariners morning
34:51
Speaker 1: after they're up as well. We're gonna have to have
34:54
Speaker 1: you vote on that as well, so check that out.
34:56
Speaker 1: We got it up on X so give us the
35:00
Speaker 1: feedback like you gave us for the winning song overnight,
35:04
Speaker 1: and we've chosen that for the upcoming season. Now let's
35:07
Speaker 1: get to something that a lot of people want to
35:09
Speaker 1: know about today. Some information here They where do I
35:15
Speaker 1: watch the Mariners on television?
35:16
Speaker 3: You know?
35:17
Speaker 1: And it was turning into quite the scene last night
35:21
Speaker 1: on social media all day yesterday. I'll just tell you
35:24
Speaker 1: this that a lot of these negotiations, just like you know,
35:28
Speaker 1: the WNBA and their CBA agreement and Major League Baseball
35:32
Speaker 1: and their CBA agreement negotiations or negotiations. So from what
35:36
Speaker 1: I gather the negotiations, this happens kind of every year.
35:40
Speaker 1: It goes right down to the wire before they figure
35:44
Speaker 1: out the deal for the upcoming season. And that's what
35:47
Speaker 1: happened in this case as well. The only difference is that,
35:50
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have Root Sports, that familiar thing
35:53
Speaker 1: to fall back on. Root Sports is not there anymore.
35:56
Speaker 1: And so this negotiation was with we're going to have
36:00
Speaker 1: to create a new channel to watch Mariners games on,
36:04
Speaker 1: and until the negotiation was done, they couldn't figure out
36:07
Speaker 1: which channel that was going to be on. And so
36:10
Speaker 1: they did name the channel yesterday twelve sixty one. So
36:14
Speaker 1: if you had Comcast and you watched baseball last year,
36:18
Speaker 1: Mariners baseball on Root Sports, you can watch it again
36:22
Speaker 1: without having to get the streaming service. I'm in that
36:25
Speaker 1: group as well, like I could watch Mariners en route
36:28
Speaker 1: because I still have cable, and so this year they
36:33
Speaker 1: are they're going to be on a different channel. But
36:36
Speaker 1: they couldn't activate the new channel because I immediately went
36:41
Speaker 1: to find out if I had twelve sixty one and
36:43
Speaker 1: it wasn't on my TV, and a lot of people
36:48
Speaker 1: were saying that yesterday it doesn't even exist. The channel
36:50
Speaker 1: doesn't even exist. Well, they had to create one, and
36:54
Speaker 1: I think the Mariners were sitting there waiting yesterday to
36:57
Speaker 1: find out when it was actually going to be installed. Well,
37:01
Speaker 1: it wasn't. When I went to bed last night, there
37:04
Speaker 1: still wasn't a twelve sixty one. I woke up this morning.
37:07
Speaker 1: First thing I did check out my television. There's a
37:09
Speaker 1: twelve sixty one. So it's there. For Comcast people, it
37:14
Speaker 1: is there, and so you'll be able to watch Mariners
37:18
Speaker 1: games when they're not preempted by national telecasts on twelve
37:22
Speaker 1: sixty one this year, just like you were able to
37:24
Speaker 1: watch on Root Sports a year ago. Part of Mariners TV. Now,
37:28
Speaker 1: if you're not a Comcast person, they are directing everyone
37:33
Speaker 1: to Mariners dot com slash watch. All right, Mariners dot
37:38
Speaker 1: com slash watch, and there you should have the information
37:43
Speaker 1: that suits you and your how you take take in
37:48
Speaker 1: television these days. So all the streaming information, Fubo information,
37:53
Speaker 1: all of that supposedly is at mariners dot com slash watch.
37:58
Speaker 1: And also it should be worth pointing out that there
38:01
Speaker 1: are national games. They're going to be more this year
38:04
Speaker 1: because the Mariners are more of a team of interest
38:07
Speaker 1: nationally now and so for example, Friday's going to be
38:10
Speaker 1: on Apple TV and Sunday's going to be on Peacock.
38:13
Speaker 1: For me and a lot of you, that's going to
38:14
Speaker 1: be a very frustrating thing to have to deal with
38:17
Speaker 1: this year because I'm not gonna buy all the streaming apps.
38:19
Speaker 1: I won't do it, and maybe there are a lot
38:21
Speaker 1: of people to feel that same way. But that as
38:25
Speaker 1: the best that I can update it in the short
38:27
Speaker 1: amount of time I've been given, and hopefully that was
38:30
Speaker 1: very clear to everyone. Yeah, well, that nails it.
38:32
Speaker 2: I mean, I think most people probably fall under the
38:35
Speaker 2: category of having cable and it basically just not being
38:38
Speaker 2: on six eighty seven like it was where Root Sports was,
38:41
Speaker 2: but now on twelve sixty one. And if not, then
38:44
Speaker 2: you were going to be searching for it some way, somehow.
38:47
Speaker 2: But yeah, go to that. We'll just say Mariners Watch,
38:49
Speaker 2: slash Watch.
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Speaker 1: Mariners dot Com slash.
38:53
Speaker 3: Watch, Yeah, and that'll basically show it.
38:54
Speaker 2: I mean, it gets into all kinds of different devices
38:58
Speaker 2: or different places where if you're in the in the network,
39:02
Speaker 2: if you're in the region right Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, whatever,
39:06
Speaker 2: it kind of will break down where you can watch it,
39:09
Speaker 2: where you can find it in your area.
39:11
Speaker 3: So they're figuring it out.
39:13
Speaker 2: It came down to the wire there, but it's just
39:16
Speaker 2: I suppose the cable networks, like you were talking about,
39:18
Speaker 2: they have to just wait until the last second to
39:20
Speaker 2: be able to light that channel up and make it go.
39:22
Speaker 1: All right. So it is up as of this morning,
39:24
Speaker 1: and I'm assuming it's up good for the entire year.
39:28
Speaker 1: And of course there's a ninety nine dollars option for
39:30
Speaker 1: the entire season. If you just want to stream Mariners
39:33
Speaker 1: Baseball on Mariners TV all season long, you can do
39:36
Speaker 1: that as well. So there are a lot of options here.
39:39
Speaker 1: But I do understand because it was confusing for me yesterday,
39:42
Speaker 1: So I do everybody, even the Mariners, understand that it's
39:46
Speaker 1: confusing for Mariners fans out there. But they do believe
39:50
Speaker 1: that they've got everything in order for the start of
39:52
Speaker 1: the season. Hopefully they do. I'm not sure. I think
39:55
Speaker 1: even they're a little worried about a couple of snags.
39:58
Speaker 1: But Mariners dot Com, slash watch and if you still
40:02
Speaker 1: and if you watch the Mariners on Root Sports on
40:04
Speaker 1: Comcast a year ago, like I did, it's still available
40:08
Speaker 1: to you for free on your Comcast subscription. But there's
40:13
Speaker 1: a new channel. It's twelve sixty one. It was not
40:16
Speaker 1: active yesterday, but it is active as of this morning.
40:19
Speaker 1: Of course, we still haven't had a game on yet,
40:21
Speaker 1: so we won't know until we get there I guess tonight.
40:25
Speaker 1: But they believe they've got it covered and now it's
40:28
Speaker 1: just a matter of getting the information out to all
40:30
Speaker 1: of those people that want to watch Mariners baseball that
40:33
Speaker 1: can't make it to the game tonight. Yep, whoo, that's
40:36
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40:39
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