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Best of Chuck & Buck 3-26 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: There you go, Bucky, there's our winner. That's the song
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna play after every Mariners win at six thirty
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  Speaker 1: throughout the season. One more time, one more time, one
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  Speaker 1: more win. Yeah, I like that. Well, don't get that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm down with it. I'm down to celebrate a whole
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  Speaker 2: heck of a lot this year.
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  Speaker 3: It was a close race, was it close?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Thirty one percent with that one to twenty nine point
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  Speaker 4: six for It's a beautiful morning.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, that is closed. That's one of the closest polls
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  Speaker 5: we've ever done.
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Well, I think it's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a good one, and I think that
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  Speaker 1: I like the idea that it kicks at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: and then it kicks even bigger, yeah, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: into the song. So I think we can get behind
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  Speaker 1: that for an entire season.
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  Speaker 5: Are we got Cami on the line? We do all right?
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  Speaker 1: Joining us now on our opening day coverage. Chuck and
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  Speaker 1: Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three k a RFM.
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  Speaker 1: Former Mariner one of the best defensive center fielders you've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen.
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  Speaker 5: It at four home runs in a game one time.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you.
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  Speaker 6: Even knew that but I didn't know that you didn't
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  Speaker 6: nomer it watched it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, good.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna have a statue made of him, and he
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  Speaker 1: just hopes that people don't walk by and whiz on it.
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  Speaker 1: That's Mike Cameron in a nutshell right there. And he
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  Speaker 1: joins us here on opening Day, Cammy, how you doing.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Good morning to you. Early morning for you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Early morning for us all the time. How did your
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  Speaker 1: morning start? I mean, it is Opening Day? Does it
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  Speaker 1: just feel different to a former big leaguer to wake
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  Speaker 1: up on Opening Day?
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  Speaker 7: Uh? Yeah, like you know, like you you understand that,
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  Speaker 7: you understand that this is like one of the one
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  Speaker 7: of the best days of a ball player's life, you know,
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  Speaker 7: opening day, getting a chance for their uniform fresh cliss
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  Speaker 7: Chris uniform, and beginning the voyage of trying to chase
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  Speaker 7: an opportunity to play for a championship.
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  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, Cammy, obviously, I mean everybody gets to start.
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  Speaker 6: Oh and oh and yet you got the grind and
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  Speaker 6: the journey that is one sixty two and then some.
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  Speaker 6: I mean you you down at spring training with the guys,
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  Speaker 6: what was the field just overall as far as this team,
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  Speaker 6: to me, it felt like they were hungry to get
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  Speaker 6: beyond where they went last year, even though last year
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  Speaker 6: was a really successful season.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but I think you know a lot of times
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  Speaker 7: when you experienced something of that nature and you're so close, man,
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  Speaker 7: you kind of you start to imagine what could what
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  Speaker 7: could possibly happen if we put this together and put
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  Speaker 7: that together. But no one thing about this spring training
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  Speaker 7: was kind of crazy because everybody was gone and so
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  Speaker 7: other than you know, the starting pitchers. So these guys
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  Speaker 7: got a chance to start their cohesion very early. So
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  Speaker 7: you know, you just understand that the nature of it
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  Speaker 7: and the communication and the talking to most of the
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  Speaker 7: guys is pretty much the same. You got a full
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  Speaker 7: opportunity to see Brendan Donovan, you know, just kind of
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  Speaker 7: get comfortable in the ram of you know, missing some
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  Speaker 7: of the guys, but the fact that he had a
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  Speaker 7: chance to play a fools didn't playoff full spring trainer,
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  Speaker 7: but get ready with the team, you know, and him
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  Speaker 7: being a very integral piece and Maren is trying to
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  Speaker 7: repeat as a AL West title holder and also try
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  Speaker 7: to get back to getting back into the playoffs and
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  Speaker 7: do as much damage you can late in the season
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  Speaker 7: with the eyes with the potential of trying to get
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  Speaker 7: to the World Series. We know that's a difficult task,
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  Speaker 7: but that is the ultimate task for everyone. But at
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  Speaker 7: the same time, man, it's just a matter of guys
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  Speaker 7: getting ready. And that's why I say it was a
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  Speaker 7: unique spring training because we saw so many other younger
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  Speaker 7: players while some of the other guys were playing for
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  Speaker 7: their countries in the WBC.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Cameron is with us this morning. You're on Opening Day,
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  Speaker 1: has already been up, had an Opening Day cup of coffee,
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  Speaker 1: probably stretch, maybe an Opening Day online, and now he's
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  Speaker 1: joining us for an Opening day conversation. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: season are you expecting from Julio Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 7: This year, Mike, I just think that I think if
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  Speaker 7: anything that Julio would tell you, I can't tell you
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  Speaker 7: any numbers, but I would say that the boundaries or
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  Speaker 7: the initial thought of Julio having at least close to
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  Speaker 7: a you know, a thirty thirty season is definitely you
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  Speaker 7: know there again and probably if anything, just maybe a
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  Speaker 7: little more consistency. I mean, we all are searching for
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  Speaker 7: as players or you know, as we play. You know,
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  Speaker 7: his case is just trying to get just you know,
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  Speaker 7: probably a little bit better somewhere along the lines, almost
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  Speaker 7: to the point that if he does, you know, we're
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  Speaker 7: talking about probably a top five MVP type of player
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  Speaker 7: because of what he's able to do across the board
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  Speaker 7: with his skill set.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Cammy, I mean you were here when when this
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  Speaker 6: team had the best regular season that they'd ever had
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  Speaker 6: back in one. I mean that I can't think of
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  Speaker 6: the team besides that one that even comes close to
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  Speaker 6: the talent and the expectations, to be quite honest, when
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  Speaker 6: you I don't want to necessarily compare guys, but just
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  Speaker 6: the feel of what it feels like when it comes
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  Speaker 6: to these guys individually and how they're kind of going
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  Speaker 6: out there getting ready to do something big.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 7: The good thing is, you know, but they all been
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  Speaker 7: you know, they played together with adding you know, mind
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  Speaker 7: us a few guys and adding a few guys before
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  Speaker 7: the most part, you know, most of the guys experienced
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  Speaker 7: last year back here again. And then you have the
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  Speaker 7: addition of Josh being full time now you know, losing Gino.
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  Speaker 7: But there are other pieces in place. You know, hopefully
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  Speaker 7: you can get a chance to see a young coat.
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  Speaker 7: He had just Cole Young I call him young Cole,
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  Speaker 7: but see how he has just he adjusted to the league.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: You also got Brendan Donovan coming over, who's you know,
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  Speaker 7: like I said before, the integral piece and that. And
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  Speaker 7: then you have some guys that are just you know,
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  Speaker 7: uh look really getting trying to get healthy.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Some guys trying to repeat or get better in some
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  Speaker 7: some consistency moment of their season.
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  Speaker 9: And and then you.
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  Speaker 7: Have your your you know, your pillars, there, your you know,
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  Speaker 7: your your cows, and your JP when he's able to
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  Speaker 7: come back, but you have Luis Rebus filling in for
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  Speaker 7: him right now. And and then you just you have
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  Speaker 7: guys that are just trying to Okay, we got the
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  Speaker 7: game back together. Let's see if we can stay healthy
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  Speaker 7: and put it together and go chase it, go see
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  Speaker 7: what we can get to where we were lasting tribably
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  Speaker 7: even give an opportunity to play for World Series. At
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  Speaker 7: this time that the team is looking.
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  Speaker 1: For Mike Cameron with us right here on Chuck and
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  Speaker 1: Buck in the morning, they are saying that this opening
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  Speaker 1: day is the most eagerly anticipated since your team the year,
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  Speaker 1: coming off the and sixteen wins. And I would just
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  Speaker 1: ask you if you can tap into your memory. What
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  Speaker 1: was the feeling that you guys had knowing you know,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't pull off your postseason goal that year, but
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  Speaker 1: you made history the previous year, and the expectation I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure was, hey, we won a World Series this year.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise that's a disappointment. Can you talk about how you
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  Speaker 1: guys felt on opening day that year?
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  Speaker 7: Just eager to be honest with you, I mean, we're
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  Speaker 7: just eager to get an opportunity to try to see
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  Speaker 7: where we matched up. That we know that there was
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  Speaker 7: a lot of dynamic change far as team wise or whatever.
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  Speaker 7: But and we added a PC and a few did
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  Speaker 7: a similar as fashion. It's just twenty twenty sixteen here
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  Speaker 7: and and just look to get guys help. We knew
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  Speaker 7: we were gonna be a good team. It's just a
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  Speaker 7: matter can we stay healthy and get through the season
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  Speaker 7: in the same matter. You know, these guys have the
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  Speaker 7: same opportunity just looking around and saying, okay, you know,
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  Speaker 7: like we were there, you know, like we just got
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  Speaker 7: to get you know, get get healthy, well, stay healthy
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  Speaker 7: and get through the season with some consistency with some
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  Speaker 7: players that give you a chance to win, give you
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  Speaker 7: a chance to win on a daily basis, and you know,
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  Speaker 7: I think the next year we end up winning nineties
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  Speaker 7: ninety three games, but we didn't make it. There's a
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  Speaker 7: different format of playoff format or whatever. But you know,
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  Speaker 7: we understood where we were. I think everyone around the
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  Speaker 7: league understood where we were, and even probably a little
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  Speaker 7: bit you know, kind of gunshot because we did win
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  Speaker 7: those one hundred and sixteen and we lost to the
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  Speaker 7: Yankees eventually in the ALCS. So we understood that everyone
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  Speaker 7: understood that we know what it is and we knew
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  Speaker 7: what we were trying to gun for, and we just
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  Speaker 7: came up short again and September at the end.
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  Speaker 2: And where we didn't make it.
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  Speaker 7: Where two teams I think, you know, when one hundred
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  Speaker 7: games in the same division, we one ninety three. So
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  Speaker 7: if I'm not mistaken, I can't go back that far.
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  Speaker 7: But I would think these guys do understand, you know,
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  Speaker 7: where they are and how to do it, and maybe
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  Speaker 7: understand there's maybe it's going to be a different type
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  Speaker 7: of route this year than it was last year. We're
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  Speaker 7: looking to be consistent in the same fashion. I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, that was that was my fault.
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  Speaker 1: I was just gonna ask us, uh uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we wrap up here with Mike Cameron here this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have any opening day traditions?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, will you crack out an old lucky jockstrap
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  Speaker 1: today or something like that to uh to wear around
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  Speaker 1: the house or to the yard or anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: What's the plan here today, CAMMI.
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  Speaker 7: Not at all, man, you know, like I think I'm
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  Speaker 7: so far, you know, kind of away from it in
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  Speaker 7: that sense. I'm just a fan of the interreactions and
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  Speaker 7: take some young guys who made a team, you know,
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  Speaker 7: the opportunity, and like I got a chance to do it,
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  Speaker 7: I think from ninety seven to twenty eleven, well ninety
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  Speaker 7: eight my first true opening day, and so you know,
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  Speaker 7: like it is a fun time. It does bring back
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  Speaker 7: those childhood opportunity and memories when you see the bunny
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  Speaker 7: and stadiums and everything. But for the most part, man,
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  Speaker 7: it's a joy to be a part in b a
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  Speaker 7: to see opening day of baseball because we know it's
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  Speaker 7: for extended period of time, and everyone who loves baseball
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  Speaker 7: understands and knows about happily opening day major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 5: All right, so let me get this straight. There's three
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  Speaker 5: of us here, and I'm the.
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  Speaker 1: Only one that wore my lucky jockstrap today to the park.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what I'm getting? And you have two former
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  Speaker 1: players here and I'm the one. Yeah, yeah, I feel weird.
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  Speaker 7: Now, Yeah, it's okay, it's okay, okay, Yeah, you want
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  Speaker 7: to do then go ahead and do it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey man, great to catch up again. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much, and we'll talk to you down the line.
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  Speaker 1: But enjoy the season.
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  Speaker 5: This is going to be.
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  Speaker 7: Fun, definitely, you guys enjoy enjoyed today.
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  Speaker 1: Also, all right, Mike Cameron joining us right here on
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  Speaker 1: the radio program part of our opening day coverage, Chuck
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  Speaker 1: and Buck live here from Jimmy's on first You know
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  Speaker 1: where we station ourselves on opening Day, and when we
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  Speaker 1: come back on the other side there some of you
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  Speaker 1: aren't going to be able to make it, and we
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  Speaker 1: know that to the game here tonight. You want to
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  Speaker 1: watch it on television, and yet there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: confusion as to how that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 5: I think we can clear it up for you, so
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  Speaker 5: we'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: Next Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM, putting one
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  Speaker 1: on our own station that keeps bringing up the World
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  Speaker 1: Series or bust conversation, and I would just I certainly
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  Speaker 1: want to get your opinion on whether or not it
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  Speaker 1: feels like that type of the season, but I would
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  Speaker 1: just say it depends on what your definition of World
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  Speaker 1: Series or bust is, right, Mike, I do believe this
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  Speaker 1: is a year where if you don't don't make it
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  Speaker 1: to the World Series, it is a major disappointment, even
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  Speaker 1: if you win one hundred and ten games. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be crushing for the players, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be crushing for the fans. That if you
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  Speaker 1: have this good of a team and you don't win
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, that yeah, I mean, it's win a
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  Speaker 1: World Series. That's the only goal. So if you don't
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  Speaker 1: achieve your goal, you're going to be disappointed. But I've
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  Speaker 1: always kind of attached the phrase world Series or bust
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  Speaker 1: to we're all in on this team and if this doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: Work, we're breaking it all up. And we're nowhere close
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  Speaker 5: to that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, the postseason in Major League Baseball is
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  Speaker 1: highly volatile, highly unpredictable. I think we could end up
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  Speaker 1: having the best team in baseball this year and still
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  Speaker 1: not win the World Series.
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  Speaker 5: That's happened plenty of times before in.
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball history because of the unpredictability of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So't I don't think that, even though it would be disappointing,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way you're going to break up the great
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  Speaker 1: thing that's going on with this organization.
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  Speaker 5: We should be in contention for the next seven years
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  Speaker 5: on its head.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And So to me, that's just too dramatic of a
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  Speaker 1: statement to make unless you're saying we're all gonna be
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  Speaker 1: disappointed if we don't win the World Series.
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  Speaker 5: If that's bust, then I guess that's a World Series
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  Speaker 5: or bust year.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think that's where I normally go with it,
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  Speaker 6: is that second way, right, I mean, I get what
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  Speaker 6: you're saying, where a lot of times it's World Series
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  Speaker 6: or bust, Like, if if it's not this year, then
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  Speaker 6: it ain't happening, you know. If it's not this year,
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  Speaker 6: then we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna bust this thing
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  Speaker 6: up and we're gonna move on. I look at it
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  Speaker 6: as World Series or bust World Series or was the
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  Speaker 6: season of bust? And I think that even that to
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  Speaker 6: me is a little bit over the top. But I
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  Speaker 6: don't think that the expectations can be or are in
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  Speaker 6: that clubhouse. I don't think there are anything less than
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  Speaker 6: getting to the World Series, right, I mean, now winning
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  Speaker 6: the World Series again, that's a lot to just get
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  Speaker 6: to it, right, I Mean, You've got a lot of
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  Speaker 6: stuff between now and then, and so many things can
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  Speaker 6: happen injury wise, and you know, have a bad streak
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  Speaker 6: here and there, You're you're gonna have guys that you drew,
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  Speaker 6: that that you're expecting to have really good seasons, have
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  Speaker 6: poor seasons. Hopefully you have a couple guys that you
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  Speaker 6: aren't expecting much out of that have really good seasons.
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  Speaker 6: That kind of averages itself out over the course of
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  Speaker 6: a season. Now, you can't have you can't have, you know,
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  Speaker 6: some big time guys in your starting rotation and in
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  Speaker 6: the core the heart of your lineup go down the
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  Speaker 6: last month of the season or with three months left
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  Speaker 6: in the season, and then they're gone for the entire season,
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  Speaker 6: and expect that you're going to have the same uh
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  Speaker 6: type of going through the playoffs. And so you could
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  Speaker 6: still you could have a really good team for half
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  Speaker 6: the season and a couple bad things happen injury wise,
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  Speaker 6: and now all of a sudden, your chance is to
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  Speaker 6: even get to the World Series are are by the wayside.
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  Speaker 6: So to sit here and predict it's either you win
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  Speaker 6: the World Series or it's a bust. This whole thing
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  Speaker 6: is is a mess, Well that's just not true. I
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  Speaker 6: mean this thing, like you said, this thing is right
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  Speaker 6: now at the very infant stages of being a World
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  Speaker 6: Series contender, and I don't think that changes regardless of
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  Speaker 6: how this season goes. That said, I think that if
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  Speaker 6: you ask anybody over in that clubhouse, if you don't
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  Speaker 6: if they don't get the Mariners to the first time
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  Speaker 6: ever to the fall class they can play in the
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  Speaker 6: World Series, everybody over there will feel like this was
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  Speaker 6: a failed season. That's where their expectations are is get
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  Speaker 6: to the World Series at a minimum, and once you
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  Speaker 6: get there, you might as well win the whole f
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  Speaker 6: and thing.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yeah, And they were talking about that in
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  Speaker 1: the spring, and they're owning that, like, yeah, we're about
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  Speaker 1: the World Series this year and anything short of that
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  Speaker 1: will be a disappointment, There's no question about it. But
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  Speaker 1: I think that you could end up having a great year.
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  Speaker 1: You don't quite you fall a little bit short wherever
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  Speaker 1: that happens in the playoffs. And I'm right back this
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  Speaker 1: offseason talking about how this team's a World Series contender
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  Speaker 1: again for next year.
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  Speaker 5: I can promise you that.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think of like the Detroit Lions might
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  Speaker 1: be closing in on Super.
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  Speaker 5: Bowl or bust. You know where they look.
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  Speaker 1: Like they were in a championship window. They looked like
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  Speaker 1: they had the best team in the National Football League
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  Speaker 1: two years ago, and they didn't even make it to
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  Speaker 1: the super Bowl. And then the next year they come
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  Speaker 1: back and they don't even get into the playoffs. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they might be closing in on super Bowl or bust.
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  Speaker 1: We need to go all in on this current group
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  Speaker 1: to try to win this damn thing, and if we don't,
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  Speaker 1: we might have to consider tearing a few things down
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  Speaker 1: rebuilding in a little bit of a different way, especially
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: if we take another step back like we did in
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, where we could end up having a
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: really good year, great year, not win the World Series,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: not get to the World Series.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: And yet the mission remains the same. You still are
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: on a ship that's operating with.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Turbo engines right now, and so you just kind of
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: restarted again, So I guess it just depends on the
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: definition of the word. I think it's a disappointment to
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: everybody if they don't make it to the World Series,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: because they have made it the one and only goal.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: But I just don't look at we bust out if
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen this year. I think we're still a
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: World Series contender next year, World Series contender the year
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: after that. And the way I see it, I think
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: that's like we got like seven years of World Series
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: contention lying ahead of us, and that's a credit to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the organization and the executive office for how well they
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: structured this organization.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sitting here right now, we haven't played one
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: game yet, and I'm thinking to myself that if they
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: don't get to the World Series, I would feel like
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: they came up short of what they're capable of. Right now,
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: we got a long ways to go between now and then,
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: and so I will just reserve the right to if
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: they get to the postseason and all of a sudden
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: they run into a buzzsaw or there's a bunch of
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: injuries that they're played with, or whatever it might be,
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: and they they don't even get as far as they
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: got last year, they don't even get as close as
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: they did that. I could say this team is still
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: poised for a run at the World Series in the
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: coming years. So it's not a bust of the overall
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: climate of Mariners baseball. But this season, anything short of
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: getting to the World Series for the first time, I'm
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: gonna feel like as a disappointment.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Starting here on opening day, all.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Right, Pete Woodworth's gonna join us at eight o'clock. Jerry
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Depota's gonna join us at nine to twenty five. A
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: lot more to discuss with the Mariners, including the abs system.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: What's the Mariners lineup gonna look like on opening night?
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: But we do have to find some time to talk
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: about yesterday's monster news. The Sonics appear to be on
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the path toward coming back. Willer from Adam Silver and
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Todd light WICKI next on KJR.
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: Someone once said, you don't grip a baseball, A baseball
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: grips you.
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: It fills our days.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: And brightens our nights.
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: Over the course of the season.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: And the span of a lifetime.
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: We share a hope, drama enjoy.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: It brings us all closer together, nine innings at a time,
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: it's the game we'd love.
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: It's the game we'd love. Welcome back, Baseball, Welcome back.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Yep and bumps all the way.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Ankles, there's ankle nice.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: We had to do it, had to do it. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: had to do it every year.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'm glad we did it. Necessarily need ankle goosebumps.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Those are new.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Well they go with breakfast.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thats what it is exactly an bumps.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: It's a special here at Jimmy's.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: We're live here a Jimmy's on First, right across the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: street from the ballpark. It is opening day and by
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the way, doors are open, they are serving breakfast. I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: know the game doesn't start till seven pm tonight, but
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: if you want to make a day of it, make
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: sure it starts right here at Jimmy's on First.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: They have outstanding breakfast here.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: You can get a little beverage going, get a little
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: ankle goose bumps going to start your opening day. This
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: is the place for it. So we look forward to
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: seeing you before we sign off at ten o'clock. Joining
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: us now on the radio program is the pitching coach
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: for the Stars. He is the great Pete Woodworth and
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: he joins us right here on opening day.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Good morning to you, sir.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: Good morning, Happy New Year, and thanks for inviting me
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: to breakfast.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Hey, come on do yeah, come on down or some
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: poached eggs and some muffins and table salt.
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: All right, I'll see you guys in like twenty minutes.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: All right, Oh, seriously, you can come on down here. Yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you can come have an opening day breakfast. I mean,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you've got to have some opening day traditions. For goodness sake.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: You start a new one by coming down and having
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: breakfast with Chuck and Buck every Opening day from now
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: until the end of eternity.
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: That's what we've been missing the last six years.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Well, Chuck, another thing you've been missing.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Apparently, Chuck thought everybody was getting on the bandwagon for bedazzled.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Jock straps, lucky jockstraps.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, i'd send them to everybody. Did you are you
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: wearing yours snail mail?
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: I've been doing that since ninety seven?
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Ninety seven? Okay, good yeah, good on you. I'm late
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: to the party.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Apparently.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: So what did you do this morning to greet the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: sun on Opening Day? I would imagine you give your
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: eight minute app workout. You probably played with the kid
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, what else went into the morning.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: For Pete Woodworth today?
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: For an opening day than usual?
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: My family did not make the trip out.
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: Here this year.
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: My oldest is in in kindergarten and my wife thinks that,
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: you know, school isn't more important than than opening day baseball?
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: No about.
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so a little different opening day than usual. No
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: no little ones to wake you up in the morning,
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: I instead and being woken up by you two.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, well you're welcome a lot better.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure a lot.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Better than those children you love so much. Well what what?
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: What's the just the feel I mean, does the day
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: feel different outside of the fact that you're not getting
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: any cuddles from the littles?
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Does just feel any different considering where you guys got
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: last year and what the end goal is for this season?
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: Yeah, this year does feel different. And camp spring training
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: was a little bit different with the WBC and a
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: lot of our our position players being gone. But it
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: just it has a different vibe to it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: You know, everybody's kind.
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: Of more excited, more ready to go than than ever before.
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: You know, we kind of opened that door and kicked
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: it down. Yeah, it's it's hard to explain, but it's
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: it's really the entire group coming back. You know, insert
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: insert a couple new guys, but but really it's ninety
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: percent of that same team, and.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: So it's it's familiar faces.
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: It's uh, it's one to pick up where we left off.
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: But obviously with a with a whole new one hundred
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: and sixty two games, it's tough to say, hey, let's
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: pick up where we left off in October.
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: Uh, you got to start at the beginning. But yeah,
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: it does. It has like a different edge to it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: This year.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Pete Woodworth is with us pitching coach for the Seattle
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Mariners as they get ready for opening dates and that
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: against the Cleveland Guardians. Tanner Biby versus Logan Gilbert. Why
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert as the opening day starter again this year?
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: He's the tallest.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Oh that's why makes sense?
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: Well, here we did alphabetical order.
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: One year we did wait, yeah, we just lined him
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: up and whoever was the tallest.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: We were kind of going row pretty sure.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Two years ago most Hair got the first opening day start.
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah, three years ago, Harrius back, Robbie Ray got it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Pants and Harry's bad. I mean, it's it's very funny.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: But is it is it a way of saying, there's
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: really no wrong choice here? I mean, is it difficult
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: at all for you guys to make that choice organizationally
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: considering how many guys would warrant getting an opening day assignment?
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: Yeah, they joke around like there's there's five assy. It's
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: it's the same question of like, hey, who do you
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: want to start game seven? Or who do you want
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: to start game one? I give me any of them.
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: I really, I don't really have a preference.
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: They're all they're all elite.
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: It's it's a tough decision, but it's there's no wrong answer. Yeah,
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: it's a test I guess.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a nice problem to have when you just
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: basically close your eyes in point and you're gonna land
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: on somebody that can go out there and battle. I mean,
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: coming into this season, have you guys we talked to
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: you in spring training a little bit about the ABS system,
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: and have you guys figured anything out. I know, it
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: was a weird spring training, like you said, because some
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: guys were gone as your catcher in particular.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: During the World Baseball Classic.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: But have you guys rounded out what your game plan
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: is or is it just gonna be one of those
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: All right, logan, if you think he was in there,
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: I'll go ahead and tap your helmet until we until
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: you screw it up a couple of times, and then
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: we'll pull back on the range.
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: I think we're still sticking with the catcher is going
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: to be okay, throwing the flag and making the challenges.
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: I think George tried it twice, and I think he
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: was wrong twice.
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: It's hard to throw.
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: A ball almost one hundred miles an hour while spinning
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: in a circle and see something sixty feet away as
• 26:44
  Speaker 10: opposed to the guy who is happening a foot in
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: front of his face. I think that guy's get a
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: better advantage point.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So what happens though that time where George is
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: staring at cal too? Are you going to challenge it?
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, how's how is that communication going to work?
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: We'll find out, Yeah, I mean, George stares at all
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: of us on game days. Don't don't look George in
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: the eyes on game days. There's there's just there's more
• 27:20
  Speaker 10: strategy than hey. I think that pitch was a ball
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: or I think that.
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: Pitch was a strike.
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: There's there's counts, there's times of the games, there's situations,
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: there's outs, there's you know, there's there's.
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: A lot more that goes into it other than hey,
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: I thought that pitch was a strike.
• 27:37
  Speaker 10: So that's that's where the catcher has a little bit
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: more command over the game and over the kind of
• 27:46
  Speaker 10: bigger picture.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Pete Woodworth is with us pitching coach for the Mariners.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Man, he's going to be in real hot water. If
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Brian Wu grew five inches overnight, he's not gonna know
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: who to start tonight. Uh. I bet you didn't think
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: about that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: You know when he went to the spring training with
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: heels on next year.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's six foot eight wearing high heels. Bet
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you didn't consider that. Uh Wu in his lifts. Everybody
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: knows about that around town. Uh, Pete Woodworth joining us here.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Emerson Hancock a little bit because he
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: really started to get some love there in terms of
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: some attention late in spring training. I mean, he's getting
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the start I'm assuming because Bryce is on the injury list,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: But how good does he look so far in the spring?
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: What might have changed about Emerson since last we saw him.
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I've always been a huge Emerson fan,
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: and every year he gets better and better. This test
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: off season and this this spring training, he was he
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: was the talk of camp. You know, he made a
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: couple of adjustments to his arsenal.
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: But I know we've we've talked about it before, like
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: the big leagues is really difficult.
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: And uh, sometimes it takes guys a little bit longer
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: than others to figure out that, like they truly do
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: belong who they really are, like understanding who they're, what
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: their identity is. And really that's where the confidence comes from.
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: And it's not it's not always the guys with the
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: best stuff, for the guys that are the toolsiest. It's
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: the guys who have the most confidence. And you know,
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: the past two three seasons, Emerson's you know, racked up
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: a ton of innings and a ton of experience and
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: is starting to come into understanding who he is and
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: and that confidence really exploded in camp.
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he had He had.
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: Like one of the best spring trainings we've ever seen,
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: like twenty four punch outs, one walk, growing extremely hard.
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: His breaking ball has got a lot better, he's just
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: carrying himself with with confidence we haven't seen. So I
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: am extremely excited for mister Emerson.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I'm with you on.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: That, and he just made me excited.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well wood he I mean, I'm staying on the.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Well bucket does Yeah?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Did you right there talking about pictures and let me
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: new things?
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: Give me a second, let me check. Okay, you got
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: a ring in your pocket? Yep, yep, Okay, Yeah he's
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: got it. He's got the ankle. Goosebumps. By the way,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: those are special. Those are only opening day goosebumps.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: Bump over here.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: To me, I feel like uh to me, I feel
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: like Hancock is this season could possibly be similar to
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: Logan's maybe second season, because you're right, he's He's racked
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: up some innings over the last couple years, but it's
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: been very sporadic and large part is because of how
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: stacked your starting rotation is. He would have been getting
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: starts every five days on about twenty eight other clubs,
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: it seems. And so I am wondering, did you tweak something?
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: I know last year when he was coming out of
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: the bullpen at one time he kind of lowered his
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: arm angle a little bit. It did look like he
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: was getting more run, which I would also think he
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: was getting maybe more horizontal brake on his breaking stuff.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: I mean, is there something in particular that you guys
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: are working on that you're seeing that that made the jump,
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: because to me, it looks like Logan Gilbert's first year.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: He was good, but he almost had He hadn't figured
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: out how to get to maybe wipe guys out to
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: get out of it bats as easily, and he obviously
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: made that adjustment.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Is that what Hancock's in that same mode right now?
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: You are throwing all the pitching jargon out. I love it.
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's not all about punching tickets and swing and miss.
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: But look at the best in the game like that,
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: that's what they're good at. They get ahead extremely well,
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: they throw a ton of strikes, they race to two strikes,
• 31:57
  Speaker 10: and then they have weapons and the execute the strike
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: guys out. You know, I've always said, like strikeouts are
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: the coolest thing a pitcher can do. It's like our
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: our our home runs. And yeah, Emerson hasn't done that
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: a ton in his career. So him kind of adjusting
• 32:20
  Speaker 10: is forcing to get a little bit more cut and
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: ride and then improving his breaking balls to miss more bats,
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: can put him in a in a situation to make
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: that jump.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Plus he's so funny. He's like Nate Bargatzi. I think
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I've told you that before. Yeah, I just like the guy.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Just like the guy. I want to see him do well.
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah you want to root for him?
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. Pete Woodworth is with us. Dan.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Lets you watch the offense, right. You don't have to
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: go hide in another room, do you When the team's
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: up at the plate.
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: I have to stand in the corner.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Give me somebody that on the offense is hitting the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: baseball this year that you're like, oh, that's different from
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: last year. The pitching coaches observation on that front.
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: As you coaches offensive hot take o. Young is turning
• 33:16
  Speaker 10: into a grown man. He had an incredible spring training.
• 33:22
  Speaker 10: Same thing like you kids hit since he came out
• 33:26
  Speaker 10: of the womb. You get to the big leagues, it's
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: it's not easy. You're you're facing you know, top tier
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: starters every single night, and you start questioning, like him,
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: can I really do this?
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: This is s trick and tough, just.
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: Extremely mature, cool Young in camp, just carrying himself with
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: a new level of confidence.
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: And uh smacking everything. Hot take number.
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: Two, say Brandon Donovan fans, Oh yeah, me too. Yeah
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: he was granted we didn't play the Cardinals a ton,
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: but that was a tough guy to try to get out.
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: So whenever, whenever Jerry and Justin acquire a hitter that
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: has given Trent blank and night nightmares for the past
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: couple of years, Brew was really excited, Like, did not
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: have to pitch to Josh Naylor anymore? I get eight
• 34:31
  Speaker 10: eight clean hours every night now, Brendan Donovan, do also
• 34:35
  Speaker 10: on that list?
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Look, there's two hot takes from the pitching coach on
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the offense.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: I'm glad I asked, too bad. Yeah, Pocket, hot Pocket.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: When will you get to the ballpark on opening day?
• 34:53
  Speaker 10: I'm coming to Jimmy for breakfast, so okay, I'll probably
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: I'll probably get there in the next thirty minute.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'll have your hot sauce and your
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: table salt.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Ready for you.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: All right, man, Well, thank you for joining us again
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: here on opening day. It's become a wonderful tradition of
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: ours to talk to you.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Have a great year. What do you say? And we'll
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: do this again soon.
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you. Come out to
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: the bullpen before the game to say Hi, all right, we'll.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Do pe wouoldworth joining us right here on Chuck and
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Buck in the mornings. I do want and I don't
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: know when we're gonna get another chance to talk about it,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: but this ABS system is gonna get ready to be
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: put in place. I like the philosophy we're just gonna
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: leave it to col and then on occasion, I'm sure
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the pitcher will get his way.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: If he's really sure. But I do like the idea that.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Now we're just gonna trust Cal to make that decision
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: in the game. So I think they're on the right
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: track with that.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean it's very grown up of Woody
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: too to recognize that an athlete should be saying that.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: No, he was saying that the guy that's not just
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: flopping off of the mound spinning around with his head
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: all over the place is not going to have a
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: better vantage point than the guy sitting there literally squatting
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: there because he just got done doing the only thing
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: that he does. He's still in the recovery phase of
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: the only thing he does.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: He plays a lot of golf.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yet that doesn't count for anything we care about
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: short exactly, and so it's yeah, leave it to the
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: guy that knows, and don't let not the guy that's
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: going to be like no, I mean I love it
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: that George is like yeah, I'm pretty sure he challenged
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: twice and I think he was over too. If that
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: isn't perfect, they're gonna, yeah, they're gonna end up being
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: where they'll have a look right like, they'll have a
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: look that they give the kind of.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: And I hope they have like on their little pitch thing,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: their pitch calm. There's a challenge it ale, Yeah.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: We need to make up like the different things on.
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: I don't think the pitcher gets to communicate to the
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: catcher with that thing. So otherwise some.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Of them can some going to some of them call
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: their own game.
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: So but I don't think any of our guys do
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: like have that part of the pitch com They just
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: have the earpiece or the thing that they can hear
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: the speaker. But it's going to be interesting because it
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: definitely is something that you you don't want to waste
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: them early, and yet you have them, you don't want
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: to believe them in your pocket either.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I think you brought this up and I don't hear
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: anybody else bringing it up, and I think it is
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: a phenomenal point to make about this ABS.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: I just heard. Uh so, I'm not even gonna mention
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: the name.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I just heard someone today that is a prominent baseball analyst,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: for whatever that's worth, and they said their comment was,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad that it's here and we never have
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: to have another ending like we did in the WBC.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: We never have to have.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: A game end on a bad call again. I'm like,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: you are out of your mind? Where how far up
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: your butt is your head? Because Bucky pointed this out
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: weeks ago, you know, you get two of these things.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: We are not done having an umpire determine the end
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: of a game with a bad call, because there's gonna
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: be a lot of games where you're out of challenges
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: and so we can't predict.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: We don't have a we don't have a crystal.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Ball to determine if we're going to need to keep
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: that second challenge for the very last pitch of the game. Yeah,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to curb some of that, and
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: thank goodness for that. But if you think we're done
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: having controversial calls by the homeplate umpire. You are out
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: of your ever living mind.
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: Well, they've instituted an instant replay that you can challenge,
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: and yet you get that wrong, you lose your challenge.
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: And so now you're at the mercy of you better
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: hope they got the call right, or if they got
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: it wrong, hopefully it's in your favor.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: It's the same exact thing. I think.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: It gives you an opportunity to correct or wrong, but
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: it doesn't mean you're going to do it perfectly.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Like we've seen so far.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: Kabrierro our guy for the Yankees yesterday, ends up having
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: one in the first game against the Giants, and they
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: were in the middle of an interview with Tony, the
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: manager for the Giants, and yet they kind of you
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: see him going through it. The umpire called it a strike.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: He thought it was a ball. Sure enough, comes back
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: as a strike. Well, there's one of your two strikes.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: The very next pitch was six inches off the inside corner.
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: He calls it a strike again and kabyers like, well,
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: I can't call that so right there burn both of
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: them back to back pitches. Yeah, you saw the umpire
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: get it right, the hitter think he was wrong. You
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: were wrong, Take that strike and like it. Then the
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: next one, the umpire did get it wrong and the
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: hitter didn't challenge it. So right there, we've just saw
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: it in two back to back pitches. The umpire are
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: still gonna get pitches wrong. If I don't want to
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: go full blown robot ups, I don't. I like the
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: idea of sometimes a pitch being off the plate and
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: it being called a strike if you execute it perfectly
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: and the guy doesn't protect. But at the same time,
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: I like having the opportunity, and if you screw that
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: opportunity up twice early in the game, you don't deserve.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: To have it when it matters later on.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: And I also want them to keep stats on all
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: of this. I want to see when a guy challenges
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: his success rate as a hitter.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I want to see a catcher's success rate. I want
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: to see a pitcher's success rate, and I certainly want
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: to see the umpire's success rate. I want that to
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: be a prominent statistic with this ABS system, because I
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: want to know how often CB Buckner.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: Really is wrong at this A lot? All right?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, man it's a day for legends, right,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: we'll chat with one next Sports Radio ninety three point
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: three KJRFM. There are just so much going on, so
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: many exciting things happening on the Seattle sports scene. I thought,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: who is somebody that we could put on a guest
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: here on opening day with the Sonics possibly returning, coming
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: off a Super Bowl, and the World Cup is getting
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: ready to come to Seattle that can encapsulate all the
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: amazing things that are happening at once.
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: And I thought of one.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Man, our next guest, asked man himself, Mike Gastono is
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: with us right here on Chucking Buck.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: Good morning, sir.
• 41:05
  Speaker 11: Good morning guys, and good morning Ashley, and great to
• 41:09
  Speaker 11: be back with you. So I heard the list that
• 41:11
  Speaker 11: we're not going to discuss Tyler Reddick's historic start on
• 41:14
  Speaker 11: the NASCAR Cup circuit. That's going to be for another time.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if we have time, we'll get to it.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I really was thinking about you,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: because I know how connected you've remained to the Sonics
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: and the pursuit of getting them back with podcasts and
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: your all your relationships out there, so certainly, but I
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: just got to start with I mean, it.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: Is opening day here.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Your college football team won a national championship. For goodness sake,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: to add to the list that I just presented to
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: our audience.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: I mean, is this the greatest sports here in gas
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: Man's life?
• 41:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it really is.
• 41:51
  Speaker 11: I mean you could have just with that first note
• 41:53
  Speaker 11: and then factor in the Seahawks win the Super Bowl
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: in kind of an out of the blue fashion. You know,
• 41:58
  Speaker 11: from the middle of the season, saw that the Hawks
• 42:00
  Speaker 11: are pretty good. But if we're having this conversation a
• 42:03
  Speaker 11: year ago, I don't know if we're predicting the Hawks
• 42:04
  Speaker 11: are going to win the Super Bowl. We had no
• 42:06
  Speaker 11: idea what the quarterback was going to be, with no idea,
• 42:09
  Speaker 11: you know, really what the new coaches, he's just a
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: year into it. So that coming so far out of
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: the blue made it really cool. And now you get to,
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: for my money, the most anticipated Mariners season certainly since
• 42:22
  Speaker 11: say two thousand and two. Coming off that two thousand
• 42:26
  Speaker 11: and one season, there was a lot of excitement, a
• 42:28
  Speaker 11: lot of hype. But it's back to that it's a
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: quarter century at least that you've had this much hype
• 42:34
  Speaker 11: on opening Day where you're like, and you know what,
• 42:35
  Speaker 11: it's not Altranders. You could be watching a team that
• 42:38
  Speaker 11: could play in the World Series for the first time
• 42:41
  Speaker 11: in Seattle history. So that makes it fun.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes it really fun.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: And yet, I mean for somebody that knows the history
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: of this team or just the city in general, but
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: this team. I mean, when you sit and think about
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: measuring this team out, maybe you want to compare it
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: against that two thousand and one or two thousand and
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: two season. I mean, to me, it feels like this
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: is the most complete team we know what the starting
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: rotation looks like. I think they could even take a
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: step forward from where they were at last year after
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: they maybe took a little step back and still had
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: a good year.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: And I think the offense is better. I think it's
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: deeper than it's ever been.
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: What say you about how the overall feel is even
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: though we know that we're all a little bit more
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: on the optimistic side than we have been most of.
• 43:22
  Speaker 11: The time, and that optimism is a part of opening
• 43:25
  Speaker 11: Day for every team. That's just that's a disease we
• 43:28
  Speaker 11: all carry on Opening Day. And of course we're gonna
• 43:30
  Speaker 11: be great.
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: Bucky. You know how much.
• 43:33
  Speaker 11: Confidence, how much of a role confidence plays in this game.
• 43:36
  Speaker 11: I think that's the other thing. The barriers have they
• 43:38
  Speaker 11: even more than a year ago when they were talking
• 43:43
  Speaker 11: pretty competently well, they now they've got they got evidence
• 43:49
  Speaker 11: to back it up. They're going to manager who now
• 43:51
  Speaker 11: we know a lot more about it, who's shown he
• 43:53
  Speaker 11: can handle the day to day of a one hundred
• 43:55
  Speaker 11: and sixty two game season. They're all a year better.
• 43:58
  Speaker 11: They're they're all I think I may be forgetting somebody.
• 44:02
  Speaker 11: They're almost all in their prime, still of what you
• 44:05
  Speaker 11: think of as a baseball player's prime. I think not
• 44:08
  Speaker 11: only I think the Maria is gonna be very good
• 44:10
  Speaker 11: this year. I think Coolio is gonna, you know, say
• 44:14
  Speaker 11: he's going to take a step forward is a little
• 44:16
  Speaker 11: silly because he's been pretty dark good, but we all
• 44:18
  Speaker 11: know he's had these these these terrible starts. I don't
• 44:21
  Speaker 11: think that's gonna happen this year. And I'm not saying
• 44:23
  Speaker 11: he's gonna go four for four tonight, but that you
• 44:25
  Speaker 11: fun if you did. But I think Julio is going
• 44:27
  Speaker 11: to get off to a good start and be good
• 44:29
  Speaker 11: all year. And because he's gonna be good all year,
• 44:31
  Speaker 11: you're gonna see a leak in his numbers and his
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: production and just in how we view him as a player.
• 44:37
  Speaker 11: I think we all view it is pretty good. To
• 44:41
  Speaker 11: put it mildly, I think it's gonna be better. I
• 44:43
  Speaker 11: think that's part of the step they take this year.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Gas Man with us here on chucking back so much.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: So many cool things going on here on the Seattle
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: sports scenes. So we wanted to check in with Mike
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: gas too here today, and primarily because of this sonic story.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I know Groz has kind of given up on the NBA,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: but as you somebody that's kind of kept your toes
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: in those sonic waters here for the last eighteen years.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: How are you approaching this news? Because I know a
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: lot of people have a wall built around their heart
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: when it comes to the NBA and are just carefully
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: trying to convince themselves that it's real this time.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: How would you advise them?
• 45:22
  Speaker 11: I'm cautiously optimistic, but there's still another day. We still
• 45:26
  Speaker 11: got to get past the day where they say, yes,
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: in fact, this is happening, and they were. You know,
• 45:31
  Speaker 11: there were enough things put out yesterday where they talked
• 45:35
  Speaker 11: about you know, we've got to still talk about you
• 45:37
  Speaker 11: know what it means and financially. What it means is
• 45:41
  Speaker 11: and there's still some owners that are supposedly against it.
• 45:44
  Speaker 11: Now that being said, and people can laugh at us
• 45:48
  Speaker 11: all they want. I don't think the NBA would have
• 45:51
  Speaker 11: moved this to this level if they didn't feel like
• 45:53
  Speaker 11: they've got their ducks in a row, unless they just
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: want to get it off the table once and for all.
• 45:58
  Speaker 11: Either we both expand or we don't. Because that's been
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: a real, honest, legitimate criticism the past few years is
• 46:05
  Speaker 11: like do something, man, just say you know what you're thinking. So,
• 46:09
  Speaker 11: I mean, yesterday certainly was exciting news. I think it
• 46:13
  Speaker 11: was expected. I think there's an ownership group ready here.
• 46:16
  Speaker 11: I know there's a building ready here, and I think
• 46:19
  Speaker 11: people can feel good. I never walled the NBA off
• 46:23
  Speaker 11: to use your face, but I'll be honest, I did
• 46:26
  Speaker 11: lose interest. I've lost a lot. And it's not the
• 46:28
  Speaker 11: thing I don't like the league or I'm mad or whatever.
• 46:31
  Speaker 11: I've gotten away past that. It's been twenty years. I
• 46:34
  Speaker 11: just don't get enough NBA influence in my life. Your
• 46:37
  Speaker 11: teams aren't coming through here. There's no local reasons. It's
• 46:40
  Speaker 11: a route. There's been nothing from the NBA about we're
• 46:43
  Speaker 11: coming back to Seattleton recently. So you know, I'm happy.
• 46:48
  Speaker 11: I'm happiest for the people right near the top and
• 46:52
  Speaker 11: the people I mean like George Carl and Debt of Shrimp,
• 46:55
  Speaker 11: and Gary Payton and and Sean Kemp, you know, people
• 46:59
  Speaker 11: who need to be honored properly by this franchise and
• 47:02
  Speaker 11: who refused overtures from Oklahoma City to go down and
• 47:06
  Speaker 11: be honored by them. I said, no, I'm honest, Seattle guy,
• 47:09
  Speaker 11: I'm gonna be honored when it comes back to Seattle.
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: So people like that, the history inherited, and the franchise
• 47:15
  Speaker 11: to get back up into the rafters and retired jerseys
• 47:17
  Speaker 11: to all of that, so it doesn't just disappear those people.
• 47:23
  Speaker 11: And then the fans. I'm super happy for all the
• 47:25
  Speaker 11: fans who are still way into this because you know,
• 47:28
  Speaker 11: I always said over the years, the fans are the
• 47:30
  Speaker 11: one group of people involved in the story who did
• 47:32
  Speaker 11: nothing wrong. You know, you can quote it the politicians
• 47:35
  Speaker 11: and quote it the ownership. You can point it at media.
• 47:37
  Speaker 11: You can point it a lot of people who maybe
• 47:39
  Speaker 11: who were either culpable or didn't maybe ask the right questions.
• 47:42
  Speaker 11: The fans didn't do anything wrong, you know, and so
• 47:45
  Speaker 11: it'd be exciting and I think fun for the people
• 47:49
  Speaker 11: who love the team, and I'm certainly one of them.
• 47:51
  Speaker 11: I mean, the radio station we're on right now doesn't
• 47:54
  Speaker 11: exist in this form or in this format without the Sonics.
• 47:57
  Speaker 11: Our marriage to the Sonics starting when we started in
• 48:01
  Speaker 11: ninety one was an all sports station. The fact that
• 48:04
  Speaker 11: the Sonics were our property, and the fact that miraculously
• 48:07
  Speaker 11: they got hot, super hot, both on the floor and
• 48:10
  Speaker 11: in the community, and that benefited my career and benefited
• 48:15
  Speaker 11: everyone who worked at KJR in the early nineties and
• 48:17
  Speaker 11: gave us a hook to kind of hang our jacket
• 48:20
  Speaker 11: on and say this is who we are with the
• 48:21
  Speaker 11: Sonics station and that those are all the things that
• 48:25
  Speaker 11: kind of flow into my mind on a daylight to
• 48:29
  Speaker 11: day and as we wait now a couple more months
• 48:31
  Speaker 11: for the officially desks.
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Softie said something yesterday. You've heard of Softie, right,
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: you know you're aware of.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: He said something yesterday, and I got to give it
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of credit because he said, you know, eighteen
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: years without the NBA and yet simply Seattle has a store.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, they basically exist as a merchandise store. Because
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: of the Sonics. How much Sonics gear that they have
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: sold over the eighteen years that they haven't even been here.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: And I'd liked you in our last couple of minutes
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: to kind of weigh in on that, like just how
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: much this community kept the Sonics alive with in an
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: eighteen year span, where a lot of cities I think
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: give up after a couple of years on a team
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: that might have left town.
• 49:23
  Speaker 11: Well, it's unlike anything I've ever seen in sports, just
• 49:25
  Speaker 11: from an observational standpoint.
• 49:28
  Speaker 7: And you mentioned the.
• 49:29
  Speaker 11: Podcast, I was I'm not involved with Iconic Sonics anymore
• 49:32
  Speaker 11: except I know all those guys and we're still talking.
• 49:34
  Speaker 11: I'm a big fan of what they're doing. I just
• 49:36
  Speaker 11: stepped away from it, but I did I think about
• 49:38
  Speaker 11: three years of shows for them. We did a show
• 49:41
  Speaker 11: Memorial Day Friday, which is dicey. That's a dangerous day
• 49:45
  Speaker 11: to do a live event because people are getting out
• 49:47
  Speaker 11: of town and they're setting up their big long weekend
• 49:48
  Speaker 11: Memorial Day. Fight about I'm going to say three years ago,
• 49:52
  Speaker 11: maybe four years ago, and it was a live show.
• 49:55
  Speaker 11: We had George Carl there, we had Kevin Collaboro, we
• 49:58
  Speaker 11: had Gary and Sean, we have heavy hitters. We did
• 50:01
  Speaker 11: the show in the parking lot of Dix Restaurant in
• 50:06
  Speaker 11: Queen Anne, you know, so right across from the old building,
• 50:09
  Speaker 11: and it was the old building. Then Climate Pug wasn't
• 50:11
  Speaker 11: done it. Yeah, well I'm sorry, client pledge wasn't done anyway,
• 50:14
  Speaker 11: I'm getting lost in the weeds here. The point of
• 50:16
  Speaker 11: it is, we do this live show. We had five
• 50:19
  Speaker 11: hundred people show up for a live podcast in a
• 50:24
  Speaker 11: parking lot and a Dix restaurant. Not that Dix isn't
• 50:27
  Speaker 11: a reason to go to the show anyway, You get
• 50:29
  Speaker 11: my point. It was I looked out and I'm like,
• 50:32
  Speaker 11: this just couldn't happen anywhere else. You wouldn't get this
• 50:36
  Speaker 11: in any other city. At that point, it's like fifteen
• 50:38
  Speaker 11: years after the team has left, and at that point
• 50:40
  Speaker 11: there's nothing from the NBA to Indicator coming back. But
• 50:44
  Speaker 11: we brought back the heroes and people came out and
• 50:46
  Speaker 11: wanted to meet him, and it was one of the
• 50:48
  Speaker 11: absolute highlights of my career. I don't say that lightly
• 50:51
  Speaker 11: because I did a lot of cool things. I got
• 50:53
  Speaker 11: to be a part of a lot of cool things
• 50:56
  Speaker 11: in this city. But sitting there that day and looking
• 50:58
  Speaker 11: out from the stage and seeing that crowd and enthusiasm,
• 51:01
  Speaker 11: it was impossible then to think they've gotta come back,
• 51:06
  Speaker 11: the NBA has gotta bring this franchise back, and that
• 51:09
  Speaker 11: that that day was really for me an idea and
• 51:11
  Speaker 11: this this, this is never gonna end. You know this,
• 51:14
  Speaker 11: this love of this team which was yanked away from
• 51:18
  Speaker 11: us is never gonna end.
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: Great stuff. Thanks, thanks for joining us. We appreciate it.
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: Let's just ride this way for a little while. What
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: do you say, Yeah, you know why why?
• 51:27
  Speaker 11: I mean, look, it's you know again, you think back
• 51:30
  Speaker 11: to everything that's happened, and and and and everything that
• 51:32
  Speaker 11: we think it's happened with base on it. It's fun
• 51:35
  Speaker 11: when things are rolling and really enjoy it because we
• 51:38
  Speaker 11: know it's all cyclical. So enjoy what's going on.
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me on, guys.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: All right, thanks gus my guess to know joining us
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: right here on chalk about coming up next, we'll take
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: a look at that Marinder's lineup and update you on
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: the TV stuff going on. Uh with the Sports Radio
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: ninety three point three kJ r f M. All right,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: it is Chuck Powell, Bucky Jacobson and Ashley Ryan with you,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Bucky and I down here at Jimmy's on First, right
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: across the street from the stadium t Mobile, which is
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: going to be rocking tonight, the opener of the Major
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: League Baseball season. Some people call it opening Day, Bucky.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: That's a good couple words.
• 52:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it makes sense now then I really think about it,
• 52:27
  Speaker 6: wrapped my head around it.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that we're using that.
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we're gonna go with it opening Day.
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: So come on down to Jimmy's. By the way, they're
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: serving breakfast here.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: You can have your first I mean, I realized the
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: game's not till seven o'clock tonight, but if you want
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: to make a day of it, or you know, do
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: it in shifts, come on down. We're gonna be broadcasting
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: down here for most of the day. I'm pretty certain
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: about that, right here from our location in the corner
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: at Jimmy's on First here at the Silver Cloud Hotel.
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: So yes, it's here. The season is here. We got
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: a bright sunshiny day. For goodness sake. I mean, this
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: is this is it, This is living right here.
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: This is living. I mean it's beautiful right now. The
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: sun's beating on my back. It makes me feel a
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: little bit like spring training.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Oh you know what I mean.
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: Now, it's it's a bit nippy outside, so it's just
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: not gonna feel quite like Arizona. But the sun coming
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: in when I'm in the ambient temperature in here, I'm
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: I'm liking it. You're feeling very opening dayish.
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: It's like you're carrying a backpack of summer.
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: I am, yes, yeah, yes, and I'm going to carry
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: with me the rest of the day.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I do want to let you know, but however
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: you're taking in the game, whether it's going to be
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: on twelve sixty one, which is the new Comcast channel
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: by the way for Mariners baseball, or if you've got
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: a streaming service, whatever the case may be. Mariners dot
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: com slash watch is where you get the information for
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: where you can watch not just this game, but game
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Mariner games all season long. And if all else, Phil's
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: head on over to Talalapersort Casino, go to the DraftKings Sports.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: But that's a nice way that's at the season.
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, absolutely packed and you can't get a
• 54:05
  Speaker 6: bigger TV to watch than what they got in the
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: sports book over there.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: So that's a great idea.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go to Tulala Prasort Casino, DraftKings, Sportsbook, taking a
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: little baseball. Do they make a couple of baseball bets
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: while you're at and then it roll. You got your
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: tournament games tonight as well.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, so so much fun, so.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Much a whole lot of cool stuff going on.
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: Too much cool.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: Stuff I can't give you can do it.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: A lot of raft.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: Slap some sense into him, cold.
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: Water in my faith, so I can recover. Well, I've
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: got a draft to do, all right.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: So every year, during our opening day celebration here on
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck, we do usually one draft. It's our
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Mariners Home Run Derby draft as a way to preview
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: the Mariners roster heading into the season. So we're gonna
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: draft for three rounds here today and then our teams.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: However many collective home runs they hit this baseball season,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: they will theoretically win the Green Jacket at the end
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: of the year. We leave that fourth round open for
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: pickups during the course of the season, and so we
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: just need a draft order. Ashley got the fourth pick
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: when we did our MLB teams draft earlier in the show.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I'm hoping she gets
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: fourth again.
• 55:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's see.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: Well guess what, guys, what happened? I got fourth again?
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: I seven or eight drafts in the last couple months,
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: and I have had fourth in every single one randomizer
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: my butt.
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: We're going to change that. We're gonna we're gonna adjust that.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: That shouldn't happen to you that frequently. Should But I
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: didn't have time to change it. That's all right, there's
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: too much to explain today.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: Here's our order here first, Oh, Buck, your second kid
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: is third and I am fourth.
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I really lucked out on the two drafts.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: I really.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: Everybody else's order changed except mine.
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, so I really lucked out too.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: It's a little unfortunate for kid, a little funny for you.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, chokes Bucky, and I though pretty good position, right.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've had a good day as a Mariner fan
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: because I got the Mariners in our team draft.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: And now, look, I mean, I get I get it.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: And I Hopelio HiT's more home runs than Cal this year.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: That'd be great. That means Julio's had his breakout season.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: It's probably on path for an MVP type year. But
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: I just after what we saw last year, cannot possibly
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: pass on a guy that hits sixty home runs in
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: one campaign. So, to me, a bad season for cal
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Raley is thirty five floor seasons forty. I'm gonna say
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: cal Ray hits more than forty north forty this year.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: He is, for me, the number one pick in our
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Mariners home run derby.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: Shocking.
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I really shocked that you took him there.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, understandable.
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: I mean, you're right, the decent year last year, and
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: I think even if there is a slight regression back
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: to the norm, I'm with you. I think forty is
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: probably where he's gonna land, somewhere around.
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: Somewhere around, Yeah, I mean, and that's probably gonna lead
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: the team.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, Julio's got the capability of getting more than that,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: but it's probably gonna.
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: Lead the team.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see.
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: I'm not one hundred percent sure, how I mean, if
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: Julia can get off to a good start, he could
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: he could eclipse that forty mark, and it'd be nice
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: to have a couple of guys with a forty Dingers.
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: I don't mean to load you up.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: If you weren't thinking, maybe Julio snuck up on you
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: weren't thinking about Julio with the number two pick, Maybe you're.
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: Going broke out.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: Mitch Garver, Mitch.
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: Garver, Okay, I'll start writing it down.
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: And just write that down and then throw your pen away.
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: But no, I'm gonna go Julio. Part of me wants
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: to go Naylor here, but I'm.
• 58:00
  Speaker 5: Gonna go, Oh really, how do you think Naylor's going
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: to hit? Uh? I think that's the headline in that pick.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: I think you could get thirty thirty Yeah, okay, yeah, I.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: Mean if we have to have this conversation before kids
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: made his.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Pick, Yeah, okay, I mean I don't think you'll hit
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: any Yeah. I think that's zero homers this year for Naylor.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: It's bad enough that Ashley has to pick fourth. Yeah,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: we're going to evaluate the entire roster before she can pick.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: How many do you think Julio's going to hit this year?
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going forty forty season for Julio this year.
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: Then you think that's the third year in a row
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: have said that, So eventually it's gonna come true Because
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: I do one hundred percent believe in his talent. He
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: just has to get off to a hot start. I mean,
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: it is highly commendable what this dude does year in
• 58:42
  Speaker 6: and year out when he does not show up until June.
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's that's not an easy thing to do,
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: to be looking at your numbers, like, Wow, I'm supposed
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: to be a superstar and I'm hitting very poorly in
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: the first half of the season. If he gets off
• 58:55
  Speaker 6: to a hot start, look out. I mean, I think
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: it's legitimate that there's people that are talking about him
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: above Cal, who had, I mean a historic season last year,
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: and there's probably more people thinking that Julio has a
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: better chance of being an MVP this year.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Oh Cal, And I can understand why.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go forty four for Cal this year.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go thirty eight for Julio. But I think
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: it's more than just hitting home runs. I think he's
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: gonna have just a more well rounded, get off to
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: a better start season this year.
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: So I think we're we got two superstars on this team.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, in my opinion, one that's established it and
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: one that I think this year is going to establish it.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: All right, kid, you are up next, you got the
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: third pick back there at the studios.
• 59:37
  Speaker 5: How you taking in our home run derby?
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: I will take Josh Naylor.
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: Thanks, guys, Okay, I don't hear? Yeah, kid, there is
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: there is, there is. I will take Josh Naylor. He
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: is taking Gosh Naylor.
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: Elation that you gave when he picked Julio, remember that
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: who you were sp.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 5: But I don't think you're all. I actually think there's
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 5: somebody out there that will have more home runs than
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: Naylor this year. I think Naylor's a low twenties guy.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 5: I think he got a mid twenties guy still on
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: the board there, Ashley.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: But Bucky likes Naylor at thirty this year, So blame him,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: I guess is what I'm trying. Yeah, all right, he'll
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: take the blame that Ashley didn't get Josh Naylor.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, good pick kid. All right, Ashley, you
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: get back to back selections here. Yeah.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Randy A Rose Arena.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: Dom can Zone.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, she's going with can Zone. All right, it's a
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: good pick. Yeah.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: Dom has got some serious pop. I think that what
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: he showed last year. I don't think he was real
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: happy about the fact that he wasn't getting an everyday opportunity,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: and yet when he went down to the minor leagues,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: he didn't do anything but go down there and perform,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: so he would kind of force their hand. They'd bring
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: him back up, and he was hitting balls hard. If
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 6: he just finds the bottom half for the ball a
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: little bit, he's going I mean, I think that he's
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: a thirty home run guy.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: If he gets thirty gets, if he gets every day
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: at bats.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: I think it's some lofty home run total.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Well it's it's really not that hard to run into
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: thirty balls.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: If you get five hundred abs, I think he's going
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: to be the guy to start off getting the abs
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 6: at d H.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Now they're probably gonna platoon him.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: They're definitely going to platoon him at least at first.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 6: And then if he all of a sudden is raking
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 6: and dropping bombs against right, he's like, you can you
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: got to start giving him opportunities to maybe be the
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 6: everyday guy. If he can get five hundred abs, I
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 6: don't think it's far fetched at all for him to
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: run into thirty.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, sorry, Ashley, you don't get ref nider with him.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: Oh I can't just have whoever's playing in right field.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Nope, you don't get a ref Snyder backpack like Buck.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: He's got a summer backpack on right now. All right, kid,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: you got the next selection. You got Josh Naylor. Who
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: you gonna take here in round number two? Who's gonna
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: hit the next most homers?
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 9: Boy? This is yeah?
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: Okay, I guess I will go with e.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: Wow. You know what give me? I guess I'll call
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 5: Luke Rayley. Luke Rayley. I don't think there's anything wrong
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: with that.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know he had a rough year, and
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: he had a rough year last year in every way
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: other than his family life.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 5: But twenty two home runs the.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Previous season when he was healthy, played a full season.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: I just that's just two seasons ago. We had twenty
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: two home runs for this team, and he had nineteen
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: the previous year in a platoon situation in Tampa. So
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: that's forty one homers from that guy over a two
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: year span, which sort of shows you that that wasn't
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: just a fluke two years ago. I think last year
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: was the fluke. As long as he stays healthy, he's
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: going to produce.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, he's got some serious, big boy pop,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 6: and he's a guy that's going to go out there
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 6: trying to do damage.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: More often than not.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 6: He just is a guy that's you know, he's not
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 6: He's there's a few guys that are gonna get drafted
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: in this thing that are gonna have limited at bats
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 6: until they prove that they have to be written in
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 6: the lineup every He's one of those guys. But I
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 6: think he has twenty home run power if you can
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 6: get enough abs.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 5: All right, Bucky, you are up next. You got Julio
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: and round one.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Ah boy. Part of me wants to take number thirty three,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna. I'm gonna go, oh you. I'm
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: gonna sip Colt Young, Oh you, Cole Young, Cole Young.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: I just told him yesterday.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: I think Cole Young's gonna hit over twenty and now
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: Bucky's gonna steal him from. You wanted Donovan the whole time.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: I know you had Donna.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: I don't think Donovan's a guy that's going he doesn't
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 6: even try to hit home runs.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Cole Young's swinging for the downs a whole lot
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 6: more than Brendan Donovan does.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 5: I do think Cole Young's hitting more than twenty this year.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 5: I think he's gonna be a twenty plus home run
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: hitter this year.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: I think that for those that for whatever reason ran
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: out of patience with a twenty one year old Cole
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Young and didn't think he was the.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: Answer, I think you're gonna be eating your words this year.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: I think he's gonna have a breakout here.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised one bit. I mean, he's
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 6: got serious power. He was the first round pick. I
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 6: think that he took him a second to kind of
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 6: go through the learning phase.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Last year.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 6: He kind of got off to a decent start, then
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: scuffled a little bit, and then was trying to kind
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: of stay above water and it didn't necessarily work. I
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 6: think that that cup of coffee, or he was more
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: in a cup of coffee, but that taste he got
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: last year was the was gonna propel him to be
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: up here and start playing like an everyday guy.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm gonna take Brendan Donovan and I
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: think it will be more than the tenny at a
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: year ago, probably not quite the twenty, but I'll take
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: Donovan there, and I'm gonna pull a little upset here.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna look into my crystal ball with my third
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: round selection. Give me Colt Emerson.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: Oh that's a good one.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: I take Colt Emerson for an early call up in May,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: and I think he has more home runs than anybody
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: else that's left on the list. So I'm gonna take
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: a kid that's gonna start the season in the miners.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: All right, Bucky, you're.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: A next ah boy, boy, you know what that was.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: I had him down on my list to do that
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: same thing that you did. And yet I'm gonna go ahead.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 6: I'll go ahead and take the guy that I think
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 6: is gonna get the everyday spot every day nod and
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 6: that's JP, at least once he gets healthy.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: JP Crawford goes to Bucky in round three. Kid, you
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  Speaker 1: are up next. If you were struggling in round two.
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  Speaker 3: Well the stroke continues, let's sake, Ryan Bliss.
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  Speaker 5: The struggle continues. Ryan Bliss is the pick.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna get the advats. We
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: shall see, but he does have a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a pop. All right, Ashley, you can do the right
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  Speaker 1: field backpack here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you'd like.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 4: Victor Roblaze.
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  Speaker 5: Please, you're gonna take roe Blaze.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think Roeblaze and Raleigh are the right fielders most
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  Speaker 1: of the time, and then Canzone and Res Snyder are.
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  Speaker 2: Going to share the DH.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that they won't play the outfield, but
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  Speaker 1: I think most of the time it's Roeblaze and Raleigh.
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  Speaker 1: We shall see. So you're gonna go with Victor Roeblaze.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: So ref Schneider not taking in the draft. Nor was Revos,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: nor was Mitch Garver. Would you like him for your
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: fourth pick right now?
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  Speaker 2: Let me think that.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, you want him for your second round pick.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: I'd still like to have Cole Young.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well you could take him. I'll let you go.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: Ahead and take take him, and I'll take Julio.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me think about it. I'll get back to
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  Speaker 2: you on that.
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  Speaker 5: We'll give you the break to think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next, Jerry Depoto is gonna join US Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M. Happy
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  Speaker 1: opening day, everyone, It is chalking back in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: beautiful sunny day tonight, we will throw the first pitch
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  Speaker 1: of the season right from the hand of Logan Gilbert.
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  Speaker 5: We are fired up. You should be fired up.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be here at Jimmy's on First throughout most
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: of the day here today, So come down as early
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: as you'd like, stay all day long and get ready,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: get yourself properly prepared for the first pitch tonight of
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: the Mariners season. Joining us now on the program is
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  Speaker 1: the president, the architect, Jerry Depoto is with us here
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  Speaker 1: on opening day.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning guys. That is unchanny. The number of times
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 8: in my over my years in Seattle you wake up
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 8: on opening day and we have this to look at,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 8: sunny and beautiful and you know, good for baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I realized that you pull some strings with this roster.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: But how do you get this done? How did you
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: get the sun to come out today?
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  Speaker 2: Jerry?
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  Speaker 5: What did you do? What miracle did you work?
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  Speaker 8: You know, the same miracle that we work. You know,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 8: day after day, year after year. It's called luck. Get
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 8: a little lucky.
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  Speaker 5: You need to take credit for more things, Jerry.
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  Speaker 1: So did you did you figure out your Fubo stream
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  Speaker 1: or are you gonna score tickets to the game tonight?
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  Speaker 8: You know, I am the score tickets. Mostly I'm looking
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 8: forward to getting in the ballpark. And I think all
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 8: the pregame festivities on opening Day, the bunting, and it's it's,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 8: you know, if it doesn't turn you on as a
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  Speaker 8: sports fan to be there for those moments. Obviously we'll
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 8: have a you know, a cool banner to unveil up
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  Speaker 8: in the right field corner and then we'll get a
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  Speaker 8: you know, five minutes of nostalgia before we turn the
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  Speaker 8: page and focus on trying to win a World Series
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  Speaker 8: this year.
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  Speaker 6: Jerry, I, I think this is the best opening day
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: roster that you've had. I mean, top to bottom as
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 6: far as your position players go. Obviously we all we
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  Speaker 6: all know and commend you for the rotation that you have,
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  Speaker 6: and you always find a way to put a great
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: bullpen together. So I mean, as far as you're going,
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  Speaker 6: which from your opinion, is this the best opening day
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  Speaker 6: roster you feel like you put together?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, and I think we all saw this
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  Speaker 8: evolving over the last few years and and obviously could
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  Speaker 8: be happier with some of the things we were able
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  Speaker 8: to do starting really Midsummer last year in adding to
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 8: the team, and obviously you know from July forward tough
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 8: to impact our team more than Josh Naylor did. And
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 8: you know, the off season pickups with guys like Brendan
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 8: Donovan and Jose Ferrer, it help solidify areas of need.
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  Speaker 8: I think a sneaky pickup that people really learn to
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 8: appreciate his rob rest Eeier and the things that he
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 8: does well. And you know, one through twenty six and
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 8: even the depth behind this twenty six man roster is
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  Speaker 8: just better than it's ever been in the years I've
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  Speaker 8: been here. I know, and I'm thrilled by it.
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  Speaker 9: It's a it's a.
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  Speaker 8: Fun group to be around, and I think the optimism
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  Speaker 8: around our team has never been higher. And I think
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  Speaker 8: that's forty good reason.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto is with this right here on talking about
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  Speaker 1: here on opening day Mariners Guardians tonight first pitch at
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  Speaker 1: seven to ten, the shortstop position. With JP's injury, how
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: much conversation went into do we start Colt Emerson's career,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: do we go Revoss?
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  Speaker 5: How do we want to handle this?
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  Speaker 1: Could you give us a little bit of the behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes conversation that you had in this area.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, sure, you know. I mean we had all of
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  Speaker 8: those conversations, and I think where we came away was
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 8: waiting for JP flew out and an independent visit with
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  Speaker 8: a doctor, and we were waiting for the feedback from
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  Speaker 8: that meeting or appointment before we really started to chart
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  Speaker 8: a course, and it was mostly how long do we
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 8: expect JP to be out? And you know, I think
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  Speaker 8: the conclusion that we drew was if this is a
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  Speaker 8: short term thing, you know, a series of homestand you know,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 8: ten days, then we would probably prefer to allow Colt
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  Speaker 8: Emerson to go start his season in normal fashion, not
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  Speaker 8: be disrupted, disjointed, whatever, and we could piece it together
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  Speaker 8: with Leo Revas and potentially Cole Young guys that we
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 8: have in the house, and we feel like we have
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  Speaker 8: the depth to do that.
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  Speaker 9: You know, what we didn't want.
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  Speaker 8: To happen was for Colt to come up, feel the
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 8: pressure to perform, do it for seven days, and then
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 8: you know, be removed from the roster. Here comes JP,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 8: and now you've created this false alarm start for Colt
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 8: where we think he's going to be, you know, a
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  Speaker 8: cornerstone contributor here for many years, and we didn't think
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 8: the right thing to do was to give him a
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 8: cameo at the start of the season, rather let him
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 8: build into and prepare for having a good year.
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  Speaker 6: Jerry, I was pumped about the acquisition of Brendan Donovan,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 6: and yet when I got to meet him, it only
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 6: grew And so one really pumped that we have somebody
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 6: we're in number thirty three that can swing it a
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 6: little bit. But I'm just wondering at this point, I mean,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 6: four thirteen in spring training, is Ted Williams shaking his boots?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what we got? Did we get the the
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: next Ted Williams?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: You know, I think so. I was. I was blown
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 8: away by just the quality of the human being. And
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 8: you know, when we have had and you you all
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 8: know this, We've we have had our eyes on Brandon
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  Speaker 8: Donovan for a number of years. We tried to acquire him,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 8: you know, dating back over the last three years with
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 8: the Cardinals and discussions and we're never quite able to
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 8: get there. And you know, it took about five minutes
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  Speaker 8: into you know what I think was probably about a
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 8: twenty five minute call with him the night we acquired him,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 8: and just to be so impressed by the humility, the
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  Speaker 8: quality of the questions, the very clear just a good person.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 8: And you know he too, like we've talked about with
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 8: Josh Naylor, insanely high baseball IQ, but maybe as maybe
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 8: as impressive as anything is how quickly he is just
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  Speaker 8: assimilated to our group and immediately became aware of the
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 8: organization at large, the coaches that could help the you know,
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  Speaker 8: the information suppliers that could give him, you know, something
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  Speaker 8: that he could use to advantage. The way he leaned into,
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  Speaker 8: you know, helping our young players grow and get comfortable.
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  Speaker 9: At the major league level.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe no one more so than than Colt Emerson, you know,
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  Speaker 8: and I just such a.
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  Speaker 9: Great guy to have on a team.
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  Speaker 8: And we were rewarded tenfold for believing in the player
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  Speaker 8: with what we got as a person.
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  Speaker 5: Cole Young's spring numbers meant what.
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  Speaker 2: To you.
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  Speaker 8: That I would imagine that he's probably gonna hit sixty
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 8: homers this year and potentially.
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  Speaker 5: Third base and cal Raley at it sounds like.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I say that, you know, having a little bit
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  Speaker 8: of fun. He couldn't have had a better spring, and
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  Speaker 8: you know, he got off to a slow start that
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 8: first week and you know, but that belied what he
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 8: showed when he came in. He worked so hard this
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 8: offseason and you guys could see it the day you
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 8: walk into spring training. It's there's there's a different there's
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 8: a leaner, more explosiveness to to his body. It's a
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 8: there's a quicker twitch. I think he showed huge improvement defensively,
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  Speaker 8: especially with his throws. Got some exposure on the shortstop side,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 8: which is something he's always done, you know, in his
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 8: life until he got to the big leagues last year,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 8: which I think is in the vantage to us with
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  Speaker 8: a short term absence of of JP, because you know
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  Speaker 8: he can spell us there. But you know where Cole
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 8: is Cole is really starting to grow is in the
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 8: power department. You know, he's got sneaky snap in his swing,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 8: and we saw him hit a couple of long homers
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 8: last year, one at home, one in Philly where you're like, wow,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 8: that's big boy area. And he has that. He has
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 8: some sneaky pop and and he has on base ability
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  Speaker 8: and he does doesn't strike out an excessive amount. He
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  Speaker 8: does a lot of things that really appeal. And he's
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 8: twenty two years old and I know everybody wants things
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 8: to happen for a player immediately, but I think Cole
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 8: is being rewarded for his hard work, and I think
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 8: the you know, the Mariners are being rewarded for their
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 8: belief in him.
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  Speaker 6: Jerry, what is your plan as far as how you're
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: going to attack with the d H position? I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I would imagine Dom kind of has maybe put his
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 6: hat into the ring as far as handling some of
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 6: those abs. Refschneider maybe another guy that's going to be
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 6: doing that. What's your plan of attack heading into day
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 6: one for that position?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's similar to what we've always done there. There'll
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 8: be some type of rotation I think just based on
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 8: right and left him pitchers. The normal everyday rotation will
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 8: likely be some combination of Dom and Luke Rayley and
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 8: Rob Repschneider, but there'll be a fair dose of cal
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 8: Raley in there. There was a year ago, and you
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 8: know those are the days where you'll see Mitch Garber
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  Speaker 8: behind the plate and you may see Ref Schneider rotate
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 8: out to right field, or it could be one of
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 8: the left handed hitters if the opposite side is throwing.
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  Speaker 8: I think that combination of of left hand bats. Obviously,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 8: Don was north of eight hundred ops last year. Luke Rayley,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 8: you know, for a couple of years in a row,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 8: was a near three win player. And you know, that's
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 8: an exciting combination of talents. And you know, add to
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 8: that the fact that you know that the what Luke
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 8: brings defensively, what Victor Roblaze can do defensively, it's just
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  Speaker 8: a nice.
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  Speaker 9: I guess a.
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  Speaker 8: Group of players that can rotate through right field, d
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  Speaker 8: h And and Cal will play a role in that.
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  Speaker 8: But I would say primarily hand zone, ref Snyder, Raleigh.
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  Speaker 8: If you're going to get you know, seven hundred ish
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 8: played appearances or six fifty out of your your DH,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 8: the bulk of them are going to come from those
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  Speaker 8: three guys.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto, the President, with us here on opening Day.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: He summoned, he asked for sunshine from the baseball gods,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: and they delivered, and now we ask for a win
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: first pitch at seven to ten. Look, everybody's seeing the
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: plan come together, not just locally but nationally. People just
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: can't stop picking the Mariners to get to the World Series.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: And in a lot of cases when the whole darn thing,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: are you enjoying that. Are you embracing that personally, organizationally,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: or do you kind of wish that people would allow
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: you to sneak up on them for another year or two.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 8: You know, I think I'd preferred the latter. Sneaking up
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 8: on people is far more fun.
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  Speaker 11: You know.
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  Speaker 8: But when we finished the season where we did last year,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 8: obviously game seven of the ALCS. We have a lot
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 8: of high profile players, I think we had, you know,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 8: a strong offseason that leaned into this success we had
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 8: a year ago. It's tough to be better than we
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 8: were from the start of September or thereabouts until the
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 8: end of October, and and that got people excited. And
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 8: you know, if if you can't appreciate the fact that that,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 8: you know, there's there's a nuance to going from hunting
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 8: to being hunted. And I know our guys are confident.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 8: They they want to go out and win, enjoy it,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 8: enjoy the ride, have fun with it. And you know,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 8: I've generally believed throughout my career, you know, pressure is
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 8: what you make of it. You know, it's a if
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 8: you feel it, then it's there. If you don't feel it,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 8: and you just have fun and go do your thing,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 8: and you know, play your game the way you play it.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 8: It all works out. And I think right now our
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 8: team is in the ladder buckets. They're just playing their game.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 8: They feel confident, they know they're good, and I find
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 8: satisfaction in the fact that from a from a national perspective,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 8: you know, people are are interested in the Mariners, and
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 8: the fact that that we're a popular pick right now,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 8: I'm saying it is a little more fun than it
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 8: is scared.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you built this thing first and foremost. I
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 6: shouldn't say first foremost, but the first thing that started
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 6: popping on this was your starting rotation. And you know,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: outside of Bryce having that oblique thing and going to
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 6: start on the shelf a little bit still, you've got
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 6: four guys that you're going to run out there, and
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 6: another one in Amberson Hancock that we love. So I mean,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 6: just how are you feeling right now about how the
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 6: health of the starting rotation is and how you could
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 6: feel like they might be ready to take another step
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 6: forward because every single one of them feels like they're
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 6: right in their prime.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 9: And then you really are.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 8: And you know, I would say the quality of our
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 8: starting pitching on any given night is and tonight it's
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 8: Logan Gilbert. But you know, any one of those guys
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 8: could go out and start a game on opening night
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 8: for most major league teams, and you know it's the
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 8: Rock has done it before, Logan has done it before.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 8: Nobody pitched better last year, you know, maybe certainly for
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 8: the Mariners, but across the americanly few people pitch better
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 8: than Brian wu And you know, he's just rising into
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 8: you know, his prime as as one of the best
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 8: pitchers in our league. And and I can say the
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 8: same about George Kirby. You know, it's a if any
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 8: one of those four guys went out and made an
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 8: All Star team or contended for a Cy Young you
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 8: wouldn't be surprised. And and that's you have to pinch yourself.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 8: That's a lot. You know, that's waking up on Opening
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 8: Day in Seattle with the weather we have today, and
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 8: they're healthy, they're throwing great. Each one of them really
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 8: trended as the spring went along. They've each had All
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 8: Star seasons and and have all done it over the
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 8: last you know, I guess three years, and and to
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 8: have that kind of depth is pretty crucial. But you know,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 8: Emerson I would say, of all those guys, I don't
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 8: think anybody threw the ball any better than Emerson did
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 8: in the spring. So, you know, we'll miss Bryce hopefully.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 8: It's it's more of a of a wait and see,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 8: but you know, we're pretty confident that that he should
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 8: be back by the end of April. And and you know,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 8: if if we have to mask a spot in our
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  Speaker 8: rotation per month, I would much rather that be the
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  Speaker 8: first month than the last month.
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  Speaker 5: What Worth told us, you pick the starting pitcher for
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  Speaker 5: opening Day based on who's the tallest' that's what he said.
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  Speaker 5: The strategy was behind it all.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it was who had the most gadgets
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  Speaker 8: in their Duffel bag on you know, nobody wanted to
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  Speaker 8: get hit with the you know, the water ball. I think,
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  Speaker 8: you know, Logan Logan is the longest tenured at least
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  Speaker 8: on our club, of the starting group, and obviously he
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  Speaker 8: was last year's opening day guy. And you know, I've
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  Speaker 8: said this publicly over the last couple of days. A
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  Speaker 8: lot of what goes into making this decision, you know,
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  Speaker 8: for us is just generally looking at where everybody's innings
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  Speaker 8: were a year ago, you know, where they were when
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  Speaker 8: they came into camp, and how we built up their
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  Speaker 8: pitch counts as camp went along. And and the guy
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  Speaker 8: who came in furthest along and who built up quickest
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  Speaker 8: was Logan Gilbert. And you know, it was pretty evident
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  Speaker 8: to us, you know, with a couple of weeks left
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  Speaker 8: in the spring, that the wisest thing to do in
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  Speaker 8: managing the innings was to set up the rotation the
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  Speaker 8: way that we did. And you know, it's a again,
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  Speaker 8: it's good fortune and having four guys that you feel
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  Speaker 8: confident you could run out there as your opening day guy,
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  Speaker 8: and four guys who are also awesome teammates and humble
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  Speaker 8: enough to say, hey, if I pitched second or third
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  Speaker 8: and this rotation.
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  Speaker 9: On opening day, no big deal.
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  Speaker 8: And I think they all take pride in knowing that
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  Speaker 8: the day they go out there, they're the ace of
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  Speaker 8: the team.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So got a new suit for opening day,
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  Speaker 1: lucky pocket, scarf, lucky tie. I don't know, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: just show up like in one of those Shay gilt
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  Speaker 1: just Alexander out that's today, like you know, one of
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  Speaker 1: them big fur coats to really make a fashion statement.
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  Speaker 1: What's the what's the plan for the tire tonight.
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  Speaker 8: You know there's now that you mentioned it. I did
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  Speaker 8: pick up a new sport code, but that was only
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  Speaker 8: because I was debating between it and the cutoff hoodie.
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  Speaker 8: But the it's usually usually at my my sport code
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  Speaker 8: game is more interesting than than it probably should be
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  Speaker 8: for for the you know otherwise.
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  Speaker 9: You know mundane wardrobe that I.
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  Speaker 8: Rock, but I think it'll be something in the Blue family.
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  Speaker 8: I shunned ties simply because unless unless we have a
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  Speaker 8: job that requires you to wear one, and I don't,
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  Speaker 8: I would prefer to leave them in the drawer and uh,
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  Speaker 8: and whatever I'm wearing, it's as soon as I walk
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  Speaker 8: off the field for pregame ceremonies that will be back
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  Speaker 8: in a pullover of some type.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, happy opening day, Thank you very much
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  Speaker 1: for taking some time with us this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Have a great year.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you guys, really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the plan, all right, Jerry Depoto joining us right
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  Speaker 1: here on Chucking Bock. We'll close things out on our
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  Speaker 1: opening day show next with one last thing.
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