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Best of Chuck & Buck 7-10 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, is anybody out there?
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  Speaker 7: Where the action never stopped. Are you writing this down something?
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  Speaker 7: This is Chuck and Buck.
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  Speaker 2: In the mornings?
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  Speaker 3: Why you people are beyond Let's go. Let's get the
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  Speaker 3: game off.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, good morning to you. Welcome in.
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  Speaker 3: It is a Friday. Hey, hey, it's Friday. Everybody, Ashley,
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: It's Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It's real exciting about that? Is that that yesterday was Friday?
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  Speaker 8: Oh like yesterday afternoon it felt like a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Wednesday felt like a Thursday to me.
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  Speaker 8: So I was like, oh, really, in my backyard last
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  Speaker 8: night having a glass of.
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  Speaker 3: Pino gregio, and you were actively thinking that you didn't
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  Speaker 3: have to go to.
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  Speaker 8: Work, just like I don't think it was active, it
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  Speaker 8: was just a subconscious thing. And then I was like,
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  Speaker 8: you had to keep yourself Thursday, and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 8: it's Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Why did it feel like Friday?
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  Speaker 9: Wow?
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  Speaker 8: I think it was because I didn't have an app
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  Speaker 8: yesterday and I usually only don't have a nap on Fridays.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so it was like just a long day.
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  Speaker 8: I was like, and then I'm sitting out having a
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  Speaker 8: lovely glass of Pino Gregio in the sunshine.
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  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 1: So I thought, yeah, this is what I do on
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  Speaker 1: a Friday night. This makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, And yes, you had to keep reminding yourself like
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  Speaker 3: it was a downer, like it repeated down.
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  Speaker 8: It was a little bit okay, But then I thought,
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  Speaker 8: you know what, I get to come into work and
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  Speaker 8: your smile today.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we get to do sports talk radio for
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  Speaker 3: badness sake one more time this week before we hit
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  Speaker 3: the weekend. So it's great to have everybody in here today.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully you didn't forget that you had one more day
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  Speaker 3: of work because you might be late, yes at this stage.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, it is a Friday. Happy Friday to everyone
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  Speaker 3: out there. I also had a crap nap yesterday, though,
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  Speaker 3: oh not a crap nap. I had a crap nap yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know what's going on. I mean, maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's because kids are out of school and maybe they're
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  Speaker 3: visiting parents or grandparents or something like that. But suddenly
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  Speaker 3: the afternoons, where I usually sleep in peace and quiet
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  Speaker 3: because everybody's gone from their homes, are filled with chatter
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  Speaker 3: and children. And I kind of liked the sound of
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  Speaker 3: children playing. I think it's yeah, I think I kind
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  Speaker 3: of liked that. But not when you're trying to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: All you want to do is tell those brats to
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  Speaker 3: get the hell out of town and never come back.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Palmer has to be silent. Palmer the Great cannot
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  Speaker 8: talk when I'm on when I'm taking a nap. You
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  Speaker 8: know what you need to get? White white noise, white noise.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, blocks it all out and you can sleep like
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  Speaker 1: a baby.
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  Speaker 3: Well I suppose, I suppose. But then you got to
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  Speaker 3: close the windows. And I don't like closing the windows
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  Speaker 3: because I like a breeze.
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  Speaker 8: Oh see, if you have the windows up and then
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  Speaker 8: there's no home, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't want to close the windows and not
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  Speaker 3: have the breeze. That's the best part about the nap.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I am the founder of Breeze club.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: Let's not forget that I have not. Yeah, all right, well,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a lot to discuss here on today's program.
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  Speaker 3: We got you for the next four hours, will take
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  Speaker 3: you all the way through ten o'clock, and we are
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  Speaker 3: going to certainly talk about this baseball team that has
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  Speaker 3: aggravated us again for the first half of another baseball season.
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  Speaker 3: Today at forty seven and forty seven, so we're ninety
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  Speaker 3: four games into this thing and the height of mediocrity,
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  Speaker 3: and just when you think they're gonna go get going,
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  Speaker 3: then they go out out and play I'm not I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure. I think it's prisoner of the moment to
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  Speaker 3: say that was our worst series.
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  Speaker 7: Of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Probably was not.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't great.
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  Speaker 3: It was not it wasn't good, wasn't even average, swept
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  Speaker 3: by the Miami Marlins, fall out of first place. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: And now you're sitting here looking at the All Star Break,
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  Speaker 3: trying to get through the next three days. And that's
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  Speaker 3: the weird thing about baseball, though. I think they did
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  Speaker 3: this just a year ago where they played one of
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  Speaker 3: their worst series and we were sure they were going
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  Speaker 3: to cripple into the into the All Star Break and
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  Speaker 3: then I think that they like swept the last series.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to look that up, but I think
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  Speaker 3: I heard that, Okay, swept the last series and then
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  Speaker 3: actually did carry momentum. Look like all of our momentum
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  Speaker 3: was stripped from us, So maybe we can do that
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  Speaker 3: against Tampa in Tampa. And there by the way, there's
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  Speaker 3: no consistency to it. So if your reaction to that
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  Speaker 3: statement is, oh, no, not that way, they played well,
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: they they turn on a dime constantly. They go from
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I don't think they could play worse
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  Speaker 3: to the very next day they play their best. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then just when you think that they're going then
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  Speaker 3: they act like that's the first time they've ever been
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  Speaker 3: on a field together, which kind of is the way
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  Speaker 3: I felt yesterday. I mean, that was just a sloppy
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  Speaker 3: ass performance on top of everything else that they struggled with,
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  Speaker 3: from Bryce Miller struggling to zero for seven with runners
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  Speaker 3: in scoring position, and then on top of it all,
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  Speaker 3: just sloppy defense again from this baseball team. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: as bad as it is, there's no evidence that suggests
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  Speaker 3: that this team won't play well tonight in Tampa and
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  Speaker 3: won't play well this weekend, because that's the way they
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  Speaker 3: behave in the first half of every baseball season.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you can't take what happened in one game and
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  Speaker 8: think it's going to be the same or like there's
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  Speaker 8: just no rhyme or reason to what you're seeing from
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  Speaker 8: one day to the next. I was thinking about just
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  Speaker 8: this Miami series, and you think about the first game
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  Speaker 8: and how we so we were proud of the offense
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  Speaker 8: for having the fight to come back and take the lead,
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  Speaker 8: and oh, that was such a positive thing. And then
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  Speaker 8: you go into the game two days ago and there's
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  Speaker 8: no offense and the defense were commending the defense on
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  Speaker 8: two excellent plays. And then you go into the third
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  Speaker 8: game and the offense is mediocre and the defense is
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  Speaker 8: pooping their pants. So literally, within one series, it couldn't
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  Speaker 8: have been more.
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  Speaker 3: You figured out ways to lose. Yeah, I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: invented way a different way to lose every game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and yesterday was all bad at all three things.
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  Speaker 8: So at least thank you for not keep for not
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  Speaker 8: letting it be boring and losing the same way every time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, yes, you did score four runs yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: but zero for seven with the runners in scoring position
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  Speaker 3: pitching was bad yep, and the defense was terrible yep.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean it did. It was a crap game,
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  Speaker 3: and it was a crap series, and we have a
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  Speaker 3: crap record considering what our expectations were head into this year.
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  Speaker 3: And yet it's the same thing every year, and there's
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  Speaker 3: no reason that they can't in the second half. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I still have the same expectations. Huh, I do. So
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  Speaker 3: I know that everybody. I was thinking about this on
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  Speaker 3: the drive in. I'm like, all right, I'm gonna put
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: crack voice chuck to the side. You know when my
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  Speaker 3: voice cracks. Yeah, not that I sound like I'm on crack. Well, no,
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  Speaker 3: not usually, but I'm not. I'm he's not gonna show
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  Speaker 3: up today. We're gonna do. We're gonna do very practical, reasonable,
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  Speaker 3: but let's diagnose the issues and let's let's come.
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  Speaker 9: To a a really good feeling of exactly what has
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  Speaker 9: happened through ninety four games and where we sit and
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  Speaker 9: how we're going to get back to what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Uh So I'm gonna I'm gonna shock everyone because I
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  Speaker 3: know everybody's gonna be frustrated. So here's how I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to start Today's Mariners Reasonable Mariners conversation. Okay, ready, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: everybody braced, Everybody sat down, stretch. Yeah, you may not
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  Speaker 3: be wanting to hold the baby right now because you
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  Speaker 3: might drop whatever is in your arms. You might want
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  Speaker 3: to may even want to pull over to the side
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  Speaker 3: of the road. I'm not sure that you can drive
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  Speaker 3: and listen to this at the exact same time.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good thing. I'm sitting down here.
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  Speaker 3: Tell tell your wife, Hey, we can't talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: financial issues right now because I'm going to be half
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  Speaker 3: focused on what Chuck's saying.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to give you my full attention.
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  Speaker 8: But also, if your wife wants to talk to you
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  Speaker 8: about finances at six am, you might need to have
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  Speaker 8: a different talk.
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  Speaker 3: So here you go. Since everybody has been prepared, and
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  Speaker 3: I warned you, the Seattle Mariners are going to win
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  Speaker 3: the World Series. How about that for a Friday What
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  Speaker 3: about that for a Friday statement? Okay, there you go,
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  Speaker 3: There you go. I wish everybody's sitting there angry and
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  Speaker 3: pissed off and everything else. Yet Mariners are going to
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  Speaker 3: win the World Series this year.
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  Speaker 1: I wish that could have that confidence. I know you
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  Speaker 1: don't I'd be like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, you don't.
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  Speaker 3: I just had a text and back and forth with
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  Speaker 3: a buddy last night and he couldn't be more. I
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  Speaker 3: told him we're gonna we're gonna win the World Series,
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  Speaker 3: and he couldn't have disagreed more.
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  Speaker 1: I don't disagree.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like it right now.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying it today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm marking this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Like I said, I'm used to this, this garbage.
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  Speaker 3: Every first half of every season they do the exact
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  Speaker 3: same thing, and every season in the Depoto era, they
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: pick it up in the second half. And this year
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  Speaker 3: in particular, if you pick it up in the second half,
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: then you're gonna breeze to a division title because there's
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: not great competition. It's not even really good competition this
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: year in the American League West, I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those other teams in the American League are going
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: to get better in the second half.
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: Everybody's that's killing the American League.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Blue Jays are going to get better
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: in the second half, and I think the Tigers are
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: on a roll. In the Red Sox are starting to
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: play like we thought they were going to play at
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  Speaker 3: the beginning of the year. I think some things are
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: going to course correct in the second half of the
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: season in the American League and it's not going to look.
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  Speaker 2: All that bad in the AL.
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  Speaker 3: But in the American League West, the Astros are certainly
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  Speaker 3: not as good as what they were a year ago,
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  Speaker 3: and certainly not what they were as good as they
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  Speaker 3: were two years ago. And the Rangers aren't that good,
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  Speaker 3: and the A's are obviously showing we're not quite ready
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  Speaker 3: to challenge. So I mean, this is the year. If
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: you do what you typically do, you're going to pull
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  Speaker 3: away from the American League West certainly. And all it
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: takes is to get into the playoffs. We talk about
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: this all the time. You just got to get into
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: the dance. I mean, nobody fricking remembers that the Minnesota
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: Twins when they won the nineteen eighty seven World Series
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: had barely a five hundred record. I mean, Twins fans
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: don't sit there at the when they gather together. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, we won in eighty five, and we won
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  Speaker 3: an eighty seven. Yeah, but you know, we can't really
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: count eighty seven. We weren't that good. Yeah, yeah, nobody
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  Speaker 3: does that. No, all you got to do is get
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: into the dance. Starting pitching is the real deal. I
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: mapped it out earlier this week. This bullpen might end
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  Speaker 3: up being one of the best bullpens ever assembled in
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  Speaker 3: postseason history. Once you consider two of these starting pitchers
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: are going to go to the pen. Kate Anderson's going
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: to be a part of the roster. Ryan Sloan could
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: possibly be part of the roster. They're probably going to
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: add a piece of the trading deadline. Matt Brash is
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: going to be back at some point. I mean you
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  Speaker 3: start putting that together like okay, and then this lineup,
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  Speaker 3: which couldn't have performed worse. I mean, Cal couldn't be worse.
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  Speaker 3: Julio once again a bad first half, and I think
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: he ended up having a bad first half again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: JP's bad. Brendan Donovan's out. I don't know when he's
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: going to be back. But we also a deadline move
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  Speaker 3: coming up. This thing could fill up. This lineup could
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  Speaker 3: fill out pretty nicely when it really does matter. So
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  Speaker 3: nothing's been lost. The team couldn't have played worse through
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: ninety four games, and yet they're a half game out.
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  Speaker 3: Of first place. So yeah, none of my expectations for
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  Speaker 3: this team have changed. And I wasn't predicting a World
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: championship at the beginning of the year. I had to
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: say something to get your attention. But I was predicting
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: an American League championship at the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 3: and I just don't really see the goliath in this
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  Speaker 3: league that would make me change my mind. I still
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: think we have the best roster in the American League,
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: and I think it's going to be added to before
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: the trading deadline. And I think we've got guys like
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: Emerson Hancock and Cole Young and dom Canzone who are
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: better than what I realized when the season began. So yeah, yeah,
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: let's win the World Series. There you go, there's an opener.
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: There's an eye opener on your I hate this team, Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I still think they're going to.
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  Speaker 3: Go to the World Series, and once you get there,
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers and there pitching they can't match up to
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: that pitching that I just mapped out for you. Yeah,
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: they got thirty eight people that are injured and they'll
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: have ten more by the time they get to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the way they do it. That's the way
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers do it with their arms.
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  Speaker 3: So nothing's going to change about my And it's not
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  Speaker 3: even optimism, it's my analysis of this roster. And I
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  Speaker 3: do believe that it has been mismanaged this season so far.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: I do believe that they have grossly underachieved. And I'd
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: like to start pointing some fingers here today. I already have,
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: but I like to bring that to a head here
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  Speaker 3: today as well. But I'm just used to these garbage
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  Speaker 3: first half from this team that is currently constructed, and
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: I'm just expecting now that they're going to have a
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  Speaker 3: good summer, maybe not a great one, but a good
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  Speaker 3: summer and then a great fall. That's how I feel
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna make. It's it's all gonna play out. And
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  Speaker 3: I know they don't look like it right now, and
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  Speaker 3: I know that they look lost, and I know we
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: got to make our little league jokes on Twitter and
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  Speaker 3: everything else, But this is the same team that nearly
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: went to the World Series a year ago. And there's
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: no way that about five of your best players could
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  Speaker 3: play as poorly as they did in the first half
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  Speaker 3: this season.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I sure hope, I sure hope.
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  Speaker 3: Not.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, here's the thing is, I've talked about how
• 14:44
  Speaker 8: I feel like maybe this is the most frustrated I've
• 14:47
  Speaker 8: been with this team.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: It's not. Yeah, that's what we were saying.
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  Speaker 2: We were far more frustrated last year.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's it. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's just because in the moment, every year
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  Speaker 8: this happens and I think this has to be the
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: most frustrated I've ever and then they make me forget
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: about it. It's like when you go through a trauma,
• 15:05
  Speaker 8: your body doesn't let you remember the pain that you
• 15:07
  Speaker 8: were in right, and you block it out and you
• 15:10
  Speaker 8: think you're fine. Or when you have when you have
• 15:12
  Speaker 8: a baby, you think you don't remember how much how
• 15:16
  Speaker 8: horrible the labor experience was, and your body doesn't let
• 15:19
  Speaker 8: you remember, so then you think, oh, I should have
• 15:21
  Speaker 8: another baby. I never thought that, but some people do,
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  Speaker 8: and you just you go through the whole thing again.
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  Speaker 8: And I think I do that with the Mariners every year.
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  Speaker 8: I give the most optimistic when it comes when we're
• 15:31
  Speaker 8: heading into the season, like here we go, I'm so excited,
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: and then I'm so frustrated. By the end of June yeah,
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  Speaker 8: and then I'm then I just stress out for about
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: two months and then you know, because the Mariners take
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: you on the same ride every year, But somehow I
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: don't allow myself to remember what the year before was like.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Far more despondent, and this might be the least despondent
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  Speaker 3: we've been in six years. I'm here to remind you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, because there's no deficit to overcome like in
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: the past. They'd played poorly and underachieved and had a
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: bad record, and we're five games under five hundred and
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: eight games out of first place, in six games.
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  Speaker 2: Out of the wild card.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, that's that's been our last five Junes or July yea,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: heading into julys That's that's been the state of Mariner baseball. So,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's funny to me how angry people are
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: that the American League is down? Yeah, why why would
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: you be angry about that? Like, there's nothing to overcome.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: So they have played as poorly as you can and
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: haven't really dug a hole for themselves. They haven't dug
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: a hole. There's no hole to dig out of. They're
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: a half game back at the Texas Rangers. There's no
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: hole to dig out of, despite atrocious baseball at times
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: in the first half of the season.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: But I wonder if that's why the frust Maybe it's
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: a different frustration because it does feel like, oh, we
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: have a prime opportunity to be running away with this thing.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, that's one way to look at it. But
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: you could also say we couldn't play worse and we
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: don't have a dold.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: To dig out, right, and that would be a more
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: positive way to look at it.
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: But I'm wondering if the other way is why people
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: are mad, like, oh, the American League is so bad,
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: this is our chance to just be crushing it and
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: we're not taking advantage of it. And that isn't added frustration,
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: I will say, because I don't know that the last
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: time in the first half of the season we've been
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: in this situation because as you said, yeah, usually we've got.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: A hold of dig out of.
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: So now here we are saying, yeah, we couldn't be
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: playing worse and we're at five hundred. Those are all
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: positive things, no hold to dig out of. But man,
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: if we could have just played a little better.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And this is not me saying you're wrong about
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: what you're watching, I'm as frustrated as.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Any of you.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, But I mean because when you do as a
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: my job is to have an opinion about sports, and
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: you want to be right. And then you say this
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: team's going to be good. You tell the audience. I've
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: got this platform, I've got this stage, I've got this microphone,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I'm on YouTube, and I'm throwing it out there. I'm
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: telling you you can count on this team being good
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: this year and then every year. I mean, in the
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: last five years, I've had two different occasions where I
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: gave up on the team. Yeah you know this, Yeah,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I remember, and then all of a sudden, the very
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: next day they turn it around and won like eleven
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: in a row.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's what you mean, and maybe.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Maybe, But the point is that every year for the
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: last five years, there's been a point where it's looked
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: over in June and July. Yeah, and yet and I
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: know they didn't overcome it every single year in that stretch,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: but they stayed in the race till the last week
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: of the regular season every single year. And this is
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: their best team on paper that they've assembled. Yet, now
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: do they have a manager maximizing that talent absolutely not,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: and that's part of the finger pointing we're going to
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: do later on in the show. But I don't don't
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: have time to get into it now. But certainly that's
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: something that has to be assessed now and throughout the
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: All Star break. Okay, I mean that's that's job one.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Why are we underachieving this year? What's standing in our way?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: What is the reason? And certainly the manager has to
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: be scrutinized. I'm not saying he's got to go, but
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: he's got to be scrutinized. Just like Rob Thompson, who
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: had nothing but success in Philadelphia, got scrutinized this year
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: because he was underachieving with a roster the general manager
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: thought should challenge for a World Series, so they popped
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: his ass. And then the next thing, you know, new manager,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: new voice, they took off, and now they're one of
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: the best teams in the National League, just like they were.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Supposed to be.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that can happen.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, it absolutely can happen, and it has to be considered. Yeah,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: has to be considered. But we'll get into that later
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: on in the show. Let's find out what's on tap
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: for the rest of the program.
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• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Marlin's eight Mariners for a sweep for Miami and the
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Mariners fall out of first place again at forty seven
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: and forty seven, and now they face a good team.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: They'll be in Tampa starting tonight at four to ten.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Luis Castillo will pitch for US. Right hander Nick Martinez
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: will pitch for the Tampa. I love that I don't
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: even have to give like stats or anything else. All
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I have to do in a pitching matchup is say
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: whether he's right handed or left hand?
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: And if it's right hand, it's like.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Oh good, yep, oh we've got a chance.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: The All Star Break, of course, will follow the Tampa series,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: and there's all sorts of activities planned. Ryan Dempster is
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: going to join us today from MLB Network to talk
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: about some of these activities at nine o'clock. We got
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: the draft tomorrow starts at ten o'clock on Sunday. You've
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: got the Futures game. It's going to feature Kate Anderson
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: and Ryan Sloan. You got the home run Derby on Monday,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: which is on Netflix this year, by the way, weird, Yes, exactly,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: very weird. So just prepare yourself. It's not going to
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: be on normal television, so you better have that service.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Otherwise you got to head to the bar. That's what
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do. And then the game will be on Tuesday.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: The World Cup.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: France won over Morocco to nil yesterday. Brad Evans will
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: join us for a second time this week. We have
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: to talk to him. We haven't talked about the US
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: being eliminated, and certainly now that we're down to what
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: seven teams left in the world that might win the
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: World Cup, we got to get his thoughts on that front.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Spain Belgium today at noon and then tomorrow you'll have
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: your doubleheader.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Do they call it a double.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Header and soccer probably not sure they should.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Norway, England, Argentina Switzerland will play on Saturday. Wimbledon finals
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: will be on Saturday and Sunday. The women's side, which
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: is set will be Saturday at eight am, the men's
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: side Sunday at eight am the storm fell to the
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Dream eighty nine to seventy eight. Yesterday, the Kawhi Leonard
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: trade to Toronto has been put on hold, and for
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: very good reasons. That's an interesting enough topic that we're
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: going to discuss that later on in the show. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: it looks like the Seahawks ownership bidding is down to two.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I guess this is a big story, but we'll save that.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: It's coming up. We'll talk about a little bit. I
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: know it's a big story. It's a big story, but
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: how do we assess whether or not an owner is
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: going to be good? So we'll talk about that a
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: little later on in the show. But coming up next
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Mariners Morning after, we'll get into all those grimy details
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: of yesterday's eight four loss to the Miami Marlins right
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Get
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: crosses in end, it's the way by Bosrally odio heads
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: it back in to able to.
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: Find a poppe through traffic, twenty come top goals Gibbs
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: trying to lead to the quarterfinal.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: That's been beautiful.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Did you sayan beautiful?
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Soccer's just in bananas, she really is, especially in this stage. Yeah,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: no question about it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Good morning to you.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: It is Chuck and Ashley with you as we roll
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: into our number two coming up here in about five minutes,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: and Brad Evans we'll be joining us on the show
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: to talk about France advancing, but also about the matches
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: coming up over the course of the next couple of days.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: And of course we haven't chatted with Brad about Team
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: USA being eliminated. Last time we at him on we
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: were previewing USA Belgium with him that very day.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we really were. We thought we were going to
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: beat in Belgium, yep, but it didn't turn out that way.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: They invested us.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: So let's get to your headlines before we bring in
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Brad Aboard here on Chuck and Buck on the morning.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: We will start with the World Cup. Why not. France
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: won over Morocco two to nothing. Highlight there provided by Fox.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: It was a scoreless game between Morocco and France for
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: quite some time, but killing and Bape scores a goal
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: breaks the scoreless tie and then it kind of felt
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: like France just toyed with him from that point forward.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: So they're the first team to advance to the final four.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: And then today you've got Belgium and Spain at noon, Norway, England, Argentina, Switzerland.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: They will play on Saturday. Wimbledon finals will be elt
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday. The women will play tomorrow at eight am.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: The men will play tomorrow at eight am our TI.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: The Seahawks bid is down to two ownership groups or
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: at least two front runners, which we will discuss a
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: little bit later on in this hour. And the Mariners
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: lost to the Miami Marlins eight to four yesterday in Miami,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: swept by the Marlins.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Swept.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, I did warn you that's an improved Marlins team,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: but you don't expect to get swept in that situation.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: And yesterday, bad pitching, bad hitting with runners in scoring
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: position again and bad defense leads to the eight to
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: four loss. And so how do you get better? You
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: got to dust yourself off and play an even better
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: team starting tonight. The Tampa Bay Race have the best
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: record in the American League right now by four full games.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Nick Martinez will start for them. Luis Castillo will start
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: for US. First pitch is at four to ten today
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: and then as soon as this series is over, we
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: just slide right in to the All Star Break. Part
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: of the All Star Week now is the MLB Draft,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: which will get started tomorrow at ten am. The Mariners
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: have the twenty fourth pick overall in the draft. The
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Futures Game's going to be held on Sunday. That will
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: feature Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan, so that might be
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: worth a look if you're a Mariners fan. Home Run
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Derby's going to be on Monday, and believe it or not,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: it's going to be on Netflix, not on normal cable television.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: It's going to be on Netflix. So if you don't
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: have that streaming service, you know, might have to head
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: somewhere to watch it. And then the game will of
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: course be played on Tuesday. So there you go. Those
• 26:34
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• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I did cors Lights while I watched the US lose
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: to Belgium.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was the bummer. You chose chill Us
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: also chilled?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, they put us on ice all right, joining
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: us And now on the program former sounder, a sounder
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: legend really, and he is really taken hold of this
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: broadcasting thing because he's been spectacular for US and our
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: World Cup coverage throughout the last few weeks here at
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: iHeart and on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: And it turns out we can bug him twice in
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: one week and he doesn't even get angry with us.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Brad Evans joins us here on Chuck and Buck in
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: the morning.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: Good morning, Brad, Oh, good morning guys.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Doing all right? You sound sad?
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sad. You're still sad?
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: Actually, oh yeah, I'm sad. I actually just want my
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: money back. What do you mean the game on Monday.
• 27:34
  Speaker 11: I paid for those tickets and I left the game
• 27:38
  Speaker 11: and I want my money back.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, welcome to what it feels like to be a fan, Brad.
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: You know what's funny in I think it was twenty
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: twenty eleven or twenty twelve, we played the La Galax
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: here at home and we got smashed for nothing, and
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: all of our season ticket holders, all the fans I think,
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: send emails to Adrian and their ticket reps and said,
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: we want our money back for that game. And they
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: did it, And as a player, I couldn't understand because
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: it didn't feel like we didn't try in the game,
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: things just on the day didn't work out, and I
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: really didn't understand it. And this is my first time
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: paying paying for a ticket to a soccer game, especially.
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: That amount of money.
• 28:22
  Speaker 11: I could have bought season tickets for the next two
• 28:24
  Speaker 11: years for the Sounders. And I left thinking the same
• 28:28
  Speaker 11: exact thing, I want my money back, and I get it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: I get it.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I laugh to keep from crying, because, Yeah, that
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: was a that was a rough go and certainly unexpected
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: is the word I'm going to use. I mean, I
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: think that you were warning us man Belgium's really good
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: earlier this week and that this was not going to
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: be an easy match. But for them to have dominated
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: really from the beginning, certainly at the beginning and then
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: all all the way through the match, how surprising and
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: disappointing was that for you?
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: Yeah, really surprising and disappointing. The atmosphere. I went down
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: with Jamie before the game and we left an hour.
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: We did our you know, the typical park line scooter
• 29:15
  Speaker 11: get into the whole crowd situation. I had never been
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: a part of anything like that where all of you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 11: Occidental Square Pint whatever.
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: It was, was all shut down and people were just everywhere.
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: It was a zoo and it was the most electric
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: atmosphere I've ever been around. You know, you go an
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: hour and a half before the game, everyone's hyped up.
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: I did not see really one Belgium jersey in a
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: sea of red, white and blue. We had a great
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: time getting into the stadium, seeing friends of old former
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: teammates with the national team randomly in the stadium. Everyone's
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: hopes were super high. And then you get the fly
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: over with the four Jets and just was pumped, and
• 29:56
  Speaker 11: then the whistle blue and it's like something completely chick
• 30:00
  Speaker 11: and we are all still trying to figure this thing
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: out of what happened all of my friends, former colleagues, players,
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: no one has an answer, and I don't think we've
• 30:11
  Speaker 11: heard an answer in the press either from coach, from
• 30:15
  Speaker 11: the players as well. What really would happened? Was it
• 30:18
  Speaker 11: tactically just completely unprepared. I think the biggest disappointment for
• 30:24
  Speaker 11: me was this is a World Cup. I didn't see
• 30:26
  Speaker 11: anyone after the game falling to the ground because they
• 30:30
  Speaker 11: were so tired that they put so much effort into
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: the game. It looked like both teams. Neither team really
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: broke a sweat in the game.
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: To be honest, it felt very routine.
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: It was a walk in the park for Belgium, and disappointment,
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: I think is just the underlying theme here.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: So if we don't have the answers and nobody's speaking
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: to the actual answers of why that would have occurred,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: what is your best guest in terms of why there
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: was a lack of energy, why that Belgium seemed to
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: be a step ahead at all times? I mean, are
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: you willing this morning to lay it at the feet
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: of anyone in particular or any group in particular.
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: No, No, I think the opponent that we faced was
• 31:16
  Speaker 11: also We talked about it, you know this week already
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: before the game, was we're facing a Belgium team that
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: is a top ten team in the world, has been
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: for the last ten plus years, and a legit top
• 31:29
  Speaker 11: ten team in the world.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: That the way the FIFA.
• 31:31
  Speaker 11: Rankings work, you play better teams, you get results, you
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: get higher rankings. Well, when you play in CONCACAF, most
• 31:38
  Speaker 11: of the teams except for Mexico Canada are ranked lower
• 31:41
  Speaker 11: than you, so you pick up points along the road
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: and your ranking goes up. The US hasn't really beaten
• 31:47
  Speaker 11: a really solid.
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: Team in a long time, and I.
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: Think there's a little false when you look at the
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: FIFA rankings. There's a false narrative there that the US
• 31:58
  Speaker 11: is ranked as high as they are. And they beat
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: teams that they were supposed to be in the group
• 32:03
  Speaker 11: stage and obviously Bosnian as well, and then.
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: They face the team that is just a class above.
• 32:08
  Speaker 11: I mean, you look at it in every sport, you know,
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: there's teams that are just a cut above and top
• 32:14
  Speaker 11: to bottom, goalkeeper to striker, all the way through. And
• 32:16
  Speaker 11: that's what the US face. And they got another dose
• 32:19
  Speaker 11: of reality, and us as Americans got another dose of
• 32:22
  Speaker 11: reality and where we stand. So there's a lot of
• 32:25
  Speaker 11: work to do. And this isn't just about that team.
• 32:28
  Speaker 11: It starts with youth soccer and all the way up.
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: And I think it is a good.
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: Thing because everything I'm reading online is how this whole
• 32:36
  Speaker 11: system needs to be changed. Well can it be changed,
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: I don't know, but it at least starts the conversation
• 32:41
  Speaker 11: again of how can we get more players to play
• 32:45
  Speaker 11: at that level.
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: To be at that.
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: Level, I don't think there's a real clear cut answer
• 32:50
  Speaker 11: to pay to play model. We could talk for hours
• 32:52
  Speaker 11: and hours about it, how expensive youth soccer is from
• 32:55
  Speaker 11: a young age, but we just face a team that
• 32:58
  Speaker 11: had it looked like men amongst boys in a certain context.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish you would get your money back. Brad
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Evans is with us here on Chucking Buck in the morning.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: First chance to chat with him since the US was
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: eliminated by Belgium on Monday. We had Brad on Monday
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: morning to preview that match. But you can hear it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Payne's still there here on this Friday from that loss.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Christian Polisics getting beat up by not just media types
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: you know and talking like myself or talking heads like
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Steven A. Smith, but he's getting beat up by former
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: players for how poorly he played on Monday. Are you
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: going to join in on that one? And then number two?
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Is it fair? Is it fair for the media to
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: be as harsh toward Polisic as they seem to have
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: been this week?
• 33:51
  Speaker 11: You know, it's things for sure as a player when
• 33:54
  Speaker 11: you get criticized, but when you are of that caliber
• 33:58
  Speaker 11: and You've been on everymercial leading up to this World Cup.
• 34:02
  Speaker 11: Every time you turn on the TV, it's your face.
• 34:05
  Speaker 11: You're going to naturally have to take the brunt of
• 34:08
  Speaker 11: all the criticism, and it's no different than being a
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: captain on any team, whether it's MLS or around the world.
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: But when you're a player of that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 11: Stature and the expectations are there, and what he felt
• 34:21
  Speaker 11: in the twenty eighteen qualifying round not making that tournament,
• 34:26
  Speaker 11: you know, he put his everything into those games and
• 34:30
  Speaker 11: he was crying on the field afterwards, and you could
• 34:32
  Speaker 11: see how much it meant to him, and then he
• 34:34
  Speaker 11: stepped into this game and just didn't have a great performance.
• 34:38
  Speaker 11: I think it's a little bit harsh looking.
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: Back on it now.
• 34:42
  Speaker 11: Right Landon Donovan has been really vocal about his performance
• 34:46
  Speaker 11: in the last game. Carly Lloyd, a former two time
• 34:51
  Speaker 11: you know, women's player of the Year, they were really
• 34:54
  Speaker 11: harsh on him and I get it, though. If you
• 34:58
  Speaker 11: go to Europe and read the papers, you have to
• 35:00
  Speaker 11: imagine that there's no football, basketball, baseball, hockey. Everything surrounds
• 35:05
  Speaker 11: soccer and the pressure that those players feel in tabloids,
• 35:10
  Speaker 11: especially in normal news. It's on every news station on TV.
• 35:15
  Speaker 11: There's no other sport, so you kind of have to
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: wrap your head around extrapolating all that and the pressure
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: they feel on a weekly basis. I don't think it's
• 35:23
  Speaker 11: anything new for Christian. Of course, it's new coming from
• 35:26
  Speaker 11: within his own country. But he's been playing outside the
• 35:29
  Speaker 11: US since he was, you know, fourteen fifteen years old,
• 35:33
  Speaker 11: so I think he's used to it. He's felt pressure
• 35:35
  Speaker 11: before and the expectation of what he can and should be.
• 35:40
  Speaker 11: You know, in the playoffs, in a knockout round game,
• 35:43
  Speaker 11: I had pulled a piece of bone off my ankle.
• 35:45
  Speaker 11: Well it had already swollen up in the you know,
• 35:48
  Speaker 11: sixtieth minute, and I told the trainer's Tapic, give the
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: Ibuprofe and Tom and all. I'm finishing the game. Sometimes
• 35:55
  Speaker 11: it's the mentality thing. Sometimes it's the pain threshold thing.
• 35:57
  Speaker 11: O Mar Gonzalez, who I saw at the game, played
• 35:59
  Speaker 11: in World Cup two or three ligaments in his ankle
• 36:02
  Speaker 11: in the seventy fifth minute, said tape it.
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: I'm finishing the game.
• 36:05
  Speaker 11: So you kind of go back and forth between what's
• 36:07
  Speaker 11: best for the team and what's best for the player.
• 36:10
  Speaker 11: In that moment, maybe he was too injured to proceed.
• 36:13
  Speaker 11: He wasn't having the best game either, So there's pressure
• 36:18
  Speaker 11: with being the captain of a team and high expectations
• 36:20
  Speaker 11: and being on TV, but you have to be able
• 36:22
  Speaker 11: to shoulder it and move on to the next thing.
• 36:25
  Speaker 11: I think it's fair because I think their message is
• 36:27
  Speaker 11: a broader statement about where US soccer's at and where
• 36:31
  Speaker 11: we can be.
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: It's not just about his performance.
• 36:36
  Speaker 11: No one on that pitch had a good performance, but
• 36:38
  Speaker 11: he's the captain in my opinion, he's captain America. Tim
• 36:41
  Speaker 11: Reem's the actual captain, but he is supposed to be
• 36:44
  Speaker 11: the best player on the field and he didn't show
• 36:46
  Speaker 11: up on the day, So yeah, you're going to get criticism.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: I think it represents true growth for the sport here
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: in America. I mean, even if it is criticism, Brad,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: they were discussing it on formats platforms that typically ignore soccer,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: and I think that every league could learn from this.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I think the WNBA could learn from this, Like hey,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: getting criticized and making headlines.
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: You know, the.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Bigger you get, the more critical the analysis becomes, and
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: that represents growth. That means you're actually starting to weave
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: yourself deep into the fabric of American culture and so
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: to me, Christian Polisic getting hammered this week, you know,
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: feel bad for him, nobody. I'm sure he feels bad,
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: But I think that that represents true growth of the
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: sport here in this country, don't you.
• 37:41
  Speaker 11: Yeah, Look, it's not unlike any other sport. We've been
• 37:44
  Speaker 11: really spoiled as Sounders fans and season ticket holders with
• 37:47
  Speaker 11: the Sounders because you've only missed the playoff once since
• 37:50
  Speaker 11: two thousand and nine. That's not the normal case in
• 37:53
  Speaker 11: most sports. But let's the Kraken for example, or like
• 37:58
  Speaker 11: you said, WNBA. You have to go through criticism and
• 38:02
  Speaker 11: failures to get yourself up to the next level, to
• 38:04
  Speaker 11: have that push, to have that push from the fans
• 38:07
  Speaker 11: and the expectations to be higher on your team organization.
• 38:11
  Speaker 11: That's a losing season for the Mariners. You got to
• 38:13
  Speaker 11: keep pushing because your fans, at the end of the day,
• 38:16
  Speaker 11: you love the sport, and when you do win, it
• 38:19
  Speaker 11: makes it feel that much better that you know, you
• 38:21
  Speaker 11: were a fan, you were a part of it, you
• 38:22
  Speaker 11: were you know, voicing your opinion for the growth of
• 38:26
  Speaker 11: that team. In particular, we're talking about a national team,
• 38:29
  Speaker 11: so it's on an even broader scale. You're taking everyone
• 38:32
  Speaker 11: in this country three hundred plus million saying we want better.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: But how do we get better? That is going to
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: be the big question.
• 38:40
  Speaker 11: But the rest of the world has had one hundred
• 38:45
  Speaker 11: year head start on our national team and we are
• 38:49
  Speaker 11: playing catch up since really nineteen ninety four, to be honest,
• 38:53
  Speaker 11: was kind of the jumping off point. So we still
• 38:55
  Speaker 11: have a lot of work to do, a lot of
• 38:56
  Speaker 11: growth and there's no clear cut answer. There's too many
• 38:59
  Speaker 11: mass of sports in this in this country to say
• 39:02
  Speaker 11: we're just going to become a soccer nation. Uh, there's
• 39:05
  Speaker 11: just this is a giant melting pot. We have everything
• 39:08
  Speaker 11: in this country and it's growing, which is great, but
• 39:12
  Speaker 11: we still need to continue to put that pressure. But
• 39:14
  Speaker 11: it needs to be on ESPN. We need to talk
• 39:17
  Speaker 11: about it consistently. We have to not let this thing die.
• 39:21
  Speaker 11: Most importantly to keep the pressure on US soccer to
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: get to the next stage.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Yep, I agree. All right, So this weekend, who who
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: who are you going to end up seeing in the
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: final four? You got France winning yesterday, so they're in.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Let's just rapid fire through the Spain, Belgium, Who do
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: you like.
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: I like Spain in that game.
• 39:44
  Speaker 11: I think Belgium they showed it against the US that
• 39:47
  Speaker 11: they've got the ability to beat an athletic team. Now
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: you're going up in a Spain team that is incredibly athletic.
• 39:54
  Speaker 11: But also they've they've shown that they're they're the ability
• 39:58
  Speaker 11: to win World Cups and they've done it before. I
• 40:01
  Speaker 11: think Spain comes out in this one. I'm excited for
• 40:03
  Speaker 11: that one today. Then England Alway is probably probably the
• 40:08
  Speaker 11: most highlighted matchup so far in in the UH. In
• 40:12
  Speaker 11: this round, I was really impressed by France just smashing Morocco.
• 40:15
  Speaker 11: Morocco basically showed up without a fight, also similar to
• 40:19
  Speaker 11: the US, and I think that they just faced the
• 40:21
  Speaker 11: team that was a cut above. They've been my team
• 40:23
  Speaker 11: to win the whole tournament from the start.
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: England Norway is.
• 40:28
  Speaker 11: UH is an exciting matchup. I think Holland has become
• 40:32
  Speaker 11: this lovable character in this whole World Cup where he's
• 40:37
  Speaker 11: got his YouTube blog. He's basically become American. He's said
• 40:41
  Speaker 11: the greatest things about being in the US and the fans,
• 40:44
  Speaker 11: the fields, the whole atmosphere surrounding the World Cup. That's
• 40:48
  Speaker 11: our I think little Cinderella story in this whole World Cup,
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: and I'm exceeded excited to see.
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: What they can do.
• 40:55
  Speaker 11: They did it against Brazil, there's no reason why they
• 40:57
  Speaker 11: can't do it against England and then Argentina Switzerland.
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: We'll see.
• 41:02
  Speaker 11: We'll see in that one if we see Switzerland go
• 41:04
  Speaker 11: up to nothing and then somehow Argentina gets the result
• 41:07
  Speaker 11: in the last minute. Once again, it seems like they're
• 41:09
  Speaker 11: just they have no die in them. And that last
• 41:13
  Speaker 11: game was was so epic against Egypt. You know, you
• 41:17
  Speaker 11: can talk about the refereeing here and there, but you
• 41:19
  Speaker 11: still have to put the effort in. That's that that
• 41:22
  Speaker 11: was That's been the biggest thing so far. It's just
• 41:24
  Speaker 11: if you put in the effort, you're going to find
• 41:25
  Speaker 11: yourself with a result coupled with your skill.
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 41:28
  Speaker 11: In Argentina, certainly with Messi, if he stays healthy, they're always.
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: Going to have a chance. Uh.
• 41:35
  Speaker 11: These are really really awesome matches, and I think that
• 41:38
  Speaker 11: we've converted the casual fan to say, I'm in this
• 41:42
  Speaker 11: thing until until through the final, right, we want to
• 41:46
  Speaker 11: see who wins this tournament, and that that has been
• 41:49
  Speaker 11: the best part about this World Cup.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: For sure, and and and I've only got a minute.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Maybe we talk about this more on another visit, but
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: what what what is the experience like for when you
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: guys would return to the pitch after a World Cup event?
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Do you always get a boost? Does the MLS get
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: a huge boost from a World Cup year?
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, I think so.
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: I mean you're always going to find that new fan
• 42:16
  Speaker 11: that that pops out, and the Sounders have done a
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: great job. I mean, we'll play Portland next Thursday, so
• 42:20
  Speaker 11: I'll be three days before the final kind of in
• 42:23
  Speaker 11: the buzz around the game, and we're playing obviously our
• 42:25
  Speaker 11: biggest rival. They're going to open up most of the
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: stadium cheap, cheap tickets to be had for that one.
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: We want to pack it in and we always have
• 42:33
  Speaker 11: our first match on us. So if you're a first
• 42:35
  Speaker 11: timer to a Sounders game, check it out online. You
• 42:37
  Speaker 11: got the opportunity to see a game for free. It
• 42:40
  Speaker 11: is a great opportunity to continue the buzz because the
• 42:43
  Speaker 11: Sounders have that atmosphere typically always have. I mean, yeah,
• 42:47
  Speaker 11: some games against Portland we've had sixty five thousand fans
• 42:50
  Speaker 11: in the stadium, So there's no reason why you can't
• 42:53
  Speaker 11: replicate that, and if you want to be a part
• 42:54
  Speaker 11: of it, certainly, it's pennies on the dollar compared to
• 42:57
  Speaker 11: a World Cup game. Well, let's keep recreating that at
• 43:00
  Speaker 11: sphere here in Seattle. Keep it going. And there's nothing
• 43:04
  Speaker 11: like it to me. I mean, we've been spoiled as
• 43:06
  Speaker 11: Sounders fans to have these amazing fans with thirty thousand
• 43:10
  Speaker 11: plus every game. It's just you have to continue that buzz,
• 43:15
  Speaker 11: get cheap tickets to bring out the family. First match
• 43:18
  Speaker 11: on us, whatever it is, however we want to be
• 43:19
  Speaker 11: in the building, just come be.
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: A part of it.
• 43:22
  Speaker 11: The Rain are also doing a ton of promotions surrounding
• 43:26
  Speaker 11: the World Cup and it's going to be on grass.
• 43:28
  Speaker 11: They're going to keep that grass in the stadium for
• 43:29
  Speaker 11: that game, so another opportunity to see a world class
• 43:32
  Speaker 11: pitch in that stadium. That kind of speeds up the
• 43:35
  Speaker 11: game quite a bit. And it's against Portland, like our
• 43:39
  Speaker 11: this is our hugest rivalry in all of Major League Soccer.
• 43:42
  Speaker 11: It is a marquee matchup and it will be a
• 43:45
  Speaker 11: massive one for the Sounders. You have to use the
• 43:47
  Speaker 11: buzz to continue this thing going.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: All right, awesome stuff, man, Thank you very much. We
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: appreciate it and enjoy the matches today and tomorrow, and
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: we'll talk to you again next week.
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: We'll do all right. I see you guys.
• 43:58
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• 44:01
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• 44:10
  Speaker 2: X y Z today on the ABCS of the MS.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Let's get it going. X's for excuses, I'm not really sure.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, most people are bashing the hell out of
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson, and I got a I'm in that. I mean,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: you've heard enough of these shows if you listen regularly,
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: you know I've not. I've been over I've been very critical,
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: maybe even overly critical of Dan Wilson to this point.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: But those that are defending him seem to go down
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: the he's just a puppet route, which Number one, I
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: don't think that that's an excuse for Dan Wilson. Have
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: a backbone, then stand up for yourself. I know, I
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: know that when he took the job, he's there were
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: certain requirements that he had for taking the job in
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: the first place. I'm not going to be handled this way,
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: treated this with So he's yes, there is a huge
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: involvement like there is in every front office with the
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: lineup decisions, rotational decisions rules that are put in place.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Every single front office has them. The Mariners are no different.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: But Dan also has some individual powers as well that
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: they're not allowed to touch. And so I don't think
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: that's an excuse for Dan. I don't think we can
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: just excuse that this team's underachieved and just say, oh,
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: it's the front office pull in all the strings. So
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: that's where it starts. Secondly, that we don't have managers
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: that really do that much x's and o's anymore. I mean,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: we don't hit and run anymore. Steals, We pretty much
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: just have a green light. Maybe you'll tell somebody not
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: to steal. I mean, but that side of the Mariner's philosophy,
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: like if you feel like you can get there, get there.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: You think anybody's given Josh Naylor a steel sign. Never,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: He's never gotten a steel sign in his entire everybody
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: pretty much has. If you think you can get there,
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: get there, But we will tell you if we think
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: that you're running too much. Nobody hitting runs, We don't
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: bun anymore. There are no rarely do you see double switches.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about a pitcher hitting if
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: you're facing a National League team. I mean, there really
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: aren't that many decisions. It's bullpen decisions and it's pinch
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: hitting decisions.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: That's it. And I don't think.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: He's been good at either one of those things. And
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: then the third thing, and this really has to be emphasized,
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: is there Because there's been a lot of conversation from
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Poachattino with the soccer team to to now Dan Wilson.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: And I read this online and I probably shouldn't even
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: pay credence to it, but I know that this conversation
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: is being held because I think it's being misinterpreted. When
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: I say a manager's job in baseball is to get
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: the most out.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Of the talent given to him.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: That doesn't mean that Dan Willson needs to give a
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: fiery speech before every game. No, that doesn't mean that
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson has to be a raw rock guy or
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: wave palm palms or anything like that. We don't need
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: him to be Herb Brooks from Miracle.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: That's funny. I was just picturing him.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, before every game. We don't need him to be
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: that ever.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: We don't need closed door meetings, we don't need open
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: door meetings. We don't need him, you know, with a
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: red ass and finding guys left and right. That's not
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the simple fact
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: that a manager's job in Major League Baseball in the
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: modern day is here's the talent we're giving, you get
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: the most out of it. Does anyone think that we've
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: gotten the most out of this talent so far this season?
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Do you do anyone think that this team hasn't underachieved?
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: Raise your hand if you think this was right.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: There are a few of you.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: There are a few of you that every year think
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: they stink when they don't even stink right now. They're mediocre, right, but.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I don't see a lot of hands.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we'll certainly not here. But that's just it.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: And I brought this this point up earlier. Rob Thompson
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: had done an amazing job with the Philadelphia Phillies. He's
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: the guy that sparked them because the previous manager wasn't
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: getting the most out of the talent. That Dave Dombroski
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: and Philadelphia thought that they had. He's the guy that
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: sparked that. And then this year it looked like Rob
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Thompson couldn't get his team to play, so they made
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: the uncomfortable decision of firing a very popular person with
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: the fan base and with the clubhouse on the simple
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: grounds of we're better than this and we're not gonna
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: let this season get away. We have a veteran team,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: We're not gonna let this season get away from us.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: And they put Don Mattingley in. And I don't know
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: if Don Mattingley's message is any better. I could promise
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: you he's not raw raw and pomp on me. That's
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: not that's not Donnie baseball.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: But for whatever.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Reason, the message changed and the Philadelphia Phillies immediately started
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: playing good baseball. Well, immediately started playing good baseball. So
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not here to tell you that Dan Wilson should
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: get fired. That's not what I'm saying, even though I
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: think it should be considered. But what I am saying
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: is the excuses from those that are defending Dan Wilson
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: have all kind of run thin. There's no question he's
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: not getting the most out of his talent right now,
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: and I don't care what means you have to operate
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: under in order to get the most out of your talent.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: You're going to be judged based on whether or not
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: you are That's just as fundamental as it gets. Are
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: we playing as well as this talent suggests that we
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: should be playing? And the answer is absolutely not. Right now?
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: How much more time in one hundred and sixty two game,
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: six month campaign do you give somebody to turn it around?
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Since we have turned it around in the past after
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: stinking for the first three months of the year, Well
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: that's left to Jerry and Justin. But I'm not going
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: to forfeit this season just because we've got a sacred
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: cow and Dan Wilson, who was a popular player here
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: in town. This team's got to start performing and I'm
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: gonna you know, the bad al has given him a
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: little bit of flexibility and a little bit of leeway
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: and a little.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Bit more of a runway.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think he's got to about the trade
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: deadline to turn this thing around.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's fair.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: I think he's I think that's the if we're If
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: we're not playing good baseball by the end of this month,
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: then I think he needs to go that's just the job.
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: That's the job, right, and you still have time by
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: the end of the month to fix things and go
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  Speaker 8: on a run and put yourself in a good playoff position.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, I'm gonna go quickly through Y and Z
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: because I did say it's cool too.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Got to end.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, why is for Yondi Yandy Diaz is uh is
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: not the star of Rays, but he's been there for
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: a while, and Yondi Diaz is kind of the blueprint though,
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: for the Rays, for everyone that thinks the only way
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: to win today in Major League Baseball is by hitting
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: home runs. We have a lot of teams having very
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: good years that are in the bottom five and home
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: runs this year. Yeah, and the Tampa Bay Rays are
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: pretty much the Marlins, but a better version of that.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: They strike out the least in the entire sport. They
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: don't really hit all that many home runs except from
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: one guy, Junior Carmenaro, who's a superstar. And they have
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: a high batting average, and they're smart on the base
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: paths and they're aggressive on the bass paths, and they
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: have a good on base percentage. That's how they win.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: That's how they win. And then they always pitch well,
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: they always find ways to find pitchers that pitch well,
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: and that's the way they're winning this year. Fifty four
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: and thirty seven, best record right now in the American League.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: And finally, zis for Zany, because I know how Zany
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: it looks that the American leagues look so weak and
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: so watered down. I'm just gonna warn you for the
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: rest of the season, it's not as bad as what
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: you think. Yeah, a lot of teams have had disappointing seasons,
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: just like the Mariners. But I have a feeling right
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: now there are eight winning teams with winning records in
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: the National League.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: There are five in the American League.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: I think we'll end up around seven and six. I
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: think that's probably where it's going to end up before
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: it's all said and done. Maybe the National League is better,
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: but not that much. The Blue Jays are going to
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: play better. The Red Sox have already started turning it around.
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: We're going to play better. I don't have any doubt
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: about that, and so I don't think the American League
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: is The American League is a lot of teams that
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: were expected to do good have had bad first halfs.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: The Detroit Tigers are a good team, and they're starting
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: to turn around. Two. We saw that last year with
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: the Detroit Tigers. They now won five straight. So they
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: had a bad first half, but they're starting to turn
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: it around and they're back in the wild card race
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: at this point. But I think this thing's going to
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: average out out quite a bit. And the National League,
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: the Cardinals are supposed to be rebuilding. They're not supposed
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: to be forty eight and forty four. The Nationals are
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: supposed to be rebuilding. They're not supposed to be forty
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: eight and forty six. I mean, this thing will start
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: to even itself out in the second half. And by
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: the way, I don't know why you're.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Rooting for the American League to be better.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: Why are you celebrating the fact that there are so
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: many people out there that are like that seem to
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: be wanting the American League to be better?
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Right now?
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: We need the American League to be average.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, shouldn't we be happy that we're average?
• 53:35
  Speaker 8: In the American League is as average, if not less average.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: Shouldn't we be like, whoo, good thing. The American League's
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: down in the first half.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Good thing.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: We're not the only ones in this underachieving boat that
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: we're riding in as opposed to this league sucks and
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: we can't even win this league. I'm actually encouraged that
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: the Mariners aren't the only team in the AL underachieving
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: in the first half of the season. All right, coming
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: up next, let's talk about Seahawks ownership. For me, it's
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: a really difficult topic to discuss. How do you break
• 54:08
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  Speaker 3: Halt eight o'clock hour here on a Friday. Good morning
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  Speaker 3: Ashley Ryan with you. All right, we get things start
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• 54:55
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• 54:58
  Speaker 1: is not listing clicking it?
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  Speaker 3: Can you put in another quarter in it?
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  Speaker 2: I tried.
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  Speaker 1: I tried. I even moved it.
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  Speaker 8: page to see if I could grab it there.
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  Speaker 3: It just goes well, maybe Maybeart megan us pay for
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  Speaker 3: the Ojo bed.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening. I've never seen this.
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  Speaker 2: We should get an Ocho waterbed this time.
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  Speaker 8: Those are comfortable, they are very so I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: Just bear it with me.
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  Speaker 3: Here, Let's just get to one of them Ocho Murphy beds.
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  Speaker 3: We can just pull it right out of the wall.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good hide a bed where we can be
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  Speaker 3: a couch during the day and then when we need
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  Speaker 3: it we pull it out.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great idea. Let's do that. Yeah, I like that.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: Or a vibrating bed. Those are fun.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Everyone loves a vibrator.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Have you ever stayed at a hotel with
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: a vibrating bed? I mean, I think you've really gone to.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: The depths of hotel stays if you have a vibrating bed.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: Do they even exist anymore?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I don't.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I would assume the same ones that vibrate are the
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  Speaker 8: ones that turn around as well.
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  Speaker 3: Turn around, Yeah, you know, like there's something been around into.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: The wall, just like spins in the middle of the room.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think one goes with the other.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening with this bet so we're
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  Speaker 1: just different.
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  Speaker 3: But we should certainly invent the thing that does both.
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  Speaker 7: That's that's a give.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we should.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, before before what Coslow or mattaal get the idea
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  Speaker 3: and turn it into their next billion dollar operation.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go.
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: Let's get started with a strange, vibrating, rotating music bed
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  Speaker 3: here on this Friday, feel it. We will start with
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: the Mariners, who were swept in Miami, Florida by the Marlins.
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: Of all teams. Now, I warned you the Marlins were
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: a better baseball team this year, and they were going
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: to aggravate you by putting the ball in play. And
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: they've been pitching really well as well as of late,
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: and they had been on fire coming into this series.
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: But I think we're all in agreement. This had a
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: lot more to do with how poorly they played these
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: last three days. Then the Marlins were invincible, and so
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: for the first time this season, Bryce and Bryce Miller
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: wasn't good. He allowed six runs yesterday over five innings.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: Of course, only four of those were earned as the
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: M's defense committed another two errors last night. And offensively,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: they scored four runs, but they didn't do their part either,
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: zero for seven with runners in scoring positions. So after
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: winning five of six games, the Mariners played some of
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: their worst baseball of the year in Miami the last
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: three days. Here's what Dan Wilson said after the game.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: Now, how we want to end the series here? You know,
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: tough one again today.
• 57:40
  Speaker 12: You know, we had some opportunities early in the ballgame,
• 57:43
  Speaker 12: just weren't able to capitalize on them. And we were
• 57:45
  Speaker 12: able to get some traffic there early chance, you know,
• 57:48
  Speaker 12: to probably get the starter out of the game quickly,
• 57:51
  Speaker 12: but just not able to convert those into runs. And uh,
• 57:56
  Speaker 12: you know, kind of pushed behind the eight ball a
• 57:58
  Speaker 12: little bit. And I thought Brice, you know, just wasn't
• 58:02
  Speaker 12: coming out of sharp today and looked like he had
• 58:05
  Speaker 12: a tougher feel for his secondaries. And and you know
• 58:08
  Speaker 12: that the four walks is you know, not indicative of
• 58:11
  Speaker 12: Brice and and uh, you know again, these guys.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Hit hit the ball line the line, and they.
• 58:15
  Speaker 12: Took advantage of the opportunities that they were given. And
• 58:19
  Speaker 12: you know that was kind of just the difference in
• 58:21
  Speaker 12: the ball game today. We did, you know, show some
• 58:23
  Speaker 12: fight coming trying to get back later. Some of the
• 58:25
  Speaker 12: bats where we got some traffic just weren't able to
• 58:27
  Speaker 12: get that big hit and get back in the ball.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: Games Wilson speak.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much ready that in there, you know it.
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, tough one got traffic early, didn't take
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: advantage that sort of thing.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: The only abnormality there was.
• 58:43
  Speaker 8: Pitching wasn't good, so he did yeah, true, true, good
• 58:45
  Speaker 8: good Pitching's true did their part.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: That certainly stood out as something spectacular.
• 58:51
  Speaker 11: Yep.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: And that clip, I know makes a big difference for you,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: doesn't it.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: The sweet drops the team to forty seven and forty
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: seven on the season, and they have been left again
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: in the American League West standings by the Texas Rangers. Yeah,
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: it's been another aggravating, frustrating first half for the Jerry
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Depoto era Seattle Mariners. Some things never change, but like
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: teams from the past in these past few years, they
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: tend to pick it up in the second half, not
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: just ten two.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: They always do.
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: They pick it up in the second half. And they've
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: gotten across the playoff finish line, not the finish finish line.
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: They've gotten across the playoff finish line a couple of
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: times here in the last couple of years, and they've
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: always gotten close in the last five six years. And
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: so I have no doubt that they're gonna pick it
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: back up again, and I think they're going to pull
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: away in the American League West. But it does not
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: obscure how frustrating this first half has been for a
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: team that I think is clearly the best team in
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: the division on paper and has really grossly underachieved all
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: season long.
• 59:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they just need to start playing like they're capable of.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 8: They don't even need to play great baseball. They just
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 8: need to play good baseball, which I feel like we've
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: said about them a lot.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: We say it every year and then and then, and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: they really frustrating is that they will get going for
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: a little while, and then on a dime, they'll just
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: start playing poorly again. And just when you're sure they're
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: going to play poorly, then they'll turn it back around
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: and play well, which is probably what will happen tonight.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: They'll probably end up sweeping the damn Tampa Bay Rays
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: this weekend.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: We'll take it.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: We'll see because the All Star breaks coming, but we're
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: not getting out of Florida that easy.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Florida is amazing.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: It's interesting how much more respect Florida gets in December.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 7: During the year, everyone's a crazy Florida Florida, and.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: Then at the beginning of December, the whole country is like, hey, Florida,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: how you doing.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 7: We always liked you.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: Can I come by and bring every relative I've ever met?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 7: Is that? Okay?
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Ho fucking It's just the best.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: At fifty four and thirty seven, the Rays have the
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: best record in the American League. They excel at putting
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: the ball in play, fewest strikeouts in baseball, third, highest
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: batting average, fourth, fewest home runs aaron right hander Nick Martinez.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: So we'll get the start tonight, then Griffin Jacks, who
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: was a reliever just a year ago, well at the
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: beginning of this year, but they've turned them into a
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: starting pitcher. And then they'll throw left hander Ian Seymour
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: on the last day of the first unofficial first half
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: of the baseball season. Seattle will go with Castillo, Gilbert,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: and Hancock over the next three days, the last series
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: before the All Star break. The game itself will be
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: played on Tuesday. Home Run Derby is on Monday. And
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: I've brought this up, but we haven't really talked about it.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be on Netflix this year. They're gonna put
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: it on a streaming service.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: That's really weird.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 8: And you know what else is weird about it too,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 8: that they haven't hardly announced anyone that's in it.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Usually you know people. I mean they've maybe like.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: I think they don't know who's going to be in
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: it yet. I think they're up to five. I don't
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: think they've got the full.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 8: I only saw three people that they'd announced, and I
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 8: was like, yes, Rice Harper.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: Is the most recent. Yeah, Junior Camonaro. Yeah, I'm now
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: having to do this for memory.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I screwed it up.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, they've I think they've announced five. I
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: think there's still one maybe spot left open.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 8: It just feels like, and again maybe it's just my
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 8: mind messing with me. It feels like in the past
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: we've known who was going to be in earlier than this, well,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 8: or it's.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Been a bigger deal. It doesn't feel like it's been
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: a very big deal made of it.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: Maybe they're having to talk to people. Maybe they're seeing
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: if Mike Trout will do it. Maybe they're trying to
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: hold a spot open. He's never done it. He's in Philly.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: He wanted to make sure he was healthy for the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: All Star Game so he could play the All Star
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: Game near his hometown. Maybe they're holding out that spot
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: for him and he wants to do it. I don't know,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: but you're right, it has been a slower process than normal.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: I'm actually kind of looking forward to seeing the derby
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: done by someone other than the ESPN, because I think
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: they got bad at it. I mean the camera shots,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: trying to come up with the cutest camera shot, and
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: then you couldn't even tell if the guy. I mean,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: I can tell when a guy's hit a home run
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: or not.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 8: I just don't like when it's on a streaming service
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 8: something like that that people then have to pay for.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't like that at all.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: And I don't I'm not going to pick up Netflix
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: just to watch it, So I'll figure out another way
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: to watch it, but but I am kind of curious
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: to see how Netflix will approach it because I think
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: it needs some fresh.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Eyeballs on how to cover the home run derby.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: But we'll see. Maybe they'll make it worse. Sunday will
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: be the Futures Game. It will feature Kate Anderson and
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: Ryan Sloan, and then starting tomorrow at ten am, the
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball Draft will be held. That's new to
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: All Star Week as well. Jonathan Mayo, MLB draft and
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: prospect expert from Mlbpipeline and MLB dot Com, was on
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: with us yesterday and told us what he thinks the
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: Mariners might do at twenty four.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 5: It's not a terrible draft to be picking Layton in
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: the first round because I think the strength of this
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: class is the tech. So you might get a player
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: at twenty four who's just as good as the player
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: someone gets at ten.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's encouraging news when you're you know, last year
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: we lucked out got Kate Anderson because of the lottery,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: and then this year picking down at twenty four, and
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: here's Mayo saying you might get I mean, it's it's
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: such an even draft after the top ten that you
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: might get your ten favorite guy on the board at
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: my twenty four might be might have been the guy
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: you would have taken at ten. Right now, Mayo has
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: the Mariners projected to take Tennessee right handed pitcher Tigan
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: koons doesn't mean it's going to hap. He also elaborated
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: yesterday with Mariners and their draft history, recent draft history.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: He says, it's kind of a known fact the Mariners
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: like to get college pitching or high school hitting. That's ten.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: That's what they tend to do. So we'll see what
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: Scott Hunter does with the draft the next couple of days.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: But it is one of the areas that they shine
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: at as an organization, I mean lately, winning baseball games
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: is an area they have not shined, said yeah, or
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: fundamental base running or fielding or bullpen decisions ye yep.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: Hitting and runners in scoring position also one of those
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: they haven't exactly excelled at.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: But the draft they've been really.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: Good, excellent. We got that going for us all right.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: Of number four on the O Show, the Seahawks sale,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: according to reports, seems down to two top front runners.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: Give you a million dollars for this Iceberg thing?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 6: Would that be enough?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: I a million dollars.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 8: Yea, that it would be great. Shirt.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: Hello Crusher, Charlie. How you doing, Mariel? Right, it's great.
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  Speaker 6: I just want an Iceberg.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty much the type of person we're going
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: to get. Somebody that can afford to buy an Iceberg.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, well at least they're rich.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. The names that are being brought up
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: are the Don Koesla and I don't know, I'm Aditya
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: Mattal one of them. Mattal is part owner of the
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: Boston Celtics. He's also the heir to a steel magnate. Meanwhile, Koesla,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: he is a venture capitalist who's with Sun Microsystems co
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: founder there. They have similar earning power. They're both the
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: billionaires fifteen to seventeen times over, and seems like they've
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: got the cash and the interest to do this. Now.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: Whether or not one of them is going to be
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: a good owner of our football team, I have no
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: idea right how to predict that or even how to
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: analyze it. But they both have been involved in sports.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: Mattals with the Celtics, Coastlas with the forty nine ers
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: in some capacity, and I would assume Steve Balmer's not
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: out of the picture. The reports though yesterday suggesting that
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: these two guys are the front runners.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 8: Right now, all right, I just would like it to
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 8: be someone with local ties.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: So you don't want either one of Nola or Matala, don't.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 8: I still am holding out hope that there's someone local
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 8: who's just hanging out, waiting in the wings, and then
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 8: at the end they're going to swoop in.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like the savior they are about Bender?
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: How about Jody and Bender? They make a lot of
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: money of them away.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: I think that's a great idea.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: What about those two.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: I think it's a great idea.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 8: When you first said Bender, I thought Benton as I
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 8: don't think Benton can but Bender definitely Bender.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: Oh Bender, Yeah, that's.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: A good idea. WHI was Britt in his ear, and
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: then Jody can be minority on.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: I trust them. Yeah.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they put their logo all over the stadium.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see, So we'll find out. We'll find out.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know it's a huge story.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: It's just it's a really difficult way, right. I don't
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: know how you assess whether or not one of these guys.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: Are going to be a good owner for the Seahawks.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: Without interviewing right exactly. If they want to come on,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: I'd like to pick their brain about it. Okay, you
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: are going to leave Mike McDonald the f alone, aren't
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: you better?
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: That would be my first question, see or hear you
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: ask it.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, things are going really well. Stay out of John
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: and Mike's way. Yeah, thank you.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: Don't come in here and f this up.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's talk World Cup.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: Yesterday, the first of the quarterfinal matches was held France
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: versus Morocco. France a heavy favorite, and it turned out that.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 10: Way it crosses it in the way by moles Rally,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 10: audio heads it back in to able to find and
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 10: bo bay to traffic. Twenty Colcos gives the lead of
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 10: the quarter.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: Fox with the call there, yeah, Morocco some dirty birds,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: those Moroccans are they? They were some dirty birds. I
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: mean they were just looking for any opportunity just to
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: knock a Frenchman down. Brad Evans told us, I mean,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: he's he obviously he knows a lot more than I
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: do about this, and he just thought they came out
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: as flat as what Team USA did against Belgium on Monday.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: My assessment of it was they knew they weren't as talented.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: They tried to frustrate Mbope, they tried to tackle everybody,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: and then when they had the ball offensively, they just
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: basically went four corners. Dean Smith, I think they knew
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: they didn't have a chance unless they won by fluke,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: if they got Imbappe frustrated and thrown out with a
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: red cart or something like that, or if they got
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: a favorable bounce and kept to score zero zero until
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: they got that bounce.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a little luck.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of the way it felt to me.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: But then it and I'm pretty ignorant about this, and
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: Bope scored again to break a scoreless tie. France goes
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: on to win by a final score of two to nothing.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: Today Spain will take on Belgium at noon, and then
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: tomorrow you're gonna have Norway at England or not at
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: England Norway versus England at two pm, followed by Argentina
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: versus Switzerland. Meanwhile, Team USA thinks about how things might
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: be different in four years. I mentioned Brad Evans was
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: on with us again today at seven oh five. I
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: asked him after this tournament, after the disappointment of Monday.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: What is the state of American soccer as you see it?
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 11: The rest of the world has had one hundred year
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 11: heads start on our national team and we are playing
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 11: catchup since really nineteen ninety four, to be honest, was
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 11: kind of the jumping off points. So we still have
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 11: a lot of work to do, a lot of growth,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 11: and there's no clear cut answer. There's too many massive
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 11: sports in this country to say we're just going to
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 11: become a soccer nation. There's just this is a giant
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 11: melting pot. We have everything in this country and it's growing,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 11: which is great, but we still need to continue to
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 11: put that pressure.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 7: But it needs to be on ESPN. We need to
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 7: talk about it consistently. We have to not let this
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 7: thing die.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 11: Most importantly, to keep the pressure on US soccer to
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 11: get to the next stage.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: Good stuff from Brad today, really good stuff, like.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: Like the emotional connection he has to Team USA.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: I mean he was he's still sad.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: I mean it's Friday.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: He is sad. You could tell. Like as soon as
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: he started the conversation. He even got into talking about
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: how he was a fan for the first time and
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: how he spent a fortune on tickets and just like
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: you've been frustrated in the past. Brad Evans is like,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: I want my money.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which I loved.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 8: I was like, and you think about it because, yeah,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 8: most of those players don't ever go experience their own
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 8: game as a fan, and so for him to experience
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 8: it for the first time as a fan, like buying
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 8: a ticket, Yeah, so have to eat price tag on
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 8: a ticket to buy that's a big game with big
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 8: implications to be your first one, like sitting there.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you spend It's nice that a former player
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: or current player would spend that much of their money
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: on a game where they show up and the team
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: that they spend it for doesn't show up. And how
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: frustrated you are, Like I spent that much money on
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: that and then you have to go home not just
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: with the loss, but having squandered a fortune to watch
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: a team not show up for you.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome to being a fan, bro.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: It hurts a bit.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: No, that's the way it works. We remain on lebron
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: Watch in this fam will take my talents two where
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: answer would be nice, we're you going to take him
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: this fall? We're you taking him? We don't know. Steph
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: Curry kind of doubled down on it yesterday, saying, yeah,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: we want him, we want him, but it's going to
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: be his decision. And it looks like there are a
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: lot of candidates out there for Lebron's services, so a
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: lot different than the first decision. But this one is
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: it's not nearly as interesting. I'm not saying it's as interesting,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: but just from the standpoint of it does sound like
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: he is just trying to figure out where's the best
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: place for me to write the final chapter of my
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: career and he's not gonna let money play a role,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: so truly trying to make the decision on where am
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: I going to be happiest for the next year or
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: two to finish this thing off. So we're all waiting.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: We're all waiting. We are finally Wimbledon Women's Finals tomorrow
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: at eight am, Men's Finals Sunday.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: At eight am. Coming up next.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: It is trade season, and yesterday Ken Rosenthal got Mariner
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: fans and itzzy by saying suggesting that the Mariners are
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: considering trading one of their six starting pitchers. We'll get
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: into that next. Sports Radio ninety three.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: Point three KJRFM, All.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: Right, good morning, it is Chuck and Ashley with you,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 3: And yes, it is trade season.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: Trade season started in June.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: I do love trade season. The weather's been perfect this
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: trade season.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: Did you get your permit for trade season this year?
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: You know you got to apply.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 8: I did because it expired last year because I thought
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 8: they're like usually, Well no, I guess they are good.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: Only for one year, aren't they.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 9: Uh?
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I tried, they tried to. I think I got scammed.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 8: Someone tried to trick me into buying like a three
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 8: year trade season permit.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: I hate those people. Yeah, poachers basically, is that what
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: they are.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So luckily it didn't fall for that again this year.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: So I'm all good, up to date.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 8: On the permit and looking forward to going out and
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 8: seeing what trades I can make happen.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: Well, if we're going to a big trade hunt, you
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: gotta have a permit.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: Well, it is a trade season. And now we're getting
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: closer and closer to the trading deadline. So we'll have
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: the All Star break, we'll have the draft, and then
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: all the executives.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: Say, well, we're really focused on the draft.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: Well, you won't be after Sunday, so we can get
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: into the trade season, right, we have a good two
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: to three weeks of trade activity. That's the wish. If
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: you like trades like I do, if you've got your
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: permit for trade season, then you want the trades to
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: start flying. And of course the Mariners could use an upgrade. Well,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: Ken Rosenthal started the pod a little bit bow Tide,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: little weirdo actually knows a thing or two about baseball executives,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: and so Ken Rosenthal said yesterday that, yeah, the Mariners
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: just might trade one of their six starting pitchers in
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: this log jam in return for something to help them
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: at the trading deadline. Well, let's break this down. Let's
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: really break this down, because this is really going this
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: would really be difficult to do.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, I get it.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: We have an excess of something. Surely somebody else has,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: you know, a deficit in this area that might want
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: to give away something they have in surplus, and then
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: we can figure it out. Well, how many teams are
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: really I mean, let's just take the first five and
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: then we'll get to castile. Let's take the young five guys, Okay, Hancock,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: wlu Miller, Kirby Gilbert put them all in the same group,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: same category. I mean, can you imagine the anger if
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: you traded one of those five for prospects?
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: Infuriating people would lose their.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: Minds, We would lose their mind Yeah, And we're just
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: to get rid of our log jam at starting pitcher.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: We just like, oh, here's a great opportunity to be
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: sellers at the trading deadline. We'll trade one of our
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: guys and we'll get a boatload of prospects for Logan Gilbert.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: At this stage, can you imagine can you imagine how
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: well that would go over and cash?
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, people would freak out.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: Now this offseason, brace yourself, that's gonna happen. One of
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: those are gonna get moved. And it's actually, I'll make
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: it more specific, one of those two, Kirby or Gilbert
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: are gonna get moved this offseason. Kirby will have two
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: years left on his deal. Gilbert will have one year
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: left before they become free agents, so they'll move. They're
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: gonna move one of them, okay, and try to sign
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: the other one. So that's gonna happen this offseason. But
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the year, in the middle of
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: a playoff push, when you've never won a World series.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: Could you imagine the outcry if you move one of
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: those guys?
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: So I honestly can't imagine.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, okay, that's off the table, right, Can we
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: already hope that's off please?
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 8: Bo Tie?
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: Can we agree that's off the table?
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, So then the other possibility for one of those
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: five guys is we're gonna trade one of our great
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: young pitchers are very good young pitchers for a very
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: good to great hitter of similar contract value. Okay, well,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: what team in the middle of the season is gonna
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: give up one of their best hitters to us, best
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: young controllable hitters to us for a pitcher. What team's
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: gonna do that? What team is going to sell that
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: to their fan base? We just we just ditched out
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: on one of our I mean, maybe that's something that
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: could happen in an off season. But when you're at
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: the trading deadline. The whole idea behind the trading deadline
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: is that you have buyers and you have sellers, and
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 3: those that don't feel they're in contention are going to
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: sell off veteran pieces to get young pieces to help
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: them win starting next year and beyond. That's the premise
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: of the trade deadline. So why would somebody just say, oh,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: we're going to weaken ourselves if they're going for the
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: same thing we're going for. We're going to weaken ourselves
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: in this area so that we can strengthen this area. No,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: that's not what you would do. You would keep that
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: area strong and then trade prospects in order to strengthen
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: the weak area. You don't want to pay Rob Peter
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: to pay Paul at the trading deadline. That's just that's
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: taken two steps forward and two steps back, right, So
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: I don't see one of our five guys going, one
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: of the five young pitchers going, So that leaves you
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: with Castile. I figure out how difficult this is to trade.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying it can't happen, but you could
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: be a seller. You could just say, we don't want
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: the logjam anymore. Here's an opportunity to get rid of
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: Luis Castile, so we don't have to pay him next year.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 3: So you could be a seller. You could trade him
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: to a contender with money. I don't think fans would
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: be happy about that here in Seattle, not to get
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: a veteran piece that could help us back this year,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: but it might not be a terrible move organizationally. If
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 3: you could go to the Dodgers or the Cubs, or
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: the Phillies or the Braves, teams with a lot of
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: money that are in contention, that need pitching right now,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: and you give them a Luis Castillo. They're not gonna
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: blink at the salary. They never do.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because it's not real money.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: And then you just.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: Get all prospect back or two. So you just just
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: pretend masquerade as a seller. I mean, you're still buying.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: You're still gonna buy something at the trading deadline. You're
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: a buyer. We are a buyer. But in this particular case,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: we're just gonna masquerade with Castillo. We're gonna clear up
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: this log jam, and then we're gonna get like a prospect.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: We're gonna get his money off of our books so
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: that we can afford something else, somewhere else for the
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: rest of this year. That's a possibility you could possibly
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: do that. I still don't know if Mariner fans are
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: gonna I know the immediate reaction to it, Oh we
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: got was a prospect for Castile, But that's what you
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 3: would get under that scenario.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: The other.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: Another scenario, our excess for your excess, our bad money
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 3: for your bad money. This is not like trading one
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: or the other five. This is trading what looks clearly
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: like our sixth guy. And so what you could do is,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: let's say Philadelphia. Philadelphia right now is operating like two
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: starting pitchers down from what they thought they were going
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: to have at the beginning of the year. So if
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 3: you went to Philly, who's run out of patience with
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 3: Alec Bohm at third base and he only makes ten
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: million dollars, but they're the Phillies, it's a big market club.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: So if you pulled maybe a maybe, and I'm still
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: saying maybe on this, like a Castillo for Boom, and
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: that gives us a shore fire third baseman and a
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: right handed hitter, And then Phillies get a proven veteran
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: starting pitcher who's not completely washed up and has actually
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: been pitching much better as of late, and the Phillies
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 3: get a veteran to kind of round out their organization.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: I think that's a possibility that sounds possible to me.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 3: How about the Washington Nationals, I mean, they've surprised everybody,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: have they convinced themselves their contenders at forty eight and
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: forty six, with the game's highest scoring team and yet
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: twenty sixth. Then era would the Washington Nationals go not
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 3: all in? But would they go in? Would they convince
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: themselves like, Hey, if we just get a couple veteran pitchers.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, we've been saving money now for years. Maybe
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: we should go for it. Maybe we could give something
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 3: up offensively in order to get a castillo. I mean,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: how much could that help Todd that veteran experience over
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: the next couple of years. Maybe I'm still saying maybe, right,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking no, But at.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: Least you're closing the door entirely.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, crack the door open a little bit to maybe
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 3: there's someone with that type of thinking.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: You'll put a cup up to the door and listen
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: to the other side.
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  Speaker 3: I'll make sure that mom and dad aren't having sex
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: before I go into the bedroom.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: Then yeah, just and then a gentle knock.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: And then the other thing is, maybe there's something huge.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: I brought up a couple of weeks ago. San Francisco
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 3: is selling, and they're selling. They're trying to get rid
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: of any big contract that they have. So what if
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: you I mean, if you were interested, like in a
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 3: Matt Chapman. They've been interested in Matt Chapman. I think
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 3: they would be interested in We'll take a year and
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 3: a half of Castillo if you take three and a
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: half years of Matt Chapman at way too much money. Yeah,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 3: but then again we get a good, not great, good
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: third baseman, never has been a good hitter, very good
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 3: defender and okay hitter. He would help our lineup, Okay, now,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 3: at that much money and through the year twenty thirty.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's something that Jerry would do, but.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: You could do it.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: You could, You could do it.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 3: Rafael Devers is available as well, and yeah, he's another
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: left handed hitter, and he's a pain in the ass
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 3: and he's probably past his prime, but there's no doubt
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 3: that he's been one of the best hitters in baseball
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 3: the last five years. But then again, you're taking on
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 3: a lot of salary, so I don't think it's something
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 3: they would do. Now. The last thing I would even
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 3: discuss is what about the Boston Red Sox. Somebody asked
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 3: me on our sub segment yesterday Contraras's and Chapman. My
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 3: initial reaction was, they're never going to.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 7: Go for that.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: But what if what if you include a Castillo in
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: that trade. If you went to the Boston Red Sox
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: and said, okay, we want Contreras and Chapman, that's immediately
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 3: thirty three million dollars onto your books, or thirty three
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: million dollars salaries, so half of that for the rest
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 3: of the year, right, and then you'd have to keep
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: Contrera's through the next two years at twenty million. Chapman's
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: off the books at the end of this year. Okay,
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: so let's get creative with that. All right, we can't
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: take on that much salary.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: I mean we could, but they won't.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: Right, But if you took Castillo off our hands for
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: the next year and a half, and you took ref
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: Snyder off of our hands, because Boston missus Rob Refsneider,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 3: believe it or.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: Not, you'll probably go there and start hitting.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: So you take the money back for the next you'll
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: be out from underneath ref Snyder. When we're out from
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 3: underneath Chapman, and then you will have Castillo next year
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: taking the money of Contreras for next season. And then,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: of course, in order to do that, we will sweeten
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 3: the prospect honeypot for you if you take the money.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: So the Red Sox aren't exactly wanting for money. They're
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 3: a big market club. They've got a fortune. But if
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 3: you wanted to, if you will take some of them
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 3: our money back in this exchange, and then we'll give
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: you a really sexy, attractive prospect package. We'll go with
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: Michael Arroyo and at Johnny Famelo and maybe a couple
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 3: of other things. You're not touching Montes, you're not getting Anderson,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: you're not getting Sloan. But maybe we'll give you a
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 3: roy that's the number forty three ranked prospect in the sport.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 3: Michael Royo's legit. So if we did an Arroyo, a
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 3: Formelo and a really sexy prospect package, but you have
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: to take money off of our books as well. You've
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: got to take Castillo, you got to take ref Snyder,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: and then we'll take Contreras. He'll be our DH Chapman
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: rounds out our bullpen beautifully. Of course, those are two
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 3: giant headache personalities that you'd be taking on, and I
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: don't know how they would jibe with the clubhouse, but
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 3: certainly from what are our two holes at the deadline,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: relief pitching potentially, and a right handed hitter that crushes.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 3: We would be getting that in the deal, and we
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 3: would be getting rid of a couple of contracts we
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: don't want, and in return, we just give a really
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 3: sexy prospect package to the Red Sox. Last thing I'd
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 3: say about it is, but the Red Sox have gotten
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: back in the wildcard race, right, They've won six straight games.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 3: They're back in the wildcard race. They might not even
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: be selling damn you, Boston so But you see how
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: difficult that that is to try to figure out, Like,
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: how do you then make that work? There's nobody that
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 3: is just lining up down the street to get Luis
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: Castillo at twenty four million dollars and is.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 8: Sixty ra Right, that's just not happening, right, even if
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 8: he is getting better, they're just looking at the money
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 8: and the total.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 3: The overall teams will look at him as he could
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: help us. Yeah, but what are you? How are we
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 3: going to make this work? Because we're not just gonna
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 3: take money off your hands for what's at best a
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 3: number three starter right now at twenty four million dollars.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: So it's very tricky I'm not saying it can't be done.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 3: You can see how tricky that sounds. And so I
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 3: get the report from Ken Rosenthal.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: I get that.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 3: You see how it could make sense. We subtract from
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: our surplus and then we try to bring something back
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 3: that helps us in other ways. But there just aren't
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: great bats available on the market at this stage and
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: might not be before August third, and starting pitching is
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: just too valuable to just give away. So it's gonna
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: be tricky. It will be tricky to pull off something
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 3: like that before the deadline. All Right, I went too long?
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 3: There's a Friday. There are good Fridays, and then there
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  Speaker 3: are Fridays when you know you got good weather waiting
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  Speaker 3: for you for the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, those are good Fridays.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And then there are Fridays where you thought it was Thursday,
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  Speaker 8: Thursday was Friday?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Those happen, and then you get to Friday and you're like, no,
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  Speaker 8: today's Friday.
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  Speaker 1: So what was yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: You're like, is today fright?
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  Speaker 6: Or day?
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  Speaker 2: Combination of Fridays.
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  Speaker 8: What it felt like yesterday? Oh, no, today is yeah,
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  Speaker 8: yesterday felt like Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Thursday, Thursday, Friarsday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Friars.
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  Speaker 3: It's Chuck and Ashley with us. No, it's good. It's
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 3: a good old fashioned Friday here today. And I'm just
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: looking outside. Oh, just the Puget Sound looks just breathtaking
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  Speaker 3: out there. The sun sparkle is just glistening listening.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we got a text earlier someone saying, hey, Chuck,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 8: if you think the Mariners are gonna win the World Series,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 8: why don't you go on up to Tulalip and put
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 8: some money down on it and then show us the ticket.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not a better but maybe I'll do that.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: I said, I'll do it.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: I'll do that.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get that done.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: You know what. I think that's a great idea.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: Frankly, yeah, we probably shouldn't have just told everyone to
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah you're thinking like you're gonna, oh this will scare you. No,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: I think that actually is a wonderful, especially right now,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: like every I started the show for people that don't
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: know by announcing the Mariners are going to win the
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: World Series. Really caught Ashley off guard.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: Really did. I was like, I don't know what.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: That's something coming off that crap game and that crap
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: series and the crap first half that we've had so
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 3: far and trying to just limp our way to the
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 3: All Star break where we only have one All Star
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: and everything everything could be going wrong. And I started
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: the show today by just saying the Mariners are going
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: to win the World Series. Uh and uh, And it
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: kind of caught everybody off poop. She pooped a little
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 3: bit in her own pants. But yeah, I do that.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not intimidated by your suggestion.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: We'll go to tulalap and we'll make that bet.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: Head right over to the Draft King sports book. You know,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 3: watch a little soccer this weekend. Put a little money
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 3: down on the Mariners. Why not That's where you could
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  Speaker 2: Get in on the action.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do it?
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: Put some shekels down? Yeah, Like I like Karen shekels around.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: Who doesn't putting them down? That's yeah. I wish I
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: did have some shekels, a pocket full of them. If
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: I had some shekels, I'd carry them just so that
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  Speaker 3: I could say I.
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  Speaker 8: Have yeah, and then somebody's like, oh, does anyone have
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 8: a quarter for this payphone?
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: You're like, I got some shekels.
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  Speaker 2: I got some shekels in my pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Will that do you?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Dempster is expected.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 7: To join us.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know. We haven't heard from him just yet.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 3: I was actually looking forward. I've never had Ryan Dempster
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 3: on the show. I've never talked to him before, and
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 3: I see he seems like a really likable person, really funny,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: has a lot of fun does a Harry carry impersonation
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 3: that I wanted to talk to him about. So we'll
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: see if we end up having Ryan here on the program.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: If not, I'm going to get back into Mariner's World series.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 3: There you go. Yeah, just so everybody knows where I'm covering.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: Everyone can lose their mind.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: Everybody can see exactly how I made sense of that
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: earlier this morning, how I could have rived at that
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 3: conclusion after this series with the Miami Marlins, but before
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 3: I dive into that, just so I don't go too
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 3: far into something.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, Ryan Dempster calls.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 3: I want to I want to bring this up because
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: this cross my mind last night during the Marlins game.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 3: So Nick Davila And by the way, you've gone back
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 3: to Doavi Law again. What is happening?
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't feel like it's consistent, just like the Mariners.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 8: Maybe every bad game he changes it. In every good game,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 8: it's a different way.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 3: Adam Jude went out of his way to let us
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: all know that it is Davie La. And now all
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, I've got Aaron who's very good at pronunciations.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, Aaron usually never misses a pronunciation on a player,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 3: and now he switched back to calling him David Law.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 3: And now he's got Ryan Roland Smith doing it as well.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 3: So is it David La? And why can't people whose
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: last name rhymes with Avi Law decide between Avila and
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 3: Avi La.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: It's a great question.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 3: Actually, grib me nuts. Anyway, they showed his mom Brad
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 3: Adam interviewed missus David La last night, and she was
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 3: really well put together. Pretty yeah, but really well put together,
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 3: like classy looking like. I like the way that she
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 3: had a collar flipped than everything else.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: Blonde hair was perfect.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 3: Blonde hair was perfect, and she just she looked like
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: a cool lady.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: Looked like a cool lady.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 3: And yet she looks exactly like Nick.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, like they look yeah, except that he's got dark hair.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 3: There's no doubt that's his mom. Yeah. I mean they
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 3: didn't have to worry about babies getting switched to the hospital.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 3: Not in the David La household. I know, it's just
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 3: like the new Heiseel household. There's no doubt Jerry is
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 3: rick skid. He doesn't have to worry about that one
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: day in his life, whether or not his.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: Wife pulled the fast one.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: Nope, doesn't have to worry about the bookman, that's for sure.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Nick David La is his mother's son. Okay, And
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: yet so this just crossed my mind. And this isn't
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 3: to talk necessarily about Missus David Law being attractive or anything.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 3: But I'm wondering, like, if you had a best friend,
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 3: just conversation, you had a best friend, he's your best buddy,
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 3: and then one day you met his mom and and
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 3: he and you found his mom attractive and yet she
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 3: looked exactly like him. Would that mess your brain up
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 3: as his friend?
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably everybody pure his mom?
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: Or when you thinking about like, I'm kind of attracted
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 3: to your mom and does that mean I'm attracted to you?
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it would mess with you a little bit, you probably,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 8: and then he'd probably get over it and be like, no,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 8: she's just a hot mom.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: And it crossed my mind have similar features cross And I'm.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 3: Not necessarily saying that missus Doveyla is worth feeling that
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 3: way about. It just crossed my mind, like, oh, that's
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: a well put together lady right there.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah she's pretty, she's pretty.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, aah, but she looks exactly like her son.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: Well maybe we should guess, request one of Nick's friends
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: and ask.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 3: Him, because it's one thing to be attracted to your
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 3: buddy's mom, but it's another thing psychologically. If you're you
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: can't deny like, oh my gosh, my buddy looks exactly
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: like her and I'm attracted to her. Yeah, that would
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: be weird. That would be super.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just exaggerating. Maybe this is pointless.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: No, I don't. I think it would be super weird.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 8: It would be the same thing if you thought your
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 8: friend's dad was hot and then realized he looked just
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 8: like his daughter.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, you'd be like wait a minute, Yeah, how.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: Do you rationalize that in your head?
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: Like what if you have a girlfriend and then you're
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 3: getting ready to marry her, and then you go home
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 3: and then you meet the parent and the father looks
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: exactly the daughter looks exactly like the father. Is it
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 3: the same anymore? Or when you look across like, oh
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 3: my gosh, I'm seeing my wife in this man's eyes. Yeah,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: I think that's even more exact now that you put
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 3: it that way, that's even a better.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: Example of what I'm talking about.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 3: Oh my mind wanders sometimes joining us now on the
• 1:35:55
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• 1:36:00
  Speaker 3: It is a former Marlon, former cub and I think
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 3: present day Canadian uh and the host of course of
• 1:36:09
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  Speaker 3: on MLB Network. I've never interviewed this guy my entire career,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 3: but I've always kind of wanted to. Ryan Dempster joins
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 3: us now here on Chuck and Buck.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan, How are you.
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  Speaker 7: Good?
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  Speaker 5: Chuck?
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  Speaker 3: Are you man? I'm great? Thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate it. Were you all candidate out during the
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  Speaker 3: World Cup?
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  Speaker 6: Did you go all in advancing advance? It almost as
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  Speaker 6: good as showing as we had in the hockey tournament, So,
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  Speaker 6: you know, listen for Canadian sports, it's it's awesome. And
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  Speaker 6: to move past that first round it was it was
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  Speaker 6: pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 6: And to be one of the and to be one
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  Speaker 6: of the co hosts too, you know, like that's pretty special.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, before we start talking Major League Baseball, I
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  Speaker 3: did want to ask you because you're kind of famous
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  Speaker 3: for your Harry Carey impersonation in baseball circles. And I
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: grew up in Illinois, and so there's really like two
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  Speaker 3: different kinds. You can either do the Will Ferrell.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, the Jenava boodles made out of cheese.
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  Speaker 3: You can do that. You can go that direction, or
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  Speaker 3: you can go and I know you know this name,
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  Speaker 3: the John cappanera direction where it's deeper and more like
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  Speaker 3: Harry actually childs during the broadcast. Who did you channel
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  Speaker 3: when you came across your Harry Carey impersonation? Or did
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  Speaker 3: you just come across it by being around Harry?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think it was a combo one, you know,
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  Speaker 6: listening to him as a kid growing up, you know
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  Speaker 6: in WGN, we had a chance to get that, so
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  Speaker 6: you just heard things he never heard from other broadcasters,
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  Speaker 6: you know, like he just would just be I just
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  Speaker 6: loved it how he was. And so then I got,
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  Speaker 6: you know, around the cups and just kind of started
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  Speaker 6: picking the brain of people and that knew them, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and you know all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 7: So it was.
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  Speaker 6: A combo. I think a combo.
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  Speaker 2: And oh geez, did we just lose him?
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  Speaker 7: Now?
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  Speaker 6: I'm with you, okay with me?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, you cut out there for a second anywhere. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: you cut out for a second. We couldn't hear you
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  Speaker 3: any but we're glad that we reconnected here. So you
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  Speaker 3: were saying it was like a combo of things, sou
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  Speaker 3: let's hear it. Then, let's get now that I've brought
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  Speaker 3: it out into the open, let's hear a little Harry
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  Speaker 3: Prairie for us here.
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  Speaker 6: The think about about Harry was he was always trying
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  Speaker 6: to make sure that the fans had a good day.
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  Speaker 6: I mean the players, they were a bunch of you know,
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 6: kind of times rich, spoiled athletes. Anyways, it's allid those
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  Speaker 6: of the Gabe. That's the most important thing. Whether it's
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 6: Bill and Cathy, good friends of mine that own a
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  Speaker 6: hardware store, up and walk he get Illinois. That's what
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  Speaker 6: it's all about. It is going to Wrigley Field where
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  Speaker 6: you gonna have an ice Colt Budweiser and get a
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  Speaker 6: fresh head.
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  Speaker 7: If you don't what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot more. It's a lot more of the
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  Speaker 3: authentic Harry. It sounds a lot more. But there is
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  Speaker 3: a trace of the Will Ferrell in there, for sure,
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  Speaker 3: There's no question about it.
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  Speaker 7: But I love it that in there.
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  Speaker 6: The best ever to the best in my personal opinion,
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  Speaker 6: and god rest of Soli's a long time Chicago Cubs fan,
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  Speaker 6: Tino Taberry, and he gave by far the best Harry
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  Speaker 6: carry going and it was incredible.
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  Speaker 7: It's kind of just like him, is that right?
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  Speaker 3: All right? Well, fun, fun character of the game. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 3: let's talk a little baseball, the All Star breaks coming.
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  Speaker 3: Can you figure out from a national perspective why our
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  Speaker 3: Mariners are sitting at five hundred and not running away
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  Speaker 3: with the American League West?
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  Speaker 11: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's always that wear off effect of last year's
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  Speaker 6: kind of postseason run. You go on, you've seen him
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  Speaker 6: with the Blue Jays a little bit. It's hard back
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  Speaker 6: to that. Everyone's like, well, you know, the last game
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  Speaker 6: is that the Alcs, we're the World Series. Hey man,
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  Speaker 6: it's a tough league and the parody around the league
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  Speaker 6: is really hard and you know, once again, continue to pitch.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, it's just a team that I think offensively,
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  Speaker 6: we're seeing struggles that we didn't expect to see, right,
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  Speaker 6: struggles out of cal cal Rawley.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 6: That maybe you know, have have helped, have helped glor
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  Speaker 6: or what you say, magnify the struggles just because he's
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 6: middle of a lineup hitter, and then that has a
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  Speaker 6: trickle down. So there's still a lot of season lafts. Obviously,
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  Speaker 6: with the pitching staff like they have, you got to
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  Speaker 6: feel comfortable where they're at. But this is their window,
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  Speaker 6: right this is where they're supposed to be right now,
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  Speaker 6: and they're supposed to be competing for their division and
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  Speaker 6: a World Series, and they got to just play some
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  Speaker 6: better baseball a little bit, a little bit more urgency
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  Speaker 6: at times. But also it is still one hundred games
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  Speaker 6: left or eighty games left in the season.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think the American League is as bad as
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  Speaker 3: it's looked here in the first half or do you suspect,
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  Speaker 3: like I do, that the Blue Jays and the Red
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  Speaker 3: Sox and the Tigers and the Mariners are going to
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  Speaker 3: start playing the way that they were supposed to play
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  Speaker 3: in the second half.
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  Speaker 6: I'm with you, I don't remember a time where the
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  Speaker 6: American League honestly wasn't you know, kind of that good,
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  Speaker 6: you know, And like I look at it, like with
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  Speaker 6: Aaron Judge out of the lineup, who's the MVP in
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  Speaker 6: the American League? M you know, like there's not like this, oh,
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  Speaker 6: this guy and this guy's doing this, and this guy's
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  Speaker 6: doing There's really not that right now, especially coming off
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  Speaker 6: what we saw last year. The MVP and the runner up,
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 6: the Hel's had injuries and he was hurt, and then
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  Speaker 6: you know, lack of performance and Aaron Judge is hurt.
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  Speaker 6: So who's the next kind of it feels like the
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  Speaker 6: National League has a little bit more of that, you know,
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  Speaker 6: star power with guys they go Tawny and and then
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 6: Kyle Schwarber and stuff like that. But you know it
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  Speaker 6: might be Junior Camen Arrow, he might be the guy.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, I think there there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 6: parrot just kind of shows you how much there's just
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  Speaker 6: not a team running away with it. I think it's
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  Speaker 6: seemed division and a lot to do with the American League.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 3: Rian Dempster is with us from Intentional Talk on MLB Network.
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  Speaker 3: Great to have him on here. He's on with Kevin
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 3: Malar and Sierra Santos on a daily basis talking some
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  Speaker 3: Major League baseball.
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  Speaker 7: All right, so.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously we got the All Star break coming up here
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  Speaker 3: as well. Uh and at this stage, did you have
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 3: an All Star experience? What was your didn't you have
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 3: an All Star experience? What was that like for you?
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  Speaker 6: I mean I got to go twice, which was yeah, phenomenal,
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  Speaker 6: you know, to have an opportunity the first time in
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  Speaker 6: Atlanta and and you know, I didn't get to pitch,
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  Speaker 6: which was a bit of a bummer. But the next
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  Speaker 6: time in New York. You know, that to me was
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  Speaker 6: about as much fun as I could have could have
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  Speaker 6: had that whole experience that turned into kind of a
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 6: magical night. From not being like wasn't gonna pitch. They
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  Speaker 6: told me I'm not gonna pitch. You're not gonna pitch.
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  Speaker 6: You're not pitching in the game. And I argued and
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  Speaker 6: I argued and I argued to be able to pitch
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  Speaker 6: in the.
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  Speaker 7: Game over and over. They're like, no, no.
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  Speaker 6: So I really didn't do much for the day of
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  Speaker 6: the game. I just kind of was hanging out and
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 6: then Dick eighth inning, Kady Drew hits the home run
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 6: off of Billy Wagner ties the game up, and I'm
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 6: taking a leak in the bathroom at Old Yankee Stadium
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  Speaker 6: and they're like, hey, if it's still tied, you're in.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, what, i haven't touched my toes since batting practice.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like going to town here. I'm like to take
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 6: deep breaths and then geta Vonnie Soda, who was my
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  Speaker 6: catcher on my Cubs team. He kind of comes up
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  Speaker 6: and he's like, hey, dude, did he come down. He'd
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  Speaker 6: started the game, he came down to warm me up,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 6: and and he's like, hey, are you okay? And I
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  Speaker 6: go I think so, and he's like, he'm throwing a strike?
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  Speaker 7: What's going on?
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  Speaker 6: And I literally too, like fifty pitches didn't throw a strike,
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  Speaker 6: warming up walk out bottom of the ninth inning, Yankee Stadium,
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  Speaker 6: and end up striking out the side. It was like
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  Speaker 6: the first time since nineteen fifty five that had happened
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  Speaker 6: in the nineteen a year later. It was crazy. It
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  Speaker 6: was just a crazy, crazy experience. It was a ton
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  Speaker 6: of fun.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing that. What a great All Star story was that?
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  Speaker 3: And you're like, I got to adopt this new routine.
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  Speaker 3: This is what I got to do every outing.
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  Speaker 7: That's right, and just don't be ready.
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  Speaker 6: No, it was. It was lightning in a bottle that day,
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  Speaker 6: for sure, and it was It was a ton of fun.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 6: And to be able to strike out the World Series
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 6: MVP Jade Druda and the inning was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk about the MLB trading deadline. The big
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 3: name Trek Schooble. Number one, will he get moved? Are
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 3: the Tiger's going to crawl back into this thing? And
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 3: then number two, where do you think an ideal fit
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 3: for schoobl might be?
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  Speaker 6: I don't think they're going to trade them because I
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  Speaker 6: don't think.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think.
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  Speaker 6: I think they're going to climb their way back in.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't know what, you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 6: where he you know, I just don't see it. I mean,
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 6: there's a ton of good fits anybody it would be
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 6: a good fit for him, right And it's like who's
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 6: going to give up the most and have an opportunity
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 6: to do that? So yeah, I really don't know, you know,
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 6: where he's gonna end up. And I'm personally, honestly, I
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 6: don't think he's gonna get traded. I think they're gonna
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 6: start playing good enough baseball that it would be really
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 6: hard to trade him. It's hard to trade a two
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 6: time Sighting Award winner, even you know, you can get
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 6: the package back.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 7: But at the same.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 6: Time, if they have a bad week, Scott Harris and
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 6: Jeff Greenberg, the guys they're in charge, they're going to
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 6: have to do that, right So you know, to me,
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  Speaker 6: is it is it a team like you know La?
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  Speaker 7: Sure? Cool?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but maybe maybe it's a team like you know,
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 6: maybe it's a.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 7: Team like Toronto. Maybe it is a team like.
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  Speaker 6: The Blue Jays or you know, possibly Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know you got him in Venzerowski. I mean,
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 6: now you're putting yourself in a World Series contention.
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  Speaker 2: Can anybody beat the Dodgers?
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but they're they're you're gonna have to
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 6: pack a launch man.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, get ready bringing everybody.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 6: They got seven guys on their bench who can start
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 6: at most teams. So yeah, they're gonna be a tough go.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 6: But I definitely think, like you know, the fact that
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 6: they've played one hundred more games than everybody else in
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 6: the past few years. Definitely, maybe hopefully some fatigue will
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 6: help help whoever's playing them out.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 3: Does Malar play more golf than anyone.
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  Speaker 9: In the world.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 6: Uh, he plays more amateur golf than anybody in the world,
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 6: for sure, I will say that. And for somebody who
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 6: plays as much golf as he does, he should be
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 6: better than he is. You know, I don't I don't
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 6: know if it's just I don't know if it's a
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 6: smoke and smoke show or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But now, are you two best friends? Because he's always
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: talking about it seems like he's got a different best
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 3: friend every day.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 2: But do you are you too?
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 3: Best friends? Can we safely say.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 6: That, yeah, we we I safely say that we're as
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 6: best of friends as you can get. Like, I mean,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 6: we've been known each other for a long time, so
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, it's one of those things where
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 6: he's a real good bud, you know, and I'm like
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 6: a brother, you know, been around him for too long
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 6: to to uh to not know everything about him and
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 6: watch his kids grow up, and just watch his desk
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 6: and love for the game of baseball and growing the
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 6: game of baseball, and more importantly, just like remembering that
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 6: dudes or dudes and we're all just out there having fun.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 6: And I'm not curing cancer. We're not rocket science. We're
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 6: just playing baseball. And sometimes it doesn't work out, and
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 6: whenever it does, just be a good person, treat people nicely.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 7: He was always that way. Oh nice.
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  Speaker 3: And he loves taking his shirt off, so there's that too,
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: he loves it.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 6: And then others he likes you golf that much, you
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 6: should be a good golfer. You take your shirt off
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 6: that much, you should have a good body. But he
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 6: doesn't have that either. So he's an interesting character. He's
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 6: a true unicorn.
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  Speaker 3: Hey man, thanks, we appreciate it. But enjoy the second
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  Speaker 3: half and hopefully we can chat again sometime. You got it,
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 3: all right, Dempster joining us here on Chuck and Buck
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 3: of the morning. All right, coming up next. If you
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 3: didn't hear Brad Evans' comments on Christian Polisic, we got
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 3: into the topic of have has the media have former
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 3: players been too hard on Polisic this week? And so
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 3: you got to hear his response, and of course Ashley
• 1:48:26
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