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Chuck & Buck 3-18 Hour 3: WBC criticism, Al Kinisky and the Ravens did Maxx real dirty... · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: All right, doesn't get back on track here, Chuck buck
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Speaker 1: Ashley with you. We roll into the eight o'clock hour
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Speaker 1: on a hum day. We do have a Green Jacket
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Speaker 1: draft coming up. We're gonna preview March Madness for you
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Speaker 1: at nine o'clock. Also, al Kiniski joins us later this hour,
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Speaker 1: cracking coming off a tough loss. And now I have
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Speaker 1: to go on the road for six days. Al Kaniski,
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Speaker 1: on the road, whatever it fits you for six days.
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Speaker 1: What kind of trouble will those.
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Speaker 2: Two youngsters get into the best kind?
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Speaker 1: Probably In the meantime, you can get into a little
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Speaker 1: trouble yourself, if that's something that tickles your own fancy.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be out the Tulala Prasort Casino watching some
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Speaker 1: college basketball tomorrow from eleven to one. That's right, Our
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Speaker 1: friends at Tulala Presort Casino are hosting us out there
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Speaker 1: at the Draft Kings Sportsbook. It'll be Bucky and myself.
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Speaker 1: If you want to swing on by watch some games. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: have some fun out there, and then yeah, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have some prizes to give away as well. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: a little bracket contest of our own. We're gonna ask
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Speaker 1: you to fill out the Thursday slate of games bracket
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Speaker 1: and just the Thursday games. As long as you get
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Speaker 1: your bracket filled out before one o'clock tomorrow, then you
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Speaker 1: will compete against Bucky and I on that particular day's games.
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Speaker 1: So you can just sit there and just revel in
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Speaker 1: your victories or cry over your losses right there at
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Speaker 1: the DraftKings Sports Book all day long. And if you
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Speaker 1: beat either one of this, we'll put your name into
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Speaker 1: a drawing. One person will win the drawing. That's how
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Speaker 1: it's gonna work. We'll explain everything if you didn't catch
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Speaker 1: it all once you come down there and join us
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Speaker 1: from eleven to one at Tulalup Resort, Casino and Hotel.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yep.
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Speaker 4: And I would say just be ready to drown your
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Speaker 4: sorrows in beer, because I got a perfect bracket, and
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Speaker 4: I think Chuck, you know, I don't know if your
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Speaker 4: is gonna be perfect, but you might give them a chance.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna be a lot chalkier this year than normal,
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Speaker 1: so we probably have very similar brackets as my guess
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Speaker 1: as you're going Chalky, Yeah, probably like your chance you
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Speaker 1: are Chalky white Boardwalk Empire that's where you are.
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Speaker 3: What is that character?
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Speaker 1: It's a character and Boardwalk Empire very good show that
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Speaker 1: you should watch.
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Speaker 2: Maybe not, Yeah, I've never seen it.
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Speaker 1: Chalky White, that's his name, Chalky White, Yeah, that's his name. Okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, Uh, let's uh, let's talk to some w
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Speaker 1: b C here, because I woke up this morning to
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Speaker 1: everybody just playing the blame game. We've already had this
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Speaker 1: conversation once today. I'm just going to get this out
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Speaker 1: of the way. I'm not going to listen to you know,
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Speaker 1: they didn't we lost because we don't care. I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to listen to that now. I will say that
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Speaker 1: there can be two truths that Venezuela did want it more.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 1: They've got a country that has been war torn, They've
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Speaker 1: got a country that has fallen on some hard times.
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Speaker 1: There's some difficult things going back there in their homeland,
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Speaker 1: and they spend most of their year here in America, Uh,
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Speaker 1: living wealthy. Meanwhile, a lot of people that they know
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Speaker 1: and love are in danger, and so there was a
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Speaker 1: lot of emotion that flooded out last night. And they're
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Speaker 1: an emotional, you know, emotional group to begin with. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think that they did want it more, but I
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Speaker 1: think they might have wanted it more than anybody on
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Speaker 1: the planet to win that game last night. But I
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Speaker 1: don't think the US lost because they didn't want it
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Speaker 1: badly enough. That's not the reason that they lost. And
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Speaker 1: so that's one finger pointing that I'm just not I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna not only not gonna buy it, I'm gonna bring
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Speaker 1: it up on my radio show and shoot it down
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Speaker 1: because I think that's very unfair. And we do this
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Speaker 1: to our American athletes. I mean, we make it impossible
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Speaker 1: if they win, they were supposed to and if they lose,
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Speaker 1: they didn't try hard enough. And I think that that's
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Speaker 1: just so grossly unfair. And then you wonder why they
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Speaker 1: we don't have more Americans participating on a global scale.
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Speaker 1: There's no reward in it. Yeah, just get criticized and
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Speaker 1: chastised one way or the other.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, to some degree. I mean, I don't understand the
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Speaker 4: need necessarily to throw a blame. I mean, it's just
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Speaker 4: the game of baseball is you can have a lesser team.
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Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that well, I am saying that
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Speaker 4: the Venezuela's team maybe is not as good as US.
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Speaker 4: But they're good. They're very good. Yes, it's not a
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Speaker 4: huge discrepancy. It's not a huge difference between the two
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Speaker 4: rosters in my opinion. And so I mean, you're not
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Speaker 4: going to put a high school team up against that
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Speaker 4: US team and ever win.
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Speaker 3: That's just not going to happen.
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Speaker 4: But another team full of Major League Baseball starters and
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Speaker 4: some of a lot of them superstars. You were talking
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Speaker 4: about Jackson Cheerio being down in the nine to zero,
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Speaker 4: and he's like the best hitter on the team that
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Speaker 4: he plays on during the regular season.
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Speaker 3: So I think.
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Speaker 4: That there is a lot of praise that can be
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Speaker 4: given to Venezuela sure, without having to also criticize. Now
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Speaker 4: it's not that there isn't things to criticize, but to
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Speaker 4: say that basically go to they didn't have the heart
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Speaker 4: or their heart wasn't in it type of thing. No,
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Speaker 4: that's just not the fact. Why because they weren't as
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Speaker 4: flamboyant or over the top with their emotions, it doesn't
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Speaker 4: mean they didn't have emotions. I think you can have
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Speaker 4: a difference in how much it means to you based
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Speaker 4: on your culture and the plain and simple fact that
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Speaker 4: Venezuelans love baseball more than just about anything on the planet.
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Speaker 4: And so if you're a Venezuelan baseball player and to
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Speaker 4: you get to bring back a WBC championship that your
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Speaker 4: country has never won up to this point. And yet
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Speaker 4: they are the Caribbean World Series, which is the winner
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Speaker 4: of Venezuela versus the winner of the Dominican Winter League
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Speaker 4: versus Puerto Rico and Mexico. That's a big deal for them, right,
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Speaker 4: I mean, it is a huge deal. So for them,
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Speaker 4: this is another one of those tournaments. But it's the
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Speaker 4: World Baseball Classic, not the Caribbean World Series. And so
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Speaker 4: I can see why it means so much to them,
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Speaker 4: And yet it doesn't mean that it doesn't mean enough
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Speaker 4: to our guys. I guess that's what it describans is
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Speaker 4: it means it's not as important to the American players
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Speaker 4: to win the WBC A game one that basically is
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Speaker 4: three or four pool play games and then a one
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Speaker 4: and done or knockout tournament for three games. That is
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Speaker 4: not as important to most of the guys in the
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Speaker 4: American team as winning the World Series.
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Speaker 1: Is not as important to me. And I'm an American
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Speaker 1: baseball fan, and I think most people feel we started
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Speaker 1: the tournament having a conversation about how, yeah, I'd rather
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Speaker 1: my local team won the World Series than the team
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Speaker 1: America win the WBC. So why would you think American
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Speaker 1: rap baseball players raised that way would feel differently this
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Speaker 1: time of the year. It's like they get criticized for
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Speaker 1: not wanting it badly enough, and then get also criticized
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Speaker 1: for caring too much about it and not caring about
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Speaker 1: their own team's World Series chances. I mean, they can't win.
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Speaker 1: This is kind of my point. I mean, I can
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Speaker 1: I can promise you. I can promise you this. Last night,
7:02
Speaker 1: Arizona Diamondback fans were sitting there watching Eduardo Rodriguez paint
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Speaker 1: the corners and saying to themselves, where's that precision been
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Speaker 1: for our twenty five million dollar pitcher for us? I
7:13
Speaker 1: guarantee you that way through the mind of an Arizona
7:15
Speaker 1: Diamondback fan. I guarantee you went through the mind of
7:17
Speaker 1: an Atlanta Braves fan. It's watching Ronald Acunya bust his
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Speaker 1: ass on every single play, Like, why do you half
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Speaker 1: asset with us half the time?
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 1: So we in America we put more emphasis on I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is a young tournament. We put more emphasis on
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Speaker 1: the local team winning the World Series because that's the
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Speaker 1: way we grew up on it. Then we do the
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Speaker 1: national team winning whatever tournament that the sports world puts
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Speaker 1: in front of it. So why would our players act
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Speaker 1: any differently that were raised the exact same way.
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Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing I was going to say
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Speaker 2: about the emotions.
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Speaker 6: I mean, when you grow up in America, especially as
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Speaker 6: a male, right you're told, oh, stiff upper lip, you
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Speaker 6: know you've got this tough enough.
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Speaker 2: It's not your Most.
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Speaker 6: People aren't praised for showing their emotions. It's more keep it,
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Speaker 6: you know, Tampa down, keep calm, don't don't show your emotions.
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Speaker 6: I mean, those are the things that are all put
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Speaker 6: into people, into people's minds throughout their lives. So how
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Speaker 6: are you How on earth would you then turn around
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Speaker 6: and then show all these emotions that you were never
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Speaker 6: raised with in the first place, to show in a
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Speaker 6: baseball game, Because, first off, I guarantee you if the
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Speaker 6: Americans had won and had been crying and had been
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Speaker 6: doing all those things, then.
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Speaker 2: People would have been criticizing them for that. Why are
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Speaker 2: you crying?
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Speaker 6: It's baseball? I mean probably, yeah, you're right, they can't win.
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Speaker 4: Well, we brought up the topic of Julio Rodriguez when
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Speaker 4: he was asked before this, would this mean more to
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Speaker 4: you to win the WBC than the World Series? Yeah,
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Speaker 4: and he said, yeah, it would. That's and he's like,
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Speaker 4: I love playing for Seattle and I want to bring back,
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Speaker 4: but this is something about this because of how much
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Speaker 4: it means in the Dominican and Latin American countries, and
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Speaker 4: and you win something with that, it's it's it's a
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Speaker 4: different thing. It's it's literally it's the same sport, but
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Speaker 4: it's completely different the way in which this whole thing's
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Speaker 4: set up and who you're playing for and what it
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Speaker 4: means to you internally. And yet there was a lot
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Speaker 4: of people that were like, I can't believe you would
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Speaker 4: say that.
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Speaker 1: I know, like.
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Speaker 4: Because you're like, well, I want you. I mean, you're
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Speaker 4: not making you know, twenty million dollars a year for
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Speaker 4: Team Dominican. They're not the ones paying you. You should
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Speaker 4: mean this should mean more. And yet so people would
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Speaker 4: criticize that, and then on the flip side of it,
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Speaker 4: criticize Americans for essentially believe in the same way that
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Speaker 4: you think Julio should think, Yeah, should think, but doesn't think.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't that's it's just a bitching and moaning part
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Speaker 4: of it. And hopefully it's.
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Speaker 1: Two pools of people. Hopefully it's not crossover. Hopefully it's
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Speaker 1: not just hypocrisy, because that's what I cannot stand. I
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Speaker 1: just you know, I had to wake up this morning
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Speaker 1: to the US team didn't care enough, and that's our problem.
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Speaker 1: I will I think it's I think everybody could admit, no,
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Speaker 1: they didn't care as much as what Venezuela cared about
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Speaker 1: winning the WBC. They didn't, but it's not the reason
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Speaker 1: that they lost the game either or the turn. And
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Speaker 1: they did get to the finals. Two of the last
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Speaker 1: two events they've gotten to the finals and lost by
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Speaker 1: a run each time. It's not like they went out
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Speaker 1: there and fielded. They used to feel the team of
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Speaker 1: two stars and then whoever else would be willing to play.
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Speaker 1: That was we put an all star team on the
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Speaker 1: field this year, and those are all guys that I
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Speaker 1: thought represented America well in the entire tournament, and even
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Speaker 1: last night, they just got out played. They got out
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Speaker 1: played by a team and maybe they did won a
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Speaker 1: little bit more and maybe that was the edge. But
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Speaker 1: I don't think that we lost because we don't care.
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Speaker 1: America players don't care.
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Speaker 6: Well, and again, the American players, if they didn't care,
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Speaker 6: wouldn't have agreed to play in the WBC. As we
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Speaker 6: talked about the world or the World Series is the priority, right,
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Speaker 6: that is what most American born Major League Baseball player's
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Speaker 6: ultimate goal is. That is what they are playing in
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Speaker 6: the backyard. That is what they are excited about. So
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Speaker 6: that's the priority. Why would you, if you didn't care,
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Speaker 6: do anything to take away from your preparation for a
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Speaker 6: season where you're hopefully going to vie for a World Series.
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Speaker 6: You have to care in order to give that time
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Speaker 6: and make that effort. And it's as Bucky said earlier,
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Speaker 6: just because you didn't care as much as Venezuela doesn't
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Speaker 6: mean they didn't care.
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Speaker 1: Now we can do some finger pointing, a lot of
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Speaker 1: people pointing at Mark durosa friend of Bucky, friend of
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Speaker 1: the program. We go as far as saying, but didn't
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Speaker 1: exactly have a sterling tournament. How much does he get
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Speaker 1: blamed for managerial decisions?
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Speaker 4: Well, I don't think that. I think it's ridiculous. I
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Speaker 4: saw some tweet that was like Mark de Rosa has
11:55
Speaker 4: gotta go, you know, bring Dusty Baker or something.
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Speaker 3: I mean, how dare.
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Speaker 4: You you you after you tie the game up or
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Speaker 4: you you end up having a lead off walk to
12:05
Speaker 4: Luis Erraz who's got high school pop.
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Speaker 1: Now, there was a base open and they walked him
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Speaker 1: because they wanted the righty to face.
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Speaker 3: Alrighty, that's what it was.
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Speaker 4: Well, okay, okay, that's after the stolen base you're talking about, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I was talking about there was a lead off walk.
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Speaker 3: That came back to haunt them at one point. Anyways,
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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 4: The point I was that this tweet was about you
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Speaker 4: walk in a batter and it wasn't the intentional walk.
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Speaker 4: When I know what you're talking about there, I'm like that,
12:34
Speaker 4: but there's nobody's intention or nobody is trying to walk.
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Speaker 4: So that's not a Dero. Dero didn't have a good tournament.
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Speaker 4: I mean when he stepped in it by saying we
12:43
Speaker 4: punched our ticket or whatever, it didn't have a good tournament.
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Speaker 4: Now everything else is going to be looked at under
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Speaker 4: a microscope, and I think that some of the things
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Speaker 4: can be questioned.
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Speaker 3: He I typically, you know, me.
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Speaker 4: I'll typically give the benefit of the doubt to the
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Speaker 4: guy that's in the clubhouse and understands what the feel
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Speaker 4: is in there. I don't know, oh for sure, if
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Speaker 4: I agree with all of I don't think I'm playing
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Speaker 4: Bregmant at third over Gunner Henderson. If you're riding the
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Speaker 4: hot hand. That's where I'm now, lefty starter versus you know,
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Speaker 4: Bregman being a riety Okay, I get it. But on
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Speaker 4: the flip side of it, with Cal Rawley as probably
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Speaker 4: the one that but this one, I have a hard
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Speaker 4: time distinguishing whether or not it's my homer. How much
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Speaker 4: I like Cal and how much I can't believe that
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Speaker 4: you wouldn't play him in the semifinals or the finals
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Speaker 4: because I don't think that Will Smith is was that hot.
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Speaker 4: I don't think he was doing anything exceptionally hot. He
13:33
Speaker 4: wasn't doing anything great defensively. He wasn't doing anything great offensively.
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Speaker 4: I get it, he had a big hit in the
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Speaker 4: World Series last year. He has some clutch gene in
13:42
Speaker 4: him too. I think he's a really good player on
13:45
Speaker 4: a great team, And I think you have a great
13:48
Speaker 4: player on a really great team in Seattle and I
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Speaker 4: think that leaving him on the bench I think was
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Speaker 4: a mistake too.
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Speaker 6: Cal Yeah, I mean I didn't understand why he wasn't
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Speaker 6: playing by And also at the same time, I'm never
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Speaker 6: going to think that I am going to know more
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Speaker 6: than Mark Durosa on his decisions. So I would always
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Speaker 6: defer to what you two would think of that in
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Speaker 6: this case, because I think in my case it probably
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Speaker 6: is pure homersm.
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Speaker 1: I think cal Raley's the best catcher on the team
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Speaker 1: and he should have played in the biggest game. And
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Speaker 1: Bucky's right. I don't think Will Smith was so hot
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Speaker 1: that you're like, oh, we can't I loved. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if if your argument is I love to play Cal,
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Speaker 1: but how can I ignore what Will Smith's did, But
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Speaker 1: he wasn't He wasn't that kind of hot, right, Bucky's right,
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Speaker 1: And so you defer, I think, to the better player
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Speaker 1: in that situation. I mean, I'm not going to lay
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Speaker 1: a lot at d Ro's feet for losing last night
14:44
Speaker 1: no game, even though I would have started cal Raley
14:47
Speaker 1: as well, and I would have started Gunner Henderson over
14:48
Speaker 1: Alex Spregnant. He's just a better player at this stage
14:50
Speaker 1: in their careers. But I don't think we're going to
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Speaker 1: see DeRosa be asked back. I think that what happened
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Speaker 1: earlier in the turn, I don't know if there's.
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Speaker 3: Any defense for that.
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Speaker 1: And so, and I think that there was this element
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Speaker 1: of him trying to like create these magical memories versus
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Speaker 1: what's it take to win the damn tournament? And so
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Speaker 1: I think you could get a better tactician, a more
15:17
Speaker 1: seasoned tactician. Mark de Ros has never managed before, and
15:21
Speaker 1: yet we're throwing them into the fire on an event
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Speaker 1: that obviously is being taken very seriously. And so I
15:28
Speaker 1: mean a Terry Francona or a Steven Vote or somebody
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Speaker 1: like that that has made those decisions over and over
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Speaker 1: and over and over again, and more often than not
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Speaker 1: they are they turn out to be good. I think
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Speaker 1: maybe that's your better choice. It's going to be busy, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I team.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but you could get a retired Yeah, you could
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Speaker 6: get an older retired guy, but you're not going to
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Speaker 6: get somebody better.
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Speaker 4: De Ro's invested in this, doing this now. Yeah, he's
15:55
Speaker 4: a he's a talking head on TV, but the dude
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Speaker 4: played for a while time of the big leagues. He's
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Speaker 4: capable of managing. Yeah, did he stepped in it with
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Speaker 4: the one mistake that he had. Other than that, he's
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Speaker 4: the he's kind of rallied the troops. He got these guys,
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Speaker 4: got judged to sign up, got cal to sign up
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Speaker 4: for this whole thing, because it wasn't that long ago
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Speaker 4: that you were having a hard time getting superstars playing.
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Speaker 1: Terry Francona will not.
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Speaker 7: Be managing three years from now.
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Speaker 4: Yeah he might not be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, you're
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Speaker 4: gonna have currents. Yeah, You're gonna have to get somebody.
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Speaker 4: It's not a current, is all I was saying is
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Speaker 4: somebody is not a current Manager's not gonna step away
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Speaker 4: from managing their team during spring training to manage the WBC.
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Speaker 1: All right, Al Konski's next Sports Radio ninety three point
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Speaker 1: three kJ r f M party. Normally it's Alcineski at
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Speaker 1: nine thirty with us here on the Chuck and Buck
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Speaker 1: on Wednesdays, but he's got to get on a plane.
16:52
Speaker 1: He's got a road trip to call six games of four.
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM and
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Speaker 1: the Crack Audio Network. Alcnisky joins us right now on
17:02
Speaker 1: the radio program Good Morning.
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Speaker 5: Out, Good morning, Chuck, hurry, are you good? We're good.
17:08
Speaker 1: Sure would be nice if you were taking a three
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Speaker 1: game winning streak with you and put it in the
17:12
Speaker 1: overhead compartment or safely under the seat in front of
17:16
Speaker 1: you on this flight you're getting ready.
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Speaker 5: To take, yeah, or in my cup with a little
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Speaker 5: bit of ice. Yeah, yeah, I'd like that feeling.
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Speaker 1: So what went wrong last night? What was the you know,
17:28
Speaker 1: you blow out two teams in a row. The Bobby
17:31
Speaker 1: McMahon train seems to be rolling along and then all
17:34
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the lightning turned the tables. A six
17:36
Speaker 1: to two victory over the Kraken last night.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, the Crack of have faced some of
17:42
Speaker 5: the top teams in the league over the last week
17:44
Speaker 5: or so, and you know, Carolina was the first one
17:47
Speaker 5: that was a tight two to one win for the
17:49
Speaker 5: Crack and they faced Colorado lost to them, and now
17:51
Speaker 5: they faced Tampa Bay and lost to them. But arguably
17:55
Speaker 5: those are three of the top teams in the league.
17:57
Speaker 5: And I, you know, I would say that last night
17:59
Speaker 5: the even looks the best, even though it was a
18:01
Speaker 5: six to two finish. At one point it was three
18:04
Speaker 5: to two Tampa Bay and Seattle had made a comeback
18:07
Speaker 5: to bring it back to three to two, so they
18:09
Speaker 5: were in the game for a good portion of it. Unfortunately,
18:12
Speaker 5: Tampa just you know, it's so talented upfront with their
18:16
Speaker 5: forwards like Nikita kutrav one of the best players in
18:19
Speaker 5: the league, put on a show last night with a
18:21
Speaker 5: five point game.
18:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously not the way that they wanted it to go. So,
18:26
Speaker 4: I mean, this road trip coming up, what do they
18:29
Speaker 4: have to do. It's not going to be an easy one,
18:31
Speaker 4: but it does feel like there's gonna be a lot
18:34
Speaker 4: of a lot that goes into the postseason potential based
18:38
Speaker 4: on this whole thing.
18:39
Speaker 3: So how many points do they got to get?
18:42
Speaker 5: Well, I'd like to see them, Bucky get get above
18:45
Speaker 5: five hundred. So there's a six game road trip, twelve
18:48
Speaker 5: to twelve points on the line. I'd like to see
18:50
Speaker 5: them come back with at least six of those, but gosh,
18:53
Speaker 5: they really need seven or eight, so you know, it
18:57
Speaker 5: would be good. Six would be okay, and I think
19:01
Speaker 5: anything better than eight is exceptional. So it's gonna be
19:04
Speaker 5: a tough road trip. The Boys start in Nashville Thursday night,
19:08
Speaker 5: go on to Columbus after that. Both teams in Florida
19:12
Speaker 5: and then finish in Buffalo before we stop back in
19:14
Speaker 5: Seattle for a day and a half to do some laundry,
19:17
Speaker 5: and then go back to end for that six games.
19:19
Speaker 5: So it's gonna be.
19:20
Speaker 3: A tough run.
19:22
Speaker 1: Al Koniski is with us on his way to the airport,
19:24
Speaker 1: getting ready to head out on a six game road
19:26
Speaker 1: trip with the Seattle Krack and there'll be in Nashville
19:29
Speaker 1: tomorrow night to take on the Predators. But of course
19:34
Speaker 1: the team has gone too and one in their last
19:36
Speaker 1: three games, all three games that Bobby McMahon has played
19:39
Speaker 1: in a Crack and uniform. What are your first impressions
19:42
Speaker 1: of our newcomer.
19:44
Speaker 5: I mean, I want to put a ton of pressure
19:46
Speaker 5: on him, but jeez, six points three games. I'll take
19:49
Speaker 5: that by anybody that wants to join the Crack, and
19:52
Speaker 5: he has looked good so far. He's the real deal.
19:56
Speaker 5: He's not only putting points up on the board, but
19:58
Speaker 5: he's playing physical as well. He's been a good ad
20:02
Speaker 5: to that top line with Matty Benayers in the middle
20:04
Speaker 5: than Jordan Everley on the right side. I think that
20:06
Speaker 5: if this team, you know, I'm now having sliding Jared
20:09
Speaker 5: McCann down to the second line can get a real
20:11
Speaker 5: one to two punch from their two top lines, they're
20:15
Speaker 5: gonna start to see a lot more scoring and if
20:17
Speaker 5: they can take care of their own end first, they'll
20:19
Speaker 5: start winning a lot more of these games.
20:21
Speaker 4: When you start getting into the idea of okay, wow,
20:24
Speaker 4: there's a little boost to our offense. Is it difficult
20:27
Speaker 4: to also then stay focused on making sure of taking
20:30
Speaker 4: care of your own end like you're talking about or.
20:32
Speaker 5: No, No, I don't think so, Bucky. I think that
20:36
Speaker 5: this lane Lampert system is talked about constantly. You're held
20:40
Speaker 5: an accountable constantly, and you know, if you take your
20:43
Speaker 5: eye off that defensive ball, you know they're gonna let
20:46
Speaker 5: you know right away, Hey, you didn't you didn't complete
20:49
Speaker 5: your task. You didn't you didn't do your job out there,
20:51
Speaker 5: and you'll be reminded of that real quick. So I
20:54
Speaker 5: don't think that will happen, even though they're putting more
20:57
Speaker 5: pucks in the that and I'm hoping that that that
21:00
Speaker 5: is the outcome, is that they're they're scoring differential starts
21:03
Speaker 5: to go up. And I think that, you know, as
21:06
Speaker 5: of the Olympic break, it's shown that, uh, especially in
21:10
Speaker 5: the first period, they've got a they were coming to
21:12
Speaker 5: the game last night with a plus two scoring differential
21:14
Speaker 5: just on the first period. So their starts have been
21:17
Speaker 5: a lot better. But I think overall you're starting to
21:19
Speaker 5: see a lot more tucks going to that.
21:21
Speaker 1: That's a sport where there are a lot of one
21:23
Speaker 1: goal differences, a lot of games that go into extra time.
21:27
Speaker 1: And yet, uh, since that Olympic break, I mean, it's
21:30
Speaker 1: you know, six two, six, two, five, two, five to one,
21:33
Speaker 1: four to two seven four. What do you chalk that
21:37
Speaker 1: up to that either the Kraken or on that night
21:40
Speaker 1: or they're not on that night? Is it just that simple?
21:43
Speaker 5: Wow? Ever?
21:44
Speaker 1: Right?
21:44
Speaker 5: And I have this conversation all the time about from
21:46
Speaker 5: a fans perspective, with a fan rather see a two
21:49
Speaker 5: to one, you know, a win, or or a six
21:52
Speaker 5: to four loss. And you know, from from my perspective,
21:55
Speaker 5: a win is a win, but it's a lot more
21:57
Speaker 5: exciting when there's lots of goals going up on the
21:59
Speaker 5: board and you'd like to be on the winning side
22:01
Speaker 5: of that. Why that's happening, I don't know. I think
22:04
Speaker 5: as we head towards playoffs, I think the games actually
22:07
Speaker 5: tend to get a lot more, you know, tight, and
22:10
Speaker 5: then they become a lot more one goal games and
22:12
Speaker 5: a lot of a lot of the games go to overtime.
22:14
Speaker 5: So I'm just as surprised as you are of these
22:17
Speaker 5: big goals goal scoring differentials.
22:19
Speaker 1: All right, So Nashville then tomorrow night, they're a little
22:23
Speaker 1: bit over five hundred, still got a shot at the
22:26
Speaker 1: playoffs themselves. But you tell me, because I'm tired of
22:30
Speaker 1: trying to figure this team out, how important is it
22:32
Speaker 1: to get off to a good start on this road
22:34
Speaker 1: trip tomorrow night.
22:36
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, Nashville beat beat the Cracking last
22:39
Speaker 5: time they were in town here in Seattle, so I
22:42
Speaker 5: think that they have to start with that mindset of
22:44
Speaker 5: getting that game back that they gave up to Nashville
22:47
Speaker 5: a week or so ago. So that's that's number one
22:50
Speaker 5: on the on the road trip. I think, like I said,
22:52
Speaker 5: a good start against them will set them up well
22:55
Speaker 5: for getting two points. And Nashville is a team that's
22:58
Speaker 5: still in the hunt. There are a few spots below
23:02
Speaker 5: the Cracking at La and Zeno z Dippit at their
23:04
Speaker 5: heels right now, but Nashal's right below them, so they've
23:07
Speaker 5: got to keep them down there and the only way
23:09
Speaker 5: you do that is by beating them in regulation.
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Speaker 1: All right, al well, thank you for taking out some
23:14
Speaker 1: time here early this morning for us. We appreciate it.
23:17
Speaker 1: Have a safe flight, have a great road trip, and
23:20
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you next week.
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Speaker 5: All right, boys, could be good?
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Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 1: All right, it's Chuck Buckets Ashley with you. Well, we're
25:18
Speaker 1: going to Green Jacket Draft at nine o'clock. I got
25:20
Speaker 1: to talk about this Max Crosby thing. I mean, we
25:22
Speaker 1: certainly discussed it a lot when there was the thought
25:25
Speaker 1: that maybe he could become a Seahawk, and he still
25:27
Speaker 1: might who knows before this crazy offseason comes to a close.
25:31
Speaker 1: But yesterday on the Rush podcast, he explained the entire
25:36
Speaker 1: process through his eyes and basically couldn't have been more
25:40
Speaker 1: fired up to become a Baltimore Raven. Flies out to Baltimore,
25:44
Speaker 1: gets ready to take his physical. He has not even
25:48
Speaker 1: met on the tarmac by the general manager. He's not
25:51
Speaker 1: met at the facility by the general manager. He doesn't
25:55
Speaker 1: see the general manager for the first five hours that
25:58
Speaker 1: he's there. He's so excited. He's like, Okay, they must
26:03
Speaker 1: just do things differently. I thought I would have met
26:05
Speaker 1: him by now, but that's kind of weird, and he
26:08
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna let his enthusiasm get tarnished. Then he said
26:12
Speaker 1: he met the head coach, the brand new head coach, Mintor,
26:16
Speaker 1: and he said Mentor's energy was just all off, like
26:19
Speaker 1: he wouldn't even look me in the eye. And he
26:21
Speaker 1: knew then that something was up. Next thing, you know,
26:25
Speaker 1: he gets sat down, he's told something came up on
26:28
Speaker 1: your medical that we didn't like. Then he's all worked
26:33
Speaker 1: up about that. He calls his doctor slash surgeon. Doctor
26:38
Speaker 1: tells him, your knee is perfectly fine. You are ahead
26:41
Speaker 1: of schedule. You're going to be great. Anybody that's looking
26:43
Speaker 1: at that is not reading it the right way. And
26:47
Speaker 1: so then he's angry. Now all of a sudden, he's
26:49
Speaker 1: angry about it. Then he talks to the Ravens people.
26:53
Speaker 1: They assure nowhere we're fine. Where We're okay. Where okay?
26:56
Speaker 1: And then two minutes later he gets a call from
26:58
Speaker 1: his agent saying, deals off, You're not going to be
27:01
Speaker 1: a Raven And he said, I flew home and I
27:03
Speaker 1: was just absolutely livid about the entire process. But I
27:06
Speaker 1: guess by the time he landed he was fine with it.
27:11
Speaker 1: And I'm a raider and so be it. I'm going
27:13
Speaker 1: to approach this like I'm a raider again, and I
27:16
Speaker 1: got to put this behind me.
27:17
Speaker 3: Crazy story. It is crazy story.
27:19
Speaker 4: I mean, just the whole thing from the time when
27:22
Speaker 4: basically they were deciding, now, we're not going to risk
27:24
Speaker 4: it anymore. You're you know, you're playing through some stuff.
27:27
Speaker 4: So at the end of last season, just go ahead
27:29
Speaker 4: and don't play. And he's like, all right, well then
27:31
Speaker 4: I'm out. That's not how I want to do this
27:33
Speaker 4: whole thing. I want to play if I'm capable of playing,
27:36
Speaker 4: I want to be out there with my guys. Boom
27:38
Speaker 4: He all of a sudden goes. It seemed like a
27:40
Speaker 4: great move for the Ravens. Now they were giving up
27:43
Speaker 4: a lot to do it. But this story, the way
27:45
Speaker 4: it came out, him telling his side of the story
27:48
Speaker 4: to not see anybody for five hours and not seeing
27:50
Speaker 4: any of the you know, coaches and gms while you're
27:53
Speaker 4: going through your stuff, it almost it just screams of man,
27:59
Speaker 4: we thought THATSONO had already been gone, and now we can.
28:04
Speaker 4: Now we can just we can. We can fail this
28:06
Speaker 4: thing because it's.
28:07
Speaker 1: You believe him one hundred percent too, Like his entire
28:09
Speaker 1: breakdown of it, I believe it all.
28:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and it goes with I think where most
28:13
Speaker 4: of us were kind of leaning. I think most people
28:15
Speaker 4: thought that there was something shady about the way in
28:17
Speaker 4: which it went down. Uh, this just kind of almost
28:21
Speaker 4: hammers it makes it concrete.
28:23
Speaker 6: I think the only people who don't think it's shady
28:24
Speaker 6: are Ravens fans. I was actually getting my hair done
28:26
Speaker 6: the other day and there was a guy in the
28:28
Speaker 6: salon next to me who was like, yeah, well they were.
28:31
Speaker 6: They said they were trying to get Hendrickson and Crosby,
28:33
Speaker 6: and the guy doing his hair was like, man, come on,
28:35
Speaker 6: that was a lie, and I wanted to say something too.
28:38
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, man, that was a lie.
28:40
Speaker 6: They screwed over Max Crosby failed as medicals so that
28:44
Speaker 6: they could then not have to give up draft picks,
28:46
Speaker 6: so they could go get Trey Hendrickson because they had
28:49
Speaker 6: no clue that he would still be sitting there.
28:52
Speaker 3: It definitely feels shady.
28:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt about it.
28:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, but the Ravens they got a unicorn and they
28:59
Speaker 7: could have healed his knee with the blood of the unicorn.
29:01
Speaker 2: Well that I believe.
29:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, actually I would believe that over the idea that
29:05
Speaker 6: they didn't fail mix Crosby's medical on purpose.
29:08
Speaker 7: Oh, they wanted him badly, just that the fairies in
29:11
Speaker 7: the Woodland couldn't fix him.
29:15
Speaker 3: That would be good if came out with that.
29:19
Speaker 4: Well, we knew he had an issue, but we thought
29:22
Speaker 4: that our unicorn would be able to heal it.
29:24
Speaker 3: Five hours in I get in word, the unicorn was
29:27
Speaker 3: not working, and so.
29:28
Speaker 1: Not only didn't meet him at the plane, didn't meet
29:30
Speaker 1: him at.
29:31
Speaker 6: The facial That was say, at the very least, if
29:34
Speaker 6: it gets off the plane, you should at least be
29:36
Speaker 6: at the doors to the facility when he gets there.
29:38
Speaker 1: A significant move an en root terrible. The costa had
29:43
Speaker 1: already changed his mind. We're giving up too much when
29:46
Speaker 1: I could get Hendrickson without draft compensation.
29:49
Speaker 2: Terrible.
29:49
Speaker 1: That's what happened. Something have to convince me otherwise. I'm
29:53
Speaker 1: not saying I know it for a fact, because I don't.
29:55
Speaker 6: They're gonna have to work hard to convince me otherwise convinced,
29:58
Speaker 6: but he's free.
29:59
Speaker 1: And here's another thing. You're going have to work hard
30:00
Speaker 1: to convince me that Max Crosby's going to remain.
30:02
Speaker 2: A Raider, right and that he wants to be in Vegas.
30:05
Speaker 1: So I think they're gonna give it a little more time,
30:06
Speaker 1: make sure the knee is healed completely, and then they're
30:10
Speaker 1: going to move on from him for a couple draft picks.
30:13
Speaker 1: I think they'll end up getting a similar package to
30:16
Speaker 1: what the Ravens next. I do I mean, I would
30:19
Speaker 1: imagine the initial offers were far less and the Raiders
30:22
Speaker 1: were like, we do not have an injured product here,
30:24
Speaker 1: even though we sat him at the end of the season.
30:26
Speaker 2: And told you he was too injured to play right.
30:29
Speaker 1: But I still think he's going to be moved before
30:34
Speaker 1: because where smoke equals fire this offseason in the National
30:37
Speaker 1: Football League. So I still think he'll be wearing another
30:40
Speaker 1: uniform before next year. But that's one heck of a
30:42
Speaker 1: story he had to tell.
30:43
Speaker 2: All right.
30:43
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